The 9th Broadly Gemini Bus - the one with first birthdays!

[Lorelei353]

Ooh Inge to start a new thread. So if the last one was the one where they don't sleep, then they'll start to sleep now, yes?

I go back to work next Weds Kitty. DS started properly today. Full day today, tomorrow and Friday. I've just done a lovely yoga class and am using the next few days to have lunches, get hair cut etc. miss DS though.

pear definitely want to hear all TTC details! I'm beginning to accept that I will do it all again but not yet!

I don't remember Frus because I was on the pill for years and then fell pregnant without ever getting a proper AF

Feel like I have flu symptoms with Af's arrival. Dr google informs me that I'm not alone in this experience. Need to get BFP ASAP!!!

It does sound like your body is trying to re-set itself hormonally since you were taking hormones for so long. It may take a while. Or, maybe this is your body's cycle length? I know this doesn't help with the frustration you're feeling, but my cycles are typically 34-38 days long and the first 2 or 3 after baby are wonky and were as long as 44 days at one point. Patience is not easy when actually paying attention to every. single. day. of the cycle. I completely understand. Hopefully af shows up, gets herself over with and you can have a sweet BFP! Oh, and I'm an August baby and I was one of the oldest in my class. I loved it.

I'm jealous that you're so clockwork Frus and other ladies! I'm always playing the guessing game.

M is in her (now) clean lucky PJs. Here's to hoping for a good night.

Thanks bring. AF has already shown up 2 days a go. I think you're right about patience

Feeling very sorry for myself as I'm stuck in bed on holiday with the flu

Really sucks. Have been in bed all day which you girls probably but honestly not fun at all!

Frus I didn't understand what you said about August and timing?

Ah I see. So you get why I'm taking a break then. Won't be a long break. Just a month of two. I have some furniture and photo frames to paint when I get home so that will distract me ;-)

Thanks Frus. Makes me feel better about my decision to wait

Hope you feel better Pear!

Ahhh! Freedom. Kids in nursery/school today and I've got a lovely huge stack of maths problems to work through to take the grad school test and have to study for a final due on Friday. Fun times being a student mum again.

Bring ~ all I can say is TG for immodium!! Turns out I have caught a nasty stomach bug Hopefully on the mend now Good luck with your studies! You're amazing to be juggling all that. I your courage and stamina!

for you Pear. Poor dear! Hope baby pear is being easy on you whilst you recover!

M woke up FIVE times last night. I'm shattered.

Seriously, what is it with these little people right now? M is driving me bonkers 24/7. She's lovely but my goodness she's a right little tyrant when she's not happy. Screams when she's frustrated. This is all very new territory compared to raising boys....

Agnu I'm so sorry for your loss. Hope you're doing okay.

DS is in good form generally at the moment but he is still quite bitey, especially if he doesn't get his way. He bit a girl in nursery this morning before I'd even left! I was mortified. She cried. He wanted something she had, and I don't know if he had it and she took it or if he just wanted it but he bit her on the arm. It's so hard to stamp out!

I'm anything but ok at the moment but thanks for the thought Lor!

Kids are difficult. They should definitely come with a sanity-saving pause button. About to launch himself off the sofa? , put him on the floor. Trying to bite someone? , move him away. Screaming over something random? , glue her to the ceiling - I bet that'd distract her! My boys would probably be paused from the minute DH left in the morning until just before he walked in in the evening!

DH took the day off today at 8am when he decided I couldn't handle the DC today. I spent the morning asleep & most of the afternoon drawing. I've never drawn anything before but felt inspired to try & capture how meltdowns feel for me so I could show DH. I'm rather pleased that it turned out kinda how it looked in my head & I think it's helped DH a bit too!

Never been so happy to be home in my life!!! Not the holiday I was dreaming about whatsoever Never Mind. Life goes on! Feeling a bit better now but still solely on toast. So boring!! I'm crazing chocolate cake too which is not helpful

Agnu, hope you have an easier weekend with DH at home to help!

Ahhhhh what a killer the clocks change is!! Bpear woke at 4 thinking it was 5 Hope it doesn't take long to rectify! Only just recovered from the hour difference on holiday. Now it feels like we're 2 hours difference

So, M has had a cough for the past week that sounds kinda, urm, juicy, iykwim. She hasn't had any other symptoms and seems her happy self, even sleeping through the night (HUZZAH!). She was coughing a lot this morning but again, no fever, not cranky, sleeping ok, appetite.... did I lose the Great Mum Award this morning for sending her to nursery anyway?

Anyone else just looking forward to Halloween being over? My boys are so excited for the candy and I just can't wait to pretend that all the candy accidentally fell out of the car on the way home from trick-or-treating. (I'm not a meany-mum, they are allowed to have some candy the night of, I just hate how crazy and out of control and moody they get and how long it takes for them to get over the sugar-days!). Example: we went to my parents' house this weekend and my mum gave the boys some chocolate cake. DS#2 was MENTAL yesterday. It's like he gets a sugar hang-over. He was whiney, he was so naughty, he would throw epic temper tantrums, just loose his cool over super tiny things-- which is so not like him at all. He's usually the chilled out one and DS#1 is the one normally behaving like that. Poor kid just doesn't know what to do with himself after he's had sugar.

Also, while I'm just ranting about all sorts of shiz going on in my life... my mum had us over on Sunday because she's moving to Florida and my parents are separating. She didn't even sit down and visit with us the whole time we were there. SHE INVITED US! She just ended up packing the whole time we were at their house. She even made my DH help my dad and brother move furniture into the moving van. She was getting grumpy with the kids because they were touching stuff in the boxes she would leave laying around. It was so baffling. Then she pretended to cry when we just got the heck out of there because there was no use sticking around. Last straw was when she sat the boys down with huge pieces of chocolate cake and said "stay there and eat so you won't be in the way". My mum is so loverly. At least now I don't feel guilty for not attempting to get the kids up to her house to visit her because she's moving 2,000 miles away.

Bring ~ sorry to hear that M has been poorly but woop woop to sleeping through the night!! Might it even persuade you to have another DC now that you're getting more shut eye

Arrrrggghh I'm trying to sleep train bpear to sleep in later. I cannot handle the 5am wake ups anymore Now that he's dropped his morning nap it's just too much for him to be awake from 5am to 1:30pm We're both knackered. Training not going so well! I have been feeding him at 5 and then putting him back to sleep. He will sleep for 15 minutes and then wakes up. Tomorrow I think I will try not feeding him and let him CIO. He's either waking cost of his teeth or habit. Not sure which one now

You do sound abit mean bring lol the candy fell out the car! Do they believe it?
We have food issues with tiger or I think we do at the moment, if she doesn't see it she never really asks but if it's there it's like she's compelled to eat it beyond normal range is say. So example we went out for a meal the other day, she had a big portion and got through most of it but when she's done even though she will be getting an ice cream she looking around for more of her cousins plate or who can she take from, I actually caught her eating a chip from the floor and really told her off at how dirty that was etc and as I'm telling her off she's trying to pick up a cold bean from the table and eat that too after her pudding when she realised her cousin had left done she was trying to get round to eat hers too! We are talking massive quantities but it's like she can't stop or just can't help herself, I'm unsure what to do although I do portion control and say no you've had enough I never tell her she has to eat everything just ask that she try's new things and eats a good amount if it's a Sunday dinner and there's pudding after. It's not like she doesn't get treats etc although I try to limit limit them but it's not like they are banned and that's why she goes crazy, I've caught her at so many buffets though sneaking back to try and grab more crisps etc even when she's been told no. Not sure what to do
Kitten is exactly on line with your crazy children, we have no too frus atleast 100 times aday she's so head strong! She's definetly not talking as much as tiger was at this age though as I can remember her saying to her cousin around this time that this was her new bed etc as we moved her into her room before kitten was born at about 18-19 months and I remember talking with her then
Did you get any further with the sleep pear? The clocks are a pain in the ass!