December 2012 tantrums galore and they're not even two yet!

[SpottyTeacakes]

Hope everyone finds this and I haven't doubled up!

I've got really bad back pain and ds is spinning on his zebra crying. No idea why!

No they didn't say those exact words and she wasn't with me at the time. Her nursery are great ie one of the only ones that doesn't do time out etc or 'tell them off'. They said they had a chat and they think she understood but who knows. They also said it's really common for the ones going up to school to be like that.

Ah, phew, I was ready to get all outraged on your behalf then :o

It was lovely thanks. Then I met j and his gran in southport. He's knackered but slept 4-5 so not ready to give in n go to bed yet.

Just cut the net out Pidj, my mum's done that on J's as it's not as if his bits will stick out of the legs if it's not there I've no idea why they out it in such tiny shorts anyway.

Glad you're enjoying it Beasty, I shudder at the thought of a 5 day week now! Although I worked full time for all of April/May I still had Wednesday off and split the extra hours over evenings/weekends.

Hope everyone's enjoyed the sun. Rain tomorrow for us.

I will do, but need to sort the rubbed patch before I trust them again! Shame, because they're mega cute with pirates on

I didn't know it was so their danglies didn't dangle, thanks - I've learned something new today :o

Same here pidj!

Haha. It's so the mouse doesn't escape the house a la friends!

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so no one told me life was gonna be this way (du du du duh)

The 3 year old local girl with cancer i was telling you about sadly lost her life tonight. I can't stop cuddling H and being greatful that shes here with me i cannot imagine the pain that family are going through.

Mouse in the house made me smile willyou I hope you had a lovely day.

hales that is so sad. I'm so grateful that DS is a healthy boy doing all things he should be doing in a perfectly normal way. It's so easy to overlook the simpleness of good health. Extra squeezes all round! Such terribly sad news.

DS has had a really high temp today. I'm really hoping it's just teeth and that he isn't coming down with something

hales so sad. Good reminder to be grateful for our little monkeys

We used blankets to cover windows last night- improved from 5 to 5.45- no ideal but it's something although likely totally unrelated! Dh vetoed me using tin foil as he has this odd thing that our neighbours will think we've gone mad and the rabbited on about someone who went mad in eastenders and covered everything in tin foil??? Not sure what he was on about especially since in the 12 yrs or more that we've been together never seen him watch an episode of eastenders!! I told him that given I'm the one who gets up with her at 5am he better find another solution ASAP or I was getting the foil out. Hence the blankets!

I heard that too Hales, she was honoured at the local heroes awards I went to back in October. Very sad.

Ddas do you have a Range near you? They do premade thermal blackout blinds cheap. And if your window is too wide you can buy two and cut them down to fit side by side.

Hi all,

Hales, that is terribly sad. How awful.

I'm feeling loads better today thanks - but MrMaPo is in bed with a thumping headache and fever so perhaps it was a weird bug? Didn't end up seeing the gp so who knows.

Good friend had a little boy yesterday! She's super glamorous and put together (and a midwife) so I was half expecting her to look the same post-birth. And she does, based on the photo she sent me! Thrilled she had a boy - she's one of three girls.

Can you edit videos on iPhones? I have a cute vid of C dancing that I might put on FB.

Hales that's so sad cancer is my biggest fear.

Dd wet out bed this morning she'd been staying in her own bed so I don't why she had to do it in our bed.

Picnic today as it's going to be really lovely.

Mama I've not found a way to edit them. Might need an app?

Sounds like a horrible bug Mama.

Ddas how did Dd sleep today?

Spotty, maybe your bed was too comfy for her to move.

Quite alot of people are meeting at a park close to us tonight at 7 to let off balloons in memory of the little girl. The balloons are be let off at 7:15 which is the time she died in order to celebrate her life. I think its a lovely idea sadly i'm in work so can't go.

H is capable of the biggest tantrums i have ever ever seen and this afternoon, i have treated to a couple of them. To the point where i have cried

hales i had one of those mornings. Just a cluster of small but crappy things. Onwards and upwards

That's a nice way to remember her. Find it harder to deal with children or young adults dying than older people as it feels they are being robbed of the chance to experience what life has to offer to the full. & for the parents they will miss the chance to see what they will become & at every milestone ie a cousins wedding be thinking I wonder what x would be doing now etc.

Dd woke at 5.15 zzzzzz. Have tried to reduce day naps today to see if that makes any difference.

Tantrums are so hard at this age as they can't express everything they want & hard to reason with them.

DS has started with tantrums too but luckily he can be distracted quite easily usually with peppa pig
My niece was going WILD yesterday about being in her pushchair- I'm so happy DS has not been like that.
At least when they get to 2 there's lots of different strategies we can try! I have a Webster Stratton book it's very good.

Hales that's really sad. Our friends lost their 4 year old to neuroblastoma a few years ago. She first fell ill at 20 months. It was horrific. I don't think there's much worse than a child's funeral.

Some other friends have a daughter with a condition called tuberous sclerosis- she has multiple non cancerous tumours growing in her body and her brain which will affect her development. Frightening. She's 7mths :(

I'm so very grateful for DS being healthy. I really need to stop moaning about all the coughs and colds cos really they're insignificant!!

Ddas fingers crossed you get a later wake up.

Beasty glad the job is going well :)

Yay Mama you are feeling better in time to look after DH!!!

That's awful hales. My best friend's little sister died when she was 12 and it has affected the whole family ever since. It just seems so unfair to have a happy little life ended so pointlessly.

I have utterly cocked up today. Dh very carefully reminded me two days ago it was our anniversary and yet I still forgot - right up until he gave me a card and flowers, trying hard not to look too obviously sad. I am crap. Managed to get a card later but I feel awful and probably will do for the next decade, we have only been married 4 years. Work's been making me crap at everything else recently.

Have gone our together to buy steak though so we can have a lovely supper once O finally falls asleep..

i think it's tuberous sclerosis my god-mother's two boys have (I'm not really ignorant i promise, we're not geographically close and it has never been relevant. i only know they have a life limiting condition from a single brief conversation when i was young!) Anyway despite gloomy prognoses they're both still well at 30+ and the elder has two gorgeous daughters

lost my best friend to a lorry when we were 15. still can't look his parents in the eye, i just can't imagine how awful losing a child could be

Not much news here. Had a baby yesterday :)

DS seems to have coped ok on his first ever day without me. He was unsettled this evening, but went down to bed finally. Hoping to get home from the hospital early tomorrow morning. Loving my wee girl, but missing my wee boy!

Congratulations Stacks