November 2012 - Bring out the paddling pools

[StuntNun]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/2124734-November-2012-Roll-call

If he needs telling then tell him - I suspect he will be very grateful. I am so very excited for you vq! What an amazing adventure!

I have no advice at all yw. I know that you will be weighing up every pro and con out there to make sure the wee'est welly arrives safe and well.

Lovely to see you pennie!. Your experience with st is very interesting indeed. I am glad that progress is being made and I agree that you were quite right to press. These things can become big issues in nursery and primary if allowed to go unresolved

I would be delighted with fresh fruit and veg wanda. I visited a friend recently and took some blackcurrants from the garden - it went down very well. We have also taken baby courgettes in flower as they are easy to grow but hard to buy. Lovely idea.

The speech sounds incredible stunt. You must be very proud and relieved! He is clearly all about him so I wonder if pennie's experience could be similar? Whatever, I am very pleased.

Well, back to the grindstone for family crisp today. It was actually lovely being back as it always is. No kids today or tomorrow so planning and prep but still a big change. P was not happy at being woken but was absolutely fab at drop off with the CM. CM who hasn't seen p for 7 weeks bar a 3 hour visit last week was all a fluster about how much she has changed. She was giving lots of direction "no like it" "moar dat" etc. she was in such good form when I picked her up - properly elated and bouncing. Lovely. Just need to remind myself that I am doing it all again tomorrow

Oh shit , yes. pr that 'party' sounds intense! I am incredibly impressed that you hung around for so long (how long did it take to know there would be no party?) and that you then invited him round! You are quite the superstar - I would have run for the hills.

Phew, F finally asleep. Had to send mum a text so she could perform bed rearrangements whilst avoiding their creaky floor boards, but F is safely in her cot,in her own room. And I am tucked up in a kingsize bed with earplugs

VQ you're welcome

J woke 11.15 just after I had nodded off. He is still awake. Snotty nose, sore throat, cough, reflux. FFS. He cannot lay down but cannot get comfy anywhere either.

He fell asleep from 3-7 thank fuck. I feel like I have been run over.

Good morning Quiche! Hope you all have a spiffing day

No idea why he's waking. Probably habit again but I just sent know what to do.

He still won't speak other than cuddle but health visitor told me not to bother til he was 2. I'm now concerned as everyone else's baby seems to be coming on leaps and bounds!

Glad you got a " little" sleep vq I am feeling your excitement! Love it let it rake you through the day.

izzy I know is worrying, keep talking to him and encouraging and one day he will wake up babbling!

Can't believe the crisps are back at work already. What are you doing about your house search pass?

I am procrastinating. I need to carry on painting. This is the boys penultimate day In Nursery so I need to make the most of it. So second coat on kitchen/family room skirting, shower, lunch out on own, ironing, daytime tv that is not CBeebies then nursery pick up!

Izzy with J (and also with my DS1 and DS2) we went from barely any speech to a sudden increase in the amount of words. By the time DS1 and DS2 were 2 they were having conversations. This morning J woke up at 6:30 (yeah thanks J!), had his Koko then lay down in my bed and said 'night night night' and went back to sleep! A bit of communication will make things much easier because otherwise I probably would have had taken him downstairs and started shovelling toast at him when he would rather have been asleep. Speaking of toast, the breadmaker is absolutely fabulous. It takes less than five minutes to put a loaf on and now we have fresh white bread with no soya nasties in. The only downside is my bread knife is a bit rubbish so I think I'll have to invest in a new one as all the slices are coming out so thick they won't fit in the toaster a little bit wonky.

My 'date' with DS2 was lovely. We pottered round the shops then went to Pizza Express and played Uno and Top Trumps while we were having our meal. DS1 is jealous so I get to do the same with him next Friday.

Oh and another thing with speech development is that it is delayed by having siblings because there are more people talking that the child has to make sense of. Also children tend to talk in a different way to adults that doesn't encourage a baby's speech so well. That's probably one reason why the chattiest quiche toddlers are the ones without older siblings.

the best bread knife I have ever had

I love making my bread too stunt and Robert Welch knives are lovely things to have, and the bread knife is amazeballs. (And you can get them at john lewis and get it delivered to your local spa or whatever, is quite cool. Brings JL to NI regardless of planning permission)

The funny thing I have found about my own bread is that the girls have not taken to it till recently and I think it is because they are so used to all the extra shit that goes into mass produced bread and my bread does taste a lot "cleaner". As

I have used my bread maker since DS1 was a baby the boys are fine with it. I do use less salt and sugar but obviously you do need some to activate the yeast .

Right, back to the gloss. Just the family room left for today.

In need of some advice. I have to go to the US for work Sunday to Friday next week. Am tying myself in knots about leaving L. I know he will be fine between DH and my mum but it's me that's not fine. How do I get my head in a better place about it?

pikz see if you can really try to look forward to it as a well deserved break for you. L will be spoilt rotten probably and presumably his usual weeks routine will ensue. When Me or DH travel, we FaceTime every morning and every night.

Treating myself to a really nice lunch, in a restaurent, not a coffee shop only because my fave cafe was heaving crispy squid and beef salad coming up! Yum.

Pikz L will be fine, you will not, you'll miss him dreadfully. I remember the first time I left DS1 for a business trip. When I got home I was so emotional to see my toddler but he just said Hi Mum and went off to play. My DH travels a lot and he always brings back a little present for the boys. Sometimes the presents are bought in advance and packed into his suitcase to avoid paying mad airport prices for a few chocolates or a little car.

I have pmt. My Mil is picking all the blackberries on the farm track that leads up to our house and is going to leave them in at SILs. I am on verge of tears. Stupid I know, which is why I know I have pmt.

I want some too.

Right. I am going out there. It is war.

Wellies on. Tupperware at the ready

K. So tantrum over.

Posted picture of spoils on fb and I invited Mil in for a coffee.

Look at me. Is the wanda show today with a guest appearance from stunt

Wait.

Is there an actual opp for me to finish the thread?

Not really I would have to bramble quite a bit for that.

See what I did there?

Ooh and a walk on from pikz

Loving it wanda!

Thank you wanda and stunt, will get the FaceTime on a kick myself into enjoying it. He will never remember I went away right

J's new words for the day are car and, ironically, egg.

I have bookmarked that knife for my Christmas wishlist Wanda, thanks for the recommendation.

pikz He will be fine. Worst case scenario is he might ignore you during skype and when you get back which will make you feel awful but really won't be a big deal in the long run at all. He will be well looked after, and is used to his dad going away so it will not be as traumatic for him as for you. Promise. You in the meantime will get to eat out and sleep easy for a few nights. On expenses

wanda you crack me up :o those blackberries look yum.

I spent the morning shopping in Germany and then spent the first half of this afternoon messing about on Pottermore

Did a bit of housework too though. DD1 shuffled through to our bed at about 2am. Then wet herself. In our bed. Luckily had a waterproof sheet underneath and she went back off to her own bed with DH, very embarassed the poor thing, while I changed my bed and ordered waterproof undersheets for her bed on Amazon. She has only ever once wet the bed before and has been dry at night for over a year. That couple with some funny behaviour at nursery makes me think she is a tad disturbed atm maybe about starting school two weeks today. It'll pass.

pass we realised there was no party when he invited us up for drinks and said she must have cancelled it. All v embarassing really but tbh I felt more sorry for his embarassment than ours. We had a good chat for an hour or so before he started telling us the ins and outs of his doomed marriage and him coming back to ours for dinner seemed like the kindest thing to do. Though I have to admit that if looks could kill DH would have kicked the bucket instantly when he suddenly asked him I had a moment of mad panic and silent fury while I mentally did an inventory of my fridge's contents. They are meeting up again tonight so I hope he doesn't come over again as he'll just be getting leftover lamb casserole and some more blunt comments from me about his situation.

Erm. What else? Not much. I hope for an early night and a full night's sleep tonight. Hitting the gym tomorrow morning. Have been enrolled since Friday and not had the time or energy since then.

He will be fine Pikz as will you x

I am very tired indeed, but had a fab day at work carrying my little secret. It was a bit like the early pregnancy days but without the nausea

DD1 likes her new haircut as it is funky apparently. Thank God she is only 8.

DD2 just fell off the potty (why and how?) and cut her leg. No need for stitches but it is very sore.

J will be up again soon no doubt as he is full of snot. I will be kicking DH out of bed though as I am pooped, and he is off tomorrow.

Wanda that made me

J has verbal diarrhoea. Sentences but not understandable yet, complete with gesticulation and intonation. He is going to be talking non stop when he can.