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June mummies '05 thread 12 - the one where they aren't babies anymore!

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katzg · 21/09/2006 10:51

new thread!

Enjoy!

Congrats Jonah

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eastyorksmum · 26/09/2006 13:10

Hiya mandy hugs lovely to see you too hope it all well with you.

Giddy hunny just changed my phone so ill text you soon, our Jess is a very clever girl fancy her knowing what a pot is for. Im doing the same with william he goes and sits on it and looks at me lol would rather run round the house shaking his bits lol but we are trying, i think you need to introduce a potty before potty trainning so well keep trying.

Katz i hope little ones rash isnt do bad, and she doesnt re act to the MMR william was fine which amazed me although a few weeks ago we did get a meassel type rash wich spread through his body took him staright to docs and he said it was an alergy rash never seen anything like it, he gave me some steroid cream all gone now.

eastyorksmum · 26/09/2006 13:11

right have to go love to you all yorky xxxxxxxx

NAB3 · 26/09/2006 16:38

Hi Skyler

Yep, that's me! It took my husband over 8 hours to get home in the snow!!!!!

Baby is now fine but it was worrying at the time as we thought he was going to have Edward's Syndrome and we hoped the older two children wouldn't miss out with the extra attention he would need. He did have some cranio treatment when he was tiny and his little body had shut down due to the shock of him losing his twin and his traumatic delivery. We thought he was deaf but it was him in shock. He's a darling and our last one. He and I nearly died at his birth so we have to stop.

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katzg · 26/09/2006 16:47

hi all

welcome back skyler and Nab

Off on another conference tomorrow, so no chatting got it! i won't be able to catch up.

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giddy1 · 26/09/2006 17:17

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sfxmum · 26/09/2006 19:26

NAB - what an awful time, i am sorry you lost a child, and am so pleased you are all doing well now.
snow in june? where are/were you?

giddy - clever jess. little but amazing that child

about my friends that went remarkably well the hrs flew by, they were smitten with dd who just talked and talked . we managed to discuss politics as usual, current reads,etc. felt like a grown up really

2happy dh seems to have forgotten the recipe for bean burgers but it involves aduki beans and no egg.
i use one from Linda McCartney which i adapt according to which ever beans i have available, it works well.

2Happy · 26/09/2006 20:23

No worries, sfx, I'm sure someone on MN'll have a good recipe. ds actually has ben eating since sunday - how long it'll last I really don't know, but it makes a nice change!
Giddy - noooo! My CM announced today she's not only finished her christmas shopping, but was going to spend tonight wrapping it all! I suspect the 2Happy household'll be doing the christmas shopping online. Again.
Katz - hope the conference goes well
Anyone heard how things are going for muma?

tribpot · 26/09/2006 20:26

Nab, you poor thing. Hope you are all doing okay.

2Happy - your CM is deranged. Shopping is one thing, wrapping is quite another!

2Happy · 26/09/2006 20:27
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sfxmum · 26/09/2006 20:31

CHRISTMAS SHOPPING!!!! missed that one oh no

having said that i did buy dh a christmas present with my last pay cheque

katz - hope not too tiring and you manage to have some fun

NAB3 · 27/09/2006 11:29

Haven't even started Christmas shopping!!!!

tribpot · 27/09/2006 18:35

Grrr, very annoyed with my letting agents today. They constantly give me grief about the state of the garden (because with a full-time job, a 15 month old baby and a chronically ill husband, having a perfectly manicured lawn should be top of my agenda?) and I told them at the recent house inspection I was organising a gardener to come and do a tidy-up for autumn.

Today dh has told me that someone from the agency was on our property - not just having a look at the front garden from the road, but walking round the side of the house, presumably to inspect the back garden as well.

I am mad as hell, they have no right to come here without notice - I could have been quite frightened if I had been on my own here with ds.

Composing angry letter as we speak, but can't print it as we can't find the spare printer cartridges for either printer

2Happy · 27/09/2006 19:54

Crikey, that's a real no-no isn't it, inspecting without giving you warning? Hope you find some ink! Perhaps they'd like you to get the nail scissors out and lovingly trim each individual blade of grass, hmm?!

tribpot · 27/09/2006 19:56

It is, and having just been through this with my babysitter's landlords, who were turning up unannounced virtually every day, I can quote chapter and verse at them.

My bro's advice (he is a letting agent and landlord) is to tell them to stuff it, there's no legal definition of 'tidy garden' in any case. As the cheap gits have refused to buy two roller blinds and one curtain pole for the kitchen to help insulate it for winter, am v tempted right now

sfxmum · 27/09/2006 19:57

you have my sympathy trib awful people

2Happy · 27/09/2006 19:58

Ask them if they want a tended garden - if they say yes, just direct them to where you keep the mower

tribpot · 27/09/2006 19:59

Seriously am tempted to say if the landlady is that bloody fussed about it she can come round and do the gardening herself! I've been told by the agents more than once that she is in the area quite frequently and makes a point of driving by to see what state the garden is in. She is entitled to use the public highway, but I am entitled to enjoy the property without feeling harrassed.

2Happy · 28/09/2006 11:07

I don't get Clark's. I went there today, it's nearly 6 weeks since ds got his last pair of shoes, which were 4 1/2G. So some girl (who looked about 15, good grief I must be getting old...!), measured his feet and got one as a size 4 1/2 and one as a size 4!! So one foot hasn't grown a milimetre in 6 weeks and the other one's shrunk?!! Don't get me wrong, I'm happy not to be forking out another £20 on shoes, but it seems a bit weird to me!

sfxmum · 28/09/2006 11:30

2happy i know what you mean. and if they are rubbish dealing with dd i walk away
we have a Clarks inside our local mothercare, dd was measured and i was told to get a 5 it would be comfortable and with room to grow to be fair she seems to walk well in the them i am waiting a little longer before getting winter shoes, alas not much choice its all pink purple or patent black

tribpot · 28/09/2006 12:34

Well ladies, at least your little ones don't have a pair of these to wear!

sfxmum · 28/09/2006 13:20
Skyler · 28/09/2006 13:34

Hello again.
Nab - Glad things have begun to settle down for you. What a bitter sweet time.
Clarks shoes. Well I have had to take back in total five pairs of dd2's shoes. She has funny fat feet but narrow at the back and is very difficult to fit. I have been to six different shops in three different towns. Having said that the gorgeous Start rite shoes I bought after failing to get a fit with Clarks were even worse and actually rubbed whereas the Clarks ones just didn't fit well.
I have decided that my local Clarks are the best and they are wonderful with the children too. I hope things get easier. She is a 4.5 G but I have NO choice of shoe. I have to get the one that fits! We nearly had brown lace ups as her first pair .

tribpot · 28/09/2006 14:24

A present from my MIL.

sfxmum · 28/09/2006 14:28

having said that one of dh arty friends got dd a pair of felt jester boots i guess be ok as sort of slippersshudder

hi skyler - nice sensible shoes is what i am after for cold weather something navy i think.
and may i asked how your DUO boots are doing? thinking of ordering a pair. worth it?

2Happy · 28/09/2006 15:19

Oh Trib, my mother gave dniece a pair of equally horrific wellies, but girly. dsis and dbil have to keep hold of them as dm keeps asking "is she wearing her lovely wellies?". The worst thing is, dsis says dniece really likes them!