December 2011 "Mummymummymummymummy.... it's MINE!"

[NorthernChinchilla]

Combining our catchphrases...sigh...

That's a bit disheartening seven. You'd have expected a bit more support Hopefully pelvic floor exercises will help. Is spurring me on to do some actually. I've been massively lazy about it and I know I'll regret it

Yay re chubbing up of baby E!

mopsy I hardly done any and I definitely regret it, though of course I'll never know whether it would have prevented it or not. That said I had 3 normal births with no problems.

It is prob just cos was number 4. I have 11 weeks left though ... I'd better get clenching!

There was a thread on exactly this the other day seven; same issue as you (as far as one can tell), and same advice, but it was a good news story as she'd come back to thread to say it had all sorted out at her 2 month check up. At least the MW seems to think it's within the bounds of normal, so hopefully it will sort without the need for surgery. Great that your DH is being lovely- as we'd all hope and expect- and yay for chubbster E!

Get back on the phone to the wasp killer aethel, some things can't wait! And bugger about the greenery, it must have radically altered your view/privacy?

I work with someone extremely experienced in local government finance/finance generally- he's advised Government Select Committees- and his view is an Independent Scotland would be a disaster. I can understand why some people would feel passionately that they want their own country...but don't they have it already AND are part of GB? Seems like the perfect set up at the moment. Ah well, living in interesting times and all that...

Feeling narked with my DF and family. This has been the weekend we've been booked to see them for weeks, and they were coming to see us. Text last night that as DSis is going out on Saturday night, and DStepM has a Church reading Sunday morning and (as I found out on during the phone call) both siblings have dance class til midday Saturday, could we come to them..or they'll bob over for a few hours Saturday...oh and Dsis won't come as she's got to stay and do homework.
So glad you value seeing me Dad, thanks....

How annoying Northern. I'd be fuming and I certainly wouldn't go over there!

sympathies re crap family types. that sucks.
My news today:
So...History: I want to replace my 3 x patio doors, with aluminium bi-folds or sliders. No one will send a surveyor to measure up and give proper advice until you pay a deposit. Not for the quality system I want...
So I picked the company that I thought were more honest / good/ etc. Paid my 50% deposit up front (£5k+).
Surveyor came this morning. Probably about 30, tattoo sleeve, nice enough guy... He starts explaining what work needs to be done before they can fit their windows. (&&*&!!!) I get a little bit disheartened. I need to get a builder in, it'll cost me more, but it's more about the hassle of it all.
He asks, can your husband not do this, I say there is no husband to do this. (Small white lie, but not really, was hoping for sympathy and a "I'll do it for you" on the QT.) He apologises, then says let's have a brew and think about it - there are different options/different work to be done regarding whether I bi-fold or slide.
Anyway, we have a brew, Decide for the sliding door downstairs. More building hassle, but best in the end, and was what I wanted originally.
He goes away. (he was a bit hesitant, lingering, is there anything else I can do for you? leaning across the area where I'm working, - I didn't dare ask "Like what?", I just said no thanks.)
so he leaves, slowly, ...then comes the fishing text.
ha ha ha ha!
I guess it's nice to know it's there if I want it. !!!!
But I don't.
I just want my windows sorted FFS!
I haven't responded to the text. It was vague. indirect. He apologised for giving me a headache (re extra costs and hassle), the tea was crackin. (?!) I should let him know if I need help with anything. Joe.
ha ha ha! giggle. I don't know how to respond, don't want to start a discussion.
I haven't even got any make up on. ha!
I had to tell someone! it's so funny.

I bet if I slept with him, he'd do the work. For free.
But I'm not going down that path!
ha ha ha!
so wrong. so funny.

Wow Oi get you and your seductive charms!!!

Ds had a massive wobbly this morning he wanted to walk to cm but as he took 40 minutes to eat some grapes and a bit of toast he was out of luck ......and time, he then wouldnt get in the car managed to wrestle him in eventually then half way there freaked out because he had a yellow frog with him not his green one (sigh) eventually got him out of the car and left him in a grumpy heap on the floor with the cm. Going to walk round to pick him up tonight another luxury of working from home.....on top of managing to get the washing done.

We have got in a bad habit of relying on toast, grapes, yoghurt and pancakes for breakfast he wont eat cereal hoping we can get porridge and weetabix back on the radar as the weather changes but what do your lo's eat?

Apparently he has been telling the cm all about his new geruffalo pants....training is on the horizon he is so uninterested in his thomas pants this is a good sign.

When at home, the Boi demands a mix of 4 cereals, which he insists in helping to pour in the bowl. And a minimum of 3 spoons. As we get to the table he may then confiscate my spoon, and I have to go and get another.
Anywhere else he gets what he's given with one spoon.

I shall be the ruin of him. Giving in to these demands.
Little Lord Fauntler-BOi.

Oi: I am shocked!!! Well, slightly .... Seriously though, nice to know you've still got it... But resist or you'll probably get something else as well. Perks of the job mean that quite a few builders/posties/other jobbing tradesmen end up at the local GUM clinic (who then have to trace all their contacts for them!)
So if you do succumb, make sure he uses a tarpaulin!!......

I shall not succumb. He wasn't that cute.
Ha ha!!

Goodness me Oi!

When I was 29/30 I got a new bathroom put in. It took the plumber about 3 weeks to finish.
And he stayed for another couple of weeks after that...

Figgy your DS's breakfast sounds better than mine! My DS requests Cheerios with milk every day, if we have run out he will eat other cereals like cornflakes, rice crispies, weetabix or shreddies.

I'm finding it hard not to buy DS crisps, chocolates and biscuits! I've restocked the rice cakes and in making a conscious effort to cut down on the junk food snacks!

Workmen are funny Oi they always sound as though the job cannot be done, but manage it anyway after much grumbling! It's always nice to know that you're still attractive to other men though!

Well you're safe figgy, we're all still part of GB. Very glad of it too...
DS is going through an 'only Cheerios' phase, after eating Weetabix and Raisin Wheats, but am just going with the flow. He has toast and either orange or pink marmalade at weekends as a treat.
Also currently have an Abney and Teal fixation....

Hoorah we are all still a union and living on an island ive been up since 4 im absolutely shattered!!

Ds got new gruffalo pants earlier in The week he has been talking about them a lot which is great as he wasnt interested im his thomas ones thought Today As i look like death we won't be going out before swimming at around half 10 we would try the pants he put them on with gusto and then peed freely less than 5 minutes later he had 20 minutes bare then wanted another pair again few minutes later he peed through them. Gah!! He can be in the house hours without an accident no more pants today.

Dinner at PIL tonight as its FIL bday i. Just want my. Bed

Hope FIL's birthday goes OK and you perk up a bit figgy.

DS's big boy bed has arrived, and so we'll assemble that Sunday. Can't believe we're taking down his cot

Despite my pointed message to my Dad that, seeing as they were so busy on the weekend they were meant to be visiting us rather than squeeze us in for a few hours, why not cancel and re book for October? He came back and said their diaries are very full that month, and he wouldn't want to leave it that long before seeing us

Point totally missed, so they're coming round for dinner tomorrow.

Are you planning on romancing anyone else tonight Oi Love the BOi's new NN by the way, inspired!

Reading a very good book: "Ready player One". It's about a geeky poor kid playing a virtual reality game to try to win a fortune, the game was written by a 1980's obsessed Asperger's computer programmer... It's very cool!

I've been so grumpy the past two days. Don't know what's wrong with me. I'm snapping at DS and just generally a misery. Blurgh.

Not pregnant are you hop?

oi good to hear you still have your seductive charms.

We all have colds excluding baby E thankfully, sleep deprivation combined with feeling rough and looking after poorly little ones is not a good combination.

Definitely not pregnant. Just miserable.

So am I hop dh and I had mega rows today but im in middle of AF so hormones here doing it for me

DH came for Boi, I said let's all go out for dinner, no problem.
During dinner Boi says that he wanted to come back to mummy's tonight, with daddy. I waited til Boi was occupied and asked DH if he's like to come and spend the evening. "We could talk."... He didn't say much, but it was a no.
I feel a bit miffed.
And then Boi cried when I got out of the car. He wanted to come home with mummy.

Sounds hard Oi I think it's really good that you and DH can still go out for dinner with Boi it's a really good example to set. My parents split up when I was 2.5 and it was not civilised at all! Hopefully it will get easier with time.

It does remind me of a couple I met last weekend, we were in our way home from a wedding in London and we're stranded at Euston for 1.5 hours due to a delayed train and got chatting to this couple. Except they weren't a couple and had been divorced for 30 years but we're still friends and had been to the proms together. They were really lovely and had grown up children. I didn't believe the lady when she first said they'd been divorced for 30 years!

We're on day 2 of potty training (2nd attempt). So far I think DS is ready this time. Yesterday he didn't wee from 8am - 4.30pm and had a wee accident. Today he had a poo accident in the morning while I was in the kitchen, and just one wee accident at 5.00pm.

I think he's holding his wee in despite is encouraging him to drink lots. I think he's not quite sure about having a wee on the potty, although this time around he's quite happy to sit on the potty to 'practice'. I think we will persevere and give him plenty of encouragement. He's at nursery Tuesday - Friday this week so I hope that he manages there okay. As long as he doesn't get upset I'm happy to keep going.

We went to a birthday party today with soft play and a bouncy castle in a hall, DS had a great time. It was so much fun watching him rolling around laughing in the ball pit

Well, DS is asleep in his big boy bed... his language seems to have really come on in the past few weeks or so too, and all of a sudden he seems to be a little boy and really not a baby any more. Am absolutely loving it - 9 to 18 months I found a bit hard, the walking baby stage didn't suit!- and fantastic today to walk out to the park, a good 3/4 of a mile there, just babbling and being out together for two hours.
BUT where has the time gone, seriously I know I keep saying this, but eeeek!

Really sorry you're out of sorts hop. If you can face a nice brisk walk for a few miles, that can often help.

You're still early days Oi, the fact that it's going so well, especially with you working together, is a testament to you both. And although BOi's reaction will obviously tug at your heartstrings, he will be fine.