Here comes the terrible twos!!! (OCT 04 TODDLERS)

[biglips]

wwwwwweeeelllllllll im still calm.... (just about!!)...

Where are you going on hols Jbad?
In fact, where is everybody going?

Yes Toby is better now thanks, still a bit rattly but thats just him normally!

We are going to Ibiza for a week cannot wait. San antonio so a bit of clubbing I feel!

Just need to buy some holiday clothes and keep going to the gym! Im quite lucky really I work on a school complex that has a sports centre so I get staff discount. I have more of an incentive to go there as we also live 5 mins away. Its very handy for also walking to work.

Im doing a sponsored walk for the Snowdrop trust on the 13th May we are going to walk 1 mile. I would do the 5 mile but I dont think its great for buggies.
Snowdrop help us out all the time with everything. They are nurses too so help with all the button things and general stuff.

We have also just re done our garden and turfed it. Snowdrop helped us pay to do that too!!

Ooo a bit of clubbing! Sounds like the perfect escape.
That's great you have such a convenient gym - it must be hard to find the time to go though.
My cheapest and best gym is the Edinburgh Uni one - I get a discount as an ex-student, but no creche!
There are local places that have creches, but it's really expensive for the creche and gym, so I couldn't go three times a week or anything.
Haha three times a week! Hahaha! [insane laughter]
Is the garden all toby-proofed now?

Yes the garden is virtually finished now. We got some of theose solar powered lights around it too. Dh built a brick bbq - clever innit!!

The only thing with the garden is that we cannot walk on it for about another 5 weeks and we are watering it constantly, good job we dont have a hose pipe ban at the moment!!!

We are still waiting for tobys mri scan results. It only been about 2 months so i suppose thats not too long (ha ha). Will try and get onto the hospital tomorrow.

Went to the gym tonight - im so good at this now! My nursery stays open till 6 so i try to finish work around 4.30 and can pop over after work.

Also spoke to our community nurse today and she is emailing our consultant with regards to Omeprazole (reflux medicine) as tobs is still being prety sicky and his weight has been static since January. Its not so bad as he has had a few ups and downs lately but he has been on duo cal (fat powder) for a while now too and this should be making some difference. Oh well we are seeing the dietician the week after next so im sure we will sort it.

hhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelllllllllllllllooooooooooooo!!!!

im here....
sorry about the long disapperance as lately im forgetting about this thread and im on another website - Bounty.com flogging my clothes too. so busy busy busy!!

Tweenie is speaking brilliant now as we can understand her more now but she cannot say the F word = Fire - Bire, Fish - Bish, Freddy - breddy, but she can say Fishies!!

the toilet training is taking on good as she is not interested in the potty full stop so i do have to leg it up them stairs - i want a toilet under the stairs now!

Now talking about the gym, ive been going since march and feel so much better as i had no energy but now its picking up!

no holidays for us this year as maybe camping - borrow Dp's mate caravan for a week in the summer - but waiting for Dp to take over his boss's business - window cleaning - which got a few hiccups atm so once its all sorted - dp takes over and hooray we will have money!!
We are hoping for next years' cruise

Hi Biglips - selling clothes, it does take a lot of time. I have a flurry every so often and flog off some of Alf's stuff, but most of the time we are just drowning in 'too small' clothes.
Roll on DP's new business starting up!!!
I have ended up handing quite a bit in to charity shops because I can't be bothered photographing it and all that stuff.
Jbad, you do have to water grass just now, ours is going yellow. I can't remember the last proper rain - oh wait, it was all of October, November and December.
I hope you get the MRI results soon.
Is there an alternative medicine for the reflux that you could try?

oh tweenie had been growing and growing but not out any weight on - phew!! she is in size 3-4 yrs old clothes for the past month and is size 8.5F in shoes too

I knoooow! All those lovely clothes that look so gorgeous and then boom! they're too small.
I tried to get Alfie to fit into his last Summer's clothes, by moving the buttons and stuff, but they looked ridiculous.
Maybe I can squish him and squish him until they fit. [thoughtful face]
No, better not!
Do you still go to the HV to get Tweenie weighed or just get her to stand on a scale?

i last got tweenie properly weighed in the health clinic before Xmas and then ive used our scales at home

I took Alfie to the HV ages ago, but it was a bit strange, because most mums had brought quite small babies, so Alfie was the odd one out. I decided I wouldn't bother going after that.
We don't have any scales, so we will have to take him to John Lewis where they have a big display of them.
I'm soo tired today, sitting here with piles of toys surrounding me. [eyes look over the top of pile (. .)
[those are my eyes]

Biglips = "I keep forgettin about this thread" - thanks mate!

JBadgirl - when are you going to on holiday?
Your garden sounds amazing.

I upstairs hiding from my FIL - can't bear him (don't tell dh). My evening sickness has gone - hope that is not a bad sign. Mind you did sleep from 6-7!

Biglips, you may not have noticed Cazzy is pregnant, so she gets cross really easily.

[ducks]
We have booked - I hope - a week near Oban in the Highlands, then a week with family all in June.
Not sure if the booking worked yet because it was online and I haven't heard back yet. [worried face]

What's up with your FIL Cazzy?

Hi, yes there is another medicine we can try, just got it approved by the pead, its omeprazole to reduce the acid. If this doesnt improve it then he may have a test that involvs him swallowing coloured dye and then seeing if its going to his tummy or if its going down his windpipe. This could be another cause of his constant chest infections. There is an operation he can have to tighten up the top of his tummy (fundiplication) and stop him being sick but this is a lst resort really and depends how bad he is refluxing. The medicine he is on is meant to help gastric emptying but not sure if its working so well. Another thing we can do is monitor what foods he is eating as some may cause his reflux to become worse ie tomato based or richer foods. We have quite a few options to try and hope it eases a little for him as it cant be that nice.

Tried to get the results for his mri scan again today but there was no answer on the secretarys phone will try again tomorrow.

Oh yes with the grass, new turf needs to be watered for about a week once laid to help it to root, but we will keep watering ours as it cost enough!

I just find him hard work and odd and very tight. he is not my parents who are generaise to a fault (he has leant us money for our house but as an investment) like if he is coming for dinner he doesn't bring wine, and if we go out for dinner he expects us to pay half (which was really bad when dh was doing his phD and I was earning a teachers salary), doesn't bring presents for the kids (god he sees them oh once/twice a year). He never makes the effort to see them - he works eanrs lots of momey but he often does down to play om his stream railway etc, and yet doesn't want to see his grandchildren.

They are stupid reasons I know but I just think if you can;t be bothered to see your grandchildren. His daughter lives in Oz so he doesn;t get to see her children that much either.

Cazzy, he sounds like a regular Santa Claus. Oh well, at least you won't have to put up with him for another 6 months or even more if your play your cards right.
Next time he wants to go for a meal, suggest MaccyDs.
Fingers crossed for the MRI result soon Jbad.

and yes i know cazzy is pg..when is your scan? im so broody as hell...trying to hold it off till late next year after been on the holiday.

Thought of any names?? i dont have a clue what to call my next child

Biglips, we want another one as well, but we are not doing a very good job of it. Whenever it's the right time, something always happens to spoil it, like I feel really tired or have a headache (really) or DP feels ill, or is really busy or away or something.
I suppose we're not really trying all that hard or none of these things would get in the way.
Oh well, as long as Alfie is settled in at nursery by the time we have Alfredina that will be fine.

No scan date yet because apart from MN and dh have told no-one. Am waiting till I get past 11 weeks!

I probably said this before, but brushing Alfie's teeth. Aaargh!
He lets DP do it a bit, but it's not a regular thing.
Is it just Alfie??
I'm getting really paranoid about him having anything with sugar in it, but of course he loves to eat sugar, from a jar.
Every so often he likes dragging the kitchen chair over to the cupboards and leaping up on the seat, grabbing the sugar jar - wherever it is - and opening it. By the time I get to him he is like a doughnut.

ive never had any probs with brushing Tweenies teeth as i do bit by bit at a time and when ive finished, she do it herself. She loves brushing my teeth with my own brush and paste. Try and brush his teeth at the same time brushing yours to see if that do the trick. Not many kids of this age likes their teeth to be brush!

Talking of teeth Toby has the dentist on wednesday. He has 2 bruises on his upper gums (where the big teeth come through). He has had them for a few weeks and some days they get better and then worse again. Dentist said on the phone that they normally go red and swollen but not purple! He is just cutting his fifth tooth so i know he is a very slow teether. But then he is still small (weighs 22lbs!!

jbad - i remember one of my DD's front tooth came thru and it had a purple lump on the pink gums...it where the tooth was cutting thru... was there for about 3 weeks and it went as soon the tooth came thru

ill ring her dentist on Tues as its bank hols on monday

Poor Toby, that doesn't sound very nice. Is it bothering him?
Alfie has been teething for ages, getting the back teeth - I couldn't feel anything when he would allow me near his mouth, except a few bumps. However, on Friday I felt two 'prongs' of a tooth coming in at the side. Maybe I imagined it, but it seemed to be going the wrong way. So I'll have to get DP to take him to the dentist (he goes to DP's not mine).
I have a small jaw and small teeth and DP has a big jaw and big teeth - I hope Alf hasn't got big teeth and a small jaw. They'll end up like dog's teeth.
Oh and I gave him a fork to eat with tonight and whilst sitting quietly, he stuck it up his nose and it started bleeding. [rolls eyes] Genius!
Biglips, I have tried brushing my teeth, teddy's teeth, Granny's teeth, electric toothbrushes blah blah - he is just a little helpful boy.

He'll be sorry when they all fall out.