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November 2012- Jingle Bells tantrums smell mummy needs some wine...

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Pikz · 10/12/2014 09:14

Just to start us off..

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Elizadoesdolittle · 27/12/2014 22:40

We've been at a friends gathering all afternoon/evening and just got in. E's main food source today was crisps so it seems like the day for it!

Got a few quiet days lined up now and goodness me we need them. It's pretty much just staying close to home and waiting for the new arrival I guess. And somehow getting the house back in some order!

YellowWellies · 28/12/2014 00:06

BP my sister has a theory that men are shit at looking for inanimate objects because they did the hunting so are primed to focus on movement, whereas women are good because we, typically, were gatherers and know to bloody move stuff and look around you if what you are looking for doesn't jump out tap dancing at you. DH and I even use the term "man look" for a shit attempt at finding something Blush .

GTbaby · 28/12/2014 01:35

Tantrums again today. Think it's combination of pil being back and loss of nursery routine. We also get the demand "pisps" and "aclate". Today I ended up giving him chocolate so he would eat his healthy dinner of chips. For lunch he has rice pudding. Breakfast coco pops. A few crackers at snack time. What am awful diet. We are hiding all the crisps and chocolate tomorrow. Confused

2nd fail of the day was/is that he is asleep in his jeans and tshirt. Refused to taken them off.

Night night all

Elizadoesdolittle · 28/12/2014 10:20

I'm still in bed Shock E has been chuntering in her cot happily for about 20mins and DD1 has literally just woken up. This won't happen again for a long long time!

GwenaelleLaGourmande · 28/12/2014 10:29

Lovely eliza :)

Ready for D Day tomorrow? Wink

IXOYC · 28/12/2014 10:32

NC for QM, VQ etc WinkGrin

GTbaby · 28/12/2014 12:15

Eliza Weljel.

H has eaten slightly better today. No breakfast but lunch was A fish finger and some hoops. Custard for dessert. Not great but oh well.

Wandathewindfairy · 28/12/2014 13:24

ixoyc ?

IXOYC · 28/12/2014 15:08

Wanda you of all people should know what that means Wink

IXOYC · 28/12/2014 15:12

Bugger! IXOYE! Shit! (Goes back into hibernation)

IXOYC · 28/12/2014 15:15

Apparently the C and E are interchangeable. My Tattoo is not incorrect.

Elizadoesdolittle · 28/12/2014 16:08

No idea what you're on about!

IXOYC · 28/12/2014 16:23

That is ok Eliza Grin Any sign of baby yet?

Lily311 · 28/12/2014 17:32

I got you!!

GwenaelleLaGourmande · 28/12/2014 17:42

Got it too. had to google

StuntNun · 28/12/2014 17:55

YW do we know that only men hunted and only women gathered? That seems awfully sexist.

YellowWellies · 28/12/2014 19:01

Stunt you can gather and breastfeed - you can't drag babies and toddlers along on the hunt without scaring off the game. Look at hunter gatherer societies today - I can't find one that divides it into women hunters and men gatherers. Division of labour along gender lines need not be sexist.

YellowWellies · 28/12/2014 19:03

But we don't know for definite about prehistoric hominid and human societies - we tend to infer from the anthropological record to fill in details which aren't preserved.

GwenaelleLaGourmande · 28/12/2014 19:15

Hmm. In that bloody awful book I read, How Eskimos Keep Their Children Warm, she spoke of a tribe somewhere that divides labour with the emphasis being on men doing childcare and women doing the hunting, not exclusively, but much more equally.

However I am always quite sceptical about using pre-historic studies to justify current behaviour. It can lead to all kinds of sexism along the lines of men needing to sow their seed, being unable to be faithful, yet women who do the same get labelled. Right up to rapists being unable to help themselves.

So interesting from an anthropology perspective but in day to day life now I expect DH to find his own sodding keys and not blame being useless at that on being a man.

In the same way I think I am a crap car parker because I have crap spatial awareness but I don't have crap spatial awareness because I am a woman. I actually get it from my dad who was utterly useless at anything involving spatial awareness. My mum parks her car like a parking godess.

We have evolved, but I do enjoy reading the theories.

GwenaelleLaGourmande · 28/12/2014 19:20

Looked it up - tis the Aka Pygmy tribe. However, that book is full of shit.

YellowWellies · 28/12/2014 20:21

I should stress my sister's logic behind the shit "man look" is in jest! Though by education she is a geneticist, tis not a serious theory.

GwenaelleLaGourmande · 28/12/2014 20:32

I wasn't having a go Blush

I have seen the theory or similar before actually. Maybe in that Mars Venus book.

Passmethecrisps · 28/12/2014 21:08

I love the idea of a 'man look'. Well, obviously I don't as it annoys the living fuck out of me but I like that I now have a name for it. I rarely get the rage with DH but the cry of "have you seen my . . ." Or more annoyingly "do you know where my . . . " can send me into a red mist. For that reason I have to take deep breaths when p utters "where my. . . "

Lazy as lazy things day today. P woke at 10am!! I lay in bed with my eyes closed imagining i was still asleep like I would have been pre-p. We did some tidying - again. It is like painting the bloody forth road bridge. Every single time I pack p's things away she is suddenly drawn to that very thing and insists on having it out to play with. I packed up the same little bag of hair clips and bangles about 26 times.

She has also taken to singing a little song which must come from nursery or a toddler group. It goes "hello, passme, how are you? How's that sitting next to you? Iiiiiiittt's Betty! Hello betty how are you?" And so on. She sings it all the time and spends a very long time deliberating who is sitting next to who. The best thing about it is the naming of all the people she has met recently.

I also had to google the name change but it made sense once I did. I think it suits you ixoyc

Oh, and in other news, I shared with DH my preferred girl's name for the baby wot has not even been conceived yet and his response . . . Long pause and "well, we can only hope that we don't have another girl then!"

GwenaelleLaGourmande · 28/12/2014 21:16

:o I guess either you take that off the list or work on persuading him then.

I learn most of what happens at nursery and school via their end of day dramatic reconstruction. DD1 loves playing teacher and has got hers down pat. It is very funny. LO is doing similar now.

We have been provided with cute little books the last few weeks with the rhymes and songs they sing. i think it is so we can keep them working on them over the break but I am enjoying learning French rhymes.

Just waiting for my cat to come in then can go to bed. Far too cold for him to stay outside.