December 2012 : Stop that or your going in your cot.

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Noooo I love nap time! I am not at all ready to say goodbye to naps. Fortunately DS generally goes off without an issue and sleeps well even through fireworks

Thanks gang. I'm back to work tomorrow - feel a bit aggy about how I'm going to cope with all the 'did u have a nice Xmas?' Type stuff. I don't think I want to tell many people at work yet as it's nice to have an 'escape' and talking about it usually makes me cry. I emailed my boss on Friday to ask for wed off but he's very unemotional so think he'll generally leave me alone. I guess I might tell the person that sits opposite me although we only cross over once a week.

hales it's so tough when they're like that. When she's better are you still planning on stopping night feeds? I was amazed at how quickly T accepted it and how little fuss she made - just a couple of nights. I am so thankful that I started it just before we heard dm was ill as I don't think I'd still be standing with night feeds on top of everything else.

WL don't tell your workmates until your ready like you said it maybe nice having an outlet were its not being spoken about.

Yes i still plan on stopping night feeds. I think as soon as shes better i'm going to just completely refuse bottles of a night for her. I will have to do it when DP is ik work though as he will give in if hes home.

Willyou i feel your pain, H dropped her nap about 2 months ago it feels so weird not getting chance to regroup in the day. But like you said bedtime is so much easier.

To be fair, I'm at work in the day so it's the evenings I care about!

DH moved (sleeping) DD back in half an hour ago. A was in bed, awake, wearing sun glasses. Both asleep now thank goodness!

He's a pain at the moment though. Hitting us saying "hit", trying to bite me saying "eat mummy". This evening he was stamping on DD's foot saying "hurt DD". And over Christmas he had a baking tray and was repeatedly hitting DD over the head with it.

beasty we've got some rough behaviours too - repeatedly hitting dd1 on the head with a Barbie doll, pushing and pulling if she's not getting her own way.

H has always had slightly aggressive mood swings which always seem to be aimed at me and my niece but at the same time is capable of being the most loving child ever. She confuses me alot.

Ds hits too and pulls dd's hair.

Hales it's hard when they're like that. They apparently can't control their impulses until they're three? Might Google that...

WL

This isn't frustration, this is laughing and attacking for fun whilst describing what he's doing!

He got upset this morning, saying "poo, foot" which means he's wet himself, except he was in a pull up so I didn't respond straight away. Turns out he'd been pulling his pyjamas and pull-up up and down and his willy was sticking out of the top so when he did a wee it cascaded down outside his pyjamas!

Hope people had good first days at preschool.

Lots of hitting/biting/slapping here. He thinks it's hilarious to smack my bottom when I'm cooking and have my hands full.

It's getting old, quick.

The receptionist at dds school is so bloody rude and miserable. I'm tempted to complain there's no need for it at all. It's really pissed me off. I spend all day being polite to horrible rude people at work I don't want to do it at home too

:( always puts me in a bad mood when have to deal with someone like that- there's rarely a need to be rude and doesn't help them or you. Are they being funny about your appointments?

Dd gave ds a big bite last week- he went mad, we told her off in a big way plus naughty corner and think our reaction scared her so much she's fingers crossed not done it again. If only we could find such a quick solution for her tantrums!

I was just telling her that:

'Dd won't be in tomorrow because she has a hos..'

'Hospital appointment. Yes, I know.'

I'd written it in her patent teacher book but the teacher hasn't signed it off so I wanted to check they knew! It's not the first time she's been rude, more like the third

Spotty she sounds snippy and bitchy like hard work!

Ddas I find DS gets a bit bitey when he is teething and overexcited.

DS is back at nursery & he is so tired in the evenings. We get big scenes at dinner. Yesterday the couscous on his plate was apparently not for eating. Mummy's couscous was what he wanted. Then tonight he wanted ketchup with his frittata. Ok, DH & I both have a little ketchup so that seems fair. He didn't touch the ketchup but wanted more & more & more. In the end he ate mostly my dinner (again) with no ketchup on

DH gets really wound up. I try and take a breath and laugh inwardly since I'm sure it wouldn't help if he heard me

Nutella there's no logic to it is there? Sometimes it's just not worth it. Dd once again only ate the cauliflower and cocktail sausages of her dinner leaving the yummy lasagne I made

Ds has gone to bed with his new toy!

R's mummy has a new name

i like that my autocorrect has twat as the first option when i type t w

I hope I'm thinking of the right R. If I say slings, wrap and fluff.... Am I close?

spotty I hate that. At dd1s old school the lovely reception lady was replaced by a horrible sarcy cow. I always wanted to say something but never did. It makes such a huge difference.

Oncologist is saying 2-5 years with successful treatment. Dm and I had a good cry tonight but I just don't have any words. Fx st George's have good news for us tomorrow.

Oh wl, I'm sorry. I'm glad that she's there with you though, so that you can be together even in the face of things. I know I keep coming up with stories, so do shut me up if it's not helping, but dh's uncle has a blood cancer and was originally given a prognosis of a few years, and it's now been almost ten, all of which mainly healthy (albeit with pills and stints of chemo to keep at it..) I'll hope St George's come through with some hope tomorrow.

pidj/deladion, love your autocorrect! (My old phone used to have all sorts of horrors,not what it said about me. )

No hitting/biting yet here, but O's a bit younger than a lot of this thread. I'll be watching him like a hawk. His latest game is to post coins down our glasses, which makes dh look quite sinister, but O thinks it hilarious. He can now do all the work to pay using my chip and pin card except for remembering the code. I did catch him trying to swipe it against a small tv screen in sainsbury the other day and had to explain not all cards work like oysters!

Cute photo spotty.

WL this must be so hard, you and your mum are obviously very close and you must be a great comfort to her.

Dh brought Ds into our bed at 5:40 this morning. Ds just laid there going 'hello. Boo. Mummy? Hello. Boo. Oh. Nose. Bubble. Hello.' his speech is really coming along

WL i am so sorry. I bet your mum is so happy to have you with her though. You sound amazingly supportive like Spotty said you must be very close to your mum and i bet she values that relationship more than anything and to you both.

H went to bed at 8pm last night and is still in bed now she only woke up about 4 times as well so it was a good nights sleep for me. I am sat downstairs with Dn watching TV, while we wait for trouble to wake up.

WL maybe you're sick of reading this by now but I wish you and your mum lots of strength. I hope your mum is feeling ok and I'll keep everything crossed for you all.

Hales still asleep? Goodness me! What did you feed her last night

DD is driving me potty this week. She cut her first tooth New Year's Day and I think the second one (bottom front two) is on its way as well. But she will only sleep on me or for 10 minutes if I put her down.
I lover to bits but she is miserable, because she is so tired! I'm borrowing a friend's book about a baby routine. It's an Aussie one but apparently causes a division like the UK one. Although I can't for the life of me remember the name of either book

Nutella she hasn't eaten properly for weeks i have no clue why she slept so well. She has however eaten well today for a change.

Just put H's nappy on and walked out the room for a minute, whilst in the other room i heard the sound of her nappy being ripped off. So i walked back in the room and said H wheres your nappy. She pointed at the floor across the other side of the room and said 'there, me not wear nappy, coz me said so and me the boss' obviously i told her i was the boss and to get it back on while i stifled giggles

Delad i like your name change, i just had to look it up again so that i wrote it right. I had dandelion in my head for some reason.

Also Nutella i forgot to say good luck with the baby book. I think all baby books cause division but again thats just like parenting in general.