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

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Nutella that's so funny!

Ds really is in the terrible twos. Sometimes nothing is right no matter what you do!

Dd was funny this morning:

Dd 'Daddy who decided what sounds the letters make'
Dh 'I don't know it was a long time ago'
Dd 'Oh I know, it was David Cameron!'

Impressed she knows who is spotty!

Awww i love the things that children come out with.

DP said he was putting his phone on charge next to the TV and H shouted 'move your fucking head dad' he said he just stood there shocked and couldn't tell her off. He tried to blame me but its definitely him he says it without realising when the footys on telly. So now we've agreed that if she swears again we're just going to say did you mean and replace it with a nice word.

Just shows how easily it happens doesn't it! We've had it with a few things dmil says jokingly to them but it sounds awful when they say it to someone else

WL i'm glad she only said it in front of DP it makes me cringe when i hear people encouraging their kids to repeat a swear word. It makes me laugh when they say it by accident i.e dick instead of stick, but when they are copying an actual swear word i hate it. H said a fuck a few times a while ago and if anyone laughed i sent them away from H whilst i tried to change the word. She can swear when shes an adult but for now their too innocent to say stuff. Luckily me and Dp are on the same page about how to deal with it and we've also realised shes only learnt it from us so we're trying our best to stop it now.

OMG she just doesn't stop its like someone put Duracell Batteries in her. DP has come down with my chest infection and that somehow means he has to do nothing at all as hes too tired. I am unsure how i've managed to resist the urge to hurt him.

Sorry I've been away so long! I'll try to be good and keep up from now on!

Hope everyone who was sick is feeling a bit better.

When's your mum's op WL?

Hello Frazzled Good to have you back. Hows the house going?

Lovely thank you Hales. Well there's a leak on the bath n the driveway needs doing, but other than that...

How's yours? Do you feel any better?

Nice to see you frazzled! I hope you and DS are doing well!

hales DS is still the most active child I know. You have my sympathies! I have found though that chocolate makes him horrible. It ramps up the active-ness and at the same time takes away my cute funny sweet boy and makes him aggressive and difficult. He had some chocolate on Saturday while he had his hair cut. It didn't really help

DD is still going strong on her mission to break me by waking me about every hour. She was awake for about an hour around 3, that is what has probably really made me feel it this morning!
I'm still hopeful that it will settle down and she will suddenly sleep through the night (or just wake once... Maybe...). Ok, it is a blind crazy hope but I'm clinging to it all the same!

Ouch nutella it's so easy to forget about the crippling nights once you're through that stage not that my nights are great atm
Off to my interview in a min.

Welcome back fandango we miss you don't go awol again

We're having a day in today. I'm in spring clean mode and we made soup for lunch. Not that Ds was much help I really have no patients for 'help' in the kitchen!

Good luck WL

Oh WL good luck!

Good Luck WL

Frazzled i'm feeling better just got a cough now. The house is great its nice having our own space although my family are around everyday.

Spotty well done you for cleaning the house, i kind of do it as i go along but this week need to do a deep clean at some point.

Nutella, i hope H starts sleeping better for you soon. And i feel for you it actually surprises me how active H is, i wish i had some of her energy.

Our next door neighbours have always been a bit...odd. We never liked the dad especially. He moved out when I was pregnant with ds, said they'd split up. Turns out he's been in prison for sexually abusing his dd (who must be 19/20 now). It's so awful for all of them but I hate to think we were living next door to someone like that.

spotty! I'm convinced that a large proportion of the time those people that give you the creeps are up to no good!

WL good luck/ I hope it wet well and was at least a decent practice interview for you

I'm not sure how much longer DD will be BF. She has started sucking my nipples super hard. Between that, the teeth and the pinching I can see bottles in our near future

Jesus Spotty! A close friend of a friend has just been jailed for making sexual images of a child. She's utterly devastated as they used to work together with children.

Hope your interview went well n you're relaxing with a big glass of wine WL.

I got offered a new job last week start on the 13th April. Will be less flexiblity but definitely time to move on. Speaking of which back to work for me. It's all gone a buit mental at the minute.

Jamie sounds like a lot of your little peeps at the minute. Wonderful, beautiful, engaging, stroppy, paddying, possessed! Life with a toddler is a roller coaster!

Is it in the same field WillYou?

And yes it's horrible about the neighbour. He's been in my house and worked for the government in the House of Commons at times. Dd always hid when she saw him and would never speak to him. His wife was a teacher but since they split she hasn't worked and drinks quite a lot. Now I know why.

Yep same job, but a step up, much bigger company with better prospects. Really looking forward to it but need to get trhough the next month first!

Omg spotty that's hideous. I'd be really unsettled and upset about that too. Good that dd hid from him. I do think kids tend to be more receptive and honest About that bad feeling that as adults we dismiss out of politeness or whatever. I never make my dds speak to anyone if they don't want to. Partly because I was a super shy child and hated it so much when dm used to make me speak to people. It's a joke now because nothing ever happened but she also used to make me sit on the lap of an adult male friend of the family 'because he would have liked a little girl' when I really didn't want to. Can you imagine! He was def odd and left his family and disappeared to Eastern Europe as I recall.
Welcome back frazzled glad to hear all is well. What prompted the new job? My interview went quite well I think but not sure I'd take it (IF I got offered) but was good to practice.
Dm has her hip and femur replacement tomorrow. Fx for success and a speedy recovery.

Little big up to DH - yesterday he ran a half marathon and raised over £1k for cancer research, then still found the energy to take me up to town to an amazing wow (women of the world) festival event at the royal festival hall on the south bank (slight bus mans as I work 5mins from there). It was so inspiring and although he was one of only a handful of men, he enjoyed it and said he'd come again next year
After a week of horrendous nights thanks to poorly dds I'm cream crackered and T was such hard work today. Following me round just to cry and yell at me. Fx for of sleep all round [looking at nutella] tonight.

Wellcome back frazzled and Urgh at your neighbour spotty! That sort of thing makes me fully paranoid.

Glad the interview went well wl, and at least you'll have choices. Also will cross everything for your mum.

and crossed everything for a better night for you, Nutella , I'm in a similar boat although I think cursing it immediately we might be over the worst of A's cold. Instead I now feel like someone put my head in a vice, but that's it's own problem.

Everything crossed for tomorrow WL.

It was just time really, I've been there 6 years and there's no opportunity to progress.

Also we have very little work on and I have a feeling of déjà vu. The last time this happened was 3 years ago, I was 10 weeks pregnant and they made everyone redundant and we all had to reapply for jobs.