June 2013: Here come the terrible twos!

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Party was great actually! Made easier by the fact that a) Juno slept for its entire duration and b) no one had any expectations of me so I just pointed them in the direction of drinks etc and everyone just helped themselves. Oh and the weather. I think I would have had to cancel if it hadn't been nice.

Though bugger me having seven two year olds in the house is hard work. They just run in very loud circles. She seemed to have an ace time though. We set out some trays of food for them and each just ate the one in front of them with no sharing. So mine ate a bucket of mini chedders, her friend a bucket of cocktail sausages etc. We didn't realise what they had done till after!

Glad to hear all the parties went well even if Pink's ex is a wanker twat fuckwomble.

I spent most of yesterday being covered in small person bodily fluids so I'm glad her birthday isn't until Friday. I thought I'd cleaned the carpet yesterday but there is a distinct aroma d'vomit now I've shut the window

Thank you all for general agreement on ex - we should all write him a character reference when he needs one. Be the most truth he ever gets

Sunny hope the vomit smell has decreased. Dd managed a spectacular job in the car yesterday - we ended up going for a seaside walk with a cardigan and nappy wearing, delighted little girl! The smell on the return to the car was almost worth not starting the journey home!

Hope all birthdays and parties continue going well. Its just the start of birthday madness.... Wait until they can suggest demand what they really want!

We've still never really had proper sick from DD. I'm happy to wait! It sounds delightful. :-/

I can't believe we have 2 year olds (almost!). I'm loving this age, it has to be said. :-)

DS has never been sick either! Long may it last!
This age is fab; the 430am starts less so!

We've had proper sick. It's messy and smelly and I find myself doing weird things like trying to catch it in my hand whilst comforting a floppy poorly boy

No proper runny bottom yet. I dread that day!

I love this age too. Even if DS has wobbles and meltdowns, he's easier to communicate with now. I might rename terrible twos as terrific twos says the mum of a one yr old for another few days

Oooo Mrs you're right, our nappies haven't suffered. The top end is bad enough.

Dd has mastered 'dooorry' this week. Seems to be sorry. And also the neighbours cats name. Our cat is firmly 'meow' open the front door and straight away 'ttttttttiiiiiiiiiiiaaaaaaaaa' at full volume.

Any one else have a cling on for a child post birthday? I haven't been able to move today. She even sat on my lap while I painted the front gate rather than play with anything. Mot quite sure what that's about.

I had 4 types of body fluids on Saturday. Poo, vom, snot and slavers. Suppose I should be glad it wasn't pee for once. Oh my joyous child.

Right I'm off to make birthday cake. Wish me luck!

Bugger. Got no buggering golden syrup. No cake making for me tonight.

Wiiiinnnneeeeeee!

Another good thing about having just had a baby; Peppa cake ten quid from sainsburys. As absolutely no one expected me to bake:-)

I actually like baking their cakes (even though I'm not talented in design and do NOT attempt icing decoration!). And the choice of dairy free cakes isn't great from the shops, so it's easier that way too.

We've also not really had a runny bum either since tiny baby days. We've barely had any illnesses really (I hope it's not storing something awful up for us!) with DD. DS hasn't really been that ill either. We just have their lactose / cows' milk protein intolerances to deal with!

I'm sure the illness thing will change once DD starts pre-school in September. I'm bracing myself for the pox next spring!

I think I would probably like it but I don't have any of the stuff, like pans or vanilla essence. So the first cake will cost me a fortune!

Polly has only had two major vomming sessions. First on the day we moved house. Second when Juno was a week old. Brilliant timing for both! She also had horrible nappies then as well. She stood there and we literally heard her stomach go, and her nappy was destroyed. Apparently with older children you pretty much have to chuck them in the bath and just keep hosing them down. The horrors that lie ahead!

Nursery hasn't resulted in too much illness. She's had two major colds in her life. Constant snot bag of course but aren't they all?!

Our nursery is big on making people away of chicken pox vaccine so that seems to contain the outbreaks of that. Apparently most have had the vaccine now. I'm so glad we won't have to endure that misery. Someone I knew died from the pox when we were kids. Horrible thing and annoying that every other western country vaccinates as standard! Though randomly there have been two rounds of Scarlett fever since we've been there. So she's in line for strange illnesses instead.

I've been building my bakery collection for a few years now, thankfully. Though I bought a couple of tins for DD's birthday last year. That was an expensive cake!

This is it. Start up costs are huge! I think the same about most cooking. We buy a lot of currys because I can't stand to buy all the bits I would need to make them properly!

I am well known for taking people's second hand things off them so have a pretty well stocked kitchen.

Take tonight for example. I have come back from my mum and dads with 2 single beds, 2 mirrors and a standard lamp.

I've also been promised all the Hairy McClairy books off my boss at work.

I have absolutely no shame

Wow. That's a good haul Sunny!

Our kitchen is reasonably well stocked - there's a fair wack of hand me downs but also DH and I had both lived alone before we met, and both enjoy cooking so if anything duplications were the issue for us!

This time 2yrs ago I was in labour. I can't believe how fast time has gone. I feel oddly nostalgic ds's birth now, even though it was far from 'ideal'. I think that might be pesky broodiness kicking in

Oh god, yes. I'd love to make curry from scratch but I'm not spending about £100 on ingredients to start doing it!

We've got loads of furniture from DH's parents. And a few pots and pans from my side. No shame here either.

Ooh, Mrs, race between you and Sunny for the next June (non-June) baby?!

I suspect Sunny will win! Despite my broodiness, there are some very good and sensible and boring work-related reasons that mean it would wise to wait a bit. But that will probably no probably about it go out the window at the end of the year if work hasn't resolved the uncertainty by then. Grrrrr.

oh, and the best book ever for cooking curry from scratch is Miss Masala. I used to be totally daunted of curry making....but now it's a doddle She makes it easy and straightforward. And tasty!

My plans were almost derailed by a trip I'm making to Kenya on Monday. All the advice re anti malarials was you should put off trying to get pregnant for at least 3 months. Except of course with my job being what it is I'll be off somewhere again in 3 months so it was completely crap advice.

I bullied a nurse into giving me the type of anti malarials that would let me continue my plan of action.

Only issue is finding an opportunity to get myself up duff. Last night was the last night DH and I will see each other for another 3 weeks and also today was our wedding anniversary. Cue a small child refusing to go to bed then having an almighty meltdown and refusing to sleep in her bed, demanding to sleep in daddy's bed but could mummy kindly fuck off to the spare room.

Sunny that made me giggle, but not helpful! In the slightest.

Did I tell you all about the nurse in a&e the other day? Lovely nice think it's going well new chap helping me with some diy and tried sawing his leg off bad cut carted him off to a&e and nurse performing repair work asking all about us. Proceeded then to tell us not to waste time and get on and have another child together, because clearly we are very happy and need to make a beautiful baby.
It was around that point the poor chap began to feel faint! Hasn't been mentioned since. Think he got a little worried I'd follow it up when we got home! Thought it best to let his knee repair and him pick the keys up to his new house first

Dd had an indoor trampoline for her bday from her godmother.... It very nearly became an out door pile of things today while trying to put it together! I'm pretty sure after I said shit after catching my finger I heard dd repeat it had to stop referring to her dad as bellend as she repeated it one day! I shouldn't laugh but that does make me chuckle anyway the trampoline is back in its box for a non windy, non rainy any other day but today day.

We've actually had to stop opening presents as its all been a bit overwhelming for her. I'd invited friends to the park for a picnic but had forgotten to say no need to bring gifts. We've been inundated. There's just oodles of wrapped presents all over the house that we're going to have to pace ourselves on opening as its all a bit much.

I've bribed her with postman pat on the telly after she had an almighty meltdown after her party

I have a 2yr old! How on earth did that happen?

DS mostly loved his birthday, though was poorly at the end of the day. He's just had a massive puke in the bath (which seemed quite handy really) and another one in his cot (less handy). So he's conked out, looking v v pale. DH has gone to bed with a hot water bottle feeling rough. What is it with the men of this family? I must have the constitution of an ox. I hope

Back again. I need some perspective if you please:

DS was at nursery all day today. When I collected him, they said 'oh he doesn't have a vest on now because his last nappy leaked, and there wasn't a clean one in his bag' This is fine, and our error for not keeping tabs his spare clothes. Any dirty clothes at nursery get put in a plastic bag and popped in his bag ready to come home. I've just emptied it out and his leaked on vest, going by smell & sight suggests that last nappy was distinctly runny. But why wouldn't they say?? I was already slightly miffed because when I gave him his bath earlier there were little bits of dried on poo on the base of his back. But it could only have been there for an hr or so and I suspect we'll all miss a tiny bit of poo at some point...I know it's yuck but we're all human.

His nursery day was a bit confused today anyway as he had a trial day in the toddler room which is something I'm not ready for so he was with different staff and children.

Am I being a precious ott parent? I feel miffed. Humph.

Sounds pretty standard to me. Do they do the normal nursery thing of having set times for nappy changes whether they need it or not and everything else being done on an as detected basis?

I think 95 pc of the time she's completing fine and happy at nursery but occasionally there are slip ups. They are only human and also it's not 1-1 it's 1-3/4. If I wanted perfection I would expect to pay for 1-1. And saying that she's 1-1 when with me and I've certainly let things go on the basis of I will come back to that.

The leaky loose nappy was probably dealt with by someone on earlier shift and the person handing him over didn't necessarily know?

I have my own what would you do. Trying to make friends on maternity leave harder the second time as everything set up for first timers. But want Juno to have friends locally of the same age. Have become quite friendly with another mum with two of the same ish age. They came round and the older one was terrorising Polly. Literally pulling, pushing, scratching and grabbing her. He was told off every time but kept going back for more. She stays at home and so he doesn't have much to do with other kids. Pollys at nursery where that sort of behaviour wouldn't be tolerated. So it was a bit of a shock to her and she spent the afternoon running away from him.

What to do? I like the mum and I do need company but I really don't like the kid! This isn't the first time but I thought it was a one off last time!