December 2012: the one where they're all potty trained. Sort of....

[Barbeasty]

The old thread was getting dangerously close to 1000 messages, so thought I'd better start this one.

Hope everyone is feeling better.

I'm slowly going down with the hideous cold and cough that the rest of the family have got and DD was sent home from school today for being sick. I think it must have been her cough- she's certainly been fine and eating well ever since.

This time next week we'll have had DD's referral for her tonsillitis.

I'm making myself feel better with the sloe gin which I should have been getting from father Christmas. Sadly the wax seal broke and it started leaking on other presents (luckily just packaging boxes) so I've had to drink it. Best get another bottle ordered before Christmas.

A is wide awake and trying to get DD to play.

Get well soon everyone these bugs seem truely hideous. I am over the worst now however H has Diarrhoea so bad that she can't bend over without poo dribling out of her (bawk). I am now use to cleaning poo up off the floor as obviously she won't put a nappy on as 'i not a baby mummy'.

Beasty ... Gin.... I'm jealous! I neeeeed gin! Yes I also feel lousy and am either getting the cold the DC are busy sharing with one another or I am just simply exhausted!

DD is settling in well at nursery and I'm trying to get stuff done with the couple of hours I have. But I think my body is really trying to tell me that I need to rest!!

DS seems to be getting over his cold and cough. Yay

Except for today... Everything just didn't work. DD was a bit under the weather at nursery so they called and asked me to come and pick her up. Left the house and realised that I didn't have a house key. A few frantic phone calls, a couple of hours and 80 something € I picked up a super tired DD. Then, once I had thrown her in bed I had to pick up DS.
Then DS fell asleep on the sofa while watching telly... So he took a bit longer to go to sleep this evening. But all in all, DH is away and we survived. HURRAH

Hales how did I miss your post! Poor H and poor you. Even that is a little bit funny ... Sorry.

I'm still going down with this cough and cold very, very slowly. The things is that I want to get it over and done with- otherwise I know I'll stop for Christmas and go down with it with a vengeance.

It took nearly 2 hours to get the children to bed tonight. At one point DD came downstairs to complain that A was keeping her up demanding she play with sticklebricks. My Dad had phoned to tell me his cancer was back, and I had the children tag-teaming disturbance. Look at this picture, can you draw me a window....

But the good news is that we have a cleaner coming to talk to us next week and might have a vaguely bearable house for Christmas.

Oh beasty I'm so sorry. Will your dad be with you for Xmas? Any chance you could take a day off work to really rest and try to stop the lurgy from taking hold?

Oh beasty I'm really sorry to hear that

Thanks. It was always a case of when rather than if ("terminal" with a 10-20 year life expentancy 6 years ago). We'll see him around Christmas but not on the day itself.

So at bedtime I was informed that A had a drawing and building things (with sticklebricks) club, DD was a member and it means going into A's room.

Just now (more than an hour after bedtime) DH was told that DD had been so worried about nightmares (after insisting on watching something she found scary before bed) that she has a sleep club. This involves A sleeping in her bed.

Except she's asleep and he's wide awake still.

But love them playing together like this.

Beasty i am sorry about your dad. And i feel abit strange saying this but i hope your cold has taken hold now so you can get it out the way.

Nutella sounds like you had a shitty day i hope your weekend was better.

I was telling H off today and she stopped me by saying 'you ring my nanny *** now and i tell her your shouting at me'. Well that was a threat and a half haha.

Hales I love H's cheek! She is really funny. Hope she is over her tummy bug and thy things are settling down for you all.

Beasty sorry to hear about your dad.
Love the DC having clubs though. Yours do seem to have wild imaginations!

DD is pretty much over her cough. She took her first steps a couple of weeks ago. But she is so bloody minded that she still goes around on her knees wearing out her trousers, unless you offer her a finger to hold.
DS is still a nightmare. I think it all comes back to being tired and it is a long phase that we will have to ride out. But I don't want to ride it out! I want him to stop being an arsehole!!!

And can someone please tell me when the "why" phase will be over?

Dd is five and still does it

Hello everyone!

nutella hold a pencil out like a finger and then subtly let go. It's hilarious!

A was playing his Aqua cd (don't ask, blame DH) tonight and cranked the volume up for I'm a Barbie girl. Then started shouting to (fast asleep) DD "DD, let's go party!" At least he's asleep now.

And the good news is that DD will be having her tonsils out early next year. No argument, just would we like it done.

Not so great/great news beasty

DH dropped DD at school first this morning. A wandered off. Out of the classroom, through the school hall, out of the school, down the side of the building and to the carpark, next to his preschool building. Where he realised DH wasn't with him and burst into tears.

Someone told preschool, meanwhile 2 TAs were searching, DH was searching and they'd phoned the TA who mans the gates at the end of the lane.

He says he'll never do it again, but knowing A......

Awwww bless! Poor A .

I have been settling DD into nursery - a process which takes four weeks here... She is pretty much done and would happily crawl off and enjoy herself, until this week. She screams when I leave. She is fine by the time I reach the car (I can often see her crawling around or shuffling along on her knees).

But I think I need some kind of parenting survival medal.

Months ago we rushed DS to hospital because he had managed to open a bottle of calpol and they were worried he might have drunk half a bottle it was unlikely but well, we had to get him checked out it turned out the level of paracetamol in his blood was undetectable... So he probably just enjoyed trying to prepare himself a dose with the little syringe thingy.

DD is a rather however a stealth contender for parenting stress. She kicks over tables in coffee shops with a flailing foot and it looks like an accident.

Last Thursday I had to pick her up from nursery because they were terrified that she was coughing herself to death. They said that she coughed so badly she wasn't getting any air. DH rushed her straight to the dr when they opened again after lunch who said she was a little bit congested but he didn't believe she was or could have been struggling to breathe...

Yesterday we had chicken for dinner. DD really enjoyed a chicken leg. I had to wrestle the bone out of her little fist after she had sucked it absolutely clean. This afternoon we get a call from nursery to come and pick her up immediately. She had diarrhoea. DH went to pick her up (I was at the therapist with DS) and they presented him with chicken bones that she had pooed out. DH rushed her straight to the dr. She is, of course, fine. No damage done, it was probably quite uncomfortable to have them going through her system, but that is it. When DH brought her home she was her usual mad maniacal self rolling around wanting to be bounced and giving her monkey its usual death squeeze.

I think she is the one I am really going to have to keep an eye on. I never thought that I would need to say that! Since DS is busy climbing trees and flinging himself into piles of foam shapes at kindergarten and we regularly discover big bruises on him I thought we would be having more of these mad dashes with him

Nutella and beasty what stressful times you've been having!

Ds isn't well. Four days of fever and cough now he's being sick. My gp won't see him though just said to give him medicine

My goodness nutella chicken bones straight through is impressive!
spotty that sounds poor service. How can they say they won't see him. How worrying for you.

Yeah he's ok but I would have liked him checked over. She's going to ring on Monday to see how he is. He's currently moaning about dd in his sleep!

T was complaining about her middle name today on the way back from school run - not prompted by anything. It's hilarious. I remember hating my middle name which is very ordinary, much more so than my first name, no idea why!

WL I really dislike one of my middle names. But I mainly object to the fact that I have two! One is plenty.

How is everyone? I really really need to get on and sort out Christmas... I know what I want to get, I just need to find the time to go shopping.
DH was off last week and we got loads done but sadly no time left for shopping. It's not fair because for him it was a nice change from "work" whereas for me it felt like more of the usual grind.

What tips do people have for relaxing and not thinking about washing, curtains, presents, decorations, dentist appointments, food shopping, dinner etc etc etc???

Haha nutella T has 2 middle names whereas the others only have one - the one she moans about was added in memory of a friend of dhs.
Also I just said to dh wouldn't it be nice to come to bed and say I've done all the jobs instead of I've done as many as I can manage and the rest will have to wait. We try to have one night a week when we get the absolute essentials done early, usually a fri or sat, so less pressure for the following morning, and watch a film together with a glass of wine and a no jobs rule. It doesn't always work but is nice. However silly season is upon us and its all hands to the pumps.

Sorry i've been awol.

Beasty i hope A was ok after his disappearing act. And yay to Dd getting her tonsils out next year.

Spotty, how is ds now?

Nutella, i relax by pretending christmas isn't happening yet No i choose a series on netflix and try and watch a episode if the kids are in bed. I've done pretty little liars now i'm on sons of anarchy (worth it just for jax) it takes ages but i feel relaxed.

WL i hate my first and middle name but fell back in love with my first name after DN was named the same.