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.

Dd hair was like that nutella- found as it got longer it settled on its own. Also if brushed it straight after the bath calmed in down a bit. Think it was partially down to where she used to sleep on it. Now that we're cutting it more frequently it's growing a lot quicker. Is so fine that was really hard to do much with plus she likes to take all hair accessories out so we settled for a fringe which looks nice but makes her look so much older and makes me go- where's my baby's :(!!!!!!

Pics are up 😁

frazzled I couldn't cope with DS being up until 9! I am always relieved when he is asleep and I can sit down
He had a 5 minute nap in the car yesterday and he went to sleep around 19:30 but he was up about 6:15.... Not too bad but too early for me!

WL I do chuckle darkly at people who expect the baby not really affect their lifestyle too much.

Curly girl method? Basically no shampoo just conditioner and only brush when wet. We spray olive oil stuff on and finger comb, wash every couple of weeks or so

We only wash once every 1-2 weeks with shampoo and just put water on H's hair inbetween. We also spray it with water every weekday before brushing for school as it can get matted depending on how much she has moved about in her sleep. She does have super curly hair though.

Frazzled i thought it was well worth it we all loved every minute there.

And H gets up a minimum of twice a night and it can go upward i would say a bad night now is more than 6 wake ups.

So today DD fell off a horse (slowly, no injury).

And A tripped over his own feet at rugby and hit his eyebrow on a bench. Lots of blood and crying. A quick trip to A&E to check him over. All ok.

I'll be glad when I'm in bed and risk free...

My goodness beasty how scary! So glad they are both ok.
I spent the day doing a 20 mile training walk - left the house at 7.20am so didn't even see dd2 before she woke up, got home in time to have 5 mins in the bath before dh got home with the dds who all jumped in the bath with me! Not so relaxing with 4 of us in there!!

Ouch Beasty. Hope he doesn't look like he's been in the wars too much today.

Not relaxing WL but I bet it was pretty funny!

9pm again! Controlled crying again from tomorrow. Going to put the gate on his door and leave him to it. 2 hour bedtime every night is bloody ridiculous!

He's not too bad, thanks. But he had to wear DD's huge goggles for his swimming lesson today, to avoid the cut. I wonder if he'll lose that bit of eyebrow when it scars. He's still got a bit of a headache when he's meant to be in bed.

Frazzled A is still up now, because he fell asleep in the car coming home from swimming. He's got books and a few toys in his room, and he can bumble up there quietly as late as he likes, but if he comes downstairs too often after we've put him to bed then the stair gate gets closed.

Impressive walking WL

Beasty i hope Dd and A are ok and that A is asleep now.

Frazzled i thought i was the only one who had nightmare bedtimes. I'll be your bedtime nightmare buddy. We're only tackling H's in the Hols when hopefully DsD will stay at her mums or shes going to stay at FILs.

WL, how are you feeling today after your training?

Wow WL well done!

Oh no beasty hope they're both ok

I have to say we are lucky with bed time but won't pretend it's because of anything we've done!

I have utterly exhausted him today - dentist, ikea, softplay, asda, retail park and doctors all in one day.

The little what not had better bloody sleep!

Frazzled for you.

We had a family birthday yesterday. DS ate waaaaay too much sweet crap. He was hard work, slept badly and was up at about 5am. I am writing a strongly worded email to DH's family to ask them to stop feeding DS crap. everyone wants to give him something and they have no fucking clue what it does to him. We have even had to fight with FIL because DS is his DGS so FIL should be able to give him what he wants

Except DH wants to correct my email and make it a little bit nicer. traitor

Oh Nutella that made me giggle, i want to see the unedited email.

Frazzled did keeping him busy work?

Me too hales!
T was showing dhs poshish oldish aunt and uncle round her bedroom - she told them when her clock shows the lamb awake it's morning...and then it's boobies!!

WL hahaha!! Maybe you will still be feeding DD when she goes to uni??

Well DH edited the message to correct my grammar and make it more polite. Then I edited out some of the nice fluffy bits to make it shorter and more to the point. He said it was fine. But he wouldn't let me email it . He wants to speak to everyone personally and let them know and make sure that we don't have a repeat performance.

He was at the PIL yesterday morning and he spoke to them and it seems the message I want was delivered....

Fingers crossed!!

I sound more wound up on here about it than I really am. Promise!!

I was talking to a German friend yesterday who reminded me that Germany when the ILs were little (40/50+ years ago) didn't have so many sweets and chocolates easily available, they want to give him a special treat.

DS finally slept well last night and was in a really good, sweet mood this morning so it seems to be out of his system.

Fingers crossed Nutella!

Ds was knackered this morning despite going to bed at 6:10 last night. Pre school really takes it out of him!

I hope so Nutella.

ExMiLis a nightmare for this but after XP had to deal with a few sugar-induced nightmare tantrums himself he started getting really tough with his mum.

DS slept for me. Out in 20 mins. I can cope with that.

He sleeps amazingly on nursery nights but unfortunately XP has him all those nights as I finish too late to pick him up.

I went in to check on A as we went to bed last night (about 10pm). There was this pair of eyes staring blankly at me, while the hokey cokey played on his cd player. Really surreal!!

I may have messaged MIL to tell her this as a "funny story" because she'd let him sleep for 2 hours in the day..... she's very sorry!

Phew. I'm glad not alone on this. I was starting to feel I had maybe overreacted

Now I can be comfortable that if necessary I can raise the plan (post warning) to stage 2. If they feed DS crap again I'll drop him off asap after he is awake the next morning for a few hours.

Definitely not over reacting! We have the same with both my mum and the mil- kids love it but sends them crazy! Although as my mum does pick ups twice a week so spends a significant amount of time with them so is starting to see how it affects them and is starting to listen to me. Before all I got from both of them was 'but we're the grandmothers we are allowed to spoil them' grrrrrrrrrrrrrr

They don't understand that it's not a fucking treat it makes the child feel unwell! Ddad, r and I all rect to sweeteners - to dad and I, a fruitshoot is a migraine and I have no idea what it feels like to r but he turns into peppa bacon sandwich pig for a week if he drinks one. Now tell me that's a nice and kind thing to do?

you're not kidding nutella I think I actually might! She just won't give it up!
Yanbu re 'treats' - I have had this convo with dh/dm/pil - they all want to treat them, which over the course of a week, makes most days. Type 2 diabetes, obesity crisis etc anyone?

WL. Perhaps she has a great career ahead of her.... In Mongolia they apparently say the best wrestlers are BF until they are 6. So 3 and a bit is small fry. You just need to move a little bit eastward. helpful not helpful

I earned my mean mummy badge tonight. Lots of shouting. Crying children. DD comforted DS at one point. DH came home once they were in bed and tomorrow is another day.
Hopefully we won't all be so tired tomorrow. Dinner time was like a competition to see who was the most tired, who behaved most like chimp and who ate the most bizarre combo of food. DD demanded a yoghurt and then bluntly refused to eat it once the spoon was in. I wasn't allowed to eat it either, it was after all DD's yoghurt.

Ha Nutella. Last night A absolutely didn't want chicken nuggets, so I did them for DD and he chose cocktail sausages. When dinner was ready what did he want? Yep, nuggets. DD kindly gave him 2 but he wanted exactly 6. He went rifling through the fridge trying to find some.

This morning my car wouldn't start. So I had to work from home, get the A A out and go to the garage to get a new battery (the dealer was £50 cheaper than the a a ). I went to have my lunch before the A A came, and it turned out that whilst rifling through the fridge A had turned a dial and made the fridge into a freezer. Frozen salmon salad not really an option so I had a ready meal at 4.30pm- breakfast was 5.30am!

Then this evening DD managed to order £7 of stuff on the amazon fire stick. Not even stuff she watched properly. She thought the free trial of amazon prime she'd managed to sign DH up to was still running. DH phoned and moaned about how crap amazon is. I took about 30 seconds to switch on parental controls so she can't do it again!!! And he's the computer programmer!!