June 2013 - the terrible twos aren't so terrible

[Biscuitswithtea]

Here goes with a new thread!

Dd has had the high temp yesterday and today too! So many things going round.

With calpol it goes up to 7.5ml I think - but dd is on the light side too, and to be honest, it's such a battle to get her to have the 5ml half filling a second syringe and tying to get more in her is not a battle I take on. She really does hate taking any medicine.

This afternoon she asked where our chimney is for Father Christmas. And has spent a lot of time looking out the window looking for Father Christmas. And has opened one present already. Apparently because it was her birthday.

We've done our time with the high temp virus. Please no more. Considering locking everyone in until Christmas now.

Peekaboo, will she take Calpol from a spoon? It was a nightmare getting it in to DD with the syringe but she's fine with a spoon. We only recently realised that she can have more. She's 91st centile so we give the extra!

Hope the poorly children get better soon.

We've been reading lots of Christmassy books so DD is very excited. But she has no concept of time so comes down every morning, looks at the tree and says "oh, there's no presents here".

It's regularly our birthdays too. Presents aren't mentioned but we do get cakes with candles and she sings happy birthday to us.

Actually cup I haven't tried off of a spoon in a while! That could be such a simple solution.
For a little while pretending to give it to her toys first worked, however when she asked for the actual cat to have some and said cat just wandered off that soon stopped working.

Father Christmas is coming every day here. In a non horrible way I am quite glad I am working the next two days - Wednesday will be last minute bits sorting, Thursday morning she should be with her dad should be, it could yet snow this Christmas if that actually happens and then we can focus on it actually being Christmas.

I have my ct scan tomorrow evening too. Hopefully get some answers to the kidney issues at some point then.

I'm trying to convince dd she needs to sleep in her own bed or Father Christmas won't find her. She's not convinced!

We had to give Juno calpol when she wasn't even a week old. Doctor said that the stated doses are very much on the low side because they assume people will double dose of some is spat, dribbled, thrown up etc. So you can get away with a lot more than you think.

Pollys up for Christmas this year but similarly has no concept of time so everything is yesterday or tomorrow. She's now seen Father Christmas three times. With varying degrees of success. I'm back to work in four weeks. Now she more or less sleeps through this feels a little less daunting than it did. The idea of getting up before sunrise less so. The idea of getting two to nursery scary as hell. The fact that my nursery bill is 20k a year for three days is also unappealing!

Potty training still not happening here. She likes her very expensive pull ups. But never pulls them down!

Hope you got some answers from your scan, Pinky.

DD has seen Santa once. She didn't cry which was a result (I was expecting tears!).

Toilet training still not happening here either. DH is off for a while over Christmas so we thought it'd be a good time to bring it up again. She's happy to wear knickers but is also not bothered if she wees in them. Starting to panic as now would be a good time, before DS starts moving!

Lil was singing 'When Santa got stuck up the chimney' when she was meant to be going to sleep tonight. Super cute!

DD wee'd on some cushions last night. That's how well potty training is going here!

2 kids + a Next VIP sale slot = bankrupt by Christmas!

I bet you are Hungry!!

Glad to hear that potty training generally isn't happening. It makes me feel less bad about ignoring that particular milestone at the moment.

Feel like I'm currently running on empty. Just need to get through one more day of work then the pace will grind to a halt. Even ds is done. He slept for 1.5hrs this am and then normal nap after lunch. Given half a chance he would have nodded off on the drive home from nursery too this evening!

Love Next clothes for children but hate their (non vip) sale. Things disappear from my basket before I get the chance to check out. Does anyone know if they're kept for a certain amount of time as seem to they go from my basket within 15 mins? I end up having to pay postage for one basket; the other stuff I want will reappear on the site but then I have to pay another lot of postage if I want it (even if the transactions are within a couple of hours). In the past they have merged the orders on an email and I've received them together but they haven't refunded any postage!

I check out every few minutes, cup, as nothing is held in your basket. I did about 8 separate orders earlier just so I got what I wanted.

I know that feeling, Biscuits. This is the first year I've worked all year since 2012. I'm exhausted. And ill with the cough / sore throat virus that's going round. Hopefully I won't find next year so hard!

Amen to feeling knackered. I've got one more day of work and I can't wait to have some time off. My client is driving me batshit and being really mean and unreasonable and my entire team somehow managed to get 2 weeks leave approved before the powers that be realised that someone needs to be around over Christmas - so guess who got that job!

Thanks for that hungry. I couldn't find anything about it on the site so at least now I know. I'm tempted to disappear for a couple of hours and go to a store on Boxing Day.

I spoke too soon the other day as illness has arrived again. DD had a sore throat but seems to have fended it off but DS has a horrid cough at night. Hopefully he will be over the worst of it by Christmas Day.

That's unfair, Sunny.

I don't miss having to fight to have a couple of days off over Christmas. Or anything else about work, for that matter.

Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you all have a wonderful time.

I'm slightly worried dd may explode when she gets told that Father Christmas is indeed coming tonight!
Just waiting for her dad to drop her back and celebrations can begin.

Thank you all for your wonderful support for another year.
Looking forward to 2016 and everything it brings.

Poor you Sunny. Hope you still manage a bit of chill out time.

Merry Christmas to you all! x

Merry Christmas everyone - have an awesome day and, if possible, drink slightly too much and have a long nap tomorrow !

X

Man I'm going to miss using Santa as a threat for good behaviour. He's been a great help this week.

Biscuits i waved at your house tonight!

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Hee, that made me smile Sunny. We were probably trying to build ds's toy kitchen and balance bike whilst maintaining a smidge of good humour. The kitchen took 3 of us an hr. The bike took me less than 5 mins. That doesn't seem right somehow!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Oh dear god...DD woke up 'challenging' the day she turned 2 1/2 it seems. It's all gone very wrong mood / attitude-wise. Argghhh.

That's roughly when DD turned into Miss Contrary. She's a lovely, caring girl but don't dare laugh at her or look at her the wrong way or she'll suddenly "not like" whatever she's doing/ eating etc. And the faces . It could be worse; she's an angel compared to some other children her age, but she definitely reminds me of a teenager sometimes.

Oh yes - I thought 2 was troublesome but 2 1/2 is freaking crazy. There's absolutely no warning either. She's 90% fun and then goes CRAZY over some perceived slight.

She's always been relatively contrary / strong-willed / knows her own mind but this is something else! She apparently wanted to go to Argos yesterday after we'd been next door in Home Bargains, but instead of just telling me this she had a full on car seat meltdown and I couldn't understand what she wanted. It was only half way back when she was calm that I got out of her what the problem was! We then had to go and run around the summer house / garage / shed section of Dobbies for about an hour. Joy.

Volatile is definitely how I'd describe her. Can't wait til she's back at preschool next week; she needs the energy burn off that gives her (she's doing an extra morning too, hurrah!).

DS isn't generally prone to tantrums thank god but the last week or so have been challenging. I'm putting that down to an endless stream of visitors and being bamboozled by all the presents (we still have some to open!). We went out on boxing day to deep sea world and he was a total gem. It was so much easier for everyone!

I have little energy at the mo so can't really tell how much is me and how much is him. Thank heavens DH is off too this wk, that's all I can say.

First midwife appt on Wed. I'm quite looking forward to it, though depending on my hormonal state on the day I may cry if she asks about DS's birth Last time the midwife spent the entire pregnancy trying to arrange for us to be consultant-led, and the consultant kept politely saying "she's fine". (I have a hole in my heart, it has no impact on me these days) I wonder what will happen this time??

DH asked me if I was excited about DC2 the other night. In truth the answer was 'not yet'. It still feels so precarious until the scan. Is that weird??