MAY BABIES 2004 GIRLS - LOOK HERE PLEASE!!!!!

[Egypt]

Sorry to do this, but for some reason I can't get into our old thread! Have tried for days, internet explorer bans me and shuts me down!!! Can you all convert to this one please?!! pretty please?

Oh Pepper. So sorry to hear your news. I guess all you can do is let her know you will help in any way you can ready for when she's ready.

Egypt, I hope things settle down for you soon. How can we cope with more than one child? I used to wonder that. Actually though, you are coping with more than one child every day. You are already doing it and in new surroundings. The last stages of pregnacy certainly aren't a breeze.

True ponka. I found life easier with a toddler and a newborn than a toddler and huge bump. And now we positively swim through life. Actually literally since DD insists on practicing her breast stroke legs every night.

Pepper have you found out when the funeral is yet?

How is everyone - all too busy playing in the snow? We have had a rubbish amount of snow - just enough to make it slippy but not enough to play in. I was looking at buying myself some wellies - you know those fancy ladies ones with patterns on but they were £30 Actually it is snowing properly now but we are a bit concerned that ILs might not come to collect DS and DD who are supposed to be staying with them Saturday night. ILs tend to worry about adverse weather. And DH is whinging about golf.

DD had a strop today because she didn't want to press the button on her hair dryer she wanted to slide it like on mine. So when I finally twigged what she was on about (took some working out) we went all round the houses saying "but yours is a pressing kind of hairdryer DD", "no want to slide" over and over again. And DS complained because I didn't take his football to the park after school. Err, hello, it is snowing and foggy and nearly dark.

Egypt- You sound really down at the moment. I cant imagine what it must be like for you in such a strange country, pregnant and with DD. I hope you soon settle down and enjoy the time you have there.
DD doesn?t really sleep that well. She goes down at 8pm until 7.30am but some nights seems to not need any sleep and will wake frequently. Last night for example she woke at 2am until 4am! She hardly ever naps in the day unless it?s a long car journey. He night before she kept getting out of bed as she wanted me in with her and I refused so she eventually went to sleep crying at 9pm. I guess egypt its as hard adjusting for her as it is for you and it will just take time.
PR how very sorry I am for your friend. It just sounds dreadful and makes you want to make the most of now. My dad always says it?s a good job you don?t know whats around the corner and at times like this hes right.

Kbaby that does sound hard work with your DD's sleeping. I know I am very lucky in that respect. Although DD did get me up at 4 am today because one of her socks had come off.

Yesterday we went shopping and came upon a sweet shop whereupon DD started on with the line "I'm choking, I need sweeties" over and over again in a really insistent voice. This is because she has noticed that I have been having cough sweets for this awful cough I have had. She just go slightly the wrong word...

i'm glad your dd is just like mine bozza. we had a fit in the furniture shop today because she bit my leg, which i think was an accident and she was actually trying to bite my skirt. when i said ouch, she got aggressive and wanted to bite me again. i had to drag her from me as she was actually biting my calves!!! wierd child. screaming and crying 'i want to bite mummy, i want to bit mummy' whilst dh tried to distract her. very embarrassing. no, this isnt like your dd bozza, sorry! but dd does want ridiculous things that are impossible too. we had another yesterday in the supermarket. i bought her a straw and at the checkout she wouldnt let the lady have it to scan. so i said you'll have to put it back then if we dont pay for it, so she said 'put it back then!' calling my bluff.. so off we go and put it back! then of course she wants it, so i tell her she must give it to the lady, and off i go to get it again...but no, SHE wants to get it. tough, i give it to the lady, she scans it. dd screams she doesnt want it 'beeped' and doesnt want the kitchen roll either. we sit outside the shop in the trolley with her insisting she needs to go back in because she doesnt want the kitchen roll?!?! finally she gets out of the trolley and we go home. at home she calmy tells daddy, 'i cried at the shop because i didnt want the kitchen roll, daddy.' congratulations.

strange 2 year olds. yes, am a bit down at the moment. dd's behaviour is understandable at her age and with this move. but when it happens in blistering heat, and i can't move to pick her up with my belly and I'm knackered from having to climb so many stairs at this new place, and our house is a TIP from the packers emptying boxes wherever they saw fit .....and the kitchen being incredibly small and crap, kind of makes it a lot worse. am yearning for some snow and tescos. and my friends.

but i'm ok! sorry. PR your friend is going through hell and i should think myself lucky. especially as dh has taken dd to the swimming pool and i'm on mumsnet again.

sorry to rant, dont normally do this, i dont think. do i?

Don't feel bad egypt. You have a lot on just now. It is hard with them when you are pregnant without all the extra things. Much easier for me to take DD's little foibles lightly when I just have DS obsessing about football rather than a huge bump to drag around.

I am trying to sort DS's birthday party out but it is so hard when you don't know who is coming. I am doing pencil cases instead of party bags because it is (wait for this...) a football themed party, surprise. So I have been to wilkinson's and bought a pack which contains a football pencil case, with rubber, ruler, pencil and sharpener for 99p. Then all I need to do is stick in some choc footballs and a piece of cake. But I have invited 5 girls and 14 boys. So I have bought a few fairy ones also. Then I found a cheap bionicle in Asda for pass the parcel, but oh no, what if one of the girls win (so I bought a cheap disney princess that could substitute or keep for DD's birthday), and, oh no, what if my jsut turned two nephew wins, he can't really have a bionicle or a Princess Belle. It is a nightmare and because it is half term next week and DS's party is the week after I am going to have to chase replies, but in the morning I have a doctor's appt at 9.10 so I need to dump DS and run, and then my sister, nephew and Grandad are visiting in the afternoon. Then I am working Tues-Thurs, so only really have Friday to chase.

There see Egypt, I managed my own rant.

I can't believe you guys are still chundering on .. then again I can't believe I checked to see whether you guys were still chundering on

Just recovered from DS' 6th birthday party .. football? football Bozza? count yourself lucky .. my boy settled for a themed party that does not exist in the UK .. so there I am making invitations, badges, tattoos, cakes and being all-round uber-mum

Bozza .. here's a secret .. you FIX who wins so it works with the gift in the middle ..

DD is humungous .. she is the child who just doesn't stop growing .. she weighs 18kg (2 stone 8) and is 98cm high. She's sharp as a button .. only issues at the moment are an over-keeness for blankies and thumb-sucking which we're trying to restrict to a night-time thing only .. quite unsuccessfully

anyhoo nice to see you

Well nice to see you twig. But just how do you make tattoos? Right will go with fixing, I am obviously just such a sweet, naive little thing.... Although I have made the invitations and am planning on making the cake but just so it is nice for me to eat - don't like those supermarket ones and not forking out for a baker's one.

you buy special paper for your printer and then you grab copyright images off the net .. and then you realise you can't flip them so you do a thread on mumsnet and people come along and patronise you then finally offer to do it for you .. then you print em and make em sticky

oh its a fun waste of an hour or so

I think I will stick to my original plan of buying some off ebay.

well helloooo there mrs twiglett, nice to see you!

not much to report except that dd has turned from crying when i leave her at school to crying when i take her home again!!! sigh.

AND.....she is going to sleep before 830

we are getting there

hope everyone is ok.

dh gone to uk for his grandad's funeral , so i'm on me ownsome and may be around for some considerable periods...

...and i'm not being a moody cow anymore...

I do think it is funny how you are posting at strange times egypt. There never used to be much action on here in the daytime - when I am at work but now you pop up every so often! It sounds like DD is getting there gradually.

yes, its 1045pm here! just thinking about going to bed...

where are you living now Egypt .. (I ask with the full knowledge that the second you tell me I'll remember)

I think she is probably in bed twig because she is in Singapore.

Bozza- DD knows shes not allowed my chewing gums but when were in play group she pretends shes eating and if I ask what she says a chewing gum, hence looks from other mums as they must think I do give her chewing gums. Also if we go anywhere she has to go and get ?ready? which involves going in my make up bag and putting lipstick on.
Is funny the little things they pick up from us.

I told DD tonight to pick up her chalk from the floor or I would throw it in the bin her reply was ?throw it in the bin then? ummm how am I meant to deal with that one. She then proceeded to put all her chalks in the bin. I wish I could understand a toddlers world.

Egypt- well done on DD going to bed and enjoying nursery. I hope it continues for you.

And hello twiglett

Hello Twiglett. We do still exist but there seems to be less and less of us every month. Hi Kbaby, it's been a while. How's life with two these days? You must be tired getting up a lot through the night.

Anyone going out tomorrow night? We are and we've got someone from DH's work coming to babysit called Kat. For the last few weeks we've been trying to explain it all to DS but he just doesn't get it. He's never met her before and he actuallly thinks she is a cat, no matter what we say. At tea tonight, the conversation with DH went:

".... and tomorrow Kat will come and she will say Meow"
"No, Kat is a lady, remember?"
"Yes, Kat is a lady and Gizmo (our cat) isn't a lady"
(pause)
"When she jumps on the table, I will shout no"
"No. She won't jump on the table because she isn't a cat. She's a lady"
"but when she was little and she did jump on the table I did shout no"
"No, she is a lady. It's just her name is Kat, short for Katrina"

I had tears rolling down my face by the end of it because this is about the tenth conversation we've had like this. He's seriously expecting a giant cat to turn up.

A full week with nobody posting. It was DS's birthday today so it has been a busy day although his party is not until Sunday. DD has been a bit moody - not liking DS getting so much attention? She was also poorly last week so I have not been at work since last Wednesday.

Last night she woke up at 2.30 am crying because she wanted her I am 2 badge in bed with her. DH got up and was most unimpressed. And, of course, I had to shout through to him where it was. She was also pesky at bedtime, so we are back to bribing with Princess stickers. But she loved her pancakes tonight. Fantastic tea - pancakes followed by birthday cake.

Hi Ponka- I think ive got used to the tiredness tbh but my mum has them both sat night which helps loads. 2 is finally getting easier esp as DS is sitting now so can play for a bit. I hope Kat didn?t turn out to be a disappointment for your DS bless him.

DD today found an old handbag in my wardrobe and asked for money for it. I was upstairs sorting the washing and fobbed her off with ?there must be some somewhere? next thing I know she came back upstairs bag clinking with money. When I asked where she found the money she replied? its ok mummy I just went in your purse and got some? £ 6 I found in there!

kbaby I had a similar story from yesterday. My friend asked me to look after her DS and DD (same age as my two for the afternoon). Whenever DD and her friend get together they spend ages dressing up and doing their hair at DD's dressing table. Anyway they were all dressed up as princesses but none of the bags from DD's extensive collection was good enough for her friend so she helped herself to one of mine. I found a fiver under the table in DS's room shortly afterwards.

Shoes are the same, ive bought her loads of dressing up shoes but oh no she only wants my boots or shoes

Ah yes. I bought some new shoes in New Look yesterday and left them at the end of the bed. They are ballet pumps with gold pattern and trim. I was laid in bed this morning and DD was fumbling around at the end of the bed. "what are you doing to my shoes, DD?" she looked all confused because I couldn't see but it was sooo obvious. Still ballet pumps better than heeled knee length boots...

She looked cute today in football strip and pigtails at DS's party.

How did the party go, Bozza. There were a lot of kids, weren't there?

It went really well ponka. It was not too bad because the restaurant did the food so I only had to do the decs and games. I made a pinata and the kids loved it. We ended up with 17 in total, including 11 5/6 year old boys, 4 girls (all sisters of the boys inc DD obviously) aged from 1-4, adn my two 2yo nephews. Anyway DS wants his party there again next year - so obviously he was happy with it.

I told them it was my birthday next when they were in the bath tonight and asked DD what she was going to buy me, and she said some shoes and DS added some ballerina shoes. DD wanted red but I have already got some red ballet pumps so they agreed on pink. Then I said what about Mothers Day (not at all materialistic, me ) and DD said a dress, and DS asked me what my second favourite football team was and then said he was going to get me a Liverpool shirt with Fowler on the back. So I told them they had to get daddy to take them shopping and that DD had to keep it a secret.