June mummies '05 thread 14 - the one where some become siblings and all of them grow.

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Thanks all tonight's update news reasonably good.

Trib, not been on this thread for ages, but thinking of you

Hope and your LO's are all well. We're having so much fun with the DS's (such hard work too). DS1 has decided he likes wearing dresses. Sigh. He pulls on my pink stripey vest and an old necklace and tells me he doesn't have a willy and he wears knickers not pants. To him its a big dressing up game. Not that i mind at all, i've taken lots of photos to show future girlfriends, but i sort of wish he wouldn't announce this in front of all and sundry. I get so many pursed lips glaring at me..... When i told my mum, she told me both my DB's dressed up when they were little too. Unfortunately, she doesnt have the photos....

Hi All

It's been a while, How is everyone?????

Trib- sorry to hear of scare with dsd, Hope all is much better now?
I remember a similar scare with my dad when he had a stroke, i thought the worst but lots of tests and rehabilitation for a while, he was back to himself. He may out live everyone now. It is a very scary time though, thinking of you.

Jonah - lovely to hear of your 2 LO's, I'm hoping to get more time to myself as my two get a bit older, but i think I'm dreaming.

VanillaP- hi how are your two?

Cooper is such a little man now, He doesn't look babish at all, long and thin. He is the opposite of ds2 who eats for Texas and has to have everything and anything in his mouth. c was never like that and it's a constant battle to get him to eat anything. Other than that he is still way into Thomas and can name them all i think. we had an easter egg hunt and playgroup and he loved it.

On that note hope all the Junies and siblings have a fabulous Easter, think they'll want their eggs to themselves this year.

hello all

what a frozen Easter it was woke up to snow but still went to Kew's egg hunt. dd still not over keen on the Easter bunny despite offering of chocolate

hope all your little ones are well

Hi sfx (and everyone else of course)
It's lovely to see the latest pics on your profile...she really is a little beauty.

Well I am on my 3rd MN-name. I hope you know who I am
DD1 has autism and is 18- that should be a good clue.
SFX I have some questions I would dearly like to ask you...do I need to cat you or something (I don't think I am set up but will try if you can't give me an email addy?)

I have been out for a very rare session in the pub today
It's only next door but not something I generally do
I know I've over done it as I've just poured the dogs biscuits in dd2's tommy tippee cup and dd's milk in the dog bowl
mil was over for a meal too- oops!!

hi nice to see you around you can email me on mrsfantastica @ gmail dot com

very nice of you, those are pics from last summer I think, must update, I remember your little one being such a doll

am off to get my overindulged chocolate filled child settled but might pop along later

o.k thanks for that
Will email you tomorrow....bit pickled tonight
I really must do an update.
I want to contact eastyorksmum "my yorky" too
Have lost all contacts and lost her number.
Yorky are you there?

Hi all,

PM-Great to hear from you.Hope you're all doing well.x

Has been really hectic here.Dh had a rather bad car accident a few weeks ago.Thank goodness he wasn't hurt but he nearly wrote off 3 cars,including our own.Luckily,after lots of grovelling to the insurance company,they are repairing it.So embarrassing though as it happened in our road.Dh was on his way home from work,and after an hour driving pulled into our turning,was about to park but had a coughing fit and instead of braking,accerelated into our neighbours Jag(4 doors away).The Jag then ploughed into our other neighbours Fiesta.
We've also just sold our house aswell and are desperately trying to find somewhere else,but there's hardly anything on the market at the moment,which is frustrating.
Both ds's are well.Ds2 still isn't crawling yet,but I'm in no rush.Can't believe he'll be one next month.
Ds1 is so funny and such a pleasure to be around.Still no sign of potty training and he's still a fussy eater-couldn't even tempt him with Easter eggs.

Hope everone else is well.

Trib-thinking of you all.x

goodness Bubb how awful,at least you are moving (sorry) but sort of made me chuckle worry aside.

I can't believe your ds2 is 1 time does indeed fly. here we are not really trying am taking time to decide if this should be it, it grieves me but needs to be considered.

anyway dd is great the terrible 2s did not really arrive until this year but shouty stroppy toddler had been truly on, but she is also delightful most of the time and thankfully nappies are a thing of the past, we just keep pull ups for unpredictable journeys.
Nursery should start part time in September

Oh dear Bubbs....glad he was o.k
Lovely to be "chatting" to some of you again.

Sfx, sorry I havent emailed due to the fact that dd1 has been here for a visit and dh is off work so the house seems to be total chaos!
I can't concentrate when they are all here
I will contact you at some point in the near future if thats o.k with you.

DD2 is great. she is a very strong minded child and quite insistant that I am the "dogs mummy" today.
She is the vet of course and our Puppy is having quite significant problems with her health (imaginary of course)
I am quite honestly sick of playing vets but it could be worse I suppose
I have just heard her say "Now! I bet that dog has still got that headache"
zzzzzzzzzzzzz

that is fine whenever you fancy really

it is still so cold...

My god. Sorry everyone, I will reply to recent posts and lovely to see some old 'faces' again! But now I have to tell you about my day.

I was en route to Dorset today because I have a meeting in our Exeter office tomorrow, was off to stay in my mum's house.

I had a phone conference to do at 3, a major one, and a very lovely Mumsnetter had offered to let me come to her house to do it because I had ds and dh with me, and I can't very well leave them on their own in a public place because dh can't keep up with ds in the wheelchair. We were running late and traffic was awful, so we ended up in a service station with me in the car doing the conference call.

The call was about the fact our test team - erm, can't test anything and have no plans to test the biggest migration we have ever attempted to do in a little system whose name I won't mention but let's say it's in the NHS and in the papers quite a lot.

I knew it was going to be bad. The guy running the call is an utter 'see you next tuesday' in the words of Charlotte from Sex and the City. And so it proved to be. In essence he announced to all and sundry that I had known since October (read: actually yesterday) that they needed my 'help' to complete a piece of their work and now I have been given til Friday lunchtime to get it done. I have been told to work the weekend to complete analysis I can't even start as I don't have the information, nor will I by the weekend. Many of Mr See You's statements were plain wrong (and this was a conf call with very senior management, so I simply had to correct where appropriate). I missed a number of calls whilst on this call and got a text as well.

When I finished I read the text. It said:

• trib. Pls do not interrupt Mr See You on the call, he is trying to help you.

I swear to god I virtually wrote my resignation letter at this point. He is trying to help me? I've been told to rescue his team's sorry a*se from the brink to save THEM! AND I SHOULD SHUT UP WHILST I'M DOING IT?!?!?!

I am so out of here. We had to turn round in Birmingham and come home again, it took 4 feckin hours through the rush hour, I've been back home for half an hour. No no no no no.

Oh yes - and my step-dad starts chemo next week.

So there we are. Sorry to dump and run, I am so unspeakably I don't know what to do with myself.

Btw and sorry to be self-obsessed, but one of the guys I work with wrote to my boss and said "I'm worried about trib" and my boss said "I have a catch-up with her on Friday".

He doesn't.

He must be thinking of someone else.

God I feel inspired: my line manager can't remember who I am.

trib sorry it has been so tough, if the system you are working on is as rubbish as the one dh's with social services you have our sympathies. let's face it most public services ones are quite bad.

I see your line manager has wonderful managing skills so much for feeling motivated and appreciated. are short contracts an option atm? I guess you would like security but sometimes it is a trade off for sanity sake, at least in the short term

Hello all at being worse than rubbish at keeping up.

If this thread isn't in active convos I can't find it!

My Junie has cause me an injury. Almost 2 weeks ago he wouldn't be picked up and I have damaged the nerves and muscles in my thumd/hand and the pain has spread up my arm too. I eventually went to A&E and got a wrist splint but can't do anything with it on, nor rest it enough to heal. I cna't take ibruprofen as it set my asthma off and patacetomol doesn't help. Never mind. He truly is so gorgeous though.

Hi

Trib- hope work is a bit better, what a predicament, it sounds very stressful.

Nab- hi ya, hope the wrist is not hurting now?

Can you believe our junies will be three soon, what are we all planing?

Dh is building a cubby house with a tower and two stories, I'm hoping it will be ready by June.

Hi all

dd is finally about to move into her own room,she is still a huge Thomas TTE fan of the fairy princess variety.

we went to see the TTTE stage show a few weeks back, she was a tad overwhelmed at first but then really got into it.

this year she will have a party with friends, so far it has only been family.
nappies are firmly in the past thankfully
we still think nursery will start sometime between September and January

hope everyone is ok these days

my little junie is into everything! she couldn't be more different than her sister. We've got a bouncy castle booked for her birthday, any one in my area the morning of the 9th of juen is welcoem to email me - consider yourself invited!

nappies a distance memory here too which is great.

she starts preschool at the same school as dd1 in sept, which will hopefully be all the childcare we need.

hope everyone is keeping well

Hello all!

Katz, would love to visit on 9 June and not just for the bouncy castle opportunities!

Nappies still on here, sleep still an issue. But tonight I am quite upset; we were playing in the front garden tonight and ds picked up a flat stone and said "I must wash things" (I think a la Makka Pakka). He went over to the car .. and rubbed the stone over the door I was aghast and said "ds you must not do that again" so he picked up another stone and said "I must" and before I could stop him, did it again.

Now utterly appalled I said "oh my god ds, what have you done?" and was so genuinely shocked and upset that he burst into tears and it's all been very emotional ever since. He's never done anything this bad before (although has stuck stickers to the wall, drawn on the sofa, pulled wallpaper off in the dining room ... ) but I think we all feel this is a bit of a watershed in terms of what we need to do to impose some discipline Just don't know how I should have responded and what a suitable punishment is.

On a happier note, looking forward to TTTE show visiting Leeds in June. And my step-dad has got through the first round of chemo feeling not bad at all, which is excellent. The truly distressing thing about the whole thing is how upset he is about making us upset, not quite sure how we break out of that cycle.

PellMell - lovely to 'see' you. Bubb, I hope all is now sorted with the neighbours! What a nightmare!

Uki, Jonah, lovely to hear from you - Uki are you on Facebook? We seem to have a little community going there but not sure I've hooked up with you yet.

VP could you move back to Suffolk into my old flat? No takers now the current tenant has left

PeterDuck - must sort out this weekend! I'm meant to be working all weekend but do have a pass to go to the walk.

hi Trib it is very hard to say anything about the behaviour not knowing ds and not knowing your relationship.
but I can understand you being upset. they don't of course place much value on objects other than what directly relates to them. and they are just learning to feel some sort of empathy.
I think it is important that we take time to calmly explain why it was wrong, how it made you feel/ why and establish clearly that it is not acceptable.

sorry I know it is all relatively self evident and the behaviour itself may stem from something else but it is not unusual.
I find that if I respond very emotionally dd will mirror me and its a loop.

pretty hard to do some times.

on another subject TTTE show is fun with long interval.

hope all keeps going ok for your step dad

Finally found you all!

How is everyone?

Been thinking of what to get DS2. He adores minis, pans and cats so if anyone has any clues.

Wrist all okay now, thanks for asking, Uki!

GP aapointment for DS2 next Friday. Sometimes I have to repeat myself 3+ times before he hears me and with his history I don't want to take any chances. Getting more and more panicky as the days go on. Next week seems so far away.

DS2 has started being very cheeky and shouting - learnt from older sublings. I told him off for smacking his brother in the bath so he called me a donkey. No idea where he has got that from!

Hi all,
Good to hear what everyone is upto and hope you are all well.
We're all good.Ds2 had his 1st birthday last week which was nice-just had the grand parents over for the day but it was nice.
Currently surrounded by boxes as we're moving house in about 5 weeks time.Having a nightmare de-cluttering and packing.Have stuck so much on Freecycle,it's got to be some kind of record,I think.
We may have a party for ds1 on his birthday if we have moved by then but we're off to Butlins in Minehead the following day,for a weeks holiday,so hopefully that should be fun...and will make a change from Haven.
Ds1 is still in nappies.I'm thinking of trying to get him clean during the 6 weeks holidays so he can go back to school without nappies-not very hopeful though as he's certainly not ready yet.
He's also still really fussy with his food and I'm dreading eating out when we go away as he wouldn't eat anything like a 'kids meal',so guess I'll have to carry sandwiches and snacks with me(as usual) for our week away.
Trib-best of luck for your step dad.Hope it all goes well.x

Just saw this thread sneak onto active convos and thought I should say hi to everyone!

Sorry I've been so pants at keeping up with you all.

I was mcmudda for most of the time I was a Junie, but I'm back to bobsmum.

News with us is that no3 is due today, but showing no signs of shifting yet.

Ds is 5, in Primary one - doing fab academically but a bit of a struggle socially - he's being referred for a diagnosis of possible Aspergers or ADDD/ADHD or both. But he's just lovely.

DD is 2 (obviously !!!!) and loves pink things, dressing up, ballet and princesses and never stops talking. I'll maybe send her to nursery for a couple of mornings a week after the summer - if I can bear to part with her - we have too much fun playing atm

Love and best wishes to you all.

Have updated my profile if anyone wants a nosey

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUNIES
they really are LITTLE PEOPLE now

We have been gearing up for Cooper's 3rd birthday for a while, with his cubby house being built and lots of shrek things for the ogre and princess party.

Hi bobsmum- going to have to have a look for your baby news welcome to no. 3
He finally came good with the toilet training a Little while ago, i never thought it would take this long.

notabanana- hope the hearing test was OK?

trib- hope you are doing OK?

SFX- not seen you for a while, how are u?

trib- I am on facebook, does some one have a non-fullname email, i could send my name too?

hello all

frantic preparations for dd's party today although the actual birthday is not until Monday.

it is the first time we will have kids around -Help! the weather does not seem great so my guess it will be 8-9 kids cooped up in small flat

glad I got wine in

trib - how are you/ stepdad?

have been busy studying and getting on with running so to be relatively sane, I hope to do a race or two this summer

Uki email sfxmum at sky dot com.

Happy birthday little ones