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

[katzg]

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hope you all like the title

trib - tfl can be a bit annoying i guess the caledonian rd station is not accessible i am not familiar with that one. shame as it is only 40min journey.

at hammersmith people help in out of train if need be likewise for kew honestly london people are not that bad. but there is a lift service from ground to platform

for all those planning children's parties, have you checked out the huge range ASDA seems to be offering now? I've not checked the prices (DH & I have also decided DS isn't allowed a party until he's at least 43), but ASDA prices are usually quite reasonable.

We went to a 2yr old's party on saturday. It was exhausting. DS refused to play pass the parcel with the other kids - he was perfectly happy tootling about on the little bike and playing on the slide. I also had that awful situation where you have to tell off another child for whacking your child over the head reptitively. This kid was about 3, parents nowhere to be seen. What is the etiquette in these situations? I did feel bad about telling off another child, but what am i to do, just watch him bash my DS about? He then became nicknamed as "Child of Evil" to DH and me and we watched him like a hawk.

ok i'm really sad and probably old but I'm going to see Take That again!!

hi all xxx
we are all fine thanks
dd1 dad is still an arse and im still waiting for his soilicitor to sort paper work out.
dd2 is still suffering with her asthma even though we have a house (warm air heating ) she has a reading age of 7.10 and is 5.6 !! so proud
dd3 is delightful. i am still at home and bored but she is so funny. not potty trained/training and still having dummy . doesnt know her colours but can count to 6 and can say almost everything you ask of her . she says hello goodbye names etc so i am very proud of her at the moment.

me and dp are getting on great . went through a very bad patch where i was very down (suicidal almost0 but we have got out the other end and we are getting on great (few months now)
i have a new addiction- tropical fish , i have them everywhere . multi-tank syndrome i believe it is called in the hobby and spend alot of time at fish shops or filling/emptying the tanks . love it !!!

glad everyone is doing ok
skyler- i use a site called parties by post they are very good and have a good range hth

katzg - nothing worng with going to see take that have a lovely time , hope they sort things out for you dd

jonah- i would of done the same i cant stand it when another child is hitting my child as they dont understand how they get told off but other children dont . my dc find this very frustrating "dont worry swettie just dont play with him " just doesnt do it for them . justice !!

trib- good luck on your trip sweetie and i was here before her im sure(mumto3)

anyone else i missed im sorry but i have to go and stop dd3 from pulling everything out from under the table and get ready to go to the school soon .

i will try to pop back tmw

love to all xxxxxxxxxxx

KVG hugs and hope the chicken pox don't get you down too much. Wills we sorted ours recently, we're very lucky that one of DH's best friends is a probate solicitor and he sorted it for us. We did struggle a bit with picking guardians but mainly because we didn't want certain family members to have any access to DC's money or them!

we don't have wills and flipping sister is a solicitor, how slack is that???
kvg - sorry about the bereavement . I hope the chickenpox is improving
muma3 - good to hear from you. sorry dd1's dad is still being a tosser, but glad you and dp doing better. v impressed by dd2 too, clever girl!
katz - am at TT...
what a pita jonah. ds1 is a hitter, i hate it, though he normally hits me rather than other kids .

ds1 has already put 3 pounds on in a month. guts!

KVG, you sound like you're having a bit of a time of at the moment! Good idea sorting out wills though. We haven't bothered and we really should. My parents were/are lawyers - I really should know better.

2happy, I really wasn't getting on any moral high horse about hitting children. My DS went through a short phase, luckily just with me and DH. Think it's one of those things they do. It was more a comment on over-protective mum over here who can't bear the idea of her child being smacked. If anyone's doing the smacking round here, it'll be me! (joke, JOKE!!!!!)

We've got a new problem with DS (there's always one, isn't there?) I work from home, which has never been an issue before, DS just gets on with playing with DH. However, in the past couple of weeks, he's taken to standing at the bottom of the attic stairs (where my office is) and crying for mummy. It's awful. It breaks my heart cos he can't understand why I'm in the house and won't play with him. It's even worse for DH who then has to deal with a mildly hysterical child, carrying back down to the playroom and convince him that his toy cars are a much better idea than disturbing mummy, who is on the phone to a customer and quietly hoping they can't hear the tantrum going on in the background. Sigh, oh well. Let's hope it's just another "phase".

Hope you ladies and LO's are all well.

KVG-Sorry to hear you're having a rough time at the mo.Hope the pox clears up shortly too.
We also haven't made wills but are hoping to move house shortly so think we'll do it then.
On the hitting front ds seems to be ok but one thing he hates doing is sharing his toys or even sharing anyone elses.He has a major tantrum if he can't get his own way and will literally throw himself on the floor,screaming.
On a better note,he has now been in his toddler bed for nearly 2 weeks and it's all going very well.It's definately much better now we have a gate on his door and at least he can't scare me by coming into us during the night.
He really is getting funnier by the day now and will repeat anything you say to him,but for some strange reason,his favourite word at the mo is eyeball.

Hope everyone else is well.

KVG, sounds like there's a lot for you to deal with at the moment. Hope DD recovers quickly - I think Piriton is supposed to be good for the itching (I got some for DS1 when he had it).

Jonah, how much longer until this one is due? Who's next? Lummox, how's things with your two, and 2Happy? Have to say, I'm really getting broody again, but it always seems like there is too much on to contemplate another one.

Katz, the mumsnet musical thread was inspired - I just wish I was witty enough to join in! Any news back from the hospital about DD2? I saw your DD2 get a mention on a thread about early walkers - she really did look too little to be on the go.

Sfxmum, a Kew trip sounds lovely!

Bubbs, how is your DS's leg? Hope you are ok too.x

Skyler, when is your DD's birthday? Is she going to school this year? DS1 is going in September, I'm sure there will be floods of tears when I see him in his school uniform (from him as much as me no doubt - he wants to wear Spiderman t-shirts all the time).

Not much going on here. Have been working on a dreaded assignment for what seems like forever, but I finished it today, yippee (so Trib, if you fancy a trip to the park tomorrow pm let me know). Finally got DS2's MMR sorted, he didn't seem to suffer too much and I'm just relieved it's done now. He's still not talking much but has started calling me Mummeeeeeeeeeeeeee instead of Daddy which is definitely progress (although not at 6am).

Anyone heard from Teabelly? Haven't seen her on here for a while (when I've been lurking/working...)

Right, off to bed. Sorry for patchy attempt at a catch-up!

Hi all,

KVG - so sorry to hear your news Infant Piriton is good for the itching, although it did not produce the blissful 12 hour sleeps we were hoping it might as a side-effect! (Btw, you will be pleased to know ds' 'waking at 8' behaviour lasted for all of four nights, then we went away for a night and it was back to business as usual, groan).

We have our wills but haven't actually signed them yet - fortunately no qualms about who to choose as guardians as my little sister and dh's bro not fit to look after a hamster, so that only left my bro as a viable option. He is Social Services approved as well!

Trip to London was good - it was lovely to see the sfx clan, Kew was great and we were lucky with the weather. The trip across London was appallingly difficult, though.

Jonah - welcome to my world. I can't work from home any more if ds is awake, and haven't been able to for - well, probably nearly a year! I once had to do a phone conference with him banging on the study door with a coathanger, that was fun. I once seriously considered driving my car round to my neighbour's driveway and working there, so I could still pick up the wireless network but ds would understand I was out of the house.

2Happy - 3 pounds, well done ds2! (I assume, rather than ds1).

MrsW - I owe tea an email from Christmas, will get on with replying and see how she is. Glad the assignment is finally over, let's hope that the sun will stay out for the park! (Looking a bit dubious here).

katz - have been v slack on the MfM front, will try and catch up at the weekend.

Right, off to my first meeting of the day, seem to be spending half my life at the supplier's office just now. Then off home for dh's latest GP appointment, it looks as if he has high blood pressure and potentially diabetes too. Joy!

PS highly amused by the title of the Due in June thread for this year "you toucha my bump, I smasha your face!"

made me giggle too

Goodness, it's quiet here at the moment!
I loved that thread title, too. That and due April - danger, wide loads!
Lummox - how's your January-ie ( not got the same ring as Junie has it?!)
Bubbs - not long!!! Hope you're surviving

Just wondered if anyone got the Mumsnet email on potty training recently - mine seemed to be missing a large chunk (I suspect it may be my over-enthusiatic virus scanner again), was it useful?

hello all.

this two children business has seriously cut down on my MN time.

all is well here, though. ds1 has been lovely with the new baby - we let him hold ds2 if he sits in a particular chair and he is forever going and sitting there and demanding that we bring ds2 to him.

ds2 is also the spitting image of him, which is quite weird. i am having to label photos straight away as i am sure i won't know which one of them is which (particularly as poor old ds2 is pretty much always in ds1 cast-offs).

but sleep.

aaarrgghh.

ds2 did exactly what ds1 did - lulled me into a false sense of wellbeing by sleeping up to 8 hours at a stretch and then lost it. I'm lucky to get three hours now, and have a horrible feeling it is getting worse.

have been lurking but not had time to post, so hello to all.

special hello to the preggy folk. hope you are keeping well.

and to Mrs W - thanks for asking how things are going.

2happy - I'm lurking on the Jan thread. was sorry to hear about the blood tests for your ds2. hope all is OK now. how are you coping with 2 under 2?

Morning All,

MrsW-Glad to hear the MMR went well and that you're now "Mumeeee" instead of daddy.
Ds has all of a sudden started to copy everything he hears which is so funny,especially as he also wasn't saying too much a little while ago.His legs/feet aren't too bad thanks,although it's a long process and he'll probably still need treatment for the next few years yet.The scars from his other op are healing well though and we're just waiting for a check ip appointment from the surgeon to see if it was a success(I'm sure it was!).

2Happy/Lummox-How are you both managing with two? I think I'm dreading it as a friend recently had another baby after an 18 month gap and she's totally exhausted.I've only got about 4 weeks left now although it feels like I'm 4 weeks overdue as I'm enormous and have put on the 4 stone I lost earlier in the year.
We did decorate the nursery over the weekend and once we've laid the new floor,we're all set to go...I think.

Haven't had the potty training email yet,although I'm certainly in no rush to start with the potty yet.Having 2 in nappies suits me fine for the time being-the thought of anything else scares the life out of me!

Hope everyone else is well.x

Hi Lummox-Just x posted with you.

bubbs - cross posted. glad to hear all is OK.

two is hard, especially so close together, but i really cannot say how amazing it is to watch them together. it is almost as incredible as when you first really feel a bond with your eldest.

and apparently the first year is the really hard bit..........[exhaustion emoticon]

x-posted again!

morning all

nice to see you all around

trib can't believe it is so long since you were heresince then we have spent a huge a mount of time buried in snot, not sleeping much dealing with pesky coughs and the like, all better now.
sorry about the awful journey, the tube really needs to improve it is ridiculous

we did get 'the email' ages ago, dd asks to sit on the toilet (with child seat) a couple of times a day, but we are not really potty training iyswim, let it be warmer first.

she does talk loads, proper sentences, and non stop which can be tiring but mostly very funny.'look mammy a train, i love trains' etc.

we are still hopping to get pregnant but not happened yet, so fingers crossed.

anyway i hope you are all keeping well, best of luck to the pregnant ones, and some peaceful nights to the mothers of 2

Morning

Lummox - it's a fast moving thread isn't it?! ds2 is fine after his blood test, thanks, and I think the jaundice has even been a little better the past couple of days (so now I wish I'd waited a bit longer before going to GPs and saved him a blood test ). Just waiting for the bf-midwife this morning who's going to observe a feed and tell me if she thinks his tongue tie needs snipping or not!

Bubbs - what's it like with 2...? Easier than I expected, frankly! The baby side of things is just soooo much easier than it was first time round. I find the hardest time is 5pm-7pm, trying to sort ds1's supper and bed when he's getting tireder and crankier, I'm getting tireder and crankier, and ds2 just wants milk! It can be really tough. But the rest of the day seems ok. I find it helps to have things planned each day, even if it's just a walk to the farm to see the tractors. It breaks the day up for me, ds2 sleeps in the sling, and ds1 is kept happy and is tired out for his nap. Plus I find going out with ds2 much less daunting than I found it with ds1. I think I made a bit of a meal out of having ds1!!

SFX - good luck, I hope it happens soon x

Just flying by to say hope all are well.

House sale has fallen through with six weeks to go, and just after the surveyor had completed a six hundred pound survey. Why am I not surprised.

Oh no Trib-sorry to hear that.

oh Trib so sorry, looking forward to seeing you monday though.

Oh Trib, really sorry to hear it