July 2006 - toddlers, climbers and daredevils sign in here!

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Thought it was time for a new thread folks.
Great news about your job Bloss. Will catch up with you all tomorrow. xx

Still waiting for a piccie of Sam.

HC
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sorry hc will put it on as soon as i can!

the f'ing builders were smoking in the loft today - yes you all heard that right not on the scaffolding but actually inside my house without asking me and I HAVE ASTHMA and am OBVIOUSLY PREGNANT and HAVE A 19 MONTH OLD TODDLER.

I am so fed up with them that i could quite happily go away for multiple murder right now.

i also have visions that they have left a cigarette butt up there smouldering away and the whole house is going to go up in smoke overnight and jacobs room is right by the loft and now i'm sitting here in floods of tears at the fuckers thinking it's ok to take no care with someone's house.

sorry i know this is getting really boring for the rest of you i'll stop now

flick-this isn't getting boring so rant away as I for one are worried about your BP. {{xx}}

HC
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Flick did you say anything to them? I'd have gone absolutely mental. Fact.

Hi all

Just a quickie, as I'm on someone else's computer as mine is broke at work. What am I supposed to do at work now?

Flick, damn builders. The cheek of them.
You take it easy though.

Well K has chicken pox, so we haven't slept much since Friday. I know we never sleep much anyway, but it's even worse.
And Joey has his new big boy's bed with dinosaurs, and he loves it and wants us all to get in with him. This morning after K decided she'd had enough of wriggling on me, she jumped down and went in there:
K: Allo Joey
J: Hallo Mimi
K: Mimi Bed
J: oh, okay

And in she climbed. I went back to bed then (for about a minute) and let them at it. Very sweet.

Well, best go, hello to everyone else, sorry I can't wither on some more

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Hi Annie, hope your poxy lady feels better soon. So cute hearing about your two interacting tho . Sleep so-so here, major tantrum at 5am this morning - wtf? Woouldn't even let us cuddle him, went streaking off down the landing howling (we'd made the mistake of releasing him from his sleeping bag).

Pixel - if you don't see the other thread, have booked a table for 8pm tomoz

Annie-thought you had disappeared off the face of the earth. Poor Kayley-not nice having the pox.

Hope all OK.

HC
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Evening everyone - I have really been neglecting this thread recently . I am reading it every day but never seem to find the time to post on it.

I had a lovely mothers day despite having to cook for MIL, BIL and gf - Josh bought me a ring and some perfume - how clever of him

Josh has learnt how to say 'cuddle' whilst holding his arms up now which is just lovely - although he does have a habit of saying it when he knows I am busy doing something else (like reading a magazine or running the bath )

Hope everyone is ok and I promise I will try harder to post more regularly on here rather than spending my time on the TTC board

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Allo Mammys

CB, hope the TTC is fun!!
Josh sounds so sweet, we love cuddles

HC Think the pox is improving, she's getting all scabby now. Pretty! Won't be disappearing for now though! What would I do without you girls!

Mae, LOL at Dom streaking down the hallway!! We get those tantrums too, for completely no reason at all sometimes. The joys of toddlerhood eh?

Right, best go rescue her, she's stuck in a box with Joey and a hundred balls...

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Bliss, DD is at school and ds having a nap what a way to spend my day off

We went worm hunting this morning as DD had a wormery for xmas and decided today was the day to fill it up. DS was picking up the worms after she'd colected them and running around the garden with DD being all dramatic shouting 'your going to hurt it and squash it, let it go' obv the fact that she was chasing him meant that he run all the more until in the end I had to catch him and prise the poor worm from his chubby little hand and hand it back to sobing dd.
Never a dull moment in our house, I also had to prise her hair from his hand when she told him that he couldnt feed the fish to which he obv wasnt happy with and went for her hair.

How is everyone? I'm off to get Emma some white ballet shoes ready for her Ba Ba Black Sheep performance on the 11th April. Have a grot migraine so struggling to function. SIL has got a new horse so am going to pop round later and see him.

Have a lovely weekend all.

HC
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Hello everyone. Annie - I hope Kayley's getting better.

We have a binding contract now on the house! Yippee! The mortage company was faffing around until the very last minute so it was really nervewracking. Entry date is next Friday - so exciting.

Hi all

Hope you are all well, all well in our camp.
Tho Zack off his food which I'm finding really frustrating, grrrrr.

We booked our wedding last week so I will become a Mrs on Aug 2nd
Organisation proving a nightmare due to warring families- should be interesting

Congrats on the house twinkle, great news

Hope you're feeling better Humphry

Kbaby, I love hearing about your 2, it makes me want another

Annie- how is K's skin doing now?

Ceebee- Zack does that "cuddle" thing too, they are soooo not silly are they ?!

Mae- Had to smile at the image of him making a run for it at 5am, bless him!

Flick- hope you're ok, I don't know how you're coping with it all I know I wouldn't xx

Soph- 4am i'm dead impressed!

Bloss- sorry about your mothers day, there is pressure to have a 'perfect' day but no-one tells the children that!

Hi Impy Is Ryan better?

Hi wallace

Pixel- how is the gorgeous Emma doing?

Spin- been thinking of you, hope you're doing ok and Chi and Roshi are well {{{hugs}}}

Dreading the bad weather next week as it means we will be stuck indoors. I hate staying in and will be bored silly by midday Monday.

We have Z's tests at the hospital on March 19th, I'm very nervous and hoping I'm not going to be a useless wreck on the day.

Enjoy your Sundays xx

Catchingzeds- I shall remember your wedding date as its's DS's birthday. They do play lovely together and more often than not I feel like a spare part as no one wants to play with me, but then on the other hand generally when im trying to do something they fight over the same toy and I have to intervene. Tonight they were having great fun throwing tennis balls about and then I attempted to get a photo of them on the settee together and DS wasnt happy as DD was sitting too close to him!! he refuse to let her hold his hand or put her hand on the side of his buggy. Although he keeps chasing her about so that he can blow rasberries on her belly.
Hope the tests go ok.

Ds is off his food too and I think hes lost weight. He loves his breakfast but then barely eats diner or tea.

Oh well should go to bed, both had us up last night as DD kept coughing which was waking DS and then he would cry which woke DD, Total of 4 hrs sleep.

Hi Ladies, hope you're all enjoying your weekends

We've had MIL staying, I've managed to put up with her relentless negativity pretty well this time I think. And she did babysit last night, so not all bad. We went to an actual PARTY with live music, wore high heels and danced like a mad thing, lovely .

What with that and the Bristol meet-up on Thursday, I'm in danger of developing a social life....

hi everyone just a quick catchup. i had a huge go at them and then phoned the sige manager - that was on tuesday and i don't think they have appeared for the rest of the week. just coming back tomorrow morning for 1/2 a dy and then the plasterer coming from tuesday for the rest of the week.

anyway, more importantly, my growth scan showed baby's growth has slowed down (3lb9 when he should be 4lb at this stage), and my b pressure was through the roof when i saw the consultant, so they kept me in till saturday. nearly delivered in the middle of wednesday night as b pressure was spiking, but instead the increased my medication so much that my b pressure went too low and i couldn't even stand up on thursday! but it seems to be stable at the moment and i'm back at home so that's something at least! and section booked for 20th march if we get that far.

MIl has arrived (a day early on friday) so she's being a huge help although i'm already hating having another person around all the time. but she will be a big help over the next few weeks.

anyway, must go, have to do online shop! will post more later but annie hope the pox is ok.

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Flick - that all sounds very scary for you but thankfully you are at home now - maybe this is your bodies way of telling you to put your feet up and rest a little (not easy with a 20-month old I know!). Fingers crossed that Sam holds off making an appearance for a little while longer

flick-what a for you. Sam is going to be here in 10 days or less.

Still got my migraine, day 3 so should have buggered off by tomorrow. Wet and windy here today as per the rest of the country-glad I got the grass cut yesterday.

spin-how are things?

Hope all OK.

HC
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Hallo Ladies

The pox is starting to clear I think, she's itching less and sleeping a bit better and not screaming. Though there is still a lot of screaming. Very high pitched...

HC hope that migraine clears soon.

Flick, you take it easy missus. Not long now eh? Fingers and toes crossed for you that it all goes reasonably to plan.

Mae, you par-tay animal you!!
Hope MIL behaves. Mine are down tonight for five days. I'm usually dreading it, but I'm kind of half secretly looking forward to it this time, just so they give us a bit of a break. Don't tell them I said that thoough.
I'll be back tomorrow ranting about them probably...

kbaby, lol at your two!! I love the way they interact now, mine are so funny the way they talk to each other, specially when Joey sounds just like me...

Twinkle, congrats on the house!! Hurrah!!

Better go, dissections to do.

omigod work is turning into like actual WORK! A friend said to me last week, oh everyone is so impressed the way you seem so relaxed abut the kids/work combo, how do you do it, and I'm all oh you know, simper simper, just organised I guess, preen simper. Well the shit has hit the fan this week, a day in London today, two days of intensive training for the next two, a proposal to be in by Thursday, (a day I don't work), a colleague leaving and inheriting all his accounts that all have IMMEDIATE actions, rubbish being dumped on me to sort from a great height when i don't have a clue what I'm doing really.....ARRRGGHH!! Methinks outward stressfree appearance may slip somewhat in the coming weeks....not to mention traditional 9.30pm bedtime...

Hang on in there Sam! Hope K is better soon Annie.

Bye, got to iron my shirt for tomorrow, scan prep material again and hope some of it goes in, make a cuppa for Dh and print directions to conference centre......

Bloss

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Hi everyone

Has been so long since ive been on, tried to catch up as best i can.

bloss - good luck with work
Annie - hope kayley is better soon
hc - hope you feeling better too
flick - cant believe its all happening so soon, hope he hangs in there too
Hi to everyone else ive not mentioned

Been manic here, had bathroom put in, 4 days trapped in living room with dd, was awful. Then disaster struck only 3 days after bathroom finished, mirror that dh put up over the sink fell down and cracked sink v.badly so waiting on dh's uncles friend who is a plumber to come round and fit new sink
Has delayed our appt to sort out new mortgage and get flat on market, havent viewed any houses for a few weeks, time for serious house hunting now.

Can i have your opinions on this please - pil who live 10min drive away make no effort to see us, if we dont visit them on a sunday we just dont see them. We've made several efforts to have them over for dinner but have never been asked in return, also they babysit if we ask but have noticed its maybe only because they feel they cant say no so have only done so about 8/9 times.
Anyway dh's granda has been ill lately so mil has been visiting him often, we invited them over on sunday afternoon as we hadnt seen them for 5 weeks. Dh asked his mum why we hadnt seen them for so long and she said shes had no time, we know this isnt true as she is not at her dad's all the time and has even been off work on holiday and her sister has had time for her family as well as caring for ill father. She consistently doesnt visit for weeks at a time and this time is using her ill father (who is better now) as an excuse which we were disgusted by. Mil then decided she would leave saying that i was influencing dh's thoughts and fil told me i was brainwashing their son, WTF? no idea where any of this came from other than they felt guilty when questioned why they never have any time for charlotte. Dh told them not to come back and slammed the door. Theyve always been like this and have never had much time for dh either so he doesnt want to know them anymore but is hurting so badly dealing with it.

So sorry that was long, feel so lost and sad at the moment

Morning ladies

Bloss-I have the utmost admiration for you and all the ladies that work. It takes all my energy and patience to get Em and Soph dressed and out the door to get Em to school for 9am. Am done for after delivering her and need a cuppa and a visit to MN to chill. How on earth you all go on to work afterwards I do not know-have done it with just Em but that was quite hard at the time.

Beadmum-your PIL sound dreadful and I'm not surprised DH slammed the door. There must be some underlying reason for her comments but I do think you need to probe a bit further and get some examples of how you have influenced your DH???? Chin up and don't let the bastards grind you down as you are so much better than they are and they are the ones losing out by not seeing their grandaughter-SOD THEM !

Annie-are you pox free? Hope you haven't passed it on to the mozzies.

flick-are you still hanging in there? 9 days and counting.

Have been doing a spot of weeding this morning. Enjoying being in the garden when the weather is nice. Got to do something to shift my weight gain-another 1.5 lb so that is 4 lb on altogether. My leader said to cut down to 16 points which is virtually nothing.

Have a good day all and hi to everyone not mentioned. Am uptodate with episodes of Lost and can't get enough of it. I'm having Lost dreams every night-think I need therapy.

HC
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Morning all,

HC, we are at the tail end of the pox, all the spots are clearing up now. Still a lot of scratching though. The mozzies make me itch too.

Bead, sympathies with your PILs. Some people are so irrational. If they are making out it's your doing, then sod them backwards. I hope you can work something out.

Bloss, you high-flyer. You know you can do it!! Go girl!

Well the PILs are ok, small nigglely little annoying things, but nothing I can't tolerate. Made them homemade burgers last night, and they were surprised, cos they didn't know you could make burgers at home... They did bring a load of sweets and cake and crap which I wanted to throw in the bin, but so far I have resisted.

Well best go, I have a student to train! What?

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beadmum they sound deadful but maybe just a little guilt ridden? did dh suggest that mil was using the illness as an excuse as that may have hit home? tbh if dh has taken the decision to slam the door on them (which i wholeheartedly agree with btw) then it's not a "brainwashing" thing - he's old enough and big enough to make up his own mind and please don't get upset by mil's remarks. hugs toyou though.

hope this story helps put things in perspective about atrocoius parents / pils.... when jacob was 6 weeks old he had a groinal hernia. pil's arrived the day that we had it diagnosed (bear in mind he was 8 weeks early, and tiny and our PFB ). so we had a week or backwards and forwards at the hospital trying to get his hernia repaired as soon as we could as he was obviously in pain despite what the HCPs were telling us... it all culminated on the day he had the operation we had been told we could be in the theatre with him and then at the last minute told we couldn't, and we had a grocery shop being delivered i nthe evening. i was staying in hospital and dh was waiting around for as long as he could before being thrown out after visiting hours. so the shop was delivered and for some unknown reason pil decided in his boxer shorts and vest to go out into the main building hallway and help the delivery guy with the shop (ocado offered to bring it in but no no no he had to go out there!). so mil followed him out and the door closed behind them. they were locked out basically in bedclothes at about 6pm and had to ask our downstairs neighbour to use her phone when she got home to call us (we were in the midle of a dispute with her at the time about her dog she had there against the least and her general disgustingness - maggots in the bins etc)....when dh lost his rag with them when he got home from the hospital (after jacob had been let out of theatre etc), mil declared they were going to stay at bil's flat as dh had not made them feel welcome and they felt that he was being completely unreasonable blah blah blah. yes your grandson has just had surgery under general anasthetic at 7 weeks old despite being before his actual due date and you think your son should be giving you a bit more attention!!! WTF! anyway, hope it helps that pils and parents can just be utter sh*ts at times!!!

am relaxing today - mil has taken jacob to little kickers although they will be late as she needs 20 mins to put full makeup on before leaving the house and they then left late despite me getting everything ready - and then it started bucketing down on the way (lucky i had given her an umbrella hey!)

feet are swollen but the blood pressure is holding up so hoping to at least get to friday! I picked friday a while ago as the delivery date but if we can go longer that would be better.

hope all ok and glad the pox is on it's way out annie

bloss keep going at work - you'll be absolutely fine!

xxx