April 2007 - Best friends surround us all, mine are the April girls, but Dippy's is her Dyson!

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a joint effort from me and the dippster

Elkie - how awful for you - do hope you get the insurerance ok - do you rent? If so have you rung the landlords agent and informed them they need to do better with the windows.Or if it's your house can the police or council give you any advice to help you feel secure again?

mammyjo - it made me laugh
{Please don;t disappear we will worry and you will get emails !

No one on for an hour!

Hello!

I hope you are feeling better that you are not the only one who has been subject to this sort of violation, Elkie honey. Did LOL @ MJ's comment about them all being lined up and shot with a ball of their own shit Glad it made you too sweetheart - Make plans to give DC's to DH this weekend and go for a massage or quiet coffee - That's not a suggestion btw - It is an ORDER!!!!

Not sure how P faired / fared (sp!!?) at her nursery session - She was tired when I dropped her off tbh and she was absolutely knackered when I picked her up at 3 - her eyes were all red and she was crying and crying They said they had tried to put her down in the cot but she wasn't having any of it. I did notice that they hadn't changed her bum though I know she was only there 2 hours, but you think they might have tried that!!!!? Feeling a bit about the experience tbh..... She is absolutely zonked out in the pram in the hallway atm. Not for long, I'll be bound ....

Also - the wheel fell off my pram while I was walking to drop her off at nursery!! Arse. Fortunately, my very lovely BF is on ML atm and she rescued me! I then popped into the Baby Shop where I used to work and did what all intelligent people do when something breaks ..... I hit it with a hammer!

Tis all fixed now!

Who needs a man!!?

So there you go ladies - tip for future reference - If it doesn't work ...... hit it with a hammer!!

Works with all manner of things ..... prams .... broken chair legs ..... cars ..... children ...... men ......

lol dh calls his hammer his gentle persuasion tool
(for DIY stuff, not wives and babies, just in case anyone was worried)
Do you have a new job then?

Hi all

Elkie really sorry you've been burgled must be really frightening to think they may have been in the house at night Hope you get it sorted with insurers, agree with WCL - dont tell them anything you dont need to!

Feeling rough here, have really stiff neck thats been getting worse and is giving me terrible headache. Or I think its the neck whole head and neck ids really hurting anyway, ibuprofen not touched it

D has tummy bug, was bit sicky and diarrhoea last 2 days and today diarrhoea has got much worse. Luckily he still seems fine in himself except a bit of tummy ache every now and then.

Just spoken to my bf who you may remember was going to leave her dh a while back but decided to give him another chance. Has now decided that was his last chance and is going to tell him to oleave tonight. Really hoping she does and he goes. She's said this so many times before so not sure if she really will. I think whats persuading her is how he is with her dd1 (not his) he really does bully her and is making her miserable as well as my bf.

No worries WCL - will have a look and get back to you

pesha, yes I think I remember. I hope she does go through with it, he doesn't sound very nice
I have 2 friends who are getting married this summer, and as I think I mentioned we decided not to take T to either wedding. Friend 1 emailed really apologetically to say they had decided they weren't inviting children to the wedding. Friend 2 has just emailed saying will he need a high chair! I explained to Friend 2 (she's the one who live in Cornwall) but I'm now feeling a bit bad, she's obviously planning to have children there...would you be offended? Surely she wouldn't want a 16 month old having a tantrum because his sleep had been messed up at her reception?

dt1 has an ear infection and is on amoxacillin (sp?) can't be bothered to type from bottle

leave him with me Katy on the way through

yes a visit to see me ellie and pesha. Ellie if you get to Pesha I'm sure I could get up for the day

Toddler + Wedding = Catastrophe IMHO.

We've either ....

a.) Not gone to the Wedding cos I just couldn't cope with the stress of having stroppy Toddler there.

b.) Left them with someone for the day while DH & went to Wedding. (Much nicer )

Think your decision is very sensible one tbh, Katy. DH & I had a "Child-Free" Wedding and I am glad we did tbh. Children, especially Toddlers are a PITA, IMHO!

I think I am qualified to say that, aren't I!!?

Hope your BF is strong enough to do it, Pesha - I have a BF in v.similar situation. xx

Just left P by the sofa in our living room and when I went back downstairs she was underneath the TV cabinet, rolling around, laughing at me!!! Little minx!! I think she is a covert crawler.

I disagree (sorry) if someone asked me to their wedding or party or anything without the children, then I wouldn't go......as long as they behave then I can't see the problem. I have to say I have been lucky, and none of mine have evr misbehaved, and babies have usually all been fine and quiet ( thanks to the boobie!)
We all went to bil's wedding when Molly was 5 weeks old and loads of people commented on how good the dc were!

though the travelling down does complicate it SPB

I keep finding molly in the kitchen now - and I have a gate too!

Don't apologise, Caz - each to their own! I just meant that Toddlers specifically were difficult to take to a Wedding, not babies or little people. I think it all stems from the fact that as a Toddler, DD2 was Satanic jolly hard work and we were scared to take her anywhere for a looong time!!

Up to the individual, I think.

Saying all this, we took all 3 DC's to SIL's Wedding in June and it was great - the Wedding was tailored for LO's though, which was nice! P was 6 weeks and slept most of the time, the other two were 3.4 yrs and 2.1 yrs and were pretty good - we just chilled and let the day happen really..... Only scary moment was when we lost DD1!!!

it does get harder the more you have though (so be warned Dyson! ) with things like meals out, which we had for mil's 50th birthday my sil complained that as we had 4 dc eating and she and bil only had one that mil should have paid for hers and bil's meals aswell!

in the end I got angry and paid for all of us, just to shut her up!

and like at my brothers wedding, they were only allowed 60 for the actual ceremony, and there are quite a few of us.....we did actually offer on that occasion to at least leave the babies, but he wouldn't hear of it. ( i love my baby brother!! but dh's family are a load of a**eholes!)

Caz!!

evening all. at your burglary Elkie, how horrible for you.

Am very very tired today, we´ve returned to normal post-xmas life with a bang. Dh back to school at night and it makes for such a long day for both of us. I´m either with N all day, then dh comes home for a couple of hours but often has homework or studying and then he leaves at 5.30pm and doesn´t get back til 10pm so I am still on my own with N all evening to do play, bath, dinner, bed etc etc. And if I´ve not been with him already all day, I´ve been at work. Siiiiigh. It´s just quite hard slog. It was so different over the holidays having dh here in the evening.

And today is one of my days off but I had to go with my dad to a hospital appt. to translate and had to pick him up at 8am . Obviously we´re up miles earlier than that anyway with N but on my day off I like to slob around that bit longer and today I definitely would have gone back to bed when N had his nap. Anyway, the appt turned out to be 3 hours long!!!! They´ve started some clinic specifically for his condition so it was mostly like a one on one orientation. Which is great! but you know, 3 hours??! So then I felt cross because a) after 4 years living here my parents could have made some effort at learning the language instead of still having to rely on me for every single little thing and b) 3 hours in my dad´s company, as much as I love him, does that to me By the time I got home N was waking up from his 2 hour (!) nap and didn´t have another nap all day. Just put him to bed now though so hope he has a nice long sleep.

Sorry for the very long moan. Just one of those days..

at your break in Elkie

Oh, how well I know those days, Maveta my love - sounds truly nightmareish, you poor poor thing - I guess you can at least be sort of thankful that N took his loooong nap while you were out at the appt with your dad so you didn't have to deal with bored, grizzly baby as well as translating for your dad and trying to keep him entertained too (Bloomin' men, eh!!? )

Hoep N has a bloody good long sleep now - I suggest you eat a tonne of chocolate and have a nice soak in the bath and stick with us, beeee-yaches!!

Or Beeee-yatches, even.

Right, off to eat Chinese food with DH and atch crap on TV.....

Right then dts are 40 weeks & 5 days (9mths & 10 days)

Erin weighs 18lb 6.5oz
Jack weighs 23lb 0.5oz

bit of a difference!

Goodness! Bless!

ah well oooggs, at least it's taht way round, E will obviously be a dainty lady while J is her protector!

just like her mummy..............Not