April 2007 - Um er yeah ??! Ummmm ???

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so..............

Food
Lots of talk on meal planning and diets
diet thread here.
Babies being fed porridge to make them sleep - and it works
SPB was puzzled by how to make breadcrumbs
MJ has joined WW

Work
Runny has quit her job with the twuntish boss. She has an interview for a job closer to home on 29th Feb.
IDOC went back to work and iswn't enjoying it yet but hopes it will get easier
Eddas is having problems with her company since she's been back
Job hunt thread for those looking to return to work
Octo and Dippy had interviews but sadly without success

Illness
KHIN has everyone sick
MJ feeling very low but coming off some meds seems to have helped lots and she's much brighter most of the time now
WCL ingested a filing

Babies
everyone is thinking about babyproofing their house
SPB and GMM need cages for their boys
SPB's T is climbing the stairs
Tcmummy has the biggest baby (we think) at 22lbs 12oz
Do boys like cuddly toys? hot discussion on this
SOL took K to baby sensory and loved it

Everything Else
Dippy is in love with her Dyson
Auntie Meemz (mmk) is learning to drive
Runny has a new philosophy - "Unless its useful, or I love it, I don't want it in my life"
she has found this can apply to clothes (new susannah & trinny book is fab), books and mil
Caz finished off the run of 3 with her own car accident, thankfully no injuries or serious damage done
NL has a fab new changing bag from Monsoon
Caz was chatted up in the supermarket (with all 5 children in tow )
Eddas got territorial over her new pushchair
Leaky has found a new house
Elkie was burgled
SPB is planning T's christening
Bramshott was baking for N's 5th birthday
KHIN has potty trained dd1
SOL fancies her dentist
We had a very short and rather boring game of truth or dare
Eddas is supposed to be making her own buggy snuggle
Pesha has a mystery bleep
Talk on are you a Clean Freak or Scumbag?
GMM is running the Great North Run
Eddas hopes to do Race For Life
Ellie and Dippy have applied for School places for ds1/dd1
Liath had a fab time at Centre Parcs

Meet Ups
Eddas & Dippy are going to meet
We were thinking of multiple meet-ups on same day in May to celebrate birthdays????
NEED TO PROGRESS THIS
Ellie wants to come to Scotland on Feb 15th if they'll have her???

Funny stuff
this thread
and this one
bra talk

Also worthy of note

OCto confessed
"When I was younger (ahem) I was a kind of girl who went out for one drink, got trollied, met a nice bloke, snogged him and accidentally shagged him! I never went out solely for that purpose but it happened ooh now and then Tried it with dh when we first met but he said he wanted to wait oh the shame "

Oooggs had dt's weighed
at 40 weeks & 5 days (9mths & 10 days)
Erin weighs 18lb 6.5oz
Jack weighs 23lb 0.5oz

Dippy used the bash it method to fix her pushchair
"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 ...... "

MJ had this to say on the subject of burglary
"Little fuckers who do this should be lined up and shot with a ball of their own shit."

Slightly longer than planned, and 24 hours late but ther you have it!

Glad you had a nice evening, SOL - enjoy your publ unch today - I love the New Forest, my Auntie owns a gorgoues B&B near Bransgore. xx

T has been asleep for 2 hours now
I haven't

Spelling mistake heaven!!

Oooh, my friend had a baby girl at 5am today - Alice - can't wait to see her!!

Fantastic news!

Congratulations to your friend CD!! Lovely news and pretty name too

Pesha, hope you dont have too much of a headache today

Ellie, hope you managed to get the boys settled eventually

Oooggs, glad you enjoyed your evening. Hope they slept for you

SOL, very of all your pub lunches! Have a lovely day xx

I had a lovely evening at my friends house. Chinese takeaway and lots of gossipy (is that a word?) chat. Was fab!!
Off now to search for skechers trainers for ds. He has seen them on telly (bloody adverts) so am going to see if any shops stock them relatively locally! Have a lovely day all

Cd, how are you feeling today? Hope you are ok. Enjoy the parties

Morning MJ. Sounds like you had a great evening too!!

Luckily (?) we only watch CBeebies, so no adverts and nothing for B to want!!

Hope those of you who've gone/are going out enjoy yourselves.

Lovely news about Alice, CD, when will you get to meet her?

Another terrible night here and I'm worrying about dp and feeling so miserable myself. D was up 11 to 2, and then at 6.45 but in between threatened to wake several times. He's gone down for his mid morning nap but I just feel like dp and I are both completely losing it. dp does a lot, but I wish that instead of saying he'll take D like a martyr and then being able to hear him snapping at D, he'd talk to me more. There are times when dp takes D for breakfast and I don't get up because I can't bear dp's snappiness with us all when I do. And then of course I feel like a selfish bitch.

Morning all Feeling fine thanks for asking - I dont get hangovers!!

Although my boobs were killing me and I kept waking up all through the night cos of them. Eventually decided I'd had enough at 9 and got up and pumped about 5oz which is a record for me, normally dont manage that over 2 pumps! And I could have got more but I got bored! So anyone know if the milk will be ok? I stopped drinking about half 8/ 9ish last night so will have been over 12 hours later, should be ok shouldnt it? Or we're out of milk so I could just have it myself on my cereal?!?

Sorry to hear about all the shit nights

But sounds like most people have nice days planned We're going MIL's to have lunch and collect kids. Think I might just go back to bed for an hour or so first...

'See' you all later.

hi everyone
elkie, sorry to hear about your dreadful night
Pesha, no adcie sorry but lol at you having it on cereal.
I've been getting full fat milk for T and DH has been drinking it too, wouldn't normally have it in. My parents were here yesterday and I made a coffee for DH and my dad and said "as a treat, you've got Tristan milk in it" (mum won't let dad have full fat ) I could see my dad thinking "???????" so quickly told him it was just full fat cow's milk

Morning all. Just checking in really. Sorry about the bad night Elkie. Me and DH were a little like that at times with DS1, haven't got the energy anymore!!

Am currently trying to persuade my boys to have their lunch - they are playing nicely and I'm loathe to interrupt them...

DH has gone windsurfing at Wittering today. We were all going to go to Shoreham (between Brighton and Worthing for those who don't know) as his parents have a beach hut there. Makes it so much easier with the boys! Anyway all the beaches along that strip of coast are shut. Apparently a tanker spilt its load of timber in the Channel and now it's all washing up. I didn't feel like a day on the beach with no shelter etc so DH has gone on his own. DS1 was quite disappointed bless him.

Right, crying baby...

Oooh, you must live relatively near me hotcross!

Sorry about the shit night, Elkie xx Could post a pic of your blanket on your profile - I have a friend who could copy it for you if you would like!!? Let me know.

Right off to my marathon of parties .......

very quiet

Hi ooggs
DH taken T for a walk, thankfully, he is so wingey today
Better get on
Only 4 hours and 6 minutes till bedtime

katy - its hard isn't it? broken sleep, night feeds and early mornings - I'm getting a bit sick of it.

My parents have just arrived to play with the children [hurray] & dh is working

Yes, I'm glad it's not just me, does it get easier as they get older?

SPB, it does get easier in the sense that they don't cry all the time as they can tell you what the matter is. They also become a little more self sufficient and not quite so reliant on you. That said, each stage throws up its own crapness! Think temper tantrums, the why? phase, the NO phase etc etc

Meant to say that with ds I definitely found the baby stage the hardest, he is much easier nowadays

Hello all

Right have finally got long enough on the pc to catch up properly - be warned - I've taken notes!

(Rolls up sleeves and cracks knuckles)

Runny - love the pics re the clamping

Oooggs - oh dear re the new centre next door to nuresry - what stage are the plans at? Time to object?

Eddas - A big Hurrah for shopping time without dcs

SPB - B does the hummingbird thing too - cute but annoying And re phones - our upstairs one is permanently on mute atm.

GMM - good for you going for the Great North Run!

Maveta - 8-1 doesn't sound great - but could you talk to a mum whose baby already goes and see how she has found it? We've been having rotten nights too - teething sucks! Your new hair is fab though! The situation with your mil sounds very hard.

Hi 2HotCrossBunnies!

Mammyjo - what a shame about pay - any progress working out if they're right about being wrong?

Pesha - love new pictures

Pinions - sympathy re teething - see above. What have work done to cock things up? Keep us up to date with the very, very vague possibility

WO - looked at the stats thread and noticed B and C have the same birthday - and weighed the same at birth!! RE the sick note - in NHS we always give your annual leave back if you are certified sick when you would have been off so you don't lose it.

Dippy - excited about the pg possibility - when are you going to test - and do you need us to be on-line during this?!? Have you heard about the sleeping bunny thing - basically a sleepy bunny alram clock and you teach the child that they can only get up when bunny is awake - which is whatever time you set it for. Worked really well with my friends 3 yr old - who was getting up at 5.30 till then!

Octo - chatty nurse during smear test v uncalled for in my opinion! Supply teaching sounds like a good decision.

Elkie - how about the blankets - and much sympathy for the bad nights. We've been struggling here too - though last night was a bit better so praying for an improvement! Will include all the April babies in that

POTC - the situation re J meeting the new g/friend sounds very hard - hope things get easier. re playpen

SOL - pub lunch sounds lovely!

Hello and apologies to anyone I've missed!

Ok - knackered now and all the girls need fed and bathed so better pop off. See you later!

Lol at Tristan milk

I think as they get older they get less physically tiring but more mentally tiring. With dd and ds1 I dont have to run round after them or stop them escaping, climbing and running off etc but its demands and whinging and arguing and non stop talking and questions and defiance and...

Just got home and my freezer door wasnt shut properly. Most stuff ok but top drawer was worst affected which was where all my pots of veg cous cous for Dyaln were. He's just had one thing now for tea and think it will also be his lunch and dinner tomorrow and the next day!! Not really ideal but there is loads of veg, chick peas, beans etc in it and I might mix some other things with it to give it a slightly different taste each time so he doesnt get bored of it!

I am so tired. Took dogs for a walk with MIL and D slept in pushchair for about half an hour at 4 ish so prob not gonna go to sleep till 9 ish. Although hes all full of cold so might make him more tired and go to sleep earlier, or I hope so anyway. Last night he slept from half 7 til 7 for Mil which is fab, hoping it might encourage them to have him more often!

Hi ladies long time no see

Hope all is well. I have probably missed so much!

I have started working full time so havent had any mumsnet time .

All is well here Beth doing really well at school. Alex is coming on really well he sits up unaided claps to music and gives high fives !! hes turning out to be quite a character I have a feeling he is going to be a bit of a cheeky monkey.

So what have I missed? I wasnt even going to attempt to do a catch up as there has been so many threads !!

take care all xxxx

Hello everyone!

Would you like to hear DH's new lullaby for the children ......

"Some naughty children didn't go to bed,
Along came a gablin and chopped off their heads.
Their poor parents started to weep,
Because the naughty children wouldn't go to sleep!"

Think he might be getting to the end of his tether!

Hi Tili Good to see you again.

The first post of the this thread gives an update of the most recent events.

Ho Pesha!

hi tili

katy - ds1 is much easier than dts as he normally sleeps all night, can talk to me, is out of nappies (potty training = hell), will eat anything, can dress himself and goes to nursery 3 days a week

whereas dts don't sleep through, need feeding, changing, dressing, cry and you don't know why etc.....

each phase bring its own good and bad points (except for potty training - all I can think of is bad (- hope dts are easier!!!)

NL - objections to be in by wednesday