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March 2007: Babies no longer: the road to Toddlerdom

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MrLSG · 01/05/2008 22:50

MrsLSG suggested it, so her it is...

I've observed that calling Toby a baby isn't really accurate anymore, he (as one of the younger March babies - actually being born in April) is now toddlering (or is that staggering?), hence the title of the thread.

Sorry if Dad's aren't allowed around here: But Toby just loved joining in garden football with his big brother and dad earlier tonight.

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TheBlonde · 27/05/2008 20:48

Hope the poorly babies are better, v scary having to take them to hospital

thanks for the jab answers everyone - I have gone ahead with the Hib/MenC one and will leave the MMR/PCV for now

Spice - my mother was mama for at least a year with DS

Divastrop · 27/05/2008 21:04

bella-hope kate is feeling better.

these poorly babies are a worry

i had to take dd2 to the doctors today as she was awake half the night moaning,her eyes are sticky and she is dribbling like mad.she has another throat infection/cough.Elsie has 2 molars now but still not got that 4th bottom incisor.

now we have the ISP trying to charge us £190 for the BT engineer coming out last week-that we were told we didnt have to pay for as the fault was with the socket which is BT's property.

the girls from next door but one continue to be bitches-one of tem threw a water bomb over the wall and it hit dh.the air was blue when he went out there.

i am going to explode or crumble,i cant take much more

Rosylily · 28/05/2008 07:46

Kiwi that must have been so worrying, and so shocking having to take them to hospital. I hope all is well now and you can relax a bit.

Spicemonster I watched 10 years younger too and identified with that woman, I buy all my clothes in the charity shop but I refuse to be converted, I get loads of great stuff...got some brand new shoes yesterday for £5.99...turquoise, my favourite colour
I've got 5 or 6 hairs growing on my chin because I've lost my tweezers
Anyway I was looking in the mirror at myself after that show and wishing someone would give me a makeover too.

Diva when I lived in the middle of Belfast it was similar to where you are now, I loved it -there was never a dull moment with the people and kids around there but I'm glad I live in a quieter place now.you need a holiday! Get some cheap flights and come over!

Rosylily · 28/05/2008 07:59

Diva -I mean it1 The whole lot of you! Come on over-I can free up two double beds a cot and a single mattress!

fitfox · 28/05/2008 22:22

Ooh can we come one day Rosy?? next year maybe? We could even do a house swap - you could spend a week in Kew and we could spend a week in Belfast. We could use each others cars as well!!

I used to do that with my sister but she is too busy now (having an affair !!!)

Rosylily · 28/05/2008 23:01

Foxy I am rolling around the floor laughing at the thought of anyone borrowing my car it is filthy! There's yoghurt smeared all over one window, about a years worth of rubbish on the floor, the radio doesn't work, the speedometer doesn't work, the exhaust pipe is dodgy so the car vrooms like a stock car at the moment.....oh dear, so if we do a swap next year I'll have to do some serious cleaning and fixing up!
I've been to kew many moons ago and it's gorgeous and I think I'll be getting the best end of the bargain!

Divastrop · 29/05/2008 11:32

rosy-would i need a passport?!

i have been up all night with a screaming Elsie who has a sore throat etc.i have no idea what planet i am on all i know is that nobody better piss me off today....

Piffle · 29/05/2008 11:59

rosy ive always wanted to go to Belfast!

fitfox · 29/05/2008 13:56

Diva Elsie sounds as though she has the horrible throat virus that my DS1 and Monti-chubs has had (and I now have). If so, it lasts about 4 days and they just cry and cling non-stop. Does she have a temperature as well? [hugs]

Rosy - my car is very filthy too. Everything we took to FRance is still scattered about the floor and there are some nice peices of fossilised birthday cakke from various kids parties!! I love Ireland and would love to swap. We could leave you our Kew Gardens season tickets too

Mind you it would be nice to visit Ireland at some point and actually meet you all too!!

kiwibella · 29/05/2008 22:40

a meet-up at Rosy's?!?! Yay .

You two (Rosy and Foxy) are hilarious comparing the state of your cars!! I need to drag Kate's car seat upstairs and give it a good clean.... I don't know how she makes such a mess of it.

Diva - how are the girls getting on (or not ... and Miss Elsie?

Hope everyone is coping x x

Rosylily · 30/05/2008 07:04

hee hee Foxy I fancy seeing Kew gardens, when I was there before I couldn't afford to get in! I was there as a penniless singer in corrymeela singers being put up by a lovely churchy lady (forgotten her name.)
Anyhow lets pencil in a swap!

You know what you can do in Belfast now? (chuckle) there's a doubledecker open top tour bus that takes tourists to all the murals in the different areas and there's a chippy called 'for cod and ulster' not that people are cashing in on the troubles here or anything ....

Anyhow anyone who wants to come visiting you are most welcome!

Diva I think you do need a passport isn't that mad! Have you got one?

I had a terrible nights sleep last night...tired....hope everyone else had a better night.

Divastrop · 30/05/2008 16:49

i dont have a passport...never needed one.well,i went to germany when i was 13 but that was with the school and back in the olden days when you just got a group one.

Elsie slept better last night but is still ill.dh is very ill with it as well.

my throat is niggling but i am ignoring it.feck Elsie is screaming again now

fitfox · 30/05/2008 21:10

Rosy do you need a passport to go to N.Ireland??

Feck - what is the world coming to eh?

I saw all those murals in my mis-spent yoof All the Nationalist and Unionist ones and the lamp posts and curb stones painted red/white/blue in East and West Belfast

"Cod and Ulster" PMSL!!! After all, fish and chips are genuine Brit food aren't they? Tee Hee

Yes will pencil in a trip over to Ireland next year - I haven't been for yonks!!! Last time I went to the north was 20 years ago! Went trough the Glenshane Pass - sooo beautiful

BTW we spent the day in Kew Gardens today, chillin out. Went on a tree top walk and Climbers and Creepers (Like a huge shed with giant sized flowers/bugs which children can climb into and play)

Haven't heard from Kitty for a few days - hope you are OK Kitty

We were half planning to visit Brighton on the bnk holiday on Monday
..if the weather was good
HaHaHarrgghh

spongecake · 30/05/2008 21:26

hi there, hope the ill babies are feeling better

I don't think you need a passport to go to northern ireland? you just need photo id for flying, not sure about the ferry mind, just a ticket probably

cars-mine is ok as dh gets in, moans its a mess and tidies it/ washes it.

diva, hope elsie sleeps tonight and you get some rest

Callieco · 30/05/2008 22:04

Hello girls, sorry I don't get on very often these days. Have been a bit unwell, can't remember if I said or not but I was diagnosed with anaemia about a month ago, so I've been on the iron pills and I am feeling a bit better, although still tired - but better than the awful head fuzziness, not being able to remember a thing, including in work, which I went through. It was almost worse than the first few months of baby because at least you know why you are tired then, but when you're getting six or seven hours sleep and still wake up feeling more tired than you went to bed.... not good!

The reason I'm anaemic is (TMI alert!) because my periods have got really long and heavy - the one before last was nearly two and a half weeks. I really suspect the endometriosis is coming back big time, and I've got a scan in July to see if they can see cysts on my ovaries, cos I have twinges in my sides a bit like last time. Bit depressing. Who knows, I may be wrong. However, I increasingly think that DS will be my only one and that that it was a miracle I ever got him.

On a brighter note, one of my two best friends just had a little girl last week. That's the fourth girl born to friends of mine in the past two months, and another one is due in two months - it's the reverse of last year because then just about everyone had boys it seemed like. (obviously not Diva, Kiwi, TheBlonde, Eids etc...)

Is anyone watching the Johnny Cash stuff on BBC4 at the moment? He's playing a song called Ring Of Fire - the anthem for women in labour everywhere!

DP wants me to tell you his joke - if they put swearboxes in maternity wards, they could solve the funding crisis in the NHS.

Callieco · 30/05/2008 22:08

I forgot to say, hope the babies are doing better now, and, has anyone ever done a swap with another MNetter? Rosy, if you ever fancy a trip to Cardiff, I'd love to go to Belfast!

fitfox · 31/05/2008 11:20

Mornin All

The Dcs are waiting for their playdates to arrive, who we have until 3pm then they have a party.

DS1 (watching from window for his friend's parent's car) : "His car same car as ours, but dark blue. Its full of mess like ours too."

Callie [hugs]- you must feel very tired if you are lacking iron?

LOL at "Ring of Fire" symbolising that burning feeling as head emerges!!!

I like a bit of Johnny Cash!

spicemonster · 31/05/2008 11:28

Ring of fire always makes me snigger in a very juvenile way

Sorry to hear about the anaemia callie - that must be very tiring. I hope you're wrong about the endometriosis

One of my friends is pregnant through IVF after years of trying (she also has endometriosis) and she thinks that baby will be her one and only.

Not that easy for all of us, this getting pregnant thing ...

Did I say that I've found a CM? I'm so pleased. She seems really, really lovely and has a couple of friends who also mind so there is always cover if she is away. She will feed Elliot too which is a bonus. The other ones I saw wanted me to take food for him which would be a massive faff.

I'm not sure what we're going to do today. Might go and have a look at St Pancras station for a bit of an outing.

Divastrop · 31/05/2008 11:47

hello

Elsie was awake till 4 this morning.

dh and i ended up arguing,i think cos of all the recent stress,but i didnt realise how he was feeling.this relationship malarky is hard work sometimes.

callie-i hope your periods sort themselves out and you feel better soon.

its a nice day today,shame i dont have a car as i could have done with getting the f**k out of this town.

ReverseThePolarity · 01/06/2008 09:10

Hello!!

I have just been reading through everyone's messages.

I've been dead busy. Sorry for not keeping up.

Bertie took his first steps last weekend. Still he only takes one or two and prefers to crawl. But baby steps... well, literally!

I also started my new job on Tuesday. I'm Administrator for a charity that assists families with at least one child under five who are struggling - for whatever reason. I've been dumped in at the deep end though; they've not had an Administrator for about a year; they had a temp in to "fire-fight" as it were but she was 14 hours per week, so everything is in a bit of a mess.

I like messes though.

Bertie still waking lots in the night for feeds... but I don't mind it now I'm working ft. And dh has finally given in and joined us in a massive bed, which is basically lots of mattresses on the floor.

Things between me and dh are a bit better. Still I'm not sure I've forgiven him; not sure I ever will. But I want to "take the path of least resistance" and am just putting my head in the sand for now.

Bf support group is going well and despite lots of initial problems seems to have gotten sorted out now. Word seems to be spreading and the children's centre have given us a bigger room. Oh and SIX Mums have now made their own slings too!

Don't really get chance to go on MN properly these days but will try to pop in again sooner next time with an update and read all your news!

fitfox · 01/06/2008 10:34

Reverse your new job sounds very interesting - nice to be able to work with Mums and families.

Rosylily · 02/06/2008 06:58

Reverssy the job sounds like just the ticket! A challenge for you. Glad you are muddling along ok with dh. The support group sounds great and well done with that!

Callie I hope your scan in july will have good results.
I had low iron too, it's horrible. I think mine may be down again...I have no energy at the moment.

I had to have a passport for flying to Belfast to cork and I do think we are asked to have a passport to uk but maybe that is just airlines prefered id or something. And my sister was saying that you can't get cheap flights easily these days. sigh.
Anyway Diva, I just think you could do with a break. What's happening with the girls now? Has it settled down?

I'm struggling through my days at the moment. I just seem to be responding to demands all day and night and that's as far as I get. I can't keep up. The house is horrific at the moment, everything is out of control, I've lost my diary and I don't even know what day of the week it is. And I'm tired so tired...oh well, my cleaner comes tomorrow. (phew)

kittywise · 02/06/2008 07:43

Hello all, sorry I haven't posted for a while, I have been reading though, life's tricky here and I haven't really got much to say, well nothing of interest anyway!!!

Rosylily · 02/06/2008 09:47

Have you got a helper sorted out now Kitty?

kittywise · 02/06/2008 10:18

Well yes Rosy, in a the sense that I have someone come to work .
She is very sweet and works all the time she is here, but she is so slow, she is basically crap. English of course.
She is not thorough in any job she does so I end of having to do it again.
I ended up having to label all the kids' shelves because she could never remember where to put the clothes despite being shown so many times. Even with them labeled she gets it wrong
If clothes are in the ironing basket inside out she leaves them like that! Surely to God it's plain common sense to turn them the right way????
I have had to tell her to do EVERYTHING.

What I wanted, no what I desperately NEEDED was someone who could come here, use a bit of common sense and do things like clear out the bins in the rooms everyday, look for cups, bottles etc.

I have had to ask her repeatedly to do stuff. She gets there eventually and she does it, always with a smile and enthusiasm but God it's a slog.

I showed her a few weeks back how to empty the hoover (Dyson so not complicated) she has not done it yet.
So I am going to have to ask her today to make it part of her routine to empty it when she can see that it is full duh .
There's masses of stuff like that, all little stuff but she is, it seems, incapeable of taking any sort of initiative or knowing the basics of housework.
She came with glowing refs and works for lots of other people.
The mind boggles it really does!!!
I actually think she is as thick as shit.

Dp says with her here we are running on one leg

I have a lovely Croatian aupair starting in September and so I'll get rid of slowcoach.

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