FEB 08- Sore nips and no naps continued!!!!

[sarahmikeharryandrosie]

Hi Ladies thought i wouls open the thread but i have no imagination- hence the title!!!!

Hi too to Dartmoor/lailas mum- glas you are doing well, thanks for comin back to join us hope u stick around-

i am off to bed now as i am seeing double!!!! have had a busy day hanging wallpaper- looking after the DC's and work this evening- i am exhausted!!!!lol

Night night

hello all and v nice to hear from dartmoor and merlypuss.

bessie - dd's a bit the same. she's ok held by other people if we're nearby but when we got out of sight, she'll start crying. mil pointed it out and she's right - i guess dd has led a v sheltered life so far, i am determined to start doing loads more stuff with her now that we've moved. dh is like you tho' - he's v happy to be so wanted!

dd's rougher side is limted to hair pulling and gumming. i admitt i'm impressed by her ambition. it doesnt occur to her that dh;s forearm is the same size as her, she grabs is with both hands and does her damndest to get it into her mouth .

ginger - at least your mumpty moment happened in the pursuit of the greater welfare of babykind! today already we managed to catch dd's skin in the car seat buckle clip. i've done this once before but this time worse and its broken the skin

havent really had a chance to catch up properly - been away for a couple of days but will do so later. need to get cleaning as we left this place in a mess when we went. now that he's a dad, dh is insisting on starting car journeys at 6am so we rushed out of here.

rozzy- we swear by sudocrem in our house, we even have a tub for the cats! (no lie!! the vet recommended it when one of them had a sore bum!!)- it's brilliant stuff.

Good to see you merleypuss, lots off us aren't technically febbers either ds arrived 4th jan so he's def not a feb babe or anywhere near! keep in touch!

Tyaca is lo ok? probably seems worse than it is!

Looking forward to meet up tomorrow

off to work but wanted to post in case i dont get chance later- have a fantastic meet up tomorrow- and dont forget ur camera's ladies!!!

spk later

Off to Canary Wharf tomorrow for DTS to see DPs work mates. Should be interesting. See how many city types I can ram with he double buggy
(photos on profile of my big grown up boys - aah, cute)

Hi MERLYPUSS its great to see you on here again Your boys are gorgeous, how do they get on with each other, and how are you finding it being a first time mum with twins!?

I hop you all have a great time at the meet up today, i'm very jealous, i'm sure you will have a good laugh. The sun is shining here so i hope you get a dry day at least.

Beany well done you for still exc BF, i think as long as you are both happy with it then carry on for a while longer, there's no law that says you HAVE to give food at 6 months.

We are all fine here, i went to get Ds1's new school trousers yesterday and when i took his jeans off he must have put his underpants back on the wrong way around because it looked like he had a thong on his little bum cheeks we on show for everyone to see, it was hilarious i couldn't stop laughing and he just said "what you laughing at my bum hole for"!!!

Hope everyone else is well x

hello all- well how was the meet up ladies- i bet you had a real good time-

Wish i was there too

Well today have joined slimming world as going alone is not really working any more- the class seemed nice- will def be going back i am so determind to slim down now!!!

Anyhow other than that an eneventful day here- off to work now will be back on later to read all about the infamous meet up!!!!!

Being a 1st time mum of twins is hard. But fun. You really do hit the floor running.
The boys get on well on the whole and they are very aware of each other (over the past 2 months or so)and we have broken up some good rows over toys. Weaning is going well and Isaac has discovered a taste for toast and cries the house down if you take it away. Trouble is he wants mine too.

the meetup lowdown. everything you need to know... the lovely egg has mastered the knack of making hosting while looking after twin babies look easy. i put this down to her secret stash of cava . gingermumi is gorgeous and i'm fairly sure she's not telling the truth about the age of her dd's.... i shall be emailing bean on an ongoing and possibly slightly stalker-eqsue basis for parenting tips after meeting her wonderful ds1 and gill has that nuts knack for always seeing everything that needs to or could be done from other peoples' point of view, including 4 year olds (or nearly 4 year olds- sry bean cant remember exact age).

lovely time, picnic'd outside in egg's garden. gill tested the stability of our glucose tolerance with a cake that made my jaw fizz and may well have sent bean into a sugar crash on train home. i had my first big trip out with a buggy as opposed to a sling and both dd and i survived. lots of stairs to be negotiated at clapham junction station but helpful people helped. dd celebrated her return home with a mammoth poo .... in the bath. luckily it was dh's turn to do bathtime . bless him scooping it out in his sports kit, he was on his way out to play footie and had changed into the gear before bath to save time....

wow- sound like you had a wondergul day- Well done Egg- you are so amazing!!!!!!

I don't think so, but thanks, feel all warm and fuzzy now(not because of the usual milk, sick, nappy combo either).

It was a fab day, the babies and mummies are all gorgeous!! I'll put some photos on providing it's ok with the others.

Had to LOL at poo in bath story, dd1 did that once, she was soooo proud!

She is gorgeous everyone - looks a lot like those glamorous daughters of hers.

Was a lovely day and we didn't get rained on! Most annoyingly my camera stopped working for the day but hopefully you'll be able to see Ginger's pics.

Had a lazy day today, curled up on the sofa watching the olympic ceremony with DS.

We're going to need a new thread title soon ladies - any suggestions? The only, slightly dubious one coming out of yesterday's meet-up was Queens of Poo (Feb 08). Any advances on that?

(Now Ginger I really hope that DD1's poo in the bath was a number of years ago!)

It's very quiet on here today!!

Tis true, we are all gorgeous!! Gill was an absolute star and really helped me with ds1. I could so easily have spent the day on the sidelines, trying to manage 2 kids but she made sure that didn't happen at all. (whisper, she even took him to the toilet and wiped his bum which is far, far beyond the call of duty! ).
Gingermumi has a portrait in an attic somewhere , ongoing respect to Egg for managing twins and STILL looking so glamorous , tyaca makes a mean banana muffin (ds1 is still asking after the rest of his, er, reader, I ate it ) and has a brilliant sense of humour and I just had a fab day. Really did me good to go on an adventure and get out of my comfort zone. I was exhausted when I got back but it was wl and truly worth it!

Today we went to the local library for an "Elmer and me" event. I thought this would be an interesting/stimulating/fun hour where ds1 would be encouraged to draw/discuss/make something involving the colourful patchwork elephant. But no, this being Brent , it was a shockingly p*ss poor bloke in a costume that wandered in mid way through a story. Some of the younger ones cried and ds1 just had the good taste to look bored. He did at least ask me who was inside the Elmer. We left shortly after that....

I quite like "Poo in the Bath" as opposed to "Sex in the City" but I can see that it doesn't really say much (that is good) about us as a group!!

will be too scared to put pics on soon!

Beansprout- you've gone all literary on us!! all those allusions to texts! And Elmer too! You're certainly widely read! Do you have a secret past as an english teacher?

And really LOL at Elmer story, it's like a scene from a bad sitcom.

Gill, yes she was only little (about 2 i think, so probably old enough to have known better) but it was sooo tempting to say 'Nah...student binge drinking, out of control etc etc....!'

Where's egg today?

Am having trouble making sense today, internet shop has fried my brain, i'm wondering if it would have been easier to have gone to the shops afterall the time it took!

mmm...perhaps it does say lots about us (oh no, that so sad!). Am useless at names for things, so will leave it to you guys.

Next thread title suggestion?

Get our Lardy bottoms off the sofa and down the gym to lose the pregnancy weight -- or at least have the energy to chase our babies about

Hum, don't have anything but mundane news to report. If I put baby on all 4s he rocks a bit and has managed to scooch backwards (much to his alarm, weanh! Ma, you're getting further away from me!). He's moving around a fair bit, really, between rolling and creeping.

He lunges for everything, touch it, touch it, touch it! So, all normal baby stuff.

I do browse this thread regularly, but somehow I missed the fact there was a meetup (not that I would have gone, so am not moaning). Where in UK was it?

Hope we're not all getting too wet...

argggghhhhh- feling annoyed and dont know why-

your meeet up sounded so fun,

will check in tomorrow when i am feeling a little more friendly!!!lol -

New thread title- OMG where did 6 months go??????

Hi everyone, hope everyone is surviving the weather!!

So jealous you all met up, will have to try and organise myself for next time.

Weaning is going well here and ds2 seems to be picking up the pace. I'm using Annabel Karmels book. We've now had some chicken dishes and fish dishes for lunch and then veg dishes at teatime, haven't started brekkie yet. Fave so far seems to be cod in cheese sauce - can't think of anything worse personally!! I've been cooking up meals and then freezing into cubes so it doesn't take too much room up in the freezer. He's jus about eating 5-6 cubes and then a pudding. Much prefer Little Stars fromage frais to petit filous and the hipp organic fruit desserts are great.

On the 'under attack' ds2 seems to have the uncanny ability to grap the small hairs at the back of my neck and my god it hurts!!

Egg - things sound like they're settling down so fingers crossed it continues

Rozz - ds2 had a sore rash under his neck and we used sudocrem - cleared it up in a day, it's like miracle cream!!

So weeks are just flying by at the mo. Have installed a reward chart on our fridge for ds1 and it's actually working. He has to complete certain basic tasks through the day and then some behaviour ones and he gets to choose a sticker which he seems to love. Did have a bit of a nightmare today tho - he bit ds2 really hard on his hand whilst I was checking dinner and poor ds2 absolutely screamed the place down!!

Meeting my dept boss at work in a couple of weeks to discuss my return. Since I've left, I've had a change of boss, change of office and my cover left so basically nothing is the same!!! He's great though and I'm gonna be totally honest about what I want to do. Not planning on going back till mid dec so plenty of time to work myself into a frenzy about what a bad mother I am abandoning my children etc or rather how I'm gonna have my hair cut, what new clothes I will need and all the wonderful things I'll do with my lunch hour !!!!

Poor ds1 last weekend, we went out for the day and he randomly threw up all in the car. It's only just stopped smelling!!! Had to scrub the seats twice. Think it was just a bug but it was like something out of the exorcist!!

New title options??

Parsnips & Poo - what goes in must come out??
Sleepless Nights - whatever they're on we need some??
Six Months Down - mobility on its way??

lol at parnsips and poo. and also at lljkk's getting lardy arses down the gym. i have just weighed myself and not only have i managed to put on every single one of those four pounds i lost, i've added one more just for good measure. gah.

today is dh'sb-day and we're being invaded later by his oldest mates, their six year old twins and two whippets. i suspect that i would be feeling slightly better about the onslaught if i wasnt more than a bit hungover from a rather drunken time last night with MIL . went into town yesterday to get dh's present and managed to spend quite a bit on myself ... how does that always happen? tis same at xmas. i have hidden the clothes and will pretend i bought them at some point next week!

ginger - ok from me to put up the pics. count i did smile at the looking forward to lunch hours, much the same as princessllama's excitement at a train journey sans kids.

i didnt know people made elmer outfits. that in itself is quite sinister. was he literally made out of patchwork?? that'd be some seamstressing

omg gill, the ceremony is the dullest bit of the whole games! i think i'd even rather watch the gymastics bit where they roll balls up the arms before doing a somersault while holding a ribbon . i am really looking forward to the atheletics, diving and the proper gymnastics.

leesmum your poor ds1 and his "bumhole." getting school uniform always seems to make the summer holidays seem like they're coming to an end. i guess when you're a kid you quite look forward to going back to school tho'...

merlypuss its great to hear from you and your boys look lovely. how many grey suits did you manage to ram at canary wharf?? on way to meet up on weds i ended up at stations in SW London a bit too close to rush hour in both morning and afternoon and had forgotton how stressed everyone is. i am v impressed at how well you sound like you're doing. the mum of twins how's coming to stay with us this weekend (also her first kids) really cant remember a single thing about the first year and reckons she slipped into quite a low just trying to cope. perhaps she should have tried commuter bashing as a way to vent frustrations...

i have no bright title ideas. and i have been trying, trust me . All i got is: Feb 08 Babies Rolling On The Floor. Which Is Strange Cause We're Fairly Sure We Left Them on the Bed/Cot/Chair. or also on flying babies theme i thought Bump and the Baby's Gone. Which i thought sounded a bit Cillit Bang but actually just sounds a bit more sinister every time i think of it....

Ahhh it sounds like you all had a lovely time at the meet-up, is this the first time some of you have met? I bet you all feel like "proper" friends now that you've met in real life i'm very jealous

Count your lo is doing very well with his food isn't he? lots of variety there, we tried lo with fish and cheese sauce and he was NOT happy! will try again in a few weeks.

Sarah hun are you feeling a bit happier today? lets hope so x

lljkk i too have a lardy arse as well as saggy tits and a crinky tum(now there's a thread title!) Yes my lo is also very active at the moment and is grabbing everything in sight, and he has also found his widge and keeps pulling at it(ouch) so we have been putting little underpants on him, it looks really cute!

Tyaca happy birthday to your DH x I have also bought clothes and stashed them away, why do we do that??? Will you be watching the olympics and did you all see yummy Mark Foster carrying the flag for GB yum yum!!!

I like queen of poo for new thread title and my only contribution is,

Feb 08 watch out!watch out! there's a baby about.

Have a lovely sat everyone x

Morning

Sarah - hope you are feeling better today.

Tyaca - am impressed with your shopping and that you went drinking with your MIL! As for the olympics, I like the horse mincing (dressage). Who first worked out you could get a horse to do that anyway?

Count - am v impressed with your lo's food! Ds2 will grab rice cakes/bagels/bread from me and munch but is resolutely not interested in fruit or veg . Hey, it's only day 3 so I'm not going to worry to much just yet!! Maybe on day 5....

Ginger - I'm really not of any literary bent but it's v nice of you to think so! Truth is, I'm just a git.

Egg - where are you?!!!!

Hi to everyone else!

How about, "Never mind my wrinkly tum, look what's come out of my baby's bum?!"

Oh beansprout I love the title, made me roar!!!

I like the gymnastics, managed to watch a little bit this morning. Bit of a pain that most of the live coverage is in the middle of the night.

Looking forward to finally getting to spend an entire evening with dp. We've had one of those weeks where one or tuther is always out. Me Belly dancing and watching Mama Mia (which if you haven't seen yet you have to, I haven't laughed so much for ages, absolutely superb!!!) and dp football and boys nights in. We're gonna start watching series 6 pt 1 of Sopranos which I'm soooo excited about!! Saw the trailer for HSM3 and can't wait to see it - obviously so I can take ds1 and not to perv over Troy Bolton

Happy birthday to your dp tyaca and glad I'm not alone in hiding clothes and explaining them later!!!

Hope everyone's got lots of lovely plans for the weekend, suns out here so fingers crossed for some nice weather.

I have had no computer! Well only in eve and not felt like turning it on the minute DH gets home as feel a bit antisocial!

OK so firstly I want to say I am very embarrassed that you are saying I was a good host etc as I failed to offer anyone tea, coffee, water, anything other than cava really (think I did manage to get some orange juice out).

It was lovely though, and so nice to finally meet a few of you, but we did say how nice it would have been to have met more (although no room in my house for more!).

I was very lucky as we stayed at my house, so I could put DTs to bed and relax a bit. I then sat there stuffing my face and not helping anyone out, Gill was, as everyone has said, a star with the No1 Beanboy (who himself was a star, he is so handsome and so lovely). Luckily we had lots of DS1's toys around to keep him happy, but I know my DS1 would have still been whingeing about me talking to other people for too long.

So Egg goes out to meet Ginger and instead of saying "hello I am Egg" she says "Hello oooh you look very young" . She really does though, she must have had her girls at age 12 or something!

I also felt guilty as I have eaten 8 banana and pistachio cakes since you all left . That evening I had half a bottle of cava and 4 banana cakes for supper .

Sarah how are you feeling today? Hope you are ok? Are you just feeling knackered after working too hard. Hope your weightloss is going well, although I have to admit you still look gorgeous in your pics (with your gorgeous DH!).

I am supposed to be tidying a bit before friends coming for coffee, but wanted to catch up first.

Count where are you based? I tried to look at your profile but it crashed me out of MN so I daren't try again.

No ideas for witty thread titles but lots suggested that I like!

Must go now, hopefully DH will fix PC tomorrow so I am not without it all of next week.

Oh, and finally a BIG thank you to all the ladies who came here on Thursday for making a huge effort to come miles and miles while I sat on my bottom doing nothing. It was so very much appreciated.

Forgot to say leesmum your DS1 and his bumhole story made me fall of my chair laughing . I would love to meet him, he sounds such a cheeky little man!