May 04 babies - number NINE

[Bozza]

Here's a new thread especially for Kate79.

(she couldn't access the old one).

gosh .. everyone's got an active sex life I see (DH Will be jealous )

my periods have finally come back (yay) .. hopefully hormones will now settle down and s.e.x. won't be as uncomfortable

now, after that TMI moment ... DS's 4th birthday party this afternoon (birthday tomorrow) and even if I say so myself I made a cracking castle cake

DD is finally sleeping in the day again (she's been down over an hour) and my kitchen is semi-clean at last

hope you're all well

sorry I don't post much here .. but you all move so fast I feel left out of the conversation by the time I check in

Just taken DS to doctor's - he has bronchiolitis. DH and I have babysitter booked for tonight so we can go and eat out in the village. I think I'll dose him up with Medised, prop cot etc. and leave our mobile on. We're two minutes away maximum and the lady coming to sit is a good friend. Does that sound reasonable?? He has actually slept OK the last couple of nights (obviously, he saves his crap sleeps for when DH is away ) so I don't think I'm being too foolhardy......

Libb, (sorry everyone again) I've been stalking you again, sorry! I saw you weren't a happy bunny at the weekend and sent you a long and rambly email, probably put my foot in it several times (hope not). Saw on here just now you're having problems with your email. Hope you are ok. Lots of love. xxx

Sorry Flossam, you can stalk me anytime and you haven't put your foot in it at all. I have just been busy with things and not had a chance, I promise I will e-mail you over the weekend xxxxx

DS has been given his second course of antibiotics since December for another chest infection - I hope this doesn't mean trouble when he's older.

Had better go xxxx

Oh, no Libb, I didn't mean for it to sound I was chasing you, just wanted you to know that I'd seen you were having probs and hoped you didn't think I was ignoring them/you. xx

Hello all, what a lovely long lot of messages. So glad we're still talking about a meet-up; I am excited at the prospect. Bozza, pleeease come! Prufrock, you will be the hostess with the mostest wherever you end up living... but that house does sound amazing... I know in England house buying's all different and weird but maybe 'what's for you won't go by you' as they say.

Anyway, June is cool.

We have a failsafe contraceptive method oh yes. My crap libido. I used to consider myself quite a go-er but nup, not now. Am v. sad about it but suppose it iwll pass... bloody hope so anyway. DH very tolerant but I wouldn't like to know his secret thoughts on the matter.

Egypt your DD is so contrary! Are you sure you haven't been slipping her some of that 'herbal' stuff of your dad's...? good news tho...

DD and I are, boringly, a bit ill. My mum looked after her today and that was ok, but she keeps waking up (sound familiar?) and I am pooped.

Yuck what a horrible expression. i never have been and hope never to be a 'go-er'.

meant to say too that it's always nice to hear from la twiglette.

This is my way of previewing! Always seem to be double-posting.

aaargh! and good on you gorgeousgirl... suppose you will have that lovely experience every week from now on!

hey spots, how are you?

I often do that double-posting thing too!

nightmare night! i went to bed at 9pm (!) and good it was; lucas got me up at 1 and 3 and then every 30 min!!!!! at 5 there was no soothing anymore so i picked him up and rocked him till after 20min he fell asleep again - well, for 20 min! am dead

egypt: hope the sleeping improves further!!!! dd's and yours

ohhh twigeletitt: sure we want to hear from you!!! silly you

lol spots: go go girl, go!!!! ducking under the table

spots you go-er.. lol. i am never ever in the mood for it either. eugh. just not interested. although do sometimes feel i should, just to please dh. bad move. he knows i dont like it and it upsets him, which upsets me, which makes me feel bad.....yadda yadda.

anyway, back home. fingers crossed for continued good sleeping from dd. why does she sleep better when my mum is looking after her? twisty finger mummy

xxxxx

Think it might be a good idea about June Prufrock. Nobody went overdue and ended up having a June baby did they? We're going on hols (France) on 18 June weekend so if I can sort myself out would have to be one of the previous weekends.

I went and got DDs passport photos done today at Klick. She was very good and looked straight at the camera.

Twiglett I was thinking - you and I are both eligible for the Feb 01 club as well as the May 04 club. I'm still in two minds on the contraception thing - whether to go for another coil or back on the pill. Really want something hormonal because I am having horrendous periods - really heavy that I would like to be controlled a bit.

DD drank 7oz of milk from a cup today. Am thinking of packing in bedtime breastfeed and just doing morning one next week when she hits 9 months.

milk from a cup? which cup have you got? very impressed

We are going to a party today; 2nd birthday of a friend's daughter. (Who apparently was talking and was toilet trained by this age if anyone wanted to know that. No? hee hee me neither). DD was a bit knocked by being ill again, and slept atrociously and ate dismally but yesterday seeemed to herald a return to her normal self and she enjoyed broccoli with cheese sauce (note the word 'enjoyed' here) for tea. anyway she is resplendant in lilac Viyella sitting here chewing a wooden pepper in true party mood. we have cajun music on and it is an up after a down day yesterday.

On the subject of dh's... How do you deal with the spark of an argument that begins 'Well I would have done such-and-a=such for you'....? I find myself constantly sitting on that thought. Like yesterday after a very wakeful night from DD, me attending her, and feeling shitty throughtout, I sort of expected a lie in but didn't really get one. And ok, he didn't do anything bad, he just didn't do the extra nice thing. But I just want to say 'I would have...!' - and where does that get us?! It's just like saying 'I am so much better than you'. But I can't help having the thought, and once the thought has been thought we're all doomed...

is this a manwoman thing? or at least, does it happen in your households too?

sure does spots!!! unless you don't tell them what you want them to do, they don't see it!!! sad, i know; but reality!

we had the same "argument" in our household.

why is it i always have to tell him what to do? can't he see himself what needs doing?
apparently not! guess it's just the different way of thinking

oh yes spots...oh yes

Yep. I hate how it changes the balance of power in our relationship - that feeling that I'm running things, and that if I don't remember everything it won't happen. It's hard to say something without feeling like your nagging, too, isn't it?
It's snowing here.
My baby girl waved today! She has a cold again - that's every week but one she's had a cold since Christmas.
Dd1 has announced that she likes the Scissor Sisters(before they got the Brit) - v cool, I thought.
Have to call MIL and tell her not to forget Dh's birthday this week - no, really - he's 40 two days after she is 60, and whilst we're taking her out for a meal I suspect he will be forgotten about. Ho hum.Got to go - off to PC World to get an IPAQ.

Am struggling to keep up with this thread at the moment!

June sounds a great idea.

Ds2 is ill again. He's got some sort of sick bug, poor mite. Dh has got it too and was throwing up all last night, so we're all still in our pyjamas here today! Looking forward to being healthy sometime in the near future...

Casmie, its sounds as if you have the same bug we had last week. It lasted about 24hrs.

Wed love a meet up. anytime in june is fine for us.

I know what you all mean about the men thing. I feel that im doing everything and then if I moan dp says ' I wouldve done that if youd have asked' but my point is why should I have to ask, no one asks me to do things but I still do them. Men hmph..

Susi it was the Avent magic cup with the green spout and the valve removed. But obviously posting on here jinxed it because today she point blank refused - first at my sisters with all my family there and then at my MILs with all DH's family there.

As for the men not getting it thing. Yes I find that too. I was complaining to DH yesterday about my day just being about fitting in with everyone else - his golf, DS's swimming lesson, DDs naps, PILs deciding they want DS to stay ovenight and they will collect him at 1pm etc etc. But he didn't get it. Anyway I have got him to agree that I will get my eyebrows waxed a week on Saturday morning. And he has finally remembered my night out on the 22nd - the last twice although I have written it on the calendar he has arranged to be away for work and I have had to reschedule.

Oh ye, they just don't get it.
I think I posted before about how dh said in the middle of a very bad night with ds "just tell me what you want me to do and I'll do it". When did I become his mother?
And he always defers to me - he called me through the other day because dd had taken off her pyjamas. "She won't put them on, what do I do?" he said. FFS he's only been her father for 2. years - surely he should be able to get her to put clothes on?

DS will drink water (holding the cup himself natch) from an Avent green spout without insert, but I haven't tried him with milk yet. He can wave now, and has modified his clapping to be slapping his ear - sometimes he seems to quite hurt himself poor thing.

LOL, all these chaps with their lapses... happy valentines day, y'all! and LOL Bozza... getting your eyebrows waxed in 2 weeks needs an agreement?! that's exactly the sort of thing I mean!

How's the work coming on, Casmie? and I wondered how Egypt was enjoying her Quest...

Building work is coming along great... for photographic evidence you can check hubby's photoblog at Fotothing if you're feeling nosey!

Apparently builders were all down with the sick bug Saturday as well. Not sure if we gave them the bug or they gave us the bug!!! Either way, ds2 is totally utterly miserable today, ds1 is very clingy and we're all desperate for sleep.

[boring domestic detail] Currently in love. Have a brand new professional Braun multiblender. I hereby renounce all former food processors, it's lovely.

OK, I'm panicking - have just noticed that Dd2 has been gnawing at the arm of her wooden high chair (5 years old, belonged to Dd1) and has obviously bitten off some of the varnish. I thought she was sucking it, but she must have been rubbing her new bottom teeth along it and there are quite a few white bits. Should I panic? DM, MIL and equally neurotic friend say no. She's not ill.
Apart from that, she slept all night last night! Went to sleep about 7, woke at 9, awake until 10 but then didn't wake again until 8. The waving is coming along but she does it with both arms and gets very excited, which is lovely. She's showing no signs of crawling which I'm quite pleased about. That can wait.