June 2008- Some are sleeping, others weeping and some are just eating

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Thought I'd start the new thread using paro's suggestion

Five/essie I specifically want a nursery for stimulation for Luke from the other kids. Signed him up for the expensive one today. Was night and day above the others and you got better quality kids with names like Tarquin and Cecily that Luke can corrupt with his downmarket ways.

We have no family to help look after Luke for a night away I'm afriad so that's out. We could get the night nanny early for an evening out which DP suggestedf but after having cancelled my 5* holiday, I would rather have had a night with Osama Bin Laden.

My PC won't let me see any other pages of this thread so sorry for missing any posts.

LOL at "better quality kids" Amber. Sod it, get the night nanny in and go out with some of your baby free friends. Or go out with DP but to something that doesn't require any talking btw you like the theatre or a concert.

Like the idea of Iestyn as a despot with Luke heading of security.

I'd like that swimsuit Essie - but I need it and you don't! Confession time: I haven't been swimming with Ryder yet because (a) I'm still too fat for a swimsuit, (b) I've got too many stretchmarks for a swimsuit and (c) I'm too fat to go get waxed in order to wear a swimsuit. I must get over myself and the idea that anyone else cares what I look like....off to join the gym tonight.

hi everyone
Im just popping in quickly never have anytime these days.
Have made a wonderful light room in Oli's bedroom where she chills out with tunes, she seems to like it alot.

I had social work round last week who sent me on a downward spiral I was so depressed I cryed for days and didnt think I could carry on....I have given myself a shake and Im fighting fit again!

I had a very possitive meeting with consultant....secretly I think she must have been replaced with an ailen clone she was so nice to me lol!!! She seems to think that Oli has a really high chance for reaching her milestones just a little bit slower. Even said she is likely to crawl.

When she is on her tummy she is starting to pull herself along the floor a bit and rotating, she is trying very hard to roll, and her movements are more controlled. Even her eyes are stiller.

The best has been the feeding though, Monday she only had one tube feed and yesterday she was just topped up a bit and had her tube out most of the day. Hopefully it will progess a bit more she hasnt fed well today but is tired.

Better go she is starting to cry and its setting the dog off! Oh the joys!

amberc I am sorry for you but is it bad I pmsl at your description of your dp? also all the tarquin/cecily round your way could do with a bit of rough (speaking as someone who was the bit of rough amongst them back in the day).

Perhaps we should have m/n night out -its got to beat the fact that I seem to spend a lot of time talking about the relative merits of hippos v.elephants.

essie we better get in business damn quick - dh has decided I'm the one to take edie swimming on friday... so need to find suitable costume and do something about my bikini line before then (maybe the flymo might help)

josey so lovely to hear from you -glad that consultant was better and oli still making progress - what a little star.

dh away tongiht so hoping an easier evening than last night(too much excitement I think led to a disrupted evening - I blame all those boys for turning her head)... then got 12 week jabs tomorrow. Did anyone have any problems - she was fine at 8 weeks so hoping to get lucky again...

oh teh excitement - watching tv..just seen charlie and lola..what a resistable child she is -defo reckon her parents of the don't say no variety (her mother prob too busy running a bunting cupcake business to stop her being so precious)

Re bikini line waxing - had mine done for the holiday that wasn't and where it's been so long and my skin is so sensitive, the whole top of my inner thighs are day glo pink. How attractive! I bought tankinis but isn't it funny that women who wear tankinis do so to cover their tummies but all tankini tops stop 3 inches short of the pants drawing more attention to it!

Poor Luke - he's getting a reputation as a bruiser but I wouldn't like to see him in a fight with Ali's Peter! All the ladies fell in love with him when he laughed and smiled at them all. He starts in October when we have to go in every day for a week to settle him in.

poppy great idea re MN evening meet up minus babies. I'm up for it! DP paying me back for the holiday could take months and I intend on milking it!

yay - amber re night out - am fed up as all my mates are either up the duff/too busy (I wont even go into the one whose dh wont look after their kids..) so need a night out.

yay - amber re night out - am fed up as all my mates are either up the duff/too busy (I wont even go into the one whose dh wont look after their kids..) so need a night out.

Any londoners up for a MN night out (and Essie demi londoner)

c'mon..you know you want to...

YES!!!

Amber, I would be up for it even though I don't really count as a Londoner either!

josey, wow! Olivia is doing so well - no wonder your consultant has changed her tune!

Essie, I thought the N Welsh hated the English rather than the S Welsh - or do they see them as one and the same thing! We used to live in Wrexham and my mum couldn't believe the hostility she encountered there when people realised she was English! (Needless to say we didn't stay long!)

Poppy - we're being filmed for "No place like home", programme about expats considering moving back to the uk, so they're filming us here doing normal austria things and then we're coming back to the uk for a week of filming on the town we moved from. So here we're going to the spa, glacier skiing (if enough snow), cable car ride, walk in the mountains etc...

I like the idea of the spanx swimming costume. My control pants won't work as they're cycle short length and white so not a good look!!!

Josey - so pleased to hear from you, I do think about you and wonder how your little fighter is getting on and wow - isn't she great?

you could introduce a new fashion of layered swimsuits..Deb

So sorry I haven't posted for the last few days, I am absolutely knackered Dh has been working really hard (long hours) and I'm trying to get all 4 of us ready for the holiday. I even got a paper and pen so I could remember some of the posts - how sad!!

Amberc I am so sorry about the holiday. I thought we were doomed as we originally booked with XL. I was so upset but when I phoned Dh, he told me their dept secretary had died in her sleep - she was only 36 and after that, all I could think about was how her husband must be feeling. I can't imagine the pain he must be going through.
I can totally understand what you are going through, keeping talking to your dh and your relationship will come back again, get the night nanny in whenever you get a chance, and try to remmber who you both are (not just Mum and Dad). My dh works stupid hours sometimes and I find it hard, but I know he would much rather be home with us than at work.
LOL at going out for dinner with Osama bin laden!

5gomad We are going to start potty training soon, not looking forward to it!

Libra I had to run out quickly after Mia got her inj as I thought I was going to start bawling my eyes out - it doesn't get any easier does it!

PP Lol at swimsuit and Wax, so true! It seems unbelieable that you have enough love for a 2nd child but you do. I am so amazed by Mia every day, she is such an amazing little girl!

Paro I was wondering where you had got to, sorry your suffering. Bf is so emotional, I was distraught when things weren't going well and the idea of giving up was the end of the world (I'm not saying you should) I am still feeding Mia Once a day and formula the rest of the time and things are much better. It is not my ideal situation but at least I can concentrate on my health and enjoying the time I have with my beautiful children. Big hugs for you xx

Essie Love the idea of an Au pair, someone to chat to while THEY did the ironing etc, although I think they would leave as my chat is so boring at the mo, unless they want to talk about baby poo!

Josey So pleased to hear from you. Very at sw, don't know what she said but it was probably bull*t what the hell does she know. Glad your consultant is being positive. Mia isn't pulling herself forward yet, and she is 4 months today! She tries but isn't that successful.

Debs I am sure you will look fantastic!

I took my big baby for his first day at nursery today can't believe how fast they grow, made me realise I must enjoy every minute! I don't know if I'm happy or upset that he wasn't worried about being left!

josey so glad oli is doing so well, The light room sounds amazing.

katy Well done on leaving him at nursery, am not even thinking that far ahead yet, although I suppose I should

amber I would never think of luke as a bruiser. when he smiles he is adorable

deb How about putting a pair of mens board shorts over the swimming costume - tis what I do . but did used to spend most summers on surf board

amber poppy although not strictly a london lady I know trains back to Gatwick run all night so would be up for being entertained by locals. Feel much happier about leaving Isaac for longer having done it once...and we have to do it again soon as DH is taking me to see Bill Bailey at the Royal ALbert Hall for my birthday.

Have discovered this evening the extent of Isaacs hatred of tummy time... He has rolled front to back 3 times, so not a one off. Now need to get him to go the other way really

Will let you know all about armpit fudge tomorrow!! [suspense emoticon]

hedghog, at seeing Bill Bailey! We saw him a couple of years ago and I have never laughed so much - don't think my pelvic floor would take the strain anymore tbh!

Alex also rolls front to back but I figured this was because his head was so big he topples over !

However, big breakthrough today - he rolled back to front for the first time! I was, of course, out of the room at the time and came back in to find him stuck on his tummy and v cross!

Ooh, isn't back to front quite advanced? (LOL at his big head...) Hedgehog yes, Iestyn hates tummy time enough to learn to roll back over - he's been doing it for 3 weeks now. Mainly because I keep persisting with tummy time and crying wouldn't stop me so desperate measures were called for!

I'll come out! Although I drink quite a lot at home.

And Sponge yes, you've brought my racist tendencies to the fore there. But I can't say more because I'm well outnumbered. But once Iestyn is a fully fledged despot, we'll take over. (Most despots have issues with their size...see where I'm going with this?)

That 'preview' button...so useful...

Just to be clear, I will come out drinking with the London girls. I'm not coming out as gay or anything.

Not that there's anything wrong with gay people - homophobic, no. (Racist, yes, eh Sponge?)

Essie, have you been drinking at home tonight?

Wow, wow, wow(!) at the LO's rolling back to front. I was over the moon at Ryder rolling front to back last week and thought that was advanced (none of babies much older than him in my RL post natal group are doing it yet...).

hmmm - luke can't roll at all even if I help him. He's good at standing up though! Yay for a London MN night out. We shall take this off the thread so we don't make everyone else jealous and organise something. How about male strippers? (joking (or am I??)). Could do with something cheesy not sophisticated myself.

Morning all,

SBBP have seen Bill at a couple of festivals - Glasto 04, and Beautiful Days 07, but never been quite sober enough to remember all of it!!

PP and Essie don't think Isaac is anywhere near Back to front yet.

Has a drinking thread been started yet?

Off shopping today as got paid and need some bits and pieces for me - might even treat myself to a new pair of shoes

Why would the rest of us be jealous

Amber you need to get this sorted with your DH as it is going to fester which is not going to do your relationship any good. Also why was the holiday cancelled in the first place, you never said.

Regarding weekends, these are the times to do things together as a family not take it in turns to look after look, go out for a walk and lunch, take him to a city farm, the zoo anything, now is the easiest time to actually go out for lunch whne they can't move