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April 2007... Tantrums leading to Toddlerhood... Eeek

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geordieminx · 12/09/2008 20:48

Ta da

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Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
oooggs · 01/10/2008 10:08

We're due a neice/newphew within the next week or so - how dare they keep us waiting caz

katy - how's T? this baby doesn't stand a chance - I am well past PFB by no.4

sol - did you ring your mum?

eddas - I love Planet Holywood (and the Hard Rock & Tesco clubcard vouchers )

Pesha - hope M enjoys it and you find a riding stable

dippy - you really are due some good health

sun is shining but it is cold - its like someone has flicked a switch and Autumn/Winter arrived hard to believe we were at a BBQ on Sunday

StealthPolarBear · 01/10/2008 11:09

lol at you lot being kept waiting for neices and nephews
Very cold here too but sun is shining
Have taken him to nursery...so - I have the day to myself!!

CaptainDippy · 01/10/2008 11:53

of a day to yourself SPB - enjoy!!

Hope you get news on your new niece / nephew soon Caz!!

Right, off to get DD1 from school and get on with the day ...

Sexonlegs · 01/10/2008 12:16

Afternoon )

SPB, glad T is ok. It is worrying when they get rashes. I know Elkie had a similar situation didn't she.
Enjoy your free day

Hi Dippy, enjoy your afternoon. How is K settling in at school?

Caz, have you had your car window fixed yet?

Eddas, get you at Planet Hollywood Have fun!

Oooggs, how are you today?

Dooby, hope you are ok.

All ok here. Phoned mum and she hasn't had test results back as yet but was going to call them today. She just wants to get on with things now. We are hoping to go on another mini cruise (just the 2 of us) next May, but she feels everything is on hold until she knows what's what. Mad I know, but I keep getting really upset, and find it hard to stop thinking about her.

Been to Jo Jingles this morning and am hoping that K will have a nap after the huge lunch she has just eaten!

Hope everyone is ok; sorry for lack of personals. x

cazboldy · 01/10/2008 12:17

so do I! Poor old Hannah, hope she isn't having a terrible time!.....

Think we need a new thread.....

Off to hoover all the little splinters of glass out of the boot of my truck!

cazboldy · 01/10/2008 12:18

sorry x posts SOL

yes my window was (eventually) fixed yesterday afternnon!

Really hope your mum is ok xx

StealthPolarBear · 01/10/2008 12:25

(((SOL))) hope she gets the results soon xx

Bramshott · 01/10/2008 13:46

Oh urggh - the thing I fished out of my mouth which was in my coffee cup and which I thought was a bit of a plant, turns out on closer inspection to have been a spider!

StealthPolarBear · 01/10/2008 13:48

Sorry but Lol Bramshott
Big or little?
Full of protein you know!
Was it hyper?

Pesha · 01/10/2008 14:01

Oh SOL I hope your mum gets the results soon and all is ok

It is so hard waiting and not knowing though isn't it? I'm not overly woried about Nathan but every now and then thoughts creep into my head that I really don't want to be having. Mind you my friend and her family keep having all sorts of tests for a genetic metabolic disorder, they had the dna test done about 5 months ago and still no results. Friend just had an appointment in London and they have done another test in case the other isn't growing properly but could still take up to a year I'm finding 5 weeks hard enough!

Dooby - thought I posted to you last night but seems I didnt So sorry to hear all wasn't as you expected, really hope things have improved by Feb, will be thinking of you all

Rang the riding stables in Sherborne I'd not bothered with before for no reason other than when i was young and used to ride I had a bad impression of them, can't remember why! Anyway they only do hacks, no schooling at all which fine for an ocassional ride but if dd wants to do this as a regular thing, which she says she does, then she will want to have proper lessons too and do things like round the world and jumps and the like. Anyway have booked her in for half hour ride on sat afternoon to keep her happy (£12 for half an hour , cheaper to buy her her own!) while I find somewhere better.

I'd like to take her to the stables I used to go to but its over half hour drive away which not too far but riding is so expensive I don't really want to have to add the cost of petrol on to that too, but looking like I might have to.

Ok have just got idea of buying a pony in my head! Bad idea, very silly, must get it out.

It would be fab though!!

Pesha · 01/10/2008 14:02

Eww Bramshott (vomit face!)

OMG Bramshott you have just reminded I had a dream about you!

Bramshott · 01/10/2008 14:12

He was very dead - presumably he was in there when I poured the boiling water in!

Pesha - dreaming about me?!? Hope it was nice and there weren't any spiders in it!

liath · 01/10/2008 16:12

Afternoon!

Very autumnal here too.

SOL, will keep everything crossed for your mum, what a worry .

Dooby - that's a bugger. I hope the hip imrpoves enough to avoid an op.

Pesha - Nooooooo! You'd as well kiss your wallet goodbye. Don't buy a pony !! I'm sure everyone will back me up on this? Caz?

All well here. DH working all hours as usual. Ds has developed a shoe fetish and keeps parading round in dd's pink boots looking incredibly chuffed with himself .

cazboldy · 01/10/2008 16:22

I would agree with you liath...... but I think it is worth it. You get so much out of it. Hence why we now have 3 (and one on the way hopefully! )

but you do have to remember the cost of keeping them somewhere (either renting a field, or livery) then food, shoes, vets bills, vaccinations, wormers, hay...... the list is endless...... and presumably Maia would still want some lessons?

And if you look after them yourself, you become a mad woman like me who never has a holiday, and drags her kids out in rain, wind and snow to pick up poos in the paddock, and come in smelling of horseshit!

Still love love love it though!!!!!

Have I put you off enough???

Pesha · 01/10/2008 16:49

Well we had our own ponies when I was younger (1 after the other, not both at the same time) so I know the work involved but obviously it wasn't me paying for it! Although we did have a car boot sale and sell off all our sindys and care bears and my little ponys to help pay for the first one! I seem to remember with our last one we paid a guy £8 a week to keep her in his field which doesn't seem much and first horse was only £450 cos he had that thing I can't remember that can cause lameness out the blue and then Brolly was £600 I think

liath · 01/10/2008 17:04

I grew up with ponies too. Despite nearly bankrupting my poor dad I do think it taught me a lot, you have to be really responsible. DH has said over his dead body will ours get them, he's seen a few kids who've had riding accidents in A&E and it's given him the wibbles .

Sexonlegs · 01/10/2008 17:24

Bramshott, sorry but lol at the dead spider!! What a horrible thought! At least it wasn't your resident mouse

Caz, pmsl at your post and the picture of you up to your ears in horseshit!!
B had a ride when we were in Wales and she loved it. Luckily she hasn't asked about riding lessons....yet!

Liath, pmsl at your ds in the pink boots!

Thanks all for your thoughts re my mum.

B driving me arsing mad. I am knackered today as well. Dh was out until 12.30, and I never really slept until he came back.

Right, stuff to do. Back later. xx

Bramshott · 01/10/2008 18:07

I am encouraging N to cultivate friends with ponies (worked for me as a child )!

Sexonlegs · 01/10/2008 18:22

Good planning Bramshott

Off to Body Sculpt in a mo assuming dh gets back in time. No doubt it will be followed by a crisp eating frenzy !!

cazboldy · 01/10/2008 18:25

Well the last one we bought was only £300, but it took me ages to find anything remotely suitable which didn't cost me 10x that! and DIY livery round here is about £15-20 per week......

anyway....

I have a new baby nephew!

William Paul, and he was 7lbs 7oz. No other details yet, but mum and baby are home and doing well!

Sexonlegs · 01/10/2008 20:20

Caz,what lovely news Congrats.

oooggs · 01/10/2008 20:49

Aunty Caz - thats fab news

how was the body fit thingy????? sol - you mad woman

I am trying to car shop but pc playing up

Sexonlegs · 01/10/2008 21:25

Evening Oooggs Body Sculpt was fab! I really enjoy it, especially the music. Plus it means I miss the bed/bath routine for 1 night as dh has to do it whilst I am out

Pesha · 01/10/2008 21:27

Caz - congrats!!

Don't think I ever really could get a pony. Very cross with my sister - she always said she didn't want children, she was going to have horses instead as they were cheaper and my kids could go and ride her horses. Then she went and got broody and had a baby Her dd is lovely though and my dc like ging to play with her so I'll let her off I guess

Bramshott - in my dream you posted that you were coming to Yeovil to go to the haberdashery and dressmakers shops to buy buttons. I was surprised because I didn't think you seemed the sort to desperately need buttons for crafty things, and that Yeovil was the best place you had to go to to buy buttons and I was concerned about how you were going to get home to do the school run! Anyway I came into town to see if I saw you but somehow ended up at a big fair thing and for some reason jumped on the big wheel and ended up hanging on to the outside as it went round, which was fine til it got to the bottom again and I had to jump off quick before I got crushed underneath. After that it all got a bit weird!!

StealthPolarBear · 01/10/2008 21:34

No news SOL?
I assume not