June 07...........the one where they discover they have a mind of their own; and aren't afraid to use it

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oops last thread got to big!

yesterday my friend, who has alsmost completely blanked me since school started, went out of her way to come and talk. so Iwas re-thinking her nastiness... it looks very like it was sheer nosiness on her part to find out why DSS is here. FFS.

baggins has a pillow under his sheet (so he can't get under it) I don't know if it's a good idea or not but he seems happier with it. He never took to sleeping bag things, he hardly ever has a blanket. Sorry, for someone with so many children I am no help at all.

Can you tell I am missing adult company? No-one speaks here (unless it's about TV/video game/comic book) until I've gone to bed. I haven't even been able to watch COme Dine with Me.

Hi everyone!

I am as shit an online friend as I am a RL one! I keep losing the threads because I don't post for over a week, then there is a new one! Stop farking talking so much you bunch of gasbags !

I see we have a new friend! Welcome Ekka, hope you come back often. We seem to have scared a lot of people off in the past couple of years (is it really that long? )! I think we tend to talk a lot and people can't keep up (including me now). Hope the pregnancy is going well and hope you are not too tired.

Sorry if I've missed anything, but I am going to take it from the beginning of this thread and try and keep up from now on!

Ds doesn't say much either. Just the usual mum, dad, choo choo etc. Dd had a vast vocabulary by this point, but she is the sort of child that will sit down and concentrate on one task for a good while, so it was very easy to teach her. Ds will not sit still, ever. He is like a hurricane, so actually getting him to focus on learning new words is a task and a half! I'm hoping that just by talking to him normally that he'll just pick things up as he goes along.

Norty, we have been using a duvet from day one with ds, mostly because we co-sleep, but also because our house is so bloody cold! It is a Victorian semi with draughty windows, fireplaces and doors, so we are in no danger of anyone overheating here! Is anyone else fighting to not put the heating on?

Daisy, I had the stamping foot "I want a P&T" thing too and I got my own way! I managed to get a new one for £300 with the doubles kit and I could probably get £275 for it on ebay now. It is ridiculous! If you go to an independent nursery shop you will be able to haggle and I'm sure you'll get a big chunk off the price.

I am doing some more product testing, baby carriers this time, which is interesting! Totsbots have a new one out and I've got the Close carrier too (plus 4 more!).

Hi ria, jammy, foxy, jbm, sputnik and everyone else. I'm REALLY hungry, so I'm going to grab some toast and go to bed. Hope I've not bored you all with my massive post!

Peace out x

DS was in a proper bed with pillow and duvet at about 17 months, but he used to throw the pillow out of the bed.

DD's new bed has a duvet and pillow but it'll be a while before she's in it as we plan on keeping Pancake (virgil's new nickname...having worked out that conception probably happened on Shrove Tuesday ) in the crib beside us for a good few months. She thinks the bed is a plaything at the minute tbh. We'll need to take the cot down for a few months so she forgets about it I think.I'm not sure that young children really need pillows though. I'm sure it's better for their posture not to have one, and they are so bendy at this age.

If you are thinking of punting them on holly....DH likes the look of the Close Carrier. It's "more manly looking than some of them" according to him. Which means that he will use it if we have one of those but wouldn't with some of the others. If you wanna sell it, can I have first dibs, pleeeeeeeese

right me and pancake are off to bed.

Oooo, hi daisy! Are you well?

I may do daisy, it is charcoal, so the manliest of the colours! It is really nice, but there is no way it would last beyond a year (it is supposed to go up to 35lbs). It is just far too stretchy. I used it for ds the other day whilst walking round the supermarket (he climbs out of the trolley seats, the little bugger) and I could feel it stretching and slipping down with his weight (he is 26lbs), so I took it off and had to walk around with one hand pinning him into the trolley seat! It does look lovely for a teeny baby though and it is super dooper soft.

Night, I'm def off now x

bad back, bad pelvis, bad HB/gastric reflux, not sleeping, want to kill my children and crawl in a hole and hibernate for the next seven weeks.

blardy marvellous really

you should have used it to tie him in

catch you again soon I hope

You poor love, being pg is shit. You have my full sympathies!

Can I join you in that hole? I quite fancy hibernating for a while!

Right...I am really going now!!

Hi all
Can I join too please? My dd is a June07 baby and I only just noticed this thread... Sorry for not paying attention! Would be nice to chat to some mums with babe's my LO's age.

hi soprana; course you can lovely.

Can't believe we have been missed all this time;the speed with which our threads move it's normally permanently in Active convos

Cat is in so I'm off too.

Catch you tomorrow hopefully soprana

Morning all

Welcome to Ekka! We haven't had anyone new for ages. Are you completely new to mnet or just this thread?

Hopefully you'll get to know us quite quickly. I have a DD and work part-time. Today is one of my "days-off" (as much as a day at home with DD is a day off! I find work a break!).

Anyhoo, funny daisy should mention an overbaked quiche I made mini quiches from here at the weekend, but over cooked them They were ok, but a bit of a waste of time. I'm sure they will be yummy when I do them properly. I got the book from the library.

DD is full of cold here and can't bf at the moment She's got a bit of a chesty cough too. I'm loath to just stick too much calpol down her but don't want her to be uncomfortable. any natural recommendations for her cough and stuffy nose?

Just thinking, this must be about the 2 year anniversary of this thread!

Oooh, another newbie to the thread! Sorry I am typing as I catch up! Hi Soprana!

Morning Bumper.
And hello too to Soprana, sorry I missed you last night, but hope to "see" you again soon.

We use Karvol capsules to help sunffles. Empty a capsule onto a tissue and put by the head of the cot. It does seem to help - or at least it did last winter. And I like the thought that my Mum used to use them for me when I was a littlie, the continuity seems nice and reassuring.

Well, I had a rubbish night here. After staying up too late with DH, I was then awake sneezing and wheezing between 3.30 and 5, and then Jamlet had me up at 6 She went back to bed at 7.30 but sounds like she is awake again now.

bloody baggins deleted my long post again. pah.

hi holly. welcome soprana. tis exciting getting new friens. are izzy and elsbels still about too?

I am waiting to cook breakfast atm, thought it would be a nice gesture. DH is going to try and get DSS to have a bath and a shave today. I am glad he has taken the hint,

Morning

Did you get your massage Jammy ....I really need to persuade my DH to learn how to massage my back....may help me relax a bit.

Welcome Soprana

Right, off to pack a changing bag as we're off to the zoo today

Have good days everyone

btw we use Karvol as well - but the plug-in type.....and I use it in my bedroom when one of us has a cold - good stuff!

Hi/Bye Norty (am of zoo trip btw). Yes. I did get my massage thankyou

Welcome Ekka and Soprana!

We scare people off it's true but do hang around.

DS has had a pillow since about 11 months and slept a LOT better with it but the duvet thing is a non-starter, he hates it and screams and chucks it out the cot so we are still on sleeping bags here.

Hi Soprana

We are still in sleeping bags here, and plan to stay that way for a while. DD used hers til nearly 3. Apart from anything else it stops them getting up and roaming about too much.

Bumper saline drops are good for clearing noses too. You can even make your own. We make mini-quiches a lot as everyone likes them, I just throw in any veg we have, leeks, pumpkin and courgettes are good, or spinach or peas. Seem to come out ok. I make them with DD and we cut out pastry shapes and put them on top or make faces with peas and tomatoes. Baby Sputnik gets to cover himself with flour and chew raw pastry. I get to feel like a yummy mummy.

Glad you're feeling better Norty, that's great news

Daisy maybe you can get by without a double, maybe wait and see.

Fury how are your lungs this morning?

Thanks all, just remembered I have one of those plug ins, will have to get refills.

We have abandoned the sleeping bags for a while as I think they were contributing to DD waking up. Instead we have just gone to Primark and invested in some fleecy baby grows which she can wear with or without PJs underneath.

morning again.
Have a great day at the zoo norty.

DSS has just left after a massive breakfast which I think he enjoyed, and he had a shave and looks SO much better. I hope he has a good day job hunting. The boys are to see him go.

I am and though. DH has just had the most poisonous text from his DDs phone about the things he's done to help DSS and his lack of parenting skills and stuff. He thinks it is from his DD too and not his ExW as she sgreed to everything DH wanted to try to help. I knew it was going too well. Now I will be on edge until he gets back tonight. I hope they don't take it out on DSS when he's back home. Fecking families.

I had better go was up from breakfast, then I was going to clean out DS1s room while the futon was out of there, but I don't much feel like it now.

Afternoon
Had a busy morning shopping. Got all the stuff we need for the holiday though. I thought hard and decided we are going to use disposable anppies for the week. I know the place we are going has a washing machine, but I also know that it'll be me making sure they get washed and hung up, and be me worrying if the weather's pants and we can't get them dry etc. And I decided I want a holiday without bothering about stuff like that, just for one week.

And have made most of the appointments I need to sort out, so feeling more together and less stressed. Jamlet is napping too, so I was even able to hear the person on the other end of the phone properly and think about the appointments times they were offering me, rather than just saying yes and hoping for the best!

good for you jammy. where are you going on holiday?

I have washed up from the monster breakfast and now I'm going to sort out DS1s desk so he can manage his school stuff better. He is currently debating Oxford or Cambridge for his choice of Uni! He has had dyslexia tests and apparently he has no more dyslexic tendencies than anyone else - we'll see. His spelling came out as right for his ages and some of his skills were that of a 15-16 year old. So I am pretty damned chuffed for him. The least I can do is make his homework area more organised so he can be clever enough to be a professor but still have time to be a kid ( though I think we might start working some life skills into his routine too, just so he can cope with stuff if he needs to)

I still wish I had some chocolate.