Feb 08 - Lessons in Dressing An Octopus (Or Cooo-eeeee, We're Overe Here!)

[swottybetty]

New thread guys

*banana bread !!!

Hello. Am really annoyed, I keep posting messages that don't come up. Why is that??

In summary, Ginger, hope all is ok. My friend had loads of early bleeding with her DD - they could never find a reason and all was well, so hopefully everything is fine for you.

Swotty and Egg, add my DS to the slow crawlers, he's still commando but pretty quick and into everything. Egg, hope having your mum here is helping, I know its horrible and exhausting when they are sick. Keep an eye on the coughs, DS was only diagnosed with bronchiolitis after about our 4th trip to the doctor!

Hope everyone is having a good day and isn't too cold!!

I wish i could stay at home too! also would quite like some banana bread !
last day today, then 4 at home with gorgeous DS - hurrah!
how's things your end today Egg?

mmmm Banana bread......

Lucky you blondie, I have tomorrow at work too and its all gone a bit crazy so will be working late at home tonight, which makes me so tired. I am working at home next Monday though, which is nice, then off on Wednesday.

oh no Strawberry that's crap .
I actually am off next week i've just remembered (not trying to rub it in, just geting quite excited!).
Do you have your baby at home when you work from home? I wouldn't get a thing done I don't think!

Oooh, very jealous now!!

I don't have DS at home, its hard enough to get work done when DH is there . His nursery is a 3 minute walk from our house which makes life pretty easy.

sorry!
haha, i can imagine! it's much nicer to know they're down the road tho isn't it?

Ginger, I remember egg bleeding last time then she went for a scan and found out it was twins!

DS still not crawling properly just commando style. He moves very fast and practically runs when he's using his walker. I dont think he will crawl properly at all, neither me or DH did.

DS has turned into such a little charmer at the moment, people kept stopping us whilst we were in asda yesterday because he was grinning at them . Think its probably because he's feeling better now after his tonsilitis.

Taking my little sis (shes 14) shopping this afternoon for her christmas present. Picking her up from school in a bit so I'd better go.

hi everyone,

feeling better than i ded, back at work but really think i should have got another doctors note as i am so exhausted, next yr i am having the flu jab i never want this again!!!!!!

oh well these things are sent to try us!!!!

Took DD to a christmas party today at the mother and toddler group we go to it, and i must say it was great, santa gave dd 2 gifts and one for me too!!!!! woohoo!!!!!

hi to blondie adn welcome to our thread!!!!! look forward to spking to u,

Ginger, take things easy, glad u had a scan and all was well on there,

egg how are the babies and Ben doing now?

hi to everyone else,

Ginger - sorry you've been having the bleeding and hope all is well, you forget that no matter how many babies you have its still such a stressful experience!!

Alkar - ds2 is exactly the same, he's been commado crawling for about 2mths now and although he can get up on his knees and we've seen him crawl properly, he prefers the commando style!!

MissNat - glad to hear your fil is getting better and I would be crying too with all those children!! Can't believe henley is walking!! Ds2 is discovering his legs and loves standing up while you hold his hands and doing elvis type dancing. I didn't think he'd be walking that soon but I can see him doing it early next year. Which is odd cause I look at him and he still looks about 6mths old bless his heart!!

Well I can very smugly say that I have done all the xmas shopping for the boys....and wrapped it - yes and I have the worst back in the world, so maybe no that smug Just got a few more bits to get for the family and I'll be done. Plus got most of my xmas cards done!! I love it and am defo the most prepared I've been for a long time!!

Hope all poorly babies, children, mummies and alright the men that say they've got flu but really you know they've just got a bit of a sniffle, are feeling much better soon

Hello! DP out for the evening and DS having one of the best evenings for a long time so have finally managed to get round to popping in.

MissNat am so that Henley is walking - that's brilliant. Especially cause he had problems when he was very young didn't he? So it's great that he's doing so well. He sounds very advanced. I'm very proud of Malcolm at the moment because he can...... quack. It's his first word! When I pick up his duck and say "quack quack" he says "yack!! yack!!". He can also brush his hair, do twinkle twinkle little star and dances in a bouncy sort of way when he hears music.

Ginger - must be hard to relax but you sound quite chilled -hope the bleeding clears up soon.

Egg - sounds awful with them all ill.

We've been struggling a bit over the last few weeks- it looks like Malc is really taking after his dad who apparently needed no sleep as a baby. He's been not sleeping till about 11 at night - I've been trying to keep things going by getting him up at a reasonable time but then my day's schedule always goes a bit wrong and he keeps falling asleep over his dinner and having a nap from 6 to 7 or so ARGHH. Then we have the chirpiest chappy all evening. Has been really getting DP down as our evenings have disappeared. Anyway today has been ok as a) we did nothing apart from concentrate on his naps and b) my mum's been here entertaining him so amazingly he's been asleep since 7.30 with only a wake for a feed at 11.

In other news our extension is finished HOORAY! I now have a completely baby safe room at the back of the kitchen. makes a massive difference as he potters around there for ages quite happily while I'm in the kitchen. Also we've got a fir tree just in front of the french windows which is now bedecked with lights and baubles. Malc of course absolutely no interest in it!

Hello to blondie and other new people. I'm due to be going back one or two days a week from January and suddently it seems very close. I've been looking forward to it but now suddenly starting to think it might be hard. Never thought I'd want to go back!

Hello everyone.

I realy need some advice please on a parenting dilemma!!

DD who is 4 has been invited to two parties by nursery friends at exactly the same time. The invites came within a day of each other, so I hadn't replied to the first when we received the second.

The first is leaving party. I didn't think that the girl was good friends with DD and we didn't invite her to DD's birthday party a couple of weeks ago, but subsequently DD keeps talking about her. I do not know her mum.

The second is a birthday party. She's not a best friend either but she is a better friend than the first I think, she did come to our party. I have met her mum at DD's party.

I have a terrible problem with empathy. I feel so much for other people and hate hurting feelings. I feel terrible that either little girl may not have many of their friends come to their party, I know my DD would have been devestated if it had happened to her.

What should I do? There is no way that she can go to both because the times are identical. My thinking was to party 2, on the basis that its an actual birthday party, I have met her mum, she came to ours etc. But, I asked DD and she said 1, although given she didn't even mention girl 1 when we arranged her party 4 weeks ago, I am not sure how reliable that is. Also, party 1 came first, so I do have a reason for saying no to party 2 which is a bit more neutral.

Please help, I don't knoq what to do!!

OK so what IS comando style crawling? LO has a funny lop sided crawl - she doesn't seem to want to put her right knee down - so slides along on left knee with right foot as propeller! Right handed/legged I guess. Just put her down for arvo nap - blissful day at home after 3 mad days at work. (Hi Blondie!) At least work makes you really appreciate days at home.

All those who are prepared for christmas I hate you! I have done nothing and my super prepared sister's pressies for us just arrived from India!!!!

Gill - yack yack is fantastic! I can't wait for the first word it is such a big milestone. I am wondering what it will be - probably 'hot' as I am always trying to feed her food straight from the pan!

Strawb - such a dilemma! The first of many I'm afraid - next weekend my 11 yr old will be rushing from one party to another and then back to the first to stay the night!

I don't know what to suggest but you could try honestly? Ring the mums and ask how devastated they think their daughter would be if your LO didn't come? (ie how many are invited - if there is loads of kids one missing is less of a prob!)

Commando crawling=on the elbows, not fully on knees, either.

I'd let your DD decide which party, Strawberry.

Snapshot moment right now in my house: DD singing (loudly) Xmas carols out of a book, DS1 saying times tables orally (homework so he can get on 'puter), DS2 humming with an toy ambulence, DS4 screaming coz he just fell off my lap...

Omy like lljkk says commando crawling is on the elbows, moving the arms and dragging the rest of the body along - my ds2 did this.

After quite a few bouts of unconsolable crying I took ds3 to the docs today and he got some antibiotics for a bad throat. To says he's not impressed with the medicine would be an understatement - he gagged on the taste so much this afternoon that he brought up half his lunch. Had a bit more success at bedtime but definitely not getting the full dose into him.

Strawberry - we had a similar thing with ds1 a couple of years ago - he went to the 2nd party he'd been invited to because he was better friends with that boy. It sounds like your dd is better friends with the 2nd since she was at your dds party so I would probably go with that.

I now have all pressies bought and wrapped and all christmas cards written so am very pleased as although I like christmas I hate wrapping presents and writing cards.

Hope everyone has a nice weekend.

hi everyone, feeling rotten again, but plodding on, this hacking cough is awful, and i feel bad as my parents have both come down with it now too!!!!!

on a plus, tomorrow night is works xmas meal and drinks, and i can say i am looking forward to a good old knees up,!!!! should be a good night as there are about 20 of us going!!!!!
am hoping copius amounts of alchold will numb the aches and pains!!!!!lol(til sunday morning that is)lol

hope u all have a good weekend,

Thanks for the tips. DD has suggested a strong preference for party 1 because child one is her best friend now. Girls are so fickle. Perhaps I will buy other child a present too. Am going to see at nursery if there are lots of cross overs and whether one party might change its time. I'd probably do that if it was me and I could. I can't get over how sad I feel for the child. I think perhaps I was scarred for life by a similar incident and have blocked it from my mind, which is why I have a complete dread of ever hosting a party for myself, in case no one turns up

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend. My DH has gone away until Sunday which is annoying. I am taking DD and DS to my best friend's house for the weekend for her DS's party on Sunday, so that should be fun, provided I survive 2 hour drive on my own with the DCS

What's everyone else up to? Rozzy, am v that you have done all your wrapping. I did 4 presents tonight and then lost the will!! Sarah, hope you feel better and enjoy the party......

rofl at your "problem with empathy" strawb. do all women have that do you think? i find major sporting events difficult for that reason . i think seeing if there could be a shift in time is a good idea. tho' do keep an eye out on the AIBU boards to see whether anyone post an AIBU To Not Want Change My Plans etc etc

wow rozzy, another baby on ABs. hope he does better with them tomo.

sarah -i am v jealous of your drunken night out. have some silly drink for me. a strange coloured one, perhaps.

omy - at first word being "hot!" dd belives she has a divine right to any consumables in her site. and whatsmore she wants them now. if she sees food before its cool enough she goes mental with the waiting and i've given her too hot stuff more than once . lol - a friend came round and we tried to eat choc cake in front of dd. she'd just had some porridge, and i gave her some rice cakes to distract her from our cake,but she just knew what we were having was better and threw herself at us in a rage. mate gave up in end and took half eaten cake back to kitchen!

gill that is so good re extension. and the quacking too of course sorry your eveniings got so bad. give him toyour mum two days a week ??

having a tough time with dd, which is out of character (for her, not me.) insanely clingy (i am so unfair, i want her clingy on my terms, not hers. eg when friends is on and i fancy a cuddle under duvet not when i'm trying to clean or, as lately, all blooming time... ), sleeping v poor at night, and has in the space of four days dropped her morning nap and has not slept at lunch for more than half an hour. so we've lost 90min of sleep just like that. how did that happen??? tbh, apart from looking ever so slightly like a crack addict, she seems okay on. its just me not used to all this up time . am going to pull myself together for next week. good job babies are so bloody lovely, eh??

omg "sight" not "site." i am really quite literate [double blush] [curls toes in shame]

swotty a strange coloured drink i can do!!!!

Hello all, sorry have copied and pasted this from my Zappata thread to avoid typing twice.

Sorry for absence. DS2 was taken to hospital yesterday at 6am as he was really struggling with his breathing. I had been up most of the night with him as he coughed and cried all night. Even when he was asleep I was busy counting his breaths per minute as it is recommended you seek medical help if it is over 60 per min. It had been over 60 the day before but he seemed ok but it got up to 76 consistently in the night. So we had an ambulance as by the time I brought him downstairs he was really not very well.

Thankfully after oxygen in ambulance and a nebuliser and god knows what in A&E they admitted him to the ward but he made such an improvement they let us come home at lunch. He has been given steroids and an inhaler with salbutomol (sp) and is still utterly shattered but definitely improving. He even played with DS1 a bit last night before collapsing onto the cushions for a rest .

DD not too bad [phew].

Will catch up properly later. I am also feeling like shite as v little sleep on Thurs night and despite nearly TWELVE HOURS last night I can hardly walk up the stairs today without wanting to sit down for a rest.

Ginger I read that you had some bleeding but scan showed heartbeat. Fingers and toes crossed for you, it sounds like good news if you saw a strong heartbeat. Will they scan you again?

oh egg, so sorry to hear about your poor ds2, glad to hear he is on the mend again, xxxxxx

Get some rest hun, love to you all xxxxx

Poor DS2 egg, I know you said he was ill, its scary how quickly it can get worse.

Swotty, DS dropped both of his daytime naps this week but is back to 30 mins at 10am and an hour at about 2pm. No idea whats going on

On a plus note, mine are sleeping about an hour at 9am (sometimes more, esp DS2) and then 2.5hrs plus at lunch!!!

God Egg how scary. Did hospital say what had caused it? Glad he's much better now. No wonder you're shattered - the stress and shock will have you feeling run down.

Ds3 much better today - still not liking the medicine much.

Starting to feel really nervous about going back to work on Monday. Feel ok about leaving dc as I'm leaving them with dh but I can't remember how to do my job - add to that the fact that there has been a whole new computer system installed whilst I've been off and I'm blardy terrified. Shouldn't complain as I'm only in Mon-Weds then I have so much leave to take I'm not back until after New Year. Ds3 still won't take milk out of a bottle or cup so will just have to miss his 2pm feed - we did this today as I was at a party with ds2 and he didn't seem to really miss it so feel ok about that. Think I might try and stop bf after this week though.

After not being out since ds3 was born I have my works night out next Friday and am out with dh and some friends on Saturday. Can't remember the last time I was out 2 nights in a row - not sure how I'll cope!!!

Off to watch the x factor results - I thought they were all pretty good tonight.