January 2008 Shiny New Year Babies- these booties are made for walking!

[madmouse]

Hello!

Yet another thread

Hope everyone finds it

That might be because she is with you iyswim rather than the cot...by herself.

oh I never thought of that (can't fit in the cot though unfortunatley!! lol)

Morning all

am way behind on here.

Wedding was good - but a bit reunion-like spending time with a bunch of people i've not seen since uni (left 12.5yrs ago ).
The same people got too drunk/pissed off/tears in the loo/etc. etc.
Some things don't change.

I left early (which was maybe rude but i'd had enough and wasn't drunk enough to deal with them all anymore!) when the dancing started. Came home to find DH had had to call my bro & girlfriend to come round as his back had gone and he couldn't move.
He should have called me really.
Brother has broken his collarbone skiing, they only got back yesterday, DB in lots of pain his gf hasn't met us before and arrives to meet DH on the floor, the place a mess, both boys not fed properly/changed properly/etc. She helps get them to bed, then i turn up.
poor girl!! what an intro!

anyway, dh in bed (of course he gets to go to bed when his back is bad which makes me vvvv and i'm a cr*p nurse so always causes stress).

I'm determined to go to the transport museum & out for lunch regardless with the boys - though i may come to regret that later.....the friends coming have 2 DCs too so hopefully will help me if things go a bit pear-shaped....

tired, slightly fed up and in need of a cuppa.
back later probably.

hope everyone having a better day/weekend!!

Latest medical research shows that it is better to walk when you have out your back out than to lie in bed.

I copied this from NHS Direct

Bed rest versus exercise

Doctors used to recommend long periods of rest for people with backache, but research has shown this is actually bad for backs. Even crawling around on your hands and knees is better than no movement at all.

Some kinds of exercise, such as walking, don't put too much stress on your back. It's a good idea to make a start on them even if your back is a bit sore, just to get your joints moving and your heart and lungs working.

Your poor H JKS but I'm afraid I agree with LaT - The longer he sits the stiffer his back gets and the worse it'll be to get up later.

Spoke to DP last night about a bed and he's said the same that we'll wait abit longer as she's sleeping ok if she starts to wake up regularly then we'll rethink it.

I have a new question for you now (sorry to be such a taker from the group) DD tends to hit us which to begin with was fine as it was a joke but now she's slapping other people. It's our own fault cos we always laugh but do you think she's too young to be taught its only ok to do it with us and not the face?

In my opinion - which is not based on experience - she's too young to understand the difference. I don't think Sabela would. Although Sabela does know the difference between taking my glasses off (I always told her firlmly no and she never does it now) and DH's - who always laughs and she does it every time she can.

I have a question too. It's about travel insurance whoo hoo!

My problem is that because we are away for more than 60 days our house insurance no loneger covers our personal possessions. We have E111 etc

The cheapest travel insurance for 8 months is heading towrds £200. Even with this insurance, there's a limit of £100 for each item. I would want say, my video camera worht £500 covered.

I'm not too bothered about flights because we rarely pay more than £100.

Would you bother or not?

hmm - I'm afraid i'm crap with insurance but I think I wouldn't bother as I'm assuming the only time personal expensive items won't be in your possesion is during the flight? Just pack them well and write FRAGILE all over the box.

LaT - have to say I don't think i would bother either. Does this mean that stuff over £100 would not be covered?

It would also depend on how much valuable stuff i was taking...

Lucky - A not old enough to understand that its ok to play hit you and DP and not other people. TBH I don't let DD hit anyone (not that I can stop a baby LOL) but do say a firm "no" which she understands.

DD been a pain in the bum today and I kid you has not slept for one minute since 7.30am

She was put up for nap as usual at 11am ish but 15mins later is sitting up laughing etc so thought ok she is not tired brought her downstairs.

Got to my mum's fed her then put up for nap and the same thing happened!! Now she is totally hanging and I have to try and keep her up till 6!!

JKS ? LOL that sounds like the kind of wedding I go to! your poor DH and poor you having to nurse him, I hope you got to the museum

Lucky ? I agree with LaT and Simpson, gently dissuade her if you can. I was wondering about beds too as I was hoping not to have to buy a 2nd cot. Hopefully B2 will stay in her Nature?s Nest for longer than DS did

LaT ? DS used to leave my glasses alone but MIL has let him play with hers and now he is grabbing for mine again I?m surprised that a policy would cost that much, have you looked at annual ones, they may be cheaper? That said, I think I would personally leave it.

Simpson ? I have had a similar day with DS, not a minute of sleep. Think it is my fault for putting his birthday balloons and his cards up in his room, he just sang to them instead of sleeping let?s hope both babies are so tired they sleep all night!

Hi all

Simpson hope dd went to sleep for you ok not too much drama and eating her dinner?

LaT yes you should take out travel insurance. The E111 will offer free or discounted medical care. What it will not offer is repatriation in case of a very serious accident or illness, God forbid you would have anything like it, but there are circumstances in which you would want to be back in the UK and medical transports cost £1000s.

MrsMc lol at X singing to his balloons. Nathan sings too, and waves lots, at telly, pictures of himself on the computer.

He is not allowed to touch glasses, as daddy is a blind bat without them. My dad used to allow him but we banned that.

Nathan had a great day btw. Up at 6.30 with trouble pooing managed to delay the start of the day until 7.30. Wolfed his breakfast, then finally nasty poo at 9. Half constipated, half normal yay getting there.

His appetite has been reduced but i was glad I took a large fromage frais to church. He shouted at me when I stopped feeding to say hello to someone and finished it in 3mins. We had a brunch after the service and he ate my toast plus some rice cakes too, then a large lunch and a whole large jar plus fromage frais for dinner. I got some cream crackers out of the pack while chatting to dh who was carrying him, and h snatched them out of my hand straight into his mouth two on top of each other , my boy is back!

sorry for not following thread properly but are you going to spend a reasonable amount of time in Spain LaT? Can you get a social security no (or can you only get them if you're working? maybe you can get one if your DH is working, I'm not sure) and / or residencia - you can then get access to their health care.

Well DD last till 5.40 so not too bad

On the tea front I knew she would be hard work rubbing eyes big time etc so she had her fav hipp organic jar instead which went down well

Today there has not been one runny poo but all she has eaten has been jarred stuff and one roast parsnip at my mums so don't know what that means...

LOL at Xavier singing to balloons DD sings to her toy upsy Daisy!!

Glad Nathan is back hopefully his eating will really pick up now...

JKS - Glad you enjoyed wedding. Hope DH's back is better soon.

Just quick post as computer is now working properly. Had brother-in-law round to fix it - turned out that it was just VERY dusty inside - just took the hoover to fix it! I'd been cursing it for weeks as it just kept switching itself off.

PMSL Housemum at such a high-tech solution i'd never have thought of it

Madmouse - yey, glad Nathan is on the mend

Thanks all re his bad back - he was much better 'behaved' yesterday about it all.
We had friends come to london to see us, we went (minus DH & H) to the Transport Museum (thanks for tips, was good, will go again when more time i think) and to TGIs for lunch (broke dieting rules and had burger & chips, yummy!). THen back to DH for (belated) birthday cake & tea.
A good day.
Then i had to drive home with the boys at bedtime - which went fine, just i was getting down about being at home on my own with them so much as DH is busy-busy at work at the mo. Wish i had family around to help out more

anyway, H up at 5.10, nice.
Nursery & work day today, will see how much there is to do & if other girl is coming in, may try and skive off early otherwise! (can make up hours next week!).

anyway, enough waffle from me, sorry not been keeping up properly, happy monday morning all

Question:

• how many of you have walkers (thing they sit in with wheels)?

we have one, sure T used it lots but haven't got round to using it much with H. It was shoved in the shed before Christmas & i brought it back indoors to put away in the loft really but H saw it and is currently in it and loving it I mean he must be nearly ready to start walking himself now so i thought the window had passed for using it. Just curious who else still enjoys theirs?

(also T loves it too, lol. he gets stuck in it which always makes me pmsl. it's a space themed one so we've always called it a space rocket, so, of course, he has to have a go ).

JKS - no walker here as we don't have the room really but DD still goes in her activity station (although not as much now) and loves it

Grr on the early starts!!

Housemum - LOL at computer!!

Have to get myself motivated to go into town today as DD needs more hipp organic banana rice pudding jars and DS need rice crispies.

OH well at least its DH's last early today then he has 4 lates but at least he gets up with the Dcs in the morning and I get a lie in, although I am on call in the night if they need me.

Helloooo ladies! I am sorry for the extremely long silence - we went away for almost five weeks to visit my family in kenya, which was simply wonderful, and I'll tell you all about it later....and now we're back, trying to re-adjust to winter after 27degree days. Lovely to know you missed me though There is no way I'm going to be able to catch up -
I'll just blunder along and hope I didn't miss anything too major. (I know there's a meet up soon, will look up the date)

I had to make some compromises with my flexible working request (my boss basically said in advance what he would and wouldn't look on 'favourably' i.e. agree to ), and now I'm stuck with an arrangement that is less than ideal - 32 hours over 4 days, which means 9 hour days if I have a one hour lunch, but on the plus side, I have Fridays off for mother-daughter time . Think I'll look into re-negotiating after the 6 months trial is up. So atm, because I'm still scrounging my pennies together for a new car, it takes me about an hour on the bus to pick up dd from the childminders...and I've been too shattered even for mnet by the end of the day ! (wow, even in the height of sleep deprivation I still used to join you guys).

Grumble, grumble, woe is me! (drama queen mood). . Happy monday everybody ! And happy birthday to all the babies xxx (can we still call them babies?)

Morning ladies.
JKS yes we have a walker here and George just loves it though I tend to just put him in it while I feed him in the living room at tea time and if I'm cooking then I know hes pretty safe in it and not chewing through wires or turning the pc on and off
Housemum yes ours did that for quite a while and dh grumbled about buying new parts for it etc etc. He gave it all a good hoovering and its just fine
Luckysalem a firm 'no' with the slapping does wonders. Explain Mummy doesn't like it and it hurts. George used to do it to me all the time, basicaly because Edward went through a short phase of it too. Neither do now. If she does it while you are holding her put her straight down and say 'no hitting'. Good luck.
Had a day at The Natural History Museum yesterday. My big boys too. It was very busy but good fun. David didn't like the big scorpion much. George had a little walk round, holing my hand, and thought it was great fun.
I think I have added some more of you as friends on facebook. Hope its you anyway
Have a good day all xxx

Gingeme - just seen your pics on FB. Not suprised people think E & G are twins!!

Is G big or E small? Or is it the buggy that makes them look the same size?

DD having nap and have to leave to drop DS off at pre school I absolutely hate waking her up

Hi Simpson. I think its George thats big but yes they do look the same size in the buggy . Used to get asked if my 2 olred boys were twins too. When they were tiny ofcourse not now they are 15 months age gap too.

Hola ladies...

Boys are asleep and I seem to strangely have a tidy house and have prepared the dinner so actually just sitting down having a cuppa when i should be doing some exercise.

DS1 is coping surprisingly well with his chicken pox and whenever he feels like itching he comes over and asks for cream (calomine lotion to us). Am praying DS2 doesnt get it as he is a handful at the best of times.. altho everyone keps telling me how it is good to get it young and get them both out of the way... doesnt feel like that to me.

LaT - yeah drs are not very good... my brother was ill for 3 years before they actually told us what was wrong and that was only because i went to the meeting and demanded to know... my parents just take what they are told and my brother just didnt seem bothered with a name for it. Then they said they had diagnosed schizophrenia a year before.. and to this day not one leaflet for him or for us... i do my own research and pass it on to him. Ridiculous.

LaT and Simpson - have u uploaded any pics yet????

I have read everything but cant remember what i was going to say to any of you.

JKS - it is a shame parents are not more helpful I am sure you have gathered from all my posts my parents are incrdibly helpful and i honestly dont know how i would manage without them and tbh the ILs are good with the kids too so i have loads of support.

My mum and dad came round yesterday and we booked our tickets so we are def going to Turkey... woo hoo.

afternoon all

Busy weekend here had friends round Sat night and drank far too much wine and stayed up utnil 2am so was hungover and tired yesterday as up at 7!

Glad Xavier enjoyed his birthday.
Is it Molly and Tamara on Thurs next ?

Lucky i wouldn't do bed until 2 as at least when they get up in a cot they can't go anywhere , well now we have lowered ours she can't M started pulling my hair now so i tell her 'no' quite firmly it does work eventually!
DD loves corn on the cob too!

JKS sounds like a fairly traditional wedding then we don't have walker here as toys are taking over and rocker and activity table enough.

Simpson sounds like you getting hang of fb! I haven't been back on will try again tonight!

MM glad Nathan feeling bit better hope you are too.

Frag sounds like a lovely time how did dd like it ? Shame about work bet you are shattered. Hopefully will be easier with car ?

Housemum lol at the hoover!

Gingeme what's the age gap between G and E ??

Ange how are you getting on with A night time waking ? We up now at 10 and 2 ish then if she wakes early i can sometimes get her back off until 7.30.

LaT i would def get travel insurance. As MM said only E111 covers for minor things. Good plan with your brother. I guess he knows how he is bahving and it wion't help if you all get on his back.

MMama glad you sound happy about the outcome of the hol. Am sure dh will love the rest

Oh well off to swimming lesson now with dd then football with ds later.

Hi am off sick today, feeling fluey - it's times like this i wish my family were nearer too. Still A is at the childminder so at least I can get some rest.

He's still not going through the night. Last night woke around 11 and 2. The 2am one took ages to get back to sleep, and he was then up at 6. He is doing a very annoying game at the moment flinging his dummy and blankie out of the cot so we have to put them back as he needs them to settle to sleep, repeat ad nauseam.

Roll on half term when we're going to have to get tough with him.

Never had a baby walker here. We have put the activity station away as he is too tall and heavy for it now .

Hi Fragolina welcome back!

Tamara Molly and Alek on Thurs - we not doing much - he will have cake at his playgroup on Thurs and we having a little meet up at soft play with all the PN friends on Sat as one of them also 1. Family can't make it as mum still not so well .

right back to bed for me.

Lillyloo thereis 15 months between them.

Hi all

Just got back from shopping. Just food and the last few bits for DD's birthday.

BTW Wilkinsons are selling Christmas wrapping paper and some decorations for 10p each DD's presents will be wrapped in Xmas paper

Mixed mama - No pictures of FB yet Don't have a digital camera but my family do so hoping to get pics of her party on there. Her party is on 1st Feb. Hope DS2 doesn't catch Chicken Pox

Lilyloo - How is the car situation? Sorry to hear about hang over....is the worst when looking after small Dcs!!

Angechica - sorry you feel pants

Hi to everyone else!!

DD has slept for a grand total of 30 mins again all day today but I did have to wake her to go and take DS to pre school.