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NattyPlus2andAHalf · 25/02/2009 21:03

hey guys

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keepingitRia · 07/03/2009 23:04

the WAGS ws OK thanks daisy. Not a good time as such! (I am probably repeating myself now) It would have been better for me has it been a bigger gathering, darker and noisier, then I could have hidden in a corner with a bottle of wine and watched them all being superior, not liking each other and being seriously insincere! IMO Dsis also felt quite uncomfortable, but had to do it for BILs reputation. (I am not that dedicated to my DH, though I suppose I support his career 110%, so maybe I am?) The food was lovely - a simple buffet of sandwiches, wraps and homemade quiche, and homemade cheesecake/trifle. One sour faced old trout made a point of only eating half a sandwich (it is usually a 4 course sit-down dinner, but Dsis wanted it to be informal). It would have been better with several glasses of wine, but Dsis wasn't drinking so I didn't either (nor did I swear or insult anyone, or crack tasteless jokes - complete personality transplant). There was only me, dsis and 1 other person under 50 though. I haven't got in pencilled in my diary for nect year! (I couldn't sleep when I got home - I was reliving it all in a half-dream, and was knackered all day yesterday from being nice)

Essay done. Just a diagram to draw.

JammyQueenOfTheSewers · 08/03/2009 09:22

Morning
Limped to the pool, swam 32 lengths, limped home. Feels good though.
More jobs to be done around the house and garden today.

keepingitRia · 08/03/2009 10:06

morning jammy. your dedication is brilliant. Now I've finished my course though I can concentrate on tidying the house ME a bit more. (although plan for tonight is a very chilled bottle of Argentinian sauvingnon blanc and the Maeve Binchy novel I got for xmas)

AND, as DH has got 1-2 weeks full time temping before he starts his new job, the diet starts again tomorrow as I can increase my food budget a little.

Today is a little flat though, as he is working tonight and probably staying over again. We were hoping to have a nice family day. but there is a duck race in a nearby village so we might go to that for half and hour. And I need to go to the supermarket for a decadent tea for one!

It is a lovely day though, so maybe a potter in the garen will be OK.

TheNatty · 08/03/2009 11:06

im falling apart

ive got a coldsore, an eye infection and a possible ear infection/bad blockage

im fed up.

JammyQueenOfTheSewers · 08/03/2009 12:02
TheNatty · 08/03/2009 13:14

yeah it is sunny but ever so cold, i have got the heating on lol.

my eye is not weeping so much as iwent mental with the drops this morning, hoping it getting better cos nearly at end of course i would have thought it would have been better by now

HellHathNoFury · 08/03/2009 13:18

Now then, I have a question but first, well done Jammy. Am actually rather envious of your dedication, I am rubbish.

Sooo...the question.

Is DS normal? This cannot be right. I am going to list a normal days worth of food, and I really do need to know if this is 'normal' as he is currently costing me a sodding fortune, am beginning to think the nursery fees are worth it. Here goes:

6.30am - 5oz milk
7.30am - hot cross bun/flapjack/pancake
8.30am - cereal and toast
9.30am - toast
11.30am - cooked lunch (adult size serving at home/2-3 servings at nursery) followed by dessert (cake/yoghurt/ice cream/mousse)
2pm - fruit or biscuit
3.30pm - sandwiches or beans on toast
4.30pm fruit or biscuit
6pm - full dinner and (sometimes) dessert
7pm - 5oz milk

Today he had an adult size fry-up and asked for more

This cannot be normal, surely? What can I do? I don't want him to grow into a porker!

keepingitRia · 08/03/2009 14:19

poor you natty. It is probably the stress you've been under. (my cat gets eye infections when he's stress! he suffers terribly with his nerves)

fury, I don't know. I don't think there is any such thing as "normal" where kids are concerned. Baggins is happy to graze all day on fruit/toast/biscuits, sometimes he eats as much as DS2 at mealtimes, sometimes not. I would think that if your DS is active annd muscly then he's fine, it's all healthy stuff he's eating. I don't suppose he would eat it if he didn't want to? just my opinion though.

DH just gone off to work (novelty!). There is a point to point on the estate so he could be busy. He is expecting to stay over again tonight

keepingitRia · 08/03/2009 14:20

oops, I already said that

didn't go to the duck race and now it's raining. We will visit the GPs later, but they are out to lunch with Dsis as it's her birthday.

JammyQueenOfTheSewers · 08/03/2009 14:44

We had rain too but is dry again, so just took jamlet on her bike round to the field and back. Only 10 mins all in but she's happy She was mad keen to go out, brought me hwe wellies and coat and kept pointing at her bike!

We've tidied the shed, put all the gardening bits and bobs that were in the house out in the shed (feel much better now that the weedkiller and slug pellets are locked away), and I've tidied the dining room, having removed some shelves to go into the shed. Oh and I mowed the grass this morning (yes DH did it yesterday but did it good to have a 2nd trim) and DH loaded our garden wheelie bin with hedge prunings from the autumn . Phew!

Fury - that does seem like a lot, but I have no idea if it's normal/right. I can only say that jamlet has ~150ml milk and cereal or toast for breakfast, some fruit or a biscuit mid-morning, a sandwich and fruit and/or yoghurt for lunch, fruit or a biscuit mid-afternoon, cooked dinner (about 1/3 to 1/2 adult size) with yoghurt or fruit, and ~150ml milk before bed.

JammyQueenOfTheSewers · 08/03/2009 14:45

(I think she would eat more if she got it!)

TheNatty · 08/03/2009 14:56

fury for breakfast this morning ellen had:

2 weetabix with milk and nuts, 2 slices of toast, a (massive) bowel of strawbarries, blue berries and grapes.
a whole orange about half hour later.
moaning at me for more food about an hour after that

i thought she was weird.. now we can be odd together.

they obviously need it, otherwise they wouldnt eeat good stuff only crap.

well this has been whats happended in the natty household today

you will not believe what i have just had to deal with upstairs
my son is so discusting it beggers belief
he has mixed an entire bottle of very expensive organic baby lotion in with his wee (that he has done in the last hour in the potty in his bedroom) and crumbled an entire deodurant stick into it, mixed it around with his hands and painted the walls and beds withit
he was supposed to be having a nap

HellHathNoFury · 08/03/2009 15:01

thanks for the feedback. Carers at nursery tell me like it's odd, and quite frankly I don't know any different.

He is a teeny bit fat tho tbh.

Natty your DS sounds bonkers. I think I would have put a lock on the door lol!

keepingitRia · 08/03/2009 15:10

once he gets running around outside in the summer he won't be. how does he react if he misses a snack? IMO they aren't old enough yet to "eat for the sake of it" and will only eat if they want to. baggins is a tad podgy just now, but I think I need to get him some bigger clothes out! DS1 was a fat toddler and now he's all skin and bone so I don't think it means much.

I am choosing my next course just now. I am cross with myself for cancelling the 10 point science/maths one that should have started this week, but I had no paperwork to prove I was entitled to free course fees. There is a 60 point science course in October, but I don't know if I have enough basic maths knowledge, so I am looking at a 10 point maths one from June-Oct. Now I've started I feel like I need to keep studying.

TheNatty · 08/03/2009 15:29

oh fury he does things like this all the time. its my fault i left my deodurant and baby lotion out after getting ready this morning. they are usually locked in the bathroom, serves me right i know what hes like.

he did this with sudocream and a lovely furry rug once

Bumperlicioso · 08/03/2009 15:32

Eww natty!

Fury, have no idea if that is normal or not, but what's the alternative? Let him go hungry? It's difficult as LOs are supposed to have a different diet to us, more fat, less fibre. I would just make sure he is getting mostly good fats though and not too much saturated fat. DD eats like a sparrow though, we are just pleased when she tucks into a meal, so who knows.

Ohforfoxsake · 08/03/2009 15:58

Hello,

well actually Fairy, I did have a life last night. I went to a party. An 80's party and got dressed up in leg warmers and everything. It was good fun, although I frightened myself as I appear to have lost my ability to drink. Did a good job on some very nice rum punch, but wine and all the rest just didn't do it for me, so I remained sober. I did a rather good job at pulling together an 80s outfit too. Including silver leggins

Fury, that's a lot, yes, but children generally eat what they want - its pretty damn impossible to over feed a child. What I would say is keep everything wholemeal/wholewheat as my understanding is this takes longer to digest and doesn't turn to sugar as quickly as refined flour. So, if he's having hotcross buns, give him a wholemeal one, use wholemeal bread etc. There is an arguement that going wholemeal with everything isn't good for their digestive system so I tend to stick with white pasta and rice.

As long as what he's eating is healthy, I wouldn't worry too much. Try homemade jelly for dessert. As easy to make as packet and you don't have to put any sugar in. Cheese for dessert and snacks, ummm, can't think of anything else. Perhaps more protein, so eggs at breakfast if you have time. Porridge is a good filler, tho LO isn't a fan. I think its the texture. Don't really know what else to suggest, a visit to your HV? (she says reluctantly) if you are really properly worried. HTH

HellHathNoFury · 08/03/2009 16:32

Thanks for the advice Foxy! I was hoping you'd pop by

Am not super worried as he is healthy and happy, but I have never thought it possible to eat SO MUCH.

Funnily enough, the only thing he HATES is pizza, otherwise anything goes.

Odd child.

80's parties ahhhhhh

Ria I don't know where you find the time.

Well I have an exam for my ISEB qualification on Mon/Tue/Wed (which I feel like a hole in the head) so I have prepared 3 days worth of meals so I can revise more, cook less.
DH is away doing a seminar thing all week.
Am going to be busy I suspect.

Then holiday next week, wooohooooooo

Ohforfoxsake · 08/03/2009 16:39

Are you going away Fury?

HellHathNoFury · 08/03/2009 16:43

Center Parcs

Cannot wait. Am trying to get everything done today, like ordered shopping, laundry, charging camera batteries, waxing bikini line, cooking meals for during the week as I am in Holborn doing exams, DH is away, then Saturday we are away for a week. Stupid us agreed for the house settlement while we were away without realising. Doh.

And I haven't had time to buy any mat clothes so just spent £200 on mothercare.co.uk with express delivery hoping that some of it will fit, as I am not looking too hot in normal gear atm.

How are you anyway?

HellHathNoFury · 08/03/2009 16:45

Might have to fly to US when I get back as well, as BIL just left my sis and she is a mess. She has no-one out there. Am knackered.

Ohforfoxsake · 08/03/2009 16:55

Oh yes! Centre parcs. You lucky thing

Your poor sis

Yeh, alright here. Bit knackered after last night. He's away next week too, but he's always away at the mo.

TheNatty · 08/03/2009 17:03

wow centre parks sounds great! lucky you!

we are holding off on holidays this year, t omuch going on here.

kids just woken up from their nap which means they are not going to bed at 7pm tonight

Ohforfoxsake · 08/03/2009 17:15

Arse for you Natty. LO here doesn't really need a nap anymore, although some days I still put her down so I can have a rest. Typical 4th child - very demanding of attention. Toys? Pah!

TheNatty · 08/03/2009 17:24

lol! ellens def got fourth child syndrome atm then! shes driving me nuts.
bought her some n puzzles thinkin being she wasnt being challeneged enough.
did them in 10 mins and wont touch them now.