June 07 - Heres hoping for a bug free month!

[NattyPlus2andAHalf]

hey guys

museum was great, but had to clean house when i got in as it was a mess due to being out all week and kids and DH dumping a weeks worth of clothes and other crap around the living room and kitchen.
such is life!

tom loved the museum, he has a thing for dinosaurs atm, tho ellen was terrifed most of the time. took him into the baby bit and showed him all the little fetus's and found one about the same as mine then showed him how much more the baby has to grow.
so that was nice, because hew as really interested and keeps stroking my belly and telling the baby to grow faster!

mac ds for dinner naughty naughty!

going bed now so speak in morning, not till after midday, DH is meeting up with another daddy mate to give me and his mates partner a decent lie-in in the morning.

i am very much looking forward to it

Lay-in sounds good . I slept from 10.30pm - 2.30am then up from 2.30 till 5.15am.....half an hours sleep then up from 5.45 till 6.15am then DD up at 6.45am [fucking knackered emoticon needed here]

Happy mother's Day everyone....hope you get spoilt

Happy Mothers' Day to us all . I got a 4 slice toaster & breakfast in bed (croissants & apricot jam) which I had to share with greedy guts (DD). DH just popped out for take away cappuccinos & brought back a gorgeous big bunch of flowers.Having Chinese tonight too so am being quite spoiled. Guess someone's feeling bit guilty about his imminent departure.

Happy Mother's Day everyone!!!

DH got Jamlet up and about while I went for my swim, then we had croissants, juice and hot chocolate for breakfast, and I was given a card and box of dates. We went to see the lambs at a local farm this morning, then DH made us omelettes for lunch. And I got to choose what we're having for tea - sausages, bakies and braised red cabbage. Yum!

Happy Mother's Day

I had a lie in this morning....until 6am . It wasn't bumble or DD.....but DS1 jumoing up and down on the bed asking if I wanted my present yet!

Managed to squeeze another hour of dozing by telling DS1 he had to wait for DD to wake up.

But I got tea and toast brought up to me and James Wong's book plus some flowers (chosed especially by DS1 to match those on my card) and a multipack of mini galaxy ripples and a bag of fruit gums. We've just had a lazy day with a bit of pottering in the garden (till the weather got pooey) and the house, and we have not long finished a lovely meal (M&S family feast for £15). DS1 is upstairs watching a film and DD and bumble are sleeping. Just settling down to watch Ben Hur and eat my sweeties while the coast is clear

oh and finishing off the wine and feeling tipsy (such a lightweight these days and can't do daytime drinking very well)

If only DS1 wasn't such a gobby, cheeky little shite, my world would be complete!!

only slept till 10am, didnt want to waste an empty house! i made dinner, and cleaned the entire of downstairs before they made it back from the park.
sounds sad but i am actually really pleased to have got the time to get it done.

DH gone off to work, kids watching cbeebies on telly and both are curled up on a sofa each with a beaker of water and a fluffy blanket, hoping they will have a nap now the chaos of DH, DH's mate and 4 toddlers has calmed down!!!

no pressies for me, but then i did ask not to get anything as we are saving up to carpet the living room. DH bought me a yorkie bar tho in defiance when he was getting the electric this morning!

hope you are all having a good day, sun is shinning here

where is everybody?

My November thread is pretty quiet as well at the minute.

Had a lovely day yesterday (DS1 and his tantrums aside) and we were all tucked up in bed by 10.30 so feeling much more human today.

We have discovered with DS1 that he is genuinely not hearing us when we speak to him, so when after three or four gos at it we shout, he is taken completely by surprise and that explains his over-reaction to being shouted at. However, we know that there is nothing wrong with his hearing so it's more a case of him being off in cloud cuckoo land or being distracted by what's going on around about him.

Where is Ria when you need her; she must have gone through this with her DS1.....

I'm here!

Daisy, I have a DH like that.....doesn't listen to a word I fucking say....especially when the sports news is on .....I thought he always was just ignoring me, but he really does not hear me....perhaps its a man thing being able to switch off. I remember watching my dad when my nan used to witter on and on and on.....he could completely shut off from it!

Put DS in his own room last night......7 weeks of farting and grunting and whinging in stereo had just about finished me off so one of them had to go . Still up all bloody night, but hey ho!

All is quiet here , and I have (real, paid) work to do....later x

Hey Norty

That's why we need to nip it in the bud, or his poor future wife will be condemned to a life of talking to herself

I've started a thread about it in behaviour/development as I am really stumped. Nothing we do seems to work and we are now at constant loggerheads with him and the whole family is stressed about it, and DD is starting to think it's OK to scream and shout and hit out at people. And you know, I can't help think that a lot of it is my fault as I haven't been the easiest person/best mum over the last few years

Aww Daisy....don't blame yourself....you're a fab mum...I really do think males are built differently to us. I also don't think they can multi-task like we can.

My DD has started to scream (for attention), throw and hit things / us recently as well.....another phase I suspect. I seem to be constantly telling her off. It is so difficult to put her first sometimes now E is around and I suspect she's reacting to that. But in some ways, thats not a bad thing as she needs to understand she can't have it her way all the time. She needs to learn to accept these things with a little more grace though .

Shit, she's woken from her nap.....back to the grindstone then....

Hey Daisy, don't beat yourself up. You've been brilliant! Yes, you may feel you could have been better but don't we all? If you've already been brilliant then no need to feel bad that you didn't make fantastically brilliant IMO

If you know the problem is with getting him attention, could you just concentrate on calling his name (repeatedly) until you have his attnetion and then give him the message? If nothing else you won't be repeating as many words over and over, and people do tend to pick up their name (eventually) and if you do have to shout it, just shouting his name isn't as bad.

Oh and jamlet does the throwing/hitting things/us (well she doesn't throw us!) thing as well. Either when she's not getting her own way or when she wants my attention. She had a minute on the naughty step yesterday for repeatedly hitting me in the face because I was looking something up on my laptop

We've introduced a naughty step as well Jammy . She screams her head off when she's sitting there.

I'm also beginning to have trouble with her eating....never been a issue before but I think she is learning she can choose to eat something (or not!). If there is one thing that gets me going big time, its wasting good food that I've spent time preparing. I try so hard not to make it into a battle ground, but if anyone has any ideas how to get her to eat healthy things such as shepherds pie etc (which she loves!) without me giving in and giving her spagetti rings and bananas (not together obviously!!) all the time, I'd love to know the tricks of the trade

Daisy....just got my books . They are FAB.....hope by ordering on-line, I didn't do you out of any commission or anything.

Don't beat yourself up, we can only be as good as we can be at any point in time, no-one is perfect. It sounds as if he's being a typical boy, unfortunately.

DS is throwing strops when he doesn't get his own way. It usually involved picking up the nearest thing and throwing it. He also has screaming, sobbing rages as well. Those are most common when I strap him into his highchair because he keeps climbing out of it and running off in the misdt of meals, or upending his plate if he doesn't fancy the food.

DS is a little bastard right now.

Norty, Daisy, FF, I feel your pain.

DS has a fit if I so much as touch him atm. He has decided he hates me (seriously) and now will only let Daddy, the Dog, or Nanny (who he only sees every 6 weeks or so) near him. I am not 'in'.

I found him on the worktop holding a kitchen knife yesterday, he has learned he can push stuff against the cupboards and climb up. If I tell him off he laughs, throws stuff on the floor and yells 'boing' while laughing at me.

I LOVE nursery.

'ello, just marking my place and off to catch up. hope you are all OK

I love it because I can escape!

No tantrums. Just laughing at whoever tells him off, and total mania.

hello Foxy.

DS hates me so much if I touch him he rips my hand off him and yells 'NOT! NOT TOUCH!'.

If I persist he cries and sobs 'daddy'.

And I am doing it again.

Why?

Hi Foxy good weekend?

Hi Fury ....how was your holiday? Perhaps you'll have a girl this time? I find DD is better behaved with anyone other than me and she's a daddy's girl....butter wouldn't melt and all that .....ggggrrrrr

Holiday was AMAZING.

I bloody love that place, so good for the littluns, except DS kept running off to go down the big kid water slide. In the end we got bored and let him. He didn't drown so it's all ok.

Frankly you can ignore him then and let daddy deal with it, Fury. I'm not being flippant. He's pushing your buttons. Mine have all done it to DP, and the first time it really hurt his feelings . Now he capitalises on it

My only advice for fussy eating Norty, is give an 'either/or' choice. Then if she's chosen shepherds pie over spag bol, she's got to eat it. What I have only just realised (seven years into the job ) is that texture plays a big part of what they dislike. Lentils/meat/mash/beans are all disliked by one or the other here. Just worth bearing in mind, perhaps use finely ground mince or use slice potatoes rather than mash on top?

Foxy, I am with you.
In some ways it's great - I get out of a lot of duties lol - in other ways it's hard not to take it a bit personally.
This moring he said "bye bye daddy, bye bye rocky, bye bye book, bye be cushion" when he left the room. I WAS ALSO IN THE ROOM.
Grrrrrrrrrr

but enough of that, how was your break?

If he knows its getting to you Fury. Buggers that they are. Do it back. Mature I know but act like you accept it, and make a big deal of cuddling DH.

Hotel was lush. So lush I considered dropping out of the evening do at 8 to stay in my room in my fluffy dressing gown and slippers and watch Gosford Park .

But I didn't. I looked good in my red dress and glittery shoes

I ate too much and drank enough to put on 2.5 pounds, but not get drunk (such injustice!). Food was great, got my hair and feet done, went running in the countryside, to the gym, spa and sauna. I am going to do it again in 6 months.

OOOOOOOOOO Foxy that sounds fabulous. I'm glad you had a good time

Fury, he'll gte over it. DD went through phases of liking and disliking various family members, including us. I think it's partly an attention thing. Glad you enjoyed CP. You chose such a great week to go as well.