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December 2006 - The sun has got his hat on, hip hip hip hooray, tshghho now let's keep these bugs at bay

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LenniEd · 27/02/2009 20:52

I got all brave and made us a new bug free thread...

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Olihan · 20/03/2009 23:24

Hello! Still 'puter-less so not keeping up.

AQ, glad you're feeling more positive.

LenniEd, muchos re the sleep. Send him down to show ds2 how it's done, please [despairing ].

EV, very belated happy birthday.

Eli, boo re the house situation, it'll all come together when the time/house/situation is perfect.

Jabber, sorry you've had such a rough trip - you must be so relieved to be home. Was it worth it from a professional POV?

Bebe, 'whinging klingon' just about sums up ds2 at the moment too. I spend half my day wanting to give him away to the next passerby and the other half melting at the cute/funny/cheeky things he says and does. Average 2yo I guess but I am going to rip my own ears off the next time he starts screeching because I've given him the wrong cup/asked him to put his shoes on/wiped his nose/cut his sandwiches in the wrong shape .

On the plus side, thrice weekly trips to the gym and weekly Weight Watchers meeting are paying off and I'm a size 14 for the first time in about 15 years. Hooray . We go to Singapore to see my dad in 2 weeks and as all my summer clothes are still size 20's I've been shopping in a major way. Such fun.

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LenniEd · 21/03/2009 08:29

Well DS slept 7pm-4.30am last night. Not quite as good but I'll take it

Oli - Wow at the weight loss - size 14 eh! Remind me what that feels like? Am firmly a 16/18 at the moment. Keep promising myself that I'll be good tomorrow. Just need to get started.

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LenniEd · 21/03/2009 08:31

Oh and snap on the toddlers - love your description Oli. DD exactly the same - everything has to be perfect. She wouldn't go down her slide yesterday as it had a speck of dirt on it. She got a wipe and gave it a good clean! Doesn't get that from her mother!

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Indith · 21/03/2009 15:12

at sleep Lennied! Dd has hit another growth spurt so gone from feeding 3 times a night to every 45 mins or so

Oli fantastic weight loss! Shopping sounds good

AQ friends are good Not sure if we are going to be down at all over Easter but I am booked into the parental hotel for the week beginning 4th May as dh will be away.

Ds also an accident prone child, bumps, bruises, grazes etc. Also bloody minded and opinionated I'm loving it actually as he is not too bad tantrum wise and is taking very well to being put "on the chair" to calm down.

Remember when he was having his really bad terrors around when dd was born and was doing stuff that I thought might be sleep walking type behaviour because it was so irrational even though he seemed awake? Turns out I was right, he bloody well started sleep walking last night! Dh found him sobbing and walking around in his room, picked him up and he started doing exactly the same has he had during his bad patch. Then he put him down onthe bed and it turned into a terror. So I now have a sleep walker on my hands, what joy . Of course this was just after one of dd's many feeds, and he then fell outof bed at 5.30am and needed several stories and much persuasion to go back to sleep, right in the middle of dd's longest stretch of sleep of the night

Sun has been back the past few days, yay! Much playing in the garden Ds has been showing that he is well and truely a Northern boy by running around the garden naked

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MARGOsBeenPlayingWithMyNooNoo · 21/03/2009 19:41

wow = well done Oli

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jabberwocky · 21/03/2009 19:50

Oh, I've got so much to catch up on!

oli, yes the trip was definitely worth it professionally. Just too bad the rest of it turned out the way it did. Congratulations on the weight loss! Am definitely of your fortitude on 3 X a week to the gym.

eli, is your voice back? The whole "showing of the house" thing is definitely a PITA. That was the only plus side of being moved out for the majority of the time our house was on the market. And yes, we closed and it is all finally over!

LenniEd, congrats on the sleep!!

AQ, it does sound like things are going much better for you. I'm so glad

bebe, ds2 was in such a naughty mood on Wednesday that I was relieved to go into work the next day.

And for everyone else with bruise covered toddlers, ds1 was just like that. Dh had to talk me out of buying him a "bumper bonnet"/helmet that I found in a magazine you know, pfb and all that...

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LenniEd · 22/03/2009 17:49

Happy Mother's Day everyone. Hope you are being treated to rest and relaxation (haha!)for the day

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castlesintheair · 22/03/2009 19:11

I didn't even realise it was MD until I went to Sainsburys and saw all the flowers for sale and husbands pushing trolleys full of kids around! Just another day at the castle. Up at 4.30am as is the current pattern at the moment

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EustaciaVye · 22/03/2009 19:50

Hi everyone - lol @ jabbers bump bonnet

DDs here off colour. DD2 had high them followed by rash a few days later last week. DD1 had the high temp on wednesday and came out in rash yesterday. Fine in themselves, just a bit tired. It's just visible which means I'm not sure whether to send her to school or not tomorrow (she had last wed off with the high temp).

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Elibean · 22/03/2009 20:22

Wow, much to catch up on! And not going to even attempt a super-Jabber-style catch up right now - have to drive my dm over to my db's in a minute (they're going to Paris tomorrow together, so grateful its not me) and dd2 is joining ranks of unwell toddlers. No temp, but pale poos, occasional vomiting and off her food, cough - I seem to have the cough and a slight temp, not off food sadly, but at least the voice is back, thanks!

Oli, congratulations - am also of your gym fortitude: if I could manage 3x daily walks I'd be happy, and a lot more confident about forthcoming fundraiser walk!

Castles at 4.30. I was up then too, but after being vomitted on twice, went back to sleep - the times I've been up for the day at that point I've been barely human for the rest of it.

Mothers' Day limited here, due to vomitty dd and dm being here - which made it as much her MD as mine, which I shouldn't mind but did But the cards dd made me at school were just gorgeous - its lovely when they start writing.

LenniEd, keep up the kip - and Indith, hope the sun keeps shining (lol at naked ds, though v sorry to hear the terrors are back with walking attached..) and Jabber, I'm glad the house is sorted for good!

You all speak wise words re houses and timings, will attempt to take on board and calm inner petulant toddler in me

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Elibean · 22/03/2009 20:24

ok, rattled on after all - funny how I start posts thinking I won't have time to write more than a sentence, then can't stop

I'm the same in RL, too - Castles will attest - its v

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accessorizequeen · 23/03/2009 20:39

argghh, 4.30 castles, how do you do it? ds is prettier than dd at the moment!

oli, wow!!! That is fantastic to lose that much and keep up the gym visits. You will feel so fab on hols this year. Very as my twin tummy seems to be sagging even more. would love to do more exercise but simply walking to school now leaves me in pain grrrrr.

indith, phaps see you in may then, that sounds good. more piccies of dd on fb pls (unless have missed some). Sorry bout sleep walking, will he just grow out of it soon? And at the night feeds from dd urggh.

jabber, glad the conference and the house sale all over now! you haven't said how things are going b/t you and dh lately, is the transformation complete??

REally must go and clean up my living room, wondering whether I will wake all 4 dc's if I vac now? I cannot bear it another day. DP says we can get cleaner again as I don't think floors have been mopped since she left . There is just no opportunity and anyway, it's too sodding painful.
But, my delovely dt's are 6 months this week and getting more delightful by the day which makes up for a lot. Including the screeching of ds2, how do they know how to pitch it just at that level?? I actually wanted to smother him today after I had to carry him to school, carry him back to the car, carry him into nursery, carry him back to the car after nursery and carry him into the house (cue screaming ALL the way through these journeys from hell). HV has referred him for speech, I may or may not be overreacting I just wish I could understand what the hell he was screaming all that time tbh. Bless ds1, he suggested that ds2 played the run around game at bedtime (say go, dc's run round, yell pause, they put an item of clothing on, yell go again etc etc) - huge success, cue lots of giggling from both of them AND no hassles getting ds2 dressed.

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jabberwocky · 24/03/2009 03:05

AQ, am with you on wanting/needing a cleaner- and I only have two dcs

Things are much, much better with dh. I still struggle with his chronic health condition and had started a thread on it a few days ago as I didn't want to moan about it (again!) on this one. But having sold the house, well, that's a huge stress off so I'm hoping we continue on a good streak of things.

eli, hope things are improving on the health front.

I keep forgetting MD is in March for all of you. We have to wait until May

Of course, it's celebrated at my house rather similarly to castles'...

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bebespain · 24/03/2009 09:01

Oli- Ahhh I so know what you mean and I could have written those lines myself as DS is exactly the same at the mo.
Well done on the weight loss, that is just fantastic and I bet you feel great. Its the best feeling the world although in my case its a long time since I felt like that

LenniEd - we have the specks of dirt inspectin here too and if DS spills the tiniest bit of yoghurt he goes bonkers and is asking for a tissue, must be another toddler trait, but I find it quite bizarre....

jabber - love the bumper bonnet!

Sorry to hear about the poorly LOs, Eli, EV hope they are feelng better by now

Found out I have GD yesterday so have been put a fairly strict diet and have t take my blood sugar wll week before they decide whether I need to take insulin...feelinf very sorry for myself at the mo and realise just how much of a comfort eater I am

Sorry if I missed anyone, DS tugging ferociously at my arm.....

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castlesintheair · 24/03/2009 13:30

AQ, sorry have I missed something here - are you in pain? Hope you are ok?

Well done Oli on weight loss. Am v

Lennied/Bebe, DD2 couldn't care less about being in a mess She is most unladylike!

Jabber, pleased things are better on the marital front. I often think it's easier to be on your own unless they have a beneficial value of 50% minimum.

Can't remember what I was going to say now. Better go and search for brain cell.

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jabberwocky · 24/03/2009 15:33

lol, castles. Dh is out of town atm with ds1 and life is a doddle with just me and ds2

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castlesintheair · 24/03/2009 17:59

yes Jabber, life is always a doddle with only 1 DC and no DH I find ... or even 3 DC and no DH in my case

Just been looking at our FB group. Just wondering who IG is? Anyone know?!

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EustaciaVye · 24/03/2009 19:25

Hi everyone.

Yes, I know who IG is. I'll add a post to the group when I have time.

Feel like death warmed up. Think DD2 had virus, gave it to DD1, who has now given it to me. Sore throat, cold, ache all over

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Elibean · 24/03/2009 20:53

Eek, whats happened to my page?!? Its all squished into a long column and I can't get it back to normal

EV, sympathies, I have had a fever for 3 days now, ache all over and am coughing. dd2 seems to have recovered her appetite, but is grumpy and pale - not sure its the same virus in our case, sincerely hope I don't catch hers or vice versa!

Bebe, I'm sorry you have GD to deal with - have to admit, it was one of my least wanted complications of pg (and I was lucky not to get it) because of comfort eating, especially second time around with energy levels to keep up. Can you find enjoyable, allowed snacks at all? Sorry, am ignorant about dietary issues of any sort

AQ, is the pain from the SPD? How you manage with pain on top of all you have to look after I don't know. Hope it goes away for good, soon. Must go and look at your gorgeous 6 mo olds on FB one of these days

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LenniEd · 24/03/2009 20:56

I've been wondering who IG is too!

Glad DD isn't the only mess obsessed toddler - was beginning to think she was a bit OCD. Wonder where she'd have got that from

Sorry to hear about GD Bebe - I comfort eat too - you are not alone.

All ok there Castles? Know you've hinted at going it alone in the past... are you thinking of it seriously?

Went to look at a nursery for DD today - think she is ready and I'd like some time with DS before he thinks his car seat is his mother. Plus I need to finish my dissertation before September 1st and am getting no time at all on it. Hated the nursery though so back to square one on that plan. It was grubby and so were the kids. It was also a really dark room with staff who looked pre-pubescent. Please tell me about your nurseries so I don't feel like I'm being too fussy...

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LenniEd · 24/03/2009 21:02

x-posts there Eli - hope you and EV are better soon.

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MARGOsBeenPlayingWithMyNooNoo · 24/03/2009 21:35

IG is solo

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castlesintheair · 25/03/2009 09:48

who is solo? Sorry for being dim but I'm feeling a bit c*** at the moment.

I think everything is ok Lennied, thanks for asking It's not brilliant but not below 50% yet ... I don't think

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Indith · 25/03/2009 14:46

AQ get yourself that cleaner back! Def make a date for May, can't believe the dts are 6 months already! Where has the time gone?

I've given up on my kitchen floor, it never looks clean even after sweeping, hoovering, mopping and hoovering again so why bother?

Catles Solo is...erm..Solo...help me out someone, she has 2 dcs, she and her OH live seperately don't they? Don't really want to put more as I'm bound to remember stuff wrong and mix it up with other people.

Bebe you poor thing. Don't think I could survive without comfort eating. I make buns on a regualr basis with ds then we ice them together, he loves icing buns but hates icing so then I get to eat them all (I do leave some uniced, who can resist "cake! Ooooooooh cake! pleeeeeeeeeease!")

Ds bit me today the little monster. First time he has done that, bit my leg and I was in mid telling off, complete with wagging finger and he went for my finger He is having regular visits to "the chair" these days

Lennied my nursery is lovely, there are some amazing ones out there so keep looking. Mine is very small, has a lovely little garden. The staff range from younger than me to granny age and the only change in staff since ds has been going has been the manager going on maternity leave so they all know the kids well and the kids all recognise them. They don't bother with the key worker thing, it is so small that there is no point, much nicer having kids familiar and happy to take comfort from all members of staff. They take regualr walks to the river to see the ducks, they go all together to the library to choose new books etc. The different ages mix together a lot but also do things separately. There are 2 main rooms, one has sofas, the other has tables, both have lots of toys. They separate them into babies and 2+ in different rooms at the start of the day to settle in but then they swap around for different things. They then have a small area with dressing up clothes and a small messy play area. They have a sleep room which is a bit chaotic, full of all the pushchairs and change bags but the kids seem fine with it and they really get to know the different habits and don't mind catering to them (eg ds won't sleep in the sleep room for some reason but they pop him in his pushchair in the front room and he goes right off, odd child) Erm...don't know what else really. Basically I love it and I know that if I get a proper job I won't be able to keep using it as it is only 9-5 and right in town in the congestion charge zone and I'm not sure anywhere else can live up to it. The staff just care so much about the kids, they hug them, tickle them etc and nobody gives a toss. They have students who go help out sometimes and some of them are male and also hug the kids.

Right that's enough about nursery, I have stuff to prepare for Rainbows!

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bebespain · 25/03/2009 21:57

EV - Hope you´re feeling better, sounds nasty

Thanks lovely ladies for all your sympathy re: my GD getting my head round it a bit now

Eli - definitely no healthy snacks aloud much to my sadness, its a very strict, bland diet and everything is to be weighed to the gram. Have since cancelled my Cadburys´Creme Egg order from the UK Hope you´re feeling better too...

Indith - kitchen floors, tell me about it. I gave mine a good, thorough mopping today only for DH not DS to spill oil all over it, he´s worse than a 2 year old - leaves me wondering why I even bother - grr

LenniEd - LOL at your last post, especially the car seat bit

I´m getting really stressed about the school system here in Spain as much to my surprise DS is eligible to start school in September even though he´ll still only be 2. Here he´ll be one of the youngest which is the opposite to the UK. I visited the local school yesterday its over-subscribed and its doubtful we´d get a place but I was gobsmacked when the HT said he do 4 hrs in the morning, lunch either at school or at home then back again in the afternoon for another 2 hours When I pointed out he´s not even potty trained yet she just ignored me.
Sorry for the ramble but I´m so worried about it all as I think its far too soon for him to be going to a proper school - don´t know what to do......another reason not to stay here, as if needed any more! Help!!

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