October 2007 These Little Piggies chased the easter bunny..and stole the eggs pt ll

[TheLadyEvenstar]

ok lets try here ladies!!!

[WhiteWineAndJaffaCakes]

NC - I did try to get a photo of Anya this morning but she's decided cameras are interesting and she charges towards me at speed every time I get it out. Haven't managed to get a photo of her for ages! LOL at you buying bigger jeans - that's my trick. Glad it went ok with the benefits woman.

LLL - glad you got a decent night's sleep.

FT - well done on finding the buzz.

Muppet - don't even want to think about how bras get discarded. I don't often find that mine fall out onto the street when I'm walking along.

Alice - congrats on the house - bet you can't wait now for 28th.

Inzi - congrats on weight loss continuing.

Anya has discovered the concept of lying . I came home this afternoon to a smelly baby - dh said "I asked her if she needed her nappy changing and she said no". . So Anya would rather sit in poo than have her nappy changed and dh believes a toddler over his own nose. I despair.

[NeedCoffee]

sorry, being really cheeky ladies, but does anyone have a luna buggy that is less than a year old where i could borrow the receipt please?!

[NeedCoffee]

hi all, never mind abiut the receipt, will just pay

Inzi-not as far as i know! nothing came of it.

alice-great news, hope everything runs smoothly

LES-tell DP to put a sock in it, it wont hurt Karl! saying hat...maybe his very first one should be new, get him off to a good start, dp'll soon change his mind when he has to fork out loads every few monthsanyway, i've been thinking-is it just you and I that aren't married on this thread? I think you should get married-we need a MN Oct thread wedding!!!

i got that luna pram last night its broken on one of the clicky catches that clicks in when you unfold iyswim, i've took it to a local pram shop and they're going to send it to M&P to try and repair, all the seat unit is mouldy too and wont wash off, so will have to see if they have them on ebay...also i tried fitting as much of the things off it(seat unitnot, hoodnot cosy toesyes basketyes parasolumm kind of) in my washing machine, my beand new, 1 week old washing machine-and the parsol has peirced my washer door seal[blush and bloody snapped, so i've had to have a waher man and try and blag a new seal that he said he can fit next Thurs, can't believe i was so stupid I'm so angry with myself. Do love the Luna though if i can get it sorted, should have just bought a new one!

[NeedCoffee]

oh flaming heck, sorry for all the mistakes!

[FloriaTosca]

NC Try cleaning the mould with 3tblspns white wine vinegar, 1tspn borax and 2 cups hot water...or Vanish for carpets and upholstery...both remedies on the cleaning thread here on MN...we are about to try them on the Buzz.

[muppetgirl]

Wehay Alice!!!!!

Back later, am in a bit of a pickle about my dad (forgettting Ollie's birthday, trying to make a joke about it, arranging what to buy then not being heard of for 5 days)

Asking brother's opinion if it's okay to go balastic at him as he does this every year

[muppetgirl]

....oh and walked into nursery to pick Henry up and was asked to sign the accident handbook. I immediatley asked 'Why? What's he done?' in an exasperated way. The lovely lady replied he had been bitten by a child...


I felt terrible


He's fine but does have a red circle on his forehead. The child has been identified as having issues that they are dealing with.

(Henry was in the garden so they did the handover before I saw him)

[FloriaTosca]

Muppet; poor Henry!I hope the mark is fading fast ... one of the los in my circle of mums/07 babies has hair pulling and biting issues which is wierd, his parents are really gentle people(perhaps a little too gentle iyswim)we all watch him like hawks when we meet up. at your Dad on your and Ollies' behalf (it isnt as if he is of an age that doesn't notice anymore)... I hope you get to give him a piece of your mind

[FloriaTosca]

Can't believe I didn't write this here earlier but
Breaking News ...

...cue drum roll..

..... Alexander has slept through for the first time EVER!!!!! 10pm-6.15am!!!!! ....

...it has only taken him 18 months!

....I was beginning to think he would hit puberty first!

Even more amazing, probably because he had given me two particularly bad nights previously,I slept too! I woke terrified at 6.00 and ran in to check him ... who knows perhaps he would have slept even longer if I had kept out of his room!

I don't expect much for tonight but he has done it once now...we can but hope

[Dalrymps]

Wow Floria, thats amazing, you must be so pleased, bet you feel better for the rest

[muppetgirl]

Woooohoooooo ALex!!! Well done you lovely little boy xxx

Floria -how did you feel for your 1st full nights slepp for ages?

[LisaLessLumpy]

Well done Alex

[alicet]

Floria great news!!!!

Muppet sorry to hear Henry was bitten. sam used to bite children from time to time at nursery and i was mortified. He used to bite me too and it bloody hurt so the thought of him doing that to other children was awful. Thankfully it only happened a handful of times and he grew out of it. Adam has bitten me once too but touch wood not since and not anyone else. i was told by the nursery that it is a phase that some children go through but they usually grow out of it. just wanted to give you the other side - the mum of the child in question is probably mortified. Fingers crossed it doesn't happen again...

well we had a drama last night. Dh was in birmingham with work so I was putting both boys to bed. Adam is teething at the mo and has a cold so I was giving him medised. I was sitting on our landing with him on my lap and the medised on the floor and thought 'I must put this away before putting Adam to bed' (as I leave Sam playing while I settle Adam) but then totally forgot.

So I came out of Adam's room to find sam with the bottle of medised (lid on) with some on his chin and top and wiping the carpet with a baby wipe where he had spilt it. I asked him if he had had any and he said he had because 'I am pretending to be poorly'. Needless to say i totally panicked despite knowing that it would be 4 hours before he would need testing to see if he needed any treatment. And also knowing that he couldn't have had very much to drink since the level in the bottle hadn't gone down much.

However paracetamol is something you can't mess with. In case any of you don't know it doesn't have any effect straight away but if you have enough it causes liver failure over 3-4 days and if you get to that point the only treatment is a transplant. So needless to say despite being 99% sure he would be fine it wasn't a risk I was going to take.

So I rang around and got a friend to come over to look after Adam. To cut a long story short we went to A&E, told he needed to come back for a blood test at 11 which we did then they called to say he had taken some but not enough to be dangerous and he didn't need any treatment.

Dh got on the train to come back and got home at 1am by which time all the drama was over but didn't want to be in the situation where he was in birmingham and Sam needed admission for treatment.

Moral of the story is that childproof labels are about as useful at stopping children drinking medicine as a chocolate bar wrapper would be at stopping them eating chocolate! So don't do as I did and keep it out of reach

Anyway off to chill with dh now....

[alicet]

childproof labels?! Clearly I meant lids!!!

[LisaLessLumpy]

blimey alice, you must have been terrified, so glad all is ok and I will be heeding your warning.
Just so you are all aware, Medised has now been changed to 6years old too

[FloriaTosca]

Criket Alice! That must have been awful...even worse when you know exactly what the prognosis is!...I have to say I have always been super cautious because I of my saftey contious mums' stories of me climbing on the loo to reach and drink almost half a bottle of Fenegan left on the window sill and my brother forcing open the door under the sink and drinking bleach ... but I can so easily understand how it can happen when you are so distracted with one sick chid. I am relieved for you that everything is alright.

Last night wasn't as perfect as the one before as he woke at 5am and wanted bf but then slept on 'till 7.30...and as it was my lay-in morning Dh took him off for 90mins so I feel like new woman.

[FloriaTosca]

that of course should have been "crickey!" not cricket

[NeedCoffee]

LOL Inzi thats great, Rich said if he'd won, he would have shared with all of us

God Alice, bet that was scarey, so glad everything turned out ok.

Have to go as i'm getting ready to go out woo hoo!! xxx

[Dalrymps]

Alicet - Eek, that must have been so scary. Glad all is well, I will take your warning on board.

I also have a warning, if dd/ds is 'helping' you load the washing machine, make sure they're not holding the other side of the door when you close it. Dylan did this yesterday and I trapped his little finger for a second, he cried quite a bit but it was ok, poor little mite.

Inzi - Well done! I've been shopping in Newcastle with MIL today and totally forgot about the national. Dh went to see the match, got beat 2-0, he enjoyed it though cause Shearer was in charge lol.

Sorry I've been absent for a while, have been reading but not had time to post. Will catch up properly soon, just popped on to give you the latest installment abot my stupid parents.

As you all know, they were horrid to me on mothers day and upset me, then dh called them and told them they had upset me and that was unacceptable etc. I haven't called them since as I have been understandably upset with them. Anyway, in the mean time they emailed some pics of Dylans last visit to them (trying to guilt trip me in to calling them) and they send dh a birthday card. They have basically tried to carry on as normal without appologising at all in an attempt to get me to just do the same even though their behaviour was totally unacceptable!

Anyway, whilst shopping today I suddently had 3 missed calls from them and 3 answerphone messages left. I didn't answer at the time as I still don't want to speak to them and I was busy shopping!

We got home and dh listened to the messages for me to 'screen' them for abuse and they were ridiculous.

First one was my dad just saying 'mum and dads phone here, can you ring us back?'. Erm, no thanks!

Second one was my dad again,(in a bossy,angry voice) this time asking me what I was 'playing at', why was I being so cruel and playing mind games with them and torturing them when all they had done is show me kindness . How long you going to go on playing these mind games? MOre hurt more hurt, you plan it all the time. He said I was being nasty and asked me to call them.

Excuse me?! I haven't called because you upset me, why aren't you calling to appologise, why aren't you acknowledging that as the reason? Why are you 'making up a totally different reason to the truth which is that I am 'playing mind games'???

Third message was my mum in super manipulative/guilt trip mode. She said soemthing along the lines of (in a very patronising, talking down to me type of voice)

Amy i'm calling to talk to you about our Dylan, the one we've been missing out on. Your dad could get a word in when Ali(dh) called as he couldn't get a word in so we thought we'd leave Ali to calm down

We didn't expect you to call us cause we know you're busy watching your programs about Jade Goody but I haven't got time to do things like that we've got other things in life(WTF? She said this becuase I mentioned when I called her on mothers day that Jade had died, I heard it on the news, I only said it becuase she was being morbid and talking about illness etc so I thought i'd talk about something she might be interested in!)

Can we talk, alright!? (said in controlling manner)

You know, this isn't about me and your dad, it about our life over the last 6 year and what we've been through.

We've got a little boy now (no, actually, I think you'll find he's our son!)

Lets talk, not a shouting match, lets talk shall we?!?!? (said as if making out that it is myself and dh that cause shouting matches, not them. This couldn't be further from the truth)

So there you go, I feel sick to my stomach, this is what I get from not calling them because they upset me.

I sat and cried my eyes out about this situation to dh last night and how bad it is making me feel and then I just get more abuse today. They are actually blaming me for causing a problem when it's all them and their twisted attitude.

I am afraid I might have to stop contact again, the stress and worry is really getting to me and they are making me feel like a horrible person

[Mine]

DAL - i know they are your parents, but i really don;t know why you would want to have contact with them if they make you feel like this all the time. Its manipulative.

If its for Dylan's sake... then i would be worried about how they will make him feel when he grows up.... they'll do exactly the same to him.

I don;t know you or your family inn RL, so this is just my opinion... i hate seeing people treated like this.

Dylan is your son, this is your life and you choose who gets to share it. If they upset you all the time.. then just don;t do it.

From my experience, life is far too short to have toxic, negative people in your life making feel shite at any opportunity.

You are an adult, a mother at that, so you deserve to be treated with respect and civility.

Sorry... rant over, am VERY emotionally charged today

[Dalrymps]

Mine - Thanks, it's hard but I know you're right. I wouldn't let anyone else treat me this way. I don't know what the hell is wrong with them?!

How are you anyway?

[Mine]

not sure, but from my experience, they won;t change.

You maybe be much happier and content to just steer clear of them. But as i said before, only you can judge this as none of us really know you or your family in RL, so its easy for me/us to tell you what we think you should do.

I'm fine thanks. Just feeling undervalued by DH recently. I've got a feeling the hormones charging around my body at the mo will take over and i'll explode later. I'll blame it on my AF !

We're having a BBQ later today.... my favourite food of all time... except for mashed potato to course

What's everyone else up to today?