Dec 08- Must keep chocolate & cheerfulness near, teething time is nearly here!

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Right.... back to post the link now!

DH has taken dog around the block and then is going to get cheerfulness and emergency back up formula just in case the boobs fail he got wind of my melt down earlier from work...

pmk: glad DS has settled. DS2 has vomited and pooed everywhere and now has hiccups - jiggling in his chair while MNing in the hope that he'll fall asleep. DS1 happily asleep thank goodness. Will keep sharp eye out for spots, Veggie.

Verso: lovely pics.

Daisy: at your MIL. Could she be driving and so not answering her mobile?

Evening ladies! In my PJ's with a glass of pink cheerfulness at my side and the best part of a third of a tub of phish food inside me! Just about to get Heidis pj's on and might be an early night for the girls!

I've read over odd bits but must confess that I am not up to speed at all. Hope everyone is well.

Daisy, your MIL is out of order. That is so wrong.

A cup! Good plan - do you mean an open cup like when newborns lap from a cup or a sippy cup type thing?
P went down with a bit of a struggle tonight - I worry that her skin is hurting her . Asleep now though.
Spoke (wrote) too soon. Crying again...

Just added some pictures from Freddie's birthday weekend. Here, my Dad took most of them so that explains the random bus!!

Wishing for a sleep filled night for all of us. Right of for a glass of pink cheerfulness. Cheers.

Verso-I think it is far more common for babies at this age to be waking during the night, than not. At the moment I am just lucky that DS2 is sleeping well, but am under no illusions that it will last. My DH found a text I sent to him when DS1 was 6 months and it said something along the lines of:'Dear Zoo, they sent me a baby; he would not sleep so I sent him back. ' This was after he had woken hourly for about the fourth day in a row.

ZJ-regarding getting DD to take a bottle, she is 5 now so memory is a bit hazy, but from what I remember we just kept on offering her the bottle day after day and eventually she relented. She never would take expressed milk-we managed to get her to take formula. The only advantage (I was at my wits end thinking I would never be able to stop breastfeeding EVER) was that she was not fussy about the temperature of the milk, because we had given up heating up the bottles to the exact right temperature because we were so fed up of chucking milk away.

Sybil-hope the hangover is relenting. I had my first one on Saturday after god knows how long. Sadly this was after a night out with some mums I know at the school quiz. Now how rock and roll is that?

DS2's nose has survived the biting anyway. I do really like the offender's mum. She is just rubbish at telling her kids off. She was telling me the other night how her sister commited suicide just before her DD was born (her DD is one of my DD's best friends)so I wonder whether that explains her behaviour in some way.

Well DD got in at 7.55pm! I'm fuming . I tried her mobile twice - no answer. She said she never heard it. She wasn't driving as her sister drove them because MIL won't drive outside the town where we live. She said that DD was enjoying herself too much to pull her away. That would be why she was asleep by 8.10 It won't be happening again.

DS has finally fallen asleep. Little buggertyke fights going to sleep so hard.

Time for The Apprentice and some cheerfulness I think

OMG there is a December 09 Ante-Natal thread!!

kayz forgot to say great photos of Freddie's birthday and verso you have gorgeous children

Oh Kayz I so love Freddies hair, please never cut it!!!

. How annoying and thoughtless of your MIL . Does she realise it's not on?
Talking of in laws, mine are coming to visit this weekend and will be seeing Mr T for the first time as they live in Preston and are nearly 80 so not v mobile. I think am more excited about their visit than DP, I'm v aware that as my mum is younger and nearer (62 and lives in Ely) she's seen him loads but I want him to see his other grandparents too!
Great pix, Kayz, what gorgeous DCs you have, glad Freddie enjoyed his day.
MajorMoo, LOL at your text, could have written it myself (but not with such aplomb) recently. This sleeping lark seems so random.
Did the jiggling work, Effie? I can just picture it, and your cute lil DS2's face - will download pic of him and Mr T under the gym when I find the cable!
Time for the apprentice, before I go, quick q - is anyone else's hair falling out by the handful? I wash mine every other day and it looks like I'm losing a bird's nest-full and you can see the bald patches already. I was prepared for a bit more to fall out, but when does it stop?! Been going on for about 3 weeks now .

I hate having it cut. I only get it trimmed now and again to stop it getting in his eyes.

Here is a picture for you Veggie. But it's a bit pants as he would not stay still!

Ooh, Kayz, will point my sis in that direction....

Why are these people unable to talk on their mobiles like normal folk? And hold them next to their ears like normal phones?

Is she due in Dec? How exciting!

DS2 asleep (jiggling eventually worked), but DS1 waking up and wailing periodically - may head to bed soon to get some sleep while I can!

Spot My hair is coming out in clumps. It is really horrible.

Cheers spot

Bunch of twerps all of them - I love it.

Daisy I bet she was ignoring it. I have a friend whose in laws take her son out and always return late even when she has told them to be on time because she has other things on. They also take him to MacDonalds when she tells them not too and he actually doesn't like it.

MM it's hard in that situation. In the case of DS1s friend who hits him his mum is a very good friend of mine and I know his behaviour really gets her down so I don't want to say how much it upsets me to see DS getting hit. It is so hard as I am more and more wanting to protect ds and we always thought it would be a phase that he would grow out of but it has gone on for over a year now.

Hooray DH is home. He is putting DS1 to sleep, I let ds1stay up til his dad got home as he really missed him and there is no nursery tomorrow as they are on holidays now (hooray). We had a great time we spent an hour watching music videos. He is really into music at the moment, he quite likes coldplay and madness, oh and the Killers. Though I think his favourite song at the moment is A beautiful day by U2.

Good to hear the corn flakes taste better cos the shreddies taste so good. Do I crush the corn flakes.

veggie I know she was ignoring it!

DD has a liking for The Jam, especially when we are driving.

Well DS2 loves my rendering of Billy Joel

Which toon , Effie?

Ooohh I love Uptown Girl

Evening everyone, will have a proper read through but in the meantime...

Daisy, how annoying of your mil to just ignore you! It makes me grateful for my lovely mil.

Kayz, a december thread? Can't believe that was us last year!

We've had a bit of a mixed day. Ds1 was a pain in the backside this morning & really pushed my buttons (as evidenced by his 'stop whingeing' comment to dh . But we had a nice afternoon with one of his friends. They went to play upstairs, we heard some giggling & when we went up they were both hiding in ds1's bed!

Ok, own up, who's watching the apprentice?