Fab Feb 2009: too sleep deprived to think of a new thread title

[dinkystinky]

'nuff said

MsLucy - am envious that your DS1 manages to hit the loo with his poo on occasion!

Lardy - hope your DS is ok and his weigh in goes ok. Danny is a bottle refusnik too - he seems even more stubborn on his anti-bottle stance than DS1 was [sigh]. I definitely breed boob obsessed boys...

of your toilet pooing ds mslucy, he's doing better than my ds1 by miles!

I keep meaning to say to all of you on OPT to not worry about the poo thing too much if you can. I believe it's very common. I was really lucky with DS1 that he decided one day (after a year of us having a potty chair and him wearing the potty bit on his head as a hat) he wasn't wearing nappies any more and from that moment always weed in the potty and loo but pooing took a lot longer and he'd always wait until his night-time nappy was on which drove me mad. Then, when he was ready, he took the next step and now he's very, very happy pooing in the loo.

morning all,
PSL, sounds like good news ref M but I'm sorry you had such a nightmare journey with your pram. well done girls for sorting out a replacement. I love mumsnet

dinky, sorry you had such a shitty day, literally My DS1 used to smear when he was a todder when he woke up early. I had to resort to sewing him into his PJ's at night.
Who was it said that they throw out anything covered in poo? (LBB?) does that mean kids too

lardy welcome back. I'm trying to spend more time on FB too but I'm struggling (being old and IT retarded) for some reason I can't find the group that was set up which had the very useful translation of everyones real and MN names. Although quite a few of you are on my friends page I can't remember who a lot of you are (babybrain!)

nkweto have a fab holiday

rock concert was good yesterday. Was on the playing fields on our compound from 12 noon til around midnight (possibly later but I left at around 9pm) thankfully it was the far end from our house so it didn't keep us awake. Was really good, had loads of bands from all over Saudi (westerners) several bars with homebrew and even homebrewed strawberry dacquari which was interesting.

Can't believe its May and I'm home next month! Must start planning

THOM - thanks for the words of wisdom re OPT. Very apt timing as DS1 did another nocturnal nappy poo last night - but before we went to bed so we could clean him up before we went to bed. I dont mind those poos so much..

MoS - most amused at the sewing in of the toddler. Doubt DS1 would stay still enough for me to be able to do it. Sounds like the rock concert was lots of fun - its great that your compound organises things like that.

Beautiful sunny day here today - hope its lovely where you all are.

yay the sun is shining in the Midlands! :-)
We are going to the Lakes tomorrow to visit my mum for the first time since Poppy arrived - So just hoping it will be sunny up there. Im looking forward to a BBQ and some beer!!
Granny will be the onsite babysitter for the weekend

Incase I dont get on here later, I hope you all have a great Bankholiday weekend & Enjoy the sunshine - I think London is in for a good one.

Sunny here today too! Wooooooo!

DH has just sent me a news report that its supposed to be a nice hot summer for the UK too - yay!

MoS Yes, it is me who throughs everything away that get covers in poo. i have not yet tried to throw out the children, although it is tempting sometimes!
Glad the concert was good. Sounds like alot of fun.
KT Have a great weekend with your mum, hope you get a bit of relaxation time and a well deserved drink or two.

Bad morning here. I'm back on the thoughts that if I know my life would be no different as a single parent (infact, it might even be easier), then why am I still here?
I'm so pissed off. I had to cancel my smear test this morning too. Luke is in such a foul mood, he has been screaming his little head off, you know like he's hungry? That's ow desperate the cry is, but he had 7oz at 6am and another 5oz at 9, he winded really well and I can't hear or feel any more wind in him, he's in just a nappy and vest as it's quite warm in the flat. I was in the bath, and he was in the kitchen when it started, dp is in bed, Luke is screaming, I'm halfway through washing my hair, you'd think he'd get up for a minute to help wouldn't you? Even though he's been at work, or AIBU? It's not like he can sleep through it........so I told him it's days like today that I feel like I do all of this on my own, so I may as well do it on my own, and it's days like this I know my life wouldn't be any different if it was just me and the boys, and it's days like this that I seriously think about making some serious changes. Maybe I should. If I was really unwell or had back problems like PSL, dp wouldn't stay at home and take full care of ds's like ohn does, I'd have to just do the best I could, like I would if I was a single parent.
Anyway, that's me being all negative again. Sorry.
Hope everyone has a lovely day, it looks like a beautiful day today.

throws even......

Just a quick one....
Sunny here too.
Off to meet my mum for pizza and park with both kids and have a couple of NCT'ers round this pm. Had a lovely day with a friend in London yesterday so we're all very sociable this week !!

DS was woken by his magic light - typical - but I'd rather that than he wake at 5am.....so he was very pleased with himself. He's been running round the garden this morning in his Peppa Pig Pants and a pair of swimming goggles and got v.wet in the puddles on the trampoline but still wasn't cold. They just don't feel it. He's going to insist on shorts when we go out but it's a bit nippy when the sun goes in. He only likes soft shorts too (where do they get these ideas from - maybe they just like being nice and comfy).

DH is off on a golfing trip Sunday to Wednesday so I'm taking DS for a little holiday to Grandmas Sunday/Monday and am taking DD to see a friend overnight....she's the one who will allow me the most chatting time with my lovely old friend..... Plus DS usually fights with her DD of the same age and playing diplomat all weekend is not my idea of relaxation. Plus he LOVES his Grandma and Granddad. Everyone's a winner !!

Hello to everyone. Honestly this was a quick post.....have to run DD is getting very antsy !

LBB - sounds like a hard start to the day for you. Danny has been having days of being miserable too like Luke - I suspect its part cold, part teething, part weather changing all the time and mostly just being a baby! Its hard to deal with when you feel like you dont get a break from it - but believe me, you'd probably find it so much harder if you didnt have someone to unload on about it like DP. Yes he should have gotten up to see if Luke was ok when he knew you were in the shower - hopefully next time he'll know better - but its really not worth ending your relationship with him over this, particularly as when he's being helpful and things are good you seem to be so happy with him. Get out there, enjoy the sunshine (remember baby screaming when outside never sounds as loud as it does inside) and forget the rubbish start to your day.

Pinch punch first day of the month...

Talking of punching, Baby T beat me up this morning. Managed to grab my hair while I was bending over to change him then, when I couldn't get away he stated kicking me in the boobs...

I've obviously been away too long, don't remember lovely warm sunny bank holiday weekends
hope you all have a lovely long weekend.

LBB, cheer up, you don't really want to be a single parent, you are just tired again probably. And on the bright side, you didn't want to go for your smear anyway so you can put it off for a few weeks. Enjoy the long weekend (hopefully with more help from DP) and the lovely weather

good news - just been for a walk in the bluebell covered woods nearby - was fabulous!

bad news - DH decided to hand his notice in at work yesterday.....so neither of us has a job now

happy may day everyone.....!

calico was that planned or did he just reach breaking point with the job? hope it works out.

dp is officially finished his course and unemployed with no hope of work... fantastic

got my car back... feels so differant to drive now!

have to brave town with the may day fair on to get to the post office.... if i hit a cow do you think i get to keep it?

Calico - please tell me you had some advance notice of DH's resignation??? Has all the recent DIY made him decide to change vocation and become a builder/handyman? Or has he just had enough of the place he works at? Hope it works out for all of you.

THOM - sounds like you have a mini Muhammed Ali on your hands there! Hope your boobs arent too bruised. Note to self - tie hair back before all nappy changes...

Pink - glad you finally got your car back and its working well, hurrah! Not so great that DP has finished his course and now unemployed - what is it he's looking to do?

Danny has been a screamy pukey little man today - so much so that when he puked on me just as was about to leave to go to pushy mothers I decided to give pushy mothers a miss today (though will definitely be there next week MsLucy) as it was the third time he'd vommed on me today and I didnt relish the prospect of him doing it again on the heath and me having to exercise and then travel home covered in chunder! So just took him out for a nice leisurely walk in the sun and he now seems happy and chunder free - typical!

THOM- LOL!

We have been out having lunch with other babies. It was fun although friend has two dogs so dd spent most of her time cowering in the baby's sun tent (she's not keen on dogs).

Frankie had his jabs yesterday, he's now 15lb 2oz- CHUNK.

I had my smear yesterday. The nurse spent most of her time rooting around and repositioning the light and shouting 'Why they send you for a smear 12 weeks post-natal is bloody beyond me, I can't see a bloody thing, where's your bloody cervix gone?'.

GP has taken me off all my BP meds. We had a night where F's breathing became very irregular and pulse dropped to 88 and DH and I woke him up and jigged him about whilst speaking in high pitched voices and looking at each other with fear in our eyes. GP seemed to think the Atenolol was affecting him through my milk so he told me to stop taking everything. First time I've been off meds for 6 yrs so feeling a bit weird about it but he did promise me my head wouldn't explode.

dinky, he's just finished training to be an IT tech.... not the worst hit industry but still not many places hiring.

my traitorous baby fell asleep sitting on another mother at toddler groups lap... she took him for a cuddle while i was on the phone and he dozed off in her arms... must remember to pass him around more often if that's his response to strangers he made up for his angelic behaviour by screaming blue murder in the very long queue at the post office

dinky, sounds like you had a nice stroll anyway, very jealous of your weaher permitting walks over there, we keep having torrential showers here.

oh MS, how scary about frank and his breathing incident

you've just reminded me i've been blocking last night from my mind all day, aaron woke at 1am and screamed hysterically for over and hour.. his chest sounded really raspy and he was having trouble breathing through the snot.... i was on the verge of ringing out of hours doc when he calmed down a bit and seems fine this morning but his chest wheezing like that fraked me out with his ridiculously high risk of asthma.. not to mention recurrance of the pneumonia.

had to at the nurse playing 'hunt the cervix' ... over here they say to book it whenever your periods return which is great as if your bfing you'll be off the hook for aaaggeeess! well usually, guess you'd still have been in there today as yours came back didn't it?

Pink - I agree that the IT industry probably isnt the best one to be trying to break into now - though it will probably be one of the first to improve jobswise when things start to get better. Hope DP doesnt drive you too mad while he's at home....

MS - that episode with Frank sounds really scary! Hope you're ok off the BP meds and that Frank is ok now. Are you meant to have a smear that soon after giving birth??? I remember last time round having a smear around 8 months after DS1 was born but it was useless and had to go for another one...

he's living in front of the tv playing video games

i may have to kill him soon

actually he's not too bad so far, would be happier with a little more help but am giving him this week to relax as he has worked his ass off for the last year and done some really tough exams... from monday on i nag though