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August 08 - Sleep thiefs and baby lags in stripey tops with bags of swag.

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Steaknife · 25/04/2009 11:30

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TwilightSurfer · 01/05/2009 22:22

oh the shopping cart would be full of all the crap i'd pick up along way, never emptying. just picking up and never really knowing did i need that or not.

oopsacoconut · 01/05/2009 22:24

TS at least you would be active!

TwilightSurfer · 01/05/2009 22:25

active yes until i wandered off the bridge into a river and no one ever saw me again. drifty, i am. drifty beyond description. I NEED SLEEP!!!

LoveBuckets · 01/05/2009 22:44

TS Actually I was going to probe you further about your tests, is that hormone replacement therapy they're putting you on? I'm pretty sure it's not oestrogen/progesterone doing my head in because the timings make no sense, I even considered early menopause again, no probs AFwise. But thyroxine is a hormone too, just not one on a schedule, so that's what I want to get tested for.

Oops I knew it was you who had mentioned it before but I've been so scatty lately I couldn't trust my memory and call it out loud! Hope it works out for you, who knows maybe thyroxine will have magic fertility powers too??? Actually strike that, that's the last thing I need.

TwilightSurfer · 01/05/2009 22:58

I have not heard back about my test yet. The thought is I'll need the bio-identical progesterone supplement for 7 days each month....preAF. My symptoms are a little preMenopausal...night sweats and such. There's no weight issue. That does usual coincide with thyroid.

CaptainCaveman · 01/05/2009 23:59

oh bugger. just posted a big message and lost it . basically saying hello everyone, hope you are all ok and i am a bit tiddly!!!

dizzydixies · 02/05/2009 07:57

morning all we were in bed asleep just after 10am last night - the 5am wakes up have caught up with us, needless to say we were both awake at 5am whilst the kids slept on DH away to work and I've got them all fed.

sunny but chilly so far here - hope you're all have lovely days planned

dizzydixies · 02/05/2009 07:58

oh and I have a touch of toothache again but lets just say due to a chance encounter with my dentist and her partner in a large retail outlet a few weeks ago I have a whole new dental dilema

cheerios, weetabix or crispies for brekkie

dizzydixies · 02/05/2009 08:12

arse. have finally got round to sorting Dylans dumpingground nursery and I was going to get a wee wardrobe from IKEA however the don't deliver here and I'll have to go through. not a huge problem, I just can't be bothered and I also thought it would save me a fortune as everytime I go though I find a huge amount of essential things I never knew I needed and don't know how I managed to function without having here

LoveBuckets · 02/05/2009 08:52

LOL Dizzy were you all in Ann Summers? Have you looked on Ebay for the
wardrobe? Might be a 2nd hand one with a delivery option, you never know.

I'm going to take the baby swimming today , I hate taking babies swimming, I always panic unreasonably about hypothermia. Was DH's idea as we're going to the special needs bounce&play at the leisure centre and I was worried now that Kurt is crawling - the kids are brilliant but it would be like putting your baby in front of a herd of elephants! And as I took all 3 round the zoo yesterday (surprisingly successful), we decided it was his turn to be energetic with the big two.

Have a nice day all.

dizzydixies · 02/05/2009 08:56

no, more a supermarket kind of place but let's just say I know him from uni good luck with the swimming

dizzydixies · 02/05/2009 09:11

oh and I dreamt last night that hypothetical DD4 was to be called Beatrice Kitty Georgina known as Bea - I quite like it

oopsacoconut · 02/05/2009 09:18

Dizzy - go on have another - my mum is one of 4 girls and loves it!

I am off to lay our new turf, DH is in bed because he is tired and needs time to wake up?? DD was awake between 2-3.15 to play and then slept in our bed from 6 until I woke her at 8. I am broken with tiredness and just wanted to do the lawn and get it over with!! DD now sitting in her high chair about to watch me lay lawn, see I can multi task (DH has slept soundly through all the wake up shenanigans of jetlag and even slept in the spare room as he is too tired for a screaming baby, aaaarrrrgggghhhhh)

I will go and be joyful in the garden now

dizzydixies · 02/05/2009 09:21

I'd love 4 kids, DH not so much enjoy your garden oops I hope to get round to ours at some point this week but not likely given the state of the house!

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dizzydixies · 02/05/2009 09:30

OMG - if you all get a chance look at my profile on FB, tis childish but hysterical

oops kick up the jacksy for Mr Oops - cheeky boy

Miamla · 02/05/2009 09:41

oops i'm having similar issues here. DS couldn't be consoled last night, i thanked DP for his support (he stayed in bed with a pillow over his head) and DP told me he didn't appreciate my comment! he's now buggered off out for the day

hey ho, DS and I are having a day of non-cleaning/non-working, only play and fun allowed today

dizz deary me! i take it you didn't manage to hide the fact that you'd diddled her partner?
i've had a look on FB but think i'm missing something.. give us a clue...

sazz yeah! anneka completed her mission!!

buckets we haven't taken DS swimming yet either! is it Kurt's first time? hope it all goes well

dizzydixies · 02/05/2009 09:43

miamla luckily I only saw him after I'd seen her and put two and two togther - am not sure why I didn't catch on before

I've chosen a new language on FB, you know where you pick using English UK? I'm now using something else tis pathetic but has amused me no end

Miamla · 02/05/2009 10:01

dizz well then that's fine then, she need never know!
hmm, in that case i'm guessing you've switched to pirate but its displaying your profile with boring ol' english i'm afraid!

dizzydixies · 02/05/2009 10:03

arrrrrrr

Miamla · 02/05/2009 10:04

thought so!

dizzydixies · 02/05/2009 10:04

GrinBlushGrin

poppysocks · 02/05/2009 10:06

Why have the chaps not worked out after 8-9 months of fatherhood that they don't get old-style weekends now??? Hope yours come grovelling soon oops and miamla.

Know what you mean about the cold with swimming buckets. With DD1 I was always so cautious and it seemed like such waste of money and the pfaff of it all for such a small amount of time. When we've taken the girls together DD2 has actually lasted a good half hour or so and last weekend it was about 40 mins now that she can move around a bit. Hope you're suprised by how much you enjoy it!

What a gorgeous name dizzy. You've got to have another now. I also have DD3's name sorted [SO NOT GOING TO HAPPEN emoticon] and am totally happy with it. Shame the same still can't be said for DD2's!

DH actually gave me a lie-in this morning and I feel knackered now. What's that all about?

dizzydixies · 02/05/2009 10:08

morning poppy am fielding questions about Cairnie already over here!!! are you going to tell us hypothetical DD3's name?!?

LoveBuckets · 02/05/2009 10:10

It's so nice that men have access to an 'opt out' button when it comes to parenting, isn't it? Nip it in the bud now ladies! When it comes to grown men leaving them to Cry It Out is perfectly acceptable.

Dizzy Love it! Do it! Bebe Kitty Gigi. Although if it was the other way round you could call her Kitty BeeGee if she was particularly high-pitched...

Miamla Yep, he's only just started to enjoy a bath anyway. Must buy a new rubber ring en route. I remember DH having DS1 in just a normal rubber ring and he was scooting himself about from very tiny, mainly because he too was a big, manly baby and also thanks to his autistic fearlessness. Kurt seems a lot more sensible and cautious.