Feb 08 - Teething, Toddling and terrible two's rapidly approaching!

[sarahmikeharryandrosie]

here we go ladies, our new thread, !!!!!!!

grrrr. feeling rubbish.

our phil and teds came yesterday. it was in a battered box, bits missing, dirty, no instructions or paperwork. the company i bought it from did not answer phone at all or return my call. have just done a search on them on MN and apparently they are proper cowboys.

spoke to very helpful person at consumer direct which is part of office fair trading. she says in breach of law, sending me paperwork so i can start to hassle them legally. but said not to buy another buggy as there is a chance that they may get away with replacing it rather than refunding. by sounds of it, whole process is going to take ages and i have no fecking double buggy.

i feel really low. i have been feeling low for a while. most of times it's ok, but then i just feel winded by how low i feel. dh and i arguing almost every day. we always make up and there is never any overhanf iykwim, but is still hate it. i think having him around means we are both subject to same baby-stresses and neither of us has a break.

today was meant to be my day off to go into town onj own but have just spent morning on phone trying to sort out buggy shit.

ah well.

Always in a rush but just wanted to say a quick message to swotty.

So sorry you are having a crap time, made lots worse by the buggy. Was it 2leftfeet? I bought our first buggy from them with no probs but have seen loads of probs from people on here. Really hope you get it sorted. I have a spare double buggy (two in fact) if you want a loan of it until you are sorted (have double Mclaren and Powertwin, neither of which get used). But it would mean having to collect it. Send me an email if you do want either of them.

Anyway, as for feeling low, I reeeally know how you feel. Esp when DTs were little like Bob is now, and DH and I argued about everything because we were so stressed. I used to find weekends when DH was home more stressful than weekdays when he was at work, despite really looking forward to weekends . Is there any way you would consider sending Esther to nursery one or two mornings a week or something to give you a bit of a break (not that it is her you need a break from but one child seems so much easier than two once you have two!).

Sorry am not probably making much sense, drop me an email if you like and we can moan away together. I left the swings in tears last Friday as it was such a shit day. My three scream at me and each other a lot, esp DS2, and sometimes I just end up screaming back .

On a plus note, my lovely bestest friend is staying for 3 nights, and we had a night out last night with 7 pints each and I AM NOT HUNGOVER!

not hungover? i dont believe a word of it .

ty egg. its so silly isnt it? all are happy and healthy and we have this lovely free flat and yet i still feel awful sometimes. i just feel like i cant imagine how anything's going to get better. also i feel like just a fraction of the person i was before i had kids. part of that is the way i look, also it's SAHM'ing feel like i never have job-done-well-done moments, feel like noone ever has anything to say to me and that i have nothing to say to anyone! gah.

oh swotty, just read your post, so sorry for you hunny,xxxx

hope your day got better for you, and you get your buggy probs sorted as soon as possible
xxxxxx(((((((hugs))))))))) to you, xxxxx

Hi all, Oh Swotty how crap when you were looking forward to your nice new buggy. Bstards! I have been disappointed a lot recently by internet purchases - they don't seem to care what they post off to you - DD1 got some new shoes and they were different sizes! She was well peeved.
Maybe it's a blessing in disguise so you can go and visit lovely (drunk?) egg and her brood.

School starts on Tuesday and I am freaking out about planning etc. Teachers really do need the break!

LO can say about 50 words - which is just what the book says she should be doing (did you hear that Malcolm!) I love the image of him rushing to dance to dancing queen! Good taste ha ha. DH is still nanny as his work seems to have dried up - thank god I have a job. Sheeeeet better get on with it then! xx

Ok - where IS everyone - please pop in or I will worry about you!
I am going to Heathrow in a minute to pick up a brave 18 yr old girl from Sri Lanka who is coming to London to study and knows NO-ONE here at all. She was my daughter's pen pal - so she sort of knows us!
I couldn't sleep last night - was wide awake at 6 - madness!
Swotty - really hope you are feeling better.

Sarah - hope the PG is going well.

DH took LO and DD2 to Wales (PILs) for 2 days this week while I worked! - humpf i say - so did LO (he he) she gave him hell! She was very unimpressed to be away from me. I have noticed that she is more clingy at 18 months for sure.

Gotta go face the day! xxx

morning omy!!!

preg is going well,i am nearly 15 weeks , generally feeling fantastic, a little tired by the end of the day but good!!!!!

DS starts school on wednesday and he seems very excited- i am also very excited!!!!LOL

did i tell you dd walks with a slight limp? been to docs a couple of times and finally they agreed to refer her to a specialist, well i had appt come thru yesterday and we have to take her to the birmingham childrens hospital on oct 6th!!!! i am not too worried just hope its nothing too serious, the doc seemed to think her left leg is shorter than the right, but she has a large fold of skin at the top of her left leg too and not on the right leg!!! very strange!!!!!!!!

sorry i am rambling, will keep you informed of how we get on!!!!

its far too quiet on here,.where are you all?

i am here

bob has done a super six days worth poo and is sleeping the deep sleep of a baby who is a lot lighter than he once was. i am almost all FF'ing now and i think the change is bunging him up.

buggy still not here but found a top tip on MN about how to get someone at the company to answer your call. they promised to send me a replacement last week, but when courier came turned out they had only sent me a couple of the accessories. apparently i will get it on monday afternoon. really, bambino direct are rubbish. they must have lost all their profit on courier costs. picked up a cheapie on ebay last week so thankfully not housebound. ty so much egg for your offer of a lend. you very nearly had guest on bank holiday monday .

omy - dd def clingier now. which is great cause she was always a bit of a daddy's girl so nice to be appreciated. she is also much more attached to one of her cuddly toys. lol - she keeps calling dh by his name. never when he's there but if she's calling for him from other side of flat. or first thing in the morning "co-lin! co-lin! hel-lo!" . where in wales is your dh from? i spent six years there and it's where i met dh.

cor sarah your must spend your life at medical apptmnts what with being pregnant and also this with rosie and her walking. and then working in nhs too.... hope all goes well with consultant. glad you feel so great on the preg hormones.

i have been craving curry for breakfast all this week so right now i have an enormous pot of ginger chicken cooking away so i can freeze a load of it. in my own twiseted way i am convinced this will help me lose weight

Hi all, your buggy saga is somewhere between farce and nightmare, Swotty.

Ho hum, what is LO doing? Trying to touch his nose with his tongue (he can't), says one word now -- has been saying it for a while but we didn't realise. He now sits in a booster seat at the table for tea which he vastly prefers to the high chair (still use the high chair in the kitchen as we only have backless barstools, otherwise). I thought that I caught him doing rudimentary role play the other day, for a moment. He has finally learnt to be gentle with pets (except when he doesn't feel like it, lol). Very screechy whiny about things he wants.

The shoe obsession has struck DS big time; he wants to wear them all the time, which is a pain since none of other DC are allowed to wear shoes in the house. I got LO a new pair of proper fitted shoes yesterday for £41 (lljkk faints over). They may only last 8 weeks, that's £5/week! I should just stick with cheap wellies after that, until spring at least, I reckon.

is everyone still alive?

we have fab mothercare wellies for dd. they are so easy to put on and embue her with a certain glastonbury chic that i often put her in them when its not raining.

ds starts his first day at 'big school' today!!!!!!!!! he is so excited bless him!!!!

Hope everyone is ok, xx

How was Harrys first day Sarah?

Been struggling to get to the computer as DH is always on it working.

Took DS to rhyme time on monday. They sang if you're happy and you know it... He watched the whole thing but didn't do any actions. I sang it to him when we got home and he could do the lot - he must've been taking it all in. Very very cute when he shouts hooray

DH got some back pay this month and I was just going through our finances this month and I seem to have spent the lot . Only bought a bike for DH, a table for drawing for DS and road tax and now its all gone

My friends 3 week old has been in hospital this week with ?meningitis. Shes better now but still on the ward so I went up to see her in my break. She is so tiny I forgot how little newborns are.

DH got some back pay this month and I was just going through our finances this month and I seem to have spent the lot blush. Only bought a bike for DH, a table for drawing for DS and road tax and now its all gone sad

Alkar, so lovely to hear from you, xcxxx

How awful for your friend to have to go thru such an ordeal with their new baby xxxx speedy recovery little one xxxxx

oh dear - re spending!!!!Lol still it would only gather dust if you were to save it!!!!

How cute Daniel watching and learning it all!!!!

Harry is loving school, he seems to have grown up all of a sudden too!!! he went in on his own today as "he can do it on his own now he is at big school" very cute but i felt a little redundant!!!!lol

next week he will stay for lunch and he is so excited about it!!!!

thanks for asking after him alkar!!!

just re read my post and somehow i have part of yours too Alkar!!!!LOL how very strange

Very weird sarah!

Anyone doing anything nice this weekend? DH is at the football and me and DS were doing a bit of gardening in the sunshine earlier. DS is now in bed and I'm on the computer - must get back to the sun

we went to thomas land at drayton manor yesterday and had a fab time!!!!!

hope u have all had good weekends too

Hello all. Normal weekend here. DS has become a tyrant, terrorising his poor big sis. He hit her over the head with a wooden dolls house wardrobe yesterday and is generally a complete pest! His speech is amazing though, so many words now. My favouriet is papple which means apple. And also "stuck". As I'm typing I've just had "mummy, papple stuck" because he's earing one and he'd jammed it into a toy!!

DD also started school Sarah, and also was very independent, going off on her own on the first day and not even saying goodbye .

Otherwise, nothing new, still deciding what to do about work and moving and everything. DH thinks we've decided, I am not so sure....

OMG dd HAS STOPPED sleeping thru!!!! she was up at half 2 this am and got her back to bed to sleep at about 5!!!!! i am a tired grumpy mummy today!!!! DD has far too much energy though!!!!

cannot remeber the last time i didn't have to get up to her is really bugging me now!!!! think we need to get tougher with her,

Hope everyone is ok, xxx

Hi all.
OMG, LO is so flippin' cheeky!! I should have used Cheekster as his middle name. He is driving me slightly mad. We can't get an oven lock on the top oven/grill, so I have to tie it up in several ways, else he compulsively opens and closes the grill when we're cooking. He is into the fridge. He climbs everything. He runs into the road at any opportunity. He was blithely pulling books off shelf in the library this morning (when he wasn't trying to run out of the building at high speed).

Sigh, he's cute, really, and even listens to me when it comes to stuff like not sitting his pooey bottom on his little toy car. But CHEEKY!!!

lol lljkk a day in the life of a toddler!!!!! lmao- so glad its not just my DD!¬!!!!!

pesky is the word we use. lljkk. and naughty lol - it really winds the grandparents up when we call dd naughty. i have been searching old MN threads about Alfie Kohn and UP and your name keeps popping up .

sarah glad your ds enjoying school so much. how pregnanct are you now? when is 20wk scan booked for? dd also stopped sleeping - she's been having nightmares i think poor love. the other day i thought she must be in pain or having a fit. last night dh and i were in her room six bleeding times. gah. you must be exhausted with a non-sleeper and a bump.

strawb lovely to hear from you - i do wonder how you are doing. what are your options re moving and work? lol at papple. we have fop pop for fruit pot . words like stuck are impressive i think - the moving on from just naming stuff.

alkar sorry to hear about your mate's baby, princessllama's boy was only a bit older wasnt he. maybe six weeks. it makes you catch your breath and remember to count blessings. that is very sweet re shouting hooray all our happy-and-know-its end with a "we are" which dd gets nowhere near. she is currently obsessed with the hokey kokey. one time over summer i found her walking back and forwards in front of bob in her chair saying "oooh koky koky". it very nearly almost made all this two baby shenanigans worth it.

still tough here. ds seems to be going backwards a bit. early august when he was a couple of months old he was starting to be able to go down sometimes on his own. about a week ago we seemed to go back to the start and it does takes such endless rocking in sling to get him to sleep. i feel like i spend my life strapped to him. dd has found dh going back to work tough i think. she has become v clingy and we have had some v tough evenings with her. how is everyone doing with tantrums? dd is becoming a master. throwing on floor, stomping fists. the arched back! that is so scary.

otherwise all ok. my new buggy is here and very swish. i feel truly yummy. all our local groups started last week thank god. much less fraught taking two to them than i had anticipated. going to attempt some toddler groups - have always avoided cause i hate not knowing people.

hey swotty, sorry your still having a tough time with lo!! Glad your getting out and about a bit more now though.

bet your missing dh as much as dd is now he is back at work,

i am 16 weeks pregnant today my 20 week scan is oct the 14th, cannot wait , feeling lots of movements atm too which is nice, i am totally exhausted though, i cane home from work early last night as i was too tired to see properly!!! popped to the local chinese to get dinner as i had not had time to cook for us earlier. got home and dh was sat watching the tv and my house was like a bomb sight,he hadn't even moved the dc's dinner plates from the kitchen table where they were sat eating when i went to work. dont know whether it was tiredness or hormones (prob both)but i got so mad at dh he nearly wore his bloody dinner!!!!

argggggghhhhhhhh!!!!!

i wish i had 2 hours to put kids to bed and do nothing !!!!

still not happy this morning about it but dh left early for work so i guess he knows that!!!!LOL

hope everyone else is ok, its far too quiet on here please start posting again i miss everyone!!!!lol

Is everyone else getting bold text for everyone's posts on this thread? Or is it just me? Happens on This thread only.

Re: Unconditional Parenting. It must be nice to have a parenting philosophy that really works for you and that you totally believe in. Alas, I'm not so fortunate!

I suppose I can understand the grandparents discomfort at the word 'naughty'. My 19-month-old is a selfish little turd, but he's not old enough to know any better .

yup bold text !!!!! lol