June 07 - From babies to toddlers to Little People; my how the last two years have flown by!

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A big Happy Birthday for the weeks ahead.

And to remind everyone......the birthday honours list:

Natty's DD - 24/05/07
Lilkel's DD - 25/05/07
Norty's DD - 02/06/07
Izzybel's DD - 02/06/07
Daisy's DD - 05/06/07
Derlor's DD - 08/06/07
FairyFay's DS - 10/06/07
Trace's DD - 11/06/07
BadZelda's DD - 12/06/07
Jammy's DD - 13/06/07
SeansGirl's DS - 14/06/07
Motherhurdicure's DS - 14/06/07
Sputnik's DS - 15/06/07
Tallulabelle's DD - 16/06/07
Ria's DS - 19/06/07
Bumper's DD - 20/06/07
Fury's DS - 21/06/07
Andiem's DS - 21/06/06
Holly's DS - 23/06/07
DKMA's DS - 01/07/07
Justbeme's DD 10/07/07
Annobal's DS - 10/07/07
Foxy's DD - 12/07/07

Lots of missing posters from even a year ago....if anyone is lurking come and say Hi and let us know how your LO is doing

and I can't remember what name motherhurdicure is using at the minute, but where are you?

blimey Daisy...hope DH is OK. How exactly are you going to go and get the car with 3 kids asleep upstairs? Have a glass of wine, he can get a cab home. Sounds nasty. I react badly to insect bites, but luckily not that bad!

about your day Ria!

DD wouldn't go on any rides but caught a duck and got some cheap old tata soft toy for £2 a throw! Whole thing was being run by pikeys and on their displays they said you could have cash, toys or fags as prizes...except all the fags were in arabic Don't ya just love fun fairs!

Round the back amongst the caravans was a baby in a very old fashioned silver cross pram (where one set of wheels are huge and the other small IYKWIM) with a white rectangular sunshade over it....straight out of the 1970s

Came home and DD and DS got in the paddling pool and had a whale of a time! Shall put some pics on FB in the morning!

Daisy....you're right about the milk. A few days ago he was on 9oz every 3 hours (so 5 a day) and the last couple of days, he's only had 4. So tonight's last bottle only was hungry baby milk, and I'll give him 5 normal bottles tomorrow. Thanks

I was thinking of namechanging and starting a thread

funny thing is I told Dsis and she thought I meant dog poo!

Is DH back yet daisy? how is he?

DH will live, and no amputation required just yet

He's to keep an eye on it and if it gets horribly worse or he gets fluey, or radiating red bits to get straight back to A&E.

I hope you get a night's sleep tonight norty

Fair sounds hysterical, especially prizes paid in fags . Big carriage built prams are all the rage amonst the travelling fair community as far as I've seen, but there is also a bit of a cult following of them; there are websites dedicated to the restoring of them etc. DS1's old childminder has one and often brings it to school. She has the P&T one day and that the next...hysterical.

Ria....how is DH's shoulder?

WE have dug the babywalker out of the loft for bumble.....can't wait to see how he reacts tomorrow, or even for how DD will react. I can just see her pushing him all over the house in it, or trying to climb in with him

Travelling fair community....much more diplomatic than me Daisy .

Well no more sleep here, just got me up at 4.30am instead of 2.30am...so todays plan is to stuff loads of milk into him . He's just had 9oz and will be offered more in 3 hours!

Happy birthday to Sputniks DS

yesterday, I was up at 4am, cleaned the house, drove DS to heathrow to collect my sister who was delayed by 1 hour due to lost luggage, picked up DH and the dog, drove to essex, cooked BBQ stuff for 8, drove home at about 9pm.

Quite tired today and have to work, ugh, I hope they aren't expecting me to be too productive.

Arse.

DS, however, is a little star lately, and is a joy to be with. Clears his plate, says please and thank you, maybe only tantrums 2-3 times a week? Helps me clean up, never runs off and naps when he's told. Bless him. Oh yes, and brings me the remote, what more can you ask for?!
Does have a scary addiction to Chuggington and tweenies though.

Need Botox. Is safe while pregnant?

no not safe.
Bugger

Hi Norty!

Hi Fury....you will be very grateful of that addiction to cBeebies when DS2 arrives

I am already grateful Norty, it meant that I could do the ironing, rearrange the kitchen cupboards and wash the walls in peace!

sounds like you're nesting

I would agree with that only I have been anally retentive tidy since I was about 4

I have always washed walls etc. Esp with a dog.
Kitchen needed rearranging as I lobbed it in there when we first moved in and it's just not 'working'., you know, cups not near the kettle etc. Thought I'd better get it done before I am too PG to stand on chairs!

If you like washing walls you need to have a black lab that like swimming in muddy ponds.....I should have painted my hallway brown I think . I hate washing walls! Surely life is too short!

I'm also a bit like that with tidying....but my DCs think otherwise ...although DD is a bit OCD like her dad in that if toys aren't put away in the right place, she will move them around until she is happy . Means we have no missing puzzle pieces etc. She also goes around shutting draws that have not been closed that last millimetre or 2!

Norty DS is the same... he's very tidy. He washes his slide every weekend.
I like washing walls! Which is fairly fortunate as all our walls are white

DD puts water on her slide cos it makes her go faster!!

I caught her drinking the dogs water outside yesterday! And just to make up for it, the dog drank the water in the paddling pool

I used to be like that with tidying/cleaning. I miss it actually, but have got to a point where I don't care. I am starting a room-by-room blitz this week (only tidying for now, no wall washing til after summer and fly-poo season). I am going to start in the conservatory as it currently has the least crap in it (apart from DH and his OU stuff atm)

baggins up at 4.30 for calpol and milk, fell asleep on sofa til DH came and moved us at 7.30am (not me I add, I walked) and have nearly been up an hour now. Not productive for the blitzing really!

glad DH not too bad daisy. My DH is in a lot of pain, he has his stitches out tomorrow. He has an interview today but is still undecided about FT working Vs IB and a PT job. He is convinced that he is going to be in pain for ever cos there's nothing else they can do. He has decided he wants to be an EHO

must get dressed...

Norty I think our DC's are related
DS often drinks the dogs water... but my favourite it when he pulls the condenser tray out of the drier and drinks the water out of that

DS2 is always sweeping/washing garden toys etc. He has a reputation for it at school and always volunteers for wahing the painting things/sweeping up the sand etc.

baggins like to drink that water butt water out of a yellow plastic teacup

....aren't children revolting sometimes!

Ria....I think from what you say about your DH he would be a great EHO.....something I thought about doing when I was at school...glad I didn't, I'd be heaving for England ....prefer dead bodies and biopsies!

Has your DH been referred to a pain clinic? What's up with Baggins then? Is he under the weather?

Hows DH Daisy?

My DS is doing his falling asleep routine.....intermittent crying with very fast head moving from side to side creating a bald patch on the back of his head

I typed out a post earlier, but obviously forgot to press send as it isn't here

Anyhoo.....Happy Birthday to Sputnik's DS and to Butterfly's DS for yesterday if she is lurking from the good ole US of A.

DH's arm worse this morning......if no better tomorrow he has to go and be admitted for IV ABs. Hopefully the tablets he has will kick in today/overnight.

Just had a huuuuuge thunderstorm here. It lasted for nearly an hour and was pretty loud, with only one or two seconds between the lightening and thunder, so very close. The sun is shining again though.

DD is complaining of a sore head . Am I right in thinking that headaches in children are unusual? should I be worried? She has no fever or any other illnessy symptoms, but went back to bed for a nap without a peep today.

she likes to drink the cat's water; or else washes her hand in the bowl and then dries them on the teatowels .

Thanks for remembering DS's birthday, because it's more than I did!
The first I knew was when we arrived at nursery and were greeted with a happy birthday! In my defence we did his party and presents weekend before last, as DH is away atm.
Anyway, it's all DS's fault for waking me up at 5.45.

happy birthday lil' sputnik & butterfly.

The thing about OPC is they should realise that OPP don't actually have to have them in their houses! DS2s "friend" has just come into the conseravtory (after being told "no shoes, mum has cleaned the floor") and said "ooh, it really is very clean and tidy in here today". PAH.

DH's interview a lucky escape - £200 a week for shifts of 12-last orders at 11, 7 days a week

baggins is napping again, poor little poppet.

Ria....is that even legal? Working Time Tirective and all that, or did they want him to opt out?

or Directive even . Amazing they would ask anyone to work those hours.

Hope DH is OK Daisy....fingers crossed tablets kick in.

Think the thunder has moved south....I've just had to get my washing in as its grumbling around out there. But very warm and muggy.