Nov 2008 - because there was no thread space to think of a clever title!

[Yorky]

Had to be done soon, hope it works!

Hi bookmarking again, been working today gonna try and catch up later.

Daisy Hope the solo night goes well, enjoy the wine

Ladybuzz I hope your ankle is feeling better

And thank you both for the pram advice

DH has got a job interview on Friday Am keeping my fingers crossed as I will be able to hand my notice in if he gets it

Has anyone got any advice on how I can keep A in her pram? She's figured out that if she squeezes her shoulders together and twists round as she pushes up the pram, she can wriggle free of the 5-point harness I've got it set as tight as it will go but she can still get out. I know she's tiny but it's ridiculous fgs

phee you can get a wee strap with a catch on it that you fasten higher up, at chest level so there is less room for them to wriggle. I'll see if I can find one online for you. fingers crossed she doesn't try and do it in her car seat.

My day has been horrible; DD has driven me to distraction, she and bumble have been fighting all day as she won't let him near any of the toys. she is also regressing and won't speak (to me or DH, she is chat personified to everyone else) and either just squeals, grunts or talks like a baby or has massive tantrums if I so much as ssay her name and screams the house down. If I shout she just screams louder and starts flailing around on the floor tantrumming.....I am bloody well done in. Put her to bed with the threat of a very hot bottom if she as much as sneezed after i'd put the light out; poor thing was terrified of shouty mummy but I just couldn't take any more.

Nearly four hours later and I'm still feeling incredibly stressed and anxious.....

Thanks Daisy. Luckily she doesn't seem to try it in her car seat, she falls asleep too quickly It seems to fit closer in on her body too.

Sorry to hear you've had a stressful time of it. I'm no use, I have no advice whatsoever. I hope you get a peaceful night and are feeling less anxious

Yes, daisy you are right, that does sound like a good time to get down

Oh dear, what is your DD playing at?
Mine has decided that just going straight to bed is old hat, the new thing is to fanny about for 20 minutes 'I need the loo' 'I need my teddy warm (a microwave one, given when she was ill now a nightly thing)' 'I didn't say goodnight to mummy/daddy' etc etc
oh dear, it is sad to have to send her to bed with a flea in her ear everynight.
So I have an incling what you mean by not feeling so settled.

I did not get a relaxing evening tonight. After looking after a friends DS today I was then on the phone to her for an hour to discuss how to deal with the fact that at nearly 3.5 and being asked on countless occassions if he needed the loo, he poo'ed his pants
Not nice and is the second time he has done it when being left at my house for more than 2 hours.
I even had him in the toilet, telling him to get on the loo and do his poo but with him point blank refusing and insisting that he would only, and only needed to, do a pee.
I couldn't do much more for fear of a screaming boy in the room next door to my sleeping babe.
He ended up with a sore tummy afterwards and would only go to the loo if my 3 year old DD took him
His mother has to take him to the loo everytime and deal with his pointblank refusals by doing the countdown (get to the toilet before I count to 5 or.... (she uses a 5 countdown to give him more time to comply))

So now tommorrow I have him again and this time I have to threaten him with his lego and returning him to his, ill (mastitis), mother if he does not play the game. I also have permission to get tougher.
She knows that mine is a 3 countdown and that he has already seen my great anger today. But tommorrow I will just place him on the loo and have to walk away (he is private about pooing) until he is done.
sigh
I just think she is so soft on him and inconsistant that her little boy is a player who tests his limits with even his bladder, just to try to keep the control.
yikes, harsh words.
It us just hard to explain the workings of this little boy, but she is a friend and I will help her any way I can, when she needs it, as she would I.

phee, missed the boit about the interview...good luck for your DH.

gah twinkling, OPC are hard work; even more so than one's own at times.

All by myyyyseeeelf, don't wanna be all by myyyyself aaanymore.

Is there anybody there?

' You are not alone, I am here with you'...

[GRIN]

Ooopps

How are you daisy?

I am good, Becca a diamond, really happy and sleeping! Work mad, not enjoying all that much. DH thinks 2 babies is enough so possibly no number 3. I am undecided.. Lets hope for his sake when we have been naughty this month nothing has come of it. Don't even know when my period is due!

Evening ladies
Has today been better daisy? phee fingers crossed for your DH's interview. My DH started his new job yesterday, long days because of the commute but its a job!
coolkat glad the nights are better, it really is amazing how much better you feel when you have had a decent sleep!
twinking hope today went ok with your friends DS

I've had a couple of days from hell , but they are all in bed now so it can only get better...or at least it will when I open the wine!
how's work going?

and ceebee was back at work today wasn't she? I hope it went OK ceebs

bumble has been letting go of things and balancing today, and he is getting more and more confident with it. He's trying to get upstairs as well the little monkey! He is fab, although he keeps pulling hair and faces and thumping me/shouting at me when he is feeding, and he and DD keep fighting all the time; exhausting!

Poor Patrick Swayze . I had no idea that he was even ill.

I saw This Thread earlier from DW . Looks like she needs some moral support, and maybe some wise words from the medical types if they know anything about it.

Evening all

Well I survived my first day back at work - and if they are all as easy as today, I will be happy Seriously getting the boys up and ready all went very smoothly this morning, my day was ok (was a bit bored tbh as they haven't really got any work for me to do as I am going to be off again in 3 weeks for my op), picked the boys up and all went smoothly this evening (DH is away so I was flying solo). Something tells me it won't be this easy every day

Plus I got so many compliments about my weight loss - always puts you in a good mood

Daisy enjoying your wine are you? Well done to Bumble for balancing. Was talking to my boss who had a baby at the beginning of Nov - and she is walking unaided already Am I right in thinking that none of our babes are doing that yet?

Coolkat hope you and your DH can come to some agreement about the baby - always hard if one wants another and the other one doesn't.

Twinks how was your day with your friend's boy? I can imagine how hard it is - it is bad enough cleaning up your own DC's poo, let alone someone else's

Phee good luck to your DH for Friday.

Anyway, we at last have movement here. Hamster can commando crawl and DS1 is beginning to realise that nothing is out of his reach now Also, Hamster can play peekaboo by himself - tis very cute. He gets a cloth and puts it up to his face and then pulls it down with a big grin when you say 'peekaboo'.

sounds like a good day Ceebee; good that the first one was so easy and long may they continue

bumble was playing peekaboo as well for the first time today, it is incredibly cute isn't it?

Just touching base.
Glad first day was good ceebee.

daisy how is the ebaying going?
Glad your 1st day back went well ceebee, am loving the 'peekaboo' stories. So cute.

I'm off work until Friday, its a thought to go back after 5 days off but once I'm there it's fine.

I'm back, lost you all for a bit
Off to see what I've missed

Hi all, saw familiar names on my post about DD's eye so i knew daisy must have put the word out. Thank you

i'm gonna start coming on more regularly now for sure. Got stuck into doing my family tree so every spare PC minute was spent on ancestry! Cant get an earlier appointment for DD to be seen in opthlamy even if i go private so i'll just have to wait it out.

Not sure what stages everyones littleones are at, hope they are all thriving. DD can walk about 6 steps to me, she crawled at 6 months must is mute! well she can say Dada but thats a new occurance! she doesnt really bable much at all. She's dynamite on her bloody legs though. Does it follow if they walk early, they wont really talk? And do first shoes come this small??

Ceebee glad your first day went well

Drswife I hope everything goes ok at your appointment. A sounds quite similar to your DD in that she doesn't say much other than dada but is very mobile. She too was crawling at 6 months and has taken a few steps today so maybe there is something in that idea.

I have had a letter from work today to tell me that I am being made redundant so I won't be going back on Monday. They don't need me to work during my notice period.

Hey DW Good to see you! but sorry about DD's eye. Fingers crossed it's not too serious.

I'm impressed with the family tree; I want to do mine, but just don't know where to start. I also have a bit of a stumbling block in that because my mum and dad are both dead, there isn't the information on immediately previous generations that there might otherwise be. I wish I had gotten more information from them both when they were still alive.

ebaying going OK choc, have sold a couple of bits already and have more on the go at the minute.....made about £50 so far

I think there's something in that about the development. They do tend to concentrate on doing one thing before moving onto the next. bumble doesn't say a lot, mostly Dada (Dad obviously) and BaBa which is either his dummy, or addressed at my boobs . He has been known to follow me shouting Baba at me as well!! Today at my friends it sounded like he said Hiya back to her, but as is the way with babies he wouldn't repeat it.

right DD and bumble are trying to wreck the joint....computer time is strictly limited during their waking hours these days.....

Hi all sorry i have been awol but O is walking around furniture and crawling like a commando.

I have had him up and down the gp's alot lately, he is really constipated and having 10ml of lactulose a day which is not helping. back to gp tomorrow might have to put him back on formula me thinks

Evening all

Drswife lovely to hear from you - but really hope the problem with your DD's eye is not serious.

Phee is being made redundant a good thing or not? I guess you were mentally preparing to go back to work but I am sure you don't need the stress of you both being out of work - double fingers crossed for your DH on Friday

Tegan hope O is ok and you get it sorted.

I also think there may be something in either a 'walker' or a 'talker'. DS1, although he walked at an average age, he was crawling at 7 months and was constantly moving around but was slow to speak. Hamster is only just crawling, shows no inclination to get up off his bum but babbles far more than DS1 ever did - he will happily sit playing making all sorts of noises to himself. Plus, I swear he said 'tigger' the other day when I was giving him a cuddly tigger (I said tigger and he definitely said it back - DH is a bit about it as we couldn't get himn to repeat it either )

Sorry your being made redundant phee im hoping its good news for you and that you get a nice payout. And nice to meet you too by the way, i didnt get a chance to respond the other day.

Loving the peekaboo stories, DD plays it too I was on the phone and i realised she kept popping her head round the door frame to play it, but she also thinks if she isnt looking at you, then that must mean you cant see her. So she drops her eyes to the floor and then quickly looks up thinking its the same. I cant play for laughing at her.

I dont think i dare even go into the "us" time that exists in this house. Dh is thoroughly disgruntled but im def ready to consider baby number 2 and so he thinks thats hilarious! Cant say i blame him.

Thanks everyone. I can't work out if it's a good thing or not. It gives us about a month's breathing space and I won't have to leave A (or iron my work clothes ) however, if DH doesn't find something soon then we are still in trouble. They are paying me my 4 weeks notice and then 4 weeks pay as I have been there 4 years.

I'm also loving all the peekaboo stories. Drswife that is just too adorable about your DD. A plays it from behind her taggie or she hides behind her toybox.

DH and I have started to think of names for DC2 as we figure at the rate we're going it will take us the next 5 months to agree on one so any suggestions gratefully received

Tegan fingers crossed the Dr's are helpful and that O gets better soon

We have been to see SIL today and her 4yo DS was having a tantrum and tried to slam her kitchen door shut. She has a baby gate on that door that A was standing at so the door hit her, squashing her between the door and gate. I was so but didn't really know what to do or say to him IYKWIM. SIL sent him to his room and I comforted A, who was fine once she was over the shock.

Hello all
Glad things have been going well back at work, Ceebee.

Phee is this good or bad? I'm right in thinking you were hoping to work a bit and then get SMP? I hope things work out for you lovey.

Hi Drswife!

Hope all is well.

As regards walking/talking- lots of people say this but I'm not entirley convinced. Mine are all chatterboxes and seem to be crawlign/walking at different times. Perhaps an annecdotal mnet poll thread is called for!

Have been reading a really enjoyable book called 'playful parenting' heartilly recommend it.

Mimi can now to high five and say 'yeah'