June 2007 - Terrible Twos, oh yes, but their cuteness more than makes up for it :0)

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aaargh, that snuck up on us didn't it?

Hope they get your phone sorted Daisy.

Jamlet upset again at bedtime tonight 4th night in a row. However tonight we are trying 10 minutes of letting it go and seeing how she does and I think she is getting quieter .Or maybe it's wishful thinking because I am off out in 20mins? Reflexology - bliss!

Jammy, DD went through a phase of not settling and being upset about having to go to bed recently and we think it has coincided with a couple of night terrors that she has had and having long sleeps in the afternoon.

We've stopped daytime naps and she is settling much quicker as she is just so tired. the first few days were hard and she was in bed by 6pm, but she has adapted really well and is back to her 7pm bedtime, and she generally asks to start getting ready for bed herself now as well. She is OK in the evenings too now, although the first week it was absolute hell between teatime and bedtime.

enjoy your reflexology

I have diet fatigue already and it's really only day 3 . I really can't be arsed cooking and there is nothing in that is quick that is also healthy.

Jammy we have trouble at nights too. I think it's their age. Have a look at the mumsnet development guide, it seems that they are going through a 'significant' part of their development atm.

DS1 is a stroppy bugger atm.

I am not a nice mother though and just tell him to shut up and go to bed.

Daisy, that's bollocks about your phone.

DS2 doesn't have reflux, he is a happy hurler!
He eats, then he is burped, but many times we won't get all the wind up and we don't realise, and he asks for more food so we give it, and then afterwards he does a little chirrup and out it comes, out of his mouth and nose exorcist-style, all over my phone, the wall, me, the dog, etc.

When he is not doing that fabulous projectile, it just flows out fairly freely while he is happy.

I am not worried about weight gain though obviously

he's just a puke monster, but compared to DS1 who had colic and reflux, he's a breeze!

Hmmm.....DD's significant development involves lying through her teeth and cursing like a navvy

Daisy!

Reflexology was lovely. She told me off for not looking after myself enough though . Told me to stop putting myself at the bottom of the list after the rest of the world. Also told me I looked like I was drained but my internal energy levels were OK. That's bad for me - she normally tells me I look OK and my energy is sky high

Take heed then Jammy and look after yourself . You have been under a bit of strain with DH's job situation and doing the wedding photos and had a couple of nasty bugs to boot; that's bound to dent anyone's energy levels.

Been having problems getting DS to sleep too, he'll have mammoth 3-4 hour afternoon sleeps if you let him. Next week we'll be moving and DD going to school, so will have to get back into some kind of routine.

hullo....

Hi Natty.

How is Charlie?

hi natty You've been quiet recently.

didnt mean to post and run but charlie was screaming and kids had to go in the bath.

charlie is HARD WORK
he is now carried all day long in a sling as he screams if i put him down.
which is great fun as he projectiles all over me, him and the sling several times a day (lucky i have 3 slings and another one on the way)
he never sleeps, he feeds all night.

they have cancelled DH's op due to high BP, so he is still useless (sleeping all day awake all night, doingg nothing around the house)

both thomas and ellen back in nappies as they have both taken to wetting themselves constantly

oh and we know have 10 year old BIL for a week and a half cos MIL has gone on holiday

somehow i am staying positive and enjoying myself with tom and ellen, they are both into imaginative play atm, we pretend we are priates/princesses/frogs etc all day long lol

so all in all i am a very busy bee!

hope everyone else is good i have no chance of catching up its about an hours worth of reading and IF i get an hour to myself i would quite like a bath

have i missed anything exciting?

Hi natty, I was wondering where you'd got to. Sorry it's all being hard work for you.

Another charity shop run this morning. Unintentional, but was encouraging Jamlet to walk and she went into every one of them! I think she's got the idea that she might be allowed toys from there So £1.75 spend = 1 shopping basket, 1 tambourine and 1 set of Fimbles jigsaws. But I made her put back a fire engine, a car and a doll, despite her tantruming at having to put the doll back. But the plan paid off, she walked loads so is now worn out and napping. I am also worn out but have just cleared up and prepared dinner.

evening all. sorry charlie is hard work natty.....what is it with third children eh?

sounds like a productive morning's treasure shopping jammy.

I have had a very traumatic day. Bumble had a scary choking indicent at lunchtime and I couldn't get him out of his highchair as he kept flapping at me. Seemed like ages, although probably only seconds and i got him out, whacked him as per the first aid class I went to and out shot a huge bit of pear. I feel awful as I had given him the pear and was ignoring him while I tidied up the lunch things. DD laughed at him for making a funny face, and when I looked he was coughing and spluttering. As I got over to him he had started crying and there was pear dribbling down his chin so I thought he had cleared it. Then I realised that the was still choking and getting more and more distraught and red in the face. I have been so blase about his eating, must be more attentive. Anyhoo alls well that ends well, and although he took about 15 mins to calm down, he seems fine now, although he seems a wee bit wheezy.

As if that wasn't enough to contend with for one day, I managed to cover myself in near boiling water at teatime, all over my neck and chest and one arm . So there I am, shocked to my boots leaning over the sink and wetting a teatowel and wringing it out over my chest and neck and DS1 is prancing around my elbow wittering on about getting to play his playstation. the water had come out of the microwave rice steamer and HAD been boiling, but it had thankfully been sitting for a few minutes and had started to cool or it could have been much much worse. I have a bad scald on my neck and on my forearm, but no blistering.

I am having a medicinal glass or three of wine and some chocolate buttons. Sod the diet, I'm in shock

bloody hell Daisy . Keep an eye on that scald. Did DS1 get a mouthful

I gave E his first proper finger food meal today with broccoli, beans and carrots and he had a coughing episode. I'm trying to stay relaxed about gagging and let him clear it himself but it scares me silly. I don't strap him in his highchair but as soon as I panic, he gets all upset and doesn't eat anymore. I really don't know how people do ONLY BLW.....I really don't have the nerves for it....and rarely have the time to sit opposite him watching every mouthful.

That said, he done really well and loved it.

Hi Natty....sounds like hard work in your house!

I popped into work today to post 9 envelopes and was there for 4 hours....my son charmed everyone and I didn't get a minutes peace!

You can tell the football season has started, I'm on MN in the evening

yay for football

Mr Daisy has gone fishing......nutter. We had words this morning. I fell back asleep after he got up and he didn't wake me until he was two minutes away from leaving the house, which meant that I couldn't get a shower as there is no chance of me having one once I'm on my own with the kids. He told me I should go to bed earlier as he has enough with getting himself and the kids ready in the morning. He gets the kids breakfast FFS and unless they stink doesn't even change a nappy.

I've got one who doesn't change a nappy if they do stink

ah, we get a lot of those as well.

Typically, DH bouncing DS on his knee for ages. DS starts whinging and DH plays with him for another 20 mins trying to stop him from whinging. eventually he says to me "he needs a feed" and as soon as I pick him up I can smell it, and sure enough he has a shity nappy that is now bursting out of the top of the nappy as it has been bounced up and down on DH's lap for 20 minutes!

....I recognise that scenerio....or he says "god you smell, go and see your mother"

Ohhh I've just bought an exercise bike.....hope it gets used!

I know I wouldn't use an exercise bike! My Wii is a great dustcatcher and that's about all it's used for.

Result today on uselss stuff that never gets used. I bought a juicer in Lloyd's chemist abiout two years ago, and used it for a good couple of months before getting bored and it has been in the cupboard since then. It was on our pile of stuff to car boot, but I saw a notice in the chemist saying they were being recalled due to faulty parts. so, I took it back today and got my money back

Evening Daisy, Norty. Been catching up with my work, as I was out last night. Am exhausted now so off to bed in a mo.

We have an exercise bike. It doesn'tget used . Result with that juicer Daisy!

Arse! I'd spoken to a friend at beginning of school hols and we'd arranged for her and her 4 DC to come over tomorrow to go to our children's centre (it's Pirates and Princesses tomorrow) then back here for lunch. I've sent her notes on FB and MSN this week to see if she's still on and no reply So if they turn up, they'll have to go hungry as I'm not preparing lunch for 5 extras who might not be here!

Can you have some stuff in to make sarnies just In case jammy?

DH managed to put DD to bed without a nappy on last night! After breakfast her trousers were soaked and I asked why and she said it was wee. I asked her to strip off then asked where he nappy was. No nappy mummy she said! A quick look upstairs and no nappy under or in the bed (she sometimes takes it off) and a big damp patch in the middle of the bed. she also has a rash on her tummy as a result of lying in a puddle of wee all night! Silly man was obviously too keen to get out fishing that he forgot about her nappy! And, annoyingly she was sleeping on the sofa bed last night rather than in her cot (as a precursor to rebuilding the toddler bed) and it doesn't have a mattress protector on it so the mattress is now stained. as we were hoping to sell it to make more space, but who wants a wee stained mattress?

There's a shop just across the road from us Daisy, so my plan was that if they met us at the centre we would come home via the shop. But she got in touch this morning to say sorry they weren't coming. Morning out was nice though, saw a few friends not seen in a while Princess Jamlet is now napping.

Shame about the matress What are men like sometimes!

yoo hoo....

'tis very quiet today.

Hi Daisy, it is quiet. Had a busy day here - pirates and princesses at the children's centre this morning, and then we went to a friend's this afternoon.