August 2008 - HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

[TwilightSurfer]

24JUL Alittlebitshy-Henry
30JUL Miamla-Theodore
31JUL DizzyDixies-Dylan
01AUG CaptainCaveman-Oliver
01AUG Alieight-Adam
03AUG LoveBuckets-Kurt
04AUG VintageGardenia-Edward
04AUG Skytvaddict-Lewis
08AUG Expectant-Samuel
08AUG Pertelote-Marianne
08AUG PoppySocks-Emily
08AUG HotterPotter-Isaac
12AUG SazzlesA-Emma
12AUG Sarahnh-Tess
13AUG Shazza2002-Lexie
13AUG RedLentil-Eibhlin
13AUG LWFH-Tomás
15AUG Foghornleghorn-Lara
15AUG SausageAndMash-BOY
18AUG TwilightSurfer-Reese
22AUG No1putsbabyinthecorner-Marcus
23AUG HazieDazieandBaby-Gabriella
29AUG PetitFilou-Toby
30AUG Oopsacoconut-Poppy
30AUG Steaknife-Izzy
01SEP Cyteen-Joseph
01SEP Stillhere-Owen
04SEP Sambo303-Felix
05SEP Skybluebelle-Jamie
13SEP Ataraxis-Lana
16SEP AnnVan-Sebastian

PS my $$spending$$ still doesn't compare to yours either.

(((hugs))) about the surgery. We will be with you both THE WHOLE WAY!

CUE PANIC
I've just been reading about feeding a 1 year old and I am SO NOT DOING THINGS CORRECTLY!!! CRAP!!!

All add to that crap moment the side note that Reese is BACK UP in the MIDDLE of the NIGHT feeding again. I will offer her a bottle of water tonight and see how that goes.

How can I be so dumb!?! I clearly don't know what I'm doing. What are the mother's day out ladies going to think of me when Reese starts there in two weeks???? Geez if it's not one thing it's another.

Night

Ts Wotcha. I have given Izzy cows milk as a drink. Usually with breakfast, just to get her used to it really. As for food i can only get her to eat raisins at the mo so doubt you are any worse a mum than me. When we were 3 our food bill was around 75 euros a week. Including cleaning stuff but not booze. Probabaly add another 15 for that. But we never buy things like crisps, ready meals, deserts and so on. And we cook from scratch twice a day.

Oh and poppy don't forget to stock up on the dried fruit. No-one told me iron makes you constipated and i ended up in terrible tummy pain and with v embarrassing and anti-social wind.

Cyteen Yes post-viral fatigue (ie complete shitness) happens. Please go ask your GP tomorrow to get your bloods tested (inc thyroid levels) before embarking on any pharmaceuticals.

Hotter Surely if you're tipsy you won't care what MIL thinks?

STeaky Good on your neighbour!

Not feeling in control of my groceries atm, maybe about £75 a week plus £15 vegebox and £6ish milkman. And of course there's never anything to eat... TS Mealplanning is the way to go to save money but I don't have the discipline myself.

Kurt is on his last tin of formula, will switch to fullfat organic cowjuice when it runs out. Or I might give him some tonight to ease him in actually.

I got plastered at childminder's party last night, didn't realise how much til I got home and went straight to bed at 8.30pm. I was really struggling to begin with as Kurt was everywhere and covered in mud and DS1 was being very literal and doing much shouting and crying trying to play with other kids (started to feel quite down seeing that). By the time DH turned up with clean pjs for Kurt and took him home, DS1 seemed to have got the hang of ignoring anyone who annoyed him (I perked up again at that) so we stayed another 2hrs. Actually got to chat with some blokes for once!

Now DH has taken Kurt swimming and we're going for Greek mezes with my folks for an early birthday lunch for the little fella.

Our food spending is ridiculous

Buckets I won't be taking any ADs anyway as I have a strong personal objection to them (just for me, not for anyone else). Feeling a bit better today but I might still see the docs tomorrow if my glands are still swollen.

dizzy lol at 'fat sex'

If your glands have been swollen then a post-viral thing sounds quite likely. Ooh you could get signed off work!

Some mixtape compiling help here please, anyone with time on their hands...

cyteen, agree completely with Buckets - please do go and get checked as you could end up feeling worse for ages, DH kept going back to work after a few days last year and kept suffering from same thing over and over again until he finally got signed off by Dr for about 2wks to allow for full recovery - you have you and Joe to think about in all this, take your time getting better

buckets your CM sounds lovely I dropped out days into ours last night so fingers crossed she's not going to look at them and run for the hills [meep]

TS how are you feeding her wrong? did I miss something (as usual)?

our food shopping is ridiclious too I seem to be in some sort of supermarket at least once a day for something or other - once back at work I'm going back to weekly food planning otherwise its all going to go horribly wrong

dizz have you got any spare arnica?
we've run out and i've bumped my head this morning. proper lumpy bruise above my eyebrow. getting zilch sympathy from pil but DP feeling bad because he ignored my 'ouch'. think i may have knocked myself out because he thought i was missing for longer than i thought i was. hey ho, roast to prepare for brithday party number two today!

albs where are you?????? didn't you have something to tell the lovely ladies on here?

sorry havent caught up, meant to be peeling potatoes and thought i'd sneak on here quickly whilst everyone's upstairs

of course , arnica all round!

have just booked tickets to see some shows at the festival with the kids, had to really rein myself in because at one point our basket was up to over £200 and we were running from venue to venue - we're now going to a show in the morning and one in the afternoon - much more realistic/frugal

LOL I did forget to say I laughed LITERALLY outloud about Dizzy's Fat Sex.

Buckets meal planning happens occasionally but then DH doesn't want the "planned" meal. I try and stand up about it but he just ignores me...if he's not interested in what I've prepared he is not ashamed to get in the car and go pick up McDonalds (or similar) for himself. MAKES ME SO MAD!! I tend to give up by the middle of the week.

Sazzles

The drama over the food is after reading she should be having ONLY 16oz - 24oz of milk/formula a day. During my 1am awakefornoreason time I did some calculations and that probably all she's really drinking. I am just not domestic in the meal department. I eat when I'm hungry, a little here...a little there. Just isn't very June Cleaver of me, you know.

TS that is so rude, going to get filthy takeaway because you don't fancy what your wife has made! There would be violence in my house if such a thing occurred (I am a bit hung up about nurturing people via food )

Don't feel too bad about Reese's eats either. Joe has been eating an awful lot of bread-based meals over the last few weeks and varying between two milk feeds a day/none at night to four in the day and coming in to bed with us in the night. As long as they're happy, eh.

Thanks ladies. DH's bad habit really ticks me off and his midsection is PROOF POSITIVE he's been doing it for a long while.

Sazzles I'm a fancy at the moment type eater too. However, I'm shy of freezer knowledge. I really liked how we pulled together our "last meal" at the beach. DH would have NEVER gone for that under normal circumstances. If I say "left over" he totally turned off.

Cyteen, Reese eats loads of bread too but then so do I so I didn't notice that as a problem.

Buckets, posted you the very best of the best as far as kids music goes over on your website....oh forgot one. brb

cyteen am also guilty of facilitating through food - I really had to reign myself in when Sazz was here considering she is doing so well weight wise

TS - sorry but another house here where that wouldn't be tolerated - he would be fending for himself VERY quickly

sazz glad you had a lovely evening we were looking at photos on the computer and DD2 pointed at your DD2 and said 'where has MY Emma gone'

we were to park on bikes, DD1 has managed to break her bike now this bloody bike was VERY researched as I wanted one to last both DDs and we paid £140 its not been overused at all (all things that happened last summer sort of stopped lovely bike rides) so I personally don't think the fecking frame should be falling apart - shall be returning to shop tomorrow in hope that as they were SO lovely and helpful when we chose/purchased it they should be happy enough to mend it - you may hear me without the use of telephones otherwise

infact here is DD1's bike, it is lovely and am gutted its broken

steaky hope your day is going ok

Glad you had a good night sazzles and DH survived your shoes for the morning.

I have sympathy TS. The problem we have is that DH is a meat and 2 veg chap (fnar, fnar) while I am a pasta and veg girl. He tends to say he's 'not that fussed about food tonight' on 'my' food nights and makes himself a (meat-based) sandwich. He's on a diet at the moment though so is being very accommodating of my fish and veg nights.

After all the grocery bill chat, I got my backside into gear and did an order online. £190 . In my defence I haven't done one for a while so we needed to stock up on all the stuff that's usually spread over a few weeks (nappies, formula, booze etc.) but still. Thankfully I had £40 worth of clubcard vouchers and hoping it'll come back down to a reasonable level once all the special offers have been taken into account. We are a family of 4 ffs!

What a bugger about DD1's bike dizzy. We're planning to buy one for DD1's next b'day so will have to pick your brains to save me doing the research. (Yay, for the first time the strike through thing has worked. I feel like one of the gang now )

Oooooooh I am so STUFFED! Me and my dad had mezzes - dips and pitta, salad, halloumi and lounza, giant beans, fish and seafood, souvlaki, kofte and moussaka! Great value for money though at £14 each.

TS at your DH! That is just so plain bad manners and sets a dreadful example to the kids, must send you crazy. Didn't he have heart problems a while back?

Sazzles Tish and pah at your sensitive friend. We live directly under the flightpath (and really quite high up too) of Southampton airport - you have to stop and wait mid-conversation when out in the garden sometimes.

poppy I can't recommend the bike shop in Leuchars highly enough, the were absolutely FANTASTIC - will let you know how we get on tomorrow but considering we went to 3 bike shops before them I'm glad we waited. we would have bought a bike that wouldn't have lasted in terms of height for her and took their advice on a really good one - see the link above - although I had narrowed it down between that and one other - they didn't have that one in stock but agreed it would be the best one for her and he drove to the west coast to his pals shop (as he stocked them) and got her one for no extra charge

and they were all hanging about enjoying the bikes and eating ice lollies

it was a choice between the ridgeback that she got and a Dawes blowfish I think - both in region of £120-£140

am sure they have a website too

Thanks dizzy. Will pass the info on to DH as he is SO excited about teaching her to ride a bike and keeps suggesting that we give it to her for all sorts of spurious reason ranging from 'DD2's birthday, so she doesn't feel left out' to sometime in October 'because it's a boring month, when nothing else happens'.

lol, DD1's birthday is beginning of July but she got hers early in the April or May I think so she could have full use of the summer

DD2 has an Islabike balance bike which is fantastic so hopefully she'll go straight to the pedal bike without stabilisers

TS Have just looked up Dan Zanes on youtube. Am I very wrong for fancying him somewhat?