Fab Feb 2009 - hey ho, hey ho, its off to babyproof we go...

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off we go again

Morning all! Well a much better night had by all in the spotty household, got 8 hrs so feel a bit more human again, although Swampy's post did make me wibble a bit

MOS & Bumps, hope you had better nights? MOS hope you get everything sorted/bible in top drawer etc for you aunt, and she is suitably impressed and your face is fading from bright scarlet after your shopping trip bumps it's 90% old ladies in our BHS and i'm sure they wouldn't mind

Dinky, hope you have a good time in Brighton. You doing the family rounds before back at work?

Day2 of DH cricketting extravaganza. (He is leaving me with the kids 11-9 everyday of the BH weekend to play) Hope it is easier than yesterday was

|Hope you're still having a lovely holiday then Swampster

Glad you got some sleep last night Spotty - sounds like you need it with your DH on a cricketathon! |Yep, am doing the GP rounds before going back to work - up in Worksop as my mum is retiring in September and its her retirement party on the Saturday.

hey swampy hope the holiday is going well

congrats on the sleep spotty... am very about the best sleep i'm getting the last few nights is a few hours on the couch with A in my arms, he's got a bit of a bug and on top of that is refusing purees and only gets a few molecules of food in by self feeding so he's permanently attached to my boobs poor baby.

Am off to park my bum on the couch now and try and get some rest while he dozes in his rocker as he'll be awake soon enough looking for cuddles... I'm waking up with a migraine every morning atm so really feeling wrecked

Awww Pink!..... mate as a migrane and baby sufferer ((((sympathetic hug)))) that has been my night prolly 25 of the last 30 but last night I gave DH 16oz of EBM and the baby and kicked him outta the bedroom. Only bought me 8 hrs as he co-slept in the spare bed He (DH) has been a bigger pita than the kids today though so not worth it - and I've only seen him for 2 hours all day thanks to cricket and footy!!!!

All I can recommend to people today is home made guacamole!!!! Avocado, tomato, tsp creme fraiche, tsp lime juice! and blend (s&p and chilli added seperately for the adults) I stuck it on a pitta (please note, not DH - he was a pita with ONE 't') and Sammy devoured the lot and put his head on the tray and physically searched for scraps to lick off (that is a curled lip sad ass emoticon btw!)

And we are not going to haven now thanks to my dickhead thrifty DH. So we are staying in tamworth (TBM???? meet up?????) and visiting my old haunts, Thomas world/Drayton Manor/West Mids Safari Park.

Am bigging up my disappointment at missing out on my holiday of a lifetime at haven () and feel i'm owed an Ireland trip thanks to my concessions Very tragic I know but it's the time of year my Irish Grandma died and I'm laying it on thick for my bank DH

hope it works, would love to meet you in the flesh.

Know what you mean about it not being worth it when they do make a half arsed effort though, have been insisting dp takes A downstairs on saturday mornings so i can actually have my lie ins again (6 months of my lie in being me feeding baby and trying to get him to lie still for 10 mins and dp's lie in being half the day in bed dead to the world and my patience is at an end!) and of the two mornings he's supposed to have done it one of those A had fallen asleep again with me by the time dp levered himself out of bed and the other i ended up having to run down and grab him as dp had gone to te loo and left him crawling on the floor and he'd shoved himself up against the radiator and was screaming the house down

Anywho, A's tooth that he's been working on all week has finally appeared and i have a new baby today... smiling, cheerful and he stuffed himself full of plums this morning for breakfast so hopefully we might have a better day and night now.... i need it, dd is starting school and ds1 is starting playschool tomorrow so i'm stressed out as it is!

Men!

Wow - lots of child firsts in the Pink house this week. Hooooray for the tooth!! Really hope that does the trick and you start getting some good sleep now!! and good luck tomorrow with the new schools. Are you going to wobble a little a the school gates or are you 'ard' and want rid of them?

Knowing my kids and teeth we'll have a days break and then he'll start on 2 months aggro pushing out the top two I do rather envy those people who say they have one day of misery per tooth, none of my 3 have ever been like that, they all seem to have their fathers need to complain endlessly about their niggles

I think i might be a bit wibbly tomorrow, she's been in playschool since two but she's a very anxious child and i do panic a bit about her doing new things by herself. ds1 isn't as worrying, he's been at playschool summercamps this summer and he's very relaxed and just wanders in and gets playing, he's a bit concerned about going without dd but he knows the teachers well so i doubt that'll last longer than 5 mins or so.

I am rather looking forward to some peace and quiet though

Just had a traumatic hour.... was coming back from town and the car picked the nastiest, bendiest hill to pack it in on me (not surprised, it needed to go to the garage this week and i should have taken dp's car but i hate driving his so chanced it... d'oh!) Had to ring dp to check the phone book for garage phone numbers as being an intelligent soul i forgot to put any emergancy phone numbers in my car and had lots of shouting as apparently that was stressful for him... never mind me sat at the side of a dodgy road with the baby in the car, looking up phone numbers was the real hard part Had to ring loads of places and couldn't get through but eventually got hold of someone and he came out within 5 mins and dropped me home too which was really handy as dp's car can't actually hold all of us so it would have ben a tight squeeze if he needed to collect me... hopefully it's not a huge job now as i was hoping to start getting organised for xmas this month and it would scupper those plans if i have to spend a small fortune on the car

Aaah Pink, that's where my two get their whinging from, daddy. Must remember that one! C has been teething for 4 months, he has two out and one through the gum, lots more on the way. We haven't had any break in the grizzle, really.

yummyspotty, sorry you're missing out on haven, hope you still get a fun holiday, and manage to meet up with TBM and/or other MNers.

Dont worry elkie I think i'll cope

Think I'll wibble in April when DS1 goes to nursery, 2nd day though I'll probably be skipping back home

Hope the car isn't to exp Pink!

Soft play this morning, swimming this afternoon with the kids and adult swim again for me tonight. I'm tooooo tired

Morning all. Yikes Pink at your car misadventure - hope it gets fixed very quickly and very quickly. And yay for A's tooth - we have no sign of teeth emerging yet here still - he's going to be a gummy wonder for ages at this rate...

Spotty - hope your DH is behaving himself now.

DS1 starts preschool at the beginning of October (is phased entry for the newbies) and thankfully I'll be back at work then - otherwise I will be most wibbly.

ps Spotty - boo hiss to holiday being cancelled but hope you have fun in the midlands - and in ireland when you go.

my house is soooo quiet

all went well despite me being awake worrying all night and having bizarre uniform nightmares when i did sleep

sounds like a manic day spotty, i'm heading out for a walk now with a friend and that'll be about the extent of my activity for the day hope soft play isn't too wretched

dinky, bet you'll still have a bit of a wobble on his first day, i hugged ds1 half to death last night

Danny is currently attempting to bunny hop forwards on all fours - he's got the legs moving idea of forward crawling, its just moving the arms that is eluding him...

i've just completed first wibble and am at my desk having left the 2 DCs with our new nanny.

next monday is wibble part II when dd starts proper school.

meeting avalanche about to begin so i'm sure that will take my mind off wibbling.

hello all, not been on for a while as have been feeling a bit low.

MS oh poor DD and you, nothing like emotional blackmail from little ones. Hope you had a bit of quality time together.

swampy its so hard isn't it knowing that some of our loved ones will never know each other. I met DH after my dad died so dad never met him or either of our DC and its so sad as I know they would have got on so well. I only knew one grandparent and it makes me sad my youngest won't know my parents (although hopefully DD will remember nannie) and DH's parents don't give a shit about seeing them.

PT sorry you are having a nightmare with car (and crap weather) but hurrah for A's tooth. H still hasn't got any although has had the signs of imminent teeth for weeks

bumps hope you've not been flashing recently and that O and J are ok.

spotty of 8 hours sleep. Think I've had that in total in the last week. Hope you will get lots of 'me' time bearing in mind you have been a cricket/footy widow.

KBD hope everything works out with new nanny and back to work isn't too bad.

Hi to everyone else.

Like I said, I've been really down the last few days and quite depressed. It was nice having my aunt staying but I kept thinking it should have been mum and it was odd having her in 'nannie's room'. We took her to the airport yesterday and when she left DD cried for her. She gets really upset when people go now. Think its been very hard on her DH being away for so long (in fact its us that are 'away')
DH is back tomorrow and I asked her earlier who was coming back tomorrow who she loved and hadn't seen for a long time and she said 'auntie Marie'!
Its been so hard being apart this long but I felt so very sad a few days ago when I read thread about one of the 'girls' on here whose DH was killed in a car crash last week (PT think you were on that thread too) Poor love is left with three young daugthers and two step sons. It really makes you think about how short life can be.

Sorry, very gloomy today, will bugger off for a coffee

{{{hugs}}} mos, sorry it's all getting on top of you. It's so hard when a loved one dies, it seems to hit you in waves over a few months and every time you think you're feeling a little better something happens to open the wounds. I know it's not the same but when my grandparents died was in shock for a long time (only grandchild on one side and very close to my other grandmother) and i found it was a good 6 months or more before i could really get my head around them being just gone, that i'd never see them again

Trinity's news has shocked me badly as well, only last week i was reading that thread where she talked about how something as silly as finding out he could ride a bike downhill with no hands made her love him even more... and a few days later he was gone from her life. Tragic doesn't even come close to describing it.

Big hugs to you both MoS and KBN - hope the return to work keeps you v busy KBN so you dont get to wibble too much today and I really hope you feel abit brighter soon MoS.

Cant believe its September already - this year seems to be racing away from me. Now have 2 weeks exactly until I start back at work and that back to school feeling is just getting worse and worse, probably because the leaves have started falling from the trees around here too now...

PT, you are so right, I still can't believe I'll never see her or speak to her again. Going through all her papers and personal effects is really hard. I brought back boxes of them to sort out at home and its really hard. The other day I found pages of notes about all sorts of things, notes she'd made about H's baptism (things to do etc) she was obviously so excited about it.
Also found a note she'd written about when her and dad's first son died which was really moving. Sad she sat with him and they talked etc etc (very personal stuff) and then he died at 4pm and her and dad put him in a white robe and placed him in his coffin and we was buried 3 days later on dad's birthday.
Really got to me.
Think with that and the awful news about Trinity it makes you realise life is too bloody short. I've been without my DH for around 6 weeks now and that has been so hard but the thought of never seeing him again...
Doesn't bear thinking about!

right off to take H for some jabs

Hi. Just crashing your thread as I'm giving away a couple of high chair 'cushions' (plastic) that my twins have grown out of. They go with the Antilop high chair from Ikea, so if anyone has or is planning to get this chair, your welcome to them. Email ellena underscore norkett at yahoo dot co dot uk. Ta.

MOS hope you're ok. sounds like lots of emotions are crashing in on you at the moment. i haven't lost anyone so close so can only imagine how you feel and it can't help that you've been in limbo and without dh for such a long time. it will probably be good for you to get back to some sort of normality/regular life again soon. big hugs to you.

first day back and kids first day with nanny was all fine. need a big glass of wine and an early night though.

thom i think you must have left the kids'fest' before my favourite moment of the afternoon....a girl of about 6 or 7 doing karaoke singing along to 'It's Not Fair' by Lily Allen. Not sure if you know the lyrics but it's basically Lily singing about how crap in bed her man is including references to not being made to scream and having to sleep in the wet patch. how appropriate for the young girl. and she appeared to be pitch and word perfect so must have spent some time practising.

KBN - where were you and THOM? Glad your first day back at work went well.

wow KBN.... charming what lovely parents she must have

There was a free Kidsfest at Merton Abbey Mills which sounded great on paper 'balloon modelling, bouncy castle, face painting, music workshops etc'. As it was free there were a lot of queues for things that weren't that great and of course the massively inappropriate choice of karaoke song. Not the best bank holiday choice although dd seemed fine with it as she got to bounce on the castle while I queued for her!

hope you had fun at the in-laws. has their furniture survived intact?

Ah, local festivals - always a bit of russian roulette going on with those as to whether or not you're going to have a brilliant time or spend the whole time surrounded by people you would much rather avoid (excluding THOM and family of course) wishing you were somewhere else...

Long weekend in Brighton was good thanks, though Danny's sleeping was truly rubbish (he has a curved Stokke cot at home so apart from bashing his head into the bars cant do too much in it - at his grandmas he has a rectangular travelcot which is what we used to use with DS1, who used to sleep brilliantly in it, and instead spent his sleeping [hah!] hours wedging his head into the 4 different corners of the cot and wailing to be rescued). Managed to get away with feeding Danny on the patio on the Saturday (though MiL was surprisingly pro-BLW and absolutely astounded at watching Danny tucking into bits of my bacon sandwich - she had to take some photos to show her friends at work) and we were out most of the Sunday on a long hike which ended at a local country fair and lovely pub with huge kids play area in the beer garden so Danny's eating carnage was mostly al fresco again and he remains in his grandma's good books .