january babies are now riggling,giggling & crawling to keep us on our toes

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hi

Lawd bless ya darlin Moose. It's a crap tip and no mistake.

I can barely get the computer on the table for clothes, letters, used cups, and general crap. Several works of art [dd's] and a few pressing bills.

It is bigger than I'm used to though - but only a yard outside, so always a cost.

manly pat for Dog<

my first couple of periods have been heavy and painful, and yes, wondered if they were really m/cs...but not that bad....

moose<
i also find toddler group terrifying. but i still make myself do the one, cos DD sees hardly any other kids otherwise.

what sort of swing do you have for your DD? sounds nice if they can fall asleep in it. DS hasn't just dozed off in ages....

@lenni it really is just a phase, won't be doing it @18 years old will they? (lets just pretend that's not such a long time...) DS did wake me up last night, but then sucked the life out of me like Christopher Lee in a bad film, so guess there was reason for it..

knackered after work

very impressed with trees ever having run for a whole hour. even in my pomp 20 mins was the outside maximum

[bent old hag emoticon]

Dh tels me to get up and check if DD has pood or not. I'm hoping not...

dog are you anaemic? I have read that low iron levels can really increase your period pain and heaviness/clots... if you're still bf then you may well be a bit low on iron. I have been taking my iron supplement this past week or so (left over from hosp in feb -whoops- ) and it has made a huge difference in my period now. Hope you're okay.

moose the best type of people have inherited furniture don't y'know? You wouldn't want to be the "type of person that buys their own furniture" would you?

lenni ds is being a monkey about going to sleep too... he is wriggling around all over his cot, banging his head up and down on the mattress , scratching the mattress, rolling around, 'walking' up the bars with his feet etc... drives me mad after he's always been so good at going down. It had better be a phase!

I'd much rather have inherited stuff than new. No such stuff in my family though. You obviously have better heritage and class than me

Hatts still goes to sleep on a chest, usually mine, often dh's. She'll never sleep thorugh and never self soothe. Ever. Sigh.

@dog...unfortnately although i am much healthier now back at work (1 hour cycling * 2 days) i have lost no weight at all and am now more hungry. on the plus side my first ever Boden arrived in a size 14 and it was clear i could wear the 12. too long though, I need to grow taller - what should i eat for that ?

muesli is nice, though am skipping breakfast atm. We have some 'dorset cereals' stuff that is so yummy i could eat it out of the packet. If i was being naughty.

DD had pooed i wasn't in time to save the tombliboos

I am hoping this too is a phase..

do any of you take kids riding? from what age? DD is 2 and calls everything 'Hooooo' including the poor hound, even though DD's first word was dog....

never rode myself but where we live it would be wrong not to get her to learn.

Lenni, dd is being a nightmare to get to sleep at the moment, similar stuff to Peach, scratching the mattress, rolling around kicking/headbutting the bars etc, anything to keep herself awake.

Edgar, we have this swing and its been worth every penny. When she starts rubbing her eyes in the day I just snuggle her up in there with her favourite cuddly and blanket, switch on the seat vibration and set it swinging and she's usually asleep within a minute. (Its just night times she won't go to sleep at the moment.) The only thing is that she can stop it swinging by transfering all her weight forwards in the seat now, so its costing us a fair bit in batteries these days.

Tree, but you have such beautiful 'things' like the mirror in the picure of H in her longies and the shelving unit and chair in that picture of your room at christmas, its just the sort of stuff I search the net for and drool over.

I know inherited furniture can be a good thing, but in our case we've just ended up with a lot of mismatched styles and woods so there's no flow or scheme in any of the rooms. Actually the nicest stuff we inherited had to be given away when we moved to Lancashire as we went from a Victorian terrace with big rooms and high ceilings to a tiny 3 bed newbuild and we couldn't get them in.

The only room we have with matching furniture is the boys' bedroom and that's because I put my foot down about wanting my boys to have a nice room and went and bought it all from Ikea.

Oh, looking at your profile photos, I just noticed the date of the one of J as a newborn. She is actually only 6 months younger than ds2 (he was born April 2004). Strange, I always feel like my boys are really old compared to everyone else's dcs on this thread.

Dog, hope you are feeling better.

Books, sending unspotty baby vibes your way.

That mirror was cheap as chips Moose, my mum finds all this stuff in strange places.
The furniture cost about £1000 all in, which is a shed load to us, but about a third of it's price in M&S.

Harriet asleep down the side of me, wedged between me and sofa arm. Little blighter!

Both of mine were totally covered with the pox - it took DD's a good 3 or 4 months for the marks to go. She has very fair skin so was always going to mark more easily than DS's lovely olive complexion. Thankfully both managed no scars.

Glad I'm not alone with the sleep. Knackered all the same so off to bed now.

DD will ride too Edgar - I did until I went to uni, was really into competing and kept me so fit - but I've decided to wait until the summer when she'll be nearly 4. I don't think I'll bother getting a horse myself until they are both at preschool but think I'm going to take up offer to let her ride the pony next door but not until weather is a bit nicer and she has hat etc. don't really want to invest in that kind of stuff until we are likely to use it regularly as will be outgrown so quick with my fast growing DCs.

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