June 07.....Petulance, Potties and Poo in random Places

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Daisy! Hopefully I am coming with DH next Wednesday when he goes to BUPA. I can probably get an hour or so if you would like to meet for a quick cuppa? Is there a soft play anywhere between you and the hospital?

have a thumping headache and am very edgy

Hello

Well DH made a half-decent snowman unlike my pathetic offering....although the facial decorations were down to me. Pictures on FB. Looks a bit pissed now though!

Hi Tallulah. Good to see you. Can begin to imagine what your house is like as its pretty choatic in this one! Someone took away my nice smiley, happy-go-lucky baby and left me with a screaming, whingy child who is on his feet touching and reaching for everything he shouldn't, and my god, he has a temper!

I am so looking forward to going back to work tomorrow (and Germany for 2 days on Wednesday).....I now know what the phrase "children getting under your feet" means ....I'm creul I know, but I could not do this full time. Hats off to those of you that do!

Party sounded great Ria - food obviously went down well.

I'm just sorting out DS's birthday party in 3 weeks - where has the time gone?

Let me think about the soft play Ria; I'm not sure there is anything between me and the hospital, but there might be somthing the other direction?. It would be lovely to see you. you could always come over here if driving? It's an easy 10 minute drive.

Hi everyone. Birthday party seems to have gone well Ria. Know what you mean about 'under your feet', Norty.Thing 2 still up or rather up again having first gone to bed at 7pm. Arrgh - what I'd give for a wee bit of peace.

is your trip full-on work Norty, or will there be relaxed breakfasts, peaceful baths and nice dinners involved too?

DS1 is going back to school tomorrow

I wish Ria......full on work . Spend all morning getting to Heathrow, rest of the day getting there (2 hours from airport at other end). Get picked up following morning at 8am, course all day till 6pm, fly home, land at 10pm (if I'm lucky) then drive home.

Won't see DCs from tomorrow morning till Friday morning

shame it's not going to be relaxing time away from the DC.

btw, don't worry about ignoring that FB message I sent, I usually ignore them too, I liked that one more than others!

just been for a scale and polish. it bloody hurt the hygienist has been living in a b&b all week so she didn't get stranded at home due to the snow and have to cancel her appointments!

I didn't realise JC had blue eyes.

That does sound a bit full on Norty . Presumably you'll get a little chance to relax tomorrow night once you get there? If so, make the most of it!

Jamlet has made me smile so much the past 24 hours. Her speech seems to be coming together at last, with words being joined into little phrases. This morning she copied me saying "naughty Daddy" (only she said it more as "norrey Daddy") and "Wakey wakey Daddy" ("Way way Daddy"). Then all by herself as we headed off this morning she announced "Mummy Daddy wor, me nur-ey" (Mummy and Daddy go to work, I go to nursery). She repeated this over and over to everyone on the bus tonight all the way home. Thankfully they seemed to see it as cute not annoying. (I think the fact she was sitting in the luggage rach because the bus was full and she obviously loved it made her quite endearing.) And tonight she was talking about her purple trousers and wanting to wear her "Bear Pooh" pyjamas

Yay jamlet .....the floodgates are opening jammy, she will be talking you ragged soon enough!!!

Ria...not ignoring the FB message, just not sending it on. It was a lovely thing to receive and I feel the same about you guys; I can't imagine how things might have panned out with my depression and DH and I's relationship if I hadn't had MN, and you lot in particular, to talk things through with.

Your schedule sounds a bit gruelling Norty. At least you will get a bit of P and Q and a relax on the flight. I hope you don't miss the DC too much.

Ria, who is JC?

I have to share this with someone....either I have the weirdest wind I've ever had in my life, or I'm having a phantom pregnancy . Bursting out of my trousers (more than I should be, even given the fact Christmas is just over), running to the loo every five minute, irritable as hell, bone crushingly tired all the time and have even felt fluttery kicks , like 16+ weeks pregnant type kicks!!

I think I'm going mad. The rational part of my brain says I have had a period within the last four weeks, DH has had the snip, it's wind etc etc etc.....but this is like no sort of wind I've ever felt before and definately like wee baby kicks that I have felt before. Shitting myself about it tbh and won't sleep easy until I have done a test tomorrow. This seriously can not be happening.

Gah midnight again....must try and get some sleep.

needed to get that off my chest though!

Oh Daisy -surely not! IBS? Anyway fingers crossed you get the all clear. Unless,of course there's a teeny weeny part of you that would like it to be so ?!

Um Daisy, apart from the rushing to the loo bit, that's exactly how I've been feeling the past couple of weeks! Spooky!!

Tried going to work, but after more snow last night, roads and traffic too bad. We got half way there but it was sooooo slow, and DH said he wasn't happ to keep going as he then had to come all the way back and then go to work himself. I would have just got the bus (or walked) if it was just me, but walking not an option with Jamlet (4 miles) and not fair to make her wait for potentially a VERY long time for a bus to come along. Sowe turnedround and came home - not worth the agro for a half day at work (or less as I would have been very late in). Let's hope this is the end of it!

Agree with T Daisy, sounds like IBS.

What have you eaten? Refined flour products?

I get the exact same symptoms after eating fish and chips from the chippy. Its the batter. And not every time, just more susceptable sometimes.

Righto, off to playgroup in the snow we go!

brrrrrrr.

Please don't keep us in suspense Daisy!

And big congratulations to Jamlet! I am hoping DS will follow suit, he is making progress, but slowly and still no sentences.
I finally found an english speaking nursery for him, and hoping that will help his language along.

Yay for Jamlet, she sounds adorable I love the words they use instead of the proper ones. Baggins won't go outside without "me pippins" (my mittens).

Ha! DH has taken baggins gone for a nap and baggins isn't playing. Serves him right for waking me this morning to say it was ten to eight and was I getting up to get the kids ready, then fucking off back to bed himself. (I woke him at 9.30 and went back myself as a protest, but it hasn't worked)

oh no daisy! I have had "phantom baby kicks" since DS1 was born, I thought it was some kind of psychological weirdness as they feel very real. I react very violently to chips from the chippy, apparently my aunt doeas too and usually checks out what kind of fat places use when she is eating out.

hope the trip goes OK norty.

nursery sounds good sputnik.

does anyone know when the DCs are likely to have to start school nursery? It won't be September will it?

I still have a thumping headache

The big JC is Mr Clarkson daisy. He invaded my sleep yesterday morning (but secretly ) and then they boys were watching Top Gear (again) last night and there was a camera shot of him with twinkly blue eyes . The boys watching TG has spoilt it for me though, I don't want to explain why Donny/Mark Walberg has a big penis or why they are using condoms to waterproof a car.

Can't get out to the chemist so I will be keeping everyone in suspenders for a bit longer!!!! The car and everything is covered in a sheet of ice and the pavements are like ice rinks. I have tried four times to get the car doors open but they are frozen solid. I've never seen ice like it....and of course they have stopped gritting all but the main roads here. I daren't even try and get the car out of our road and am dreading school pick up as I watched my neighbour sliding backwards as she tried to push her pram forwards earlier! IT just isn't thawing at all here, and I have just used up the last of the organic sea salt on the path!

Good God NO T ; there is not one part of me, not even a teeny tiny little bit that thinks No4 would be a good idea!!! well, maybe the bit of me that fondly remembers how a newborn baby feels when snugged up in the curve of your neck , but the rational me knows that that bit only lasts for a VERY short time. The list of CONS far far far outweighs the one pro!!!!

Doesn't feel like coeliac induced tummy issues; those are usually heralded by really stinky wind and I have none of that. It feels exactly like a baby kicking. I read up on phantom pregnancies....usually experienced by women who are desperate for a baby. Not me then

Ah, good old JC. for a sexist bigot, he does have an unexplainable charm about him I read somewhere that they were going to axe TG? But I loved that special in the jungle....thankfully no awkward questions from DS1 about condoms or tampax; viagra he already knows about

I have knitted myself a new beanie with some wool the DC bought me at Christmas....I'm a bit about it. Will post a photo on my profile later and ask for comments before I risk wearing it out of the house.

They don't HAVE to go Ria, but yes they will be eligible for free nursery places (5 sessions of 3 hours a week) from the term after the 3rd birthday, so that'll be September for the June 07-ers. I keep nagging DH that we need to think about what we want to do about it.

But no, I don't find anything charming about JC. James May on the other hand...

DD is booked into the school nursery from September Ria. They do two full days and one half day here, but we can pay to have them stay for the other half day. I'm desperately trying to convince DH that is a good idea!

Jammy, we used the grant money to pay for part of DS1's nursery fees. We couldn't put him into the school nursery as we were both working full time, and I think he did suffer when he started school proper as most of the kids in his class knew at least a couple of other kids from nursery, but he didn't know anyone.

I'm not picky Jammy JM has been known to creep in to my sleeping hours also (but not at the same time), though the Hamster has lost some of his appeal since he lost control of his hair. It's never occured to me to me that JC might be a sexist bigot, that is a title I reserve purely for FIL, and he does not have any kind of hidden appeal (except that ILs have just gone on a 3 month holiday abroad - forgetting DS2s birthday before they went of course)

I don't want baggins to go to school in September! I will have to address potty training and stuff. IIRC he could maybe go a couple of mornings (but we have to say he's going 5 so they school get full funding) Maybe after christmas... or maybe I'll feel differently by September.

Shitty fuck wank bollocks!

Sorry, but just had a call, my mum has been taken to hospital, they think she's had a mini-stroke

Oh no, Jammy
What happened? Hope she is ok.

All I know is that she wasn't feeling well all day and eventually Dad called NHS direct who sent a paramedic and they took her to hospital and think she's had a mini-stroke. My sis rang here almost an hour ago to say she's heard that via our aunt (my Dad had rung his sister from the hospital) and had been asked to pass the news on. When Dad spoke to his sister it wasn't long after she'd been taken in, so there wasn't any more info and there may not be more until morning. I hope not anyway as middle-of-the-night news isn't usually good.