One small step for Baby, one large step (or mad dash to prevent disaster) for Mumkind

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Hi, Welcome to the new thread, the one where we can't drink a cup of tea in peace (there you go, we could have used that for a title!!)

I was in bodyshop yesterday and M trashed the place. Luckily the sales assistant thought she was sweet as she pulled things off displays and legged it out the shop with jars of body butter (several times)!!, cue me legging it after her with a handful of makeup . Luckily there were no store detectives aroud. She also tried to wear every shoe within her reach at the shoe shop.

IL2MIMI You had me thinking so i have just checked. The definition of a toddler is "a young child who has learned to toddle". Baby euey just took his first steps last week so I must have a toddler. However, he still prefers to crawl. It a nightmare with this broken foot. I cant pick him up as I am really unsteady on my good foot. Think its going to be a long haul.
Savoury flapjacks sound yum!

I think they stop being a baby when they through themselves to the floor and scream when they don't get their own way- esp when having a toy taken off them for stealing it from their brother or having a toy stolen from them.

Or is that just mine?

Hope your foot gets better soon mamamuffin. Sounds sore!

through? throw.

How did you break your foot mammamuffin ?

M has quite a few strops when he's told no or taken away from a situation. He either lays on the floor doing a fake moan, or if I'm holding him he flicks his whole body like a fish on land. Most of the time I find it amusing, but there are times when it annoys the crap out of me!

Congrats on the big move carriebo am amazed at how organised you are, although I really shouldn't be surprised after all this time.

star thinking of you and hope the SW have eased off.

foxy hope you're feeling better now and happy birthday to you and your DH

mamamuffin how did you break your foot? and how long will it take to heal?

pacita thank you so much for your kind offer. I was actually feeling a lot better (physically) by Weds and took DS to the local playgroup (hoping to slink back with a cuppa while he played), then spent A LOT of time on the rug at home with CBeebies on. Was working today, so life is officially back to normal.

So, have managed to shift the 5:30am feed to 7am. We are co-sleeping from about 12:30am and from then on DS is sleeping through. Sometimes he has a little grizzle at 4am, but nothing that can't be ignored. It's bliss, sleeping through, the benefits are massively outweighing the negatives at the moment. Am hoping that once my mum is back DS will be happier to sleep in his cot for longer periods in the night if my mum is patting him back to sleep. But for now, we are happy.

dg how are you now?

welcome back to mummamuffin

Well nothing really to report, oh apart from this

ooo lollyheart how very very exciting! Do you get to keep the clothes for your night out? That would be blardy amazing. I'm going to think of some really expensive suggestions!

I'm fine. DS is in bed. DH is working late at the office. I have the laptop and a glass of wine, enjoying Friday night to myself.

That would be great dg

I think i get to keep 1 item maybe more so fingers crossed its the perfect dress for my night out

I'm glad you're ok. enjoy your wine

starlight I hope you're ok and you've got the air cleared with the sw's.

God starlight I'm so angry for you. I know you don't have time to write a letter of complaint but you really really need to log these conversations. They're completely wasting your time whilst other children who really need their attention are being neglected. Any of us could be in your situation ANY one of us. God if ss came round my house they'd look at the damp that suddenly appeared on the living room wall, see the huge recycling box of unopened junk mail, notice my wardrobe needs a bit of a tidy and that there's some limescale on the shower door that needs cleaning. God knows what they'd say about the fact that we're now co sleeping. DS has only just had his MMR, about two months late but we never bothered with the neonatal BCG. I just can't imagine what kind of report they'd write on us. Yet the SW who went to see my dad after my brothers witnessed their mum try to stab herself after receiving a caution for child abuse seem to think that case was closed about a week later.

Starlight your plight makes me think of Kafka. What a hateful lot of do goody time wasters. And we ALL pay for them with our taxes. I just wish they went off to do something of real use, such as stop toddlers being murdered. They seem to be less keen on that.

DG, what a relief that you're ok.

Someone, lets take a wild guess at who, tried to pull off my windscreen wiper last night. It's been bent back with such force that the bonnet has a dent on it. I'm feckin' seething. My very wonderful sister is going to see if her boyfriend will pop round and fit a new one, I'm not keen on dragging the dc's to a garage on a rainy afternoon like this. I can't drive it in this pissing rain anyway as I wouldn't be able to see where I was going.

As a result I will be keeping the items that XP still hasn't collected and selling them. The police can't even go and get him as there's no real evidence it was him. Bugger.

starlight I am so angry on your behalf. It seems like they've back you into a corner. . It will be ok, you are not a bad mother, they are just jumping on an easy target - presumably to tick boxes . Can you get to the CAB? Easier said than done as they are so busy and with 2 dc's in tow. They can't just throw all this crap at you and expect you to deal with it. ((hugs))

Off to ring car dealer to enquire about wipers now. I wanted to take the dc's out for a walk but asshole XP has put a stop to that.

Oh Starlight, what a bunch of of idiots. I'm so sorry you're having to deal with this. They just seem to be picking up on such insignificant points. I mean, unopened mail? FFS. And what has Baby Starlights immunisations got to do with them. If you're not already., I would make a note of all contact you have with them.

Sorry to hear about your car Meglet. What a hateful thing to do. Sometimes you can take the bad behaviour yourself, but why punish the kids? I really don't understand some people sometimes. I hope you can get it fixed.

for Meglet and Starlight

Back to notmal here, E has been unwell on and off for the past 6 weeks but has shrugged it all off and is back at Nursery so no more relying on MIL for the timebeing.

Now sitting back and watching X-Factor, although not the same now Miss Frank are no longer in it.

Hope the bad weather not affected you all too much. We've lost a couple of roof tiles and the porch is leaking and the landlord does not particularly care. Fortunately we should be exchanging contracts for the new house on Monday - yay!!

Also for you Starlight. And ditto wht others have said. Your house sounds quite normal. At the moment I have a huge pile of dirty washing in the kitchen, a pile of wet washing that can't get hung up, bed covers that until yest had been on the bed for longer than I'd want to admit to as I couldn't face yet more washing, a filthy carpet downstairs, damp patches on walls, unopened post, a kitchen cupboard with cleaning stuff in it that has an un-childproof lock on it etc etc.

for you too meglet and hope your day cooped up wasn't too bad. Was it as stormy with you as here? In a 10 min car drive today we saw 3 fallen down trees!
Might be in Basingstoke tomorrow afternoon clothes shopping (without any dc)

oh dear, I was terribly angry in my last post wasn't I . I'll stop using the bad language now .

My afternoon went downhill a little more after the car incident, I managed to lock myself in the porch extension. DS had to post the phone through the letterbox (old external door is still in place) so I could ring my mum (only landline number I knew!) to call my sister to nip round and let me out . I had a thrilling 15mins in the porch tidying the shoes and folding the washing out of the tumble dryer while DD bumped about in her cot and DS watched cbeebies.

Good news, my daddy just called and is coming round tomorrow morning to sort out the car. What a palava.

When I said cooped up I didn't imagine you'd be quite that cooped up (sorry but it made me laugh)

Good job dd was safely in her cot and the telly was on cbeebies

.....and with a quick glance around my house I can see fusilli pasta under the table (thanks DD), an overflowing compost caddy in the kitchen plus bombsite work surfaces (I have done loads of cooking today), old unused sooty fireplace that DD tends to lick, opened but un-dealt with mail is piled up on the shelf, food in highchair. And this is tidy for me, the only reason it's Dysoned and not too messy is that mum whizzes round and tidies when I'm at work and the dc's are at nursery. Otherwise I'd be wading through dirty / clean washing and toys.

Send the SW's round to me next!

yes, debi. When I saw you put that I realised you didn't even know what happened next . DS was so good at posting the phone to me, I'm quite relieved he was so sensible.

and meglet and starlight

and hope you're feeling better foxy