April 2009 - Episode 10 - Christmas time!! we can all drink wine, while children gurgle nursery rhymes, with logs in their nappies, and pee by the tree fun will be had by baby and me!!

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here we go then Merry Christmas One and all!! xxxxx

Feier/ Boff - could you give me a nice Christmas greeting in German, please? I have vague recollection from GCSE German of Frohliche Weinachten, but not sure if this is some naff phrase that no-one uses in real life (apart from English schoolkids). Thanks

Hello lovelies

Sorry no real time to catch up but wanted to post and say really sorry but I just don't think I can make the meet up. DP is up in London working on Wednesday, so it would mean him coming back on Thurs then heading up on Friday again with me. I can't leave Orbit with him as I just don't think he'll be ok for a whole night without me yet, but that means we all have to traipse up and poor old DS1 has to spend the night in a hotel with Daddy for no reason whatsoever. It's just all going to be too much, and too expensive

Plus the washing machine has just broken down, the landlord is in South Africa, I have two buckets of dirty nappies to wash and the house is still a tip. And they're coming to clean the carpets on Wed and that means moving the Christmas tree as well as everything else.

Gui I think I might cry too.

oh yes, and the wireless router just blew up so I'm having to sit right next to the modem, almost underneath the telly, to connect to the internet

Nope, she doesnt like breakfast cereal....tried that. have just given her mashed potato with 2 oz of milk in too, but was more interested in the chicken and peas...so much so she has been chasing a solitary pea around the living room (slattern...me?? )

any suggestions on how to get more milk into her greatly appreciated...

Custard, rice pudding, bread and butter pudding? (Sensing a theme here?)

Soup [desperate]

No time to catch up ladies. Hopefully I'll have time next week...

We've got proper cruising now here, and a few tentative walking steps... child cannot crawl, cannot pull herself up to sitting from laying...but she's nearly walking

Lots of holiday cheer and energy for the last hurrah before Christmas! And I'll talk again asap.

Momsicles? Sorry King, can't recall whether you FF or BF. Presume formula freezes okay, in which case, perhaps, fomsicles?

more desperate

H lurrrrrves the bechamel - I can pretty much give him anything in a white or cheese sauce, and we're golden! So, peas in white sauce (petit pois a la bechamel, with apologies for lack of accents)??

Don't cry WFH , all it does is worry the baby and give you a headache. Have something tasty to eat instead, take it all out on the biscuits .

'Even more desperate' was supposed to be an [emoticon] not a linky

Hello ladies - I'm sooooooooo tired... can definitely relate to the sleep issues, O's sleep has never been great and now it seems to be getting worse. But it's hard to know if it's really getting worse as he's been poorly/teething for the last few weeks so that's probably why he's so unsettled. All I know is that I can't let him cry it out - I just can't and I don't want to... so I guess I'm stuck with crappy sleep until O sorts himself out.

Boff - that sounds like a fairly infuriating exchange poor you. hope that you are now on the conveyor belt to recovery.

WFH - that you're not coming on Friday, but sounds like you've got a lot on your plate at the moment - we'll have to do another meet up in the Spring, maybe a first birthday meet up

Gui - I also get irrationally upset when the highchair tray isn't clean

Fei - how are the girls? did you get your jabs in the end? I'm going to get a taxi both ways on Friday by the way - treating myself

Our tree is up and looks lovely and twinkly...

I ma back from fanjo physio now. The lady was really lovely, like one of those older sporty girls you had a crush on in school.

I now have a special fanjo electrifying machine (calm, Nutty, calm). Basically you plug yourself in and squeeeeeeeze and the little handheld monitor lights up and beeps when you get it right. I have to practise with it now for a few weeks.

I apparently scored 2/5 on the fanjo richter scale and I am wondering what everyone else got, who saw fanjo physios. I also have some dodgy muscle in there right where the hip problem is, which was interesting. It may need to be seen to.

ROLF at the beaver picture!

Boff, glad you are feeling more positive.
I didn't get a score in fanjo physio, not AFAIK anyhow. She never used the machine on me, it was gloved and Evian-sprayed hand all the way.

We have a Christmas tree.
I have bought DH a waffle machine for Christmas.
(It also makes toasted sandwiches, I am secretly looking forward to the odd one when I work from home alone).

A is cruising, and is smiley and jolly. He also eats shedloads, after his unpromising start to the solids adventure.
God knows what tonight holds.

I look so shit the lady in the PO let me skip the queue a little bit, and DS1's teacher asked if I had the flu.

I am trying out all the festive [f]emoticons. I didn't find a use for this one , this one or this one which must be a good sign.

Evenin' all.

Another weekend of night shift in the bag. Good timing because BW was full of the cold and kept DH up til 3am on Saturday night . Much better now though and has been showing off his new 3 top teeth with all his smiling and ba ba ba-ing.

Sorry to hear about blubbing, bad sleeping, too much work and not enough eating. But glad to hear that physios seem to know what they're talking about.

That probably doesn't cover it at all. Will try to read a bit more once the damn house is tidy. DH is making Christmas present jam. He's doing a wonderful job but the kitchen looks like armageddon .

Evening everyone. Let's all have a good cry together (Auld is excused ), I blubbed down the phone to my mum today about how I hadn't slept in 8 months. Which was probably a slight exaggeration but I have NO PATIENCE LEFT to deal with two annoying children.

On the up side, I took them into Kingston today to see the Christmas decorations and they loved it, and DD1 had a stint in the creche there and loved that too, while H and I had a quiet half hour and a coffee (and cake, obviously).

DD1 also had her jabs earlier... no ill effects to report so far but she went to bed with Calpol just in case. H will have Celvapan some time in the new year because of her egg allergy, so we're effectively taking part in two clinical trials!

Milk... Kingbeat, does she like yoghurt? And you can grate cheese into pretty much everything you cook her. Bechamel and custard are also great ideas. I have the opposite problem with H still very addicted to her milk.

Boff, you had every right to be angry. Hopefully they'll get you sorted at last.

Nutty, thanks so much for the card, I am very unorganised and have lots of cards to write still

Sending good sleep vibes to everyone...

Oh and Gui, Froehliche Weihnachten is perfectly acceptable. In fact I couldn't think of any other way to say it!

Evening all

Sorry everyone is feeling tired. I think it is partly this time of year. There always seems to be a lot to do in December and it is so dark and gloomy. I remember always feeling tired at this time of year even before I had kids.

It will get better.

Fei - I only just heard about the creche in Kingston the other day. Is it in the Bentall Centre? What a brilliant idea.

Oh and can't help thinking of Angry Beavers when I see the little festive fangry emoticon.

[loves a seasonal emoticon emoticon]

Very festive Gui.

I think it's the word 'fangry' that makes me snigger.

Yes Wriggly in the Bentall Centre, it's really nice and there were only a few children there.

Morning morning

DH has put the wedding photos on the web so I guess it's okay to linky them here

wedding pics

E calls...

MrsG - looks fab!!!

DD woke this morning and had her bottle...without a ifght..and has now had a jar of porridge too!! Yay - almost like she is fed of going to the GPs herself!!

Thanks for all the advice, most appreciated. Formsicles look good...will remember that for the terrible teething that will surely start again soon.

Have my 1st driving lesson in 16 years in just under an hour..v. excited.

Fanjo workout sounds like something you could market....

had a good snigger at fangry, remind me of twilight!!

MrsG looks like a lovely day. Bride looks wonderful. Did you find any pics of yourself? Would love to see your outfit.

Creche sounds good Fei. I have to go into Kingston today so may check it out

Wriggles, if you can get them to take her for a whole month, let me know!

Cafe next door (is it called Moka?) does very tasty portuguese pastel de nata pastries.

He he he - a month in a creche would also save having to worry about what to get her for Christmas too [bad mum emoticon]. I'm sure our DDs could have a jolly time there together, until sometime mid-January.

S has just woken up so we're off town now. Am going to try very hard to forget that you mentioned those pastries. It's bad enough having the German bakery down the road tempting me all the time with delicious treats.

Thought about house hunting around here Fei? Or still put off by all the Germans? Some of them are really very nice....

False alarm - S has gone back to sleep. That's 2.5 hours now. Making up for the sleep he missed out on when he was doing his non-stop feedathon from 2am - 6am.