April 2009 - Episode 11 - 'There's Something About Teutonic Penises....'

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05 Mar: Kazkiss: ISABELLE FLORENCE 4lb 6oz & OLIVER THOMAS 3lb 7oz
15 Mar: Cakeforbrains: OSCAR WILLIAM 7lb 2oz
27 Mar: ZuluWarrior: Alexander James 7lb 15oz
28 Mar: FrogmellaMoonbeam: VIOLET ROSE 7lb 9oz

02 Apr: Oddeyes: ELEANOR 9lb 8oz
03 Apr: Bebemoo: MEGAN LILLIAN CONSTANCE
03 Apr: Bumpalump: JACOB 8lb
04 Apr: BabyBolat: KARAHAN 6lb 5oz
04 Apr: Kingbeat23: IRIS
05 Apr: JumeirahJane: MILLICENT ROSE 5lb 15oz
06 Apr: BoffinMum: FELIX DAVID GORDON 7lb 9oz
08 Apr: girlylala0807 JAMES EUAN
11 Apr: SpringySunshine: GEORGE NATHAN 8lb 15oz
11 Apr: RachelinScotland: CLEMENT JAMES 8lb 14oz
11 Apr: Lou031205: ISLA SOPHIA 7lb 9oz
11 Apr: Electra: ISABELLA CAROLINE 6lb 3oz
11 Apr: AuldAlliance: ALEXANDRE 7lb 6oz
12 Apr: Phdlife: Name TBA GIRL 9lb 3oz
13 Apr: MathsMummy27: AMELIA CHARLOTTE
15 Apr: Guimauve: HUGO GEORGE 9lb 2oz
15 Apr: Bronze: ISAAC JOHN 7lb 14oz
15 Apr: Kalikaroo: Name TBA BOY 8lb
16 Apr: PuzzleRocks: HOLLY ELIZABETH 8lb
16 Apr: Brettgirl: HANNAH GRACE 6lb 15oz
16 Apr: ReallyTired: Name TBA GIRL
18 Apr: Staryeyed: Name TBA BOY 7lb 11oz
18 Apr: Dawntigga: SAMUAL 5lb 11oz
20 Apr: Wrigglyfish: SEBASTIAN 9lb
20 Apr: Swaliswan: BETH 7lb 9oz
21 Apr: B52s: SAM MARTIN 7lb 9oz
21 Apr: Feierabend: HAZEL LOIS 7lb 9 oz
21 Apr: Mrsgboring: EDMUND 8lb 12oz
23 Apr: Tristalewjac: LEWIN 8lb 4oz
23 Apr: NuttyTaff: TIAHNA SKYE 8lb 8oz
23 Apr: Purplemonkeydishwasher: ISLA ELIZABETH 8lb 14oz
26 Apr: Carameli: THEO LAURENCE 7lb 6oz
26 Apr: Surprisenumber3: EVIE ANNE 8lb 2oz
26 Apr: Bicnod: OSCAR MATTHEW 8lb 1oz
27 Apr: Loobylaboobs: OLIVER STEPHEN 7lb 7oz
27 Apr: Gingersarah: VERONICA ROISIN 9lb 1oz
30 Apr: MegBusset: ARCHIE 8lb 15oz
30 Apr: Elpis: ISLA JESSICA 8lb 11oz
30 Apr: Ladyofmuswell: SAMUEL
01 May: Satheresitting: Name TBA BOY
03 May: Conkertree: Name ANGUS ANDREW 8lbs 8oz
06 May: Frekkles: HARRIS MERLIN 8lb 5.5oz

Right I know it's impossibly early....but I'm to bed. Hopefully we'll all have better sleeps.

Happy New Year to all! I really can't keep up anymore. Just thought I would drop in and catch up but I am no longer up to the task. I have read the first few and the last few posts.
Feierabend - when you get the answers let me know. I am jealous of your current situation, we live in central London and I long to live out and know where we are going to be for the next 15 yrs. Although I am enjoying dh being home in 10 mins to relieve my stress at the moment.
My freak is growing out of her 12-18 month clothing, decided to root though ds old clothes and dressed her in them today and got dozens of comments about my two boys compared to zero about my pretty girl in the past week - bizare! Although there was an increase in folk out and about today.
Hope you have all enjoyed the snow.
I am going to turn in. The freak will be awake tonight as she has a nasty chest infection. 2am and 4.30 is my betting.
Night all

Evening (good night, bebe!).

Just popping in on a little break.
Working like a mad thing to catch up on time lost during last week's series of disasters.

I have a query (daren't post in parenting or AIBU).
As mentioned before, DS1 (4.10) has v long school days (8:20-4:20) and he is very, very tired.
His teacher suggested at the start of the year that if it could be done, it would be best to avoid him having school lunches every day. So one Monday he goes to a friend's for lunch and the next the friend comes here.
When DS1 goes to the friend's, they squabble a bit as 4yr-old boys do, but DS1 is well-behaved according to the mother, whom I trust not to bullshit me. When the friend comes here, DS1 is a PITA: grumpy, moody, fussing about which car seat/cutlery/cup he has, bossing the (younger, wimpier) friend about, refusing access to his toys, etc.
I have told DS1 several times that the system exists for him and no one else and that I'm not taking those 3hrs out of my working-at-home day (hours I catch up on at night) if he's going to behave badly and be rude to his friend.
Today I warned him again, and after another fraught lunchtime I have now said that he will have to have school lunches on Mons. Cue tears, pleas, wails about how horrible the dinner ladies are, how tiring and noisy it is...
I think he didn't believe I'd do it. I heard him muttering to himself that if I phoned the canteen service they'd say he couldn't have school lunches on Mondays.
I need to be firm, but am dreading the knock-on effects of the tiredness.
WWYD???

Was it kittycatisgettingfat that we were worried about? (memory loss due to exhaustion emoticon required)
I've just seen a post by her on the "name 5 things" thread. She mentions à 56-hr labour and PND...

AA - been out for my bf'd bday so might not make sense typing..but....keep up with threades and send to school

auld you are doing the right thing. i also think my ds1 would be exactly the same - 4yos ime dont do well with brief interludes like that.

it's a good thing. presumably you're aiming for full time canteen attendance eventually anyway. it must be quite tiring for him creating all that fuss at home so canteen might not be much worse in terms of tiredness

Oh, well spotted Auld, it is Kitty! And she has a thread in sleep too! That is a relief!
I agree, you have to make good on the threats and make DS1 have canteen lunch on Mon.

Auld, you clearly gave him consequences for his behaivour and he carried on, you have to carry through your threat or he won't believe you next time. Do school children really have long lunch breaks like adults in France?

VeryOldFashionedParentingInSomeWaysTiggaxx

Ta for the feedback. I know I need to carry out the threats. I am just worried about the effects, as having that one day off canteen lunches pretty much made his week bearable, and we are going to have to drag him wailing and crying to school on Mondays.
DH suggested that I suspend the arrangement and then possibly reinstate it if DS1 seems to be behaving better and if it seems necessary. But how he can behave better when he is more exhausted, I am not quite sure.
Mrsg, you are right that it is because it is a brief gap in the middle of the day, and only happens once a fortnight.
Back to work...am having a phase of working with Joan Baez on in the background. Her voice is incredible.

x-posted, Tigga.
Lunch break is from 11:20 to 1:20. Followed by a rest.
I think the actual time in the canteen is not v long, maybe 30mins max.
It's the canteen he hates; it is in a fairly small room not intended for that purpose, which gets really noisy and the sound reverberates a lot, so the dinner ladies are v nasty to anyone who talks. DS1 says that the other kids talk, so he gets caught up in the chat, too, and then he gets into trouble, which he really hates. He plays up at home, but at school in the classroom he is very, very good, and he can't stand being scolded.

Tigga it's what my dad said too because in Germany everyone builds their own house

Renovation project - we saw a house last Saturday that's big enough, has a beautiful garden, but needs pretty much everything doing, rewiring, new floors, kitchen, bathrooms, possibly plumbing, walls, windows, bit of work to the roof... I think that's just a wee bit too much with two little children. No? If it hasn't sold in a few weeks time we might make a low offer but at the moment the seller is hoping to get quite a high price so we're waiting.

One of the straps of DD1's car seat just came off, simply detached from the seat as I tried to strap her in. It can be fixed (you'd take the strap off the seat to wash the cover) BUT what if this happened in an accident? Is this safe???

Must catch up properly now, am a page behind!

Fei no I wouldn't take on a renovation, personally. Possibly with only one child but couldn't imagine doing it at the moment, even with DS1 at nursery a lot of the time.

I also think it's pretty tough to make a house choice that will suit for the next 15 years. I think all you can do is choose something that will suit you as a family now and for the foreseeable future. You can't really know what your older teenagers will want from life I reckon and schools will change quite a lot too, plus at secondary there is more choice to make a change if things are suiting (if your 13 year old hates her school she'll be prepared to get 2 buses to a different one, in a way that an 8 year old can't). FWIW I'd always prize good public transport links. We've always chosen based on that and it's been wonderful.

Auld that does sound a very tough lunch environment for your DS1. No chance you could have lunch out but on neutral ground? In spring you could maybe picnic which might make behaviour better?

Need a [dunno really] emoticon

I have invited Kittycat over here... hope she'll come and say hello!

I'll say hello too. Not been on since October - sorry! Life with 2 boys is settling down, DS1 will now acknowledge DS2 and occasionally kiss him goodnight which is very sweet. Sam wakes up about once a night still but I can cope with that a lot better than the 3-4 times he got into in October. Hope you all had a peaceful Christmas and a rocking new year.

Happy Birthday Bronze!

Good morning ladies!!!

I'm soooo sorry I haven't posted since DD was born - as you've gathered from the '5 things' thread, I've been totally out of contact with everyone and everything...

Yes, its true, the labour was 56 hours long - and our lovely fluffy home birth turned into an intervention-fuelled frenzy at Epsom Hosp. By the time they stuck the epidural in I was just so relieved to get a break!! DD arrived weighing 6lb 11oz, a perfect little angel, but it turns out I had some very bad PND... It has felt like I've been trapped, at the bottom of a really deep dark well, with DD and I couldn't get out... I could see all my friends and family calling to me at the top, but I just couldn't get up there!

Things came to a head when I went for my Depo injection two months ago... when the nurse said to me "Are you pregnant? Are you SURE you're not pregnant?" and I burst into tears (the thought of another child being horrific at that stage) we knew something was wrong, so I went to see the lovely doc who has prescribed anti-depressants and counselling. Both seem to be working! The past eight months have been very, very dark but I'm pleased to say I'm on the mend!

So here we are - 8.5mo down the line, DD is soooo pretty (of course!) and is the best little baby-led-weaner ever... Still breastfed, co-sleeping, a terrible sleeper but all in all a joy every day. Why I was so miserable I just don't know!!

Thanks for worrying about me - and apologies again for being offline for so long - it's been a hard road but we're getting there! Lots of love to all of you and your gorgeous babies! I'll try be a bit more regular from now on...

PS is anyone else STILL waiting for teeth??? I reckon they're totally overrated - DD magaed her Xmas dinner quite nicely without, chipolatas and all!

XXX

Yay, Kitty is back! So glad you're getting the right treatment and it's helping. DD sounds like a star, what did you call her? Can we add her to our list? She's not the only one without teeth by the way, I have a toothless monster too and this one isn't so good at chewing. No way she'd manage Christmas dinner!

Thank you TT

I'm always looking at houses too though I've slowed down since all th eones I loved sold and we havent had any viewings. I don't think our hous eis that bad in fact its a perfect first time buyers house and as its a market for them at the moment I thought we might be in luck but no chance.
We're looking for a life house too but having to fit pils criteria too is just so hard. There is nothing I like and though I am willing to compromise I'm not compromising that much

Oh, Happy Birthday from me too! x

Can I give my children away? Honestly, they're really nice, most of the time.

Today, however, they're whinging, crying, moaning, unreasonable little monsters. Have just dragged them through the slush and ice unwillingly to see a house (not right), nearly abandoned DS1 for whinging constantly all the way there and all the way back, and got back to find that the flood at the end of the road is actually our water main that's burst, so there's no water.

The landlord has been on the phone to see how quickly we can move out as he wants to sell the house, my mum's op has been put off till Fri, Orbit has lost his voice and is pouring snot and coughing, and i might just give up now.

Welcome back KittyCat!

yay hay Kitty is back!! Gosh it doesn't seem five mins since we were all waiting for some news from you - I remember you bouncing on your birthing ball etc! Just wanted to say that for now...but will be back later definitely!

Oh my sis went for her first scan, first baby today and all is fine she is 13+5.

Be back later...need to do a massive catch up.

Oh...and today we had a first tooth! My poor nipples.....

Thanks yummy mummies!!

DD is named Gabriella Audrey Bianca - born 21 April... can't believe it's been so long since the birth, it feels like yesterday!!

Has EVERYONE namechanged?? Can I have an update on who's who? Thanks...

Oh I have a feeling we knew that she's called Gabriella. Really, she shares her birthday with Hazel?

So TwilightTurtle is WhatFreshHell
Guimauve is Juwesm
WrigglyFish is LuLuBai
Surprise is still Surprise but now in a cracker
Bebemoo is Bleuravin

Has anyone else changed? There are lots of new people on the thread too.

Coooool... Thanks Feirabend!