May 09 - The Sleepless Babies Club, All Dubious Fashions Welcome

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Ladies.

Just to clarify, I will be calling payroll in the morning to give it back. Shame !

hi fi, flippin, pula, just reading ofsted reports (boring, sigh) since we have an appt tomorrow morning for dd1's primary school.

pula, that's adorable about your DD's 'love' note.

hope babies settle and everyone gets sleep.

flippin if none of the rest of you have developed anything i'd like to think she'd not be contagious... arrrgh it's so hard to know isn't it?

tummum that's a real pita!

momino hope the tour tomorrow is a good one

We've had a crazy day today. DS1 was up and raring to go at 5.30am and whilst DS2 was happy to snooze until 8am, he started biting me during our snooze so in the end I joined DS1 and DH downstairs. DS1 was like a whirlwind. I've never seen him so hyper! I put a load of stuff on ebay too Belgina and was shocked to have two items go for the "buy it now" price. Both were old Boden things from the back of my wardrobe so I was very pleased!

We had some friends over this afternoon and DS1 varied from being lovely and happy to grotty and tantrumy. He was very hard work! I made welsh cakes and managed to mess them up by using the wrong griddle, how I don't know!

Anyway, I did my run so I feel very pleased with myself.

Loobs so sorry to hear about your mother. I'm thinking of you.

Dandy good luck meeting the deadline. Will you let us read it when you are published? I hope your DH gets the job he wants.

Belgina good luck with your AP choice. Great news!

Tummum fantastic weight loss but rubbish about work. My FIL used to have an excel spreadsheet that used to calculate exactly how many working days he had left until retirement that took account of bank holidays, weekends, bank holidays. He said it helped every day to know if was one less day left. Sounds depressing to me but he said it helped...

HtheH another writer, cool!

Headless DS is a shy shitter too and will only do it on his potty. He has agreed to ditch it only in return for a kitchen like his friend's. Great but it is a great big expensive wooden thing. I am raising a skilled negotiator! WRT to the shy shitting, I am taking the ostrich position for now.

Pula I'd send DS to school if he wasn't actively ill. DS goes a bit loopy when locked up off sick so I avoid it at all costs. I totally understand what you are talking about HtheH WRT to sending sick children to school so I do the trampoline test. If he'll bounce on it before school he goes and if he won't he stays home. It usually works.

Spangle how H is getting better.

Am off to work with DH tomorrow. Very excited with lots of ideas for the business but first I have a lunch date with a former colleague, taking advantage of a child-free day!

Did anyone see Glee, btw?

Roffling at Dandy's post. You're a poet and you, er, probably know it! Do you ever join in the mumsnet Haikus?

Regarding the redundancy, I am sure it will all turn out for the best. I think things happen for a reason and he will find a job that he enjoys. Oh, and your publishing deal will lead to much success!

dandy sorry meant to say sorry about your dh's job. My gran always said 'everything is for something' & i like to believe that's true

Dandy I work 4 days but I do really like Fridays

ooo & ooo dh has suggested we take DS (&G) to the natural history museum as DS is mad on dinosaurs and our new years resolution is to do & go more places as a family.. now all we have to do is sort out when to visit.. where to stay and the best way to travel! i will be suggesting a visit around the date of the london meet

Shame Shitting

Moi, mocking

DS most of the time just waits until his night nappy goes on to poo.. he will go on the loo if he really has to.. it's only been 3wks of dry days & i think nights are long time off yet..

just put DS back to bed again.. he must have dreamt i was typing about him?! this time he was thirsty.. fingers crossed he'll go back to sleep x

yay DS slept until 7.30am! G woke at 6am so that lie in is still being elusive.. off to take G to baby & toddlers after dropping DS to pre school. she really enjoyed it last week as there were some other lo's her age there.. and lots of new toys to play with.

Morning!

Thank you for all your kind comments. They made me cry . I think my blue days do have a lot to do with lack of sleep, but also I haven't made many friends, since we moved 18 months ago, also things aren't what they should be with Dh.I think it'll be good when I get back to work, I won't have time to dwell on things. I'm also very frustrated by not being able to clean the house how I would like. Anyhow enough of my rant!

Looby Sorry to hear you had a bad day yesterday. Dementia is an evil disease.

I am at all these shy shitters! The joys we have to look forward too! Ds1 almost 3 and showing no signs of being ready for potty training

Dandy I chuckled at your new styling post!! Great news on the book. Hope it gets accepted. Hope things work out re your Dh's redundancy.

Pula Bless re your dd's love note!

llare enjoy your day at work! Your ds1 sounds very like mine. He's definitely more high maintenance than ds2!

Fi glad your ds finally stayed in his bed!! Ds2 woke everyone last night - I'm shattered today!

dandy PMSL at your new writing style & shame shitting . If your publishing deal comes through I will definitely rush out and by your book. In fact, I'll start a f/b campaign to make your book a bestseller so you can feed your poor lo's I can only re-itterate what the others said about your DH's redundancy. It might turn out to be for the best. E.g. I don't think I'd have become a mw if it weren't for my own redundancy many many years ago

pula Your dd's starting nice and young. How sweet

fi It would be lovely if you could come to the London meet.

tumm How annoying about work. My last employer did the same when I first started there. It took 3 months to sort it out, because the guy that needed to deal with it didn't bother replying to e-mails or voicemail messages I hope this year will go fast for you.

llare Yay on the buy it now things on eBay. Sometimes you can get pleasently surprised when selling stuff on there. Sometimes it goes utterly wrong. I've got quite a few things left to put on, but with all the e-mailing to aps and stuff it's going very very slowly.

But first I'm going off to M&T group now

PMSL at shame shitting. Brilliant. Your next writing project dandy is the next Fabulous Mum's book where you can put in your suggestions for parenting issues and home organisational issues (ie ballet shoes).You'd make a fortune. (Don't tell MN though coz I think they may do something similiar).

tum gah thats frustrating re your pay. You know you have actually earned it (in hours) but yet can't spend it. Gah gah and gah again.

llare you have insprired me to do my ebaying. I have a pile of clothes on my bedroom floor waiting for me to take photos and list them.

A reasonable night sleep here from R for once. he woke only once, fell asleep in our bed and then was reinserted into cot where he slept then till 6.05am when he was woken by DS1. That. Is. A. Massive. Improvement.

We've also cut out feeding him in the night now entirely.

A coffee and cake do this afternoon at DS1's school and I have bravely done some flyers to arrange a night out for the parents of his class. Am a bit nervous about that. I hope I don't come over as pushy. But one of the other classes' mums have had a night out so I thought we should to.

Thanks for all the poo imput! Will see how it goes over next week or so and see if there is any improvement, but its reassuring that DS ain't the only one.

Afternoon all,

Have been attempting a catch up since yesterday evening, and think I have finally read everything I've missed. We had a v busy weekend involving shopping for new glasses on Sat (found two v nice new pairs so am ) and then the IL's came to visit and babysat for us so we went out for dinner on Sat night. I wore a new dress and dangly earrings so felt like a proper grown up We stayed out until midnight too!

The ILs visit was surprisingly nice too, MIL was v relaxed and I think that a lot of the 'problems' we have stem from her feeling that she need to constantly wait on people when we are at her house so she ends up spending no time with anyone and then gets annoyed when we need to leave. At our house we didn't let her lift a finger and as a result she was much more chilled out and DH and I didn't get wound up by her once

Yesterday I met with our cm and did all the contracts and things. A was so happy playing there and she met her other two mindees (2 yo twins). They were so sweet, kept gently patting A on the arm and showing her their toys I was prepared to feel very about it but seeing A so happy and settled made me feel so much better and I looking forward to planning some me time for her settling in sessions next week.

looby hope you are ok and your mum's residential care ends up for the best.

dandy hope everything works out re your DH and hope the writing is going well (have finally got around to emailing you by the way). Also loving the new posting style

Fi The Natural History Museum is one of my favourite places in the world. In fact, I think I might see if DH fancies a trip there in the Easter hols with A. The Earth Galleries are cool, but probably a bit old for your DS, he would probably enjoy the earthquake simulator though

Hope those with poorly lo's are feeling better.

muddled hope you are ok.

llare great news about the new business, sounds like it is going v well, hopefully once you're a bit established your DH won't have to do so many long hours. Hope your day at work goes well. Good you are enjoying the running too, we went out again on Sunday and did about 3 miles of running and walking, was soooo achey on Sunday evening but feel much better for doing some exercise.

tum glad you had a nice time in Cardiff. We're going to spend a week at my Mum's in the summer to get a cheap holiday so will definitely be doing Ynys y Barri beach at some point

Sorry, mammoth post and there's probably been about a million x-posts since then. Am off to find the link to HtheH's magic vests now.

Oh yeah and llare I LOVE Glee, last nights episode had em in stitches with the dancing football boys

Hi all, name check amnesty please... been reading but too exhausted to do a proper post: DH and I have succumbed to H's tummy bug, boo. It was awful, I had to put him in his jumperoo while I hovered over the kitchen sink. Rang DH to find he'd been sick at a prospective customer's house - in their bathroom, thankfully! I thought H was getting better but he was sick again while asleep on his back in the cot (thankfully I was awake) and has been sick again this morning. He's kept some of his feeds down and had a good munch of my apple this afternoon so fingers crossed he's on the mend.

Hopefully will get some more energy to post again later x

PS at shy / shame shitters although slightly in current condition

NCA here too please. O due to wake up from nap any moment and I just want to get this bookmarked.

Spangle - sorry you've succumbed to H's bug. Take it easy.

Running - yay for dinner whilst ILs babysat. DH and I still haven't been out on a "date" since O was born. We must get it sorted but will probably be for Valentines/my birthday (15th) now. The only person we've really got to babysit is my cousin as Mum reckons she's not happy too as she thinks she can't lift O

Dandy - love last night's posts

goodevening all.
just relaxing with my chamomile and about to go to bed. am so tired.

MIL is here so I can go to Big Scream tomorrow with Harper prob for the last time as she's getting too big to sit in the cinema contently. whilst others have enrolled their children in educational classes like music box or baby yoga or baby swimming, I've invested in taking my babies to see films like 'Inglourious Basterds'or other rubbish. but, I've really enjoyed it if only to get a cuddle or be amused at all the babies crying at the climax of a film. I'll be sad to leave it behind.

saw and liked the primary school for dd1 but it really hit home that my 1st baby is growing up quickly. soon she'll be getting love notes like pula's dd. soon she'll be a teenager. soon she'll be at university .

(can you tell I'm nostalgic?)

belgian, you're right, it was a good thing you had redundancy or you wouldn't have become the brilliant MW you are .

ses, you do need to get out and sounds like valentines/bday is the perfect reason. go.

spangle, really hope you feel better, love. hope it's one of those 'quick' bugs and you're 100% tomorrow.

running, I know you're a bit wistful, but it does sound like the CM is a good choice and A will settle in just fine.

ladyH, parent's night out? will I have to organise such things when dd1 goes to school?

daizy, don't worry about your ds1 potty training.i know more than a few people whose children were nearer 3 when they potty trained. dd1 was a week away from turning 3 when she finally 'gave in' to pants. dd2 is 2.5 and i thought she'd be earlier but still doesn't seem quite ready. i'm going to try at eastertime.

hello to everyone else! must go to bed. H is in our room tonight (MIL in guest room) - i know she will wake up at the tiniest creak of a floor board.

uhoh could be in for a rubbish night.. DS is up & down again.. since 11.35pm.. he has a slight temperature and bit flushed.. thankfully G is still happily asleep