April 2009 - Episode 12 - 'I'm wearing mine pink one Princess Tutu'

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Here we go!

Happy Birthday Baby Violet ClaireyKitten FrogmellaMoonbeam!

Morning

Well Orbit was in his own room until midnight, when he point blank refused to go back in his cot and cried until I put him in our bed. A small part of me is secretly pleased about this.

Has everyone remembered to put their clocks forward?

Nearly wrote 'cocks forward' then, which is a completely different kind of morning.....

'cocks forward'

Hope you have fun at the birthday tea for orbit today xx

If anyone puts his cock forward here, it will be chopped off, I tell you. I am in such a grumpy mood, I just had to chuck DH and the little monsters girls out of the house and send them shopping. I HATE being a working mum of two. There are not enough hours in the day to get everything done, and not enough hours in the night to catch up on sleep. How are the other working mums with 2 and more children surviving???

Happy Birthdays all round!

Maybe some of you can help me here???

Is there such a thing as a welly-type shoe for not-yet-cruising and definitely-not-walking-for-a-while? For sitting in the garden/ on the beach, sortathing? So with some generalised crawling/ getting about in the dirt?

hello all

oh the catch up

hello long time no seers

wfh - I'm sorry about the results. Sending you loads of strength to help with decision making

Izy is still in our room. Not much choice there really. I say hes in our room but I sleep in the living room with him.

Nothing happening with the house, no viewings nothing. Going to change agents.
Dh has a second interview for a job down south. If he gets it he will be away during the week until we can sell, if that ever happens. I've been looking at houses in kent
People that know, kent, sussex, hants. berks and surrey. If you can suggest any villages where we could afford a 4 bed on 170k ish with a garden, and reasonable schools then speak out

Happy Birthday all one year old babies. Where on earth has the last year gone

bb- ncss is the no cry sleep solution. Dont ask me if it works I managed two days and gave up. Not because od Izy but becaise of life circumstances. I'm sure it does if stuck to.

Gui I think you may want a "cruising shoe" (Clarks call it that. I'm not sure what StartRite call them, but Start Rite are better IME). Basically they look like a proper shoe but have a fairly soft, flexible sole. They should be fine for a non-walker - think they go in the washing machine but I've never actually bothered to do this.

Tired and having a blood sugar crisis here. And Edmund is still asleep so he's never going to go to bed tonight.

It's been a nice weekend, but I'm still a bit fed up and I've gone and revealed to DH that I am disappointed in his Easter Egg choice, which I've been womanfully trying to refrain from doing ever since he bought the fecking things home months ago. Sigh. I am such a bitch.

I was wondering if there was such a thing as a cruising wellie? (We got a Clarks flyer through a few weeks ago, and I concluded that the whole concept of crawling shoes (before cruisers) was a thorough rip-off). I will investigate.

What Easter eggs has he chosen? Not Nestle? I've always been a big fan of the bog standard Cadbury egg, with the chick on the front (though when I was small I had to eat around said chick as I couldn't bear to bite into it). A nice plain Buttons egg or something does me fine. Although I do also require Creme Eggs and Mini Eggs at Easter. There is a Hotel Chocolat box lurking on a shelf over yonder, which I believe contains an egg for me. Does that mean I should get DH one? Also, my folks are here for Easter weekend, I wonder if I should get them something also? Although I think a Full English will be egg enough for my Dad.

I have sent DH and Hugo out for a walk. I am enjoying the silence.

Hiya sorry to interupt have quick urgent q?

Ollie has thrown up three times since 12pm. and has had one bout of diarrhoea. I want to give him oral rehydraton sachets but should i wake him to give them to him. (He is now in bed? )

Just settled after no spleep all day?

If he's done some nice wet nappies today and doesn't seem terribly dehydrated (nice plump skin, moist mouth) I'd be tempted to let him have an hour or so and then wake him. Has he drunk much in between throwing up?

Phone NHS direct anyway. You may feel like it's a bit unnecessary, but it's nice to be able to just go over things with a pro', so to speak.

Cheers ju, new i could count on you!

I have spoken to the 'gods' at meddoc who recommended:
Leaving him to sleep
Putting sugar in his water (no mention of ORS at all)
and giving no milk tomorrow just water.

He is not dehydrated so i will try not to worry too much and will give him some water and ors later.

Cheers!!

oh god, diarrhoea has struck here too. DS1 cheerfully announced that 'water was coming out of his bottom'

No nursery tomorrow. Sigh.

I'm not entirely convinced about putting sugar in his water. Here is the NHS advice which should be used in primary care for rehydration of children with gastroenteritis. They give slightly different advice for children being assessed over the phone, not in person, but nowhere does it say to give sugar water. Have a good read. Then complain to the PCT in the morning.

I did think it twas a little strange tbh!?

I think I shall follow the official nhs advice (which is what i was doing anyway)

Thanks hun.

Am knackered.

Cake was yummy though! Now baking another one for nursery tomorrow.

See profile for pic of Orbit enjoying his birthday Wheelybug. He LOVED it. Strange man lurking in background is DP. Person pushing is Orbit's lovely cousin.

Lovely pic WFH

Gui AFAIK there isn't such a thing as cruising welly but then I don't know much. I can't TBH see many situations where you would need one. A cruiser probably can't walk on wet, sucky mud. Splashing in puddles could well be fun I suppose, though there would be inevitable hand-putting-in straight afterwards. For gardens and beaches, I would have thought you would have more issues with wet legs etc. For which I favour Rukka waterproof dungarees.

The egg thing.... one is called "black forest" and the other one "banoffee" and both have weird caramelised dry fruit squidged into the front of them in an artistic fashion. Unless it is totally yummy nuttiness, I'm not into crunchy bits in my chocolate really. Nor overly sweet stuff detracting from the chocolatey flavour.

I fancied a Hotel Chocolat egg or similar m'self, though I also have fond memories of the little chick (which I also didn't eat). In previous years we've always ended up visiting at Easter, and taken the egg with us to People Who Don't Appreciate It and Feed Half Of It To The Dog (in-laws) or People Who Bought Half A Tonne of Seriously Manky Chocolate From a Market Stall and Insist You Eat All That First (my parents). And then last year was the frigging gestational diabetes so my quest for the perfect, magical Easter egg experience I remember from my youth is probably doomed to failure.

About to have a look at your thread, Schulte. Though I don't count as I'm not a working mum.

they warn against the rehydration sachets now. Basically if they're bad enough to need it then they need medical attention. Takes quite a bit for a child to get to that point though. Is his fontonelle still available to check?

Happy Birthday Orbit Buttonhole! [grin

Happy birthday Orbit Buttonhole - his full title still makes me smile (I was a lurker on the antenatal thread at the point he was christened OB)

WFH - gorgeous pic. My parents are buying O a wheelybug for his birthday so good to see it being happily used by a one year old.

Easter eggs. Yum. I suspect I won't get an Easter egg from DH. I didn't get a mother's day card so I think an Easter egg is extremely unlikely. My favourites are mini eggs, creme egss and the chocolate button easter eggs. Mmmmmmmmmmmm.

Kaz - how is O today?

Oscar slept from 19.25 through to 06.20 last night - we've dropped his morning nap, he's sleeping slightly longer at lunchtime and we've used the clock change to push bedtime back by half an hour. How long this will work remains to be seen but last night was the first night I haven't got out of bed since before he was born!!!

He's just gone on one of his 'missions' to the living room. There's nothing of his in the living room except a big box of books - he likes to pad down the hallway and then pull his books out of the box and sit looking at them. Very very cute.

Oh Schulte, I've just read your thread Sending big hugs x x

Waves to all.

That's it.

SigningOffTiggaxx

Good morning.

DS1 staying at home today due to diarrhoea yesterday. Have already shouted at him for trying to get down the big box of change from the shelf and nearly killing himself in the process.

Orbit also staying at home because he's a bit under the weather too and if I take him to nursery then I have to cart DS1 along too, when he's not feeling well.

I stayed up late last night baking cake for nursery which will now not be needed until Wed, if at all. The kitchen looks like something exploded in it, and we're all feeling a bit unwell and grumpy.

Joy.

On the plus side, Orbit Buttonhole is one today! And celebrating by persecuting his brother - so far he's stolen the remote and paused the telly, turned the telly off, and nicked one of DS1's little toys and sucked it...

Hello everyone

We are just back from a rainy week in Cornwall. It was very beautiful despite the rain (I am a perverted pluviophile actually) and I took great pleasure in striding around on rocky clifftop paths with V strapped to DH's back, thinking "enjoy this while she is too little to want to clamber around and you have to envisage her crashing to her death every moment". But I have picked up some lethal virus which I am now afraid might be a chest infection - sick day first day back from holiday - not a good look.

WFH, best to you and your mother and your family.

Schulte, I read your thread with interest but didn't post as I have no clever suggestions. I am rooting for you though - and very curious about whether you investigate the nanny option, do you think that might work for you?

Auld, and other mothers of boys with pinkophobic husbands - this makes me very angry, it causes so much pain. As everyone says, pinkish things aren't going to make boys gay, but more to the point: some boys are gay, some are effeminate, and why do we pander to people who think that is the worst thing in the world? It is hard for a little person who is different through no fault of their own, when this difference is apparently so acceptably reviled. I think this should be challenged on a more robust level than "it won't make him gay".