Fab Feb 2009 bar: toddle on in, grab a pew: mummy's in need of a drink or two...

[dinkystinky]

New thread for us to natter on about our toddling terrors... complete with some virtual booze. Mine's a french martini....

Slightly better news from my mum this morning, the liver spot is very small and they have sorted out both bits of surgery to take place on the same date (Tuesday after next).

Yay!

Re socks, I've decided if he doesn't want them on inside, that's fair enough. Outside, he has a very cute all in one suit which covers his feet as well, and in a few weeks time we'll probably need to get him shoes. He's not yet walking but he's about to make that breakthrough, I think.

We have similar sock stuff going on but the other morning he was barefoot and brought me one sock and a shoe and pointed at his (cold!) feet. (grin)

Hmm, sounds like all our little boys are sock fetishists in the making

Elkie - glad the news is more positive now - sounds like your mum has much more than a fighting chance. Hope the op goes smoothly and she recuperates well.

LittleSez - have read the no cry sleep solution and its a good book - really sympathetically written. Glad the techniques are helping you guys.

Went out last night for dinner and to a gig - Angie Stone in Hammersmith - which was fantastic but a very late night (and true to form danny was awake lots in the night and up at 5.20 this morning. sigh. Lovely DH took him though to give me a little lie in). Brought back memories of my seeing her when big with Danny-shaped bump at the jazz cafe. Seems like such a long time ago as my funny little man is such a fixture in our lives its difficult remembering a time before him....

will catch up tonight when dcs in bed - I am chasing some of you on FB - beware - mos got you first

swampster... A has taken to getting a nappy for himself if he's pooed and walking up to us holding it

It's funny, he has no speech but actually communicates better than the other two at this age in other ways.

Oooh! J does the nappy thing too. It is too funny. He brings you one and points at his old nappy and grunts. He invariably needs a change. My other two didn't do anything like that.

Lovely SUNNY day here. Spent the morning in the park, DS1 was playing footie. Ran into a lovely friend with her DH and two DSs and we all went off for an impromptu lunch.

Mental day here... dp's mate brought his kid round this morning and dd has a friend here too now. Had them all set up doing art at the table hours ago and there's still glitter falling out of peoples hair

Dd isn't coping well though... too busy a week i think and she's a being a moody screeching hysterical fiend [reaches for liquor]

OMG I just lost two hours of my life in Tesco. Clearly I should be sectioned as never, at any stage prior to my arrival there, did I question the wisdom of doing a massive shop, with only Mr T's assistance on a Saturday afternoon... and then when I came out it was dark!

Am very impressed with the self-service nappy changing! Mr T goes into poo denial and would happily sit in a dirty nappy all day. The rugby tackling and pinning down involved is truly exhausting.

Anybody else's baby at the frustrated stage? Mr T is mainly frustrated that he cannot walk nor reach things 6 feet off the ground (mainly things put there because he cannot reach there). Spends all day groaning and moaning. Lovely.

We lost two pairs of socks on the 15 minute walk to the David Lloyd Club on Friday so now have given up on them. He's been taking a few tentative toddles today so soon it'll be shoes, which I'm hoping we hang on to longer than the socks.

THOM... make no mistake, he still behaves as if he's being mudered when i attempt to actually change the nappy.... he just feels i should know he has a pooey arse

sorry about tesco, it can feel surreal when you have a horrible shopping trip like that can't it?

THOM - Danny normally spends his car journeys disposing of his socks. When we got him his first pair of shoes, he spent the entire journey back trying to figure out how to get to the socks underneath. And yes he's at the frustrated stage - he basically wants to do what DS1 is doing, DS1 wants to do what DH is doing - so in the mornings there are three-way rugby scrums going on for DH's electric razor I swear the only reason he learned to pull up and walk was so he could get to poor DS1's toys and books which I used to lift up out of Danny's way and then move out of reach. My sympathies on losing several hours of your life in Tesco - not something to admit to...

Swampster - sounds like you had a lovely day. Tulips - sounds like you had a trying one!

DH and I are currently here trying to figure out a summer holiday for this year. Is either going to be camping-lite in the Vendee for a week or somewhere in the UK - but being tied to school summer holidays for the first time is a real eye opener!

Meant to say not something to admit to in real life (as opposed to cyber -MN life to your imaginary friends ) in my last post - blaming it on self and Danny-induced sleep deprivation...

Mr T's woken up with yet another cold. Don't think he's been bug free since about October. We're all going to drown in snot I tell you!

Glorious day here. Should really go and tackle the allotment but I think ice cream in Richmond Park may be calling...

it is really cold here in SE but spent two hours in the playground and now have DC down for hopefully an hour and time for me to have a cup of tea. DS2 had his first pair of shoes in December, mainly to keep his socks on, he started walking in january so i think that i have to go and buy a proper pair of shoes now, not the soft ones.

my BIL was diagnosed with tumors in his stomach last year and it spread on to his liver. he was operated and treated and is now nearly back to his normal self. hope that everything will go well.

before I bug more of you to be my friend on fb - has our page on fb died a death? Doesn't look like it has been used for ages - I am very guilty as was banned from FB (by DH - cos he believed it was that site that crashed our last pc ) so now have a new pc and am allowed back on but no one seems to be using it

Hi Oooggs - nice to see you on. I think our FB page has gone by the wayside - life getting in the way of netting as much as before - though a few people occasionally swing by there when they cant get on MN for some reason...

THOM - have lost count of the number of colds Danny has had in the past year! I thought DS1 was bad for catching bugs but Danny is a whole new kettle of bacterium...

America - you're a brave lady braving the cold for 2 hours! We were outside for 30 minutes and DS1 was clamouring to go inside as he was too cold. That's great news about your BIL's recovery - doctors really can do brilliant things nowadays cant they?

Dinky -the sock obsession is in this household too - DD removes hers and tries to put them on her head....gets very frustrated that they don't fit.

Had an exhausting week with flu (me), teething (DD) and explosive bottom (DS). Why do they have to be poorly when I am?? I have to admit that on Friday I tipped toys out on the floor, put on Cbeebies and then lay down on the sofa with my eyes half closed whilst chaos reigned all around me....was strangely therapeutic!

THOM - yep mine have both had constantly green, runny noses since last Oct, it's delightful isn't it?

Tulips - I had a cat that was like that with DS. I have photos of them fast asleep with their arms around each other when DS was about 8 months or so. Probably not so hygienic but I think there was a mutual benefit!

Elkiedee - so glad the news on your mum is a little better.

Did you see that....two posts in a week - more than I have managed in months.....

Lovely to see you on again Calico but sorry you've all been in the health - wars. Yesterday afternoon I was driven to mainlining dairy milk bars while DS1 and DS2 were both wailing at me at the same time for different ailments for over 2 hours - now I realise I should be grateful I wasnt feeling rubbish too... Liking the sock on the head look - sounds like the kind of thing we'll see on the autumn/winter collection catwalks - sounds like your DD may be a little fashionista in the making

DH and I spent most of yesterday evening trying to sort out a summer holiday - think we may be going to france with keycamp -provided we can book it today for the dates we want. Anyone on the thread been with them and have anything good bad or indifferent to say about them? Have searched for them on MN but brought up far too many threads for my brain to compute...

sadly we have yet to go on holiday with the kids dinky so i'm no help... France should be lovely though. I think Keycamp is where my friends family used to go when i was little but it was years ago so i'm not completely sure, they loved it though.

A spent all lst night coughing yet stayed in his cot til 6.40... very !

Hi all!

elkee sorry to hear your news, hope that things continue to look better than first thought,

re: socks, I'm so glad M is a girl, she lives in tights!

Just wondered, what do people use by way of bottle/cup for milk? M has a tommee tippee two handled cup for water, but still has a bottle first and last thing. I don't know if it's a good idea to use the same style cup for milk or not...

Oh, Dinky, France sounds lovely, our first family holiday was to Scotland over Christmas, which was magical and very, very snowy, and we're off to Spain with John's parents in June, so we have to get M a passport!! If you haven't got one for Danny yet, apparantly the best option for a photo is snappy snaps who take it with a proper camera and do it as many times as it takes to guarantee it meets the rules and regs. Think it's about £8?

Hi MrsY - nice to see you on. Danny has tommee tippee flip up spout cups - but on bottles for milk still (as he so hates anything other than water or breastmilk if we put milk in a cup he wouldnt drink it!) during the day. DS1 didnt start having milk in cups till nearly 2 - we used the tommee tippee cups for his milk and it was fine. We did the snappy snaps thing to get Danny's photos done when he was 7 weeks old - he looks NOTHING like his passport pic now - as went to France when he was 3 months old. Definitely worth every penny in getting them done there.