May 2008. The FML's and the TT's (terrible twos)...here they come!

[Lucky2010]

Hi girls, thought the old thread was in need of a spring clean, plus, I'm sure if my memory serves me right, one of us had our May-due baby in March (Macoco???) so someone is 2 soon....!

People have been thinking/sorted for Christmas for ages, but not me .

We have started the usual family discussions of where to go etc. I got pissed off last year when my plans we rearranged by my SIL. Asked to go to PIL but then SIL invited them to theirs and then hey presto we ended up going there. It was OK but I've never had Christmas dinner at my PIL and although B and SIL only live in the next town it was hassle with the boys.

It meant my parents were on their own for the day so this year I feel we should invite them to ours. I don't feel like travelling anywhere and I'm on call on the 28th and 29th Dec so would have to be back anyway.

Does anyone else have these family dilemmas?

We did do one year just the 3 of us (as it was 4 years ago) but it felt a bit strange. I would like to see friends more, but it's that strange expectation of family...

Also my Grandfather has just gone into a home due to vascular dementia and my parents don't feel they can leave my Granny on her own. She has limited mobility and macular degeneration so it would be a stressful time having her out of her own home.

Got a quiet day at work today, only 1 hour of patients booked in! Not sure it's going to cover my petrol money....But I'll get a swim in and some jobs done before school pick up.

LM hows your DD1 finding big school?

Mitchell and Sho enjoy your hols! Is it just a week's half term or longer?

Baiyu well done on finishing dinner while having contractions.

Sho glad to hear your mouth is getting better, hopefully it improves quickly now that they sorted it.,

Ww we don't have that family problem as only my parents are in Scotland so either have Christmas at home with family or at there's with family.

Half term is 2 weeks but taking kids out of school/ nursery for 6 days aswell. We leave in 5 days. Looking forward to it.

Ah mitchell we only get 1 week half term. The other week must be hidden somewhere else in the year. Oh I would love 2 weeks off just now

We dont have much of an issue as with where to be on christmas. We used to all spend the day at my parents but as the famimly has expanded its got crowded and a long day for the kids. Especially as my sister lives 40mins away and one of us would need to be her taxi as she doesnt drive.
We (as in I) put my foot down 2 years ago and said that we would pop in for a visit as we do with dp's parents on the day. the compromise is that we all get together on Boxing day instead. So far it works for us.

Sho x
Ps, my mouth is a hell of a lot better now, thanks mitchell

Morning all, hope you had a good weekend.

But knackered here since I made the mistake of letting DS2 into bed at 3.30am and he was awake for at least 2 hrs and so I've not managed to get back to sleep .

But at least I don't work on a Monday .

Update on Christmas is my Dad won't bring my Granny down to my parents flat due to it being a real nightmare with her immobility. So looks like we won't see either sets of parents. Not sure if that's good or bad . But he might change his mind......

If only we could just pop in like you do Sho, and pleased your mouth is healing.

I feel lucky we don't get 2 weeks at half term, London private schools seem to do and I have friends having to share the childcare and one having the first week off the other having the second.

I'm looking forward to my sunshine in 2 weeks, but definitely of Mitchell's, you'll have a whale of a time!

Looking forward to going away tomorrow for nearly 3 weeks hopefully be a nice relaxing holiday even with spending some of the time staying with family. Need some warm weather. All packed just waiting for the flight tomorrow at 5pm.
Ds2 is so grumpy at the moment hopefully won't be a flight from hell. He is so strong minded and everything needs to be his way.
Not sure what will happen this month with ttc as will ovulate when staying with family so not ideal baby making time but will see if there's ever a good time.

Will see you all when we get back. Hope everyone enjoys there half term and those that are going away have fun.

Enjoy Mitchell, fingers crossed for a peaceful flight x

Enjoy your trip Mitchell!

Well we are on day 4 of toilet training here. I say toilet training because dd wont entertain the potty at all. I think everything is going nicely and will be successful. But still fingers crossed, I am very much a novice at all this malarky.

Hope everyone is well
Sho x

Good luck with the potty training Sho. DH wants to start DS2 but he's really not interested. He won't even sit on the potty/toilet before he gets in the bath. We started reading him a boys potty book, but still not bothered. I did DS1 at a similar age but only because I wanted to start a couple of months befoer DS2 arrived. We had wees every day for 5 days and then he seemed to get the idea. I think life is too interesting for boys to bother with weeing in a potty or loo. Girls seem to want to grow up and copy Mummy more IMO.

Yesterday was not a good day as far as toilet training was concerned.
DD has a habbit of holding in the toilet, she can do for hours! Yesterday morning after her initial first visit to the toilet she decided she wasnt going to pee anymore and so held it until mid afternoon. Needless to say we had quite a few major wet moments. It was such a shame as she was doin really well and was getting really excited and independant with the whole process. Also the sticker chart helps alot!
Hopefully today will be a better day, so far so good.
WW we have been leaving dd barebum around the house since spring time, and have made a point of sitting her on the potty and the toilet at various points but she's never shown much interest. We only decided to really give it a proper go now because because in the last week or two she has potty and toilet trained all her dolls!

Can I ask advice please? We have my 5yo niece's birthday party to attend on Sunday. Its in her house so DD is familiar. But should we put her in Pull Ups for it or just go armed with loads of spare pants? Dp wants to do Pull Ups but Im afraid that will cause her to regress.

Potty training her dolls sho sooo cute! I personally wouldn't go back now to any form of nappy in the day. Just takes lots of changes of clothes.

I remember at my Bro's wedding DH put him in nappy and he'd been out for nappies for months (not always dry!), he just kept flashing it, he thought he was really cheeky.

Hi everyone....won't be around a bit as Hyperemesis has reared it's ugly head once more and I am vomiting like there's no tomorrow. NO MORE CHILDREN EVER for me. Feeling really really rough. Got some meds, not sure if they're working.

Sorry to hear that Pipoca, hope your feeling better soon x

Hi all,

Sorry for lack of posts...been so very busy the last couple of weeks, have hardly sat down. I am quite awake tonight so staying up catching up on FB/MN etc!

Pipoca congrats on baby news but at the vomitting. Hope you feel a bit better soon.

Sho I would agree with WW and suggest you don't put DD in pull ups at the weekend. We took DD1 to a party when we had been PT her for about 6 days, and it felt weird, but she suprised and just told us when she wanted to go. It was a family party so maybe some novelty factor of 'impressing' Nana etc by using the loo?? Obv she may be distracted at party, so def take lots of clothes. I would expect lots of accidents, and anything less is a bonus!

Yes we have family issues at Christmas. My folks live 100 miles away, DH's family live 10 miles away. My big problem is that both DH's sisters have no other family on their DH's sides. One is an only child and both parents deceased, and the other has quite a strange and estranged family. So basically, MIL always has both her daughters and their families (i.e. my neices and nephews) at every Christmas/Easter/Mothers/Fathers Day etc. As you know, my relationship with my MIL is 'strained' at times, and I think she struggles with the fact that her son, my DH has another family now.....my side. She doesn't take to it well when it's the turn of my parents to spend Christmas Day with us.
We also have into the equation, Superbro, who works shifts, my Sis and BIL, who also have to co-ordinate with BIL's family, and my DH works shifts, so every year just seems more and more complicated!!!

This year DH is on a night shift Christmas Day (7pm-7am Boxing day). I think we're having my M&D Christmas Day, then we'll go to in-laws/DH's family on Boxing Day.

WW DD1 is loving school!!!! DD2 is now at playgroup 3 mornings a week too, and loves it too. How is your DS1 enjoying it?

Got a close friend coming to stay this weekend, she lives in USA now so I only see her once a year. She has a DD same age as DD2.

Sorry for rambling......

night night all,

LM xxx

Enjoy your weekend LM, good to hear from you.

DS1 doing fine at school, got our first parents evening on Monday! Sorry, parent teacher interviews .

Pipoca hope the sickness passes as quickly as it came. I had relatively easy pregnancies but don't fancy doing it again.

Hi
Just a quickie for some toilet training advice please. Advance apologiese for tmi.

Dd has been great with doing pee's in the toilet, a few spills but nothing huge.
But its with the poo's that we'r having issues.
She has never been daily, she can can go 2 or 3 days usually. Which ofcourse causes it to be hard sometimes. So I wasnt expecting alot of them in the first few weeks iykwim. And have increased her f&v and liquid intake as well.

So far this week we have had 3. 2 in the pants and the 3rd was a total accident while already on the toilet.
My question is how do I encourage her to do them in the toilet and not in her pants? When I talk to her about it she just says 'no'.
But then she says that about most things!

Sho x

I'm not the one to ask, that was our major problem with DS1. Not sure what f&v is...?

Sho I think that's really common tbh. Both mine took longer with poo than wee. I think it may just be one of those things that takes time and needs a bit of perseverance. Not much help probably. Obv don't get cross with her when she does it and brush it off saying 'nevermind! Next time try and do poo poo in the toilet!'. Maybe let her watch you go on the loo .

I found both times potty training that I got very stressed about things that then within a few days seemed to just sort themselves out.

Good luck.

LM x

Thanks. Im trying to be realy calm and encouraging with the whole thing. And she seems to be quite taken with the whole concept of using the toilet, washing hands getting a sticker - she LOVES getting stickers for doing a pee, and she's got shiny star stickers for poo's, I made a point of making them more special on purpose.
Suppose its just a case of perservering(sp?) and keeping up liquids and fruit & veg(f&v sorry ww) up.
Thanks ladies x

Sho sounds like she's doing well! Keep going x

I never seem to be able to go to the loo on my own, whatever I'm doing

Sho If it's any consolation, both my girls were easy to potty train in retrospect, but at the time, I found it sooooo stressful, them peeing everywhere etc. Keep going and just remember the MN mantra 'this soon will pass'...before you know it she'll be fine!!

My friends DD (same age as ours) just pee'd herself outside church. Her Dad commented that it was like watching Little Britain, which it was.....it was v funny (the joke). Maybe you had to be there....

My brother's wife has gone into hospital because she's started bleeding, she's 36 weeks pregnant and has a low lying placenta. She was booked for a scan on Wednesday to recheck it since it had moved 0.5cm 2 weeks ago. Just wish they would get on and give her a section. He's older than me and has always had a Daddy urge if that's the right way to put it!

So bit anxious for them, but must get off this and do my tesco order.......

SIL ok, but they kept her in last night to make sure, think she'll be out today.

ww glad your SIL is ok, hope everything goes her way in the next few weeks.

lucky that poor girl in front of the church, I hope she wasnt too embarrassed.

Thanks all for the potty training support.
Yesterday was a success. We had her cousins 5th birthday party to attend and then we visited our friends and their new baby. She stayed dry the whole day and had plenty of stickers as evidence! very proud mummy moment!

She lifted up the skirt on one of her cousins dolls in the middle of the party to tell me where the poo comes from on the doll! Another proud yet slightly embarassed mummy moment

DD sounds v cute sho.

Off to Tenerife tomorrow, not packed and got to go into work in the morning for CPR.

Have a good half term LM

Hope pre and post baby girls Pipoca and Baiyu are ok x

Poor DD1 not at all well, Laryngitis I think. She is supposed to be in a tap show at our local theatre on Sunday, hope she's better for it!!

WW Enjoy your hols.........

Sho How's the potty training going?