October 08 - Got ourselves some crying, talking, sleeping (sometimes!) walking, living dolls.

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Well somebody better start the new thread, so might as well be me!

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Star, i am just totally wiped out all the time at the moment and feeling a bit pathetic... i usually go off to bed really early and leave DH to do the washing up etc (lazy... moi?)... he's pretty good (he's great) and he's been looking after me

also if i am doing both the drop off and pick up from nursery everything just seems like a massive rush with the commuting into london... and the pick up from nursery involves a 20 minute buggy push up a hill.... and i carry a chunky laptop

... moan moan whinge whinge

I am working at home tomorrow so i am going to the drop and pick in the car like all the other parents!

hello knickers! there's babies on the way... but no new ones arrived yet (as far as i know )

Jeez, you only have 11 weeks left?

I start college in September...so I have to try and find the money to pass my driving test and for a car.

DD starts nursery then too, so I would need to (if she is in ams) drop her off at nursery, drop ds at creche, and then get to college for 9am, the at lunch, pick ds up from creche, pick dd up from nursery, give them lunch, and drop them both off at creche again all in an hour

There is a bank holiday in May but I don't have it off, dh does, though. SO, weekend, please Saturday or Sunday works fine for me!
Glad everyone seems to be enjoying the weather. I love playing at being a stay at home mum I just wish dh was at work. We have excellent fantastic days together and then other days where he's in a bad mood (like today) and it sucks. blah.

Q is in his big boy bed (as you can see on my fb status).
He didn't even get out once...
He's asleep.
I'm just totally ed
And SO No more cot!!!! ahhhhh

Wow Star that's great. Hope the night goes well for all of you. Congrats on getting the flat looking lovely. What a shame you won't be there for very long to enjoy it!

Ksal - Dropping two DCs off in different places sounds exhausting. It's bad enough dropping one off and getting to work, and I don't even have a very long commute.

Hello Knickers. What are you going to be studying at college?

I'm exhausted! Off to bed soon.

There are actually 2 bank holidays in May star, but I have a feeling that we are busy for both, though can't think what with. We'd struggle with a big day trip on a Saturday due to dd's ballet, but Sundays are generally good.

Awww to big boy bed. Is it a whole new bed, or a cot bed converted? Oh you went to Ikea didn't you - I bet it's whole new bed! Did you get the mamut one?

It's the cot converted into a toddler bed. No more bars/rails. Just the bottom bit. And low low head and foot boards, too. It's very cute. WIth a blue lindham bed guard on one side, wall on the other side. So he's very used to the mattress, sheets...etc.

Oh! Yes, I do get those bank holidays. Totally forgot. ANy sat or sun will do for me.

I will be totally when S goes into a bed! DD was in one at 13mo so decided to leave him in a cot until he can climb out.

Im doing a Access To Higher Education course in Sociology, English Lit, Law and psychology as well as my GCSES as I did not do them at school

Aubergenie i only have the one DC... but that's enough stress for me at the mo.... can't get my head round dealing with two at all!!

Well, he ended up in my bed by 11pm It's for sure, knickers. DH is so about it and I cried putting him to bed

ksal - of course! I was getting you confused with Ekka who was talking about going back to work. You're right though, one's knackering enough.

In fact I was thinking about this the other day. If we do end uo having another dc, then the childcare costs would completely eat up my p/t salary and I'd have to think about whether it's worth all the hassle of working for the sake of furthering my career or whether to give up altogether for a while.

Hopefully tonight will be more of a success Star. Did you still have to get up to bring him into bed with you or could he do it himself now that he's free?

Pistachio...I' glad in a way that it isn't just mine that do that....they whinge when they can't go out and play but whinge when they do

MyJob, I'm hoping to be a residential social worker

pistachio - i can relate. We went to an otter sanctuary today and dd took a fleeting look at all of the otters, then declared that she was bored whilst we were on our 'woodland walk' to see the few other animals that they had. Only perked up on the walk back to the cafe to buy cake! She's not actually a big cake eater, but luckily they had carrot cake which she does like. I had the hugest slice of warmed treacle tart with clotted cream, so decided at that point that i'd better not make it a full blood test day after all .

Knickers - the studying sounds like hard work but I bet it'll be really rewarding. I had to do my GCSE maths in order to get onto my teacher training course (I got an ungraded in my O level ) and it was a complete revelation to me coming back to it as an adult. When I was at school I somehow fell behind in maths and then just couldn't catch up and totally switched off. I couldn't believe that I was really enjoying myself and actually understood it - it was a huge sense of achievement.

Oh dear, sorry you've all had whiney children today. S hasn't got to the tantrummy stage ...yet! I know I've got it coming to a living room near me soon.

lol pistachio.

Aubergenie - he can't get out of his bed so I still have to get him. He's so physically able,... but can't do that! weird.

myjob - Q couldn't get out of his cot, either. Not even close to climbing out. DH just thought it would make our room look bigger when we sell... . I guess it does... he'll still nap in the travel cot at cm's house.

Sorry to hear about stroppy dcs. Q definitely gets upset if he wants something and we don't give it to him. Or if we want him to walk in a direction that he doesn't want to go... It's all very tedious, but it will pass.

Ds doesn't want to walk at all. He wants to be in his buggy when out and about, and insists on us carrying him around constantly when we're inside. It's getting rather tedious now, as combined with the pregnancy it's giving me sciatica, and the screaming and sobbing if we dare to put him down is just hideous. Does anyone else have this problem?

Otter pics on fb btw.

Wow, how exciting, all of you going back into education. I am also thinking about going back to college, maybe to do an access course too. I just don't know what I want to do yet (career-wise) and think that I should really work that out first! Just if I don't get it sorted this time then it will be another year. I trained in Graphic Design up to about half the value of A Levels but I don't want to do that any more, it's just too competitive. I really don't know where to start thinking about what to go for instead. I thought I might make an appointment with connexions.

WRT discipline I tend to deal with every situation as it comes, I don't tend to do anything structured like time out etc. So for touching things he isn't allowed I just say "No, that is dirty/dangerous/not for playing with" and remove him, if he keeps going back to it then I either distract him or if I can't/am fed up then I just put him in his playpen. I don't really time it - if he's happy then he stays in there until he gets fed up and if he is not then I usually wait until he calms down a bit and then let him out. But I try and head things off mainly before they happen. Hitting I will take the thing he is hitting with away, and he knows the words "rough" and "gentle" so I tell him he's being too rough and needs to be gentle.

I want to get Ryan a bed for his room. He sleeps with me but doesn't cuddle up any more, rarely wakes in the night (even when I go up) once I am there and I have had a couple of nights where I have stayed up quite late without him and he has gone for 5 hours or so without waking, so I think I will get him a bed and then I can always fall asleep there with him if I am too tired to get back up and go to my bed.

Evening all.

You are making me feel idle. I have been doing alot of thinking about the whole going back to work thing. I will need to do some kind of re-training but I really dont know what to go for. Ah well I shall have to give it a bit more thought

CSWS will you step away from the puddings. It will end in tears. I have avoided getting into the carrying around nonsense. My back wouldnt take it. W either walks or is in the pushchair.

Star carry on with the bed. It doesnt mean anything other than your little boy doesnt have to look through bars anymore. It will take a couple of weeks for him to get used to it, before you know it he will be climbing your draws and chucking all your clothes around the room. Thats what all my DC have done to their own rooms once they have got used to getting in and out of their beds!! Monkeys.
I have a photo of H in her bed no older than ours are now. You can only just see her under the huge pile of crap on her bed!

Nothing new here. W is in full tantrum mode now. The girls are driving me mad while on hols.

right... the time has come...

there is a reason the thought of dealing with 2 DC fills me with dread - it is becoming more of a reality.

I am 14 weeks PG, due on the 13th Oct. Very similar to Emma's EDD (not that we reached it!)

Had the scan last week and all seems 'well' following the combined test. Therefore its time to start telling people!