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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50ft maybe just give soft finger food for now and slowly increase the amount and texture. It is possible that M has a sore throat from the puke fest. & most likely to be tired if still not quite well again.

Star I agree about the car

CSWS got your message. Thank you very much for looking. Now why am I not surprised at you

Pistachio - There is no WAY I'd let anyone near my precious nappies. I've got to try really hard to keep a lid on my wool obsession tomorrow. I might scare the new mums back to the Pampers.....

M has managed to eat.... some tomato soup, some hummus and some dried cranberries. Oh and a humzinger.

50ft I would take some of your nappies as they are the best advert for cloth nappies I can think of. If I wasnt being so idle and had a girl this time I would be right up there with you on the cloth obsession
Humzingers, the cure all food!

Pistachio great blagging. Get down to your local off licence and see if you can get some wine

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Welcome back myjob! Glad that the holiday was good.

ronshar - you are welcome. When I saw the request I thought 'why didn't she just ask me?', and then realised that it was because you didn't know! Norty old me .

hmm - what 50ft said re the allergies.

I thought long and hard about cloth. I even bought some. It wasn't for us. I know, cloth users will think I'm just lazy but couldn't do it for a lot of reasons. Well done to those who do, though.

Welcome back, myjob!!

Pistachio you talk so passionately about your training Glad you like it so much! It's so lovely to have things in your life that make you so happy.

Oh pistachio. I'm so sorry Maybe you should start a thread - people have good advice about this stuff. All I can do is say I'm so sorry this is happening to you. HOw awful!

Hi all,

Ronshar, I certainly wouldn't wish an allergy on Pops! Just want to know what's wrong with her and the combination of the "reflux" at 18 months and the constant cold/ cough just made me wonder. I'd heard on this thread before it was unreliable, the paed appt is in 10 days but he'll probably say it's not an allergy if his reaction to my going dairy free last time is any reflection. DH doesnt believe its an allergy but also doesnt believe it's still reflux She had milk coming out of her nose tonight But that was my fault, let her drink some milk virtually horizontal.

We're off camping tomorrow nite, wooooo hooooooo!

Bloody hell Pistachio. I'm not surprised you feel out of your depth. Presumably all this wedding stuff has occurred during one of her manic phases? Is she on any medication?

Welcome back Myjob!

5oft I hope M perks up soon. Is she slapping a lot? S is going through a really annoying phase where he pinches me hard and then he shouts "ouch!" in a rally loud voice and laughs his head off.

Star - I'm fascinated, what cleaning do you do before you go to work in the morning?

We use some cloth and some disposible nappies.

Oh and 50ft - good news about the car! Is your DH out of the doghouse now?

I'm off to have my haircut. Can't wait - I've been looking like a shaggy rug for weeks.

aubergenie - in the morning, I try to fold laundry and put it away or put a load in the washing machine whichever is needing to be done, wash dishes dh has left from after I've gone to bed , clean kitchen (wipe counter, wipe up spills from dh and Q...etc, throw out of date stuff away, make sure fridge and cupboards are tidy, scrub worktop and stove and sink), wipe down microwave inside and out and clean that glass thing that you put food on, clean bathroom - wipe down toilet, sink, bathtub and glass doors on shower, mirror tiles near mirror (always get a bit yuck from toothpaste), make our bed and Q's bed (change bedding if necessary), tidy up bedroom and living room (Q's toys and dh's stuff), dust everything that might gather dust, hoover all rooms (sometimes I don't have time for a complete hoover because I still have to get dressed, shower, get Q dressed and his lunch and bag packed for the day). DH plays with Q and has breakfast with him and then gets himself dressed. Occasionally, he gets Q dressed if I put his clothes out and he feels he has time...
I try once per week to wipe down windows with window cleaner and other mirrors.

On weekends I try to clean the floors with laminate cleaner as well. And wipe down/clean anything that might need cleaning/tidying (like the oven, fridge/freezer, sofa cushions...etc).

I'm sure I'm missing something...

Happy Haircut!

If dh is playing with Q and I'm not involved, then I think I should be doing something (cleaning). If I am playing with Q and dh is not involved, he just goes on the computer or whatever. If we are both playing with Q or out obv nothing gets done. I would do what dh does, but then every so often he'll see a cupboard that has a stack of papers in it that I need (never his... which are often spread about everywhere!!) or he'll see dust gathering somewhere hidden or that the bathroom glass shower doors are not sparkling and he'll say "ugh, we live in such a sh**hole. You're so messy". I'll remind him that he contributes to the mess, too but that doesn't seem to matter. he thinks he cleans up a lot . He will, once in a while, help with a big clean... but he definitely doesn't do it everyday and he thinks he washes dishes every day. He doesn't. Maybe one cup or something but I wash his dishes all the time!
He told me a while ago to use under the bed as storage for shoes for summer/winter depending on the season and for some other random bits. Then the other day, he's clearing out because we're going to put on the market soon and he says "I'm disgusted with your hoarding ability" . I don't "hoard" or even have much of anything!! He put everything in bags and put it in the loft. I have trainers, black clogs and a pair of brown boots to wear now. I don't have many shoes. But I did want my little brown summer shoes... they slip on and are so handy when weather is nice. that he didn't check with me first. He definitely got it from me, I was so but he doesn't care. It doesn't phase him. He just thinks he's justified. argh.

Having said that, we've been getting along fine recently and things going very well in general.

HMM - Dairy could be making the snottiness worse as it makes you mucusy so could be slowing P's recovery down if she has a cold. Now CSWS or Ronshar will correct me if I am wrong, but with dairy allergy/intolerance, there are usually other signs too, nappy related signs.... Mucus in the poo is a sign of intolerance, but there is usually mucus in poo anyway. I probably notice it more than most because I wash poo everyday rather than bundling it up and putting it in the bin. I still think P is probably just getting loads of bugs from the other children at nursery, BUT you're P's mummy so will know better than I do. Could you try eliminating it from her diet for a few weeks to see if there is an improvement?

Aubergenie - How lovely of S, showing such empathy when hurting you.... Martha tends to smack when she doesn't get her own way, so a few times a hour day. It is a phase that passes, DS used to bite which was much worse. DH is out of the dog house, lucky lucky boy that he is!

Pistachio - When the man came to fit Sky he said "You may need me to pop back around if say, the window cleaner knocks the dish". After I hadd stopped laughing at the very idea, I said "Does it really look like we have a window cleaner?"

CSWS - Hello, not spoken to you in ages! How are you coping with this sudden heat?

Ha ha ha ha Pepper!

Must have missed that Pistachio, but Star, if your DH thinks you're messy he would drop down dead from shock if he saw my house.

Pepper - no. I have not done that. I can't go to work knowing that breakfast dishes are not cleaned. If we're home, I don't do anything past breakfast and definitely don't make lunch until breakfast dishes are cleaned and put away.

Yeah, he has his moments, dh.

We just went to a friend's housewarming down the street (with Q). Was so nice to be around nice people - but they were all around our age, either just married or engaged, no one else with kids, though! House is gorgeous (secret ).

dh had to stretch quite a bit to stay until nearly 9! Q went to bed late but it's saturday and not the end of the world! we're all still alive! We had so much fun! And Q was excellent... just grabbing nibbles, walking around their garden, sweeping, charming people... not once a grump! I think we left just in time.

Sounds like fun star . We had a fun day too - friends came up who we realised we haven't seen for far too long and we had a barbecue and the kids played nicely in the garden (their dd is 6 months older than our dd).

How old are you and your dh star?

I'm guessing that you wouldn't want a dishwasher star - how would you cope with not putting it on after every meal, and it just wouldn't be full that quick?!

50ft - I'm loving the heat thank you! Am not getting overly hot due to pregnancy as am too sedentary due to crappy sciatica (caused by combo of pregnancy and carrying ds around so much).

Oh, I made the 'white choc and raspberry blondie' today btw. It got the seal of approval.

Ouch CSWS. I had mild sciatica when I was pregnant with Martha and that was rubbish! I had mild sciatica that was actually worse when I sat still, mild hip thingy and low blood pressure. So... I couldn't sit because of the sciatica, couldn't lie down because of the hip thingy and couldn't stand for long because of the low blood pressure. I had to swap between the three all the time!

I think I'll join the pile of people on the floor at the thought of all that cleaning. We do the windows when we can't see out of them very well any more (I say we, I've never seen DP clean a window in all the years I've known him). I am fairly scrupulous about the kitchen floor and the toilet but otherwise it's once a week everywhere else. I'd like a cleaner house but can't be bothered to do all the things I need to do to achieve it.

Star - your dh should count himself lucky that he's not married to me. I really am a horder and it's an urge I've had to fight against a lot since dp moved in and especially since we had S and I've got rid of a huge amount of stuff. It drives dp to distraction, as he's fairly tidy (but he'd never say he was "disgusted", that's a bit ).

Pistachio - that must be a massive worry for you. I really hope your friend is taking the medication for now.

Hey all, bloody awful nights sleep last night. Pops initially went to sleep well, but her cough woke her up and she didnt like being in unfamiliar surroundings/ in an inflatable bed. Not good. We think we'll do much better with a travel cot next weekend even tho it's more bulky. Just need to find somewhere to go now...

Yeah, 50ft, her poos are pretty vile at the moment but we've put that down to teething. DH ain't gonna go for us cutting out dairy without anything more than a cold and cough to work from. Will see what paed says next week. We shouldn't have gone camping with her cough, it's pretty chesty