January 2009- toddlers turning 15mths and all that jazz (really just a new thread so DOG can fit it on her poncey iphone!)

[PatTheHammer]

Good enough for ya dog .

And sorry I do realise some are only turning 14 mths and some are nearly 16mths etc,etc......apologies!

All officially toddlers now though i think (well 120's H and HKZ's J are pulling up/taking steps now I think, think mostly everyone walking of some sort!) Scary thought!

quick read and bookmark. finding life very busy now with work, clingy baby and lots of orders for my little business.

checked in briefly to see if MJ ok. glad to see the brownies are doing their stuff! off to bed now, life v knackering. hz email me some night out dates. very belated happy birthday lenni. sorry if I missed any otehr updates.

night all.

i am jkj

morning

stuff goes in paper today that i am selling
lady rang @ 8am this morning about playpen is coming @ 2pm

having a quiet day with girls

will be glad when school goes back mon

buying dd1s summer shoes in clarks tom

Hello Hello

Lennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnni, are you ok???

I see on FB that you are quite stuck for the time being.

Hope its all ok, hugs!

btw, PMSL about your DH's comments on cous-cous and tangines!

Quick fly-by as about to get pissed have a few drinks with my sis and best-mate.

Hope everyone ok, I have just invited tea to join the fb group so she should be requesting everyone as friends soon

This is a bit of a fly by an dbookmark, had a busy week back at work.

Lenni...sorry you are stuck, even though you are in lovely Morocco it must be dead frustrating not being able to get home when you want to...grrrr for you.

Pat, enjoy your piss up few drinks.

Chef, I think JKJ is Tink..

MissJ Hope you are good and feeling well, loving the pics of N on fb.

Will do a proper catch up later..

120...would love night out soon...might have to wait til the next pay packet comes in as am skinterooni. J is being a cling on too..gah!

Good day Ladies.

Tink I hope I was discreet enough about your initials. Are you able to add me as a friend?

Lenni Argh on not being able to get home... what about train? It said on the news here that some flights may start running again to Scotland by tonight... which is already tonight for you guys on that side of the pond. I forget sometimes there is a an 8 hour time difference. lol

My CT scan was a breeze this morning... not even 10 minutes. Won't hear from the doctor till later next week.

Well, must get butt in shower as DD will be up soon from morning nap. Ciao for now

Finally managed to join your fb group after much shenanigans by me mainly

Well I have no idea whose who on there but at least I'm a member now

Evening

Sorry folks, far too tired and preoccupied to read. Have tried to read the last few posts though.

Have had some truly horrendous nights this week so am running on almost zero sleep. Combination of insomnia, dd teething and a poorly dog (not the really poorly one).

Had to call my Mum to come and take the boys off my hands this morning, as I really had had enough. Have had a thread in allergies and one in special needs about ds1 and how badly the reintroduction of gluten has hit him. Lots of good advice from lovely people and we have basically decided to take him off gluten again as there is no way we/he can carry on like this until July. One or two people said they felt it was more important to get him tested, but they don't have to live with a hyperactive, over emotional, volatile eight year old who is distraught at starting to wet the bed again, has awful digestive problems and has started hitting himself repeatedly in the head (hard) if anything upsets him, or with his brother who has told both myself and dh on separate occasions while sobbing his heart out that "I don't like ds1 any more, he is mean and spiteful and hurts me all the time." and that from a child that has always idolised his big brother.

Anyway, sorry to be on such a downer. On the upside I am pretty much organised for the party, other than decorating the birthday cake and baking the cupcakes.

I have just been sitting here trying to get my head around making a space shuttle cake. Trust ds2 to ask for something really complicated. I think I have a rough idea of what I'm doing, but am a bit worried about what the end result will look like. I also have to bake a huge batch of fairy cakes which are going in silicone cupcake holders with feet and are hopefully going to be turned into aliens.

Right, must run. Have to feed dd and my curry is ready.

Sorry for the me, me, me post - again.

hugs moosey! off out for the night, pat have a good one and lenni OMG! see if you can find some fatayer and some pastilla. they are yum!

I've seen the list booksgalore but there's more names on there, than I see on this thread, I don't want to request to be friends with people who don't have a scoobydoo who I am, as I'm new to this thread

Does that sound silly?

Off to bed in a mo as shattered.

Sorry to hear about difficult week Moose Probably a relief to take DS off gluten again, even without diagnosis. Poor thing.

Hope the cake goes well.

Just checking in...Tea if its any help you can friend me, my initials are Z W then you can see on my friend list who is from MN!

Tea I'm LF.

Moose Hang in there girl. Escape in the cake making.

We had another knackerer of a day. We did some shopping and went swimming. I've been getting DD to walk lots too, which really slows down the day, but it tuckers her out. Now that the weather is nice too, she can go out on the deck in the morning after breakfast and play... the deer came by today and she went crazy! lol 'Deer, deer' pointing and laughing. I'm just loving this age... so much fun. I said to DH, this is when couples start thinking about having another. lol Actually, poor DH is only getting oral goodies right now because I don't want another potentially Xmas baby. I don't think he really minds.

oral goodies

Your dd sounds very very cute chef.

All ok, just. Hope you all ok. Missing you all :-)

Morning

Got an official letter yesterday saying ds has been put on the waiting list for ASD assessment by the specialist team, but that the service is oversubscribed and they will contact us nearer the time. I read on their website that you can ring to get a rough idea of timescales, so rang straight away, but the woman is away until next Tuesday. According to the school, they have children who have waited 18 months to be seen. and

Then this morning we got a letter pushing back his coeliac test appointment to August when we away are on hoiday. So that's sort of decided things for us.

We are going to call the gp for a telephone consultation next week, as apparently they can order the blood test and if they are willing to get him tested at the end of May we might struggle on for for a few more weeks. There would still the possibility of a false negative though, unless he eats mammoth amounts of gluten from now until the test day.

Dog, in one sense diagnosis isn't that important, as the only treatment is a gluten free diet. On the other hand, true coeliacs are at risk of developing conditions such as osteoporosis and bowel cancer in later life if they don't stop eating gluten and in some cases the immune response is so severe that they can't have even any cross contamination of food, so need separate cooking utensils, chopping boards or pans etc and food has to be stored completely separately from the rest of the family's food. Unfortunately, our house is so tiny we wouldn't really be able to have two sets of everything and separate storage, I struggle to store enough pans etc for the family as it is.

So, ideally we need to know if he has true coeliacs or just a sensitivity compounded by leaky gut as it has implications on how we manage his diet and the home environment.

Chef, sounds amazing having deer coming right up to your house. Dd sounds like such a sweetie.

Have to go and ice the cakes now - am feeling very nervous about how this one is going to work out. Ds2 has BIG ideas!

hi lenni, pat,tea, books and chef

mm - holidays r tricky let alone with the gluten thing!! good luck with cake and party

have been into town got dd1 measured a 7f
got her school shoes her first proper black velcro ones with a strap
white trainers and blue doodle trainers
will get her doodle sandals in june

hi lenni, pat,tea, books and chef

mm - holidays r tricky let alone with the gluten thing!! good luck with cake and party

have been into town got dd1 measured a 7f
got her school shoes her first proper black velcro ones with a strap
white trainers and blue doodle trainers
will get her doodle sandals in june

My initials are KM on the fb group list. I'll try and have a look and add those of you who have given me yours another day.

Lovely afternoon at the farm with Grandpa, apart from dd's hysterics over the geese, chickens etc. As it prevented her from even enjoying the ponies, as the chickens were everywhere on the farm

Need to make some tea for me and maybe watch some tv tonight

Hope the cake was well received Moose, waiting to her all about it later Will ask your tips for making my dd's cake, closer to her 3rd b'day.

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Moose Its nice to have the deer around, there is a lot of them, but they are turning into a pest actually. They devour your garden. Daffodils are the only thing they don't eat and even then, the little ones will, testing them out. They are also breeding year round now and because we live in a forest area turned suburbia, all the cougars and bears have moved up farther into the hills, (we get the occasional sighting) so they have no predators. Apparently, you can hunt them in off season with a bow and arrow, in your backyard! I'm thinking they are so docile, I could walk up to one with my chef's knife and humanly hit the jugular bang on. I'm going to get some quail this year. There's hoards of them as well. We have lots of bats, hawks, resident eagles, (hope to see babies this year as the ravens got them last year) and ravens, which are 2 feet tall crows... they're massive and cunningly smart. There is also a resident owl, but I only hear him at night, never seen him. We have rats around here to but nowhere near the size that I experienced in London... they are the size of cats! Hope the cakes turned out... little ones imaginations go on forever, then we have to figure out the logistics, eh?

Must go... DD wants to play ball.

Chef I am very very of the wonderful place you live!