Dec 08 Mums - Terrible twos already? Tears, tantrums, tiaras and tractors - and the rest!

[Beans33]

Hope this is better - sorry all!

OMG!!!!! Beans that is tragic and hilarious all at the same time. Your poor dad, poor betty! Do they really hibernate? Better remember that. Though I don't think Emily the rat hamster is a normal hamster I don't think she hibernates. What does though is the freaky stuffing things in her cheeks. Doesn't sound freaky I know, but her cheeks go back to near her bum. We give her while green beans and she nibbles the middle until she can fold them in half then shoves them into her cheek and then scurries into her little house to deposit them. Whenever we clean her cage out each week her house is full of horded food and folded green beans!

Vaggie and Pubes -heavens above!

Mines locked in in my account just incase I want to revert back to Pubes and then find someone else has registered it

C'mon Spot!!!!!!
I could post you one faster at this rate!!! For the love of all things holy, get peeing!!!!

yes I do love that name Aubi. I love Beans dd's name too. beans what's your shortlist??? Why does Aubi know it?? How does she know her dd1's name is on the list? Pubes is feeling very left out

Oh my GOD Beans!!!! BADLY cross posted!!!
How sad and odd
Poor Betty!

I rread your post so fast that at first i thought that was your baby name shortlist? Or is it as well?

To be honest, I'm not sure hamsters do hibernate usually - I wonder if it may have been a spot of poetic licence on Dad's part and she actually was dead... But still, never let the truth get in the way of a good story!

I love the cheek thing with hamsters - it is weird, but it's kind of cool.

Winston 2 (who was my favourite hamster) had enormous balls and he used to sit back on his haunches, then lift his back legs off the ground as well, balancing on his man-glands. It was probably pretty disgusting, but I didn't really think anything of it at the time!

I don't have a shortlist, pubes - promise am not excluding you - just a couple of pages earlier I posted a few of my favourites for both boys and girls and A N N A was in there!

Sorry for the wait folks - twas a false alarm! .
Am actually more sorry for you guys than for me! Weird thing is I def feel preggers but clearly not this time!

Vag, we've got that 2 to 1 nap thing going on I think.... Put him in the cot at 1030 ish and he cycled through the sleep sheep program himself for about ten mins then started babbling dadadadadadadadfor about 20 then started shreiking! I finally got him out and he has been happily pushing his lady bug around the kitchen floor for ages now. I think I will try shovelling some lunch down him and then down for a nap as he will definitely sleep thisarvy.
he had a massive brekky though so not sure if he'll go for much lunch..... we'll see...

No where the bloody eck is Spot?

Spot if there's no clacker stick peed on when I return I shall be driving to brighton with one in hand

I once killed a hamster by dropping it in the fish bowl. Does that make up for my anticlimax?

Oh woops - x posted spot

but it's veeeeery early Spot, and what brand did you use or did AF arrive while you were out?

Oh spot - well done for coming back to us! A bit of an anti-climax, but you don't sound tooooo gutted, which is good!

Hee hee - I can tell I'm going to giggle inappropriately about hamster deaths... My friend's hamster, Flaps (yes really), died by chewing through the wire to their stereo... They found it across the room from the wire with it's legs sticking out around its body like a star. Poor little thing.

DD dropped her morning sleep at 12 months - although if she wakes up before 7, she will tend to have a quick 20 mins one at 9.30. And will still go down at 1 for her afternoon one. Phew.

I used a boots cheapo, I was on;y due yesterday but bought two so if AF doesn't arrive in the next few days I'll test again.

I'm not too gutted for the totally selfish reason that I'd quite like a baby that's not due so close to winter, T's birthday, Christmas again. That said I'd have been chuffed if i was PG. Especially since T took so long to arrive.

Beans you crack me up!! At first I thought that was your baby names shortlist....and I was really confused by the Winston 1 and 2 thing. Durrrrr

My sis and I had a hamster called Biance (Binky for short) and she died of neglect I am most ashamed to say. Bianca is a lovely name imho - would go beautifully with LadyT's DD's name - but of course has been forever spoiled by Eastenders.

Spot where are you Spot (when I read this I hear it in the electronic voice of our Spot the dog press button annoying book). Any news/ and Katie - same for you? Exciting!!

katie about your DS I have no advice save it might be worth posting something on the wider MN on education, in case there are some do's and don'ts. Hope all is well.

kiwi glad you are generally impoved but Veggie is right. might be an idea just to get your headaches checked out. It might even be worth seeing a cranial osetopath just in case your spine is slightly out of whack from the jolt?

zoe I was admiring yours Pontipine pic on FB - and did think to myself any non-parents will wonder who the hell she is. It was a great costume!

veggie sorry about that nice coffee. Hope you didn't get your kecks wet?!
trace good to see you back lovely.

I have done SOOO little work all week - need to stop checking FB and MN every 10 mins...but now with PG-Gate I won't be able to help myself....

spot sorry crossposted. Well you could be - next few days will show I guess. Thanks for putting rubes out of her misery .

Poor poor Flaps. What a fabulous name...

Nononono to Bianca - I was at uni with one and she was appalling!

From the names so far I love Dorothea and Phoebe. I also love Sophy with the y spelling. Oh and Clement for a boy.

I nearly can't write am in tears over the name Flaps, did you name him/her spot?

erm AND Beans AND Vagina Vag out of their misery! Sorry but I think it's early days Spot......

hmmm not sure on Bianca really but Sophie (with ie) is on my list - heavens I've given half my list out already but that said I might have to soon as it's really hard bouncing these names of dh alone - he barely pays attention!

well ds put in a good effort with lunch - he ate fish, cauliflower with cheese sc and peas and cous cous! (Thai flavoured ) only a small bowl all mashed up together but he is in such a good mood it's eerie

Flaps wasn't mine, Veggie, mine had really boring names. In succession:

Sunny
Snowball (the one who died after the swim in the fishbowl)
Pip and Squeak (brother and sister)
Chewitt
Fang
Tchaikovsky
Otis

You can probably tell when my little sister arrived and wanted to make a mark on the household.

Actually tchaikovsky met an untimely end, he was tiny and we found him with his head stuck through the bars of his cage a few weeks after we'd bought him. He probably topped himself due to his atrocious name

That was meant to read off not of obviously....

These hamster stories are so funny and sick!!
I'm not sure if I'm more shocked how many people have actually had hamsters for pets period, or how they have died or both!

I had a canary named Sonny, and a budgie named Sam who died and I was so upset that my dad put it in a sunglasses case and "said" he buried him then brought me a shot of scotch to me as I was howling in bed I was about 12 I reckon! The later my brother told me Sonny was thrown in the rubbish bin (thankfully still in the sunglasses case) I never did find the grave...

I've only just remembered that story with all this hamster talk and I'm quite glad ds didn't get that name now

Thanks for breaking the suspense Spot. You still can't be sure though. I had negative tests first with both my pregnancies. Have you been doing the deed without a layer of latex? I guess that's the key to whether it's likely or not....

Beans I had numerous Hamaters named Winston too. Their cheeks always reminded me of Churchill, hence the name. But before the Winstons there were several Hammies. I wasn't a terribly imaginative hamster namer. One of the Winstons died during my GCSE exams and my mum was afraid the news would affect my concentration so she his his body in her sick drawer. Two days later I was looking for socks and found a very stiff Winston instead. At least it gave me an excuse for that C in French.

Fang is a class name for a hamster!

oh Lord above Aubi!!! This is car crash TV now!

Hee hee - Aubs - what is a sick drawer - hahah! That's made me laugh as much as poor Winston's sad hidden demise! Hee hee!!! I don't know why mine were called Winston, I just liked the name!

I love this picture