October 08 - Ooh fancy that!

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We filled up a thread without even noticing!

Primary school outcome for dd today . They say that the emails will be sent out by 6pm (though may take longer to get through to us).

cash buyer is fab news... will make the process that much easier.

I spent nearly £300 on a bloody HIP pack to sell my home and suddenly they are abolished. I'm so that I had one done when I don't need one now.
I think it's good that they are gone, but I've wasted a bunch of money!

old lady didn't want it. She said our cul de sac is "too quiet" but loved the house.

Anyway, saw another house but we got there and found out it was an ex council house (on an estate) and we were just not keen. Don't mean to sound snobby but just can't do it. sorry. I know that sounds horrible. I'm not such a nice person after all

Q has a constant streaming nose of greenish yellow snot and sometimes clear. I know coloured is a sign of infection, so I don't know what he's coming down with. Barking cough is back, too and he looks like he's just smoked a joint with droopy reddish eyes. Lovely.

Hi guys, I've not read anything, just wanted to say hello and that I've been thinking of you. I've been working stupid hours on really pressurised job, did 80 hours last week, have been staying 1-2 nights a week in a hotel even tho only an hours drive away, working weekends, it's been ridiculous.

Anyway, just wanted to say we've decided to take Poppy out of nursery for summer hols because DH is off work for the summer. There's a chance we may not have a place going back in Sept. We will save £80 a week (less tax adv) and DH can spend more time with her, we can go away for weeks etc etc.

My only worry is she'll stop being used to going, she's started to run over and hug one particular nursery worker and I'm really concerned she'll be unsettled by not going back adn equally unsettled when she returns in Sept. ANy ideas? If you have, can you pls email me separately on FB or text me in case (likely) I dont get the chance to come back and read through the thread? Alternatively I'm going to start a new thread so post response on there.

Cheers guys and hopefully this job will be over in few weeks so can get back to MN!! xx

Think I was about 6 Star. I've never let her forget it!

Sorry to hear she didn't want it Star. I hope you get some more interest soon.

An ex-council property wouldn't put me off personally (more space for your money, usually) if it was in an area that I wanted to live in, but you've got to find a place that you're happy with and want to go home to, otherwise you'll just be miserable. It's a lot of money to spend and then not like where you live.

Re the Spatone. Don't do what I did and take in on an empty stomach by mistake. It made me feel really queasy. Brocolli is apparently a good source of vitamin C. Is that Ok with your blood sugar? Peas too but I've got a feeling they're not so good for BS. NO reason why you can't take it in the evening.

How is Q today?

Oh we eat tonnes of broccoli cf, and a fair few peas, so I can take it with those. I took the sample sachet yesterday with a teeny tiny bit of orange juice, and a stir fry containing lots of red peppers. Now I just need to actually get some supplies of spatone. Don't suppose they'll actually sell useful stuff like that at the baby show .

Q has a bad cold I think it's because of teeth, though because he's currently pushing through 4 more! And this same thing happened the last time he got new teeth. He was happy after some calpol and bonjela...

ex council property wouldn't put me off if it was in an ok area... this one was on a big council house and flat estate and it was just not so nice. You're right, it's a lot of money and you need to be happy with the place and the area.

csws - I used to carry a spatone packet and a little juice box of oj in my purse with me because there would be times when I felt like I'd pass out.
Boots carry boxes of spatone for about £6 I think.

HMM - wow, £80/week for childcare is a really good deal! Q won't be going to cm for the summer either. I'm out 18th June and DH doesn't go back until 2nd September, so he'll get a lot of time at home We pay her half fee for the summer, though - we just split it all (full fees for the rest of the time and half fee for summer) over the 52 weeks of the year so she gets paid the same amount from us every month. We do pay for all of our holiday time when we're off school other than summer, though. But we never send him when we're on holiday from work/school. He had 2.5 weeks off for spring holiday and settled back with her just fine.
I have no fear he'll settle back with her in september, either. She's really good. And we'll do playdates and outings with her over the summer so he still sees her...etc.

50ft is spending too much money on Buy British Month on Cloth Nappy Addicts.... Oh and trying to keep a very stroppy NON-NAPPING toddler out of the midday sun!

helloooo!
no naps... emma has got down to only half an hour a day at the weekends... but she naps for an hour at nursery... so i know she still needs them

One time, cm was late with lunch and Q hadn't yet napped - it was around 1.15pm and he nearly fell asleep in his lunch

He would not survive a whole day with no nap. I don't know how M does it!

He usually naps between 2 - 2.5 hours per day but on weekends if he'll go for it I'll let him go for 3 hours... selfishly so I can nap with him. A few months ago he'd only nap for an hour or so on the weekends but was stroppy by 4pm after that. Now, he just wouldn't wake after an hour... he loves his nap.

Doesn't love his night sleep so much, though.

Is she not napping at all now 50ft, or just not every day? Is she sleeping for longer at night to make up for it?
Thanks for your help with the nappies today. I bought the lollipop set - it contains one each of this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, the bamboo one from here, some paper liners, some sanitiser and a teeny pot of bottom butter, all in a lovely bright pink jute bag. Totals about £100 of stuff, but cost £49 at the show. All the sized stuff is in the smallest sizes unfortunately, so won't last a long time, but will let me know if I like the type of nappy or not, and I can claim £50 from my local council scheme, so that will cover this set in full .

6 weeks feels very near and yet very far!

Hello again.

No worries CSWS. Anything I can do to help get a bum in cloth is worth it! That's a good selection and will give you the opportunity to try a few different types out! Fab! M can either take or leave the nap at the moment. She will nap if I take her for a walk at a certain time (lunch time) but equally she'll be happy with a bit of cuddly time before lunch then perks up after food. The real difference is at bed time. If she has a nap, even for an hour, she mucks about & screams the house down if we try to put her to bed. With no nap, straight to bed, no worries, no crying just milk, cuddles and bed. She still wakes up between 4.30 and 6am for milk in the morning. Yay....

I am meant to be doing work for the BFC thingy, but seeing as my second reference won't be done for a while, I think I can safely put it off.... Had a hectic week!

I have no idea what's going on with everyone, I'm rubbish at keeping up lately!

Myjob - Now that I've cut S's hair once and it looks fine, I feel confident enough to do it again, so will definitely keep up the DIY haircuts. I was worried about him turning round and me accidently taking a huge chunk out of the side or something.

They look very cute CSWS! I bet the small size bits are tiny! I can't believe you'll have a teeny tiny bum to change in only a few weeks.

Sympathies about the naps 50ft. We have to severely limit S's nap time now otherwise bed times are a nightmare. He also wakes about the same time as M for milk. It's a joy isn't it?

I hope you get on well with the cloth csws

I may try to just snip Q's hair after hearing the successes.... hmmmm.... it is getting in his eyes...

Q usually settles for bedtime just fine despite sleeping 2-2.5 hours for a nap. But his night time sleep is not fabulous. Could his nap be interfering? We tried giving him a shorter nap today...he wasn't feeling so well, so had difficulty settling at first then we had people in to view our place and that further disturbed, so he didn't go down until 2pm and I woke him at 3.30 to see if cutting down the amount of day sleep he gets will help him through the night.
He goes down for night sleep just fine and settles relatively quickly, he's definitely tired by 7.30pm, rubbing eyes...etc. It's just the wakes in the night.

dh out for the night with a colleague he used to work with - one of the poker group guys is getting married so it's a stag do. I queried the events to take place and dh said, no, (friend's name) is muslim, so he doesn't do that... ... does he think I'm stupid? I don't honestly care, but I don't want him to lie to me about it.
Silly idiot.
Anyway, I've got the house to myself. I kept Q up until 8.30 so we had a few hours of Q and mummy time. It was lovely Now I'm eating M&S roasted red pepper dip with tortilla crisps. mmmm. fattening and yummy.

Ooh you've made me hungry again star! Dh out too, at the cinema with the husbands of some of my post natal (from dd) friends - we are all a big happy group these days!
I think I might have a toasted pitta bread and taramasalata actually.

That's the healthier version of what I'm having. Q just woke up.. he's crying and I'm trying to ignore him so he'll settle back to sleep...

It's not mean star. We almost always ignore ds for the first couple of minutes, because usually that's all it takes for him to resettle himself. If you rush in too quick then he doesn't have a chance to learn to self-settle.

Right, off to get ready for bed and lie in air conditioned bedroom rather than baking hot downstairs!

It was very warm here today, too but there's a nice cool breeze right now coming in our place. I'm wearing a sweater with the windows open. Must be very uncomfortable in the heat with only a few weeks left of pg! Thank goodness for the upstairs oasis!

I see what you mean, csws and agree, of course. I think I just feel badly because the past few weeks when he woke up at this time, I've been in there sleeping, too, so I've just grabbed him and put him in bed with me.

Star - If you do go for the home haircut, I found sticking ds in his high chair in front of Cbeebies while I did it worked well.

Dp's parents here. Must get up and socialise.

hi all... had a lovely weekend but with two events that upset me quite a lot, but not sure how much down to my hormones!

first was at a friends house yesterday, they had set up a paddling pool, which in hindsight was a bit deep for emma... anyway lots of happy playing until she slipped and went under. i realised within a couple of seconds that she was struggling to get back up and her head was under, but i wasn't right next to the pool. I haven't moved so quick in ages and pulled her out within a couple of seconds. she was fine, but it scared the bejesus out of me because there was the potential for it to be really bad. DH was there watching too and didn't notice anything was up. In fact there were six adults in all and i was the only one that noticed - just goes to show how things can happen.

then today we went to a birthday party at a soft play centre and once again lots of fun, but two of the older boys had decided that the top level was their territory. they tried to stop emma going up but she went through their legs, which i thought was pretty funny, but then i saw the older boy start to pick up/drag emma across and before i got there he had pushed her off the slide. she went down sideways and was pretty upset. It was just really mean and again she could have been hurt - she wasn't far off head first. Anyway about 10 minutes later i saw the same boy trying to force another older girl off the end of the platform and she was hanging on and crying... i shouted at him to stop (quite loudly) and he was all 'it wasn't me' etc...

what is the etiquette in that situation - is it seen as bad form to shout at someone else's child? I wouldn't have done, but what he was doing was quite dangerous in my eyes and i wanted him to stop immediately.... don't want to alienate myself from all the nursery parents (it was a nursery boy's party and its the first time i have chatted to a lot of them outside nursery)

sorry this is along post... i blame the hormones.