April 2009 - Episode 13 - 'I've been looking for the exit for months!'

[Schulte]

Fanjo Warriors, here we are

Auld - That one is priceless. One of the brightest girls I knew cleaned houses whilst reading engineering at Trinity.

King - Sounds like you have found your groove.

By Bonsoir Tue 01-Jun-10 10:32:26
I just adore long red hair on girls - so beautiful! But I do think that red headed girls with those very blonde eyelashes need to be encouraged to dye their eyelashes and define their brows from a young age - they look so much prettier when they do.

Now if someone could just hold Holly down whilst I wield the mascara wand. Thank you.

pffffft - hee hee hee....honest, please someone tell me that they read the Grazia article, I so desperately wanted to ask someone, but noone at work would understand what the hell i was on about!!!

BA, Wed 02-Jun-10 08:04:53
"And I am proud that my children are not growing up full of inherited neuroses that would prevent them making the best of every aspect of themselves ."

That wink could be read in sooooo many ways, charitable and not.

Sorry, Kingbeat, here in France we don't get Grazia. Only Vogue.

This is cheering me greatly - and the suns out here.

Thanks all for your good wishes - dads being rather stoic, but I've learnt women are much better patients!!

Hurrah! We're back in business.

I am an absent poster. The baby is sleeping in the computer room at the moment so no time to be on. As we all know, nap time is mumsnet time!

We have walking here too. Hilarious.

Love to all. Especially MrsA's dad.

Hello people!

I have just had a day in Southwold, and it was luuuuuuuvley!

Felix was however most outraged at the sea's behaviour, continually creeping up on him as he was crawling around at the shoreline!

Hello Zulu & Boff.
How's life?
Southwold sounds nice.
Restricted access to MN less so (though possibly helpful if anything needs actually doing).
I am translating a text about historiography, which seems to be the study of the history of history. Until then I was OK. But what is the study of historiography? The study of the study of the history of history?

We have walking, throwing things downstairs, climbing on chairs, climbing up steps to slides, sitting down and launching self down slide at breakneck speed.

We also have a big bump on the head and a split lip.

We have "Mama", "Papapapa", "Ee-ah" (DS1), "chat" (i.e. French for cat, he's not on MSN yet), "nee-naw" (for fire engines) and a noise that sounds like a damsel in grave distress, which is apparently a horse neighing.

We have determination.
We have outrage when opposed.
We have cascades of giggles.
We have fascination with the swallows swooping into the eaves of an evening.
We have delight at splashing with some water in a bucket.
We have sweeping with Mummy's brush. Or two, when we are feeling particuarly brawny.

We have a lot of fun. I didn't know it could be such a laugh.

Hello AA and Boff.

It's a brilliant age, isn't it? They're just like little sponges. But oh, so determined.

In case you're wondering, my Mum has taken the baby away and I'm meant to be cleaning the house after extension chaos.

Eating camembert and MNing counts, I believe.

Night shift all weekend. Arse.

xx

PS. I love "Ee-ah". I bet Ee-ah does too .

PPS isn't the Whitehaven stuff awful? I worked there as a junior doctor for 6 months. Unbelievable to think that wee hospital was coping with all those poor people.

Hello lovelies. Will attempt to catch up - used to be impossible after such a time away but this is the thread where time stands still at the moment so should be relatively easy...

MrsA - really sorry to hear about your dad

AA - how are things with DH at the mo? I've been thinking about you guys and how hard it is maintaining some kind of marriage that isn't just a division of chores and bullet-point conversations about what needs to be done. DH and I are fighting a bit at the moment but I think that's a lot to do with the fact that this is month six of TTC and I'm feeling a bit frustrated and stressed out with it all.

They are at a fabulous age aren't they? O has me in stitches on a daily basis. He does a serious frowny look all the time now just to try and make me giggle

Schulte - any news on houses/jobs? We need to get that wimbledon park picnic in the diary while the weather lasts - I was there yesterday and it was glorious How about sat 19th june or sat 26th or sun 27th june?

Zulu - you just made me dribble mentioning camembert.

We came back from an extended weekend away in Devon on Wednesday. It was LOVELY. Wedding on the saturday and O was so well behaved I nearly cried with pride. He was the only baby who didn't have to be removed from the service, he charmed everyone in the afternoon, ate his dinner beautifully at the table and then fell asleep in his buggy at 7.45pm and we heard not a peep from him until 11pm when we left. I danced, I drank champagne, I felt like a proper person for the first time in ages . I also held an 8 week old baby girl which didn't help my general clucky state (but was lovely and snuggly and nuzzly and gorgeous).

O is still waking about 3 times a night so I am officially cream crackered. Presumably at some point teething will come to an end? I think we're keeping boots going single-handedly with the amount of calpol and nurofen we're getting through

Hello. Do you remember me?

So I caught up a bit.
(hugs)

Boff love the skirt. Jealous of size 8 on others too (a size I've never ever been even in US sizes).

Sad about MrsA's Dad extra (hugs)

Moo and babies are at a great age I love all the cute stories and walking and talking. Moo has made such amazing leaps these past 3 weeks I find her such a joy. Glad the plastic eating went 'ok'

We had a lovely time in the US with my family at the wedding. We didn't make it to the Grand canyon (we decided for the amount of time we had it wasn't wise to go so far), but we did go to Colorado (Estes Park) and the Rocky Mountains. It was lovely. And SO beautiful.

Now that we're back I'm thinking of weaning Moo off the last feed but I'm not sure.

Hello fellow warriors

Giggled a few times while reading through everyone's posts - I think it was the camembert, the damsel in grave distress and Felix being outraged at the sea - so lovely that everyone seems to be enjoying their babies.

Hazel has finally started walking. She crossed a big hall yesterday to get to a pack of crisps that she saw me holding. Naughty thing. Other than that she's not too great, sadly the 12 and 13 month jabs seem to have made her eczema erupt worse than ever. She's now got it everywhere rather than just on her legs, and I want to cry every time I take her clothes off and see it. She's also teething so she lives on yoghurt, cheese, raisins, banana and dry cereal at the moment. Everything else apparently is yucky and gets spat out.

House purchase is moving along extra slowly, we did try to get everyone to agree on moving on the 17th but it's clearly not going to happen now so we're pushing for the week after. Which, Bicnod, means that I am finding it hard to commit to any weekend plans at the moment because we may be unpacking boxes! I will text you though because I'd love to see you and Oscar.

Work is okayish and crap at the same time - I think I'll become a stay at home mum before long with maybe a bit of freelance work thrown in if I can fit it in without having to pay for childcare (Puzzle how do you do it? You must come over for coffee and tell me xxx)

DH is cooking a lovely chickpea and spinach curry so I must go now. Lots of love to everyone.

Uh oh. I think I'm in for a bashing

Moo just went to sleep without ANY mummy milk!!! ... I was reading a story to her and off she nodded... I'm sure it's jetlag. Yesterday she was to bed early and then was awake at 10 (and screaming at the top of her lungs) until 2am.
But I've got my fingers crossed she's down for the night (and without the mummy milk).

Really Schulte you ought to know better than to post such things.

Hello! Haven't been posting much lately but have been lurking and watching you all

Back at work, it's grim, nearly resigned last week but have now negotiated flexible working. Not very flexible, 4.5 days a week with the half day at home, but it's better than no job at all. Possibly.

MrsA - really sorry about your dad. I have an inkling how it must feel, given the situation with my mum, so you have all my sympathy.

Orbit occasionally taking the odd step, but still no recognisable words. Mostly he concentrates on eating and growing, the boy is giant.

Trying to work out our childcare options for when DS1 goes to school in September, it's looking a bit tricksy. Can't afford a nanny, poo.

Am also about to strangle DP's brother, who has been living with us for about three months now. Any tips on how not to kill your relatives?

Actually, I should have posted my thread in AIBU, would have been much more fun

OMG OMG OMG OMG

My baby slept for 8 hours!!!!!

Now I realise that most of your babies have been doing that for ages but in this house it is unprecented. Ellen didn't do an eight hour stretch until she was two. So...

OMG OMG OMG OMG

I bet it was a bloody fluke.

Schulte - Coffee sounds good.
Poor Hazel, does it bother her terribly?

WFH - Um, don't know really. Keep knives in a locked draw. Similarly garden tools. Avoid standing behind him at the top of the staircase?

Was right about the jetlag. She was up again last night and in the end got mummy milk to get her to relax enough to sleep.

Congrats on sleeping through the night Puzzle! You must feel great.

Poor lo with eczema What have you found works the best? Is it for sure the shots and not the change in weather? Moo's little pimply things come and go depending on the weather...

Nah I still feel tired. I went to bed at 12 by which time she had been asleep for four hours. So I was woken up at 4am and didn't get any more sleep than I normally would. Why oh why didn't I go to bed earlier?

I hope Moo adjusts to UK time quickly.

Oh dear I hate when that happens. Maybe tonight she'll be a good sleeper again and you'll remember to go to bed earlier.