Jan 2009 - these boots are made for walking... lets just hope they stay in sight!

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had to do a new thread as the old one just wasn't pleasing my computer!

Oh Lenni your Poor DD Megga Ouch!

Any advice on things to eat or do that may "help" heal it faster?

Way past my bedtime but I hired Avatar on BT Vision and it was AMAZING! Never hire films, as I feel guilty about cost but really fancied something and have seriously missed out on good films at the cinema since DCs.

Proper laughed about train tracks and buck teeth 120 I'll pay for counseling if he needs it when older, sleep more important ROFL.

Lenni Poor DD.

I have absolutely nothing to say.

Have a day.
was that too cheesy?

Lenni that is shocking. Poor little thing. Hope she is nicely drugged up now and pain free. What can they do to mend it? Will she have to have a cast of some kind?

Tea, film sounds good! We have had closer for about 2 months and still not watched it.

Evening chef!

It should be an intact bone again within a couple of months but will take longer to strengthen and the big lump will take 12-18 months to go. No sports for 6 weeks now (help!) and as much calpol as she needs. She has a sling but won't wear it. Seems okay at night, having terrors at the moment so been in with us a lot and seems to be comfortable. Am angry with the hospital though, I never even let her stay home from preschool when she said it was hurting since they said it was fine. Grrrrr

I love that film Tea. I watched Alice in Wonderland last week, it's a slow burner but I really enjoyed it. I love tim burton films.

Hello chef! You are never too cheesy! That continent hasn't stolen you yet!

Better go and do school run. Have navigated morning without sugar or caffeine. Yay.

oooh caffeine. now theres a thought!

morning

lenni [shcok]

Heavens, where on earth are you all hiding?

I need some pointers from the hallowed masters of internet shopping that reside on this thread. A new cardi. With zip and hood. In a dark colour. That is washable. Maybe even with pockets. Please.

Lenni that's awful, poor DD, hope she's on the road to recovery!

120...stop hiding from me! Am sure the bit will turn up...have an old back pack somewhere so am sure I can find a similar bit on thaT!

Am sooooooo behind on this thread. Dog glad you got your money back from that old wench of a landlady...grrr....some people...my last land lord in HK still owes me about a grand...no chance of ever seeing that!

Tea both my two are thumbsuckers... am worried about DD as she has huge lump on her thumb and don't want her to have sticky out teeth...am going to invest in one of these at some point... here They do a cheapo version on ebay. Last time I took her to the dentist he scared me to death about it!

This is a pathetic attempt at a catch up...am 10 weeks now and ms has been hell, especially with work. Felt better for about a week and now feel rubbish again...hopefully will ease off in the next couple of weeks. Told the headteacher at work (our school is a fertile place...constant stream of maternity leave) her response was, 'Don't worry HZ we can work around it. Now when do you think you will be back off maternity leave?" She's actually lovely, just slightly off centre with her people skills sometimes!

Ohh, my other big news is J took his first proper steps yesterday....about bloody time! Did find out that his slowness to walk was definitely due to being super double jointed so harder to lock knees and ankles and m,uscle isn't as defined at this stage. Scan results were good too, no growth in his tumour, so he's going back at end of august for another MRI. He still can't have solid food though, and pretty much refuses everything apart from milk which is a complete PITA for him and us.

Hope everyone else is well. Happy 40th Moose! Dog hope you are enjoying the lovely third trimester! Hello to books, tree, chef, pat, allshopped, missj...well everyone! Right, off to feel bleurgh. x

Hi all.

OOOooooo poor dd Lenni. You must be furious. If you can bear to ask her consultant to take you through why they felt it was a less serious fracture. By way of kickng their asses. Brufen should really help too. Poor little thing.

Am utterly knackered. Bleurgh. Spent my day off today, rubbing my eyes and sighing a lot.

DD1 tried proper ballet class on Monday and enjoyed it. Was int he baby class so she wants to try the 5-7 class. More actual ballet work and no play. She went to another class a while ago but was less keen. That was in a sort of dance school and I found it all uncomfortable too. Very focused on shows and showing. This one seems a bit calmer and less 'showy', more about learnng the steps. That will suit dd more I think.
She made me get her some ballet slippers today which was quite sweet really. Also got a leotard with a skirt attached. Bargain 75% off so why not. {grin]

dd2 to H-bomb has been under the weatehr, has not really eaten and today got a temp. SHe has to go to nannas and grandads tomorrow which is always full on, no naps, and fire on all the time. So I really hope she is feeling better by then, for her sake. Just 1 til 6 while I sleep for nights, then all day thurs while I sleep after nights. I'll try get her back at 2pm, so I'll feel vomit tired but at least will have her back.

CAn't run myself too hard as I have Sun and Mon to work, and I haven't done 2 long days together yet, so I'm a bit worried about them.

Congratulations on the BFing Pat. A wonderful innings.
Wish H was still feeding really, stll thought - well worth it for the eggy lady!

wow! go J. pics??? The girl on that link looks so like your DD!

Someone speak to me sternly, on Lakeland website pining after all sorts of lovely things as I love baking But funds are poor, went on there for a jelly mould but cannot stop LOOKING!!!!

Oooo hello HKZ! That contraption looks effective but I'd feel so guilty. Think I'll wait a few years yet before I resort to it Hope sickyness goes very very soon x

Oh Tree, tired poor thing you and with a poorly H Your midwifery seems so full on with those shifts

oooo HKZ. X-posts. Really good to hear the scan was ok, although it must be soooooooo hard for you with the liquid diet. What sort of milk is he drinking?

Yay to walking!!!

Everything crossed the ms is on the way out.

Hey Tea

xpost tree. hello. sorry you are so tired. Tis a funny thing with the BF the wanting/not wanting to continue. You did so well for eggy lady. You should get yourself one of those 'one less things to do in life' t-shirts, with your own text! H said to me tonight 'Mok peeese'. How can I resist that? A former me would have been horrified and definitely wanted to stop once they started talking like that. We went to a christening service on Sunday and he spent half the time shouting mok, mok and trying to climb down my top. At that point I wished I had stopped some months ago.

H hope can cope tomorrow. I hate it when they have temps and I can't look after them.

Evening tea. Get off the Lakeland site and go and look at the Divertementi site! teehee. When I want to stop spending money I take up a knitting project as you can enjoy a splurge when you buy the wool, then spend the next 50 evenings knitting the darn thing.

Hi 120.

Agree, off the lakeland shop. Thank lordy our nearest one is 45 miles away! I'd be skint!

I'm going to give eggy lady my baby massage poster Lovely gift, and H certainly won't let me do any massage on her . Was going to give it to the hospital, so I could see it at work, but I think she would appreciate it very much.

That is a lovely idea tree! It must be so exciting for you. Can't quite get my head around how I'd feel in your situation, but excitement definitely features.

I am very interested in changing careers at the moment, and after all I've experienced in the last three years, retraining as a midwife has crossed my mind more than once as I feel so strongly about it, but your shifts sound sooo hard!

Well, I hate the shifts. But I haven't much tolerance ffor being tired. I have great stamina on shift, but am wiped afterwards. So I am probably a bad advert

But then this week I work 2 nights, sleep day, night off, night on, sleep day, 2 days off, 2 on........and I am only part time! And we are relatively well staffed!

Evening all

HKZ! Good to see/hear/read you. Great news abou the scan, sorry to hear ms has returned. 10 weeks already!

Lenni, poor dd. I would get in touch with PALS at the hospital and get them to ask some questions for you as that really isn't on.

Tree, sorry you are having such a full on week. Do you think H did have chicken poxs after all then? Hope she feels better really soon.

Tea - step away from the Lakeland site - tis evil. Whatever you can find on Lakeland you can almost certainly get much much cheaper on ebay. Maybe go and have a quick search there. You never know you might get all the things you want for the price of your mould on Lakeland's site. We have a Lakeland shop here - I have to stop myself going in there.

120, dd started asking for 'Mok Peese' really sweetly roughly about a fortnight before she suddenly stopped asking for it at all. She hasn't had a feed since the morning of Sunday before last now and has been fine, if a bit fidgety and wakeful at night. I assume that's her adjusting though as she won't drink cows milk or formula so only has a drink of water before bed and that's obviously nowhere near as filling.

I went through the sadness vs relief feelings but a week later have really noticed that I am feeling more 'myself'. I hadn't realised how much bf was still affecting me, even with only morning and night feeds. I am really tired at the moment, but still feel 'sharper' than I have in ages (well probably for about 26 months actually - if I stop and think about it.)

I was a thumb-sucker. Sucked my thumb until I was in my twenties and I have nice straight top teeth - not a buck-tooth in sight and have hardly had any dental work done at all in my life, let alone a brace. My bottom teeth are crooked, but that's to do with my wisdom teeth crowding the others out and nothing to do with thumb-sucking. My elder sister, however, never sucked her thumb and had to have several braces in her teens. So its by no means a foregone conclusion that little thumbs-suckers will need braces later in life.

Called the gp today for ds1's coeliac result and was told it would take at least a week for them to receive it as its a specialist phlebotomy service. The phlebotomist told me it would be with the gp this afternoon.

Am slowly munching my way through all my birthday choccies and cake in the hope of starting my sugar detox etc next week. Feel like a waking blimp at the moment and have nothing to wear as its all too tight. Am most downhearted about the whole thing as it feels like I have such a huge mountain to climb in order to feel fit, healthy and slim -ish again.

Oooo! Nearly forgot. 120. I have had so many lovely comments about how fantastic your bib is.

We love it too and are finding it really useful. So much easier to pop it on rather than messing around with ties or velcro.

As I bought mine of ebay, any chance you could point me in the direction of your online shop so that hopefully I can start sending some business your way.

Midwifery has crossed my mind too 120. As I want a career change and want to start a degree in 2011. But the shifts put me off too as a single mum but love babies and all that jazz Choices choices...

Ooo Some of their stuff is fab tho....

Oooo H just said '' really clearly. She was looking at a pic of her.

Heart melt!

Gosh, sorry, missing a lot as had tutoring tonight. My last session as she has exam tomorrow, so feeling a bit relieved and a bit at the loss of £40 a week!!!

She bought me a big bunch of flowers too, how lovely, I do hope I bring up my children to be so thoughtful!

HKZ- good to hear such fab news about J walking and the scan front. Sorry about the sickness I do hope it passes soon. Here is where I don't tell you that my SIL is 18 weeks and still suffering. LOL at your boss though, they are so like that in schools!

Tree- work and H sound tough at the moment, still very at your job, I think both tea and 120 should both train up, you would both be brilliant!

Lenni- sending for little T. Hopefully she has not been in too much pain, you were not to know and are not to blame...got that!

Moose- enjoy your sugar binge before next week! I have plateaued at 8lbs off and no loss last week. Really getting me down as apart from a huge drinking binge on saturday I have been really good. Snuck in a few custard creams today

MissJ- Hell yes to thursday!! I will FB you

BTW....SATC2 was the biggest load of bollocks I have ever seen, but good night out with the girls, eevn if I didn't get home till 11.30pm so yawn-city today at work.

Ahh, Tree just saw that H said DD1's name. It's soooo cute isn't it! Z just says EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE and points at her, really funny!

He did say 'Mummy' on sunday for the first time though rather than 'Mama' and now he won't stop saying it

Lovely to see you hkz, sorry to hear the ms is still bad though - hopefully will be all okay in a couple of weeks or so and you can get on with enjoying the rest of your pregnancy.

Lenni ouch for poor DD.

120 at 'mok peese' during christening; that's what N is like. He knows what he wants and nothing will stop him!

Talking of which, the baby awakes......