All New, Sparkly Fab and 40 + : Mums, Mums to Be or TTC. Come say Hi !

[jeanjeannie]

Hello all - well, this is our third message board..so it's a popular topic.

If you're a fab forty something then please come and say Hi!

The thread lives in pregnancy as that's where it started....but it's certainly no longer confined to just being about pregnancy. It's for anyone whose a gorgeous 40 something. So get a cuppa, bring some biscuits - or cake - and have a chat x

they do indeed jw isn't mother nature ingenious? but my OH actually has quite unusual shaped eyes and hardly any visible eyelid - and D's eyes are just the same which is why the similarity is much remarked upon.

Brown eyes are dominant - but if the brown eyed parent has one blue and one brown gene for eye colour the child can still have blue eyes. Apparently blue eyed men are thought to favour blue eyed women because they will always have blue eyed children so if a brown eyed one pops out they will not be the daddy (although they'd have to know this of course for it to make any difference) whereas brown eyed men don't have that inbuilt preference as their children's eyes can be either colour.

Nice little genetics lesson to pass the afternoon ;)

I am indeed enlightened

Oh jeanjeanie I would second locking her in the cupboard. I got the 'what your child should be doing at 18 months' email from MN today and Elizabeth is not doing any of what Luisa Dildo says she ought. Only thing I think she is advanced at is a little fishing game with fishing rods with magnets on the ends. She has amazing patience with it, knows she has to wait for the string to stop spinning before she can 'hook' her fish. That's about it for 'boast of the day'.

OOoh can I jump in with boast of the day? K's farts are mega loud!

Over and out.

maybe we should lock K in the cupboard with the precocious child to teach her a lesson (the child not the fabuloso K of course)

Hedgepig that's a great idea. I can think of all sorts of people I'd like to shut in a cupboard. But maybe with Grace who seems always to do farts smelling of old cabbage, regardless of what she has eaten.

Ok, one more boast. Have a lemon drizzle in the oven. I would really just like that for my supper.

ladymac you are a super mummy,
I did not make cake nor curtains today I just zombed out.

mmmmmm old cabbage farts. My favourite

Evening. My boast for the day is that Iris can squeal really, really loudly and quite upset the precocious child She's a sweet little kid really - but spent most of the day diligently putting shapes into boxes and trying to annoy Bob, my cat She wasn't having any of the death-defying game of jumping off a small chair!

johnworf did you know that farting loudly is a sign of supreme intelligence in a child - a sadly little-noted fact

ladymac I wouldn't take notice of anyone called Luisa dildo Nah - Iris refuses to conform to such rules.

Aren't all LOs born with blue eyes that eventually change? Iris had very deep blue eyes but are now hazel - that's from her Dad. Verity's are still blue - but look like they may just be on the turn.

mrsboogie your DP has very little eyelids? Luckily Darragh is a boy - no call for putting on eyeshadow!

hedgepig come on - snap, snap...get to making those cakes and curtains...lazing around on sofas indeed

Am hoping for some more sleep tonight - wish me luck...

I'm sending you good sleep vibes JJ and hope the sleep fairy visits the girls.

K has grizzled and guzzled her way through the evening so I'm typing this with 1 finger and LO balanced on me....finally sleeping

Bum is looking better today so she celebrated by weeing me. BTW that's her bum, not mine

DSS has had his formal diagnosis of Aspergers today. Makes no real difference to things apart from at school.

gosh am I 1st on this morning?
I hope you all had god night with these guzzly babies.
nothing happening here apart from car in garage (again!) I have never know a car like it. When I 1st stated driving a car either went or it didn't but now they have warning lights for for bits you have never heard of which keep coming on and then need fixing.

JW does this mean DSS will get more support at school?

Afternoon. Well a bit more sleep - not a lot - but I'm in a glass is half FULL mood today

johnworf good to hear Katherine's bum is looking good - very pleasing.

What difference will the diagnosis make for the school? Is that what I keep reading about - a statement or something like that? If it gets DSS what he needs then that's brill news. Friend works with a surgeon who has Aspergers. They only seem to let him near patients when they're anaesthetised as he's very blunt - and takes everything very literally! Apparently quite brillant though - if not a triffle eccentric.

hedgepig Every car I've had seems to have a light on that never turns off and never really seems to mean anything! I love our Berlingo - it might be an old codgers car but it rocks. Can get enough stuff in it to supply a small country and it's got sliding side doors so no twonk can park so close you can't open the door to put the kids in. OOooo, inconsiderate parkers....don't get me started!!! Calm, calm!!

Hello!! I'm back after major shopping spree with DS#1 and G/F. Ikea is now empty of anything Tom likes Phew, I'm knackered though. All that walking just puffs me out.

DSS will now be statemented and will receive one-to-one support from someone in school. Also, they'll give him a new eduction plan to support this and various other strategies to encourage him to learn in a way that he can understand. Yep, he's very blunt and yep, he's very literal. Doesn't get jokes at all.

We have a Doblo which is a bit in the Berlingo league. It has slidey doors too. Ours is called 'the ice cream van' and everyone laughs at it but we have last laugh as we can get big things in our car (funny how all the family call on us when they want to shift/pick up something heavy/big but rest of the time we're funny}. I don't care anyway. It's practical and that's the main thing.

Didn't get to eat at all this day so far. Not conscious thing but took DSS to school, had MW and HV turn up at same time then DS and his G/f 5 minutes later so was full house and then straight out shopping. Might go off and eat scabby horse now.

Also better do some work now I'm home.

well that another £300 gone grrrrr just got the car back. We have a vectra estate purely brought for the boot space, but it will be traded in soon for something else if it keeps going wrong (ARE YOU LISTENING CAR????)
jw how you have found something to eat, did you not fancy the Ikea meatball things? Or was DS keeping you too busy looking a soft furnishings?

hedgepig didn't have time for Ikea food as we had to go to Costco on the way home and I had to be back in time to pick DSS up from school. Phew! Was all go today.

DS is very happy now he and his g/f have got all their purchases home and are settling in. They were both so excited today whilst we were out. It was really cute and it was so nice to see young love before the cynicism, sarcasm and general oldness we all get sets in

Katherine has grizzled since I set foot in the door and has had a bottle pretty much every hour since. She's finally settled but I've noticed she's doing this every night now. Starts around tea time and tails off around 10ish (so she's early tonight). I dunno how she fits all the milk in!

Anyhoo, MW weighed her and despite my reservations she'd not gained much or even lost weight after the thrush affair, she's steadily gaining an ounce a day as expected. She's 7lb 10oz now she is exactly 2 weeks old corrected age. Not bad methinks

Are you stirring yet hedgepig?? Any signs that LO is making an entrance?

I haven't seen mrsjupiter around for a while. I hope her and LO are doing ok

hedgepig Wooo - that's a lot of squids ££££!!! Bad car - BAD! Yes, any rumblings? Odd feelings? General stirings?

johnworf...hahahah - you're a fellow old codger! A Doblo - pah, it's virtually a Berlingo. LOL at how the rest of the family all need stuff carting about - how familiar does that sound?!. Our car's finest moment was fitting in an entire set of garden furniture, a full spread of food, pram, kids and a person with their leg in plaster - all at the same time! Oh and there was the IKEA wardrobe - touch and go but in it went! Every now and then DP and me will scream YOUNG person, when we see someone under 60 driving one

Mmmm - Katherine seems to be doing the same as Verity, me thinks it must be a growth spurt.

I'm with hedgepig - how is it possible to go round IKEA without eating? If the meatballs didn't get to you then i'm amazed that you weren't stopped in your tracks by the hotdogs. Please tell me you at least picked up a bag of mini dimes...?? Look, I know young love is cute and all that but, it's hardly worth not eating over

Ahhh, MIL has got Iris tomorrow - first time in a month as she's been on hols. Which means I should be able to get loads done - like SHOP! And make Iris's birthday card for CBeebies. No one I know has ever got their card shown - so I'm on a mission!!

Omg, I'm seeing deccoupage in gold leaf and the heads of dora the explorer in a star spangled explosion of colour Not sure what guarantees a showing on Cbeebies. Do you have to sleep with someone who works there?

Yeah, I'm officially driving old codger car/disabled van. I can take it Ours just improved 10 fold as we've also got a sticker in the back saying 'medical oxygen on board'. Wow. Almost as good as a wheelchair poking out of the boot

Know what you mean about fitting in self assembly stuff but I take my hat off to you squeezing in the broken leg person. Did you get a pic?

Think I just forgot to eat today I was so busy with people coming and going. I've tried to make up for it tonight with a few dairy milks!

I had a nice afternoon sans kids although I was happy to get back. Hope you have a lovely day off tomorrow

Katherine is still awake and now chewing the sheet so I guess it's time for another bottle?

Ooooo deccoupage how exciting! How did the card making go JJ? You are so creative I find all that arty stuff really hard, i just can't shake my biochemist roots.

JW I will have to get your DH a flat cap to go with the car image. How ever your cars sound most practical to me I love being able to get lots of stuff in a car, at the moment my boot is being used as a overspill area for storing baby things as DH is still decorating. I am also using my neighbors spare room, bless them they are so lovely. I have been promised it will be finished this weekend

Well - stuff my creativity today - I went shopping! Actually, it wasn't that exciting but I did purchase from the new Primark. Cor - there were some ruff old chavs in there - I had me stick...shouting "shoo, shoo, stay away - keep back" I was!!

johnworf absolutely PMSL at your 'Medical Oxygen on Board'...that p*sses in the face of 'Baby on Board'. DP wanted one that said "Progeny in Transit" !

hedgepig Go on - shake those biochemist roots - let rip with a tube of glitter and some tissue paper Our friend across the road is an analytical chemist - and he's very groovy and creative - go on - you can do it. As Robbie Williams would say - 'you're doing it for the kids'!!

Haha. never thought of the oxygen on board sign being on the lines of baby on board. Excellent Personally never saw the point of the baby on board but listened to a debate on Jeremy Vine couple of weeks ago and said it was to help the fire brigade just in case there was an accident (i.e. look for the baby on board). Our oxygen one is much the same. I love the idea of Progeny in Transit. I'm surprised no one has made one .............yet!

JJ you should come to the Primark in M/cr. It's full of scousers. No idea why. But omfg, you can't move for black eye liner and slag hoops you could hula in. It's not bad in Primark and is pretty much copies of the catwalk however, it usually falls apart after 5 washes which I suppose is the end of the season anyway

I bought a baby monitor y'day so that I could be in the office and hear Katherine in her cot upstairs during the day. Well bugger me, I've been up and down those stairs so many times I should officially be 5 stone...talking of which, I have my first diabetic clinic appointment tomorrow. It's almost a day out I'm that hard up for excitement.

Had a phone call today from my old drinking buddy friend, Guy. We're planning a curry night. He'll be pissed by the time the popodums hit the table but hey ho, I need something to amuse me

hedgepig my boys used to like making their safe Salter chemistry set blow up. Really they did. Very creative. All sorts of 'added' ingredients such as vinegar and bicarb. Works a treat. 10/10 for creativity when they were little....infact, I recall the time when they would have been 10 & 8 they made with lego 'f**k off' in 1 foot high letters and put in on the window sill for the neighbours to admire. I wasn't sure whether to shout at them or praise them.........

Morning all.

Have the health visitor coming today at 1pm to assess the backward child! Think I might bake a cake for her arrival to soften her up. Of course, she may already be a dear sweet thing but I never get that impression about HVs. I am just hoping she will take the view that Elizabeth is just a bit slower on the walking and talking front but that everything else is fine. Will let you all know how it goes.

jeanjeanie kept meaning to say thanks for the pushchair advice. I think we will probably go for the P and T as I don't think I could face trying to get one of those huge side-by-side numbers round the shops. Went to John Lewis to have a look at the weekend but they don't stock them. Where did you get yours? I'll take a guess at the Oxford Pram Centre. They seem to have competitive prices. I just want to be able to have a go on one before buying anything. Friends who have them only have the older classic model although I have accosted someone in the street to ask how she liked her Sport. Thought it was a bit much to ask to have a go at pushing it though, didn't want her to think I was some nutter trying to make off with her kids! I haven't seen an orange one but it sounds fab. Have seen your pics of lovely Iris and I have to say Elizabeth has quite a similar look though her hair is a bit more on the auburn side of ginger. Grace's is lighter though. What colour is Verity's? Looks darker on your profile pics but hard to tell.

How are you feeling hedgepig? Are you nesting or resting? Resting I hope, I like to think you are on the sofa with your feet up, being served tea and cake. Are they scanning you at all or just happily leaving you to it?

johnworf you seem to be doing so much. I am impressed at anyone with a small baby who manages to get out of their pyjamas before 3pm. Not impressed that you didn't eat anything in Ikea. I've never come out of there without eating something, even if it's only a pack of mini dimes. Ooh, I'm making myself hungry now. I love mini dimes. And talking of sugary chocolate, have fun at the diabetic clinic!

I am still in my pyjamas as I woke needing the loo at 1am and didn't go back to sleep till 3.30. So DH left me to sleep in till gone 8 which was quite a treat. It's just that I can't quite get going now. Still, must push on. There's cake to be made and a health professional to spar with.

ladymac I think us women just get on with things whereas the men folk have to sit around and have a planning meeting (if only with themself) to get things done. Take for example some pictures I wanted hanging 2 weeks ago. They were still not done by Weds night so I ended up having a word with the DH. It would have been quicker to do it myself (which is the ploy methinks on his part) but I resisted this time.

I do usually love the food in Ikea but honestly was so pushed for getting back for the school pickup, that I had no choice in the matter

Yep, I'm just off to Diabetic clinic as we speak. I've painted my toenails a lovely deep plum colour as I know they'll want to check my feet Also just swallowed a (small) Cadbury's caramel so blood meter will be whizzing around with high numbers all over the place! OOOPs. Bad planning there. Ah well.

Have fun with your HV. Mine was here on Weds and was bemoaning how much the job has changed since I had my first one 22 years ago. She said she was more like a social worker these days and it got her down Oh dear...the worries and woes of the health care professionals. Still, a large slab of cake will do the trick

afternoon, I'm actually eating some fruit how healthy is that? I've just been for a big walk with only one stop for hot chocolate and cake. So we will see if that gets something moving

Ladymac no monitoring or anything planned I'm in 2 minds about whether this is good or not. My mw is back from hols next week I will talk to her then. How did the visit of the HV go?
Have fun at the clinic JW hope the blood sugars are good and they will sign you off.

hedgepig all went well. My BP is at an all time fantastic 120/80 without the meds Go me! Also weight was 5 kilos less than last time (I think pre-pregnancy). Back in 2 weeks for fasting bloods although I did initially ask the receptionist when I booked this appointment if I needed to fast and she looked at me as if I'd just said "can you fly to the moon and back please" in Chinese. Ah well.

Also had flu jab whilst I was there so I'm all sorted out for now.

I take it the LO is doing a no show yet otherwise you'd probably not be walking around with such a casual air. Surely you're due round about now aren't you?

Must dash, K is awake again and requires sustinence

5 kilos less how fantastic - starving yourself a Ikea must have done some good.

I'm due tomorrow, I feel quite healthy today so not a desperate for the LO to hatch as I was at the beginning of the week. Although coming this weekend would be great with helping sort child care for Ben etc rather than on a school day.