Just wanted to check in and say hi

[Thomcat]

It's been a while and for some reason today I thought I'd like to pop in and say 'hi'.

DD2 is just great, really placid, content lovely little girl. She's got a really serios 'taking it all in' face and then breaks out into huge smiles. She's trying to laugh, she's starting to roll, she plays with toys and so on. She's so strong on those little legs and loves to stand on me and grin. Something that feels so weird, I realise now that Lottie never ever locked those legs as a baby or tried to stand on me.

Lotbags is lovely with her, but on the downside I'm exhausted. Lottie's needs are more apparent than ever. She's great and all that but she's hard work. I don't know how to keep her occupied all day and she's taken to moaning and saying 'noooooooooo' to everything and just generally whinges a lot. Think a lot of that is to do with her not being able to express herself, not being able to use up all the energy she has and therefore she gets bored and frustrated. The fact I'm up feeding DD2 at 12.30, 4ish and then early morning and throughout the rest of the day doesn't help with trying to meet Lotties demands. It's more important than ever that she widen her vocab and get mobile but these things take time, a lot of time and we all need to be patient and grin and bear it meanwhile.

So it's good, but it could be better.

Just wanted to not totally disappear so ....here I am and ...... here I go again......TC xx

Hi TC

Lovely to "see" you on here - want to meet up one day soon?

I know it's different, but I have some idea of what you're going through with an older child with lots of energy and meets not being met because of a little one who needs feeding, etc.

MIL now has DS1 on a Thursday so would that be a good day to meet?

Much love - look after yourself, my sweet x x x

It's so good to hear from you again, TC. :)

Fingers cossed for you that it will all start to get much easier soon. Look after yourself. xxx

Hi Hunker hi Copertop, nice to 'see' you

Hunker - hey stranger. Yeah, let's do that. Any day is good tbh. If Thursdays suit shall we do this coming one?

Yep, sounds fab. Have only done the DS1 at MIL's thing once so far, but it's going to be a regular Thursday thing and I'm loving having just DS2!

What shall we do?

Ohhhh yeah, I love lottie to pieces but it is bliss when she's at school and it's just me and DD2. So easy!

Don't mind... you can come here, or we could do a cafe or park if it's nice?

Hiya TC. Been thinking about you too! Give your lovely girls a kiss from me

Well, I drop DS1 about 9.30-10 at MIL's and your house is only a few hundred yards away, so could come to you after I've dropped him? Is that too early? Will you have both girls? Happy to go for a walk if it's nice (SO lovely yesterday - today's weather such a letdown!).

Hey Miaou, how goes it hon'?

I'm so glad I popped back to say hi, it's lovely to hear from you girls again. Realise now I've missed MN a bit.

Not badly TC . Ds is gorgeous, the dds adore him, dh is now a SAHD (lost his driving licence) and I am working pt in a library (but not this week cos my car died and the other one failed its MOT )

Hunker - Wicked, well lets do that then. I'm back here about 10 from dropping Lottie at school. Careful how you cross road to mine as we have no kerbs, pavements etc as they are being re-done, it;s a right mess out there. I'm no 7, I'll have the kettle on and the cakes in!
Looking forward to seeing you.

Miaou - sorry about DH losing licence and the cars all misbehaving on you. Glad everything else is good with you and your lovely family though. xx

thanks - have a nice time with hunker!

It's a date! Looking forward to it too - can't wait to see DD2 (and you, obv!)!

Good to see you TC Only thought about you the other day - dd was cutting out faces for her art project and I'm sure one of them was the lovely Lottie.

Glad to hear that dd2 is so easy going.

Hi TC, good to hear from you! I'm going again as well, back to the Land-Of-No-Internet on Tuesday.

hello ! You've been missed

Thanks girls, it's actually quite nice to be back now I'm here
Look forward to catching up with you all.

Can I tell you she is 3 - 4..... NO is dd1's favourite word here.... it is driving me nuts - dd1 time to get ready for swimming - no and runs away, dd1 coem and get your hair done for school - NO!!

dd1 do not do that - so she does it whilst looking at me as if to say - well what are you going to do about it!!

Yesterday - ran away from dh into her room - laughing at disobeying dh and fell face first into her bed rail... cue blood everywhere.....

So i think it may be a phase.... cause dd1s language is coming along nicely since her grommets...... BUt still this petulant NO!! Does my head in.....

Like you - I love her to bits but it is nice to have the breather when she is at kindy and I can get things like the grocery shopping etc done with jsut dd2 although she is getting cheekier and cheekier....It is weird watching dd2's development and compare it to dd1 although they are quite a lot alike too..... dd2 is a reluctant walker - can do it but chooses not to monkey!! She has such amazing control but she just likes crawling.

glad to hear that generally things are going fab for you.

Hi everyone. Ohhhh thanks Edisvold, it's really helped to read your post. Feel shattered today and my glands are up so any child would be hard work. Charlotte has now taken to saying 'nooooo' every time that Eve makes a noise. Might even start a thread on how best to cope with that. Ohhhhhhhh thanks God school starts again tomorrow, I just need my painkillers to kick in and perhaps we can get through just one more day?!

dd1 ios the right little bossy thing... she now thinks it is her place to tell dd2 no - which she does rather firmly along with a makaton shake of the hand in dd2's face in case she did not get the message HOWEVER they are also partners in crime and dd2 is copying more and more of dd1's behaviour.

So glad dd2 is bringing you so much pleasure, and glad Lottie is being lovely to her. And also glad that finally the TC is back on MN, even if only for a day or two !