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Good morning ladies 
Borboleta You didn't ask me but I thought I'd tell you anyway. SAHM means Stay At Home Mum.
I am sure you are right about children in daycare versus children at home. The ones at home rely completely on their parents for entertainment etc. But I also think it is a character thing. I know that Sebastian is much better at playing by himself than Dominic, which is why he can be so absorbed in what ever he is doing and then Dominic trying to take his toy away. He simply wants to see what is fascinating Sebastian so.
How lovely that Thiago can say all those words! And like you I am sure no one else would know that Dominic definitely means book when he says gooyg lol And how sweet that T hums!
And imagining things chocolate cake with marshmallow cream is what I do all the time, AF on the way or not
As for the ballet, did he like it? Was it children or adults dancing?
Claire you poor thing with the migraine! I hope you feel 100% better today. Hopefully also Lucy's fevers have disappeared?
I am so sorry but I cannot meet you
Usually the boys nap till about 11 in the morning and then have their lunch at 11:30. But even if it was not that, my parents are coming to London on Tuesday for a Do on Wednesday evening. And my flat looks like I never heard of the concept "tidy". I can absolutely let no one see this - except OH who is responsible for more than 50% of this mess. And I cannot tidy in advance ever with OH around but need to do it the day before or it will be messy again the next day 
I hate tidying when I don't know where to put everything, it makes me want to cry! lol
I hope your appointment goes ok and maybe the next time you are in the area we can set up a meeting?
Sabrina any news at all when you can expect your neighbour to be evicted finally? I really hope they hate the Sex Pistols! Imagine if they liked it and bopped to it in rhythm lol!
Clio I think you made a mistake there somewhere in your conversion. lol If your house has a square footage of 1300, you in fact have 120.7 square metres which is almost double to what we have. Btw is that counting in the basement and upper floor? Oh how I would love to have a basement! We probably need to move out of our area too if we want something bigger but the thought it horrible to me. There is an exceptionally beautiful park right outside my house with the most gorgeous walk under ancient trees along the river and an absolutely great play area for kids of all ages. And then there is the lovely Bishops Palace in that park too which is where the Bishops of London used to live but which is now open to the public and has the most beautiful walled garden and greenhouses. The drawing room of the palace faces out on to the lawn and it has been transformed into a lovely café (the drawing room, not the lawn) and you can have lunch there or outside on the terrace. It is just so idyllic
But you didn't make me feel bad about your larger house or your ability to let J have more freedom. I just always question whether I am doing an ok job by my boys or not but that is just natural to me as I am a natural worrier and have not that much self assurance in some things.
I had to look up where Edmonton is in relation to Toronto and wow I didn't realise you moved so far away! That seems not even a little close. I bet you miss it though?
I am so glad the pot is making things so much easier for you with the joint! As for your doctor, I would not go to her any more. Can you sign up with another practice or are you bound to her cause of the area you live in? We have something like that over here.
As for teaching in the winter term, are you hoping they will need you or not? I would like to cross my fingers for you but for the correct outcome
Thank you for your compliments about my boys. It is so weird but I never think of them as "my twins". I always think of them just as "my boys" and when I read about "the twins" it's like oh yeah that would be mine lol. Odd huh?
Their bedtime routine goes like this: We both take them into their nursery which would be already prepared with the curtains drawn, the white noise on but only softly and the lights dimmed a bit. I first change Dominic's nappy and put his sleeping onsie on, while OH sits on the nursery bed (where I used to sleep when the boys were tiny) and takes off Sebastian's clothes and puts him in his sleeping onesie. I then put Dominic next to OH on the nursery bed and he puts him in his sleeping bag while I change Sebastian's nappy. Then when Sebastian is in his sleeping bag we turn down the lights and up the white noise and they get their bed time bottle. Very often Dominic drops off as the bottle is finished. But we usually cuddle with them a tiny bit first and then put them to bed. When I was alone the other night, I just had to "store" one boy in the cot while I changed and got the other ready and vice versa and then I put them on the nursery bed as usual but let them hold their own bottles. And when they were done I put one after the other in to their cots. One has to just be quick enough so that they cannot make good their escape and crawl off the bed. But they were too tired and too full of milk to move all that much lol.
As for J not napping in his BBB unless it is turned to the wall, that doesn't surprise me. My boys are obviously not as mobile as yours but they wouldn't nap either if there was the exciting prospect of wrecking their room instead lol. Glad you found a solution though and I hope it isn't too difficult for you to turn the bed around.
As for your worries about the gender thing. Hm. I am not so informed on that subject but while I think I am very liberal towards what men and women should be left to do, if they so choose, I don't actually see anything bad in a boy being shown construction site pictures. Ok, so it is traditionally a typically male place cause so few women work in such an environment but are you equally refusing to expose him to traditionally extremely female stereotypical stuff such as the ballet? Are you really sticking rigorously to gender neutral things? And had you a daughter, would you refuse to expose her to dollies and the colour pink? I am not trying to talk you out of your views but I am very interested. Like Borboleta, while I wouldn't buy my boys a doll, I would have no problem if they played with one at someone's else's home. I would totally let them wear a pink shirt or shorts but only if it wasn't of a female cut. My brother (a huge hulking manly man at 6'5) wears pink dress shirts with his suits and also has pink polo shirts and shorts too (though not worn at the same time). Nothing female about them but they aren't gender neutral either. But back to the gender specific toys, I think I probably have more of a problem with children having toy guns (Both my brother and I did btw). I don't like the idea as there is so much violence the world already. But OH pointed out that all the other children will have water guns and things like that. Still, I will draw the line at bb guns and hopefully will not be overborne.
Storm I am so sorry you are suffering so with the MS! I really think you should ask your doctor (or your brother maybe?) if there is anything you can take. I hardly ever threw up but feeling constantly nauseous as I did was a severe hindrance to even such simple things as going out to the supermarket. So having to work while you feel like this plus your throwing up must be hell!
Leeze how lovely to have such a long post from you and may I say it shows that you got some sleep. It sounded much more upbeat! I am so pleased for you! And I agree, once Kia has done it she will do it again! I really hope it will soon become the norm!
Yay for ovulating and trying for a second! And having 2 is amazing and blissful I tell you, though of course I know that twins are a bit different than to have two children of different ages. I hope it works for you soon and you, Kitty and Storm can be bump buddies
As for depriving my boys of social contact, do you perhaps confuse my post with Clio's there?
Kitty talking of bump buddies, any news? I hope our asking doesn't make you more depressed when you still don't know.
As for us: nothing overly exciting except, as I said, my parents are coming to London for 2 nights (not staying with me obviously, phew lol) and I have to go on a mad cleaning spree today. How I hate cleaning and tidying! And OH will have to cook Tuesday evening as the Do they are coming to London for is on Wednesday evening. But this is not all that easy, as my mother doesn't eat meat (but does eat poultry and fish) and my father thinks that all pasta makes you fat (he must eat a lot of pasta then secretly). So I think OH will make a Coq au Vin with roast potatoes which oddly enough my father will wolf down as if he was starving and cause he thinks they do not make you fat. Sigh. LOL. My father is then leaving again on Thursday but my mum is going to stay on for a few days more
Ah yes, also, our oven conked out on Saturday evening, just when OH wanted to shove in the lovely Moussaka he had prepared. So yesterday we went to buy a new one and also a new ceramic hob as our old one was getting on a bit and I think one of the hot plates only ever got luke warm now. Plus dirt was constantly gathering under the knobs. So this new one, though not very expensive, has touch buttons! So swish lol! So anyway we had the Moussaka for dinner yesterday instead and it was so yummy I wanted to throw myself into it! lol I am a greedy piglet!
Hmm there was something I wanted to ask you all but I forgot. So I will post this now and maybe add it later if I can think of it again.
Hope you are all doing well?
ETA: I remembered one of the things I wanted to ask you. Especially you mothers with boys, what do you call your son's private parts? My OH is a bit uptight oddly enough and declared that he is fine with us referring to them as their bits or their little thing. But c'mon I cannot teach my tiny sons to say "My Bits"?! On the other hand I don't like Willy that much either cause I actually had a great uncle by that name (it isn't as odd in German!). I thought maybe peepee though OH seems to not like that? And I have no idea what girl bits could be called. But I know that toddlers are embarrassingly loud about things like that and I think I should have adequate words ready that won't be too twee either. Any ideas?
Borboleta You didn't ask me but I thought I'd tell you anyway. SAHM means Stay At Home Mum.
I am sure you are right about children in daycare versus children at home. The ones at home rely completely on their parents for entertainment etc. But I also think it is a character thing. I know that Sebastian is much better at playing by himself than Dominic, which is why he can be so absorbed in what ever he is doing and then Dominic trying to take his toy away. He simply wants to see what is fascinating Sebastian so.
How lovely that Thiago can say all those words! And like you I am sure no one else would know that Dominic definitely means book when he says gooyg lol And how sweet that T hums!
And imagining things chocolate cake with marshmallow cream is what I do all the time, AF on the way or not
As for the ballet, did he like it? Was it children or adults dancing?
Claire you poor thing with the migraine! I hope you feel 100% better today. Hopefully also Lucy's fevers have disappeared?
I am so sorry but I cannot meet you
Usually the boys nap till about 11 in the morning and then have their lunch at 11:30. But even if it was not that, my parents are coming to London on Tuesday for a Do on Wednesday evening. And my flat looks like I never heard of the concept "tidy". I can absolutely let no one see this - except OH who is responsible for more than 50% of this mess. And I cannot tidy in advance ever with OH around but need to do it the day before or it will be messy again the next day I hate tidying when I don't know where to put everything, it makes me want to cry! lolI hope your appointment goes ok and maybe the next time you are in the area we can set up a meeting?
Sabrina any news at all when you can expect your neighbour to be evicted finally? I really hope they hate the Sex Pistols! Imagine if they liked it and bopped to it in rhythm lol!
Clio I think you made a mistake there somewhere in your conversion. lol If your house has a square footage of 1300, you in fact have 120.7 square metres which is almost double to what we have. Btw is that counting in the basement and upper floor? Oh how I would love to have a basement! We probably need to move out of our area too if we want something bigger but the thought it horrible to me. There is an exceptionally beautiful park right outside my house with the most gorgeous walk under ancient trees along the river and an absolutely great play area for kids of all ages. And then there is the lovely Bishops Palace in that park too which is where the Bishops of London used to live but which is now open to the public and has the most beautiful walled garden and greenhouses. The drawing room of the palace faces out on to the lawn and it has been transformed into a lovely café (the drawing room, not the lawn) and you can have lunch there or outside on the terrace. It is just so idyllic
But you didn't make me feel bad about your larger house or your ability to let J have more freedom. I just always question whether I am doing an ok job by my boys or not but that is just natural to me as I am a natural worrier and have not that much self assurance in some things.
I had to look up where Edmonton is in relation to Toronto and wow I didn't realise you moved so far away! That seems not even a little close. I bet you miss it though?
I am so glad the pot is making things so much easier for you with the joint! As for your doctor, I would not go to her any more. Can you sign up with another practice or are you bound to her cause of the area you live in? We have something like that over here.
As for teaching in the winter term, are you hoping they will need you or not? I would like to cross my fingers for you but for the correct outcome
Thank you for your compliments about my boys.
It is so weird but I never think of them as "my twins". I always think of them just as "my boys" and when I read about "the twins" it's like oh yeah that would be mine lol. Odd huh? Their bedtime routine goes like this: We both take them into their nursery which would be already prepared with the curtains drawn, the white noise on but only softly and the lights dimmed a bit. I first change Dominic's nappy and put his sleeping onsie on, while OH sits on the nursery bed (where I used to sleep when the boys were tiny) and takes off Sebastian's clothes and puts him in his sleeping onesie. I then put Dominic next to OH on the nursery bed and he puts him in his sleeping bag while I change Sebastian's nappy. Then when Sebastian is in his sleeping bag we turn down the lights and up the white noise and they get their bed time bottle. Very often Dominic drops off as the bottle is finished. But we usually cuddle with them a tiny bit first and then put them to bed. When I was alone the other night, I just had to "store" one boy in the cot while I changed and got the other ready and vice versa and then I put them on the nursery bed as usual but let them hold their own bottles. And when they were done I put one after the other in to their cots. One has to just be quick enough so that they cannot make good their escape and crawl off the bed. But they were too tired and too full of milk to move all that much lol.
As for J not napping in his BBB unless it is turned to the wall, that doesn't surprise me. My boys are obviously not as mobile as yours but they wouldn't nap either if there was the exciting prospect of wrecking their room instead lol. Glad you found a solution though and I hope it isn't too difficult for you to turn the bed around.
As for your worries about the gender thing. Hm. I am not so informed on that subject but while I think I am very liberal towards what men and women should be left to do, if they so choose, I don't actually see anything bad in a boy being shown construction site pictures. Ok, so it is traditionally a typically male place cause so few women work in such an environment but are you equally refusing to expose him to traditionally extremely female stereotypical stuff such as the ballet? Are you really sticking rigorously to gender neutral things? And had you a daughter, would you refuse to expose her to dollies and the colour pink? I am not trying to talk you out of your views but I am very interested. Like Borboleta, while I wouldn't buy my boys a doll, I would have no problem if they played with one at someone's else's home. I would totally let them wear a pink shirt or shorts but only if it wasn't of a female cut. My brother (a huge hulking manly man at 6'5) wears pink dress shirts with his suits and also has pink polo shirts and shorts too (though not worn at the same time). Nothing female about them but they aren't gender neutral either. But back to the gender specific toys, I think I probably have more of a problem with children having toy guns (Both my brother and I did btw). I don't like the idea as there is so much violence the world already. But OH pointed out that all the other children will have water guns and things like that. Still, I will draw the line at bb guns and hopefully will not be overborne.
Storm I am so sorry you are suffering so with the MS! I really think you should ask your doctor (or your brother maybe?) if there is anything you can take. I hardly ever threw up but feeling constantly nauseous as I did was a severe hindrance to even such simple things as going out to the supermarket. So having to work while you feel like this plus your throwing up must be hell!
Leeze how lovely to have such a long post from you and may I say it shows that you got some sleep. It sounded much more upbeat! I am so pleased for you! And I agree, once Kia has done it she will do it again! I really hope it will soon become the norm!
Yay for ovulating and trying for a second! And having 2 is amazing and blissful I tell you, though of course I know that twins are a bit different than to have two children of different ages. I hope it works for you soon and you, Kitty and Storm can be bump buddies
As for depriving my boys of social contact, do you perhaps confuse my post with Clio's there?
Kitty talking of bump buddies, any news? I hope our asking doesn't make you more depressed when you still don't know.
As for us: nothing overly exciting except, as I said, my parents are coming to London for 2 nights (not staying with me obviously, phew lol) and I have to go on a mad cleaning spree today. How I hate cleaning and tidying! And OH will have to cook Tuesday evening as the Do they are coming to London for is on Wednesday evening. But this is not all that easy, as my mother doesn't eat meat (but does eat poultry and fish) and my father thinks that all pasta makes you fat (he must eat a lot of pasta then secretly
). So I think OH will make a Coq au Vin with roast potatoes which oddly enough my father will wolf down as if he was starving and cause he thinks they do not make you fat. Sigh. LOL. My father is then leaving again on Thursday but my mum is going to stay on for a few days more Ah yes, also, our oven conked out on Saturday evening, just when OH wanted to shove in the lovely Moussaka he had prepared. So yesterday we went to buy a new one and also a new ceramic hob as our old one was getting on a bit and I think one of the hot plates only ever got luke warm now. Plus dirt was constantly gathering under the knobs. So this new one, though not very expensive, has touch buttons! So swish lol! So anyway we had the Moussaka for dinner yesterday instead and it was so yummy I wanted to throw myself into it! lol I am a greedy piglet!
Hmm there was something I wanted to ask you all but I forgot. So I will post this now and maybe add it later if I can think of it again.
Hope you are all doing well?
ETA: I remembered one of the things I wanted to ask you. Especially you mothers with boys, what do you call your son's private parts? My OH is a bit uptight oddly enough and declared that he is fine with us referring to them as their bits or their little thing. But c'mon I cannot teach my tiny sons to say "My Bits"?! On the other hand I don't like Willy that much either cause I actually had a great uncle by that name
(it isn't as odd in German!). I thought maybe peepee though OH seems to not like that? And I have no idea what girl bits could be called. But I know that toddlers are embarrassingly loud about things like that and I think I should have adequate words ready that won't be too twee either. Any ideas? 
for sttn!!! Isnt it amazing!! Kia you better keep this up girl so your mommy can give you a little brother or sister soon 
!!! Glitter and boys do not match either 
he doesn't know too many body parts: nose, hands and penis!
the best thing to do in those situations is to 'count the screws on the wall' - hope I am not creating some OCD tendencies there 
!!! And baby proofing!!! Oh that is fun isn't it!!!
. And by the way superman is gorgeous!!!! Eye candy for sure!!! 
I left L to nursery and came back to bed, I'm still not up.. really struggling with liquids, they make me feel so ill and I usually vomit. The only thing I can drink is real coke! Full of sugar and far from ideal, I'm only having a large glass or 2 and now watering it down too, I never drink full sugar coke!
