oh phew, so it is not only my child that is still wearing the Os! we have had 2 summers worth of clothing for DD now...
H: we had MEGA issues in italy with the ILs. i cannot offer any real advice (my attempts to stop them resulted in apples being thrown in village streets...). Leila was given chocolates, fanta, coffee ( )..you name it, she got it. chupa chups are now really hard to avoid at shops...
Hahaha oh no Clare, at least your in laws are in Italy! Italians just love spoiling children with all things naughty dont they, at least this is what I have noticed from DH's side of the family. Its nice but too much iykwim.
Trill - Wow I am buying M everything in size 2, or sometimes even size 3 to get more wear lol. A & M sound like chalk and cheese.
Renee - I know what you mean!!!!!
I dont know girls what to do with the inlaws offering M so much crap. I have asked numerous times, nicely, to just give her one chocolate instead of 5. I have tried to relax about it a bit, a few little treats are ok but they seem to abuse it. DH's mum has terrible eating habits and unfortunately pushes those habits onto M. For example a couple of wks ago we were at a family gathering and dessert was being served, MIL said she would get some for M, excellent, but came back with a slab of each cake, excessive for a 2 yr old!!!! Even DH and everyone around commented, much to MIL's embarrassment. It just makes you wonder whats going through her head?? M isnt a small girl either, she is a little chubba, which I know doesnt necessarily mean anything at this age, but with obesity running in the family I want to give her the best start iykwim. Not to mention how it affects her behaviour. While I'm at it, when M spent her time with them when we were in Bali, she came back with yellow bottom teeth. After about a week of thorough brushing from DH and I it was removed. But still, I shudder to think what she was eating while with them. Its terrible because it means I dont feel comfortable sending her for sleepovers etc, I dont want it to be like that. Sorry for the huge vent!!!
Which reminds me, I am making M her first dental appt today. Anyone else been yet?
HI everyone
MM - geez I wouldnt be happy with that (the teeth) - it is hard with the ILs... I mean hard ot get the balance b/n letting them have some freedom with their grandkids and setting boundaries/limits. I am lucky that both my ILs and mum is v health conscious so i dont need to worry about the boys being fed junk there - i am prob more naughty than them (and I am pretty sedate on the food front). Sounds like Clare has some good tactics for dealing with it though!
Wow - cant blieve that some of them are in size 0 - makes me feel better about N, i was worried as lots of size 2 things are very big around his waist... wont worry now
Supa and Renee great to see you both!
Renee - i dont know anything about Maybe Baby - hopew it happens soon for you. I found acupuncture and chinese med worked well for me...
Supa - hope all is going well. where oseas did you go?
well - the big news here is that we are moving to melbourne early next year!!!!! so i have been planning all of that.. creches, houses etc etc etc. it is still quiet with our friends and fam there so i will prob be going on about it in here LOL!
Taking N to have his 18 month vaccs tomorrow. yes the 18 month ones... bad mummy!
YAY MP!!!! this is exciting news! now we can catch up for coffee and muffins!!
MM: the apple and village scene took place on a hot summer day surrounded by glorious laden olive trees and a gentle tuscan breeze...
then it went to crap.
Leila dropped the apple she was eating, instinctively i reached to pick it up and wandered over to a (albeit 15th Century) tap to rinse it off. I then handed it back to her and looked up to see the horrified faces of my BIL and some random Nonna in her mumu...about half a second later i was met with a tirade of how disgusting it was that i gave the apple back yada yada yada. this went on unabated for, oh, say, 10 minutes. i just stood there, feeling the heat of rays sun intensify my quickening rise to fury as they 'instructed' me, the unwise Australian girl, on the ways of the world etc. Mystery Nonna stormed off, BIL didnt let up...other neighbours tuned in. I'm still standing there. DD is still eating her 'poisonous' apple (and yes, the Adam/Eve and snowwhite thing did cross my mind LOL!). Mystery Nonna returns with a bag of apples that she just picked from her (now suddenly) stinking ugly apple tree. BIL reaches over and tosses the apple away from DD...it was roughly at the moment that he reached towards her that i *kinda* lost it. The bag of apples was hurled amongst a flurry of english and italian obscenitites (wasnt my finest moment lol) and ended up over the mountain side while i took DD and stormed (still screaming obscenities) up the mountain road in front of the entire village back home...
the neighbours avoided me after that.
the BIL didnt, and ended up with peanut butter being hurled at his face a few days later.
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)..you name it, she got it. chupa chups are now really hard to avoid at shops...
this is exciting news! now we can catch up for coffee and muffins!!
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