A Giraffe and a Gruffalo went to the Cosmos to see the Starshine, but which WagonBaby will be first?

[Astarte]

It's like an 'in joke'

Births:
Kay - 12th December - 6:49pm - Dylan George - 10lbs 5ozs
Teuch- - - boy
Pop - 23rd December - twin boys, Hugo & Henry
Nat - 27th December - 8:36pm - Mikey Bradley - 6lb 10.5oz
Gin - 16th Jan- Girl - 7.25am- details tbc
Tink- 19th Jan - Girl - 1.51pm - Bracken Hope Willow - 8lbs 7oz
Astarte - 16th Feb - Girl - 8lb 12oz
Glask - 20th Feb - Girl - 7.47pm - Ruby Marie 4lb (8wks prem)
LardyBump - 21st Feb- Boy - 8lb 12oz
HappyNappies- 27th Feb- Boy - 12.01am 9lb13

Scan list:
Kooky - fetal heart echo + detailed scan @ 16 weeks - 18th March
LBOT - 22 week scan - 23 March
idreamofbeanie - 12 week scan - 23 March
STT - 12 week scan - 31st March
LaTour - 12 week scan - 31st March!

Weeks list:
Playing - ?????
GYo - 39 weeks, 1wk left. Surprise (17 Mar)
Star - 38 weeks, 2 weeks left. Surprise (22 Mar)
Cosmo - 38 weeks, 2 weeks left. Girl.(31st Mar)
Gruff - 35 weeks, 5 weeks left. Girl. (16th Apr)
Ses -32 weeks, 8 left. Surprise (10 May)
MINM- 30 weeks, 10 to go Surprise(19th May)
Diege - 26 weeks, 14 left to go. Boy!!!!(21st June)
LBOT - 20 weeks, 20 left to go (24th July)
KookyKid - 15 weeks, 25 weeks to go (2nd Sept) BOY!
Idreamofbeanie - 11 weeks (due 1st Oct)
LaTourEiffel - 10 weeks (due 8th Oct)
Sparklytwinkletoes - 10 weeks 12th Oct
BB - 5-6 weeks (due 31st oct)

Girls = 2
Boys= 4
Surprise = 4
Unknowns (yet) = 4

MW apps list:
LBOT - 21+6 weeks - Thu 19 March
Gruff - 36 weeks - Friday 20th March
GYo @ 40+4 weeks- Fri 20th March- S&S
Ses - @33wks - Tues 24th March
Cosmo - @ 40 wks - around 28th March
MINM- - 33 weeks- 31st March
DIEGE = 28 wk midwife/consultant/anti-d - 2nd April.
Mat leave countdown:
Playing - on Mat leave!!!!
GYo - on Mat leave!!!!!
Star - on Mat Leave!!!!
Cosmo - on Mat Leave!!!!
Gruff - on Mat Leave!!!!
Ses - last day 3rd April (35 weeks) 21 days, but only 15 days actually at work
STT - Somewhere around 120 working days
Diege - last day 29th April.

See that's what I was going for with Tabby, but apparently Tabitha is getting rather popular now

MOOS It was going to be either Tabitha or Matilda if this one had been a girl...(Tabby/Tilda).Up here names like Lily, Daisy, Poppy etc are considered 'cutting edge' - not one Tabitha I know of!
Really stuck on boys names - am 'ok' with either the proposed 'Benjamin' (yawn) or Louie (ok). Really want Felix or Theo but dh is firm on this (and I did choose the dds - he's still getting over 'Scarlett' as he has an irrational fear of it being shortened to 'Scar' ).

Theo is fab. If Dd2 had been a boy, I'd have had Gabriel Beau.

Mine have odd names too.

MinM the baby names threads are vicious. I love that name, it is beautiful. Where did your Dh get that from?

I have a cousin called Tabitha, she's the only one I've heard of. I'm not sure it is very popular, not round here anyway.

I like 'tilda too.

Boys names are harder I agree.

Moos I've just kicked arse on bejewelled!!

Love Gabriel SORKY . Have about as much chance of getting that one past dh as getting him to get the snip unfortunately...

OH and just noticed now while getting dressed that I have my first stretch marks , just below belly button.Lots of them - angry red. Serves me right for feeling all smug for getting through 3 pregnancies unscathed.

, hope they don't get worse. How many weeks left now Diege?

Thanks for all the welcomes. This is a busy thread so apologies to everyone if I don't keep up with you all. ds (4 on 3 Mar) has been driving me crazy all day as he's going to a birthday party at 1430 but has been asking to go since he got up this morning.Have caved in to feeling really tired & plonked him in front of Ben 10 for a few minutes peace.

Hi Claire! Ben 10 sounds perfectly reasonable...we tend to have cbeebies on constantly on 'bad' days, often wathcing same episode come round again, and soemtimes even for a third time .
SORKY, 29 weeks today - a lifetime to go . Think the stretch marks must have come (or appeared obvious) when baby turned from transverse to head down this week as tummy a different shape now. I really feel same as I did at 39 weeks with dd3. Have applied copious amount of elemis pregnancy oil, but too little too late (if it works at all). I know it's shallow, but do feel a but glum about them. Never mind, another jammy wagon wheel I think...

'but(t) glum' - obvious freudian slip there

no moon sand is messy we give dd1 a big tray to play on .we r off to a farm

Our Tabby is actually a Tabetha as I liked the fact that if she really hated Tabby/Tabs etc she could call herself Beth

Sorky- he has been really slack on girls names, because he really wants a boy. Then the other night he said it to me as he knew a girl with the same name different spelling.
Now i think he would be gutted if the babe was a boy as he really wants to use the name. Men!!!!

Boys names are harder i agree, loads i love, all seem to be bible based.(i'm not religious in the slightest) But DH has vetoed most of them. Thought we had choosen now not so sure, the more you say a name the more you love it or hate it!

Diege sorry for the stretch marks. Unfortunately i had them with DD1, none extra with DD2 but now with DC3 i am just starting to see more above my belly button, mine are purple! They do fade, well actually with DD1 mine came as sliver, i believe it was all the sun it was getting to my bump, no luck of that now. Bio oil is good, and cocoa butter or some swear by olive oil?
Love all your daughters names, what are there middle names? Thats what we are stuck on now would really like something family based but so difficult have already used all the nice ones!

Hi again Claire (waves) Do you just have the 1 DC so far? Ben 10 sounds like a good idea, we currently have nick jr on whilst i get preps for dinner ready.

Enjoy the farm tinks.

MIM, know what you mean about middle names. Spent far too long obsessing about them, and tbh are rarely menioned/seen (only on med appointments etc). The length of the syllables was important to me (ie, either shorter or longer than first name) so we have Jasmine May, Scarlett Hope, and Liberty Thea. We will be having 'Llewellyn' for middle name (family name - I'm Welsh)this time I think. Do you have any ideas at the moment?
Have heard good things about bio-oil, though if olive oil does the job I'll slap that on instead I know I've been lucky to avoid up to now - did you manage to escape them SORKY?
Good ideas MOOS about spelling with 'e' to give you the Beth option. Think most dds would see Tabby as a really funky option though!
TINKS, wait until dd2 is older and they're both at it - no tray will be big enough to contain that damn sand . Enjoy the farm!

I did fortunately Diege, but I think I've been given oily skin by my mum, she doesn't have any either and neither does my sister.
Dh reckons if I didn't get them with Ds1 (I was absolutely huge with him) then I was never going to
In fact, she's 60 this year and still has no cellulite!

Diege have you sorted out your car yet? Will it hold all 6 of you?

Lucky you SORKY!!! Re: car, no not sorted yet, and becoming a bit of an 'issue' as we car share and only really use the car every 4 weeks or so. It's actually 'ours', so have the deciding vote on when to sell/upgrade etc, but have been thinking about the option where you put an extra (fixed) car seat in 'boot' area. A childminder at school does this (totally legal I might add!) but can't seem to find any info about it. For the rare times we use the car, we were thinking it might be an option?

Diege, I love Liberty. It is beautiful!!!

MIM, I was on your thread and I was at school with 2 Amarae's. One spelt Amaray and another spelt the way you are spelling it.

I have awful stretch marks as I never remembered to moisturise but bio oil is fab and has pretty much got rid of them since.

Would you buy a house opposite your MIL if you got on okay?

One has come up for sale and we are tempted. Have a fair bit still to do to ours though to get it saleable
Dh (staunchly against moving) has agreed to view it.

I wouldn't want to live opposite DH's parents, but we are going to be living next door (but a couple hundred yards down the road) to my parents and DH is fine with that. Depends how well you get on I suppose, and are they likely to live there forever too?

Ahem, if I got on with her yes (thinking of babysitting possibilities etc)so yes, if she's fab go for it!
Think I will def get the bio-oil then KAYZ - glad you like my dd3's name - family tend to shorten to 'Libby' but I try to stick to full name.
Off now to pizza hut ; should be ok, and dds love it!

Afternoon!

Think I might have overdone things this afternoon - my bum cheeks really ache and I'm struggling to walk
I don't really think I've done that much: stripped the spare bed, cleaned toilets and sinks upstairs and downstairs, 2 loads of washing, sorted out some babygros that someone's lent me. I still want to do some ironing and vacuum downstairs!

Sorky - I think I'd only be happy living so close to inlaws if I got on really well with them and they wouldn't keep turning up unannounced.

MINM - hello!! You may tease about my rise up the list, but you're only just behind me! I've not heard of Amarae either but I like it v much!

Moos - I also love the Tabetha spelling. Never come across it but I love Beth. Won't ever use it though as DH's irish accent pronounces it "Bet"!

Diege - love your DD's names too! Enjoy pizza hut! I've succumbed to just a few small stretch marks on the sides of each hip but also have stretch marked boobs If that's in exchange for being able to bf, I won't mind...!

I've got my cousin coming over in about half an hour. We get on really well although she's 10yrs younger than me. I'm going to ask her to be "on call" for when DH is working away over the next few weeks (which isn't often, but sod's law and all that...!) I know she's the sort of person that would help me stay calm and be really supportive. I've a funny feeling though that my Mum thinks she's going to be "on call". I can't think of anything worse!!

Then this evening we're going to the pub with her, our dogs, my parents and my older brother and his wife. DB and SIL are down from their home in the Lake District. Should be a good evening

Hi all, sorry I've been rubbish at keeping up this week - I've had a hectic few days.

Ses - sounds like you have def overdone it and deserve a relaxing Sunday afternoon. You ladies all seem to do more on ML than I manage usually, isn't it meant to be time to chill out or do I just like the idea of a holiday ?

Sorky - there's no way I would live any closer to my in-laws than I do now but MIL is very difficult. If you get on, and they won't spend too much time at your, I'd say go for it (I'm not even a parent yet but I'm already thinking about how great it is to have handy babysitters )

MINM - I've never heard of Amarae but it's lovely and doesn't sound very 'out there' IYKWIM.

Moos - I'm so impressed with all your organisation, I hope it's all wasted though when ms never shows up!

Diege - I already have stretch marks from filling out during my teenage years so I'm not holding out much hope for avoiding them now . I'm still slathering myself in cocoa butter just in case though.

Claire - Hi and congratulations.

DP and I have just started suggesting names but I can already see it won't be easy. DP loves names that are very unusual and can't be shortened but I like more traditional names that can be shortened (I think it means they can alter their name slightly if they don't like the full version). Luckily DP does like a couple of my suggestions for a girl but we haven't come across any boys names we both like. Plenty time to go though, I'm sure we'll find something.

I have my 16 week appt this week so I am hoping to hear the beans heartbeat . Then we are off to Cornwall for 10 days camping on Thursday - keep your fingers crossed for us we get some sunshine please!

hi

moonsand goes on a tray and dd sits @the table with tray on the table then have plastic sheet under the chair. once she has finished playing sweep it off chair and table and put back into tubs. i have bought green and blue one has a dragon mould and one
with a wizard

gr8 names people

just got back from farm had a great time.
dd1 has been declining since has a runny nose and cant breath was barley keeping her eyes open. is in bed

which pram:-

www.elc.co.uk/toy/my-first-pram/

www.toysrus.co.uk/Toys-R-Us/Toys/Dolls/Baby-Dolls-and-Accessories/Silver-Cross-Ranger-Junior-Pram-Pi stachio(0031180)