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Aaaaaarrrrrrfggghhhhbuecibiusdcbihsdbciub throws self on floor like a tantruming toddler.

I've not got anything to tantrum about though :)

Neither do most toddlers!

Just imagine you asked for a cutted up pear and got a cutted up pear, that's reason enough for anyone!

Congratulations to E on her first tooth! I'm so looking forward to seeing all these stages of development in my own child. It must be wonderful.

Glad the first WIIT meeting went well.

Oh well her second one is just coming through now, it's broke the surface in one very tiny bit, so I expect to see more of it in the next few days :)

Oh it's nice to have a few of us online at the same time. Have we all had a lovely day?

Yeah, we'll we're away at the moment. So chilled out for a bit before going for a walk to a local pub for a drink. Just half for me though :)

E is letting go more and more now, I think it's changed from her being shocked and realising that she's let go, to actually letting go on purpose now.:) eek.

How has your day been?

Lovely morning looking at houses with DH and my mum and dad. Then went out for lunch with them. Think we're going to make an offer on the one with all the stairs. My mum thinks it will be fine.

Ooh, good luck with the offer. Are the stairs putting you off for future LOs? I know a friend who don't have a stair gate with 3 kids, apparently she taught them how to get down the stairs as soon as they could climb them.

I'm currently trying to teach LO to turn around on the settee and get down safely as opposed to trying to launch off the side!

My mum thinks a few stairs here and there are better than one long steep flight as a DC would only ever fall down four or five steps. They have no fear at that age do they?! My friend's LO was a climber, she would get up on top of the stereo and all sorts before she could hardly walk!

Goodness, it's quiet in here!

Harpie - I agree that a few stairs is better than a long flight! We have one very steep flight of stairs & my heart is in my mouth everytime DD walks down it! At my mums house the stairs are split into smaller flights and it's loads better!

No news here, well, nothing new anyway! :o

Hope all the WIITs are ok? Guess you have all been enjoying the sunshine!! :o

My mum seems to think its great we live in an apartment because 'we were so worried with sis's house and all her stairs' when my nieces were little. The thing is E will have little experience of stairs, so when we go somewhere with stairs she won't have had the learning experience on them, so I am a bit because I'd like her to learn, but I obviously think its great that I don't have to worry at the moment. Does that make sense?

Aw bebe, I was hoping your DH would have MURCOMed by now!

Holiday is just fabulous :) although me and OH had a dodgy tum yesterday, think it was something we ate as we both felt 'well' other than belly ache and a need for the loo a lot! Usually with a bug you feel rubbish too. But we'll never know.

E had her first proper with blood injury today :( she was playing/standing with a chair, it toppled, she fell backwards, it landed on top of her and bumped her, she ended up with a nose bleed :( poor thing. She took a bit of time to settle, but she seemed ok after a while. I'm not sure if she toppled before the chair and it came down because she was holding it or if the chair toppled first, happened so fast really. I'm sure it won't be the last blood injury :(

Oh dear I guess we have been a little lax over the past few days - I can't believe I've gone this long without posting! I'm on CD9 today, so still waiting to TTC. But typical ditherer that I am I'm getting the jitters! Hopefully when I get a bit closer to OV my hormones will kick in and I won't chicken out.

Sorry to hear E had a spill 100years but glad she's ok!

Oh no 100 :( Poor you! Hope you are feeling better now?

Harpie - stop dithering woman!!

Quick question for you all coz I'm too chicken to post in AIBU!! :o

Is it rude to ask people to come out for a posh Birthday meal but ask that they pay for themselves?

DH & I disagree with my mum!!

Bebe I would say yes it is a bit. But what do I Know? If it were me and I wanted a posh meal then would have just OH and I there with a secondary do somewhere we could afford to pay for everyone (if it were family perhaps) or where people could come and pay for themselves without breaking the bank (if it was for a wider circle of friends).

The problem is that I live 120+miles away from all my closest friends, so party is out really. There would be about 12 of us in total. It's really tricky.

Silly sausage harpie, it's always weird that first TTC bit, but it's fine to have the jitters, but at the end of the day you know what you want in the end, I'm sure that will get you over your jitters.

Bebe, not unreasonable to get people to pay themselves, I think it's how you word the invite. I wouldn't ever expect to have my meal paid for, unless I was invited to a party, and even then I'd probably take money just in case. Does that makes sense. btw what does your mum say?

Edith is fine today. She has a bruise on her nose, but then she's also banged her head twice heavily today, so I'm not sure whether it was from that or one of today's bangs. I sound like a terrible mother, we were visiting friends, one of whom is a GP and the other one an ex paediatric nurse, its just that accidents happen, and Edith is a bouncy child, which is how she bumped today, bouncing up and down near a table/on the back of a settee!

But our tummies are back to normal now :) yay

Oh and she's just climbed a stair in our holiday cottage!

Cross posts and two differences of opinions! :) but then that's what happens. :)

Sorry to hear Edith hurt herself 100 :(

LWH you are allowed to feel jittery! It is the biggest decision you (or anyone) will make IMO. But you will be glad you did it! Countdown to first, officially sanctioned SWI with subsequent POAS cliff-hanger begins!!! Quod can you contact the circus Elephants' Agent? They may have a bit more work :)

I don't think it's unreasonable as long as you make it clear that's what you are proposing, so people understand what they're letting themselves in for. They don't have to come, they can say um we have other plans. Probably a good idea not to just assume you'll all split the bill, if some people have less cash than others. Take loads of change!

DH & I say the same as you 100. I honestly cannot remember the last group meal out where we didn't pay for ourselves, like you I only wouldn't expect to pay if it's a party!

My mum says you can't ask people to come for a meal and NOT pay for them!

The people I want to invite are family and close FAMILY friends and my best friend. Mostly they are all my mums age, but they are people mean alot to us/me!

(this is for MY birthday btw...which isn't til November, just trying to plot and plan...I will be 30!)

Strawberry xposted. Thanks for the reassurance. I keep worrying about work and how they will react, given that I'm not really home and dry there yet. I don't know when to actually DTD either, I will need to ration it as DH will not be up for on demand baby making! I'm hoping my Persona monitor will pinpoint OV so I don't have to!

God I remember 30... Sort of!

Cross posts!

Restaurant is quite expensive. I'd estimate about £40-50/head not including wine/drinks. My mum is now talking bout footing the bill tis a tricky one.

100- my P is a 'bumpy' sort of child, she is covered in bruises. I am of the opinion that you need to let kids fall and hurt themselves (within reason obviously) so that they can learn not to and also not to be hysterical every time they have a minor bump! A teacher friend told me that when Ps reception teacher comes to the house for a preliminary visit she will click whether P has any bumps so she knows if she's wrapped in cotton wool or not!!
Glad E is ok though, you are a fabby mummy!

Following on from what 100 said- if you are sending invitations then I would class that as a party even if it's not at your house and might be a bit surprised to have to pay. If it's more of an informal "we are going to x, would love it if you could join us" type of thing then it would be fine I think.