November 09 - Autumnal times are drawing near, soon our babes will be one year!

[MsInterpret]

Hello ladies, hope no one minds me taking the liberty of creating a new thread and approves of the name choice. We've been moving a bit slower than antenatal so though we'd most certainly have some year-olds by the time we finished this one!

DWB Woweee! Congratulations!!! How wonderful. I'm very happy for you.

Juicy good score on the CTC.

Fruit meant to say what a week for you! I'm glad you had the good news all round in the end.

SirB Hope you're OK.

Scarlotti glad to hear things are finally moving. Hope tonight goes well.

It's not stopped raining all day here. Even Lucy is not in a mood for much, she's been asleep for the last two hours. I think I can count her 2 hour naps on the fingers of one hand.

DWB

Nausea and baby? Rather you than me, but so excited for you!

Did a digital test today but it just put me at the maximum timescale since conception which is over five weeks pregnant, they can't tell you anything more. Saw the doc today to get the ball rolling and they're going to try to arrange a dating scan asap. At the very least I'm 5 weeks which puts my due date around 3rd June, but I expect it'll be May.

It feels so different second time around. Not the highs of the first pregnancy. Almost feel like I'm betraying my baby by having another!

DWB Gosh, congratulations to you all! Am stunned at the news tbh but only as I'd not welcome the same news here!! A lot of my NCT friends have about 18-20 months between their dc's and it's a lovely gap, if a bit hard work for the first year or so. Certainly now they're all 3 and 5 it's marvellous, and has been for a good year or more.
The other bonus is that they will likely be in sequential school years - lovely for them at school and much easier on logistics for you!!

I'd go down the ab's route for your hen do, and will echo everyone else about the wedding. I was too occupied to drink at mine, I remember sitting down at 10pm with a g&t and stating that now I would relax and get drunk!!

Had my pub quiz on Thursday evening, it went really well Everyone enjoyed themselves and I raised around £550. However when I counted the money last night, it appears that someone has pinched £195 I can only think that someone opportunistic saw the money bag on the side and grabbed a load. Am gutted. Phoned the police and they barely believed me, kept asking if I'd counted it properly etc. and was I sure I'd actually made that much. Only faint hope is that the pub has cctv which was on and recording. Police have said that if there's something on there then they will investigate, but the case is closed until then. They have to see someone with their hand actually in the bag to be able to do anything.
Am gutted and now feel so stupid. I had the money in a zipped bag, bit like a make-up bag and most of the evening it was on the side of the bar by my laptop. I was wandering around asking questions as there was no mike, so someone coming up to get a drink might have had a chance to take some. I know feel like I should have known better and been more careful. The police man who took my details made me feel stupid too, as if I was lying.
What has the world come to when someone steals money from a CHARITY event?!!

Scarloti That's terrible I'm glad the event went well but what a sad end to the night. I hope the cctv comes up with something.

Thanks Fruit it has soured the evening a little, but I will know for next time that's for sure.

Thanks Scarlotti. I think the hard work of having two in nappies and probably two in a pram is starting to dawn on me. Ah well... At least there won't be long between the baby arriving and the summer holidays, which begin at the start of July here, so my other half will have seven weeks off & I'll have a helping hand over the difficult early stages.

That's a horrible thing to happen when you're raising money for charity. Especially when you had raised such a lot of money. Hope the bar can find the culprit! When is the trek again - next year?

I'm off to the hairdressers then having another makeup trial (hated the last one) before my hen night tonight. Looking forward to a nice meal. Hopefully it won't be too obvious that I'm sober!

On the plus side though DWB you now get to buy a lovely Phil & Ted's (if you want obbviously!!) You'll be fine I'm sure.

Trek is next March so I have time to do more events. Work will match what I raise too, so at least that will help get the total up.

Enjoy your hen night

Wonderfully exciting news for you dwb. Congratulations!

Not betraying your baby at all, a sibling is the best gift EVER! (Most of the time!)

I think I'm rather envious, probably because I don't think I'll be pg again and, for all its horrors, it is a lovely thing to be!!

H got her first pair of proper shoes yesterday- red t bars, very sweet. She seemed very chuffed with them and went charging around giggling all over the shop.

I hate working for a living sometimes, this is the second weekend I've been sat alone in front of the computer rather than out with dh and dcs. This time it's to prepare whole school training which I am really nervous about, so no wonder I'm on here procrastinating and using classic work avoidance strategies! Really resent work taking over my life- it's fine when you are young and free but now I know work doesn't lead to happiness (or even enough money to buy Start Rite shoes for the dcs!)

Scarlotti what an awful thing for someone to do, I hope you can get to the bottom of it. On a brighter note, what a successful evening- you must be really proud.

Oh yes have namechanged again. msyikes was getting a bit feisty and outspoken (due to being in a neverending grump from working so hard) so I put her back in her box for a while!

Oh yes was it Brood whose little one was poorly last week? Do we know what the outcome was?

DWB, I can totally understand your feelings about having two. When I thought I might be pregnant (before finally getting my first period), I thought as well that it would be really unfair for Paula. But I agree with thewook, having a sibling is the greatest gift. And as one of my friends (who fell pregnant again really quickly) said: There is no time to realise the pregnancy symptoms because you are constantly busy. I think you will be just busy and not worrying too much whilst the new baby is growing quietly inside you.
Oh, and have a lovely hen do!

scarlotti, that's really sad. I hope you can find out who took the money. You wouldn't think that would happen on a charity event.
My sister and I once had a party at our flat, so only friends and friends of friends and in the next morning her wallet was empty!

scarlotti thats horrible , i hope there is something on cctv so the cops can do something.

DWB i had the same fears throughout my pregnancy with bear cub. I went from excitement to guilt very often, and would look at DD and wonder if we were doing the right thing. And now, absolutely it was the right thing. I worried right up to going into hospital and DD going to a friends while i was in labour, I worried that this was the last time I would be spending time with us as a three, with her as our first and only attention, and it was the last time I fretted like that! once I was in full labour, it all went out the window and I was a bit busy, then the next time i saw DD there were 4 of us in our family and it felt so right, and has felt right ever since. And they love each other so much, and there is enough love for both children, they have their own 'love bubble' which grows with them full of it!

Bear cub bit me, hard in the nipple. OUCH! he has nipped me a few times, and been removed and told 'no' sternly, to which he just grins at me, but this time, he bit AND pulled! He is also nipping me to let me know when he is hungry/when he has waited too long for food, and has left the odd little teeth dent in my arm! He looks so pleased with himself when he has done it!

He has more fears that DD had. They are starting to show a little, he is a bit nervous of the shower (although possibly due to recent trauma still lingering?) and is afraid of noises such as the drill, cars backfiring, motorbike engines, the hair dryer and the hoover. He jumps up and yelps and look terrified, clings to me like a limpet! DD was never afraid of any kind of noise like that, and its a bit to see him so upset! However, he loves orange and lemon muffin, as i found out today at Costa coffee! . He also loves feeding himself and is now refusing a spoon unless he does it himself, which is a bit messy! we thought it was his teeth as he was getting very upset when we tried to feed him, even though he had food to feed himself, and soon realised, he does not want any help! a typical 'pavlov'

Aaaaaarrrghhhh I was supposed to go out tonight with a friend but she's fallen ill :( It was going to be my first time out since M was born! Friend bought tickets to the Arcade Fire concert, which I can still use but I'd have to find a babysitter (and take DH) or a friend to come with and I can't come up with either! sob

oo I found someone!

Hope you had fun longway! I'd love to see Arcade Fire.

Been busy busy busy here so not had much time to post but have been lurking and of course couldn't help posting at DWB's amazing news!

scarlotti well done for raising so much dosh but so sorry to hear about the money going missing I know a bit how you feel as I was at a 30th birthday a few years back, private party in a bar, only friends (and friends of friends I guess) and my wallet was stolen.

wook, hope you waded through some of the work yesterday? I am just about to start my mammoth work task now...as you can see I'm procrastinating already. Have to write four individual learning plans for this termand then my four lessons for tomorrow too. Not good idea to have left til today when RooRoo ill and DH hungover

Better get cracking. Hope you are all snuggled up against the cold and wet weekend with lots of (biscuits, not boobs that is)

DWB don't worry, having a close sibling is lovely. DS1 and DS2 are two years and a bit apart and they get on together so well, they are a little team. I still have special relationships with them individually as well, which I treasure.

Sarlotti

TheWook glad you have your old name back. I'm a bit but I thought you had gone awol, hadn't realised you were msyikes (can't keep up with the name changes)

Haha Ninjacat I feel much more me as Wook, msyikes was overly strident and was starting to enjoy being rude on AIBU a little too much!

MissI I was working quite well before spying that ASOS have 50% off at the moment. So an hour of window shopping later and I am still not 100% sure of how to get my 'key messages' across without causing the whole staff death by Powerpoint. It's not even raining here yet so I feel even more about the lost weekend. Losing day off this week too to do catch up reading training, but think I can get H's bday off in lieu (sp?) which would more than make up for it. It's a Tuesday so I will miss it otherwise. Right, going to get on with it now- you?

longwayaway lucky you, arcade fire, I bet they were FAB. Having to content myself with seeing Billy Bragg for the gazillionth time for my musical night out this year, bah!

Pav bear cub sounds v similar to H- she can also be very physical and fierce, but gives sobs and gives huge limpet like cuddles if anyone plugs the hoover in (or as she calls it 'ooooooh VAH!') Aaaah!

Wook, well I got a bit done but then the Roo woke up so it was lunchtime. Nap time again now so MNing working again now... ASOS sale eh? My friend also pointed me in the direction of very.co.uk the other day, quite similar.

at 'oooo-VAH!' We are on the brink of words here I think as she is now saying babbles with beginning, middle AND end sounds (I'm such a primary school teacher, I know) so instead of just bah! we have things like ahb! and grscschhh! DH is convinced he heard 'duck' in the bath t'other night and she definitely said 'woof' when she saw a dog the other day . I am so impatient for her to talk as she's already such a chatterbox of gobledegook, I can't wait til some of it makes sense! Will have to be content with clapping on cue I suppose.

Talk of music reminds me I managed to get tickets to see in a couple of weeks. Can't wait!

Thank heavens Roo said 'duck' in context- I know of a child who baffled everyone by repeatedly saying 'duck' and/or 'quack' when there were no ponds in sight. Turned out said child was in fact swearing like a navvy and not mimicking farmyard sounds at all. And no, fortunately it was NOT ds!!!
(Though fairly early on ds did drop something from his high chair and say 'oh shit' caused a hasty reappraisal of our language Goes to show that those little ears are taking in EVERYTHING)
The only other thing I am certain H says apart from oooh vah is 'that!' usually with a fierce stare in the direction of the thing she wants. 'Dat! Dat!' she squeaks imperiously from her high chair flapping her arms at her cup, my lunch, etc
In the research I was doing today I found out that apparently maternal literacy is the single biggest factor in a child's future literacy skills, more than any other factor even poverty/class. Must be all the talk and the importance of the mother's voice with nursery rhymes etc in the very early ages?

wook interesting about the maternal literacy thing.
Ioan definitely has some words now, he has names for DS1 and DD which sound almost the right thing. He also says brmm when he plays with the cars!!

As for little ears... I remember being in the car and shouting at some woman and calling her a silly cow ... cue DS1 telling dh that we were driving and there was a cow in the road

bear cub said duck! my friends heard it first [grr] they insisted he kept saying it clear as mud and we did not beleive them, then i heard it, but DH still does not beleive! he also says 'eeet eeet eeet' a lot and I am not 100% sure if he is referring to food, but often does it with a bounce, and the bounce often means 'feed me' I am loving ooh vaa, so cute!

Swear words, hmmm. Now. DD has said some embarrassing things . I am ashamed to say that at around 19 months, in the car driving through Queens NY, she sighed, and proclaimed 'fesake' with arms in the air (i am sure you can work out what that was meant to be!) I was and BIL was and DH as normal did not beleive she said it. However, she said it again. And then, after a while she just said 'sake'. I blamed DH almost in entirety, but with a little blame apportioned to BIL as the two of them swear like troopers and we spent a lot of time in the car, getting lost and all sorts of swearing went on. Also, she learnt to say 'clock' at around the time our estate agent was putting our flat on the market, and kept pointing to his arm going 'cock, cock' .

MIL is here, from USA. DD is so so so so excited, she hardly slept the night before she arrived (yesterday) and MIL did not get here til late after driving from Norfolk where she visited other family to Devon, and when she arrived DS was like a wound up toy that had not been allowed to move! And now, she is sat here with me 'i want granny, is she up yet? can i wake her up yet?' MIL is in love with DS. which is surprising as she is not the most maternal lady in the world, but fed him his bottle last night while I read DD stories, and spent most of her time and at how advanced he is since she saw him at 2 weeks!

my dd is sat here insisting that I let her type something. She has just become interested in letters and such and really wants to 'talk to the ladies' using her own blank page please mama!

so. next one is hers. sorry!

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Bless her!