April 2010 - Growing and Changing Every Day

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Starting us a new thread so we don't get cut off.

Thanks Neeko..I do have a bump now, I love it!! :) Although I'm not sure if other people would realise I was pregnant, or just not lost my Jude-Belly!! ;)
I didn't mean to make anyone cry with my birthday post, but when I re-read it back, it made me well up too!
We are all better now, and just back from a few days at Haven in Clacton. It was raelly good, and Makenzi had a great time. She's at an age where she is really starting to get involved, and it was lovely to see her on the dance floor with the other kids, dancing away, and copying all the party dance moves as best as she could. She won Grooviest Dancer, where she got up on stage and danced/jumped/rolled all over the floor in front of every one, and she also won Best Fancy Dress, where she was dressed up as a ballerina. Too cute!! I'll post pics when I get the chance to. Jude pretty much kept to his usual bedtime routine, so slept through all the evening/night time performances and shows, and we were back in our lil caravan by about 9pm most nights, and in bed ourselves by about 9.30 cuz Jude's travelcot had to be in the living room bit and the tv disturbed him...we are such wild party animals these days!!
Glad you're feeling better Stinky..I don't think I could cope with a hospital stay away from the kids, let alone the other way around. x
Harverina I am planning another home birth this time as well. Even though I've already had the one, I still have an underlying thought that there will be a reason I won't get one, exactly how I felt with Jude as well. With my booking appointment, the midwife (not my usual), was very encouraging, and aside from already having a homebirth, could also see why I personally would benefit from not being at hospital (due to me not coping well in 'outside' situations). My new midwife, as my previous midwife has left the surgery, seems really nice, but I'm not sure she actually realised I have 2 other kids, and seemed more concerned that I take parent craft sessions, and book in asap!! It was her first day tho so I'm hoping she was just a lil flustered! I think she thought I was younger than my real age as well..I get that a lot, which is nice, but can also be highly patronising!!
I'm looking forward to feeling this one move around..I keep waking up wondering if today will be the day hehe. In conversation, I told DP that I hadn't felt the baby move yet, and that they say you can feel the baby move as early as 16 weeks in subsequent pregnancies..he looked at me gone out when he asked how far I was and I answered nearly 17 weeks....maybe I am just a lil overenthusiastic!!

Happy Mother's Day everyone!!!! Hope you all have a lovely day :) xx

Hi everyone, hope you all had a lovely mothers day and were spoiled.

its Eilidhs birthday today. Can't believe she is 1 already! My dh is off this week. We went to toddler group this morning and everyone sang happy birthday. it was lovely. We are now on our way to my in laws. Staying tonight as my dh and I are going away tomorrow for the night :)

Eilidh is a total mummys girl just now. She is also very "strange" with people that she knows so thought it was best if we all stayed at her grandmas house tonight to let her settle in. Plus my dh and I will get a long lie haha!

Hope u are all well :)

p.s eilidh is sleeping so well until 7am most mornings I'm starting to feel human again!

misty not sure what to suggest about replacing breastfeeds. We are trying to do the same. I'm back at work in a few weeks. Eilidh can have soya milk and will take little amounts from a sippy cup so I'm hoping this will be enough. I want to keep feeding eilidh morning and night so I'm trying to drop all daytime feeds. My dh says that when I'm not there she doesn't ask for milk. Only prob us that eilidh isn't a huge yogurt fan, she can't have any other dairy (yogurts are soya) so calcium worries me. She dies lice broccoli and green means I suppose...sorry I'm now thinking out loud!

Wow lots of typos sorry!

harverina, you have got me giggling at the thought of a plate of green means .
Happy birthday to Eilidh!
It is Alexander's birthday a week today, I gave the lovely ladies at nursery a fiver this morning so that their lovely cook will make him a birthday cake. She makes the most fabulous cakes and the girls always take a photo of the birthday girl or boy enjoying it :).

Happy Birthday Eilidh!!! :) Jude doesn't like strangers at all. Most of the people he sees are my family, but if he doesn't see them on a regular basis, ie every day, he cies at them, and turns away, burying his face into my shoulder, before taking another peek at them again and crying...again!!
Hope Eilidh has had a lovely day today xx

Boo barely bothers about Mummy.... She had her first day at Nursery today as my Dad is very ill, so Mum can no longer have her. All very rushed, only arranged on Monday, Nursery have been so good - DD1 has been there 3 years, so they know us well. Anyway Boo was there for 2 hours before she realized she was actually in a new environment, and did not know anyone, so got a bit upset - no tears though. She had waved me off, and I had been upstairs doing paperwork and chatting - she had snack too. She was the most laid back baby ever, and I was the most laid back mummy apparently.

She is 1 on 21st, and is getting Christened on Easter Sunday, so that will be a big weekend.

Today I learned about a job opportunity that has blown my mind - a move to an Island with a population of 29, and I would be the only nursie with 24/7 responsibility. DH is happy to be a house husband, and DD1 likes the idea as much as a 4 year old can. It would be a dream come true, but could be a nightmare. The Island is off Shetland, and referred to as 'the end of the earth'. I will apply, and think of the details if offered the post!

Stinky hope your Dad is ok and that you are too. Good that you managed to get a nursery place quickly. Childcare can be a nightmare. Well done Boo for being so chilled out! Eilidh has been left with our childminder once so far for about an hour and a half and she didnt cry either and even went for a nap! I'm back at work in 20 days :(

The job that you are applying for sounds amazing! I have always loved the idea of living on an island...I am a social worker and when I originally qualified I applied, and got, a job on an Island in Argyle and Bute...not nearly as remote as the Shetland Islands but still involved a ferry to work etc. My DH was really keen for me to take the job and for us to consider buying a small flat on the Island. The difference for us was that my DH would still have had to work so I would have either been doing a 2 hour each way commute every morning or living monday-friday on the Island. I accepted the job but decided to withdraw when I was offered a job much closer to home. Its still somthing that I would love to do later on, but only if my DH and Eilidh came with me! I think it would be a lovely environment to bring up children, especially in thir younger years. Your right that it could turn out to be a nightmare but...it could turn out to be wonderful and you would never know until you tried. At least then you would have no regrets. And you could always go home if it didnt work out?

nicnac, just realised I had ignored you, sorry!!!...I will never get fed up of cream eggs! I could live on them, but sadly, I am not the kind of person who can eat what they want :( and be thin. In fact I sometimes feel that if I lived on lettuce I wouldnt be thin...although I would be significantly thinner than I am now!

So, my DH and I were away overnight during the week. We went to a lovely hotel in the Scottish Borders. It was so nice to spend some time together and relax. Eilidh has never been away from both of us overnight before but she was fine with her grandma. She got expressed milk at bedtime then at breakfast but thats all she got. She wasnt looking for milk throughout the day which puts my mind at ease for when I start back work as I can barely express an ounce these days.

Princess, Eilidh is exactly the same, if she doesnt see someone for one day she will cry when they pick her up. I think the only exception is my mum and my mother in law. Despite spending 3 nights with her granda during the week she still howled if she was left alone with him !! She would play happily with him or sit on his knee with me, DH or grandma in the room but if we left she screamed! Hope you are well and that your bump is getting nice and big now. I loved it when I had a proper bump!

Misty, hope kidney scan went ok

Wow this was a huge post, oops sorry! I am on the laptop rather than my phone and get carried away a bit!

Hi harv DH and I have spent all weekend researching the Island, and are getting quite emotionally attached to the prospect.

Dad is improving, thank you - did wonder if we would lose him as he is nearly 80 and weighs just over 6st.

Both kids ill - just as well I am off.

stinky is the island Yell, or Unst? I have been to both (briefly) they were both beautiful, mind you it was a gorgeous sunny day :).

Foula- most isolated populated Island 20 miles off the coast There is a job in Unst too, but I do not have the right qualifications for that one. Bit big too, with a pop of 600!

Wow, that is isolated! Just you, the bonxies, puffins and kittywakes .

With the neighbours I have, puffiins are very appealing right now :)

Those of you using sleeping bags at night, are you using 1 tog yet? I felt as though eilidh was really warm last night so going sleeping bag shopping today!

With the in-laws I have, puffins appeal too!

I am using 1 tog - poor Boo has a temp, and I thought she was just too wrapped up (bad mummy emoticon)

my first granson lucas is one on the 22nd ,oakley is one on 14th may how time has flown

harverina Kidney scan went well. I don't think he has much of a problem now. We will speak to his consultant in May so will hear exactly what the scan showed then. About your move, I don't think I could live so far away. We're about 30 mins from Inverness and that's far enough for me :)

I have now stopped bfing. We were out all day on Sat and he had no feed before we went and so at bedtime dh tried to put him to bed which was fine. The next morning dh got up with him so no feed first thing and that carried on for the day so we just kept going. He does now drink a bit more milk from his cup and we're happy with his calcium intake.

we've stopped putting Kacie in a sleeping bag now and she has a little cot quilt although when i check on her before bed she's always kicked it off and is curled in some weird position or back to front. she's going to bed really well though now and even wakes up happy playing with scout for a bit at 6 in the morning before moaning to get up.

we have a new bedtime routine of putting her in her buggy to watch waybaloo and night garden before bed and it has really helped chill her out and prepare her that bedtime is coming. she even draws the little circles round and round her hand when they do it at the beginning of night garden, it's soooo cute.

Kacie is walking all over now. we've had to put stair gates on finally and i have one that comes on and off if i want to stop her going into the kitchen. she still cant pull herself up though so when she falls on her bum she moans and Ajay usually gets to her first and pulls her back onto her feet which is really cute to watch. she has new proper walking shoes now instead of the cruisers which have flashing lights on

Kacie can say Ajay really clearly now, shouting for her brother. Daddy is also now quite clear and bye bye and hiya have been for a while but its still mama rather than mummy when she even says it.

hope all the first birthdays are going well. we let Kacie have a walk round the wild animal park which she loved but she seemed most interested in feeding the ducks ha we could have done that without travelling so far. we all had a really good day out though.

hi my first gs lucas is one 2day pic on my page

Happy birthday babies!...or are they toddlers now?!

I'm a bit stressed out tbh. Eilidh had her 12 month immunisations last Thursday, so 9 days ago. She developed a cough and cold within a couple of days and has had a fever the past couple of nights. On the nhs website it says that the mmr can cause symptoms for up to 3 weeks, but what is worrying me most is the huge decrease in Eilidhs appetite. I think its been since the jags...I'd say she is eating half, or less, of her usual. Can't pinpoint exactly when it started, think maybe a couple days after the immunisations, although she has been a little fussier lately. Anyone experienced anything like this?

sleepywombat, eilidh is slender too, although fairly tall. She is still in 9-12 month clothes and will be for a while. Untill a few months ago she always wore the correct size for her age but no.more! We have loads of 12-18 mnth summery clothes that we need to exchange for smaller sizes.

I'm still breastfeeding eilidh. She mostly just feeds morning and night with the occasional daytime feed, but not a lot anymore. Starting to think I may get away with a normal bra! Most days she doesn't feed after breakfast till bedtime.

I'm back at work on Wednesday :( how disappointing!

Hope you are all well and enjoying the sunny weather!

I know misty its funny that a few if us are in Scotland, its a same we never got a chance to meet...we could all fly to oz?! :)

stinky any news about your job?

Oh and eilidh isn't walking yet either...cruising lots!

Kacie isn't eating as much at the moment either harverina dh thinks it's because of the hot weather. she had her immunisations on thursday but not sure if it's since then or before that. she drinks lots and seems perfectly happy so im trying not to worry.

Hey all :) Just back from my 20 week scan, and I surprised myself by resisiting the temptation to find out...DP nearly fell off the chair when I answered no to finding out as well!!! Although I wass looking verrrry carefully at the monitor hehe ;) We both think we're having a girl, so in 20 more weeks we will know haha
Jude isn't walking, but he is starting to get more confident at standing on his own..he often lets go of the sofa or whatever it is he has pulled himself up onto and stands for minutes now rather than seconds before realising he isn't holding on. I can't wait for him to walk..purely so he can have more fun in the garden with his sister. My mum has decking and he has already had a couple of splinters in his feet from crawling on it, but he gets so frustrated at having to stay in the pushchair out there and not be around Makenzi. He just doesn't understand I'm doing it fo his own good!!
He also says hi...or a sound that I know is meant to be translated as hi anyway, and he holds a phone to his ear now to do it. It makes me laugh, because when Makenzi was a baby/toddler she would get the mobiles and copy us by pressing the random number buttons...Jude has started copying us by tracing his finger up and down the screen, how times have changed hey!!
Some of the things he does now are holding his toes to This Little Piggy, grunt like a pig and he also can put one megablok onto another to make a tower. He can also be a little drama queen, and screams very loudly when Makenzi takes a toy away from him..even when she's trying to show him how something works!
Hope Wednesday goes ok Harverina xx