July 2005 babies learn about autumn

[merryberry]

OK, that cheered me up! Back to mopping brows and bottoms now.

hub - ds was born small with a head circ on 2nd centile and has stayed about the same but the rest of him has gone up to 75th for height and weight - he's quite long and slim with a small head. But I have a v small head also so obviously in the family. TBH I'd not worry as long as her head is obviously growing but I am sure they are just checking things as a precaution which is as it should be.

hc - very trendy dress.

dd seems to like old fashioned type dresses - all bows and frills. don't go overboard though and dh has told me not to get frilly socks.

I think there are cute things for boys also. I've always dressed ds in really cute dungarees and even managed to get a pair of lovely faded shorts dungarees - age 6 which is hard to get (on eBay of course!)

My weight is dropping off BUT only becuase dd has stepped up b/feeding and remember she is 3.5 now!! Its only at night time and I hear her going gulp gulp.... and I wake up starving... mabye not the best way to lose weight though.

Sorry hub that should read ds1 - you'd think I'd get used to the idea I have two ds's now! It took about 18 months for him to catch up from being a small baby which your dd has obviously done much quicker... except her head of course...

h2d: don't worry, just don't. FWIW i was just noticing today at a 25 strong rhyme time today how much smaller the girls heads looked than vin's anyway!

yup, we're moving again. we've outgrown our lush highend loft style thingy - not so much cos of baby, but because we need a study to lock dp away in when he works at home. plus i want a patio/garden, pretty please. plus the landlords are putting the rent up (which we can afford, but dont want to) PLUS - the big one - we can afford packers and removal men to take the strain. Otherwise I wouldn't shift for dynamite

lots of raspberry blowing here today . dd is doing it occasionally & is very pleased with herself, ds & i are doing it obsessively! & no doubt dp will be included when he gets home.

Forgot to say that the dress you bought is gorgeous, HC

DD is blowing rasberries too, at everyone she meets and also at the lovely baby she sees in the mirror .

What time are the LOs getting to bed at night? Our bedtime "routine" has fallen apart. DH is trying to come home earlier so he can spend time with the children, which is lovely, but it means he is busy doing stuff with the boys (usually one at a time so I am still looking after the other one). Their bedtime used to be 7 - 7.30 but the last couple of weeks it is more like 8.30, and I put DD to bed after them. It's lovely to have DH around a bit more but I'm so used to getting on with the evening routine on my own that I've rather lost the plot. DD has only settled now, so I don't really have an evening. It reminds me of when my father was coming up to retirement - my mother used to say "I married him for better or worse but not for lunch"

Just quickly dropping in to say hello. Hope all is well - not yet had time to catch up. Dd has just got over having a temperature and a bad cold which she caught from ds. He had same symptoms a week ago and I was hoping she would avoid it but unfortunately not. I was up with her until 5.00 am on Monday night as she didn't want to be put down as her poor little nose was so blocked. We used steam a bit and it seemed to ease it. Anyway, I was teaching tonight and luckily both were asleep when I left which made it easier to go.

Just noticed all your links to ebay - it is far too easy to shop on there isn't it?! Love the dresses.

I've had a lovely day today . I met Bagpuss and her DS2 for lunch - they are both lovely and then went on my first proper shopping trip for ages and ages, and bought 4 tops and a skirt, and some fabulous moisturiser from Space NK. It was heaven!

I was so excited I told the shop assistants who were cooing at DD all about it, although my thunder was rather stolen when I came out of one changing room to see a buggy containing 4-week-old twins, whose beautiful and slender mother was on her first shopping trip too

sounds fab mrsd. my mum, dd & i went to space nk last week & were all struck by the lovely revolving silver ball in the window! dd was entranced enough to allow me to buy some tinted moisturiser.

it was so cold today i had to buy dd an emergency snowsuit. well that's my story & i'm sticking to it. it's rather enormous & raspberry coloured but was, very importantly, half price.

and she giggled today for the first time, at ds leaping from the chair to the futon in a thoroughly dangerous fashion. 2 happy children has to be good .

tcha to thunder stealers! did i tell you about when i announced to head office at their xmas party i was PG, just after the long term lesbian couple announced their IVF PG? we were so not news in that context

h2d - yes a mezzanine! and now vin and have a a routine a bit - busy mon, weds and thurs (if you call going to everyman busy on thurs!). we are going to see mrs henderson presents next week at noon - can you guys make it maybe? or have a walk one tues or fri (to encompass lunch?) i'm a bit of a coward eating out on my own with ds, prefer company.

was going to go on but Sir awakes...xfx

hi mb, can't do next Thursday (24th), can do the one after (1st December). Mrs Henderson is on both dates. Would love to meet up. (Actually, to be strictly truthful, Dee is seeing NCT girls on the first Thursday, and it'd be lovely for you to meet my better half too, LOL).

We are attempting to see a pediatrician to check Camille's head growth is OK, so, subject to not seeing them next Tuesday, yep, we can all go for a walk - but you must be well 'ard cos it's gonna be freeeeeeeezing, LOL.

hi mb. We have a 4:30 Tuesday at the Royal Free - so..... we could either cancel (instead do Tuesday 29th Nov or Thursday 2nd Dec), or - get this - do our walk anyway, but finish at the Royal Free / Hamsptead Heath area IYSWIM in time for us to make our appointment. This would probably only be pleasant if it's not raining / sleeting / snowing, LOL

Dunno what you fancy, or what might work for you.

Have a think and get back to me from your mezzanine, LOL.

lol, mrsd has neglected to tell the tale of how we actually met in the lift of Daisy and Tom about an hour before lunch but were too nervous to ask each other who they were and if they happened to be meeting a complete stranger with baby for lunch that day . ds2 and I had a great time but were only just back in time to pick up ds1 from school and rescue dd from my mil's .

HC, emergency snowsuit is a great excuse I agree. Do you think I can get away with the same excuse for a complete new wardrobe of clothes for ds2 I wonder? Some of ds1's old stuff is dissappointingly out of date and tired looking.

Have finally got to the bottom of my rsi type strain - it appears that it may be down to me lugging the car seat with ds2 inside into school in the mornings and not our buggy (although that makes it worse) - I have to keep reminding myself to take him out now.

Hub, good luck with dd's hospital appointment .

LOL @lift... I sometimes look at people and wonder if they're mumsnetters. There should be a secret sign.

When you met, mrsd, was your conversation something like "erm, excuse me, err.... are you, erm... 'Bagpuss' ?" LOL

Bagpuss: The carseats are unbelievably un-ergonomic to carry aren't they. Does your buggy take adapter clips ?

Hi Hub, yes we have adaptors, bought in a moment of pg madness and I was most annoyed to find that it takes about 15 mins to set the blessed things up with the seat etc. I think I have used them about twice in total, so a complete waste of money.

Hi all- just on the subject of secret mumsnetters- I was on the phone the other day still trying to find a childminder, when the lady on the other end told me a story about a friend of hers- which I had read on mumsnet about two weeks ago! I didn't say anything as I thought it may come across as being a bit stalker-y!

On a more positive note- I have finally found a minder who is admitedly quite out of our way but is really lovely (who knows, she may be reading this as well!!!) and I am confident that dd will be happy with her. She had a little boy there when I visited who sang dd a song and did a dance for her and held her hand really gently- it was so sweet! Now I just have to get over the hurdle of actually leaving her there...

Anyway, must dash as the mil is coming to stay and I have to polish the house/baby/cat in readiness. Then I will fall into an exhausted heap at her feet when she finally arrives and she can take over. ha ha. hope you all have a supersmashinggreat weekend- hope you are all snuggled up with babes away from the cold. x

Bagpuss - surely you just screw the adaptor clips to the buggy frame, and leave them there, and whenever you want to use it with the carset.... kerliiiiiick, and you're sorted, no ?

Hub, unfortunately no. Here, look .

You mean you've got to install the support bar, and do the male / female strap thingy ? Each time you want to put the seat on the buggy frame ?

LOL. You need a 'travel system' LOL

stop press: DAISY AND TOM is a shop?? as well as the outstandingly cute handmedowns we've been given? where? WHERE??

h2d: am sooo confused now - being a fat lazy merry berry would prefer the cinema - and you can't do all do thursday 1st dec? or can you? marc, my dp is actually up for it...i don't want you guys hammering away across the heath trying to make appts with me, cos just thinking about it makes me tired

oooh, i'm p'd in charge of a 'puter: one quick large bottle of girlie framboise beer and watch out mumsnet, here come some daft posts.

mb - we can do Thursday 1st December 2005.

We can't do Thursday 24th November 2005.

If it were to be a non-cinema walking thang, we could do Tuesday 24th November as long as we were at the Royal Free by 4:30.

Of course, we could just meet in Louis' instead, and eat cream cakes till we passed out.

Merry Berry, Daisy & Tom is a lovely shop. There's one in Manchester and one on the King's Road. It's a bit pricey though. DD disgraced herself during lunch and I went in there to get some clean tights and the cheapest were £12!

Was someone asking about nanny v nursery? I have done both and can add my twopenn'orth if required. Is there another thread (not being awfully pro-active today am I!)

Good luck on Tuesday Hub

yaay, its a cinema date. plus cake a distinct possibility:-) dp and i love that cake shop, better than all the hampstead newcomers by miles.

i'm interested in nursery v nanny at moment: we've decided to try and get a parttime nanny once we've moved house (if that goes ahead) as we have the choice and i don't like the insane high cortisol in nursery babies under 18 months, if i can avoid it...we'll send him to nursery at 18 months when he can hold his own we're thinking, and enjoy the company. is this pie in sky? what do you dear people think?

ds has been at nursery since he was 6.5 months, 2 days a week. we've been very happy indeed, & more to the point, so has he (with the occasional wibble). he's been to 2 nurseries in this time. one thing i would say, that the younger the start the easier it is to settle them in - a few of ds' friends started around 18 months/2 years & found it a lot harder to settle than he did. i'd also advise choosing one as local as possible - we really like bumping into people we know in the park/supermarket/cafe.

OK. Mrs H on Thursday 1st December - film begins at 3. We will either meet before for cake and then do the film, or meet for the film and then do cake, or watch the film sandwiched between cream cakes.