First year nearly done , our October 2010 babies will soon be one

[MonsterBookOfTysons]

Welcome to our cosy, new thread.

[NoHunIntended]

Hope you don't mind, I've created a new thread, I thought it would be nice to start it today at the beginning of the year. If anyone doesn't like it, we can get it deleted and come up with a better title. But for now, it is here. Come on over!

[543Ty1HappyNewYear]

Thanks Guys, guess I will have to change it back soon though

[GoodMocKingWenceslas]

Wow, 2012! TF- DH is due back the 2nd week in Feb, so we only have to endure a smallish stretch before he is back. Well, DD was up at 2345 so I saw in the New Year too! Fireworks were crazy, going off for 45 mins and intermittently throughout the night.

Ouch about your wrist NoHun!

[NoHunIntended]

Love the new name, Ty!

Happy New Year! DS was of course awake for it, party animal that he is!

We need a new thread. Any title ideas?

[HarrietJones]

Happy New Year all :)

[tiredfeet]

Great name change Ty!

[floozietoozie]

Happy New Year! Love the name, Ty .

[543Ty1HappyNewYear]

Happy New Year!!!
My dc are both fast asleep but am wishing they were awake for cuddles
Hope all of you and you families have a wonderful 2012.
Ty :)

[tiredfeet]

Happy new year all! Ds woke just before midnight (fireworks) so we saw in the new year having a lovely cuddle

Yeah the cuddle thing is bonkers, I know it is, but all the disapproving still gets to me. Ds is way to squishy and cute not to give him all the cuddles he wants though . I think its partly because they want cuddles, but I refuse to force him to go to people for cuddles. When he's relaxed with people he asks for cuddles from them which I think is much nicer. But they seem to think I should hand him to them even if he is screaming and crying because he doesn't want to.

Cute about the mittens mock! Hope it didn't feel too tough saying goodbye to your dh again. How long till he's back now?

Nohun I hope your wrist feels better soon

[tiredfeet]

Happy new year all! Ds woke just before midnight (fireworks) so we saw in the new year having a lovely cuddle

Yeah the cuddle thing is bonkers, I know it is, but all the disapproving still gets to me. Ds is way to squishy and cute not to give him all the cuddles he wants though . I think its partly because they want cuddles, but I refuse to force him to go to people for cuddles. When he's relaxed with people he asks for cuddles from them which I think is much nicer. But they seem to think I should hand him to them even if he is screaming and crying because he doesn't want to.

Cute about the mittens mock! Hope it didn't feel too tough saying goodbye to your dh again. How long till he's back now?

Nohun I hope your wrist feels better soon

[NoHunIntended]

Poor teething DD, Mock. Hope she is ok. How many teeth do all our little ones have? DS has six.
How cute re the mittens! Aw!
Glad you had a great time with your DH home.

My wrist got worse yesterday, swollen and agonising, it is less bad today, but still hurty.

DS will be awake for midnight, as usual! Happy New Year! x

[GoodMocKingWenceslas]

I'm with you on the cuddle thing NoHun. Your poor DS TF I hope he is feeling better soon. DD is teething tonight too. She's been cradling her jaw/cheek all week, but its worse tonight and whenever she turns over in her sleep she cries out. She did wear an amber necklace until it caused a rash that took weeks to go.

I hope your random sleeping injury gets better soon NoHun! .

I hope you all had good Christmases and New Year. We had a lovely Christmas, DD got a drum and maraca, bath book and Big Nut Brown Hare in her stocking and for her pressies, she got a gorgeous book, some playdough, a baby etchasketch, a spinning top and something else that I cannot remember. She got lots of lovely presents from family including some great wooden vegetables stuck together with velcro and a wooden knife and chopping board from my sister so she can chop the veg . The surprise hit of the day was a pair of wooly (acrylic) mittens that she loves and she walks round the house wearing them.

DH has gone back now. The 2 weeks was lovely. I am on duty for the next 8 days so my parents are with me in case I get called into work. They go on Monday and my mum is all worried about what I would do if called in in the middle of the night. I have told her DD will just come with me! The people at work can just lump it!!

Have a great night y'all. I'm off to bed early .

[NoHunIntended]

Judgy about cuddles??? How awful! I just do not understand this!
Hope his teething pains don't last long, and you are feeling less frazzled.

[tiredfeet]

Hello and I hope you all had a good christmas

I loved seeing ds's excitement opening presents, and playing with his relatives, and christmas lunch was fantastic he sat for a whole hour just quietly eating and watching so we had a lovely relaxed time too. And he spent most of the day sat in a cardboard box being pushed around
However he then developed a serious bout of teething on boxing day (when we do christmas with the in laws), high temperature, not interested in food, clinging to me non stop, poor baby, and we had bil and sil staying at the in laws too, and they are very judgy about me giving cuddles to ds whenever he wants them (!!) So you can imagine all the judgy looks and comments as ds did his clingy monkey act all week...


so I now feel even more frazzled than before christmas, and I didn't think that was possible! Have cancelled plan to go out on new years eve and am going to sit and watch a pile of cheesy films instead

[NoHunIntended]

Sounds lovely! Ours was nice and quiet, DS liked his gifts, we had a lovely meal, all good.
I have a sore wrist, I think DS slept on it last night! Hope it's better soon.

[HarrietJoHoHoHones]

We did thanks. Dd3 totally got into it.squealed at the dolly pram & presents were mainly met by an excited chuckle . She's been stroking her new coat, wearing her backpack around the house & reading her books. Finished opening this morning but all the dds are as enthusiastic about each other opening & us too which makes it nicer.
Dd3 had two huges sleeps yesterday and was knackered last night too. Must be all the stimulation. She got into crackers although couldn't pull them she liked the hats!

[NoHunIntended]

Hope you all had a lovely Christmas.

[HarrietJoHoHoHones]

Merry Christmas eve everyone!!!

[SnowFunIntended]

Ooh, it is Christmas Eve!

We are all set, have wrapped the few gifts we got for DS. We abided by the

• Something they want
  
• Something they need
  
• Something to wear
  
• Something to read
  

philosophy for his proper gifts from Santa (a tunnel, a jigsaw (the need is educational!), a cute faux-leather biker jacket (soooo adorable!), and a pop up Axel Scheffler book, he'll get a few little bits as stocking fillers (bath crayons, satsuma, chocolate coins), and he has a fab rubber dinosaur from us.
I am getting the Scrabble app for the iPad, as all I want really is another baby (or two (or three))!!! And a nice big house in the country!

[SnowFunIntended]

Thanks, ft!

Oh my re the nail clippers. Ouch. :( Glad all is ok though.

We only have a few gifts for DS, just need to wrap them, shouldn't take long. Not really got much else to be ready about. Chilling out watching festive films, eating junk. All good!

[floozietoozie]

Have voted SnowFun.

Ok, who else still isn't ready? Anyone? Anyone? I still have a few bits to get, everything to wrap, food for some contributions to Christmas Day and all for Boxing Day party to get..... plus we found out today that DP's brother, partner and possibly his Dsis are coming to visit next week. Eek. Nothing like a bit of warning. I'm surveying the toy-strewn wreckage of the playroom and part of this room and feeling helpless.

Merry Christmas though. Oh and BP, not quite the same, but I did manage to cut the top off dd's thumb on Saturday while clipping her nails. NEVER AGAIN. When I say the top, obviously I just mean skin, but the blood was unbelievable. I hadn't done it for yonks because I did exactly the same thing when she was tiny.

Ok, lots to do tomorrow, so really should get to bed. Night all. If I don't make it back on before the big day, Merry Christmas one and all. Ho ho ho !!

[tiredfeet]

Thanks bp, poor dd that sounds painful! Wow at her partying all night antics though, hope you manage to get some tips, ds used to be a dreadful sleeper when he was younger and I know how exhausting it is

Looks like santa will need to bring us a new thread for christmas...

[tiredfeet]

Thanks bp, poor dd that sounds painful! Wow at her partying all night antics though, hope you manage to get some tips, ds used to be a dreadful sleeper when he was younger and I know how exhausting it is

Looks like santa will need to bring us a new thread for christmas...

[SnowFunIntended]

bp, that sounds horrendous, your poor darling girl. Glad she is ok though, they are tougher than we think.

I need a climbing wall. Maybe I'll win one here: www.mumsnet.com/Polls/christmas-name-change-11 Please vote for me!!!

[busyprocrastinating]

Since I've broken my phone I've been struggling to post much, though I have been reading.I am having a rare afternoon to myself as DD is at nursery and DH is at his last shift at work so am going to put a christmas film on and make the crackers.

Poor DD had to go the hospital last week as she had a huge splinter down her thumb nail. They had to cut through her nail to get it out which was awful. But she seemed to get over it pretty quickly and was back up to mischief in no time. The first day the christmas tree was up she managed to pull it down twice. Her new favourite word is 'no' with a very exaggerated head shake my family have started to call her taz as she is such a little whirlwind. Last week she got up at 6.30am and didn't go back to sleep until 2.30am the following morning- I am really at a loss at what to do with her terrible sleeping. She wasn't even acting tired and we had been out and about all day so you would think that would tire her out. Anyone got any ideas?

HJ hope something comes up for you with the work situation- or even better your numbers come up on the lottery.
Snow a climbing wall sounds great fun. Your DS would love it.
Tired hope all the germs leave you in peace soon