Sept 2010 - Another 6 months past, it's going too fast!

[comixminx]

Our lovely new thread for the September 2010 babies. Dive in folks!

Hi

Just popping in to say. Haven´t caught up but will try to this weekend.
Hope your all and enjoying the summer.

Glad jack is such a treasure PolkaDotMoon, on a business note my friend has been trying to contact you on fb about jewellery. She wants a pair of earrings and your 5 ring necklace :). Ds1 doesn't drink milk but he doesn't like cheese either so I do worry about his dairy in take. Luke loves milk but only when it's cold. A little girl I childmind is very tall and everyone thinks she's going to school in September, she's only 3 1/2!

Hi patito!

Wheres sassy34264?

Don't get me wrong cinnamon he's def in the throws of terrible twos but he really is a sweetie. He's been saying "big fat pig" all day today after being at the farm but waaaaay toooooo many times saying it giggling in my face

Yep, same here. Hard work but wonderful!

hi cinnamon everyone. im still here. ive been mad busy, up until today. we bought 2 houses with dp's redunancy and we were on a deadline with one. which was last weekend- had to pull an all nighter on fri night and 5.30am start on sun morn. then i had court on the tues and lee had his vasectomy on the wed and then i had a lunch date yesterday with a friend i hadnt seen for ages. so been no use to nobody for the last few weeks!

the twins will be 2 on mon!!!!!!
argh!

it's going to fast.
they have caught up fast these last few weeks. they've gone from only saying the odd word unprompted, to saying 4 and even 5 word sentences. jacob calls isobel - o bel. and isobel calls jacob- jay pup. majorly cute. especially when she's shouting - noooooo jay pup, stop it! she calls chloe- tee he. and the both call eva- e bar.

she shushes you too.

my favourite sentence is - bye bye, see you soon.

im loving this age too.

ive not had a go at teaching colours, but they know all the animals and there noises and they can both count to 10. they can do the wooden puzzles now too- the cut out objects with the little knobs on.

ive brought the potty down this week, as jacob tells me when he has done a poo- but im not brave enough just yet!

glad you came back cinnamon and congratulations itsmylastone

It's lovely hearing about how all the LO's are doing. They all seem to be doing things at different rates too. Orlaith knows the numbers 1-10 but absolutely refuses to count in the right order (not helped by FIL who thinks it's funny to teach her to count 4,9,6... Grrr). She also gets mixed up with colours a lot, especially blue and yellow. But her speech is really good and she knows loads of animals. Her mannerisms and things she says are so cute. I find her really funny, but maybe just because I'm her mum!

PolkaDot we're having to be careful about what we've taught Orlaith to say or just what we sa infront of her because she will often repeat things over and over. In fact we were at my mum's step sister's funeral on monda and at one point Orlaith shouted "boobies"!

I accidentally told grace she was getting on my left boob a few weeks ago, masdive mistake as she said it contantly for ages. It was funny though. She came back from mil's 2 weeks ago saying "got a bit of crap on my hands mummy" i was not pleased. We can have full conversations with her now which is lovely. She can count to 10 but doesn't know colours. Everything is putple. Postman Pat is her hero and mr tumble keeps her entertained for hours! She's a fussy eater but getting slightly better. She's really feisty and independant and i love that about her. She now wears nickers in the house and goes to the toilet/potty without needing help. Nit brave enough to try nickers out of the house yet, but if she has pants on she forgets she isn't wearing a nappy and has accidents. She's such a girly girl and loves helping to do my hair and playing with dolls, her cabbage patch kid (caiden) is her best friend. She loves playing shop, gets stuff from the kitchen cupboards and then brings them to the till and puts them in a carrier bag. I love love love this age! X

Bloody typo's!!!

Oh Grace sounds so gorgeous!

Luke counts to 6 without mistakes but always says different numbers when we go upstairs. He knows animals and sounds but says everything is boo if you ask what colour it is! When we go out he loves giving everybody their shoes to put on. He was a pain eating newmum001 but the last two weeks he's eaten everything and loads of it! Yesterday he ate loads of pistachios and left shells all over the house..grrrr!

Grace will eat an unlimited amount of shit if i let her but try to get her to eat a vegetable and she clamps her mouth shut. She will eat carrots and she likes fruit so im not too bothered. I tried her on a tesco kids cottage pie the other day ( can't have cottage pie on my diet) and that had peas and carrots in and she ate the lot so i'll get a couple of those in for when we're eating something she doesn't like.

On a personal note i've now lost 25.5lbs on slimming world. Only got 15lbs to go and im back to my pre grace weight. I can't believe i put nearly 3 stone on in less than 2 years. If anyone see's me with a tube of pringles or in mcdonalds please slap me and remind me of how hard it is to lose weight. Thanks :) x

Newmum, that's fantastic, well done.
Olly knows a lot of colours, he amazes me cos I can remember loosing my patience with Toby when he was quite a bit older and worrying that he was color blind because he was useless at colours! My fave phrase that he says is where are you? It can be anything. He had a sticker this morning and lost it. He was running round singing ticker where are ooooo!
I got his bday pressie this morning, a lightening Mcqueen pedal car. I love the fact that their birthdays are close together. Not loving the expense tho!

Cripes, birthdays. We've got to go and get Aphra the Ikea kitchen we've been planning to get, nearest Ikea is a bit over an hour away and it's a case of waiting until she's at nursery so hopefully we can do this next week assuming the new baby hasn't arrived yet (lots of Braxton Hicks, some pretty strong, so I've been doing plenty of sitting and relaxing and hoping they will go away because my doula's not back from hols until this afternoon... ).

Aphra can count to 10 reasonably reliably but not any higher - she knows some colours but much less reliably. Generally she eats well though she seems to have gone off creamy sauces and makes the most dreadful faces! newmum, sounds like a plan, if Grace likes those kids cottage pies, defo worth having a reliable stand-by around.

I'm even more excited about ollys birthday pressie now, it was the last one in store on the sale shelf. I didn't go in for it, just saw it and thought it'd do cos we were struggling to think of what to get. It was £35 but didn't say what its original price was. I came home and googled it. £99!!! Now that's my bargain of the year!

Well done newmum!

comix I've got a few friends who've said they're getting the ikea kitchen for their LO's birthdays, I must have a look too!

diddly what a bargain! Orlaith says "where are you" to everything too. I thnk my favourite thing she says is "hello X, how are you? Alright?" with a tilted head and she says it to anything and everything. Today we had a conversation that went like this....
(I'd brought her inside to change her pooey nappy and she insisted on bringing her bunny)
Orlaith: Mummy, bunny's crying
Me: oh no, why's she crying?
Orlaith Why you crying bunny? bunny not want change nappy, bunny wants play outside!
It's things like that I find so incredibly cute!

Luke is the same newmum001, always has room for crisps, cake, biscuits and chocolate but until recently wouldn't eat a sandwich and only had a few bites of dinner. He does eat most things though which is good and loves egg at the moment! Well done on the weight loss, it really is much easier to put on than lose :(

We are going to bewilderwood for Luke's birthday, not really thought much about birthday presents but he does love ds1's wooden train set so may add to that. Starting to plan his cake at the moment, will be either George pig, bob the builder or a tractor.

Definitely bargain of the year diddlybop!

Luke is mostly wanting to do poos on the toilet now and tells me in time to get there but has no desire what so ever do wee anywhere other than his nappy!

Cinnamon my 1st ever attempt at a fancy cake was a tractor! there's a piccie on facebook, I'll tag you in it!

We're having grace's cake made again. My friend normally does our cakes and she's really talented but she's pregnant and ger baby is due on grace's birthday so we've asked a friend of my sister to do it abd im already worrying that it won't be as good. She's having postman pat this year.

Grace slept at my sisters last night cause we were at a wedding. So dsis got in bed with her watching night garden. All if a sudden grace sat up sang happy birthday and fell asleep. I love it when she does things like that x

thats quite funny- cos we have bought the twins the ikea kitchen for their birthday!

which is tomorrow!!!

we are having a little mini party this afternoon, just family.

Have a lovely day sassy and happy birthday to Jacob and Isobel for tomorrow.

itsmy, congrats, I'm 25 weeks pg too, due 27 Nov! It's another boy for me. Although it seems terribly impractical, in my mind it's not the last one...I think I'd like one more after this! And a last chance for a girl! Am v happy with my boys and will be lovely for Arlo to have a brother. But we haven't used any of the many lovely girls' names we like! I think if this one was a girl my practical side would win over, but i think i'd like to donit all once more. DH does not agree yet !

Congratulations Dixie! We have no names on our list yet!
Last night DP said to me "you're not going to want another one straight after this and get jealous of pregnant women again are you?". Me: "er, yes I probably will!"

Yey! The birthdays have begun!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY Jacob & Isobel!

Woke up 6.30am thinking i'd let out a bit of wee. But when I stood up it was rather obvious my waters had gone! Had to put bath towels between my legs (midwife tried to give me a maternity pad when i got to the hospital!)
They wanted to send me home after some obs they said, to try and wait longer because i 35+5. Fortunately the babies had other ideas and within 3 hours i was in full labour. Contractions were not very painful and 10 mins apart for a while and then just jumped to very very painful and almost no break within 20 mins.
DP kept having a little peep over the screen. I'm like 'don't look, i don't want you fainting etc' Next minute, he's stood up and watching it all as 1st baby was being pulled out. They didn't say what it was, and let DP see it was a boy to tell me. They did the same with Isobel. I was just crying and watching DP's face- it was so lovely. Told DD over the phone in recovery and she was screaming down the phone and i could hear my mum sobbing in the background.
Jacob looks like Chloe did when she was born. Isobel is very little, with dainty features. I'm so happy, couldn't of wished for two more beautiful babies.

2 whole years ago!!!!!

Please can the pregnant ladies put their weeks at the ends of posts like we used to?? I'm struggling to keep up!

You gave me a bit of a shock then diddly, I was thinking you were having a surprise third!

24 weeks today