September 2011 babies, making more noise, more mess, but growing more amazing by the day.

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Hey, here we are again, moving on to the next round of exciting things our little babies are getting up to. :) I hope no-one minded my title, but there hadn't been a big decision and given we were so close to the end I thought I'd just go for it.

I shall update stuff from me tomorrow.

Hi all, sorry it's been so long!

Hurrah for babyssmile's walking, that's awesome! for the mixed return to work feelings though, I'm sure it'll resolve itself one way or another. It is so very hard to leave them behind for that first month or so I found it really difficult both times but now I love scooting off out the door and leaving the DCs with their daddy!

And for the twins Look, that is just fab. So so pleased for you. Another full-on walker here; DD's not quite up to doing walking outside yet but I let her push her stroller around the park in bare feet the other day.

Candr, early waking is grim isn't it? DS went through a long phase of it. Haver you tried black out blinds? Maybe white noise so he's not woken by the dawn chorus? I never quite had the nerve to try wake to sleep but some people swear by it. We started just ignoring DS unless he was crying - turning off the monitor and putting in ear plugs but he was in the next room so we could still just about hear - and he would just yabber to himself for a bit and then go back to sleep until 6-ish.

Well, we went to Italy and left the DCs with my parents and everyone was fine of course. DD slept through every night except one when she had been so tired when she went to bed that she woke at 2am and needed a bottle. I managed to keep my milk supply up and running by expressing every evening. DD was full-on clingtastic when we got back and just wouldn't let go of me for about 4 days; she'd howl every time I was out of sight. We met up a couple of days ago with my mum and dad and DS went all quiet and started crying coz he obviously thought we were going to abandon him again!

DH and I had a fab time but I missed the DCs soooooo badly. We were waiting at Gatwick for our flight out there and I cried and very nearly turned round and came back to Cornwall as I was missing them so much!

Hope you're all enjoying the olympics; we are very proud here as I teach at Helen Glover's old school (I used to teach her sister) and DH used to sail with Ben Ainslie when they were teenagers!

Glad you enjoyed your holiday feralgirl and kids slept ok! I missed our DD1 terribly when we went away when she was nearly four. The little non-sleeping monkey supposedly slept 10-12hrs a night for grandma but then again Grandma is rather deaf :o

Grrrr had one of THOSE days today :( baby hasn't stopped grissling and eldest had a couple of melt downs and accidentally smashed a pint glass all over the patio and washing machine broken down, £100 to possibley fix hmmm we also had to separate the girls again as after two gd weeks they started waking each other up, so baby is back in our room again whilst tooth number three is pushing through and making her vgrumpy!

Hope tiddly the pregnancy and life move is going ok. Hope LookAtHerGo is not feeling too exhausted.

What is your favorite book to read to Lo at bedtime? Both our girls have enjoyed "five little sleepy heads" are there any really gd ones we could try?

for your crappy day yesterday Ssmile. Conicidentally, our washing machine has broken down as well and we can't get it fixed until THURSDAY! I really don't know how we're going to cope, we do at least two loads every day otherwise it just gets out of control. I did a mountain at my mum's yesterday and DH has gone over to his mum's with a basketful this afternoon Some friends of ours are away for the week too so we're going to nab their machine until they come back!

Ssmile, if you're machine isn't too old, may I recommend the Domestic and General policy that gives you an extended warrantee? We have it on all our white goods and it has been invaluable as our washing machine and dishwasher see a lot of mileage! I think we pay about a fiver a month for the cover and they always have offers on too. It's such a calamity when stuff breaks down and our household budget is so horribly tight that I just need to have as much stuff insured as possible.

Re books, as babies ours have both really loved the 'That's Not My...' touchy-feely series. I am so pleased that, now I've got a girl, I've got an excuse to buy all the fairy/ princess/ mermaid ones to add to the car/ tractor/ pirate ones that DS had! Also anything by Julia Donaldson goes down well in our house and a recent fave (of mine and DH's as much as DS's ) was Andy Stanton's 'Here Comes the Poo Bus' which was absolutely hysterical. 'Guess How Much I Love You' by Sam McBratney and 'No Matter What' by Debbi Gliori always make me well up as they are just too too cute!

Ooh thanks for the book tips feralgirl, we like the "thats not my" series too but this Lo doesn't seemed fussedby the fairy one prefers the "monster" one :o, yes love Julia dondalson too. Will check out the poo bus! I buy from WWW.thebookpeople.co.UK a lot when they have their special offer packs. We are currently working our way through the Rainbow Fairy series with our eldest. It's nice because she is learning to read we are getting out all the old simple board books again for her to practice on :)

Better day today and bought baby her first birthday present today with some money her great grandma had sent. It went down well some magic magnetic building blocks by chicco from toys r us. Can't believe she is going to be one in 2weeks time! We are planning to go camping if the weather forecast isn't too pants. Must be mad :o

Hiiiiiiiii.

Well, LO didn't have the pox in the end, it turned out she had Hand foot and mouth, and also impetigo :( Then on the Thursday she came out in a rash ALL OVER so I nipped up to the children's A&E and was told she also had a viral rash. Bums, so last week was just a wash out for us, with her being a cling on. But she really picked up on Friday :) and was back to normal Saturday. :)

She is definitely walking now. She still goes to her crawling, but there is no problem at all with her walking.

she also learnt how to climb ONTO the settees, both of them, they are different heights, and she can do them both!

I have now stopped breast feeding, started on morning bottles last sat, Sunday night was not really interested in my boob, Monday night she took 30 seconds! So unbeknownst to me at the time, Monday was my last breast feed. She didn't even go for the boob on Tuesday and I had had my first day back at work. My stomach has grown much quicker than it did last time. I'm getting aches from the quick stretching, and just keeping my fingers crossed until I can see them again. We've gone and put a deposit down on a (nearly) new car just so we can get 3 seats in the back.

ssmile, great news on the walking LO :) shame you can't take the career break you want. Boo to the teeth. We have a variety of books, I tend to read Each Peach Pear Plum, my DP tends to ready Don't you dare dragon, the benefit of that is that it has a little stick your finger in puppet thing in the middle of the page.

candr, he will get there. I have a climbing LO, although she isn't really ever in the kitchen to be able to climb into those things. I bob her in the travel cot for her safety when I'm doing things. Although she's started to try and climb out of that and can get her feet halfway up the mesh bit of the sides!

feral, hi :) aw to LO pushing her pushchair. I reckon mine would probably just want to try and eat the wheels! Glad you had a holiday away, although not so good that you missed them so badly, probably tinged it a bit for you.

Wow at the climbing Look, DD hasn't yet tried to get on our sofa which is quite high but we figured yesterday that we'd bite the bullet and start teaching her stairs; she made it right to the top of our very steep flight with DH behind her with only one little stumble because she got excited to see me at the top! She's much more determined than DS was, it took him for ever to do more than a couple of steps and then just give up.

Rough about the impetigo and hand, foot and mouth, that's grim Lucky that you didn't get it though as they're both really contagious aren't they? We are also just about to buy a new car as our Astra estate is on its absolute last legs and we just can't afford to keep patching it up and pouring petrol down it.

I am also cutting down on the BFing, and have just stopped the morning feed as it's a PITA when I'm working. I have a tendency to lie in bed dozing with DD attached, watching Cbeebies with DS until 7.30 which is fine atm during the hold but def not in September! I'm happy to go on doing the evening feed as long as DD wants to though, but she's only really having one feed at bath time and then just comfort sucking before bed so it might not be long before she packs it in

I can't believe I'm asking this as it really doesn't feel like a year but what are you all getting the LOs for their birthdays? I really want this as DS spent hours playing with the one at the hospital when he was ill. We've got a horrible old toy plastic shopping trolley that DD likes to push around but I reckon this'll work better as it's sturdier. I can't decide what to ask for from relatives though and I need to think about it otherwise I'll just end up with shed-loads of pink plastic tat from the ILs! Our local soft play place do year passes for £40 so I might ask for one of those from the MIL. Need some inspiration though.

Oh gosh LookAtHerGo hope you are all feeling better now. I remember hand foot and mouth virus doing the rounds at nursery when DD1 was little it was horrid. Is that the one with blisters in the mouth? She was miserable. Yep we have qa sofa and stair climber here too. She climbed onto the sofa using the beanbag. I was [shocked] and would not have believed it if I didn't witness her doing it. We don't have stairs but I waiting at the sports centre for DD1 to finish her dance class and Lo kept disappearing up the steps to the gyn. Good work out for me, but after few times I was worn out chasing her!
feralgirl I bought these magic blocks from toys r us at weekend and she likes those. We are "re-gifting" most of eldests old toys, and got her a new scooter in rtn. It's hard as we don't have much room or to be honest need much stuff as got lots toys in loft. We have little wooden trike &push along truck with bricks which I think she will like. The rest of her money will go in the "days out pot" or her savings account I think. I did buy some balloons yesterday which have "happy first birthday" on them :o :o can't believe our Los are one soon......wow.....

hellooooooooo all !!!
i have missed so much but fully intend to get back into mnetting.
to start me off i dont suppose everyone could please just make a few points about themself to help me catch up please?
can i start it off?

ds3 10/09, back at work p/t, getting broody but couldnt cope with more, ds not yet walking but very cheeky, no periods-using implant.

Hi Jimmi, welcome back! I have DS (now 3.9) and DD (07/09). She's walking just about. I'm back teaching FT. Cornwall is beautiful as ever but very rainy!

DD's also just started instigating games of peekaboo which is uber-cute and saying Dada for DH. She's really developing her own little sense of humour and on good days she and DS will play together really nicely and entertain each other for ages. On bad days she steals anything that he shows an interest in and he pushes and pulls her around or kicks her He's also started licking her which is just plain odd.

We went and signed the paperwork for the new car today which was scary. I wasn't sure that our credit rating was good enough for the finance deal but we've scraped through somehow. It feels very grown up having a proper car and not a clapped out old banger. I just hope that the old banger survives until next month when the new one arrives!

Hi, has been a while so sorry for not doing personal replies. Hope poorly babies are better and that those of you who had a holiday enjoyed it. Wel done to toddling babies.
Still no walking here but is a real climber, had to put travel cot away as he kept getting out and can climb whole flight of stairs. He will push things over to stand on to get into drawers / on sofa etc and has no sense of danger.
Finally sleeping is improving. He wakes at 12/1 and has a bottle then 4/5 where I feed him then 7 if I am lucky so huge improvements. Has also had long nap at lunch last few days woohoo!
O nly really do one bf now so don't think it will last much longer - will be kind of nice to allow boobs to be normal before number 2 (please tell me they won't be this saggy forever?)
Am planning 1st birtday party and have bought moving tractor and farm set/ pop up tunnel and little bits and bobs. Should have 20 adults and 12 kids so pretty busy but looking forward to it though can't believe he is nearly 1 (small sob)
Loves The Grumpalump book at bedtime whoever asked.
Off to wedding this weekend so hope it doesn't ruin the good sleep as will be in buggy with us till late.

Aw Feral, that's ace for the climbing the stairs. We don't have any, but I remember LO doing the stairs at our holiday cottage. She's always been a climber. Yeah, I know, I was breast feeding as well while she had the massive rash around her mouth. I have an itch, but I think it's down to a wrong fitting bra, I need new ones, but I'll keep an eye on it and at any sign of bad rash type stuff I'll be getting something I can use for it! We haven't even discussed presents for LO yet :S only a few weeks to go

Thanks ssmile. yeah that's the virus, and yep she was miserable too.

Hey jimmi. Glad to see you back on here. I've not got round to replying yet to your last FB message, I'll do that shortly.

Hiya candr. Wow to climbing out of the travel cot, my lo is halfway up the sides, but not got any further.

Well I've finished the dreaded 2 weeks at work, phew, now it's down to only 2 shifts a week until I finish for maternity leave, which looks like it will be early december :)

LO has now worked out she doesn't need the settee to get up, so will stand up from wherever she is. She could get up to standing without holding on before but chose to scootch to the settee or whatever, now she doesn't bother with the scootching, she just gets up! One day she was scootching, the next day not!

Look, well done babylook. Need my DS to get a bit more confident on feet (an less cocky with climbing off things, on things, up stairs etc) Will only stand holding on to something and STILL refuses to drop to bottom has to be hands and knees.
He is playing peekaboo now where he will crawl to a doorway and hide his head then poke out and shout at you - is sooo cute. He is saying 'yes' a lot too which causes amusement. "should you be doing that" "Yes", "do you love mummy enough to give her a crisp?" etc

Awww to the yeses candr, that's v cute

We're having a trying week with DD who I assume is cutting teeth as she is just gruesome! She's constantly grizzly, off her food and really clingy. She's had a bit of a temperature but I took her to the dr yesterday and there's nothing obvious wrong with her. Fortunately (touch wood) she's been OK at night but without alternate doses of calpol and calprofen she is totally impossible She has really got great timing too as we have had visitors and commitments all last week and have again for the next few days.

However DS is waking at least once every night with monster-fear so DH and I are knackered and grumpy. Funnily enough, it's invariably me who deals with DS as it takes DH about 15 mins to drag himself out of bed by which time DS will be hysterical and risking waking DD. Grr. DH has been off on a boy's day out today so I am going to claim some "me time" this week for sure!

Can't believe the summer hols are almost over. One more week left and school is looming

Ditto feralgirl here, baby been very hard work the last 4days extremely grumpy, temp,runny bum, ear tugging, off her food its very draining but thankfully with alt doses of meds she is sleeping through so I can't grumble too much. Our eldest had dreadful night fears, I made a "monster busting" kit, which consisted of a silver spray bottle and fluffy floor cloth from the pound shop. The red cloth went by the door which was open to let some light in, but the cloth stopped monsters going in, and the magic spray bottle was to spray all over the room and in the night to make monsters go away :) I didn't put anything other than mummy magic in the bottle and it did help!

We tried to get baby her first shoes Friday at Clarks but after trying a few they didn't have her size in the soft crawler shoes. It's a bugger I have from eldest a 3,3.5,&4.5 in soft&walking shoes which I cleaned up from loft, but no this baby needed a 4G the only size I don't have! It's become a pain lately as she most definitely does NOT want to stay in her buggy but walk &explore everywhere now. We had just left her bare footed at home and on grass but she ready to do more now.

We had birthday cake yesterday as pop was one :o and more birthday tea today as GrandParents coming up in an hour so yet more cake to consume. I really can't believe a whole year has gone by!!

jimmijamds3 10/09, back at work p/t, getting broody but couldnt cope with more, ds not yet walking but very cheeky, using implant (which i want removed). got 1st period last week-still on :(

feragirl I have DS (now 3.9) and DD (07/09). She's walking just about. I'm back teaching FT. Cornwall is beautiful as ever but very rainy!

candr we thought ds would be walking by 11months the way he is, but he still wont even stand without holding on, needs to build up his confidence there, though he can get around everywhere as he is-even climbing the radiator and trying to climb up the fridge freezer- so he has no need to walk yet.
he seems to think he's the same age as all the other little uns around (minimum age 4years) joining in and trying to do the same as them!

fera and ssmile 2 back teeth coming through here, calpol and bonjela a godsend here too (im sure dd and ds1 didnt suffer this bad)
ssmile we got dd his 1st pair of shoes a few weeks back as he kept pulling his socks off, shoes worn twice as pulled off too :( oh well. clarks pointed us in the direction of cruisers (i think its crawler, cruiser, walker?)

Hurrah for the first birthday Ssmile, many happy returns to DD. I cannot believe that our LOs are all going to be a year old soon

Turns out DD isn't teething, it's a virus. I got her in the bath last night and she was covered in a vicious rash so I bundled her into the car and floored it to the docs just to be sure it wasn't meningitis (which of course it isn't). She's still ill and, to cap it all, the sodding washing machine has broken down for the third time in three weeks!

Ssmile, I tried to get DS to explain to me what would make the monsters go away and he told me that he needed a photo of DD crying to scare them off. So there is now a pic of DD howling stuck on his door

Ssmile, happy birthday to LO, we have been to a couple of parties for DS friends as they are all around the same age - am getting tips for our turn.
Feral that must have been a bit scary, hope DD recovers quickley. Love the idea of a howling child photo being the scarer.
DS is fine, still climbing and eating half the garden including stones. He is a real outdoor urchin and have now added the word fish to vocab.

Thanks for the birthday greetings. I hope your lo is feeling better now feral and candr :o at the stone eating! Gosh its a nightmare isnt it they put EVERYTHING in their mouths at the moment. I am forever fishing things out. Well since LO has turned one she is now the screeching monster grrrrr. Everything she cant reach or wants she screechs at high volume. Its very very annoying and wearing. She is also extra clingy since have in a couple of days at nursery as I have now gone back to work. I resorted to putting her in the baby carrier at home today just to get the dinner on and the washing up done. But she really is a tad heavy to keep in it for too long but my poor hips cant take lumping her around the house much more!
She is also the proud owner of some new shoes and is walking everywhere now. We cant stop her just wandering off. Her favourite game now is "taking" something that she knows she is not supposed to have (eg. emptying the changing bag) then running away with it giggling. She then stops turns around to make sure you have spotted her, giggles and runs off again. Its really funny :o last night I was getting her ready for her bath she was all naked and sprints down the hallway giggling and climbs onto her big sisters bed (another new skill) and jumps around it laughing and trys to hid under the duvet when I come to retrieve her :o she it is lovely to see her personatlity emerging more and more but boy with it is coming these awful screeching tantrums which I jolly hope pass soon!!!
Whose next in the birthday list??? Happy birthday September babies :)

Ssmile, that sounds like a lot of fun but not the screaching (DS stops if I join in!). DS not walking yet and is 1 on the 15th so don't think he will do it before then.
I am really nervous about MMR as I really would have preferred single jabs but is not possible now. He had such bad reactions to his jabs when smaller that I don't know whether to let them do the MMR and other jab in one go or on differnt occassion. My friends baby has been off since jab 12 days ago so dread how mine will cope.
We have been to 3 first birthdays now so am getting tips on what works best ready for our go (annoyingly the first mum did party bags so feel I have to follow suit now - thought I could avoid those this time around)
Feral - hope things are improving your end

I've just booked my Lo appt for her jabs for 24th as it said 13mths in our red book. You can give calpol before the jab candr that may help and then alt with ibprofen for 24hrs to head off the grissles or reaction before it emerges. They are all different but I really think its better to get the jabs than risk the chance of getting the bugs as they can be truly horrid. Gd luck hope you Lo doesn't react too much.

My Lo has been SO much happier today hopefully all the screeching was just teething and a cold which seems to have passed now.

How are you doing LOOKATHERGO? Hope the pregnancy is going ok

Yeah Candr, I know someone who said that they're MMR really affected their DS a couple of weeks ago. My DS was fine with it and DD's been OK with all her ims up until now so I'm trying not to worry about it too much.

Ssmile, that's so funny about your little joker! DD here is similar too, she loves it when DS hides under a duvet and she can try and 'find' him. And she's really into kissing too which is lush. This evening she was hissing at a toy snake which she thought was the funniest thing ever! But her legs aren't long enough to do any proper climbing yet and she's getting really annoyed about it!

Is my DD next for a birthday? She's on Friday but I'm at work all day so we're celebrating on Sunday when the whole family are free.

Oooh my head is spinning too many things to organise I'd hadn't quite appreciated how much harder the logistics were going to be with two kids in two different places and both parents in stressie jobs. Bloomin hope this gets easier as I'm feelin really stressed tonight, first day back at school tom, and I've got an overnight business trip not great flipping timing :( at least after screaming and clinging to my DH this morning the baby did have a goodish day at nursery after our vrocky start.

Hope school goes ok feralgirl &everyone else is doing ok.

happy birthday baby ssmile :)

walking? :( ours isnt there yet, though he can climb on everything and get everywhere as it is so he has no need to as yet.

1st period since ds was born-complete with the trots, and its now lasted 2 whole weeks :(

ds1 has his 1st day at school 2moro, has been crying since dd went back to years ago as he's desperate to start!

fera haha to the crying photo, great stuff :) a few mornings ago i found ds1 asleep on the sofa- he thought there were lions in his bedroom! :)