December 2011: The one where DSM gets married...

[LittleMissFlustered]

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Hmmm... I do a 1.5hr commute each way and surprisingly, I don't hate it. Sometimes it's nice to have that time to sit and chill before the mental rush to get sorted

Big difference is that I commute by coach, not train. I save over £1000 in fares and I'm guaranteed a seat. It's a pain in winter when it rains and the traffic is slow but it's more than made up for in the summer when the kids are on holiday and the drive is just 40 minutes! Swings and roundabouts really

I can honestly say that I would NEVER live in London.

Caffeine! Get yer lovely Caffeine!

I've been batch cooking stuff from AK and Gina ford (actually really yum), I don't cook for myself either as OH doesn't get in until half 8.

I feel for you poor girlies with commutes. I used to do man-Lon when I used to fly it was horrible :-(

Completely unplanned, but I ended up starting potty training with DD today. Only two accidents, one of which was my fault for taking her off the toilet too soon, so I'll get nursery to carry on over the next two days . Fingers crossed she's cracked it this time. How's Captain Greenpants getting on?

DH is now away until late Thurs so I'm hoping the DC's behave over the next few nights. Still waiting for DS tooth no. 4 to break through, it's taking a very long time . DS is now desperate to get on the move, he's getting really frustrated. He's on the verge of bum shuffling now though I think, and loves to be standing up propped against the furniture too.

Rrraaa!!! Sorry, that's better, stressful day with miserable DC's, combined with DH coming home tired and grumpy.

kate sounds like she's doing really well with only 2 accidents! Hope it continues and DS gets that tooth soon.

Still no teeth here, and no eggs

No teeth here either. We do have a joint addiction to breadsticks though. They're out 'go to' snack of choice.

Octoboy eats anything that isn't nailed down, and things that are nailed down get a thorough lick/suck treatment. Especially shoes:/ His favourite scrudl food is veg and lentil combos. He loves grimace fraud. He'd happily sell the minions for another go at a jammy dodger He's loving ready brek, especially as I'm impatient do tend to cool it down with yoghurt:o He's still breastfeeding, and thinks that water from a cup is superb fun, but not for actually drinking.

New cot arriving tomorrow, eight and a half months in a crib isn't bad going >_<

Sorry commuting is being painful, I quite like trains but suspect of I had to commute I'd learn to hate them:(

Looked into going back to study today. Hope it works out, need to reboot my braincell before it dies completely,

Hoping the rest of the week is fab for us all:)

Eva loves breadsticks, and shoes too. I made a carroty swedey lentil combo which she really loves.

Tell the cool kids to try Croc knockoffs and sandal velcros. You haven't lived til you've munched velcro.

And I confess the batch cooking has completely stopped: DS just gets some of whatever we're eating, with a backup of philadelphia toastie fingers. Grimace fraud in those slurpy pouches is always popular. lmf, jammy dodgers and many other biscuits are some of his favourites. Today's dinner was muffin cheesburger with cherry tomatoes and grimace fraud for pudding. This is partly due to his insistence on self feeding, and partly because he really doesn't like mush at all. Plus it's way easier than seperate food....

I'm with aethel, f has decided that mush is for wimps, he is all about meatballs, fishcakes and guns down cheesy pasta. He def shows a preference for beige food which is the only thing he'll allow into his mouth on a spoon (apart from grimace fraud of course).

Ooh and I got him weighed randomly last week and he is sitting pretty at just below the 50ml percentile. Woop woop. Has meant I am now much more relaxed about how much he isn't is eating.

Strangely in our house DS has decided he doesnt like lumps again or self feeding we have tantrums and me having to hook food from his mouth more now than ever. He still doesn't have any teeth that may be it or it could be that he stuffs so much in he panics as cant then eat it.

He eats most things though and mostly what we eat, am worried he's not getting enough variety of tastes need to learn how to cook/make sauces.

My ds is still shoeless starting to feel like he's the only one when I see babies out are we?

We are shoeless.
I bought a v trendy pair from mamas n papas, just so he had one pair. The only time I would let him wear them is when he is not able to walk- so when he's in his pram. We went out for a long walk last week, he wore them for the first time. We'd done about 2 miles before I realised one was missing. So we retraced our steps back home... We found it. Almost at home. The shoes sit on his windowsill now, they are merely a pretty thing to look at.
Once he's up and walking, that's when we'll get shoes. He's happiest when his feet are bare.
BOi eats anything. And once he's eaten his, he'll want mine. I was sucking on a sweet at weekend, he decided he wanted it, and so covered my mouth with his. - He just kept lurching at me, open mouthed, mucky little oik!

We now have 6 teeth. Please Bob, that must mean we get a bit of a break from teething now? Right?!

We had shoes, mostly for the Wedding in feb. He's grown out of the two pairs we bought him. His first paid of Addidas Trainers are neatly packed away with his first football kit .

One of his cousins keeps buying shoes, so he has one pair that fit him, and some Ugg boots that still look huge. He's def happiest with bare feet, and with our wooden floors he needs the grip!

I'm going to ask Granny is she'll be his shoe fairy (her parents used to buy my school shoes when I was little) when we eventually get his feet measured and buy some ridiculously priced properly fitting shoes.

kate good luck with the potty training! Captain green pants has been a star, very few accidents and totally dry at night and for his nap too, which I did not expect! Thoughgt it usually takes a good year or so after daytime training to be dry at night. I guess it shows that he was just ready!

On the subject of all things green, Captain greenpants has somehow acquired an imaginary friend, who has green eyes and green hair apparently he is helping mummy with the mopping today I thought he was a bit young at 2.9 for an imaginary friend!

DD also loves shoes and shoelaces, but her favourite is DS's splints which are blue plastic with lots of black velcro for chewing

No shoes for DD here. I think that they're not meant to wear shoes until they are stable enough to do outside walking. Its better for their developMent to keep to bare feet or non-slip socks if its really cold. You can get "pram shoes" to keep them warm when out in the pushchair/sling but they shouldn't wear them in the house.

No shoes, no walking, no sleeping!

Speaking of which. Had coffee morning at school the other day. We set of the fire alarm with the water tank thinger. Cue whole school doing an unexpected evac drill. Whoops! :blush: Head was fine about it, said it saved her having to plan one next week:o

Well DS is stumbling walking a few steps on his own now so we went to buy shoes...he's a size 4.5G already but we couldn't find almost anything that fit him since he's got this enormous pad of squidge on top of his foot! Crocs didn't fit him, and velcro sandals just wedged this huge bubble of flab up between the straps. We're going to try Converse and if those don't work I'm not sure what we'll do. Even on the widest fit, the height of the shoe isn't high enough. (Do I mean the height? You know, the vertical space in the shoe.)

I made a batch of improvised beef & veg casserole in the oven yesterday for DS - browned 2 onions and 350g meat, then add 2 large carrots, 2 sticks celery, 600ml stock and a bay leaf. 2 hours at Gas mark 3 later, added 2 potatoes, an hour more and voila. I was worried it would be too plain so I added rosemary as well but fished it out again about 30 min in as it was smelling quite strong. Made enough to fill 7 Hipp jars!

I would feed him what we eat but at the moment we're eating mostly salads at dinner, so he's been having lots of jars.

In other news, we got him a baby bike seat and I fitted it yesterday - too cute! I'll put a picture up on my profile. Wanted to get him a front carry one but he is rapidly approaching the top of the weight range, so we went for a Bobike Maxi instead.

Have come home today to find DS wearing a 12-18 month jumper as dh dressed him after I went work. 12-18 months monster baby is only 9 months on Sunday

Tell me next sizes are small please

DD is firmly in 12-18 months too, and a few things don't fit! We've been lent a winter coat that is 12-18 months and I can't get the buttons done up. Will have to get an 18-24 month winter coat

Feels like she's catching up with DS as he's still in 2-3 years, and a few 18-24 months things!

Ignore clothes sizes, just use what fits. Baby clothes manufacturers are all nuts. My perfectly normal sized 7 year old still has a Muddy puddles raincoat aged 3-4 and it's huge on her. dD2 (5) is in the 1-2 years one.

xiao We had a similar squidgy foot problem with dD2: we had her barefoot for ages, and then bought a pair of Funky Feet elasticated mocassins which had suede soles and did until something in the normal shop finally fitted at about 15 months....

the viewings are starting to rack up. We went to see two houses today, one is huge, but too expensive and quite close to ropy council estate bit (though not in it), other is a lovely area but tiny garden and no side access. The Fantasy house is still "not taking viewings" (though we peeked over the wall and think they are doing up the garden, bad news as it probably means they want to up the asking price....). Am on a mission to harrangue the estate agent gently but regularly until
They either stop dangling it as on the market, or crack and let us view it!!

We are also shoeless and I like it that way! DS is getting very steady on his feet now and spends more time waving his arms at me than he does holding on for balance, only attempt i've seen to take a step not holding on has ended up with him landing on his head, so I think walking will be a while yet!

He has rejected pushing his walker around in favour of pushing a laundry basket round the kitchen. (Note to self not to waste so much money on toys if/when DC2 turns up!)

Picked a very grumpy DS up from nursery today, another day with pratically no napping, stubborn child.

And Figgy i'd say next sizes are small! DS is a pretty small baby and is in 9-12 months stuff from next. Although the stuff he fits into ranges from 3-6 months to 12-18 months depending on where its from which makes it a bit confusing.

Hooray for Captain Greenpants That's excellent. DD has done well again today, with just two small wet accidents at nursery when she was absorbed in playing. She was very proud of the 'you're a star' stamp they put on her hand at the end of the day.

I'm so glad to hear DS isn't the only one with squidgy feet. The GP at his 8 month check found his fat feet hilarious and told me I'd have fun trying to find shoes for him. Fortunately my DC's seem to be slow to get on the move so no shoes required here yet.

figgy clothes sizes are mad. I got DS two coats in the sales last winter. A 9-12 month John Lewis one and a 12-18 month Pumpkin Patch one. The John Lewis one is bigger, and he's wearing the PP one already. Having said that I do find Next clothes come up relatively big

I wish I hadn't hoped out loud on here yesterday for some good nights. I ended up with DS in bed with me for the first time since Dec. I don't know how some of you manage co-sleeping - I can never sleep well if the DC's are in with me. Poor little man still hasn't got his tooth through, is full of snot and dribbles, and has a horribly sore teethy bum.

Gee It sounds like the little green man is very helpful around the house! DD is 2.5 and told me yesterday that she was just phoning somebody called Grub, who her and her friend Jake had seen that morning. This was at 8am when she hadn't seen Jake (real friend) and certainly hadn't seen Grub (imaginary)

Octoboy's new cot arrived today. Tomorrow will be dedicated to gutting my room in order to assemble it:)

We're still pretty much in 3-6 month stuff but she's getting too long in the leg for some of it even though it fits around the body. She's going to be a leggy blonde, I just know it

Aethel good luck with the viewings! My parents live a stones throw from a very dodgy council estate. Any fans of Top Gear may recall the council estate Clarkson & Co demolished with tanks? Yep, that's down the road. Also, the chimney they blew up on top of a car is also in our Borough - I felt the tremors from DP's parents house, it felt like an earthquake when they came down

We have shoes for Freya but they are mostly "pretty" shoes with soft soles so definitely not walking shoes. People have bought us some Clarks first walkers but they're FAR too big at the moment (the shoes she does have are still 0-3 or 3-6 month ones). I took her into Clarks to get her feet measured but her feet didn't even register on their chart!

We've had a few rather unsettled nights so I'm particularly frazzled at the moment. I can't help but think that if she was a regular night esker I'd be a bit better prepared for it!

I finally have my scan on Thursday to find out what the hell is wrong with me this time. Starting to get very bored indeed of the constant bleeding (1 month constant since stopping the pill). I blame the implant but before having it removed need to make sure the mammoth cysts haven't returned

Well, I tried to post repeatedly last night, but the bloody browser kept on throwing a wobbler and so in the end I was so, so tired I just gave up.

DS again refused his dinner tonight, and just ate banana and grimace fraud. Not sure why he's doing this atm, he'll eat the above and primula sarnies, but not cooked food. Not sure if it's because he's getting a bottle (on our request) at about half four, five ish.

Those ladies who've done it before- it would appear from the badly worded guidance that you give approx 600 mls milk 6-12 months and then stop suddenly to replace with snacks, but when have you started swapping over?

Baby clothes sizes are as weird as the ones for ladies. DS is above the weight given for 9-12 months by a fair chunk, but several pairs of his dungarees and onesies are too long and/or he crawls and ends up all in the body with the legs flapping behind! Another pair fits perfectly and one flashes a load of ankle. And stuff's baggy round the middle...yeesh.

We don't bother with shoes either figgy; nursery put them on him if he goes outside, but that's been all of twice. Otherwise I truly cba and I think barefoot's meant to be better for footsie development.

Yay for Captain Greenpants and his helpful little friend !

And love the pic Xiao, as does my DP, your DS looks like he's having so much fun.

Oooh, good luck for the scan MissRee; must be an awful combo of desperate to find out what (if anything) is up and anxious about what they may find. Fingers crossed for you- and hope they can tell you there and then rather than the 'we have to send these off to our lab in Botswana for analysis, call us at 4pm on Boxing Day' sort of stuff

And I don't know whether to laugh or be outraged on your behalf Kate about the GP laughing at your LO's 'fat feet'!

We've still not been called for any check ups, so guess we must get it at a year or something....