October 2011 - my, oh my, how the first years flew by!! It's birthday season!!

[MummyDuckAndDuckling]

So excited that the first birthdays are upon us! Will try get a copy of the stats..

x-post tally get well soon.

I really hate it when "spontaneous" people drop in. Mostly DH's friend who is recently divorced and drops in all the bloody time but never rings first. I wouldn;t mind even just 5 minutes notice

Sometimes I want to sit on the sofa in my pjs all evening and watch trash tv and not have to bother making polite conversation and serving constant cups of tea (though with nano I could quite conceivably just disappear upstairs with the excuse that I'm writing my novel and MN instead )

Well I got a fair bit of reading done, although it just highlighted how much more I need to research.

hmm, yes a life. I used to have one and sometimes I see snippets. I think moving towns also means I don't have a connection to pre-baby friends and plus I don't have a workplace to meet people through.

I used to have the weekly shop as my 'me' times (friday or saturday evenings) but now that I have climbing buddies and a badminton partner then it isn't needed quite so much. I'm starting to make more proper friends at toddlergroups etc. now so that is also helping.

Sorry I've been off Mnet for a while. I will tr and read thread to catch up. Life's been very busy, ds2 started school which is going very slowly and only 4 mornings and looking at part time home education. He's also got hearing loss from glue ear so many need grommets in or adenoids out.

Jessica is a whole 1 year old, she seems so grown up. She has tarry a and bites sometimes but she is also completely scrumptious. Already saying a few words like dog, that, hiya, no. And making her opinion known... Uh oh. Still bfing 5x a day. She's been full of chest/cold/earache for over a month now/ catcg

Sorry,

Catching all bugs going. I'm alright, still doing the 5:2 and still home with kids. X

Hope everyone who was ill is feeling a bit better today.
Slow day here not much to report just hoping W manages to avoid any bugs before his op.

Am glad that I am not the only one who is more nanna like now ...

My mum now laughs at me spending my evenings after S in bed crocheting!!

It's not like I can go out and leave her in her bed though, so what else am I ment to do..

M made me laugh last night. he had on a new hoodie with the hood up. he was trying to pull the hood off, but just kept pulling it further over his face and yelling in frustrtaion.

And made me think of S Duck - despite having had porridge and a banana for breakfast, M is currently begging DH for some of his toast (he's a softie and gave him some, I ignored him when he came to me )

Going to look at the photo shoot results today - I'm not optimistic given how much M was running around and refusing to co-operate. I think we will be walking away with our free picture and nothing else!

they are chances eh!!
Good luck with the photos! I have been looking for someone local to do photos for a while. A friend put me intouch with her friend who is doing a photography course and is looking to add to her profile so she told me she is happy to take photos of S and will only charge me if I'm happy with them! Going to see her in a few weeks time. Hoping to get a few good ones than I can have put into canvas and give to my parents for Christmas. I've never had any pro photos taken of her yet, regret never having them done when she was newborn, sigh

We made it!

Lizzie is one today! (And DH and I have survived!)

Hope all is well with everyone, I'll raise a glass to the Oct 11 (and Sept...and Nov) babies at our party this afternoon!

Off to Tesco for balloons and bubbly xx

well done mrsh

everyone still poorly here, I didn't get my reading afternoon yesterday as DH was off work ill. DS and DD generally very unhappy.

Surprisingly though DS's sleep is quite settled inbetween feeds. Plus he's only been feeding twice in the night. Meanwhile DD has picked up where he left off and has been waking loads, but I still find that easier to handle.

Yay! Congratulations mr and mrs h and happy 1st birthday to L

Congratulations Baby H Happy belated Birthday.

Sorry have missed loads :( Having trouble prioritising at the moment and more farting about procrastinating. I need to be paid my wage and be able to stay at home and concentrate on my stuff whilst P is at nursery, sigh

Currently trying most days to get up at 5am and spend an hour doing my stuff before getting ready for work. This is not always successful though if P has rubbish sleep (which is not unusual). Wednesday she slept for 11 hours and last night woke every 3 hours. I do not understand babies!

Pene your post make me chuckle. Sometimes I eat dinner in my pj's because I know I won't be going back out, like yesterday .

Took P to bonfire and fireworks last week, she seemed vaguly impressed.

Still only a bit of a first tooth but teething generally means she has outrageous nappies and atrocious sleep :( Mother Nature needs to come up with a better design.

Mummy how did it go?
Engels glad you feel better today. Fx for more days like that for you.
< waves at > Bunt and BB3
Pebble beautiful pics on fb.
Sassy did you survive last night?
< waves at > Climbing Tally Strawberry

Hope I didn't forget anyone.

cheshire pyjamas are one of my ?not-answering-the-door? weapons for droppers in. If M is in bed and I have a shower, then the pjs go on, the door is locked, the blinds are closed and NO ONE is coming in!
M has been waking at 5 or 6 the last week as well Cheshire moaning a bit and then going back to sleep.

We have 2 molars now (so we?re on tooth number 10...with the nappies to show for it)

Congrats Mr and Mrs H

Keeping fingers crossed that W stays bug free strawb

Climbing I hope you don?t mind me saying this, but you sound like you?re having a rough time of it. Hope you?re okay. Sending you and sleep fairies for DD and DS. (I hate it when DH is off on my days at home ? I never get anything done).

Went to collect photoshoot pics yesterday. Got our ?free? one and also one other that we really liked, plus frame (nearly fainted at price). No way we would buy all of them, besides the price where the hell would you put them? (they printed about 10, but all big, not the size you would put in albums). Going to look at them online now and order a nice one for my parents and ILs and I may get a tacky keyring with M?s picture too

Rank alert ? last night I was writing at the dining room table and DH was on the sofa. Mwas wandering round and when he came near me I could smell poo straight away (why is it that I can smell poo from a metre away and DH can be right up close and personal with M, wriggling around on the sofa with DH and smashing that poo around good and proper and not smell it?). So I change him, notice the very bottom of one of his trousers is a bit wet and presume he?s been spilling his drink and walking in it. Later when we go to bed we decide to dismantle the foam puzzle mat on the floor (because M spends his whole time ripping it apart, putting it in his mouth and throwing it around) and the last bit I pick up is wet. I smell it?it?s runny shit! Yuk, yuk, yuk! DH starts scratching (?He was crawling all over me, how did this happen??) and I?m wondering how this happened when there was no shit on his legs or romper when I changed him. Plus M has been walking round with these bits in his mouth.

Ah, the mysteries of life.

eng eww at poo mat! Great about the photos glad you got some good ones.

mrsH happy belated birthday to L hope you all had a fab day

Had a surprise night off last nigh organised by DH shed of next week. He came and picked me up from work, told me MIL was babysitting and we were booked into a local hotel for the night. It was lovely to just turn off for the evening hasn't realised how much we needed it, it's the first night we've been away from W since he was born.

climbing any recommendations for where we can go for 5/6 hours on Thursday in Oxford when we get chucked out of hospital while they operate.

sp that sounds lovely! is W still germ free for go ahead next week with op?
cheshire I postponed the meeting with job centre till next week as I woke up with killer headache and couldn't face rushing to get us both out the house so early.
cp hope you are all better soon

I'm the same, as soon as S is in her bed I have a shower, put my comfy pjs on and lounge around

Engles (or other knowledgable mum) Do the nappies get worse with molars? Seb has one coming through (might by no.10 but he won't keep his mouth open long enough for me to count!) and yesterday had a really runny nappy - like soup [grossed out emoticon - especially when it dripped onto the carpet]. Seems OK today though. Oh and urgggg!

Had our NCT one year birthday party today. 3 of the 8 babies were ill though, which was a shame.

Straw that sounds amazing, lucky you. Hope you made the most of it (nudge nudge wink wink!)

I'm sure I did read somewhere that nappies are usually horrendous when teeth are coming through and apparently the urine smell is much stronger.

Can't believe some of the babies have 10+ teeth!!! Starting to wonder where the hell S's are!!

M's nappies are certainly pretty evil at the mo tally

I can smell them from 50 paces or thereabouts

M still being really clingy. Seems to have lost the ability to play by himself. tearing my hair out because I have so much schoolwork to get done today and a novel to write

he's sleeping now so why am I on MN

Glad to see Engels farting about working hard too

There is no need to count P's "teeth" used in the loosest sense of the word. Actually I will try and put a pic on fb tonight, we have had swing pictures I think we should have teeth pictures now.

Eli has 8 teeth at last count. Not sure if any more are lurking as he bit my finger last time I tried to look!

SP night in a hotel sounds lovely! Good luck for Thursday will be thinking of you.

Tally we have horrendous nappies when teeth come through. No molars yet so wonder whether they will be worse (can they get any worse?)

We had our UK wedding party on Saturday so can finally relax and do normal things on my days off

Have all of our babies turned one now?.....so Christmas? Anyone getting excited? x

Very excited about Christmas here!! I've done all my shopping for S . Got her a lovely wooden doll pram and doll. Hoping to try find the time to crochet her a blanket to go in it. Also a few puzzles, books, clothes, crayons and a train set! Everyone raves about the £8 one from ikea! I've also bought her new shoes and some little bits and pieces recently so no more! Just everyone else now

Still only 2 little bottom teeth here! Can see all the top ones under the gums but not breaking through yet.

Question for those of you who had an epidural, do you ever get pins and needles in your back causing it to go numb? Certain ways I set, from just below my bra line, down more of the left hand side goes really weird. Don't know if its an after effect of the epidural or not.

Hope all mummies and babies are good

Hi all, sorry for the me post, I've not had time to catch up. I've been in and out of hospital since Friday- I've had a miscarriage :(
Bloods and a scan confirmed it, so I was in on Sunday having medication to help contractions to move everything out. That hasn't worked so I went home Monday for a break (and to see N), and I'm back in today for another course of meds. They're not working so far, and if nothing happens again we've agreed to have the surgical option.

We're devastated but at the same time are relieved that if it had to happen, it did early on. Just want this over :(