October 2005 babies - what will happen in the next 6 months??

[Yokefleet]

I hope they are as good as the last 6!

Hi there

My dd was also born on her due date, very clever we thought! Its about 5% I heard, I was just so pleased to see her at last and have her out to cuddle.
1st time Mum, who agrees with you about the pink clothes!
At the moment she loves to hang up side down at any chance, whats with that????
Is there any get together being arranged?
We have just arrived from Aussie and I'd love to make some friends for Dom to play with!!!

Have a good night, I hear ice-cream calling for me

pants day - was driving myself and Joey back from the GP's when lo and behold, my car exhaust pipe decided to fall off! A lovely AA man came to rescue us (which made Joey's day!), but i dread to think what it's going to cost me to get the damn thing fixed, as it's the bit with the catalytic converter in it apparantly. Sorry, not really baby related, but i had to rant! Hope everyone else is ok. NM x

(baby birthday countdown - Joey's is 6 days away!!!)

Oh God- poor Richard Hammond I hope he's ok. He's the only reason i watch Top Gear! Kinda makes my car problems of yesterday pale into insignificance really.

It's very quiet on here at the moment! Hopefully that means you're all enjoying your babies...

I didn't enjoy mine much overnight, when he was awake several times and i only got 3.5 hours sleep in total! Mind you, he's been properly walking for the last few days, which would fit with 'a new skill disrupting his sleep pattern'. Hope it's only a temporary blip - it's just taken me nearly an hour to put him to bed again this evening!

Anyone else had appointments though for their baby's MMR jab yet? Joey got his letter through the other day, which i thought was a bit early (i thought they did it around 18 months?), and he'll be having the new pneumococcal vaccine at the same time. Take care all, NM x

Good luck with the childminding MB.I've just started looking into it as well, but I'm only planning to take on 1(2 at a push). Couldn't cope with any more

Hoes the course going Elf.

Less than 2 weeks to ds's birthday . Can't quite believe it

Thanks for all the good luck wishes for the childminding. It's gone ok so far but I feel like I am neglecting Johnny compared to the one on one attention he normally gets. You know how people with say three or four kids say that the youngest babies just have to get on with it? Well, I feel like that with him. He is having a great time though and is really enjoying the extra company. He laughs and squeals with delight at some of the stuff the kids do. So, I have to stop being so soft and let him enjoy it and make the most of all the one to one moments that we can have together. Someone has pressed fast forward again this week on his development. He's now crawling and would be into everything had I not childproofed. He is rolling over and I find him in the weirdest positions in his bed. I had to take a photo the other day, he was lying on his front with both legs hanging right out of the cot bars! His "talking" is really coming on and he's now attempting to pull up to stand. On the down side, he's teething and has horrendous weeping nappy rash . The poor wee lamb.

Bless mb. Glad the CM is going well, shame about Johnny's nappy rash though

Course going well, done two evenings so far, shd be wed and thurs but now tue and thurs so get a break between it. Feel bad for missing Evelyn, hate not seeing her, this week I feel like I haven't seen her much, but she doesn't seem to be missing me!! Fast asleep when I get home, not a peep out of her, unlike when I go out for a drink after work and I come back and she's been screaming all night! She obv knows when I'm doing something I like and complains, and when I'm doing something I dont and is happy!

Glad to report this morning that Johnny's nappy rash is much better. I used some different wipes and I think that might be what did it. I googled and came up with an ancient MN thread about weeping nappy rash and someone said they put cornflour on it, so I tried that and it worked a treat keeping it nice and dry. Same effect as talc I suppose, but without any perfumes etc.
Elf, I think I've missed something. What is your course?

Just started AAT Intermediate which is an accountancy course.

Morning All, Hope all you are all well.
We have been away in Yorkshire for a long weekend where we have had a joint birthday party for my 3yr old neice and Thomas (not his birthday til the 3rd Oct but we had a christening to go to on Sunday, so decided to do everything in one weekend) It was great getting to show Thomas off again as most of my extended family hadn't seen him in person since Christmas.
Thomas is now getting used to his shoes he would get them off before I had finished putting them on to start with now he waits til we are out and about in Tesco's before throwing them under the baskets down the bread isle! His confindence is growing with the walking but not quite there yet. I think tooth number 11 is on its way, I hope it comes through quickly

Wow, YF. Thomas is walking whilst out and about? Cool. Johnny loves his new found freedom being able to crawl. We had a week of terrible sleeping though co-inciding with this big milestone, and he was teething as well, but the last three nights, he has slept through without a peep. We had our first proper discipling to do yesterday. We are doing BLW and Johnny occasionally drops food over the side of the tray on purpose, normally when he is finished. That is the signal to me that he's had enough and I tidy up and remove the food. Yesterday, he decided to throw the food as soon as it was put in front of him. I could tell that he was doing it for a reaction. DH was sitting on one side of the table and I was at the other. Every time he tried to throw food over, DH took his hand and firmly said and signed "no". It made him cry and then he was looking at me for sympathy and the poor little lamb got none, just another firm "no". This happened about half a dozen times. It was soooo hard. I just wanted to cuddle him and say it was ok, but IMO chucking food for a laugh is not on, even if you are only 11 months!! He hasn't done it again during either of the two meals that he has had since. I really don't think I am imagining it that he was trying to play us off against each other. How fly is that for 11 months? It's unreal

lol mb, Evelyn regularly pushes the barriers. She'll do that food thing quite often, and gets told off and she'll cry, looking for sympathy. I refuse to give in though, cant stand it when I've cooked her a healthy dinner and she throws it on the floor, all the while looking at my face for my reaction!

It's my little man's first birthday today!!!

We've had a quiet day so far, but we're having a little party for Joey and some of his friends later on this afternoon. I can't believe he's one already!

Do you think we should start a new thread now our babies are growing up? NM x

nm as requested! new thread