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May 2004 babies - new thread

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helsy · 03/05/2006 23:42

Well, d'you think anyone will bother?
I feel like I'm having a party and waiting for people to turn up. Dorito, anyone?

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Judd · 08/12/2006 13:20

Jinglehels?

turkEgyptlets · 08/12/2006 16:15

deck the hels with boughs of holly?
deck the halls with boughs of helsy!
the helsy and the ivy?

turkEgyptlets · 08/12/2006 16:16

judd's is better..........i'm thinking now

wrappingpaperBOwZZAndribbons · 08/12/2006 21:57

LOL at helsy. I'm sure ponka won't take it personally - she might even be flattered.

I am going to bed in a minute. I am so tired I can't move though. And I have my entire year's social life crammed into next week so it is not going to get better. We went to get the Christmas tree tonight and the children are so excited. We are not decorating it until the morning but DH has trimmed it and got it in the stand and I have spent ages sorting out the lights. But I said they could do the nativity scene thing tonight and DS was literally jumping up and down. Then they were arguing over who put the donkey in and who put baby Jesus in etc. We had to go in both cars to get the tree and DD was most perturbed about where DH and the tree were all the way home.

She has gone to bed with a velcro birthday cake tonight....

WhenPonkagotstuckupthechimney · 09/12/2006 00:00

I don't mind being twins if you don't, Helsy!!!!

turkEgyptlets · 09/12/2006 08:43

I WANT TO PUT OUR TREE UP! dh is away this weekend, golfing with my dad etc. mum is still here but dh wants to trim up with us. we'll have to do it one eve this week and dd can have a late night. or we could do it sunday afternoon i guess, if he gets home in time. it would make life much easier if we did it when she was in bed. what do you think, should she join in ?

pepperrabbit · 09/12/2006 11:34

Morning everyone, we are woefully ill prepared for christmas here, though I have wrapped up all of everyone else's presents IYSWIM. It's just I've written no cards and already missed the posting date for Oz apparently, we have DH's family christmas tomorrow (as it's my year for my family...) so I really really need to get my arse in gear!
I have no festive name..
and DS1 is receiving cards from friends at nursery that I've never even heard of How much of an evil mummy does that make me???!
I just love the idea of an imaginary friend called baby Jesus!
Can I be whenPeppergotstuckupthechimney or is that a tad cliquey
Oh I make myself laugh. Pepper wanders of past a stack of unwrittencards...la la la.

wrappingpaperBOwZZAndribbons · 09/12/2006 13:33

I really should be writing cards now. DS has gone out with my Mum and Dad. DD is in bed prior to her nursery party. DH is playing half a round of golf before coming home for the party.

Egypt - you know the answer to your tree dilemma really. She will love doing it, but it would be a lot easier without her. DH sorted the tree last night and then I got the lights on so we were all ready to go this morning. We had a slight calamity in that DD fell over and ended up sat in a shoe box of baubles. Fortunately only one smashed. DH disappeared on to the computer. So I was left with two hyper children vying for who should put which bauble on.

turkEgyptlets · 09/12/2006 13:38

hmmm. my dh will prob disappear onto the computer too. then again, if he does help he will only get all authoritative, saying 'no,dd, put that one here....that one doesnt go there...' etc. he's so not in tune with child-led activities sigh.

new dilemma> do i put the tree up whilst dh is out?!

WhenPonkagotstuckupthechimney · 09/12/2006 21:37

I wouldn't. I feel sad decorating on my own. I have always put Christmas tapes on and dragged DH off the computer to do it with me

Erm. Pepper, your name is quite difficult to transform. The only thing I can think of is PepperrabbitisforlifenotjustforChristmas but it's not great and might even be too long.

My friend's DD swallowed 5p the other day. It has just come out the other end! My brother suggested to her that it's lucky and she should put it in the Christmas pudding . We are going away this weekend with her and some other friends for a Christmas do and she is sorting most of the food. Perhaps I should be worried?!

I'm off now to decorate our Christmas cake. It's going to be a boringly simple version of one I've done for someone else because I just don't have enough time Xmas Sad. Christmas cards are all unwritten here, too!

wrappingpaperBOwZZAndribbons · 09/12/2006 21:44

Well I did get the ones I wanted to give out today done. And started doing some more tonight but got dispirited about the number of addresses I didn't know. DH's family are always on the move! I think I might marzipan our cake tomorrow. But we are going out visiting for lunch and I have promised DS that I will help him make a card for his teacher. So DD will then insist on doing one for the nursery nurses. And it will become pandemonium.

turkEgyptlets · 09/12/2006 21:55

oh i still marvel at how you lot with more than one child cope! i have never made a christmas cake nor intend to. my grandad did several every year until he died. i havent even considered it.

what did your lo go to bed with tonight bozza?

wrappingpaperBOwZZAndribbons · 09/12/2006 22:02

Baking is fine for me because DD loves it. We made mince pies (with homemade mincemeat ) yesterday. It was quite time consuming because she kept cutting out from the middle of the pastry so we kept having to re-roll and all the pastry went sticky.

Tonight she went to bed with ......Electric soft toy (free from MPower to her Auntie who then passed it on) but only because DS decided to go to bed with Gas, and a plastic ice-cream cone.

pepperrabbit · 09/12/2006 22:23

Egypt, even when I had no children I didn't cook so you can come and sit with me!
No tree yet, still no cards - is there not a christmas card fairy that comes and writes them all for you overnight?? Or am I confusing the elves and the shoemaker.....
hmmm
this is achieving nothing.
Bozza - what or who is Gas??
DS1 always takes a book to bed, which is always stuck to his cheek when I go to check on him, he's lucky he hasn't got the whole Thomas series indelibly printed on his face!

wrappingpaperBOwZZAndribbons · 09/12/2006 22:25

It is some soft toy that featured on some advert for the power company. Apparently DH had to pull the bed out to find it. He put her to bed tonight while I did DS, but when she came through to kiss DS and me, she saw DS with Gas so she inisted on having Electric. Ice-cream cone is velco one from a set from ELC. Dunno what my MIL is going to think when they go stay there on Friday....

pepperrabbit · 09/12/2006 22:33

Hmmm sensing a pattern with the velcro food!
Ds2 loves the free toy that came with the Huggies bag, completely disinterested in expensive toys from relatives - and of course he's very attached to anything DS1 wants to play with.....

wrappingpaperBOwZZAndribbons · 09/12/2006 22:48

Ah yes - the anything the older sibling wants to play with syndrome. That has been big in our house ever since DD could move. It can get wearing though. DD now wants to "write" in Christmas cards because DS has been doing. The fact that she is 2 and cannot write is apparently irrelevent.

wrappingpaperBOwZZAndribbons · 09/12/2006 22:50

Just realised it is 10 to 11. I am off now. Need to get a bit of energy for my hectic week next week - DH away Monday, DS's play Tuesday, Italian Wednesday, Chinese Thursday, Indian Friday, MIL's buffet Saturday. Might need to invest in a new wardrobe in a bigger size also.

pepperrabbit · 09/12/2006 23:00

DS2 wants to eat christmas cards. At 8 months old the glittery ones are very interesting and clearly yummy.
How did it get to be so late?

wrappingpaperBOwZZAndribbons · 09/12/2006 23:03

LOL pr I don't know. Went downstairs but came back despite what I said. Ah to have an 8 month old..... But it won't be happening.

helsyslittlehelper · 10/12/2006 00:07

So, whaddya think? (Twirls to give cyberchums full view of new name).

I think we should ALL be "namegotstuckupthechimney", personally.

Pepperrabbitinapeartree?
Olittletownofpepperrabbit?
AllIwantforchristmasispepperrabbit?
Isawdaddykissingpepperrabbit?

Coo, half a bottle of red and I'm on a roll! Too tiddly to report on children at present, will do so in due course .

Judd · 10/12/2006 00:23

We are watching 100 best children's TV programmes. We remember different things because DH is 6 years yojnger and posh. They had the Radio Times so never watched any ITV. Only playing with things older childr plays with is a pain in the arse. I spent ages playing Guess Who with DS and he hadn't a BALLY CLUE about the rules, neither did he care. The flipping action is the only good bit for him.
We helpded set up thei Christmas Tree at church this morning. I think they were OK, even though DD scooted up and down the aisles with DS chasing her. Only tree decoratorws there so hopefully OK. Then they had a party, then 5 attempts to crack out a pooh by DS, each one accompanied by me. Then they decorated our tree (B&Q real one) with DH whilst I did some dusting and hoovering.
We are off to Blackpool tomorrow to see my mum and fix her computer (having trouble with Ebay and photos..not bad for 76 although she has auctioned my Famous Five badge) aned then hoping the children will fall asleppec on the way back so they will be in good spiritis for the Christmas Carol service at church. I am also going to record Casablanca, and ignore my mum who has phoned to say all she wants for Christmas is Karen's dress off Stricly Come Dancing, in a size 12. Just say no to Tesco and their naughty wine offers, kids

Judd · 10/12/2006 00:25

I am muchos broody bujtu cannot have any more.

helsyslittlehelper · 10/12/2006 00:29

Judd, did you by any chance have the half bottle I left?

wrappingpaperBOwZZAndribbons · 10/12/2006 08:37

LOL at "6 years younger and posh".