May 2004 babies - new thread

[helsy]

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

I managed to get DS1 to nursery for 9-ish twice last week, with DS2 still in sleepysuit and only halfway through a bottle. Normally my mum takes him on her way to work but she's very selfishly gone on a cruise for 2 weeks! Having said tyhat, DS2 did fall asleep in the car and stayed asleep for an hour after I got back which was great.
We're off to stay with a friend for a couple of days, just me and the boys, but now we have DS2 he'll be in the travel cot and DS1, who's normally in a cot bed will have to sleep in a bed for the first time. Not brilliant planning on my part! Normally I'm a bit more retentive but DS2 seems to have curbed that bit of my personality .
Are all the others in beds already? DS1 has never tried to climb out or objected so we never moved him.....

Hello Pepperrabbit, nice to meet you. Dd2 is still in a cot because - well, because she's ok in a cot, is very small so is still comfortable and more importantly because we haven't found a big bed for dd1 yet so dd2 can't move up to her junior bed yet.
Loved the drunken post Judd - must try one myself one night!
Dd 2is back to not sleeping unless one of us is in her room - had a dreadful weekend. I went to get my haircut on Saturday and, having had 2 hours sleep, called to say I'd be a bit late as DH let me sleep in because I was knackered, forgetting I had a hair appointment. The receptionist was very snooty when I rang and said I couldn't be more than 15 minutes late! I felt like saying "you don't know what you're saying, woman - I'm a mother who's had no sleep! Who knows what I could do if sufficiently riled?" Had three free cups of coffee before I was properly awake!

that sounds horrid helsy.

dd still in a cot and thats the plan for as long as possible! she cant climb out - touch wood and likes her cot so i'm leaving it at that. 7 months before the baby and then however long in a moses basket, so she may be in it for a year! it is a cotbed though, so isnt a prob to change if we need to. lots of my friend's 2 year olds are in a bed though. mainly cos they learned to climb out.

love your drunken post judd and my new name - eguypet. hee hee. dh has just gone off up the golf club to collect his prize! he's very chuffed to finally have won a comp.

been away for the weekend as dh's grandad is on his last legs. oh dear. i'm still feeling crap, although was fine yesterday and even made it out for a curry. felt fine after that and slept really well. havent eaten too much today, except rubbish so that is probably why. went to do my shop at tescos but felt so ill and hungry i actually parked the car, went in, bought a chocolate brownie, sat in the car, scoffed it then went and did the shopping!

just eaten half a tesco's steak and ale pie with potatoes and gravy but am still hungry. hummm

hope it's all going well with your little one kbaby xx

DS is still in his cot but not in a grobag any more, he has a duvet to snuggle under. He also has a night light as well as he was waking up and crying in a really panicky way in the evenings.
We got both children new shoes yesterday and they both got exactly the same size (8.5 G) even though there is 2.5 years between them!
Hideous moment - there was an odd smell this afternoon (DH suspiciously oblivious) and I asked DS if he had done a poo. "Yes, mummy" he said. "It's a leaky one".

oooh Judd - yuck!
yes, I've only just taken DS1 out of grobags at night (obviously I let him out during the day as well !)
And he's just in the last 2/3 months insisted on having a night light as well - must be a stage they go through cos he was fine in the dark before.
I have no idea how i'm going to fit all my wordly possessions into my ford escort to take 2 small children away for 2 nights...... I seem to have a suitcase fgs, do you remember the days when a tiny handbag that only just held purse/keys/lippy was enough

Hi y'all, I did laugh at your drunkenness Judd and you have made me laugh again with your talk of leaky poos. Pepperrabbit wahey! fancy seeing you here...!

I am exhausted from posting a tiny post in the who I am thread but couldn't be here without saying hello.

DD's still in her cot. We bought a bed for her but she wont sleep in it. I guess we have another 4/6 months before DS needs it anyway.

Judd - DD always tells us about how shes just had a poo 'and it was a big one'

I am knackered. Id forgotten how tiring waking at night is for feeds oh and DD sleeping has become appaling and shes waking at 12pm and calling out for us every 10 minutes to go in and see her until about 3am. So between feeding and getting up with DD I feel like a zombie, I think I look like one aswell at the moment.

Oh Kbaby, I feel for you. It does get better, I promise!

Judd, great drunken posting.

Pepperrabbit, DS went bump out of his cot a few months back and we've got him a bed on legs that fold. At the moment the legs are folded and it is at floor level so there's no worry about accidents. It was perfect timing for DS2 to use his old cot (after a bit of a break so that he didn't feel he was stealing his bed). Funny, he NEVER gets out of bed on his own. He always lies there and waits for me to come into the room before he gets up. It's quite nice for me, really but I've been trying to entice him to be a bit more independent. I left the door open and shouted "where's my Jake?" from another room upstairs today for a while but he still didn't appear.

Argggh growbags! DS is completely attached to his blinking grow bags, even though he doesn't fit in most of them any more. They are affectionately known as ba - de - bas and one has to be dragged everywhere he goes. I wouldn't mind only they are so big! I think I might cut them into pieces but I don't know how well that would go down. God forbid if I ever forgot one when I went out. He chews on the shoulder bits, which are now all ingrained with yellowy brown gunky spit. He loves them more than me. The other day, he went up to a wet one hanging out to dry and gave it a cuddle saying "Ahhhhh baddy, I love you baddy!"

We have just bought DD1 aher first downie, and gorgeous soft brushed cotton downie cover. She just loves loves loves it. She also loves climbing up her cot sides and tumbling head over heels into it... to the extent that she does not WANT a big girl bed; it would spoil her fun.

And today she has been loving crows. Chasing them in the park shouting 'I love crows!'

Awww, Spots. That's cute. Thanks for posting. I was beginning to worry I'd killed the May babies thread! Is everyone on holiday or did I send everyone to sleep?

We've had a nice but uneventful bank holiday weekend. Lots of trips to the park and things like that. We flew a kite with DS on Monday for the first time and he was so excited his little arms and legs were flailing everywhere and he couldn't keep hold of it.

I made a bit of a disasterous tea tonight. I found a pack of spices to make a complete Thai meal in the spice rack so I bunged them all into a grinder and shoved them in with a bit of chicken and coconut milk. I didn't really check the spices but it turned out there was a REALLY hot chilli in there and when I tasted it, it was even too much for me. DH loved it. I tried to water DS's down with a ton of milk when I realised. He tasted it and his face was a picture. He looked so confussed and shocked. He's so good at eating normally but with this he just put his spoon down and said in a matter of fact voice, "Shall we have pudding now, Mummy". We did laugh, then I got a frozen lasagne portion out of the freezer for him. Thank god for leftovers. He had his pudding first to take the taste away while his meal was in the microwave so he had his dinner backwards! I won't be doing that again.

I'm starting to prepare for next weekend now. We've got a gay civil partnership ceremony to go to in London so we are taking the boys to stay overnight in a hotel and to two other different venues in different places across London and it's going to be a late one. We're just going to see when DS crashes out and go home then. Wish me luck. The military operation starts here.

Hmmm. I just wrote "May babies thread". Habit. They so aren't babies anymore, are they? He'll still be my baby even when he's 30 though

Hello everyone!!! This will be a novel and a half.

How are you all doing? I've skimmed through the thread but not read all of it properly.

Congratulations Kbaby on your new arrival, James is a lovely name my father in law is called James and he's lovely. congratulations to Egypt on your expected arrival, are you moving to singapore?

hello to everyone else

I'm so impressed that some of you have started potty training and some have even got it almost mastered. I haven't even tried dd2 with it yet. Well that's not strictly true we have a potty and every now and then I sit her on it but she won't stay on it and hasn't done anything in it yet. I'm not to fussed about it at the moment. It's hard as I'm at work 3 days a week and on my two days off we're rushing around doing all the things I have to catch up on.

We're going to France next week for a wedding. It's in Bordeaux, I've never been there before and I'm so stressed out by the whole thing it's unreal. It's dh's friend who's getting married, but I've been the one organising flights, accommodation, money, packing. I'm driving us to the airport and no doubt while we're there I'll be doing the majority of the childcare so that dh can spend time with his friends who he hasn't seen for ages since they live in France. Bitter? Moi? No, lol I'm sure we'll have a great time but I have days when I wonder whether or not it will be worth going.
Once we come home I'll start on the potty training. My granny keeps saying I should have dd2 trained by now but I'd rather wait until after we've been away, don't need the added stress of being abroad and trying to deal with potty accidents.

Dd2 just grows bigger and better every day. She never stops talking, never sits still and is just so independant she's verging on nightmare status.
About 3 weeks ago she decided that she didn't like her cot and started climbing out of it. She now won't even go to sleep in the damn thing, she just screams blue murder and climbs right back out. Have decided that we need to move her into a big girls bed but to do that we need to get dd1 a new bed, she wants bunk beds so her friends can stay over, then dd2 will get her single bed. But the new bed will take 6 weeks to arrive so that's another thing that's being left until after we've been on holiday. So, at the moment dd2 is going to bed in our bed and sometimes I move her to her cot once she's asleep but she wakes in the night and then comes through and gets back in beside me so I'm jsut going with the flow at the moment. I'm hoping once she has her own bed she'll settle down again.

She's also dropped her afternoon nap. This is a real pain as by the time it gets to 3pm to go get dd1 from school she's practically asleep on her feet. But if she sleeps then she won't go to bed until 9pm which is awful as it means I get nothing done. I'm in the middle of decorating the house which I usually do once the girls are in bed, not so easy if one of them won't go to sleep!
Dh keeps saying that dd2 should still be sleeping through the day but we can't force her to nap and I keep pointing out that dd1 had dropped her afternoon nap well before she was this age so it's to be expected that dd2 will drop it too.

someone mentioned being asked if they are having any more babies, sorry I forget who. That crops up occasionally with me as well. I tell them no dd2 is more than a handful. A guy at work is about to become a dad any day now, his wife is actually due today. and I find myself thinking I'm so glad that it's not me, have no inclination to have anymore babies. Wouldn' be without the ones I have but definitely don't want any more.

well, going to go now as it's getting late and must get to bed soon for work in the morning.

will pop in again after France and let you know if I survived, lol

bye for now

Hi Linnet, nice to see you.

Ponka and Pepperrabbit, I can't seem to manage posting on the April babies thread any more... I've got that 'it's been too long' feeling! Am I allowed to talk about both my babies here? They belong together!

Funny things happen every day. Today my friend said 'Someone's T-I-R-E-D' about her son and DD procked up her ears and said 'I want some T-I-R-E-D too!' Spelling normaly means fun things.

I am knackered though. DD2 chases me across the bed all night. Try as I might I can't quite make friends with co-sleeping.

he he spelling gone a bit awry

It's nice to hear how you are doing, Linnet.

Spots, we spell nice things too. I'd love to hear about both DDs on here but I think you should just take the bull by the horns and go back as well. It's really picking up at the moment.

We went to visit some nurseries today and have chosen one to send DS1 to for one morning a week (instead of MIL looking after him). We think he needs a little more interaction with other children. I am going to cry my eyes out when it happens. More than he will.

yeah dd slept in her big bed last night for the 1st time. dh read her a story in it and she said she wanted to sleep in it, she slept to 7 not the usual 6am and didnt wake once. hope tonights the same.

Hi all, hmmm, when I went into DS1 this morning he's standing in the cotbed with one foot resting on the top of the bars..."lookit my foot mummy!" Methinks we'll have to convert it soon!
Spots, I only manage to post on one thread or the other normally, (I've been good tonight!) I just feel like I'm repeating myself a lot of the time - though it is worth mentioning all over the place that they both slept till 9.30am yesterday
They both have colds at the mo which is no fun - apart from the super sleeping of course.
We have my FIL staying this weekend so will have to rearrange all the sleeping anyway...

ponka - I cried all over the place when DS1 first went to nursery (now I cry when he has to stay at home.....) he was absolutely fine

hi all
thats great about the sleeping kbaby, hope it continues.
linnet, great to hear from you, hope your trip goes well. its all so stressful arranging to go anywhere. i am panicking about the whole flight to singapore thing. eeek. will think about it another day. but yes, we are still going. not until jan when i will be 6/7 months preg and dd will of course be 2yrs 8 months, so MIGHT be a good traveller. or worse. who knows!

where is georgina, cat, prufrock, libb, etc? must admit i dont much scour the other threads but if anyone has heard from them, are they ok?

been at my parents in norwich all week, going back home today. been lovely as my mum has insisted that i do nothing because of morning sickness and she has looked after dd the whole time. i would feel guilty but she insist....aw, go on then.

thing is, i bet dd misses her like mad when we go back home. dh has been in states all week, arriving home this evening. then he's off to Malaysia on 9 sept for 2 weeks, which means my mum will come and stay with us for that time. hopefully be over my ms by then. scan on tues.... sorry, thats for another thread i guess. i think we should talk about all our little ones on here if we want to. think we know each other so well and much more than to just talk about may babies. perhaps we should call the thread something else. like.....the formally known as 'may babies 2004' but now involves gossip about every subject in our lives cos we're great mates thread.

oh and dd starts pre-school on weds for 2 mornings a week. think i might cry too but am really looking forward to the rest!

I have bumped into GeorginaA on a fair few threads recently and Prufrock on one thread. Thought they might pop in here but no sign

spookily signed into msn yesterday after typing my last post and there was cat. had a nice chat. she is fine. i told her to pop in and say hello.

Just caught up with everything that has happened while I have been away. I am so tired that this might end up being the equivalent of Judd's drunken post. It was that pub in Blackpool btw Judd. Linnet I hope you enjoy France. We had a lovely time.

We got back at 2.30 am and of course with children you don't choose when you get up, do you? Actually they did sleep in a bit but DD was so disturbed and restless the night before that I had been up since 6 am French time plus being awake for spells during the night. We got the 7pm sailing back to Poole which got in at 10.30 pm and then shared the 4 hour drive home. We all went to bed in the cabin, DS very excited about being on the top bunk and DD fell out of the bottom one and I saved her loads of times. She just laid on the floor between the beds and held her arms up to me. Also on the theme of beds v cots she was in a z-bed the second week but we took the bedside bars but she managed to fall between the bed and the bars. So I was awoken by this little voice "mummy - stuck" and got up to find her trapped by her stomach (by far her fattest point), feet nearly on the ground. She is in a summer sleeping bag and a bed. But we have no winterweight bags to fit and she is ready to come out of nighttime nappies so am not sure what to do. She did really well on holiday - we only had to stop the car for her once and she had one accident (poo though). Of course, she chose to do it the one time we were at a beach with the car ages away and no change of clothes. And the toilet block had a hole in the ground toilet and a sink without a tap. So I decided to ditch her 30p Asda pants, stuck her trousers in a bag and made DS give her his pants and go commando. DS was extremely cross about this. But his orange pants matched her lovely orange Vertbaudet t-shirt very well.

DS is back to school tomorrow so it is back to DD and me on Mondays and Fridays. Can't believe that my little boy is in year one....

hello all,
Glad you all got back in one piece Bozza, we've still got a couple of weeks to go before our holiday, and everyone else here at home seems to have written off the summer and be thinking about school and probably christmas! I have told DH that he'll be lucky to find new sandals this late in the year (especially as he refuses to go shopping to try and find any!!) I'm having a bikini crisis, I don't have one that fits, ny post baby diet has kind of ground to a halt, and just the sight of my stretch marks put me off buying anything new in the tummy revealing line... DH thinks I don't need a bikini as the villa we've booked has it's own pool We're married with 2 kids fgs, what kind of pool exploits is he planning !!!
I shall go now before I embarrass myself.

LOL pepperrabbit at your DH. Mine was on about joining me in my bunk last night on the ferry. Er, I don't think so I need my rest. Enjoy having September holidays while you can. WE used to go in June or September before DS started school. And I had trouble finding sandals for DD in July. She had a tantrum in France because DS has got some trainers and she hasn't. This has been the situation for months so don't understand why it was worthy of a strop just then.

Quick question for people. What do your children play with? Especially the girls, but everyone really.