November 2012 - Babies going trick or treating

[StuntNun]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1870430-November-2012-Babies-are-getting-busy-busy-busy

Pp I know what you mean about doing stuff like that for the party.
Next year A and H will have a joint 1st and 2nd party. Hoping for quite a big party and already decided a sesame street theme. Going to be epic. Lol

Also I made a collage of H pictures this year in the shape of a number one. Decides ill do one every year and stick then up on his bedroom wall.

How rude chasing. He double booked himself and chose the other thing? Not on. No washing hair today pls.

Nice to wake up at home. Olivia is currently throwing toys behind the sofa while I catch up on the thread. Both in pyjamas. Forgot to tell how awesome my parents were yesterday, they turned up with soup, meal and desert for both of us. Enough for today as well so no cooking. Also a neighbour texted if we needed anything.

O hasn't been eating anything apart from snacks for 2 weeks. She gobbled up the home made food yesterday. I'm not worried about her at all, I know she eats well most of the time.

pidj I want to come to your party.

And I want my baby to be a baby as long as possible. It's scary that a couple of months ago she was just on boobs doing nothing and now she is a proper little person. A very willful one .

Happy Thursday quiche.

Today I am thankful for the quiche holding my hand through yesterday. And for Oscar sleeping 13 hours last night

Happy Thursday to you too chasing

Looking forward to the Belfast meet today and spending DHs money in Ikea.

Morning quiche. DD1 had 39.3 fever this morning and overnight so after dropping LO at nursery we went to the local town and picked up jam do-nuts and are sat watching cBeebies stuffing our faces hope she doesn't vom . No other symptom though she does cough overnight, just fever and a tiny bit delirious during the night. Nursery don't accept them over 38.5 degrees so girly day in it is. She has had low grade fever on and off for severl days, last night and this morning were the first fever proper; if no better tomorrow will take her to the paed, who no doubt will be delighted to see me twice in a week, will signal the start of the winter bugs.

Enjoy the Belfast meet :)

chasing I am glad you are staying just friends if he thinks that is acceptable behaviour. You don't tell someone two hours after you are due at their house that you have double booked and will come tomorrow.

Congrats on the win horsey hope you had a lovely holiday!

Sorry to read of more poorly babies

PP party sounds fab.

Chasing by the sounds of it, friend guy barely deserves friend status!!!

Lily how lovely of your parents x

Nursery viewing yesterday was something of a disaster. Viewed a few non-starters and fell in love with one. We want to put her in four full days (mon tues thurs fri) . They only have space three afternoons (tues thurs fri) So she is booked in for these in the hope more spaces come up. My DSis was having her all day Weds anyway but is now also taking her Mon Tues and Thurs mornings every 3 weeks. The rest of the time we can juggle it between us, but we are still stuck on a Monday afternoon and friday morning every third week

Things have also escalated with ILs. I have kept whinging about the situation to a minimum but things boiled over this week with their snubbing of DP's birthday and I think we have made the unanimous decision to cut them out entirely. i am onyl sad that M will never know them although delighted I no longer have to deal with their crap

A bit of perspective: my BIL didn't even crawl until he was over a year old and struggled in Primary School due to hyperactivity. He went on to get all A grades at A level, completed a fast-track Masters in Physics from the University of St Andrews and is currently doing a PhD in Optics in London.

My DS1 didn't walk until 15 months and had no words at 18 months. He is currently averaging 97% in his 11-plus practice papers.

All children take their own path at their own speed. If we talk to them, read to them, play with them and love them then we have given them all they need to develop at their own rate.

Well put Stunt

Of course the Quiche is invited! Pm for details :o

The birthday talk is making me look back over the last 12 months. The quiche has been through so much and we're still going strong. I never imagined that you would all become such a big part of my life

Thankful Thursday for the quiche? Group back slap for collectively kicking so much ass?

Well put Stunt DD1 really walked at 14/15 months. And we hardly got a word from her until almost two. There are no signs that she has any developmental issues. Am tying to persuade her though that ducks say quack quack but she keeps saying coing coing, like the French do.

Beautifully put Stunt. Apparently Usain Bolt didn't walk until 17 months - that's not held him back has it?

I'm thankful for the quiche. For my lovely one year old son (1!!!! WTAF?!). And for all our loved ones who made such a fuss of him yesterday. Oh and that despite being a vair big boy - Mummy cuddles are still the best thing ever.

Oh and I think M is the second youngest? MrsWee's O is after her. We are December baybeez

Not caught up properly, but I just have to say BP 'man in the making' is so bloody true!!! Big hug over your error at work. I am off today as I am just not safe. I can barely remember my own name and would be dangerous. There is such pressure to go to work though.

Horsey I still think of DD1s birth in the days leading up to the birthday, and she is 7. It gets easier though, and having another child really helped, having two more means it does become a distant memory. You will be ok, just make sure you process your feelings and keep coming back to the present with your gorgeous E. Talk about it here on FB if it helps x

J is one tomorrow. What a bloody awful year!!! But he is worth it.

PR they only take them with a temp of 38.5 or lower? Surely they should only take them if they are well? No raised temp, surely? No wonder bugs are rife.

J is in nursery this morning and I am just waiting for the call to get him. I am too fucked up for work, but hopefully having a bit of head space and rest will help. DH is worried about me. I think J is over the worst, but is still pooing water from the antibiotics. He had a crap night again. Up at 10.30 and settled around 1 but only in with me, so I had very little rest. He throws himself around so much and wakes himself up. He woke me at one point by biting my cheek. Little sod that he is.

Sounds strange to say, but I am glad that your DH is worried about you VQ. Is he helping out at all?

Thank you Penny x

Chasing, I think he is going to be more helpful. Before when I was ill it was a gradual deterioration. This past week it has been scarily fast so he could see it. I went to bed at 7.30 last night after putting the girls to bed. He got J settled by about 8. He was up again after a couple of hours, but at least I got a bit of sleep. He has said we are going to sit down at the weekend and sort out how he can help me more. His mum is very ill, and he has largely had to manage the girls himself this week. He still thinks he has a right to a couple of hours of down time each day. If he does, then I do too, but with the situation as it is, neither of us have that luxury.

Poor J will not be having a fancy party. He will probably not even get a cake, but he will have Choc buttons. We hope to have a little bash on Sunday with the GPs. He will have his sisters kissing him from morning until night though.

I am very reassured to read of others who are still on 4 bottles and not eating much. It helps to know we are not the only ones. I went to get his prescription formula today and the chemist had not put the repeat in as he was told he was weaned. I suggested he could at least ask the main care-giver!

vq they keep them up to 38.5degrees if there are no other symptoms (ie vomiting, pain etc) and if they are well in themselves. If they get to 38.5 they give them a dose of paracetamol and phone so they can be picked up.

Were just having little do for Etienne. I think now it's so close, I can see how fast everything happened. This time last week id just been to see the mw, who told me she'd see me in two weeks and we'd look at booking the induction and she'd do a sweep. We then went out for lunch and shopping. The following two days we did lots of shopping, I did some work then he came??? That bloody fast. Craziness.

Hope you start feeling better vq perhaps start looking at who does what. I've got nothing more useful to suggest really.

I walked at 1, ds seems to be following but he's not yet fully confident not holding on. With everything else though he's kind of just been very able to do something when he decides to do it. I expect walking to be similarl. Dh didn't talk till he was 3, he's a manager now at a large company here!!

Howdy folks. Sorry to hear of more illness chez VQ and PR.

MM sounds like the right decision re inlaws.

stunt very well expressed. Totally right. Any news on that 2WW?

pidj party sounds fab. We are not having a party. DSis and her boyf will be here for S's birthday so we will have cake and they will babysit for us so we can go out. Then the following weekend, which is equi-distant between S's Bday and DSD's bday, we will have a little tea party with various inlaws. Then the weekend after that, we are at my DPs for the weekend and my DBro is flying back from the other side of the world to surprise DPs, so am pretty certain we will have cake then too. So, 3 weekends of cake is more than enough for one little dude. He has no presents though. Bad Mummy.

My day started at 0430. We came downstairs to avoid waking DD and DH. S loves the open fridge, and had a little tantrum because I wouldnt let him have his bowl of pasta bolognaise leftovers intended for his lunch. By 0505, he was in his highchair, and demolished the bowlful. WTAF?

Am gearing up for a horrific couple of weeks at work. I'm also broody as hell.