December 2012: 1st birthdays and 1st/2nd Christmasses

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My 12 weeks scan is due on 4 February and I am surprsingly anxious about it. I think that might be because last time I had already had two scans by 12 weeks but I don't feel very pregnant this time!

FoD maybe running round after the little mister is making you miss some of your Symptoms. We're here to hold your hand as well

I'm 17 weeks now and don't feel pregnant still! There's just no time for it with a LO around. I feel the occasional few kicks now, but even those I'm usually too distracted to feel! I'm sure everything will be fine with your scans Nutella and FoD. Though of you take LOs along with you, be prepared to be distracted from scan. It already feels like #2 is missing out, and he/she isn't even here yet. We've got a babysitter for my 20w scan so we can both watch and enjoy and really experience the moment.

Fod anxious is just the right word for it.

Stacks. I know some people would be very happy not to "feel" pregnant nor be experiencing some of the loveliest early pregnancy symptoms but it does throw you off a bit doesn't it?

Well I'm at the Dr's now. Let's see how ridiculously long the appointment is today. It's normally ok but I resent being here for two hours (not unusual) when it's such an unenjoyable two hours - all the needles, form filling, signing stuff I blatantly do not understand am too lazy and tired to read and then more than likely being told by the dr, again, that I need to watch my weight because I am too heavy.
And it's the horrible miserable nurse here today who I cannot stand! Urgh.

Just 3 months after his official First Steps, R has decided to walk. Hurrah!

Yay well done R! J is walking nonstop this week only 6 weeks after he started and then refused to repeat it too

Hope all was okay Nutella.

J had an accident at nursery today. He was charging around and burst his lip. Tom said the poor girl was shaking when she had to tell him. He's had a hell of a lot more accidents on my watch than he has on theirs!

He's also just guzzled his bedtime milk, fallen asleep and thrown it up all over himself, then fallen straight back to sleep.

Ds crawls to (and then up once the gate is open) the stairs when I tell him it's time for bed, nap or night time

Yay Pidj and for R! First steps are sooo cute. DS is trying some out and getting more cheeky confident every day

willyou poor little thing. And poor frightened nursery worker sounds like your hooligan would love my friendly hooligan

spotty your DS sounds so cute. If I suggest bedtime to DS he starts to shout and shriek and then tries to starfish or wriggle out of his sleeping bag.

Bean mark 2 is perfect and was having a little wriggle and trying to suck her thumb. I'm 13+1 today. We will go team yellow but my feelings say girl. I feel somehow different to when I was pregnant with DS and I have a name picked out - which I've told DH and he has approved - although I will make a top three list at some point for girls an boys names just in case.

even better I didn't have to deal with the miserable nurse, I had a different one who seemed a little bit nervous fresh from training but she was lovely even though she stabbed me with needles and my iron levels are super. Yay me!

So now I need to figure out how to tell everyone. I don't want to announce it on Facebook until after we have told close friends. My fily knows but not yet told DH's family. For me biggest stress is announcing it to the PIL.... I am still totally stressed about them. DH offered several olive branches around Christmas and wanted to see them before we went away. MIL was looking forward to seeing us and then FIL would ring a few days later and cancel saying he needed "space"

I've tried to explain to DH that FIL will be unlikely to change and wants to hang onto the power - which is not what it should be about but he is a very very controlling personality.

I think we need to change our approach a little and be more assertive and less polite. Not rude but just a little more firm and direct.

Sorry, didn't mean to have a PIL ramble, just thinking about them makes my stomach start to turn. I wish it was easier and that I could be optimistic... FIL is so like my dad - who I only communicate with via email. And then all I do is mostly send pictures of Theo

Great news Nutella

Poor j WillYou!

Sorry about pil issues Mrsnut. Hooray for nutlet 2 though!

Also hooray for R walking pidj! Just in time to really enjoy puddles.. One of O's current fascinations...

Thanks for the patience everyone re my current obsession with failing to achieve crumb2. O was easy, but with no af I feel like all bets are off. Living vicariously through stacks as we started ttc at the same time!

Hi hope it's ok for me to join my dd was born dec 2012 and oh my is she very different to my ds's she is a right diva :) x

Just catching up as have been so rubbish thread actually dropped out of TIO

Fantastic news Nutella - I remember pre-scan nerves well. So glad everything went well.

Hope J is ok Willyou.

Wrt to talking, we've still got lots of babbling with one or two recognisable 'words' (well to us anyway). He's very effective at communicating though, mainly through the point and shout "dat" method . He's also good at angry - we had a full-on, red-faced, fist-shaking paddy yesterday because mean mummy didn't think DS1's lego was age appropriate. Apparently megabloks are no longer an acceptable substitute

Sorry xposts. Welcome Hunnyangel. Reckon I've git whatever the male equivalent of a diva is atm!

Hurrah for walking pidj (it was months between T taking first steps and actually walking) and for happy healthy little beans nutella. I cried before, during and after my scan with T!

Poor J willyou. T had a bad day the other day falling and splitting her lip and then later giving herself a shiner head butting the door! Today I slipped down the stairs while holding her and whilst I mostly managed to protect her she did head butt a step as we slid to a halt. So my back is a bit sore but so are my legs after I cycled to work for the first time in at least 2 years! It was fab as I can go almost the whole journey along the canal path - I did arrive to my meeting rather muddy though!

Welcome HunnyAngel

Excellent news Nutella. If FIL isn't interested, maybe just tell MIL on the phone and leave it at that.

Love the walking Pidj

A was trying to clean his own teeth this evening. He stole the brush when I'd finished doing them and walked around the bathroom having a go.

And he waved goodbye to his key worker, and did a little clap this evening too. At least now I know he can, even if he's refused to do it since.

When we go to the stairs he tries to wriggle out of my arms to climb up himself. But he still isn't keen on going to bed.

Cockity cock. Just realised I cocked up our accounts and we've been merrily overdrawn. I don't want to wish the next few months away but come sept when dd2 starts school I'll be off to earn more money through whatever means possible.
Welcome hunny. I have a diva too - I have a feeling she's going to turn into a screamer.

Welcome Hunny

Dd and I have awful coughs so last night was not fun. I can cope with mine but she kept having coughing fits cue snotty hysterics. It's awful when you can't do anything to help them

We're always overdrawn in our joint account (well for a week or so each month). It's blood tesco that does it all of our money goes there

Morning hunny..

well earlier this week O was sleeping 8pm-6.30am. Nowit seems tthere is a molar coming through and dh and I have had to take turns sleeping with him In the nursery since 4 as he would Not Be Put Down. Arg.

I hope J's ok Willyou.

I'm glad your scan went well Nutella. I don't know what to suggest about your PiL. I agree with you though i think it will come down to DP just needing to be firmer with them.

WL i always end up in my overdraft

Welcome Hunny

Congratulations to R Pidj.

Utopian i hope DS is ok today, teething is horrible.

Spotty i hope you and DD are feeling ok.

Nutellagood luck with the viewing

FoD and stacks I’m a bit worried about 20 week scan (next Friday). So much going on that I sometimes forget I’m pregnant too. Beginning to feel movements now though, especially when I’m in bed.

Life ok at the moment. I’ve still not recovered from my illness since before Christmas. Really wearing me down. Latest drama is that I was called from DS’ nursery to alert me that by 11am he had done 2 green runny poos. By the end of the day it was 3. Cue lots of questions from the nursery staff “what has he been eating? In all my contact with children I have never seen green runny poo before. DS was home with DM the 2 days before, back to nursery and diarrhoea. Normal poo over the weekend, back to nursery on Monday and diarrhoea. [hmmm]
DP and I had a massive 2 hour conversation over the weekend about what has been going wrong. Lots of work to be done on both sides. Fingers crossed we get back on track cos they way things have been is exhausting.

A few work issues also. I tell you I could set up about 3 AIBU threads on MN about my life at the moment

Yay to R walking pidj

DS loves brushing his teeth. Has started pointing to toothbrush when he’s in the bath.

Welcome hunny

R does occasional green splatty ones when teething, 2blessed, i think it's the drool!

I have a supremely tired and bit poorly baby - I've just helped enormously by trapping her inner thigh in the zip of her baby grow. [guilty emoticon]

Thank u my dd is walking she only has 1 tooth though :/ my ds's all had a few by now girls really are different aren't they lol x

Honey welcome to the thread! One tooth sounds really cute

2blessed sorry you're having a tough time. No wonder you're feeling under the weather with so much other stuff going on. I hope you get a chance to put your feet up and take some deep soothing breaths over the weekend.

wl your post about zipping DP's leg into he baby grow made me chuckle I'm a horrible mean mother

Poor DS has molars coming through and is a bit all over the place. He is a bit unsettled and very dribbly. This afternoon we had a friend to visit. She is lovely but not really interested in babies and DS is normally smiley, chatty and charming. This afternoon he was sometimes himself but more often a much more irritating screamy angry boy kept appearing - it wore rather thin surprisingly quickly.

But today he has started walking even more confidently. It makes me chuckle that when you give him something to hold (even a sample size tube of bum cream) he walks really well