August 2005 - The One With All The Birthdays!!!

[kate100]

Here we are everyone, a new thread, as promised ready for all these little ones to turn one.

Here's the link to the old thread

Miaou, I was just thinking of doing the exact same thing the other day, so much better than a baby book, as it really does record all of the milestones as they happen.

Another milestone today, ds2's first visit to the dentist. He was ever so good he let the dentist look at his teeth, which his brother never did. In fact the dentist got his first look at ds1's teeth ever today and it was his fourth visit!

We're all set for his birthday tomorrow, but I'm tired, it's hard work having 2 birthdays in a week and DH is thirty 2 weeks today, TOO MANY BIRTHDAYS!!!!! We're having friends round for an afternoon barbecue (DH will be getting in touch with his inner caveman over an open fire ) and people are dropping in as and when. Just hope that his cake is OK when it's delivered tonight.

Let you all know how things went after the party.

Tigerlion, many congratulations on having Eloise - I've been wondering how you're getting on. I'm sorry to hear you've been through such a bad time - it sounds like everything's looking up in the new year. Josey, sorry to hear your gran passed away. My poor DS2 has had on-and-off colds but been quite poorly the last few days (and very disturbed nights). He went to the doctor's today to be on the safe side before the Christmas break and the poor boy has tonsillitis. No wonder he was so unhappy. We've got a prescription of anti-biotics as well as for Nurofen & Calpol, so hopefully he's going to be a little better by Christmas. I've been extremely busy at work - I worked last Saturday and until 10.30pm Tuesday & Wednesday, and have to go back in the day after Boxing day, so am feeling a little unhappy about that, even though I knew it was coming. Anyway, have a lovely Christmas one and all and I look forward to hearing all about it. Oh, and shall we have new year, new thread?

Merry Xmas everyone xxxx

Hope your Christmas is a wonderful one. Finally off to bed! xx

I hope you all had a nice few days. TBH the last week has been very stressful, what with the long hours at work and DS2 being poorly. I found it quite hard to relax, particulary on Christmas Day when we travelled to see and stay with my MIL straight after clearing up lunch. Yesterday was better once we got to my brother's house but I've had to come back into work today. In theory I'm at work the rest of this week and I can't emphasise enough how miserable this is making me feel - I'm pushing hard not to go in tomorrow & Friday. I've barely seen the kids with their new toys, and now DS1 is poorly today. On the positive side DS2 loves his little dolly pushchair, although flung off the toy baby I had put inside, and loved anything to do with cars and trains. On Christmas morning he pushed aside the wrapped presents "from Father Christmas" in his room to get to his toy box, having no idea about these things, unlike his brother of course. I'm sure it'll be different next year.

sorry to hear you're having a bit of a tough time Azure.....

well i'm going back to the doctors in the new year because i am unbelievably tired all the time. every day since Christmas Eve dp has had to look after ds in the afternoon because i literally am too tired to stand up. this afternoon i fell asleep on the sofa while he was talking to me......i need to get it sorted because i can't be like this when he goes back to work. honestly, i'm struggling to get through the day and am only getting the basics done (for ds mostly).

ds didn't open a single present as he just doesn't understand what it is all about! the big hits were a remote control Noddy Car, and a 98p recorder

hope everyone had a lovely xmas. DD was a bit scared of the whole thing to be honest, she sat on her trampoline and hugged a selectin box she kept going out the room as fast as she could and sneaking back in for another look she usually closes all the doors but on xmas day made sure they were all open so she could make a quick getaway.

sorry you've been having a rough time azure and queenrollo hope things get better when you get to the doc.

Heres to a wonderful problem free 2007 for us all - love and best wishes josey and family xx

hi everyone.....how are we all after the hectic season?
ds has suddenly decided to start saying lots of new words. he was entranced by the christmas tree and dp's persistence paid off as ds kept pointing at it and saying 'pretty christmas tree'....he was sad when he realised it had gone overnight and when i looked at him and said it's gone he held his hands out and said 'gone'
i'm feeling a bit better but still going to go to the docs as i'm not a hundred percent and want to get back to my old self.

hope everyone is well....

oh well thats it all over with schools back and life back to normal!!!

DD is picking up on alot of words now and answers things with a Yeah!its in a really deap voice though which is strange.

Her walking has lapsed again still no further than a very odd step here and there,though she did get to the standing position holding her wipe box which is a frst.

still havent seen DH this year sounds odd saying that, and not likely to see him till next week bit sad really!!

hope you get on ok at the doc queenrollo and feel on top form before you know it

Quiet on here? I've just spent the last 10 mins reading the Aug06 thread wondering who the hell all the new people were!! Duuuuurrrrrrrh! I blame preggie brain. 35wks but huge. Have the cold, bad asthma and have finally had to give in to it all today and get my parents to babysit DS. 4 hours sleep the last fe nights has finally got to me!

DS is a charm. Just brilliant. Still not saying anything proper (well, not that we're convinced of) but has entire conversations of babble. Spoke to HV today briefly and she suggested that we're making things too easy on him. We all understand his grunting and pointing system a little too well it seems. So he went to bed a bit frustrated as to why mummy was saying "tell mummy what you want". We'll work on it though and I'm sure once DD comes along he'll become a bit clearer.

Hi all it has been quite awhile. MIL died on the 1st of December, and we spent a lot of time dealing with that. Then to top it all off, his work told him he was finally moving to where we are, and then made him go back down to the other place. DH's dad and stepmom graciously set out on vacation to see her family, and we spent a few weeks living down there to be with DH. Monday was our first day of "normalcy" where DH was up here and working and no longer has to go down there. It feels really good to finally have him here after 5 months. I was pretty silly and giddy the past few days, because I was just so happy about it, but managed to get a grip today.

Caitlin gave us a rough time for a month. She was up all night crying again. She would shake her crib so hard, the sides would come loose. We finally gave up and put her in a bed a few weeks ago. She still cried for a few nights, but has settled back to sleeping all night again.

She is such a climber still. I can't believe what she gets into. She goes places Colin is afraid to go. She finds herself and "bub-bub" (Colin) absolutely earth-shatteringly hilarious these days. The two of them are great company for each other, and are inseperable, except for when they both want the same toy. She doesn't have a huge amount of words yet, but is great at conveying what she wants. And trust me, she knows what she wants.

It has started to snow pretty hard here. The kids will love it when they wake up. Hope all is well with all of you. Must catch up and read all the messages, but wanted to post first.

Hi all.
Lovely to see a message from you C&C. sorry to hear things have been so hard for you and your family but its lovely that you are reunited with your dh.

suzi2 4 hrs sleep you poor thing at least it must be better being huge in the winter than the summer though - lol I really should have learned from last time; I am due in July and its supposed to be the hottest summer in 10 years - groan!

Hope you are feeling better QR how awful especially as it sounds unexplained. Sounds like your ds is doing well my ds was very bemused that our tree disappeared overnight too!

DS STILL isnt walking but he can know let go of his walker and stand alone, he has taken one or two stumbling steps between dp and I. His talking is pretty good, but the novelty of copying words seems to have worn off. I was making his breakfast yesterday and dithering cos dp had finished the butter and the porridge was too hot and ds started to get anxious and shouted eet eet, toat toat, eet eet! Luckily he was famished and ate the dry toast!

His sleeping is as good as I could hope for so these messages of lo starting to wake more are making me nervous!!

Hope you are all well. Suzi2 and all other pg ladies out there, make the most of any help that you can get especially towards the end of yopur pregnancy. DS kept off going off to his grandparents for three days or so at a time which was wonderful as it gave me time to sleep and relax. You will be amazed by how massive your toddler seems as soon as you have had the baby. When DD was born, DS came in the room and looked more like a three year old than a fourteen month old.

DD is now sleeping from 7pm until 4am which is a lot more than DS was doing at two and a half months. It all seems much easier with the second one, though my life now feels completely devoted to my two babies. My day is made up by nappy changes and feeding. What fun!

DS has been having a lot of tantrums recently.Can anyone recommend good books with advice on dealing with tantrums? And I thought they were meant to get them more around 2 years old...!

Hi all.
C&Cmommy sorry for you just now.
We had a nice Christmas, though dh was only home for the day really, also away on boxing day but of course ds had no idea so I didn't mind. It was lovely to have a christmas with toys to play with for a change and ds did very well, I had felt he really needed some new ones. He only really got over his cold etc last week but along with it came clingyness- to the point where he wcried when dh put him to bed. He got better after dh was home for a few days but in general he has changed, I'm not sure if it's his age or the illness and Christmas all at once.
The bottom two premolars have totally cut and the top two are still in two halves IYSWIM. He has about 20 words and has therefore stopped "babbling" which I miss! He managed to come down the stairs on Saturday, holding on the spindles with one hand and dh with the other. I'm glad he has learned, we now just have to perfect it so he can do it alone. He's very cautious and will not attempt to come down without one of us there, as is he cautious of stepping off the rubber mat in the bath! I'm glad we persevered without a stair gate as I'm not sure we would ever have taken it down! He is seeming to be doing without his daytime nap, the few occasions we've been here for him to go to bed he just plays in his cot for a while then shouts for me to get him back up. Plus with being clingy and recently got out of the habit of the naps, he just goes without. He may be clinging to my leg come 4.30pm and I'm trying to cook the dinner but he then sleeps around 13 hours at night which I must say I like. He is still in 9-12m trousers but has moved up to 12-18 tops!
Tonight he went to bed having his milk from a cup not bottle, he has been sick a lot recently and I think it's because he's having a full bottle of milk and his stomach can't take it. Unfortunately he'd really become reliant on it- he got nice and drowsy and would go down well (until he got clingy and unwell) so it wasn't easy for him tonight but it's just a habit we have to break. I feel so guilty tonight as I brought it on him- after feeding him myself till 13 months it was totally unneccessary and though I know why I did it it is one of the biggest regrets I have, I will not do it again. I just hope he does so well the rest of the week.
Dh has been offered a lorry which he really wants so we're going great guns to get the business off the ground in the next few months. If all goes to plan we think we'll start ttc early in the summer.

Hi everyone, sorry it's been so long, I've had a very quick scan of the thread to try and catch up.

tigerlion, congrats on the safe arrival of Eloise back in Oct.

Suzi2, Miaou, and Pookey congratulations on your pgs.

Josey, good to read the news about your house in Old Meldrum.

C&cmommy, so sorry about MIL . How are you all doing now?

Well, I'll try and briefly up-date you all on how we're doing in the Twiga household. Dd turned 16 months today and I'm 17 weeks pg with no2, due in June. We're due to move back to Aberdeen at the start of next month after our year away in Dumfries, looking fwd to it but also sad as have really settled well and made some ace friends here. Dumfries seems to be one of the few hospitals in Scotland still telling you the baby's sex at 20 wk scans and luckily for us nosey people I've got my scan the day before we move . We loved knowing we were expecting a girl last time but kept it a secret between us which was nice - we have no preference this time but like I said are just plain nosey. I've been learning to drive - finally - and passed my theory test last weekend, have booked practical for a few days before we leave as really would prefer to hopefully pass down here rather than tackle Aberdeens traffic! Dd started walking just after her birthday and got her first tooth through - finally - a fortnight before hand. She is currently cutting a top front tooth which brings our total to nearly 6 - I was beginning to despair of her ever getting them and she's still [retty toothless compared to her peers! Lots of hair, very curly at the back and sides. Quite the wee character, lively, chatty and very into shoes, hats, her doll and pooh bear! Still vaguely bfing but change in milk due to pg has slowly weaned her off the final two feeds although she'll still ask and latches on for a few mins each side every couple of days - sad to think this phase is ending as have really enjoyed feeding her. Eating well and now managing to do a lot herself.

Right will leave it ther and will try and be more regular on here from now on - mn has taken a back seat last few months what with one thing or another. LOL, Twiga x

Hello all - lovely to catch up with some of you. C&C'smommy sorry to hear about your MIL but glad your DH is finally with you. I admire those of you coping without your DH for a lot of the time. My DH is away next week for the week only and I'm really not looking forward to it. It's our 7th wedding anniversary today and we spend a night away in a hotel without the kids on Saturday night, which was fab.

OK here is our New Year's resolution. We will write on the new thread I am starting on a regular basis! new thread . I look forward to hearing your updates and promise to include mine.

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