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June mummies '05 thread 12 - the one where they aren't babies anymore!

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katzg · 21/09/2006 10:51

new thread!

Enjoy!

Congrats Jonah

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katzg · 15/10/2006 21:55

meet up thread here

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sfxmum · 15/10/2006 22:03

skyler there is a link to that on my post from friday pass word babies

teabelly · 15/10/2006 22:13

Just a quick check in...

Jonah wonderful news! so glad all is ok.

Meglo - congratulations! a new generation of Junies, fab

SFX - super pic, little poppet! Am horrified by my pics tho! note to self to book hair appoint. and buy some makeup!!!

sfxmum · 16/10/2006 15:51

tea - worry not i seem to remember it was a wet v.humid day in the middle of a hot few weeks all hair would be plastered to skull and all make up would run

had lovely time with dd at kew today, usually we just drop in for an hr or so to play at climbers&creepers or chase the geese but today we were there for 4hrs lovely and quietwell if you are used to Heathrow flightpath that is

am supposed to go meet local mums next thu why oh why did i agree to that
hope you all well

Lua · 16/10/2006 20:58

Hi Bubb - yes, is for religious reasons. My friend has just moved in town, with a 34 weeks pregnant wife, and hasn't seen the mw yet!
I figure, I would help make sure the little guy don't have to end up doing it too late...Don't have any experience in the matter myself but think I heard the earlier the less traumatic.

Jonah - will email you! thanks!

So, master baker Katz..... DD wants a "piglet (as in pooh bear...) cake".... HELP!!!!
Any one has any clever ideas?

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katzg · 16/10/2006 21:04

Lua - can you make a square or round cake and then custom something out of icing, or get your local asda to put a piccy of piglet on a cake?

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katzg · 16/10/2006 21:06

or what about this? a snip at £69!

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katzg · 16/10/2006 21:08

or get a plastic piglet figure and maybe pooh and co and then just custom a picnic on the top of a square cake with a small birthday cake in the middle

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Lua · 16/10/2006 21:32

WOW! You would think for 69 you could actually get a nice cake! , I was hoping to send less than that in the whole party! cheap cow I am...

I was thinking about something along the picnic scene you suggest... I am scowering ebay at the moment looking for pooh and piglet figures...
Anyone with some in their closet?! I rpomisse I return them after DD licks the icing

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katzg · 16/10/2006 21:52

what about these duplo

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katzg · 16/10/2006 21:53

has all characters

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Lua · 16/10/2006 22:05

oww, KATZ you are fantastic!!! THANKS!
these will be great!

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katzg · 16/10/2006 22:09

2 in 1 these sets, cake decoration and then a toy to play with after! try ebaying mega blocks too they do a disney range

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tribpot · 17/10/2006 11:52

Great cake idea, katz, certainly much easier than fashioning one into a Piglet shape!

Btw, ds is due his MMR on Friday but has got a horrible cough which he has had for weeks. Should I reschedule or is it okay for them to have MMR when they're already a bit poorly? Am absolutely dreading it being done but hey ho.

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katzg · 17/10/2006 12:01

ask your GP's they will be able to advise. We're still waiting for our appointment for the MMR at the hospital, i really want it out of the way, there was a case of measles at DD's nursery in the spring last year and i really want her immunised NOW!

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sfxmum · 17/10/2006 13:52

hello

i have a couple of questions so who better to ask

do any of you use pillows for LO?
what about bedding? we have been using grobags only but not sure if it works as well for older children
any thoughts?

we are thinking of decorating dd room get bed etc and then start on day time naps there before a possible move although not sure when this would happen

2MwahHaHaHappy · 17/10/2006 15:01

I think you're "allowed" to use pillows etc from 1 year, but we don't use anything for ds - the growbag helps discourage his mountaineering instincts! And he still regularly ends up pointing in an entirely different direction to how he was put to bed. I'm hoping he'll be better enough to go into a bed by the time the next LO is old enough to move into the cot, as I don't want to buy another!

bubbaOOOOOOO · 17/10/2006 16:18

I also heard you can use a pillow from 12 months,but Oscar doesn't have one.He sleeps in pj's and has a cot duvet,although I do also have lots of grobags,which I may start using again,if it gets really cold,as the duvet usually gets kicked off.He is such a fidget.

Trib-Hope your Ds is feeling a bit better.Oscar has a sniffly nose when he had his MMR at 13 months and was fine afterwards.

Skyler · 17/10/2006 16:49

Hello
I put off dd2's MMR 5 times as she was under the weather or we were on hol/due on hols and I wanted her 100%. They were very understanding about it. I think if they just have a cold and no temperature they say you can go ahead, but I just had it in my mind not to. Trust yourself. I am glad it is done now. She was a little poorly 10 days after as they say they might be and had a little bruise. I cried my way through the appt too.
DD2 is still in a gro bag with no pillow. We gave dd1 a 'child' size pillow from Mothercare and a duvet when we moved her into a bed but she was over 2 and a half then I think. DD1 likes tucking herself up in our bed (with a book, is v cute as she snuggles herself under the covers for a read) but I think I will stick with a grobag till we put her in a bed too. It is easier to change a gro bag than a duvet cover lol. DD2 loved her pillow but never slept on it until recently.
Amazing cake Katz. I wish I could come up with ideas like you do. I am crap at that. Would just think I can't do a piglet cake and not think to put characters on top! Inspired.
Bye for now.

Lua · 17/10/2006 22:30

sfx, i recently try to give DS a pillow (DD was updated to a real pillow). He was very excited for 2 minutes a s he layed down cerimoniously in the pillow and pull the blanket over himself. Then he politely pushed them both out through the cot bars and rolled to sleep....

sfxmum · 18/10/2006 09:40

good morning

thanks for replies, so i guess i will be getting bigger grobags for dd she is growing out of the ones she has now. we are not really planning on a bed tranfer anytime soon but i would like her to start having the sense that she has her own room.
also there is no pressure for her to move since i am not pregnant yetoh well boozy christmas then

on a massive positive note
not sure if any of you remember my coleague who was pregnant when i was but whose baby died the day mine was born. well she just gave birth to a perfect little girl overnight i am just so happy for them

sfxmum · 18/10/2006 09:41

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bubbaOOOOOOO · 18/10/2006 09:49

Oh...that's lovely news Sfx.

tribpot · 18/10/2006 10:21

sfx - great news about your colleague. Your time will come - I need someone to keep me company in an antenatal thread at some point in the future after all.

(Incidentally cannot really believe I am thinking about ttc with dh in the state he is in now, but who knows what might happen if we decided to wait 'in case' he gets better).

Pillows - as I've mentioned, my ds has spurned the notion of the traditional cot in favour of a king size double mattress all to himself. There are pillows on it but he never sleeps on one, and hates going under the duvet as well.

Phoned the surgery and apparently he can have his MMR as long as he doesn't have a temperature and is well in himself. Ho hum.

MrsWednesday · 18/10/2006 10:29

Great news about your colleague Sfxmum . My friend whose baby died last year also gave birth to a little girl in August - after everything she's been through, it was a relief and a joy that her little girl is completely fine.

Trib, I've been the same about the MMR, keep putting it off because DS2 always seems to have something wrong with him. Now he's got a cough so will wait another couple of weeks and see if it clears up, then get it out of the way.

Brilliant news Jonah, so pleased for you.

Will check diary (DS1 has got a lot of birthday parties coming up over the next few weeks) and confirm availability on the meet-up thread. Trib, I'm not sure we'd be able to share a car to get there, but we could at least go in convoy?

Right, really should get on with some work...