October 05 - First Birthdays

[Yokefleet]

Happy Birthday to Joey!

Ah, now you come to mention it, he has done some biro artwork on my bed but I didn't think to count that as his first creative venture!!

You should mount it as a canvas! Priceless!

Hi all, I haven't been near this thread for ages. It is lovely reading about the other babies, I am glad they are all doing well barring the odd vomiting episode.

Hannah is so grown up, everyone assumes she is two as she is huge. She does quite a lot of the baby sign and really enjoys it. Her favorite game is going in the playhouse and setting out cups and saucers. She mainly eats crayons if left to her own devices although she will happily skribble all over ds's homework.

Must go and make tea.

Hi Trice

NN - my step sis had HG in her first but not second pregnancy.

MB - Evelyn does "art", you should see the art she did on the first page of my £16.99 reference book with my brand new eyeliner...

Oh, NN, forgot to say - Evelyn was a porker when born (by section so I cant complain about the size) but she's now quite tall but a skinny minnie now. Having her weighed again soon, but I dont think she has gone over 24lbs yet.

I lost weight when pg, not through HG luckily though my sickness was quite bad, but due to the fact that everything turned my stomach. I lived off chip cobs and Mars bars in the end, with Fish Fingers for tea. I remember making a list of food that I wanted to eat but couldn't, telling my mum the first thing I wanted to eat after having my baby would be to eat a big roast lamb (which had made me sick), with all the veg (which had made me sick) and loads of gravey (which also made me sick!) and a load of fruit for pud (as that had made me sick!)
Being in hospital I was lumbered with hospital food, but for the first meal when I got out of hospital, my mum and dad invited me to the house and cooked a MASSIVE roast! Yum.

Trice good to hear that you and Hannah are doing well. Lots of people think Thomas is older too as he is tall and has a thick mop of dark hair
nn Welcome back, re jabs we had the hib/menC booster at 15months and Thomas is having the MMR/Pnumo next week (we didn't get the call backs to the Drs for these for some reason??) The HG you suffered in pg sounds awful, I also lost weight for a long time into pg but that was mainly due to nausea from the smell of food (soon made up for the weight loss after the birth mind!
Elf - All I wanted during pg was fried egg sandwiches which I couldn't have so on the evening that we came out of hospital my dad did them for me and they were the best sandwiches I had ever tasted!!! I had fried eggs everyday for the following week.
mb I am the neglectful one here, it hadn't occured to me to even try Thomas with crayons, will have to remedy that today
Re teeth, Thomas got no 14 through in October and since then there is no way I can get my fingers in there to see if there are any more coming through, I value the use of my fingers too much
Well so much for the huge amounts of snow! we have a light dusting of it no where near enoigh to do a snow ball let alone a snow man!!

People tend to think that Johnny is younger than he is. I think it's because he is still crawling and not properly on his feet yet. So then they come out with the "ooh aren't you a big boy then". Erm, no, he's slap bang on the 50th centile actually.

LOL at all the food people wanted as soon as baby was born. I had told my dh that I wanted a brie panini and then some smoked salmon. After having to fast for my cs, I would have eaten a scabby horse as they say and shovelled down the hospital food like nobody's business. Actually, the hospital food was really nice, but there wasn't enough to feed a mouse, never mind me!! I never lost the ability to eat large quantities when I was pregnant. DH is now cutting down and when he is home we no longer have seconds or pudding or bikkies with our cups of tea. I am wasting away and have lost 3 lbs in the last fortnight. I am now under 9 stones for the first time in around 7 years. (Don't worry, I'm only 5ft 2 so there's still some padding) Must shovel some more cake in during the day

I bet Evie has never scribbled on something unimportant like a newspaper or something Elf. Straight for the £16.99 textbook!! At least it wasn't from the library!

Tom has a new trick we have our computer on a desk under the stairs and today he has managed to climb onto the shelf with the printer on, stand up, stand on my new printer and climb onto the desk in the past the desk is where we have put things he couldn't have like our mobile/loose change etc (so far he has done it 3 times (that I know of))
mb I don't even remember the hospital food as I was too late for tea the midwife brought me a bowl of cornflakes and then my parents brought me in a cheese & pickle sandwich, I know I didn't have brekkie next morning as the ward cleaner was in making us move everything so that she could clean under our beds (not what I felt like after the 18 hour labour really) but I did have lunch which was just a potato with mince on I think!

Yorkefleet Lydia posted my cash card into the printer the other day

Mawbroon Brie Panini MMMmmMm , I'm giving my friend who has just had her 2nd boy a hamper of foods she couldn't have whilst she was PG, she really missed pate, smoked salmon, prawns and BEER! Must say I had cravings for shandy!

So what did your LO's make of the snow then? Lydia wasn't really impressed.

It was pretty deep where I am and she couldn't walk in it so was just getting the hump and crying! I ended up making her a little snow armchair so she sat on it and happily watched me & a few birds potter around the garden.

DP and PIL's went one step further though, we went round there in the afternoon and DP's mum had a snowman ready and waiting and DP went on to make a little igloo for lydia, ir actually looked more like one of the eggs from mork & mindy! She liked it though as did their cat! Well done DP for inventing the Eggloo!

NN lol, the eggloo sounds funky!
We hardly had any snow just a little dusting.

No snow here at all. Makes a change!!
Johnny has really started signing a lot in the last few days. He does the signs wrong, but he is consistenly wrong so I know exactly what he means. And it's so funny, he muddles up hot and hat and he ate some Dutch food the other day and when I said "oh you are a little Dutch boy" he signed duck. It is really funny and sooo hard not to laugh at the wee man. Nothing wrong with his hearing though. He can see out the window when he is in his highchair and he loves to watch the planes (we are in the flight path and today then are landing over the house). Today there is a lot of low cloud, so you can't actually see the planes, but every time he hears one go over, he signs to let me know. DH says that it is useful to have an early warning plane detection system available to us.

We have snow!!!!

We're back! Disney Land Paris was brilliant, and Joey's (and mine!!) eyes have been like saucers for the last 5 days Hate to sound clicheed, but it really was the stuff of magic.

Came home to a good few inches of snow, but it appears to be raining now, so will probably all be washed away by the morning.

eggloo

LOL NN. What a great picture. I would be too lazy to make something like that and anyway, we haven't had any snow.

We took Johnny for his regular Saturday morning swim this morning and the strange child just wanted to crawl along the poolside and didn't really want to be in the water at all. It did seem a bit cold, so maybe that's what was bothering him.

Glad you enjoyed disneyland joeysmum.

Anyone else's LO a Bigfoot? Took Joey to have his feet re-measured this morning, and he's now in a 6 G! The sales assistant was really surprised when i said he was only 16 months old At this rate, i'll just be buying him the boxes that the shoes come in within a few years

No idea yet joeysmum. Johnny doesn't even have shoes yet. Ah ha! A plus side to him not walking saved me a fortune

Evelyn is on her 4th pair of "proper" shoes, now a size 4.5F and I am a lot of money lighter [sigh]

Not sleeping too well here - she's now got a cold and hardly slept last night, and I am planning the same type of evening tonight!

jm Thomas is a 4G and on his 2nd pair of shoes (gift from my sis for Christmas ) lol at boxes. Good to hear that you had a great time in Paris
nn love the piccies! We were snowed in on Friday afternoon, dh had to walk home from the station in the afternoon as I wouldn't have been able to get the car off the drive. It didn't start with us until 9.30am and within 1.5hrs we were snowed in. It stopped snowing around 4pm and we took ds out for his first walk on the snow but he wasn't that keen so dh and I made a little snow man and ran back in to make a cup of hot chocolate
elf hope Evie (and you ) have a better night tonight.
mb the signing sounds really good, lol at your own early warning system
Dh is on holiday this week so please feel free to blame us for any bad weather that you may be experiecing, always rains when dh is off and today here it has been no exeption We have spent all day trying to get our broadband re-connected after dh decided that we should buy a new pc (with the new Windows Vista on) only to find out that our ISP doesn't support Vista, after many phone calls and trial and error we have somehow managed to get it working don't ask me how it just did eventually

bliss... Evelyn slept through last night!

great news Elf

I don't know about you YF but when the internet is off I get all twitchy! There are so many things that I use it for (not just MN) that I am lost without it
Hope Evie is ok now Elf. Johnny has had a yukky cold too, you know with the green 11 under the nose! He had 3 disturbed nights and then has been back to sleeping through as normal for the last 2 nights, so fingers crossed that he's over the worst of it.
Johnny is so funny just now. I always tell him when I am about to make a noise so that he doesn't get a fright. So, before hoovering, I will say "Johnny, Mummy is going to hoover. It goes WOOOOO" so today when I got the hoover out, he started going "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" it was sooo funny. He is starting little tantrums though if he doesn't get his way. Like if I shut the hall door so he can't get up the stairs he will start crying. It's not angry crying though. He puts his head down and sobs in a manner so sorry for himself you wouldn't believe it!! I have to try so hard not to laugh because it's so over the top and dramatic! The wee lamb. No doubt this will all come out in therapy when he's an adult!

LOL. Evelyn does the same - sobs with an "I'm feeling so sorry for myself" manner!

She is still poorly, though she did sleep through the other night. She's (and I) have had horrible bunged up noses, sore throats and a cough, temperatures and both of us have got bumps on our legs for some reason!! Her bumps are on the back of her leg, just above and below the back of her knee, they dont seem too sore as if I touch them she doesn't seem too bothered. I have them on the front of my leg?! I'm hoping shes better today, she seems okay within herself, she's still smiley but her face is sore and red

I wish Joey did the 'feeling sorry for myself' sobs. Instead, he's moved into full-on meltdown mode and will throw a proper toddler tantrum! If this is what he's like now, god help us when he hits the terrible twos!!

I think he's teething again, and he's gone right off his food at the moment. DH says i'm too soft, as i've been giving in over his tea and deliberately giving him things i know he'll eat (grapes etc), but as he's usually got such a good appetite and a healthy diet i know this will only be a temporary blip until he's back to normal. Anything for an easy life....! Especially as i'm back to work from Saturday, urgh.