October 05 - First Birthdays

[Yokefleet]

Happy Birthday to Joey!

Johnny loves birds too DLAMIS. He is even starting to make the right sounds for the right birds. Well, erm, he quacks for a duck and says "doo doo" for a pigeon and "ooo ooo" for an owl. He also attempts "cock a doodle do" but he's not very good at that!!

He is a bit under the weather just now with a bit of a cold, and I think teething as well. I was up 4 times with him the night before last and three times last night. He saw the Nurofen this morning and was pointing and wanting some, so I guess he knows that he's not well. Wee lamb..

MB hope that Johnny is feeling better now

He seems to be a lot better YF although he still has a runny nose and woke twice last night. He is starting to say a few more words now. They are not always recognisable, but he points at things and makes a pretty good attempt at the word. This morning he was pointing in a book and was definitely saying "tractor". It took me a good while to figure out that "zzzs" were shoes though!!

Hope everyone is doing well.

I had a proud mummy moment the other day when we were showing Evelyn a picture of herself, me and DH at her Christening. She was pointing out me and DH and saying our names, then pointed at herself. We said Evelyn and she pointed at herself and I'm sure she said "me" which I clapped at. Now she keeps doing it and claps with us!

Side note - anybody been on ebay for shoes? We had Evelyn's feet measured the other day, we brought her a few pairs in that size from Ebay, £3.00 for a pair of clarks sandles, looking brand new! Bargain!

MB - glad Johnny is better now
Evelyn has had a terrible cough for the past few days and keeps waking herself up with it

Aww that's really cute Elf. I can't believe that all these babies are 18 months or thereabouts already. Where has the time gone? My friend told me the other week that she is pregnant. She lives abroad and I know this is when I will miss her. She called yesterday and we had this very excited conversation about her pregnancy and it just brought it all back for me. Funny how I've forgotten all the crap stuff though.

mb glas Johnny is feeling better
Elf bless Evie!
Not much to report really! we have just been enjoying the sunshine and garden

should have read GLAD!

all very quiet here at the moment, hope you are all ok

We are fine YF. Johnny still has a cold and has a permanent green 11 under his nose. It's making him really grumpy but he slept through (hmm, well, to 6.15am) last night for the first time in nearly a fortnight. Hooray. He came into bed with us for some breastmilk. When he was done, he unlatched, rolled over to DH and went "daddy, daddy, daddy". Hmph, there's gratitude for you eh? He is starting to attempt a lot of words now, but I think to anyone other than me who is with him 24/7 they wouldn't mean much, but hey, the wee chap has to start somewhere! MIL bought him the cutest little boiler suit for out in the garden. Because he crawls everywhere still and is attracted to mud, he gets filthy! The suit is quite big, but we just roll the sleeves and legs. It will do him until he's about 5 I think!

Hi guys Hope you are all well.
Evelyn it getting her last teeth I think to give her the first complete set. She's been miserable with it - hardly sleeping, temperature, snotty and a bad cough. I've also had a horrible cough so I dont know if it is just a cold we both have.

Anybody's little one got a fave TV show? Evelyn loves Noddy but her favourite is Fi Fi & The Flowertots, we watch it each day at 6:00 on Nick Junior, she's so sweet, points at the tv and yells FiFi and Bumble and "naughty Stingo". Bless.

I hope Evelyn's teeth don't take too long to come through. Johnny's are bothering him too I think, but at least once he gets these last four then that's it, but then we have to find something else to blame grumpiness on!!

Johnny doesn't watch tv, poor deprived child, but that's a whole other thread.....

I remember a girl I went to school with, she was told that they could get a TV when her younger sister turned five iirc and she was excited (they had no telly at all) and when the younger sister was four and a half, they had another baby so she had to wait until that child was five before getting a tv in the house!

We didn't have tv growing up at all Elf and my parents still don't have a telly. I suppose it's all about balance and I will let Johnny and any siblings watch tv when they are a bit older, but I don't see the need for it just now tbh.
I have a horrible migraine. I used to get them weekly 10 years ago then they stopped all of a sudden. I don't know what has brought this one on. AF due in next couple of days, so maybe that's what it is.
Hope everyone is well.

We try not to watch too much telly at home, but I will let her watch FiFi at home. She will also watch Noddy in the morning at the childminders but other than that, she can take it or leave it!

Andy Pandy is a fave in our house but I love the sunny weather that we have been having as our tele has hardly been on this month as Thomas has spent all day outside playing
Thomas is poorly again started on Saturday night being sick and still the same this morning so back to our Drs (I just hope we aren't waiting as long as usual!) This is the 3rd trip to the Drs in 2 months now with Thomas being poorly before then we had only ever had to take him to the Drs for injections. (I guess we had a lucky 1st year)

I hope wee Thomas is better soon YF.

Guess what!!

We are moving house! Hooray. We are finally moving back into Edinburgh after 3.5 years living around 25 miles outside. PILs are selling us their house, so no bidding wars or stressful deadlines. Our will go on the market asap and houses round here are selling at good prices in around a week.

I used to do mortgages with a financial advisor at a legal firm, so they will deal with all the finance/legal stuff which takes a load of the headache away from me. It hasn't really sunk in yet but it will be fantastic!!

MB great news about moving!
Thomas has another throat infection (this is the 3rd month in a row now!) so it's a good job he isn't allergic to the penicillan as he's on that again.

Congratulations on the house, Mawbroon I'd love to move, but we've decided to stay put for now.

Sorry to hear Thomas is poorly again Yokefleet. Unfortunately its the time of year for it - the season change is always a common time for respiratory problems (speaks the nursing voice of experience!). I hope he feels better soon.

Joey is just having a dozy few days, with lots of minor accidents (head bumps, knee scrapes etc). I think he's disorientated by the unseasonably warm weather!

We're off to the In-Laws for a few days tomorow , then a lovely break at Center Parcs . Back in a fortnight. Take care, SM x

SM Have a wonderful break
Thomas is on the mend again, still off his food but he has stopped being sick, just got to catch up with all the extra washing now

Hidehi.
Hope all poorly babies are better. Evelyn has been really under the weather, there has been a horrible virus going around here (cough, terrible temperature, rash & then sickness). Last night her temperature was 39.9 - OMG!
And tonight she rolled off the bed so I'm feeling like a bad mummy at the moment

Had a viewer on the house tonight, fingers crossed!

Yah on your move MB!

All this talk of ill babies must have made Johnny feel left out. He didn't sleep through for about a fortnight and had a yukky runny nose and then he seemed better, slept through for three nights on the trot and then got ill again! He woke last night and when I lifted him, he was soaking with sweat. I Nurofened him but he woke every hour and a half until the morning. Then he wouldn't eat breakfast, so I know he's not well. It's unheard of! I have no idea what's wrong with him (bad mummy) but I've been drugging him up and breastfeeding him when he's super clingy, so hopefully that will do the trick.

Johnny's signing is coming on brilliantly. He is remembering signs which we haven't used for ages, and if I show him a new one, he remembers it first time. Very handy seeing that his only real recognisable word is "daddy". The other day, he wouldn't eat his tea for waving his finger round and round which is what we do for anything that goes round which we don't have a sign for. I couldn't see anything anywhere that went round and round and had no idea what he was on about. He got very agitated until I figured out that it was the picture of the windmill on the mustard jar on the table. He saw windmills in Holland and loved them, so it's obviously stuck in his mind. He was delighted when I picked it up and said that yes it was a windmill. It is so amazing how their wee minds work. I do wonder if his lack of tantrums (sorry folks, but it's true, he doesn't do tantrums [yet]) is because of this other form of communication that we have. Who knows and there's no way of knowing for sure either...

Hi, you all probably won't remember me but I was on the ante natal threads with you all (and the post natal for a short while). Seems like such a long time ago now. I haven't been on mumsnet much for a while but saw this thread and had to pop in to say hello! My little one's called Ruby (in case you don't remember ) and she's doing great. I've read bits of this thread and it appears everyone's doing well.

Aren't they at the most fantastic age at the moment? Ruby's got such a brilliant personality. She's a real socialiser and loves being around other children. She's saying the odd word (her first word being Dora!! which I am slightly upset about,would have preferred mummy!), she's a star at all her animal noises and she understands most things we say to her. I am still a SAHM but dd1 is starting school in September so I am planning to return to work then. I've chosen a nursery for Ruby and I'm convinced she'll really enjoy it as when we drop dd1 off at playschool Ruby tries to take off her coat and stay too.

She's off on her first holiday to Majorca in a couple of weeks and I can't wait to see her playing on the beach and in the pool.

It's really lovely to catch up with you all, I hope all those little one's that are under the weather at the moment get better soon! x

Hi JustBonnie - I remember you - weren't you BigBumpBonnie?

Nice to see you again

Yup, I remember you too Bonnie. Welcome back, don't be a stranger as they say.