September 2014 - Rocking and Rolling

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Our babies are rocking and rolling, crawling and climbing into the second half of their first year.

Let the fun continue...

Apples - What a carry on! And it's 5-9 for the dinner? That's pretty late! Reckon there will be plenty of screaming in that crèche!

DD hit her face on the corner of our TV stand this morning, obviously cried but she seemed fine, picked her up and carried her around. Looked down and she had blood on her face and hand from her mouth! I still couldn't really tell if she bit her gum or lip though and it seems totally fine now, so difficult to look in her mouth though! Don't think it warrants doctor if there doesn't really appear to be any visible injury now and she's not bothered?

Lil I wouldn't worry about it if it's stopped bleeding and isn't painful any more.

Ella I'm a bridesmaid so we have to go. But yeah that's what I'm getting from the bride. I think she's put herself in a difficult position actually.

She'd have been better saying no children at the wedding from the outset - at least that would have set reasonable expectations for everyone, even if they didn't like it.

lil - No need to worry or bother the doctor if its fine now. Glad she's better.

DD has just cut teeth 5, 6 and 7 (I think #8 is on its way) all together. Need matchsticks on my eyes.

holls &ella, that's appalling what they said. I am also tubby. whenni felt ready to do something about my weight after bith pregnancies, I started low carb boot camp on here which has revolutionised the way I eat. it's amazing - effective, enjoyable, satisfying and not that hard.

Lil I think she'll be okay as long as it's stopped bleeding now and she doesn't seem to be in pain anymore.

It's my 30th birthday today. However DH, my family and all old friends have all either been working or had other things to do today, so I met a couple of Mummy friends earlier and took our kids to soft play. It's been a nice day but perhaps a bit 'flat' for a big birthday if you know what I mean. May try and do something nice with DH and Jessica this weekend to make up for it. :)

happy birthday kit kat.

Hi all!

Wow, I'm shocked at the comments people have received about their weight! I can't believe people can be so rude and insensitive.

We are on holiday at the moment and it is going far better than I thought it would! The best thing is that DD is now sleeping far better, and going away didn't mess anything up She now goes to bed at 6.45, one feed around 11-1 and up at 5.30. This is a miracle when you consider how things have been!

DD is crawling at lightening speed and pulling herself up to stand, but no signs of putting one foot in front of the other yet.

She's really trying to copy sounds and is constantly babbling. However, over the past few days I've been really amazed at how much she understands. I've tested her with a few things recently and she really understands loads! Best thing was when I told her to get Daddy's toes, and she went straight for them. DH is very ticklish, so this is my new favourite game

We have the cossatto cabby to carry DD in. She's spent hours in it this week, and it's fab!

Happy birthday kitkat!!!

Happy Birthday KitKat

Happy birthday KitKat

Agree you should go out at the weekend and have a nice meal :)

E cried when I dropped him at nursery this am, ahhh the guilt! He was fine within a minute or two, my work colleague sent me on my way and evey part of me was like noooooo my baby?!?

Happy Birthday KitKat

Ah Cookie its awful when they cry at drop off. A was clinging onto my t-shirts a couple of times. Now he turns away from us and starts looking at what he can play with!

Kitkat happy birthday x it is nice to be 30 :) i am going towards the end of that decade, not much fun!

Acorn I am now choosing between the two back pack after some reviews and one of them is osprey poco plus. But it is quite important for me that wearing a kid is easy with it, and also that it adjusts for different size/height people as I am smaller than dh ... What do you think about it? Can it adjust easily or is it complicTed? Would be grateful to hear about your experience...

These are not very cheap, so i am tempted to order two, try both and return the one we like less... Does anybody shop this way online?

Nazly I order more than I know I'll keep online and return what's not right all the time. I think the online retailers prefer it that was as you end up spending more with them rather than thinking 'I'll just go to a store and try it'. I guess you might not actually be able to try a baby carrier for any period of time and then return it though. Do you have a sling library near you? I can't do babywearing but our local sling library is amazing

Thank you ladies for the birthday wishes. :) It was an okay day really, and most people really tried to make it special, but I do feel a bit hurt by DH's lack of effort. Could you ladies tell me honestly if I'm being unreasonable? To put into context for his 30th 4 years ago (he's slightly older than me) I concocted a fake story about a friend loaning us a caravan for a week in the spring to get him to book a week off work, and then secretly booked a week in New York for the 2 of us, which took a lot of planning etc.

This year he has been mentioning my 30th birthday since January but I had agreed with him in advance that we just couldn't afford anything on that scale this year as we have some debts we need to clear and want to save for a mortgage etc. However I was hoping he would still manage something. He asked me what I wanted ages ago and I said it would be nice to have a day out (with maybe an overnight stay) for us both and Jessica, to make the most of the last of my maternity leave and family time before I'm back to work. After some discussion we agreed LEGOLAND (not sure why that is capitalising - it's doing it on its own!) would be quite Jessica friendly. This was weeks ago so I left him to organise. Anyway yesterday he gave me a card with a 'IOU a trip to LEGOLAND' slip in it. He hadn't booked or organised anything. Alongside this he got me two small gifts which he picked up on the way home (as he had only ordered them the day before) and gave to me (unwrapped, still in the Amazon packaging) which were a small lego car to assemble (to tie in with the unbooked LEGOLAND trip) and a laptop tray. I just feel a bit that despite the months worth of notice he blatantly put hardly any effort or planning in at all. His excuse was that he didn't book anything as he didn't know when I would be free, but given that I'm on maternity leave and pretty much free every day the excuse seemed a bit thin. Plus given that I knew what he was organising could he really not have just asked if there were any dates that would be better or best avoided? AIBU? I just feel a bit miffed by his lack of effort.

nazly the poco plus is easy to adjust for the wearer, either when it's on it off. You can adjust the length of the back, it has a sliding scale from xs to large. The shoulder, waist straps etc are easy to lengthen and shorten. DS grumbles a bit if he's in the carrier and on the ground still but as soon as he was on my back he's happy, I could put him on and off by myself. You can raise and lower their seat which is also easy but not sure of correct height as I wanted it low enough that he could nap in it but the straps rubbed his neck a bit at that height. I saw lots of pics online of kids napping in it. I imagine with a bit more practice I'll get to know exactly what tightness to have everything to keep it comfortable, sometimes it's great and others is a bit sore on the shoulders. The main reason I chose that one was for built in sunshade - brilliant! Plus when going through wooded areas it means he wasn't hit in the face when I didn't duck enough

Acorn - Where are you in that picture? Looks lovely and green!

KitKat - I don't YABU. Given that you both knew what you wanted to do, as you say, there was no need for sneaking around and trying to make sure you had free time, there's no reason he shouldn't have booked it in time really. Perhaps there's another reason behind it though? Either way, i'm sorry it was a disappointing day for you, especially as you made so much effort for your DH, and it's a big birthday! It's very easy for everything to take a back seat once you're a mother!

lil it's in the Lake District

kitkat we had a similar situation, also for our 30th. I organised his birthday holiday, though it wasn't a surprise but definitely more for him than me. However I also organised mine, and now we are poor have DS I knew it wouldn't be quite to the same standard. I find I avoid disappoint by just doing things myself! But YANBU, your DH could have clarified dates at anytime and to let you assume he was organising it and then not bothering was unfair

Lovely pic Acorn!

KitKat YANBU but I am guilty of being much worse at marking big days since DD came along. Getting better now but forgot to even get DH a Christmas or anniversary present despite him managing to sort it for me. Is your DH busy/stressed atm?

Got DD's first pair of proper shoes from Clark's today! Size 3F. They took a picture and the first shoes box has a message on about first steps and the only shoes you keep forever. So emotional at the approach of the first birthday!

Lil that so nice. What do I do with a little boy who 4.5-h didn't fit him so we couldn't get him a shoe there!! I don't know where else I can get his first shoes now he is getting very close to walking

Acorn that's a lovely picture and a very helpful post too, thanks, i am sold! I was mainly comparing these two baby-carriers-reviews.com/deuter-kid-comfort-ii-vs-osprey-poco-plus/ and decided for poco plus or premium - am just deciding on colour now! And where to buy it cheapest too... We are also planning a lake district trip in September - hoping the weather will stay reasonable...

Kitkat you are not being unreasonable; and I totally understand you... But in another forum I have with my high school (girl) friends we were talking about how so many male partners don't really know how to make their partners happy and have to be told or tipped... given the context I agree with you, but i have decided some time ago that if I don't want to be disappointed, I should give some hints whenever I expect something... Dh always puts some efforts into things, but in a different way than I would ..

nazly have you tried start rite, they are good quality shoes :)

We have our first birthday party tomorrow, one of my very close friends had two surviving triplets and they turn 1! This is the month of birthday parties :)

So today we went to Brighton and Hove Parade which was bigger than normal as it was the 25th anniversary !
Ds loved it, absolutely loved it. To put it in context, he is a bit socially anxious and shy when seeing strangers ; but not today- he kept waving to the parade people, kept dancing to the music with both hands and was generally very interested and happy. Didn't want to go back to his pushchair after we watched for quite a long time either!!
He also did some sort of funny but also really embarrassing things... (he has never been in such a crowd before) ; for example as you can imagine everybody was trying to look and take photos with their mobile- he went for people mobile a few time and succeeded in grabbing one of them and this young guy was so amused he let him have it despite me keep apologising and saying no!!! Just got it back in time before it was eaten and drooled on!! He also got hold of a girl very long and lovely hairs without me noticing I only noticed when this young girl did a half scream and of course I felt very ashamed and apologised but as soon as she realised it was a baby she started laughing. Ds also found the half naked back of the lovely woman in front of us very amusing and kept scratching it before we moved him away!! Oh my world !! He made himself busy like this in the flat parts of the Parade....Later on he then started dancing to music in the beach and made some random people asking me if they can record a video of him!!
I think he really enjoyed the day which was lovely to see. But I am also wondering when it is time to teach him some stuff and discipline him , surely it cant go like this for longer ? At the moment he just doesn't take any notice of any No or angry/upset face...!