November 2014 - The one where they outrun us!

[MrsAukerman]

New thread ladies.

Yeah ark I wouldn't worry, we do lots of things we wouldn't normally do when she's ill, it never forms a habit, once she's better she goes back to normal. EG watching loads of TV, letting her have the dummy other than in her cot... We can't have her in our bed at night as she just thinks it's awake time and kicks us in the head but I would if I could!

Latest bug has been norovirus type, urgh, me and DD both had it sunday night / monday morning but fortunately DH escaped so could look after us a bit. So she missed yesterday at nursery due to their 48 hour rule, took her in today and she's got a horrid cough and sounds quite crackly - think it's just her throat not her chest but am half expecting a call from them to pick her up. But fingers crossed that is it illness-wise until Christmas PLEASE!! (obviously excluding the constant runny nose but I don't even count that now...)

Anna we have every other shit night as well. Last night she woke at 12.00, 2.00, both quick feeds and back to sleep and then 4.30 she was wide awake, so I ended up taking her in our bed (yes, Ark, I too do it, when she decides it's time to play at ungodly hour), she was sat there looking into darkness and headbutting us from time to time and then sitting up again, until she finally fell asleep. Fingers crossed the every other night rule is on tonight and I get decent sleep...

We took her onto a Christmas train ride with Father Christmas, she couldn't care less about the guy in the red gown. But she seems to have bought into the santacam scam. We have been telling her that house alarm sensors flashing at movement is Santa watching and she should wave. Poor kid, she actually does wave every time they flash red. I think they will be more aware about the whole father Christmas thing in a year.

DD has started the settling in sessions in nursery. It's as if somebody has pulled plug, she cannot stop talking, no idea what, but she keeps repeating the same words and phrases. She has definitely changed already after being left there for few hours. And today she got her first bump on forehead while in the nursery.

Ooh jealous! We haven't a single word, or anything that even sounds like a word!

He doesn't even know how to wave!

Lots of bumps and bruises though as he's now hurtling around the house at a frightening speed. I swear he started running yesterday, though DH says he was more likely "falling for several feet".

Well, she has packed in the walking though. As if it has been a different baby week ago. Now when I stretch my arms and say to come to me, she gets down on her knees and crawls. WTF, she never used to even like crawling, has been torturing me for months with walking her around by hand and now that she can actually walk on her own, she decides to get on all four and forget about the whole thing!

Nursery = hotbed for infection and illness .

Not even the "yes, but just think what an excellent immune system she'll have by the time she goes to school" argument helps me at the moment.

Sorry, I'm completely wallowing in self pity, but Dd has ANOTHER cold; has snot everywhere; dribbling like there's no tomorrow; and her cough wakes her up (and therefore us) throughout the night. This has been going on for a week. I now have her cough and cold (I'm assuming passed on from Dd, but complete lack of sleep definitely not helping) and to top it off, I had a call from the nursery around midday and decided it was the best thing to do to leave work and pick her up. First time (and definitely not the last) I've done that....

havent were in the same boat, it's crap and exhausting and of course DP is more ill and more tired. I haven't been further than the otherside of the room from dd in two weeks. I need a break!

Haven't nursery germs are a nightmare and the whole building immune system isn't a positive to me at mo we are awake 7+ Times a night with this bloody cough think we have had one cough free week in the 12+ weeks he been at nursery.

I don't remember ds1 being unwell like this although for first 4mths his childcare was a childminder then added in a day nursery at 13mths where within 2mths he did have a chest infection.

DD is at a childminder but they have 5 other kids so she's still getting all the colds. I'm so bored of wiping snot.

Her walking is really coming on this week, she'll now take 3 or 4 steps, anything longer than that is worth a crawl though. And the chatter never stops. She copies words I've said (although I don't think she knows what most means).

My cm often sends me photos of dd when she's covered in food or has thrown it around but yesterday I got a hilarious pic of dd with a pile of spaghetti she'd put on her head and she was laughing wildly. When Dp went to collect her the CM said that when we send 'mushy food' or anything but sandwiches dd throws it around or puts it on her head or drops it on the floor (which she doesn't do at home). I was about to protest that she's a baby and they're messy but apparently the problem isn't the mess... it's that she's doing it to entertain the other babies who think it's hilarious and it's got to the stage where they're laughing so much they won't eat their lunch and in fact one little one laughed so much he was crying. I've got the class clown on my hands here! That's why she doesn't do it at home, no audience! DP said it's my fault and she's a show off like me... so glad he had to have the conversation but I was pissing myself when he told me!

Here is the spaghetti pic!! (and one from her birthday while we're at it)

Humour me, she's my pfb. :)

Anyone else want to share some pics now they're a year old??

Aw babydolly is so cute!!!
Go on then you've twisted my arm... Hard to find a recent one where she's not looking hideous due to the hand foot and mouth but these are all from around her birthday last month, the drawing one is from this week (and no she did not manage to get pen to paper!).

And yes we still only have one tooth here!!! ladydolly I am jealous of babydolly's beautiful pearly whites!

Hahaha ladydolly that's so funny! And very talented babymoggle to produce such a drawing at age of one! :)

Love the park shot moggle - very cute and great outfit!

Babydolly looks so grown up now she has teeth and they are EXACTLY like her father's so she looks even more like him. eye roll

Loving the pics here's a couple of ours

Ah east super cute and I love his new dungarees!!

I'm loving watching their characters develop. At nursery yesterday when I picked DD up, the room leader said to me knowingly "Does she sleep in bed with you and dad at home?", I said "no, never, she goes to sleep on her own in her cot... why?" she looked a little surprised and said "Hm it's just that the last few sessions she has refused to sleep unless one of us lies down next to her so she can hug us... I tried to get up when she was nearly asleep but she grabbed my sleeve and pulled me back down"... I had to laugh... she is playing them big time!!

On her birthday morning

Wow you all have beautiful kids!
Here's a festive shot of DS that he managed to edit / insta filter himself!!!

Here's my gals!

Thanks moggle dungarees are frugi I have found a new addiction in frugi and maxomorra clothing!!!

Cute photos love my to see them all.

Yes my baby still wakes at night and yes it's 2am!!!!

Oh so lovely to see all the babies! Keep them coming!

Work Christmas party last night, dd knew something was up when my mum arrived and refused to go to sleep so I left them sat watching TV. DD looked so smug to have been brought back downstairs. She actually fell asleep half an hour after we left and only woke once in the night!! I was spectacularly pissed after one glass of wine so switched to wine early on so was pretty much sober when we got home.

How are all the sick babies doing?

Here's dd2 about a month ago, all of my photos of her since then are blurry in motion ones.
You all have gorgeous children. I love the way your two are looking at each other in that photo east, mine do that too when they're not scrapping!

New toy recommendation: those Christmas decoration jelly decals you stick onto windows. Endless fun

Thanks halfstar love your lo hair oh and that alfie bear made its way to nct sale it just did my head in stupid bloody singing bear!!

Ds2 had his injections today didn't cry til 3rd one and looked at me with such sadness and disappointment but was fine after he was given a breast feed which he isn't normally allowed in the day.

Injections here today too. Little cry after 2nd and 3rd - swiftly resolved by a jelly baby offered by the nurse. He'd never had a sweet before. He definitely enjoyed it!

Sweets after injections for a baby!!! Although mine said Ohh I forgot the stickers I said I don't think he cares really.v

We've got injections next week. Not looking forward to it even though she has never had any side effects with previous ones.

DD has been refusing food all week in the nursery, but today she had gone through the fish pie and finished off with rice pudding. Since September she wouldn't touch anything coming out of the sea so that was a real shock for me. And then she had gone down for 2 (!) hour nap! What did they put in that fish pie?!