July 05 babies: towards two

[merryberry]

HAPPY 2007!
Erm, we had a quiet one, thank gawd. I am no good with booze nowadays. Went out every night for 8 nights before Xmas eve and could not handle a single drink by the last two nights.
How are you all feeling as the new year opens up? I quit my job end of the month, and start the next one pretty much straight off. Have house stuff to sort out, I hope we can exchange soon. DP is away a lot this month as well, business trips up north. I wonder how'll well get on, this is new for us.
DaF, how's new motherhood going this time round?

You are brave going to Tumbletots, Bagpuss. DD and I did it for a while but I couldn't bear it. I found it very sacharine and their expectations of her ability to sit still were silly, imo. She quite liked it, but no more than climbing all over the furniture at home.

We had a great time at swimming today. DD just plunges off on her own and keeps going regardless of whether or not her head is above water.

How are you feeling, MB? By the way, I tried to pass on your idea to DH but he wanted to postpone the chat until some work is finished on the house at the end of the summer .

Hello Hub .

Lovely dress Lulu. Are you having a big party for her? I agree, the two years has gone incredibly quickly.

thanks MRsD

would like to have a big party, did that last year, but Dh needs to book himslef off work for the afternoon

DD's birthday is on a Sunday this year so I will definitely do a party. I keep thinking of bunting and then telling myself not to be poncy. But it would be lovely to have pretty White Compnay bunting everywhere . If I can lose 2 stone before 15 July I can wear a yummy-mummy outfit and stnad underneath the bunting.

(only Bagpuss has met me but she will realise what a ridiculous image this presents!)

all positive thoughts focussed on good weather on fri & sun please (WHY are we having 2 parties???).

cute dress lulumama. i am trying not to buy dd anything new. and mostly failing.

mrd. You don't need to loose 2 stone or anything at all if I am remembering you correctly. at white company bunting .

ds2 and I are back from TT. I agree with what you say mrsd, I keep thinking that we won't bother with it next term but then we go and he has such a good time and is starting to enjoy the songs so now I'm not sure. We are lucky here and have a lot of soft play places with swanky coffee shops and also a pottery cafe across the road, so I am spoilt for choice for things to do (when I can be bothered that is).

I think I will be attempting another home made cake for ds2's birthday next week, but no party as such, other than family.

Hoxtonchick I would look upon it as your duty to buy all the lovely summer dresses for dd while you can still get away with it. My dd seems to live in jeans and t-shirts which is very boring indeed.

aaaaaaah, cute dress!

Feeling fine thanks MrsD. I can see why you used the sceptical face - postponement is a kind of decision in itself...?

Bluidy gp appt got bumped to this pm as I was half way there. Grrrr, could have gone to zoo in this amazing non-rainy day type thing. OK, calm down mb, think how glad you'd be if they bumped others so you could be home visisted. And breathe.

Talking of weather HC, friday looks warmer and saturday looks (are you all sitting down?) warm AND DRY!

I'm a gorilla, I'm a gorilla
I like ice cream
and I want vanilla...

Had fun. Zoo is ace for getting 'em to sleep in the PM, isn't in mb lol.

You should deffo go for the bunting and yummy mummy wow factor mrsd - you'll be covered in baby vomit at the next one anyway, by the sounds of it, so I'd make the most of the semblance of an ordered life whilst it lasts.

dd loves Maisy, and like Maisy, loves cheese.

Q: Does anyone limit any foods for their 2 year olds - dd seems to have bottomless pit for olives and cheese. Should I just let her eat till she stops of her own accord or limit them ? Her favourite activity is going to the fridge and grabbing either a Babybell or a cheese string. I think she could do this on an endless loop.

dw has just discovered the Maisy fan club online and is delighted she willbe able to print out colouring-in pictures etc. for the party. Ours will be small I think - maybe 5 kids ? Or is it 10 ?

Ooo.... what are the los sleeping in ? Camille wears pyjamas but has rejected her grobag. She sometimes goes under a thin blanket... are you all on duvets or somesuch ?

I don't let DD have all the sweeties she would like. I let her eat cheese but slow down when she gets that Cheese Face bloater look

She is still in a cot, wearing PJs and a summer grobag which she sometimes takes off. She will stay in the cot until we decorate her room and move her out of the cot room. Her future room is currently occupied by DH's books, papers random heaps and dustballs.

Golly you know a lot of 2 year olds Hub! My aversion to groups of knackered women (3-dimensional ones anyway - you lot are like lovely Dr Who ghosties) means that we know very few.

Hi hub, we ditched the grobag at around 20 months or so I think and bought a duvet and pillow from John Lewis nursery dept that fits into a cotbed. I would say ds2 sleeps better with it as it is so snuggly (and also has a train design on it which is very important). He either has pjs or a sleepsuit or a nappy and vest depending on the temperature. I am toying with the idea of getting rid of the cot sides at the start of the school hols, so that when we go on holiday at the end of Aug we will hopefully not need the travel cot.

We limit food to a certain extent and try to stick to mealtimes only with a small snack of raisins, fruit or a cereal bar/breadsticks morning and afternoon.

mrsd, we don't know that many 2 year olds either. Did I tell you about the time I ran out of the Daisy and Tom cafe in horror when I saw that every table was taken by a group of women with toddlers? It was positively scary so I tend to avoid M&T groups now .

no grobags here either. dd has never liked being covered whilst asleep. she has an ikea toddler duvet which she sometimes consents to snuggle up under... oh, & blankie.

we would be up for a zoo trip. thursdays & fridays generally good.

Still in grobags.

I have a cheese bloater face - need you lot to reign me in

DS seems to stop when he's full still, thankfully. In fact I am a wee bit exasperated. He eats well but he has NEVER finished 100% of anything now I think about tit. I am always disposing of some little leftover or another. In the bin! Not in me, I hasten to add!

ds still very picky. He likes a lot of food but will only eat about 5 mouthfulls of it. Still tends to survive on scraps. Will eat sweets of course.

Cute dress lulumama

Mrs D - I just meant the 16 week(?) blood tests for Downs etc? I think that's the only routine ones done.

Did I say my mother told me she'd cut me out of her will if I had another child! I wonder though if she doesn't want it because they are getting older and don't want me with lots of little dependents.

I thought I may have a small party for ds1 at the local outdoor pool - there is a nice cafe there and they could maybe bring a cake out. Also for a treat at the w/e after take him to the pictures - he's never been to the picures uyet and he will be 8 not sure what to do about ds2 though - would he sit still?

Hasten to add reason being nearest cinema 25 miles away, dh always working at weekends, ds didn't use to like strange buildings, then always problem with dd (big figet) and now ds2 as well of course, and his out of school club refuse to take him on trips.

Outdoor pool party sounds lovely Eulalia.

No, we didn't have the blood tests for Downs and I am pretty sure that I would decline them in any future pregnancy. The only routine anomaly testing we've ever had is the 20 week scan, and if I have another child I would think seriously about declining that one too. Anomaly testing has brought me too much worry.

I wonder how your DS2 would be in the cinema? I stopped taking DD to Big Scream viewings a good few months ago as she was a complete menace! I think the last time I took her was the day I did cold turkey on stopping b'feeding. I had a big towel stuffed down my top and spent my time running away from DD as my boobs were too sore to bear her touching me!

but mrsd, what if it was twins . I have to confess that after ds1 I take all the scans and tests I'm offered. I do know what you mean though.

Eulalia, the party at the pool sounds a good idea.

Parties! Oh lord,have to arrange ds's don't I? Oops. People are lined up, forgot about the food and ballons and such light >slaps forehead<

Just posted this on my due in march thread. thought you'd enjoy my suprise at being treated so well (eventually) by the NHS in central London...

'I am in SHOCK, in a good way. GP I saw on Tuesday about having care for my thyroid given I'm now pregnant just called me out of the blue.

No-one in the NHS has EVER done anything proactive for me before. I feel warm and fuzzy.

Of course, she was obliged to having it seems given me quite the wrong advice. Jeez. Instead of waiting another 2 weeks for a re-test of hormone levels and thyroid being GP managed and antenatal care booking taking place in a month or so, I am now having blood test tomorrow morning, referral to antenatal care ASAP and a consultant for my thyroid.

That's more like it. The best info on thyroid care in PG comes from the states, and that is the kind of care all the american women get in my situation. I genuinely thought what she said was the best the NHS usually offered, and it didn't seem outlandishly risky.

So, overall, relieved shock at suprise phone call. A few more months of this level of attention though and I will be p'd off with endless checks and tests, you watch me. '

or was it wednesday. or, oh blimey what day is it? thursday. OK!

welcome to the delights of pregnancy plus an endocrine disorder mb . you get to go to special antenatal clincs too...... every bloody week it seemed to me. worth it though.

dd keeps talking to random people in the park "you baby come to my party please." sweet but crazy.

i have bought far too much party food & even more fizzy wine.

oh, & today 2 years ago, i was in labour .

In a sad and sappy moment, I re-read our last antenatal thread today....

and how are you relieving this momentous day HC

i would do it by growling at anyone who came near me to leave me alone. sweeeeeet memories.

bagpuss, that is so amzing to see isn't it...xx

God yes, even my BFP is documented on here .

Hope you are feeling well today MB .

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FLORENCE

Hope the sun shines!

My ds is 11 months old today.

happy birthday ! hope she has a lovely day !!!