September 2006 Babies - countdown to first birthdays begin...

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Cori - thanks, I think that's how we'll try and do it too, fingers crossed!

Bristols, that's a relief then! Hopefully now you will relax and enjoy it

[T42 affects geordie accent] Day one in the tea house. 10am. DS1 has done 4 wees on the toilet and as yet there have been no accidents...

wish us luck!

hello all, not been on for nearly a week - although not too much to catch up on - is everyone on holiday?!

T42, re. nappies at lunchtime nap, I would keep DS in them until he's been dry for a few weeks at the nap (like Cori says too!). DS was often wet after his nap as it's a different thing being dry while you're asleep! He often does a big wee on waking I think. He's been dry for over a year in the day now, but still soaking first thing in the morning in his pyjama pants.

A warm bank holiday would be nice... Bet it's great all September, when we're away...

F is going to take some steps soon I think too. I'm finding taking them to the park now almost impossible - F wants to crawl everywhere at speed, and cruise round steps, climb up slides (funny, his little legs try to crawl up but he gets nowhere!!), so I can't take my eyes off him for a second. Meanwhile DS1 has to just get on with it, and I feel I'm abandoning him to his own devices a bit too much. I want to interact with him and play, but I can't as Fraser's off about to kill himself up some steps... Figure it'll be better once F can walk and is a bit steadier??? Will it???

I was just thinking how easy it's been for those mothers expecting this September!!!!! Do you remember how hot & crazy we all got this last year?!!

DD is getting better at keeping her balance these days.
It is so fab to see the grin spread across her face as she realises that she is balancing all on her own and holding it there for longer than she remembers from last time.
My squealing with delight may be a little off putting for her sometimes though

We are headed off to sunny portugal next week!
Can't wait. Although, a little of me can. I don't want to do the packing!!
I have to organise Three of us this time!

My DS is nearly walking too. He can stand alone for about 5 secs and looks so chuffed with himself. It is the cutest thing watching him toddle along while pushing his little plastic crate

Just popping in to say hi! Hope you are all well. I can't believe our babies are almost 1yr! (happy belated birthday to those who have already passed the milestone!)

Lizzie has taken a couple of steps but she's still very faltery. She's a wild one, into everything;climbing and taking DS's toys. I'm trying to encourage him to stick up for himself more without encouraging him to be too physical with her but not sure how at the moment. He is so sensitive and she most certainly isn't. Not sure if it's a second baby thing or because she's a girl. Has anyone else had this problem?

She's at that stage of pointing at everything and anything which is so cute. Everything living is a dog, apart for her Daddy who is daddad. No mama though of course!

From next month I'll be TTC too so that should be fun! Can't believe I'm willing to face the HG all over again!

Anyway, sorry for posting all about DD and for not being a more frequent poster on here. I'm hardly on MN these days but it's lovely to pop onto this thread and read a few of your posts (even if I do just skim )

Hope you're all enjoying your almost toddlers! x
p.s wish the weather had been like this last year!

Morning everyone.
Isn't it lovely to see the sun!
Good luck on the ttc Homemama - keep us posted and I will keep my fingers crossed that you don't get the dreaded HG again. I remember who awful you and norms had it.
Dd sounds a bit like yours HM with the wanting to be in on the action regrading ds' toys. Ds tells her firmly no, but she just ignores him. At the moment she likes to switch the TV on and off so ds yells 'move her mummy' a hundred times a day - it does get a bit wearing

DH and I are playing the waiting game with ttc at the mo.
Good luck to you Homemama maybe we will be Preggers together!?
What is HG though?

Hi Fairysnuff Can't remember what it stands for but it is severe morning sickness, to the point where you have to take drugs and sometimes be admitted to hospital to go on a drip if you can't eat or drink anything without throwing up. Hypermesis?

Hyperglycemic (sp is totally off I think!) I am almost sure that is what it was called.

I had that actually, I did end up on a drip in the hospital and then on anti nauseaus pills (sp, again! God I am doing well tonight!)
Did you have that too homemama? Wasn't it just awful?
My SIL kept referring to it as little nauseaus spells. I don't think I ever got through to her that I was being physically sick every waking hour sometimes more!

Yeah, I am worried about getting it again and am just figuring that I will. That way, if I don't, I will be over the moon, but if I do, I am mentally prepared for it again.
And I probably will decamp to my mums again. DD and all!!
Nah, prob not. DH was working away at the time last year so I was all alone and with no-one to make me eat, I pretty much avoided it for a day or so, before my mum hauled me in and started feeding me.
DH will have to put up with the wasted food this time round I hate wasting food, too

Ah well, fingers crossed we both avoid it this time round.
Were you HG with both your pregnancies?
I am half hoping that it may be a boy this time and that the sickness won't turn into HG.
Am I dreaming?

Gosh...goodluck HM & Fairy with TTC!!!!Homemama..you are a very brave woman! To possibly go through all that again...yikes...did it hapen with DS too? Anyhow keep us posted!!

I've had a mad morning: J pulled DD's easel over onto himself - DH jumped out the shower & I ran upstairs...we've not had a problem leaving him in DD's room for a few mins whilst one of us pops into the shower with the door open - her room is right next door...or while I pop & get his milk. I hadn't even thought that he'd pull that over. Poor thing...it's not light the easel, amazed he didn't do any harm. Then we pop to the co-op in the village for bread & milk (!) on our way back & DD has taken to sometimes sitting on the front of the buggy (we have a Jane powertrack - just to help with you imagining how she was sitting!) when her crocs (yes she has a pink pair..sad ) fell off. I put them on top of the buggy when (& she never does this) she put her foot under the wheel & I pushed on....suffice to say it was awful - her foot was really bleeding, scrapped, skin off..yuk yuk yuk....& she cried for an HOUR! It was of course lunchtime so J was very irritable & started crying...DD just wouldn't calm down so inbetween me washing her foot & trying to heat up some fish pie that I'd defrosted (thank goodness for leftovers!)J pulls himself up on the oven door & hey presto it opens & smacks him in the head. At this point I have two screaming children & I am just laughing inside thinking don't you just love days like this??!!

Amazingly they've both been asleep for the past hour & a bit so I've just returned from sitting in the garden where I was comtemplating my next move: take DC to park? what for DC's tea? what for DH tea? Putting clothes away? Coming clean to DH about cc bill? should I look for a job?...........

Just did a message and lost it... !

Homemama and Fairy, good luck with ttc... Fingers crossed for the sickness too... does it follow that you'll get it again necessarily (I thought not?)?

Homemama, I have the opposite problem to you - DS1 is much more physical and DS2 is calmer and quieter. At DS2's age, going out to a class or something with DS1 was all about crawl-control, making sure he didn't escape. DS2 sticks pretty close by and is much gentler generally. So gets pretty beaten up if I don't watch really carefully. Can be a nightmare.

Busy weekend this one.. parties, pub lunch, zoo trip, and DH went on a stag do on Friday in London and only went to bed at 5 am, so he was pretty knackered yesterday! The party this afternoon for one of DS1's friends was great, lots of food, lots of beer, and those fab whizzy balloons that zoom all over the place. Excellent fun for everyone!! Now about to go and get a curry take out, and settle down to watch another episode of Life on Mars 2 - for some reason we never watched it on TV, so had to buy the DVDs...

While I'm on that, anyone else watched Six Feet Under? We've just discovered it, and think it's totally brilliant. But we're only 4 episodes into series 2, and there are 5 seasons, so a way to go...!!

Hi Sept.'06ers! Haven't had a chance to catch up, once again. With house still on the market, keeping it organized & clean, giving agent new pics of house to post on web ad, making "welcome to neighborhood" book for perspective buyers, doing long-overdue handyman projects like paint re-touch etc. - in short, taking charge of the sale of our house - has become an all-consuming job akin to taking care of the DSs. As well, DH continues to be out of town 3 full days each week. Thankfully, boys are in school 2 days/week now that school's started again.

Have decided Houston, not Dallas - & more specifically, The Woodlands, 1 hour N of Houston. When we can move. God knows when that will be. US housing market scarily bad now, as you may have read. Luckily we're not facing foreclosure and we won't be stuck with 2 mortgages. The worst that could happen is DH continues to do this time-consuming, and exhausting, weekly travel.

I am not keeping in touch with your lives as I would like to be doing - but hope to be a much better poster when life gets less hectic.

hi Marls,

I've been reading a lot about the problems with the US housing market... have house prices dropped as a result of all the foreclosures that are happening? It did all seem a bit mad to me, all those companies offering mortgages to people who really couldn't afford them... That bubble had to burst... It's having strong ripple effects on all the markets here, esp hedge funds and investors who are all getting a bit edgy.

What is a "welcome to the neighbourhood" book? I can imagine what it is, but do you have to do one? Sounds like a nice thing, but could take up lots of time for you...

Hi all, busy, busy, busy here so haven't written for a while. Glad to hear everyone's well.

V exciting about the ttc-ers. Will be good to have some pg company!

My parents are here at the moment which is lovely. DS is cutting two more teeth and is sooo poorly with them. It's horrible. Good to have the support from my parents rather than having to do it all by myself.

Dh is whisking me off to London for a few days on Thursday. It's my 30th birthday so apparently he has a few surprises for me... Will let you know. V intriguing. M & D looking after DS so, although I will miss him like mad, I'm really excited.

DS's birthday on Monday. I can't quite believe it...

Hi all not posted in yonks but just wanted to say hi and glad that your all still here. Nearly 1, can't believe it really.
Good luck to those TTC, I hope all goes well.
M xxxx

Ooh Bristols happy Birthday to your ds for Monday! the first b/day
I notice Lysettes is pregnant from the July thread (she was on our thread for ages).

OMG...all these people ttc or pg...makes me feel a little bit broody I must say!!! Went to Prince last night at the 02 arena & I saw loads of quite large pg ladies...I thought they were mad personally but then remembered that when I had to give up my Madonna ticket last summer it was so bloody hot that I'd have passed out surely - those ladies didn't have it that bad!!......

Congrats on your DS' bday for Monday Bristols and for your bday on Thurs - hope you have a lovely time with DH.
DS is 1 on 8 Sept, so 1.5 weeks to go - this year has gone v. quickly and the birth seems ages ago all at once. Am getting v. broody at all the mentions of TTC - our current idea is to wait until next year, but watch this space !
Good luck with the house sale Marls - sounds like a lot of work for you. We are considering converting our garage (part of house, under spare bedroom and bathroom) into a playroom and FIL has got all excited and started drawing up plans for us (he's an engineer), but it does make DH and I laugh as even re-doing their en-suite was a huge project for him, so we've nicknamed it "Project FIL" for now - very helpful of him, but fear the house becoming a building site for a very simple project and we will be funding it!!
Right, am on my lunchbreak but not got long. Lovely to catch up on your goings on.

HH - hope you have a lovely holiday in Oz (do I remember correctly that you're also going to Fiji?) Shall be hoping to get any good tips from you when you get back with regard to our trip to Oz at end of October.

Good luck to all those TTC!

Fairysnuff, it's Hyperemesis Gravidarum - excessive vomitting in pregnancy. HG for short.

Homemama, I can't believe you're trying for a third ! (I was your fellow hg sufferer - have had a few name changes since then ) We are not having any more babies and I am just starting on some expensive dental repair treatment needed as a result of the acid damage from all the vomitting and difficulty with teeth cleaning in my last two pregnancies.

Good Luck and look after yourself when you conceive. Get to A & E early this time .

ds2 is walking and says mamamamama and dadadadad and uh-oh (usually as a result of a fall or bang to the head). At the moment he's desperate to get his hands on one of the cats but they learn't from ds1 how to avoid little hands.

He's very competitive with his older brother who acts like a complete wuss by comparison, he always wants to try whatever his older brother has, be it food or toys or books.

ds2 has been a much easier 0-12 month old than ds1 and I would have been tempted into maybe risking another based on how easy he was to care for but my teeth and digestive system indicate that I'm doing the right thing for my body and I don't think my career could withstand a third bout of hg and maternity leave. I can't believe ds2 is 1 in a week or so. At the moment dh is the most sulky and difficult out of all three of the males in the house. Ds1 and ds2 are angels in comparison.

HH - I think indeed prices have gone down here, more in some areas of the country than others. I have also heard of ridiculous offers being made by buyers - for example $300,000 on a house selling for $400,000 - but it is a buyer's market after all. Which should be good for us when we are ready to buy in Houston.

This area, due entirely to Wal-Mart, of course, is still relatively liquid - but bad enough (enough similar houses, similarly priced) that I do feel the need to find some tactic - some edge - to distinguish ours from the others. The "neighborhood" notebook I'm compiling will have info regarding all the merchants we use here - local post office, florist, dry cleaner, newspaper, etc. as well as electricity, gas, phone and cable providers and all appliance Use and Care Guides for the house, public schools' "report cards" for this area, ... in short, whatever I think might be useful for a potential buyer/new resident to have at her fingertips. LOL; whatever might work. The details are ridiculous, I know.

After the dot-com bubble, I didn't understand why people (in California, mostly) weren't making wiser decisions than the interest-only loan. Am feeling very lucky we can afford this mortgage and that DH's company will hold on to him regardless of how long it takes us to get to Texas.

Sounds like you had a wonderfully busy weekend last weekend!

Jingle - LOL at "Project FIL" and
OMG - your post reminded me that DS2's first birthday is also Monday! Poor, poor second child ... um, we'll have cake, gifts and the video cam at the ready!

Just found out that we've been exposed to chickenpox twice in the last two weeks. Neither of mine have had it, and we're doing 4 flights in the next 3 1/2 weeks... Does anyone know what happens if they come out in spots before a flight? Bet we would be turned away... That would just be fing awful (sorry for all the s!). If they caught it off the first child, they'll probably get it early next week, if off the second child, then a week later. Both probabilities coincide with a flight - 1st to Oz, 2nd to Fiji.

Can I just say this - "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

As if I didn't have enough to worry about with going on those sodding flights anyway.

Please all keep your fingers crossed...

Why didn't I expose them on purpose when I had the chance back in January????

Oh HH, poor you. I will keep my fingers crossed for you, it might turn out ok ..

Have had a horrible migraine for last 2 days, I had the day off work yesterday and DS went to nursery but it was miserable,I spent the whole day in bed or being sick
Much better today but keep getting the odd twinge of pain and just praying it doesn't come back. I don't know what caused it as I didn't do anything diferent.

S*it HH!!!! Nothing we can say really except hope they don't catch it....

Poor You HH - will keep my fingers crossed for you that they don't catch it.
Myrtle, poor you re. migraine either. hope you continue to feel better.