August 2006 - one year on!

[sarahlou1uk]

new thread for all us 2006 girls!

All scabbed over now and gone back to work so feel loads better thanks girls.

Impetigo sounds awful Sarahlou its just one thing after another isnt lately? Hope you start to feel better soon and get positive results back.

Glad you had fun Olivo and I think nursery has loads of benefits for our babas anyhow, Jackson loves it now and even waves me goodbye and blows a kiss when I take him. Mind you he had an accident there other day he got bitten by another child and it left a nasty raised mark on his arm. I wasn't very impressed, but at the end of the day things like this happen all the time its just a part of growing up with other children - sometimes they are going to hurt you but other times your own child will lash out at another. I'm sure it wont happen again.

I've been doing weight watchers for past 4 weeks and have lost 10.5 pound and canf it back into my size 18's so am well chuffed and probably having the pox helped me to shift some too lol.

Oh no guess who has got the pox now??????
Jackson

oh no! how is he with it, BHM?
sarahlou, how are your brood? hope the impetigo has cleared up.

Hi everyone. Impetigo has cleared up but Jack still left with sore patch on eyelid. Took him to docs this morning but all she's said is it's eczema and given him some more emolliant cream (I could have given HER some - our cupboards are full of it!!) Will give it till the end of the week and then go back and see another doctor. Molly is fine and starting to get the terrible 2's early - never had this problem with Jack! Totally different in character. Bloody girls!!
I'm also trying to lose several stone to help my back. Not had any chocolate since January and my skin has cleared up-no breakouts which I was prone to so think I will keep off it. Trying to eat more healthily but not easy when my ds keeps bringing home takeaways or kfc's!

He's not too bad in himself thanks Olivo, but has loads of spots it makes me feel bit sick to look at his little body and all these nasty big blisters everywhere. We're meant to be going to my sister's 30th birthday party this week too, (bloody typical!) so just hope the spots scab over quickly.

Lol at your Molly having the terrible 2's Sarahlou, think ds has had them for a while now, he gives me a slap when he cant get his own way he has such a short temper. Hope Jack gets his sore patch sorted bless.
Well done on the choc ban, thats some willpower you got, I could never give up my choc sins lol.

How's Olivo and dd doing?

hi all, Hope everyone is well. At least its getting a bit sunnier. I was going to start potty training too after easter I think when the weather improves a bit more. I really cant believe how quickly the time has gone since my daughter had her baby who is now nearly 5 months old. Sophie-Jane is lovely with her but has become extremely and I mean ridiculously clingy to me I feel like I cant move without her being attatched to my hip. She has become a nightmare to get to bed also and has took to waking around 4am screaming too. Any suggestions anyone??

hello! just grabbing 10 mins while dd is asleep! hope you've all had a nice easter; i need to try and go back on my diet now that I won't be tempted by mini eggs!

dreamy - good to hear from you! my dd is extremely clingy too; she cries when i go out of the room,almost like she panics. i can't go to the loo on my own and dh now drops her at nursery all the time as she screams when i go (although i know she stops after a few minutes!) it's ridiculous but i know there'll come a time when she doesnt want to know me so i indulge her when i can!
BHM - all healthy again? hope you and ds didnt have too bad a time with the pox.

just hanging on for the end of term here, two more weeks, and then we're off on holiday; i can't wait for some sunshine after this manky weather.
how is everyone?

Hello all - sorry to barge in, but if you haven't already done so, would you think about completing our sleep survey here? If you do you'll be entered into a lovely comp to win £1250 of rather special, children's furniture. Thanks ever so!

Hi Dreamy nice to hear from you again, glad to hear your all doing well. On the sleep thing we had this with Jackson a few times lately and reckon it may be a growth spurt?? We gave ds a bottle and he went straight back off or sometimes we try our best to ignore him for 5 minutes and he goes back off but if not we give him some milk but it doenst happen that often so not sure what to suggest?

Hey Olivo I am on half term now its lovely but ds has now got a nasty cold and think he has conjunctivitis as eye really weeping and its yellow stuff not nice. Poor little man seems to be one thing after another lately.

I gave into the mini eggs and put on half stone after losing one stone so on a mission to get it off again playing squash and doing lots of walking. My choccy eggs are hiding away in cupboards until I get back on track.

Hello everyone - where are you all? I am counting down the days till the end of term on Friday and then we are off to dubai for 10 days - hurray! I absolutely can't wait, although deading th travel with dd; she just can't sit still at the moment. she has just started calling me mummy instead of mama, it's so cute and has started putting two words together (usually 'no, mummy! ). she is totally obsessed with peppa pig and jumping in muddy puddles, and with taking her clothes off and taking them to bed with her
I LOVE this age!

Wow Olivo, Dubai? Sounds cool, hope you have a great time. How cute of dd saying mummy, ds sometimes says MOM MOM MOM instead of MAMA like he did in Asda earlier...I got some old bloke laughing his head off at me as it was really loud.

Lol at taking her clothes to bed. Ds has learnt how to pull his pj trousers off and the pillowcase off his pillow so god knows what he gets up to during the night??

Ds is obsessed with Boogie Beebies and Night Garden..he says cupacupa for makapaka lol.

I do love this age as they make you laugh but also find it frustrating as ds just wants his own way all the time, he wont let me brudh his teeth as he only wants to suck the water off the brush, also gone off lots of foods he used to like so hardly eats food I cook and I HATE wasting food. Just tricked him into eating cheesy mash potato by hiding inside a mini pitta bread .

Where have all the old Aug 06 girls gone to?

I'm here! Nice to hear about all the things our LO's are saying. My dd called me 'Mummy' from the start, well, after she had said 'Dada', 'ducky', 'bubble' and several other words! ds called me 'Mama' first, which I really loved, but I guess dd copies what he says.

Funniest thing dd says is when she is pushing her little trolley around, and it gets caught on something, she declares "Oh dear! It's stuck!" There are plenty of things which get 'stuck' according to dd - the PC when it's still booting up, or when she can't climb onto a chair she shouldn't be on in the first place etc.

Anyway - got my little angel weighed for the first time in ages - just over 20lb!! She's a tiny titch, but following the graph at just below the 2nd centile, so that's ok.

BHM - dd says 'Akka' for MakkaPakka. dd also not eating much. Eats quite a lot of breakfast cereal though, but gets worse as the day goes on. She is teething (top two sharp canines), really stuffing her hand in her mouth a lot, so I guess that's why. Still bf a lot, She's started asking for it when we're out (she only used to have bf morning, nap time and night), but I suppose it helps her poor little teeth, is it a natural analgesic? I had planned to bf till 2 years, but I'm wondering whether I should just time it until all her teeth have come through (4 molars to go) as she really suffers with teething and it seems to comfort her more than anything. Don't know if that will be before or after her 2nd birthday though.

Dreamy - nice to hear from you again - my dd also wakes suddenly screaming, and is clingy and it's definitely to do with teething pain - could that be what's happening with your dd?

hello all

we finally got internet... yippee.

caleb is a right little monstor now, a real little daddy's boy and doing his best to drive me totally bonkers, lol. his speech has come on incredibly in the last month, he's gone from barely having any words at all to full sentances. it makes everything sooo much easier.

dd has started in her new playschool and is loving it.

can someone give me a condensed version of the last 9 months as i have no idea what's happened around here while i was gone!

Hiya Pinky!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nice to see you back! Good to hear your all doing well.
You haven't missed much really as this thread has gone a bit shy . How are you settling in your new place?

Hoppy, ds is only just over 2 stone and he has been the same for about 2-3months, not been putting any weight on but looks and seems healthy enough.

Had some fab pics done of him so will try and get some on my profile soon.

Bet Olivo is lapping up the sun lucky girl.

Secretly worrying as AF is late

Hello Pinky!

Long time no see - how's your new home? Weren't you moving from a flat to a house? We moved from a 2 bed 1st floor maisonette to a 3 bed house, and it's so very different - having somewhere to hang out the washing for a start, and we have a hallway the size of a room! Before, we used to have a fight for space at the bottom of the stairs when trying to sort out coats, shoes and pushchair!

BHM - I'd love to seen new pics - I've also got to update my profile with new pics. My dd's hair is now quite long and she looks like a proper little girl. She used to be mistaken for a boy a lot before she was crawling/walking. I didn't used to mind at all. I did mind, however, when a couple of weeks ago, the guy in our local shop addressed her as "young man". She was dressed in pink with her hair in a topknot, looking obviously girly.

Pinky, just peeped at your lovely new pics - what sweet little smiling faces!

hey...BHM...everything ok on the AF front?? ;)

lol, have been wrestling with my profile for hours! internet is sooo slow

can't get used to having a garden, it's so lovely and the kids enjoy it so much.

your dd is adorable, she has a really infectious smile

BHM, any news?

Am soooo of you lot having gardens as ds loves to be outdoors now and hates me dragging him in. I never planned to be in this flat this long wish we could afford place of our own.

Panic over, AF is here but over a week late and had really convinced myself I was pg...phew! Dont get me wrong I cant wait to have a little brother or sister for ds but I really want to get a bigger place; dh's work is really slow and my income is shite at moment so not a good time tbh.

How rude of that man Hoppy? I would have been sarcastic back with him about her wearing pink and having hair tied up, I mean how many boys do you see wearing pink for a start?
ds' hair is getting long and girly, also getting darker too.

Off to have a nose at Pinky's new pics x

Ah Pinky they are so sweet. Your dd's hair has really grown and is lovely colour, and Caleb looks like a real cheeky cute boy bless him! Like your house too its huge!

Your brood are gorgeous too Hoppy, they look like they get on so well together. How on earth anybody could mistake your dd for a boy is beyond me? She's a sweet little thing.

BHM and Pinky - thanks. I think they're a bit cute too.

BHM I thought it was a bit weird for my obviously girly looking girl to be mistaken for a boy, I was a bit but I didn't say anything. The guy who made the comment was asian and his grasp of English wasn't perfect so I let it be, as I wasn't entirely sure he was genuinely being a fool, or if his language let him down. I've been addressed as 'sir' by non-native English speakers before, and couldn't find it in me to correct them!! And there's no way I could ever be mistaken for a man.

I know what you mean about feeling stuck in a flat - we were in ours for nearly 7 years, because of finances. That's why there's such a gap between my two (nearly 6 years). As soon as my dh got a new job and pay rise in 2005, we changed our bathroom and kitchen in the flat to ensure it was saleable, and then started TTC. It worked out fine, as I got pg straight away. Whilst I was pg, we worked on decorating the worst bits of the house, but we held off putting it on the market until after she was born, (I didn't want the stress of moving whilst pg).

I think she was about 6months when we started selling. She was sharing our room at the time, and continued to do so after we moved! But she has her own room now. I really feel for anyone living in a too-small place.

we did the daft thing and had our second while still stuck in a 2 bed flat and broke

worked out ok though. they liked sharing so much they refused to be in seperate rooms now we have a house, lol. means we have a spare bedroom upstairs for the pc and all the junk we haven't got any cupboards to store in.

Ah bless them Pinky, thats so lovely that they want to share. I am so close to my sister and I reckon its having a small age gap between us too, although we used to fight like cat & dog when younger .

Well definately can't ttc before next summer as my sister has just announced she is getting wed next year and I am chief bridesmaid, so have got to lose weight and sort out a fun packed hen do for her. Dont think I could cope being pg doing all that lot.

We have just been looking into maybe renting a bigger place or going into a 50-50 deal where you buy half your house so its cheaper but then have the chanceto buy rest at later date, not sure about it as not got much info on it.

Oh am just about to put some pics on so have a look x

oh my god BHM, he's gorgeous. he looks way older than caleb for some reason, a real little man.

btw, you look gorgeous, you don't need to lose weight babe.

Really? I always think he looks little for his age for some reason? And yes he's a proper little boy now always wanting to rebel around with us on the floor.
Thanks for the compliment chick but you cant see my body on those shots

Going to see the dancing on ice tour tonight with my mom and aunty, we got rink side seats so will be hoping to get a glimpse of some rather nice bottoms, (men's bottoms of course!)