April 2007: Wriggly rollers and commando crawlers

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hello

While we are on the subject - thought I would put a few more recent pics of my girls and I on my profile ......

Great news SOL! glad it worked out.
Runny - sympathies re. meltdown and really hope we do manage to meet up next year. Sounds so far away now but we all know how time flies..
Elkie - I do know how you feel, if I have empty days it all just feels crushingly boring and repetitive and like I have no life, have to keep busy, keep busy (preferably not always cleaning the house/ doing laundry/ wiping bums!)
Um.. love the photos CD and Gmm - where did you get the reindeer suit? so cute!
Thanks Bramshott and Mammyjo for the sympathy, it really does help to have a moan and hear someone say ´poor you´, doesn´t it?

Well I noticed N´s second bottom tooth has come through so that probably explains a lot, and it all suddenly doesn´t seem so bad if you can see the reason for it all. So let´s just get over this cold and hope things settle down for a bit. Or are his top teeth going to be right behind?? (eek!)

aw cd I think she's gorgeous as are her sisters, bless em

I put a new one of ds on my profile yesterday if anyone wants a look apparently he doesn't look like a rat so you won't be scared

hey SPB over here

Awwww, thank you Eddas - she does smell though - absolutely honks - doesn't matter how many times a day I bathe her!!

Awwww, loving your cutie DS' chubby cheekles and cheeky grin - and [shcok] @ how similar your 2 looked at the same age!!!!!!

or even!

Maveta, I always felt like that when dd produced a tooth(DS is currently toothless), thank goodness there was a reason behind the grumpiness and lack of sleep. It's nice to think that because there's a reason they won't continue being like it!

Thanks CD. It is weird how similar they look. Not the greatest photo of ds to show it though

Hi everyone
Very cute pic of C gmm!!
Great news SOL, bet that's such a relief.
Thanks for the link maveta. I think I have enough icebergs for now, but you never know when a spare might come in handy

Ladies, I need some opinions.

When I take J to nursery, I leave W in the car. I park as tight as I can against the wall, and as close to the door as poss (usually right in front) The staff in the nursery know that I do this so we do Js drop off quite quickly. And I always lock the car.

However, I've noticed on quite a few other threads that this isn't the done thing, and that I shouldn't leave my boys in the car at all.

Thoughts please?

RH, I leave ds in the car when I drop dd off at preschool. Not all the time but quite often. I know it's 'not the done thing' but as he's out of his first stage carseat the practicalities of changing dd's shoes etc etc means it's quite a task with ds in my arms too.

Quite a few other mums do it too. I think it depends where you are/how long you'll be. If I were to do a food shop I wouldn't leave either of them in the car. But quite often i'll run into the post office to post a parcel and leave them in the car. It's just for a couple of mins.

Hi loves

lovely photos everyone. Every time I pick up our camera, the sodding batteries are dead!

It is a relief about the job. Can't be doing with anything else to stress about.

K is however eating more now, so I am just hoping she is absorbing it properly and putting on weight. Tuesday will tell!

Hope everyone has had a good day. xx

Oh runny, this is something me and dh differ on. He says he would never leave the girls in the car, but tbh if K has fallen asleep and I am just popping in to do something for 5 minutes, then I am tempted to leave her, as she never stays asleep when I move her to her pushchair.

Really difficult one. I think you just have to go with your gut feel.

Eddas, thats what I was thinking. I mean, I wouldn't take them out of the car to pay for petrol. But by the same token, I wouldn't go shopping and leave them.

this parenting lark is such a minefield...

See new mums like me assume there are rules about this sort of thing! I just need someone to tell me whether I can or not
When I was in the hospital, DS asleep in the cot I used to wonder whether I was being 'naughty' by going to the water cooler 20 foot down the corridor without taking him (not that I would have dared pick him up either!)

Oh, and forgot to say - J is going to be a shepherd in the nursery nativity play! We've been given the songs to practice at home..

altogether now "Rudolph the red nosed reindeer...

Gosh here I am on this thread again! Just replying to runnyhabit... I think you have to weigh up your own situation rather than take a blanket approach to this sort of thing. You have obviously thought through the risks and minimised the chances of anything 'happening' and you feel confident about what you are doing (well you did . I too often left my DC in the car under similar circumstances but I was quite strict about what I would find acceptable - if I felt a little bit uncomfortable (ie I couldn't get a pack right outside) then I wouldn't do it. But it is just my way - I am a bit unusual in my neighbourhood as I let my 6 yr old walk to school with his 9 yr old sister on their own

Congrats SOL for getting the result you want !
CD - she is very cute and we can't smell her!

Better go - kids to feed

SPB carry a baby on the ward, tis not allowed When I was in having dd, I didn't go anywhere until dh was around. If I had to go to the loo I asked someone else to watch her. With ds I spent ages in the loo trying to go for a wee Poor little ds

RH, I would say as sol did, go with what you think. You wouldn't leave them if you didn't think it was safe. I know nothings totally safe but you know what I mean. Someone's started a thread in AIBU 'to not want to leave baby in the car with the engine running whilst her and her dh take in the shopping?' Well obv you wouldn't do that, leave the baby but not with the engine running. I'd lock the doors, but probably take baby in first, then the shopping.

Thank you ladies

Thing is, I've been doing this since W was born, and haven't thought anything about it. If the car park was full, and I had to park on the road, then I would def take W in with me.

Maybe I'm thinking about it too mcuh

That's the thing about MN, it can make you incapable of making decisions that you normally would IYSWIM. It can make you worry that what you are doing is wrong but really it's just that some people disagree. Things like I give dd fruit shoots and began thinking maybe I shouldn't but she doesn't have them all the time so can't see the harm. I mean if we're in the pub what else will she drink

Runny - I would, but you're right, it's something people are v sensitive about on here (like weaning before 6 months). DH wouldn't, but then he doesn't go many places (if anywhere!) with the 2 of them on his own.

SOL - great news about the job!! Now get it in writing . . . !

I would do exactly as you do runny, I am a bit more careful about leaving M in the car alone now as he has a fascination with all things car related, so I may come out to find the handbrake had been released and they were over the other side of the car park but on the other hand, when he has J in the car with him he does the dutiful big brother bit, so I can dash into the Post Office without them.

runny - I haven't enough arms and hands so always leave dts in car when I go into nursery. It is in a private car park (pass to get in) but that aside I still don't have enough arms!!!!!!

sol glad you got the result you wanted

Yep I definitely think its a trust your own instincts thing as it all depends on the area, the child and so many other things.

SOL - glad you got the job sorted

Dippy - you said cock Ok so you said sh cok but its close enough

Ahem Sorry.

Eddas am at how alike your two look!

Oh so many things I wanted to say and now I've had to go and put washing on (school photos tomorrow and Nathan has no clean jumpers!) and I've forgotten.

Well D has 2 more teeth just cut through up the top so 4 in total and theres another at the top thats right there but not quite come through So that helps explain his 2 hourly waking through the night! And I have to try and get a photo of his fraek tooth for you. One of his bottom 2 is wide than a normal baby tooth but has a gap at the top in the middle. It looks like 2 slightly smaller than normal baby teeth joined into one In fact untill it had come through more I wondered if it was 2. Very strange. Will take him dentist soon to have it looked at.

Ummm...

Have to text xp in a minute. I had told him he could have dd this weekend so he could have her just after her birthday but have heard nothing from him. In fact he didnt evben send dd a birthday card or phone her or anything He's such a c#@*.

Will post some of my pics soon, you havent seen the cake yet!!

eddas those baby photos of the children are so alike - more alike than dts

well, schools
They are all village Primary schools, currently take pupils 5-9yrs old but our system is changing

School 1 - same village as the Nursery I use, lots of children there he knows, pre-school as part of the building so they go at 4 and wear uniform but only for 2.5hrs a day, very friendly, seemed fab.

School 2 - village next to me, closest to home. Hated it. Reception class at opposite end of school from Yr1 so no interaction, is in a very old school building, I went there for a very short while, so suffers from trying to fit a modern school into a building not designed for the purpose. Receptionist on a private phone call round the corner in office so despite me talking very loudly we were ignored for over 5 minutes. However class sizes very small, but 40 new houses being built which will swell numbers.

School 3 - Just as nice as 1 but not as practical for getting to and he has no friends going there already.

M's dad took the day off to come with us, was really useful because before today he kept saying he had no idea what the fuss was about and surely a school was a school. Had we not visited then M would have gone to School 2 as it's where the other children in the lane go. We walked out of 2 and he turned to me and said "No way is he going there". Point proven me thinks