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April 2004 Babies part 6 (we can count correctly!)

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Yorkiegirl · 29/10/2004 19:36

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handlemecarefully · 01/12/2004 12:10

Very good Mrs D.

I am pondering 'wrapmefestively' at the moment, but not sure it cuts the mustard

MrsDoobaubles · 01/12/2004 12:12

I didn't come up with them, someone else did on the xmas thread.
I think Wrapmecarefully is a good idea

TheHollyAndTheTwiglett · 01/12/2004 12:21

Don't see why you can't be TheFennelAndTheIvy .. we could gang up on all the non-christmas names

MrsDoobaubles · 01/12/2004 12:26

What about DeckTheHallWithBoughsofFennel??

KristinaM · 01/12/2004 12:28

Wrap me festively made me LOL!!

LucyJones · 01/12/2004 12:30

Hi everyone! can't believe it is December already - ds is exactly 8 months old today! Chuffed - that's amazing that your dd is already talking

Chuffed · 01/12/2004 12:50

Don't know about 'talking' - just mamamamama

LucyJones · 01/12/2004 12:51

that's so cute! my ds only says bababababa - perhaps I should change my name?!!

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Yorkiegirl · 01/12/2004 12:52

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MrsDoobaubles · 01/12/2004 12:53

mine just says 'gagagaga'. Although I am sure I heard her say 'Orla' to herself this morning

LucyJones · 01/12/2004 12:53

wow! And to think I was impressed with hand clapping

Fennel · 01/12/2004 13:07

dd3 says "hiya" and "hello/erro", and this weekend said "at" for hat.

may go for theFennelandtheIvy unless something else occurs. I guess you're a real in-crowd mumsnetter if you have a christmas name!

MrsDoobaubles · 01/12/2004 13:09

Ah ha Fennel. Or maybe one who really should be spending more time working!!!
I am still sick today though

TheFennelandtheIvy · 01/12/2004 13:20

Mrs D - have been working quite hard this month but lots of evening work - interviewing new parents in their homes about their experiences (it's all I can do not to start wittering about my own life) so can feel justified in a bit of time-wasting at present.

MrsDoobaubles · 01/12/2004 13:26

Fennel - I am NOT talking about you, honest!! I was referring to myself

TheFennelandtheIvy · 01/12/2004 13:28

mrs D - just my guilty conscience at work.... always feel I have to justify my working patterns (v irregular hours, mainly at home) even tho I actually do work quite hard but in fits and starts

MrsDoobaubles · 01/12/2004 13:32

Me too. Sometimes I find it difficult to decide where work ends and home starts, which is why I am sitting in the office. I couldn't decide what to do with myself. Only I am still ill, so they are telling me to go home!!
It's going to go mad next year

TracyK · 01/12/2004 13:39

what a night last night! ds woke at 12.20 and he didn't want milk. I thought i'd got him back to sleep only to wake him again as the door clicked as I left to go back to my own bed. After another 20 min cheek stroking - my back was killing me - so I took him into my bed.
Gave him milk and a tiny bit of calpol and he went back to sleep - but he kept waking every hour or so - sitting up and then crashing forward into the pillow and going back to sleep. more milk at 5.40 and dh got up for work. then we both fell back asleep till 8.30 - which only gave us 40 mins to get up, dressed and across town for swimming.
He's just gone for a nap at 1.15 - and even then he didn't want to go!

MrsDoobaubles · 01/12/2004 13:41

Tracy - dd was like that before she became ill

TracyK · 01/12/2004 13:47

god i hope he's not going to be ill! i gave him the benefit of the doubt that his teeth were sore - although dh was a bit pissed off at having to share his bed so early with ds - but he wasn't offering to get him back into his cot for me#!

Chuffed · 01/12/2004 14:05

Tracy are you still bf? I use that as an excuse as dd often doesn't settle for me as she thinks milk as comfort when I'm around yet she will settle for dh without food. It is a great excuse not to have to get up in the night.

wrapmefestively · 01/12/2004 14:24

KristinaM - thanks, I think.....

TraceyK...umm, must admit my ds is a restless sleeper when he is sickening for something. Hope that isn't the case for you! - as you say, it might be teething. Fingers crossed that's what it is.

This is turning into a life chat thread today isn't it! - lots of posts.

Has everyone done their Christmas shopping? - what are you getting for baby?

MrsDoobaubles · 01/12/2004 14:27

No haven't done any Christmas shopping. I think I should do it all online.
Would I be mean if I didn't get anything for dd and just wrapped a woodenspoon? That seems to be her favourite thing at the moment.

TheFennelandtheIvy · 01/12/2004 14:31

Chuffed - I pop dd3 into DP's side of the bed if she's really wakeful and restless (these last few days) too. still not sure if she's teething, ill or cold though.

Mrs D - I thought of filling a stocking for dd3 with all sorts of household junk. we certainly don't want more baby toys here. today she played for ages with a bit of torn cardboard.

Chuffingoodtime · 01/12/2004 14:39

dd will get tons of stuff from all the family. From us she is getting a shallow box full of stuff. We've bought a few bath toys and a new soft book and will buy a few more odds and ends but it will have wrapping paper and empty bottles and other things that she can pull out and we can put back in etc etc.