July 2006 - toddlers, climbers and daredevils sign in here!

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Thought it was time for a new thread folks.
Great news about your job Bloss. Will catch up with you all tomorrow. xx

Hey all

It's agalch here btw. Went to my meet up and had a fab time. Met loads of lovely MNers and really looking forward to meeting up with the Scottish lot again soon xx

Hope you are all well xx

Hi all - lovely photos KZ, Roshi such a grown-up girl now (still loving the chubby arms tho ).

HC - when I was on ADs (long time ago now thankfully) I found that taking one every other day made my moods v up and down. I started biting them in half and taking half a day and then half every other day. Was much better.

Made a few mincepies with the boy yesterday - great fun, as was eating them afterwards. Will be putting the tree up at the weekend when my family are here I think, so leaving limited fiddle-time.

And finally DH and I have had a little talk and I'm chucking my pill away after Christmas and we're going to let nature take its course...

Spin - those photos are gorgeous - R looks like a proper little girl rather than a baby/toddler.

HC - sorry about your crap lunch - if you are payinggood money for something, then they should at least make an effort to make it good - plus I am all for female equality but a lady Santa, that is just taking it too far!

Broken bauble count - 2 here (Lysette - do you live in a mansion to have a spare room just for the tree?? ) I don't think having wooden floors helps does it? At least the baubles might stand a chance on carpet.

Josh is not a food/cutlery thrower - he may not eat much of what I give him but at least it does tend to stay in the bowl/plate.

Went into town today to finish off my Christmas shopping - they have recently introduced paying at machines for the carpark (rather than a man in a booth) and this is the first time I have been since it has changed. Anyway (mini rant alert) - the nearest pay machine to the lift is the other side of the shopping centre - so if you have a pushchair and need to use the lift to get to your car, you have to pay at the machine, dash through a busy shopping centre to the lift, hope that it doesn't take long to come, unpack your car, get your child into the car seat etc etc - and then out of the car park before your time runs out once you have paid. I couldn't believe it when I realised that this was where they had put the pay machine - am about it and have a good mind to write and complain!

Well, not much else to report here - need to dash and try and find a top for Christmas Day before Josh wakes up.

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Mae - x-post - woohoo about letting nature take it's course. If you want to join a TTC thread, come and join this thread (me and HC are already on it)

Thought I would share this photo - for no reason other than I think it is cute! (BTW, do you all think it is about time I gave Josh a haircut?)

Hi everyone

Ceebee what a gorgeous photo!! How grown up he is now! And Roshi too spin!

Good luck to you three starting TTC after Christmas. Hope you all get what you want!

Had a very hectic weekend, so knackered again today. K still wakes a million times a night but at least can't scratch...

Anyhoo,

Love to all

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gorgeous photos everyone! josh looks so adorable like that! and so big compared to jacob (in a nice way of course!)

frosty meant to say how awful about your lunch you poor thing and def have a good rant! and a lady santa....not sure i agree with that one! he's called father christmas for a reason you blardy pc people!!!

and maewest glad to hear another person getting ttcing off our thread! at least in the new year anyway, although i may be having this one by the time you are all pg. that's a scary thought

hilarious this afternoon - jacob, me and the childminder all had a 2 hour nap at the same time!

xxx

and yes ceebee this is lady santaspregnantlittlehelper here

let me just instruct the butler to type a little faster

no really - we are very lucky that at the moment we don't use our front reception room and it's closed off. our kitchen has a big family room on the end of it out the back of the house so we spend all our time in there! when dh's grand development plans for the house are realised then it'll all be open plan so no shut away rooms!

You are all so nice-DH has kindly cut my AD's in half with a pair of scissors. Can now see the way forward.

SIL has composed a letter to the Hotel to complain. Bless her!

Have had a slight Ebay faux pas. I sold a WW starter pack and the winning bidder is in Botswana so I E-Mailed her saying I don't post overseas so I couldn't sell her the item. When I checked my listing I saw I had mistakenly put I would post worldwide so now I have to post it. She has sent me the money and enough for postage but if I need a tracking service the item will take 56 days to get there. Otherwise it is Airmail for small parcels without a tracking service. Convinced I am going to be conned somehow.

Waffling now so will go. Hi to all.

HC
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Gorgeous photos Ceebee and Spin! Josh is such a sweety Ceebee (possibly time for a wee hair cut maybe? ). Spin, I can't believe Roshi is only a month older than Aidan - she looks about 2!

Lysette - that's terrible news about the poor lady on your postnatal club. Hope you're feeling OK.

Touch wood no probs with the Xmas tree here. Aidan loved helping to decorate it (well he loved wrapping strings of beads around himself several times ). The key here is that none of the decorations are breakable. We have little miniature toys and animals, and some sparkly winter fruit arrangement thingies, but no glass baubles.

I've been very very bad at posting on here recently, but I have been reading regularly. What has everyone got their LOs for Christmas? We're getting Aidan a little table and chair set from Ikea, and a remote control car. That's if they arrive in time for Christmas Day, but I suppose the beauty is that he won't notice this year if they're a bit late.

Snap with the table & chair set Twinkle - MIL has bought it for DS. Well actually, she delivered it last week when was looking after him for a day. He loves to sit there and do drawing, eat his tea etc and on Sunday I hunkered down next to him and we made mincepies. Great present!

We have bought him a trike and I've put together a stocking with a few bits in. Getting a bit festive now - if I could just shake this cold...

HC - just a quickie - I thought I had done that the other day (mistakenly said post worldwide) because of the wording on the Request Invoice email I think. It said somethign like Standard International post so I was panicking as my buyer was in Portugal.

However I went back to one of teh earlier listing emails, or My Ebay or something (sorry can't remember exactly) to look at the actual layout of the listing and it did say Post to UK only.

It's confusing as there isn't an option to specify postage to UK/International (that I can find anyway) when you set up the listing page. There must be one but it doesn't seem to be obvious.

Anyway will catch up more later, just wanted to post this just in case it's helpful x

ooh another quickie, please can someone post the model name or a link to the Ikea table and chair? I've been looking for ages and nothing looks suitable, but I've probably just missed it.

Hi to all - will post again when she's asleep (please let that be soon...)

Hi Girls
Well she?s in her cot and chuntering away to herself, so fingers crossed?

Very exciting - (nearly) 3 TTCers! Good luck to everyone! I?m kind of joining you (in a very vague kind of way) in that we?re letting nature take its course too, however we?ve done that for the last 6 years and only conceived once, and I?m an old bird of course? never say never though!

Ceebee - what a dreamboat Josh is, don?t cut his hair it?s gorgeous Does he really just flop onto chairs and fall asleep like that? Very if he does, Emma wouldn?t in a million years in case she missed something, she only ever sleeps in her cot, or car seat when the car?s moving, she hasn?t even napped in her pram since she was about 8 months old.

Annie - sorry if I haven?t said before but GORGEOUS pics on Facebook, love the one of them in their red wellies!

Spin - lovely to see your latest pics, sweeeet ones of them together, and love the one of Roshi with the shades and finger in her mouth, very cool! Was a bit at the sky cot pic (assuming that?s what it is?) - what a weeny cot!! I?m thinking about doing that journey before Emma?s 2, it will be even worse if she won?t fit in the cot.

Agalch - glad you had a good night out - if they?re both Scottish AND MNers you can?t go wrong can you

Bloss - bummer on the food throwing, how infuriating. Emma keeps threatening to tip her plate upside down, I?ve managed to catch her and stop her so far but it?s only a matter of time. Hope work?s still going okay, do you get a Crimbo break?

Lysette - kicking - how exciting!! Lol re the typing butler, he?ll come in very useful if your fingers do swell up

Twinkle - good idea re no baubles, just tinsel it is then

We?ve got a mini tree (with mini baubles) on top of the telly where she can?t reach it, and I?ve decorated the mantel (which she also can?t reach) - but that?s as far as it?s got, haven?t been able to face doing the tree yet, it?s time consuming enough trying to stop her from stuffing all the Christmas cards I?m writing into the kitchen bin?

Re pressies, she?s got a set of Night Garden books, a singing Iggle Piggle (yes, I caved in), and a Little People farm set. She is OBSESSED with Night Garden, it?s the first thing she asks for on descending the stairs in the morning - she looks at me straight in the eye and says in this deadpan, insistent, ?possessed by a cult? kind of voice ?GOG-GEH? (her way of pronouncing Iggle Piggle.) It?s all my fault, I encouraged it. I have to admit though it?s useful for distracting her from destroying the living room

The web design course is going okay (thanks for the encouragement btw Impy ) - if a little slowly as I can only do it when Emma?s either asleep or at nursery as it requires TOTAL concentration. Don?t know what?s up with me at the mo but I?m finding concentration and organisation really difficult again since stopping work. It?s like when I first went back to work when Emma was 6 months old - maybe it?s the change in routine again. Bit depressing but have found that I?m completely dysfunctional without a series of routines to get me through the day - sure I never used to be like that

Better get off and do some studying while the going?s good - love to all xxx

Ceebee NO!!! Don't cut that gorgeous hair!!
I think it's time for Kayley to have a haircut, as it's starting to get in her eyes, but I DON'T WANNA!!!

Yes cute little furniture in Ikea. No link though sorry First! (Download some stupid flash player it says... I have the old fashioned catalogue at home) Thanks first for what you said about my photos! I do like them too!! Hope you are successful with your TTC too!! Golly ye're all at it!! Hope that study is going well too.
Kayley also loves the Night Garden, and Joey has just recently started asking for it too (even though he's 2.5!) They sit there together and laugh at it, so I can't resist putting it on. And yes, it does give you some quiet time!! We got her the little figures of In the Night Garden from ToysRus. And Peppa Pig Deluxe Playset. Also Elefun and Croc Dentist for them to share, and some No Mess Markers, so they can hone their artistic talents!

She was a right fidget arse again last night... Must have woke about 10 times or more... She has a cold now as well, so her eczema is aggravated by the stress of that, and I suppose the cold weather doesn't help either.

HC, good luck with the AD weaning. Hope it works well. LOLove x

Ho Ho Ho

well that typing butler is coming in handy already i think as i have now had to take off my engagement and wedding ring

jacob needs his hair cutting as well as it's in his eyes and curling at the back but it's being cut on christmas eve

this is about a month old - wil ltry and put some more recent ones on later once i have put them on the site - they take ages to load at the moment as we have so many.

must go jacob tugging at my sleeve now !!!

Lysette - Jacob is a real looker isn't he? I am loving these photos as they all look like proper little boys and girls rather than babies. BTW, the photo of Josh does make him look much bigger than he is - he is actually quite small (still in 9-12 month clothes) and always looks so small compared to the other boys at nursery of a similar age.

First - do you not think that the more time you have, the more you waste it?? I am so much more efficient doing chores etc on the days I am at work than the days I am at home. And, in answer to your question, no Josh doesn't fall asleep wherever - I wish!! He only also falls asleep in his cot or car seat (when car in motion) - he will fall asleep in our arms downstairs during the day if he is really tired - when the photo was taken, he had fallen asleep in the car coming back from Sainsburys, we had taken him out of the car seat, taken his coat off and put him on the beanbag without him stirring at all so he must have been in a VERY deep sleep!!

I also like the idea of a small table and chairs but we have absolutely no room at all - which is a shame as I am sure Josh would love it.

Right off to wrap some more presents and do my ironing for tomorrow. It is my Christmas lunch at work - going to an Italian restaurant so not exactly traditional but very yummy! It is Josh's 'parents evening' tomorrow night aswell so am looking forward to meeting some other parents (hopefully).

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Oh and Lysette - if it makes you feel any better, I had to take my engagement and wedding ring off when I was about 6 months pg - and it still doesn't fit now

aaaaah thanks ladies!!! he gets those looks from his dad did i ever tell you about when jacob was born and was in the scbu, we had a black and white photo from our wedding of dh up on the side of his cot so he could see him every day when dh wasn't there. one of the other mums came up and said "is that the father? I thought he was a movie star ". he does not look like a movie star, unless you've had a few too many bottles of wine!!! although our wedding photographer was great and it was b&w!!!

anyway, enough of my pregnant woman rambling!

sss how brave of chili! making me well up even just thinking of it and he's not even my ds and brilliant of R at swimming! we haven't taken jacob swimming for a long while, must really get back into it.

ceebee i have a funny story about a "parents evening" - my friend's daughter has just started a new school and the woman who is o nthe pta for their year suggested casual get to know you drinks at her place. she lives in a rather large house, has maid, gardener etc and is a bit full on - anyway, the drinks rapidly morphed from casual to formal £30 a head stuff and she was trying to make it a very cultured blah blah blah evening.....until her brother showed up, is 42, wildlife photographer for the bbc, has a farm in peru, and basically just lives for his next s**g.....he went round all the mums (even though dads were present) asking if they were happy in their marriage and basically wanted a bit on the side which is all this drinks party will ever be remembered for!!!!

anyway, must be off!

xxx

Ladies-can you help me with a little Ebay problem? I have asked on the Ebay thread but the more answers the better. I sold a brand new radio in April and now the buyer is saying it no longer plays and the manufacturer has told her to ask me for a replacement. I no longer have the receipt to give her as it was over 8 months ago so what do you think I should say in my reply E-Mail? I have the same radio and the warranty card does say to make a note of the purchase date and store and keep your receipt with it. I never opened her box so couldn't write on the warranty. Infact, I haven't even written on my own warranty or kept my own receipt.

HC
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Hello ladies

Just got K to sleep in her cot, and when I came back in Joey was clutching a box of raisins and had fallen asleep on the couch!!!
So five minutes for me!!!
I put some photos on Facebook again if anyone wants a peek.

they should be here

Couple of rubbish nights, the usual, so I won't bore you with it. After much stressing and screaming last night though, she came in our bed eventually, and just lay there, and half sat up, said 'kiss?' and gave us both kisses and then conked. Moments like that make me feel so bad for being so frustrated with her in the night...

Some pressies under the tree today, but so far, neither of them have even noticed!! DH has gone shopping today, but I suspect he'll be in a pub somewhere...

HC, don't know what to say about the eBay thing, it's definitely not up to you, if you sent on the warranty etc. But don't listen to me, I know v little about anything.

Lysette, Jacob definitely is a looker!! What a gorgeous bunch we have!

Snow, How brave of Chili!! Bless him, all grown up.

Right, off to make a cuppa, and see if I can beat HC at scrabulous!!

LOLove