April 2007 - 1st Birthdays are upon us!!!!!!

[oooggs]

here we go!!!!

Hey Liath - Congrats to M about his job!!

C's trust fund is woth £221 [grrrrrrr]

I must get on and do ours actually - we're definately going to go for the shares option - not often you get a chance to gamble with government money! Thing is - the bigger two girls don't have a CTF - they are too OLD and we've always squirreled a little bit away in savings accounts. We'll do the same for poor B when I get round to opening it!

PM - lovely name! Lovely little girl I like girls - I have three. Dd1 and dd3 are my April babies - just the 9 years apart though!

Welcome puppymonkey

That's right NL! Although the best thing we both could have done in the last year was to open a cash CTF savings account - and I've added a little extra too . Still, at least we didn't put loads more in (you can top up by £1200 but we didn't really have that to spare).

yes I think they expire in May must get round to doing it - they are still worth £250!!!!

My mum and u both put a bit away every month for C - we were going to put it in the the CTF, until I realised that he would get sole access to it when he is 18.... Now I was quite responsible at 18 but if I had been handed a cheque for £15k I would have blown it on holidays and shoes and drink and unsuitable clothes...

No chance that C is going to get the chance!

if the parent doesn't open one the government do it for you. I'd do it quick if I were you, don't want them choosing

Right am off to bed ladies, night x

ps, hope all goes well tomorrow spb

puppymonkey - love the pic on your profile [oooggs is such a nosey bint]

oooggs!!!

GMM, you're putting me to shame - as C and D have same birthday. Are you celebrating it on the day?

We're going to invite people to join us for a picnic in the park in the afternoon, and then any adults/older kids can come and eat/drink/chat here in the evening if they like. But it's all going to be very informal.

Another nosy person here, yes, the pic of E is gorgeous. How old is your 1st dc?

I want to have a party for B with her baby friends I could do it on the day - or I could wait and hope we get moved and do it in the new house - but after her birthday - and that would have to be a weekend .................hmmmm.......will think on!

Just dropping in before bed.

K's CTF has gone down too. I am a bit naffed off with it really.

PM, I too had a look at the pic on your profile. Gorgeous

Hi Elkie and GMM.

Right, need to go to bed. I have a headache - dh isn't going to believe me!!

RIght off to bed any time nowish
Urgh work
Urgh
Good luck NL!

Night SOL hope you're feeling better in the morning, and all runny bums have been corked

fine you've all gone
you leave me no choice

I'm still here - mustering the energy to go to bed though! Good Luck with work SPB!

Elkie... dd1 is 11 years old.

Same dad too... everyone always thinks i must have a new dp!!

will be thinking of you tomorrow Katy - good luck and hope T enjoys nursery

PM - big gaps are great aren't they? I've got 3 years between dd1 and dd2 and then six years betwenn her and dd3. Lol at the new dp For us its 'oh was she planned' To which I answer - 'very much so' and then punch them on the nose!

blimey it is well past my bedtime - see you next month no I haven't been drinking!!

you lot are buying 1st birthday presents? bugger I knew we had forgotten something

hi Luce

Luce - I don't have a boy - but what we are thinking of getting for B would work for boys too. It's one of those wheelybug things. The Bee one of course