August 2007- Happy Birthday babies!

[JamesAndTheGiantBanana]

New thread. Happy birthday to all our gorgeous girls and beautiful boys!!

hiya, lizzie, zo sorry to hear about your dad-the 29h jan is my mums anniversary, we'll be thinking of you then.

tt-huge congratulations on Imogen-a very pretty name, can't wait to see the pics

gill-thats good that you got to see the specialist about your headaches and hope that what he said helps. The thyroxine has done wonders for my migraines.

meandjoe-hope you are ok and don't worry about shouting at Joe. We're the same here, not very shouty people but I usually just "aaaaaaaggggggh" when C does something exacerbating and he usually turns to me and says no mama as if i was the one in the wrong

hersetta-Caitlin is so clever, C babbles and lot and if you ask him what noise a certain animal makes he says it but sometimes they all sound the same it's more the signs he does with it. He was watching peppa pig with his gran and he put his fist to his nose and sniffed (thats what he does for an oink) has started singing too. He got the vtech bus for christmas from his great grandparents and it has a song on it that he lalas the tune too all the time so then dh and i have it in our heads constantly!

conker-wow time has flown by, i've still got Struans present here, i thought we'd sent it but we found Callum had sneaked it into his cot still in its wrapping and he hid it under his toys so i will send it this week, sorry If you're up to meeting up when you're on maternity leave let me know

I really am so broody and i've just had my latest blood hormone levels done so hopefully my progesterone levels will be high enough for me to conceive!

hi all, thank you for not all flaming me for being such a bad mummy, i felt very after shouting at him. he's just a baby fgs, i should know better, the sad thing is, i do know better but i'd just had enough!

the good news is joseph has been an utter angel this past couple of days. he seems to have a good memory though which is worrying! we were playing with him and his toy animals today and we asked him what noise cows make, he said 'mooooooooo', then sheep he said 'baa', lions 'raaaahh' and snakes 'ssssssssssss', he's known that doggies go 'ooof ooof' for ages but i didn't realise how many things he'd actually remembered . he also opens his mouth and closes it like a goldfish when i ask him what fish do but i did sit and do that with him for about 5 mins the other day til he copied it and he remembered it today, he seems to really enjoy learning. i spend way too much time making animal sounds with him tho obviously.

gill, hope the cold and cough is getting better. it seems to be going around at the moment, nearly everyone i speak to has a cold, thankfully i have avoided it (so far). how was the night with your friends?

heli, fingers crossed for the progesterone levels!!!!! hope you are ok on 29th, i found the 10th a real struggle and still don't feel i have fully recovered. i just hate january altogether.

lizzie, how are you? thinking of you all and hoping you are doing as well as can be expected. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

meandjoe-aaaaawwwwww joseph sounds so cute and very clever with his animal sounds. I know what you mean about january. It was Jan 2005 that my mum was first ill with what they diagnosed as encephalitis and then 3 months later we found out it was a brain tumour and then she died jan 2006 so it's just not a good month!

C was very funny last night, he was speaking (well a constant babble) to my dad on the phone and he had it in ine hand under his ear whilst strolling round the lounge and with his other hand he was doing VERY elaborate hand gestures and kicking his football at the same time he must watch us multi tasking whilst on the phone and thought he'd copy!!!

meandjoe

I doing ok. Although if you see my other thread. Some people are not being as helpfull as they could be.

lizzie-sorry to hear about you MIL being so unhelpful, sending big hugs to you and of course you are doing the right thing with the party

hi everyone - laughing at all the los antics - i'm amazed by what they soak up too meandjoe - i asked ds where his teddy bear was recently and he pointed to his top - turned out he was wearing his dungarees with the teddy bear on under his jumper (I hadnt even noticed when i put them on him, so how he knew that was what he wearing i have no idea).

6 weeks left at work (but still 14 till due date) as work have asked me to go early to help with their finances. and it will mean i can do some kilts before the baby is born.

Website is now up and running (although I have some grammatical and other changes to make after letting my parents and sister see it) at www.bareknees.co.uk if anyone is interested.

lol at callum hiding the present helibee - thats very kind of you to get him one in the first place. i will be up for a meetup during maternity.

struan ran round our bed on Friday and crashed into our desk - cue me panicking on the phone to dh as the bleeding wouldnt stop and the cut was gaping, so he came back up from Glasgow, and we went to the minor injuries unit at Falkirk. Got glue and paper stitches - he looked awful cause of the amount of blood - the cut itself was about an inch long so pretty big, but the nurse got it to look pretty good with the stitches. unfortunately, with ds being so itchy all the time, he managed to scratch them off and get very upset last night so have reapplied some this morning - hoping it wont scar.

apart from that, things are good with us.

oh yes and exciting about you thinking of ttc helibee - i love babies.

not quite at the get it out of me stage, as I am due quite late on in April, and on the due in April thread, some people are getting impatient already so am making an effort to try and not think of it as happening any time soon, as they will all be off having their babies, and I will probably still be hanging around at the start of May. Cant believe how much they all talk - wasnt on from Thrusday till today, and they were 511 into a new thread - they had been at about 820 on the old one when i left on Thurs.

hersetta - impressed with the two/three word combinations. dh read somewhere that they should have around 20 words by 18 months - if animal noises count, thats fine - if not - banana, obama, thank you, milk, mummy and daddy are about it.

Hi all. Saturday night went well. Dh made dinner and then we spent a few hours on the Wii. My cold seems to be on its way out thankfully.

helibee - good luck ttc! Fingers crossed for you.

ds still calls all animals 'cat' but we are making progress. This morning he picked up one of dd's toy dogs and said 'cat'. I said 'no it's a dog' and he replied with 'oof off'.

lizzie - sorry to hear about your mil. Hope Lizzie enjoys her party.

conker - poor struan. Hope he's ok. I left the dcs in the living room with some chocolate coins on Saturday while I did some cleaning in the kitchen. Ds came in crying and pointing at his mouth. Then he fished out a bit of foil with blood on it I felt terrible.

I seem to remember the due in August 07 thread moving too fast. I could never keep up. I think if I joined another one in the future I'd really struggle. I only get a short break at work and rarely have time in the evenings to read mn.

Gill, Caitlin does the same - if she sees a dog on TV she points her finger and says 'wad dat', I say a dog and she then says 'oof oof'

Conker, her childminder says her language is very good for her age - better than her two other mindees who are both over two. Since Friday she's learnt atishoo and down as we've been singing ring a ring of roses a lot. She babbles for most of it and when we get to atishoo and then all fall down she really shouts the words. Then claps herself heartily!

She can now also sing the lasy few words of the wheels on the bus song. When we get to all day long she now sings 'all day dar'. She's changing on a daily basis it seems.

Sorry about your in-laws Lizzie. Forget about them though and just enjoy your DD's birthday.

Helibee - good luck with ther hormone levels.

Poor Struan - hope it heals soon. that must have been horrible for you. I think I would have freaked out if that had happened to me and I'd have been alone.

Can I ask, do you all still spoon feed your LO's. When i feed DD she wants to feed herself - with varying degrees of success from good to bloody awful, but when my Dh feeds her she is happy to be spoon fed. I'm sure she just knows she can get away with more with me.

hi all, conker-poor struan hope he's feeling better soon.

Gill-glad the cold is clearing, i think we may ned to get an extra wii remote cos C always wants to hold one and copy your movements!

hersetta-yes Caitlin does sound very advanced, Callum if concentrating knows lots of animal sounds but otherwise most of them are doggy sounds or a lion! We've not fed callum for a long time, he's never really let us so he feeds himself very well and even with a yoghurt there is hardly any mess (unless he doesn't want it allin which case he tips the rest out)

He's just gone down for a nap but i burst into tears as i was listening to the radio and one of my mums fav songs came on and Callum came up and gave me his blanket and dummy and put my head on his chest and said "aaaah mama, aaaah, ssssssh, sssssh", it was so sweet that that made me cry even more!

conker-i like the website, i'll email you later about Callums kilt, i really need to get round to it and we still need to get dh's waitcoat and kacket so if i could get those from you too that'd be great

Ahh that's so sweet helibee. What a little star.

i've just read back what i wrote about feeding callum and i should clarify that i haven't starved my child by not feeding him for a long time rather we haven't fed him via a spoon for a long time

I knew what you meant helibee!!

Hersetta - ds will only let me spoon feed him his yoghurt and that's only because I won't let him have it otherwise. He likes to eat it with his hands and it ends up all over his face and hair.

helibee - That's so lovely. Ds always gives dd a hug and strokes her if she's upset.

Ds' new word is bin. He's obsessively tidy and can't walk past a piece of fluff without picking it up and giving it to me. If we leave a cup or a bowl where he can reach it he'll pick it up and give it to us, as if he's telling us not to leave it lying around.

gill, that is so cute of your ds tidying

Callum counted to three this morning, well his version went "done, doo, tee" but he put up the right amount of fingers when counting

anyway just off to watvh the inaugaration

awww heli, bless ds for comforting you. understandable about the song making you cry, i still do this now if i hear any songs we played at the funeral and it was 15 years ago! i think cos i was so young i didn't handle the funeral very well really and the slightest memory of it makes me cry. ds does the same though and looks really concerned when i cry, just strokes my hair and tries to cuddle me! it's beautiful but actually makes me cry even more. i can't believe callum can count!

qwwww gil, ds sounds very cute tidying up after you all! joe loves tidying after us and puts all our shoes away in the hall and i always give him a cloth when i'm dusting and he follows me around 'polishing'.

well i was in floods of tears watching the inaugaration, i get waaaaay too into politics! lol.

lizzie, just read that thread you linked. so sorry people are making you feel bad for things. do what you feel is right for you and dd. hoping you are doing ok, it is such a sad time for you all. lots of love xxxxxxxxxxx

TOKENtotty COngratulations can't believe one of our Augie's have a sibling already that is fantasic news , my good friend has an Imogen lovely name she gets Imie alot, which is cute.

helibee- LL feeds himself and sits at a big chair now too, but I wish i could say 'hardly any mess' LOL my LL is determined to spend all day messing himself and the house up, very diffrent to ds1.

re: language LL says a few more words in the last few days, i notice he has little spurts of talking and adding words and then no change for a while. I worry heaps about my friends daughter who at nearly four hardly talks never really heard her say more than one word, but yesterday she answered the phone and said 'hello my mummy is coming in a minute' i nearly fell over, her mum always says she's fine but the teacher in me finds it hard to believe. i'm just not one of those mums to believe they can catch up if they are really really behind, but maybe i'm wrong

I have my nucal scan this friday, i will be just over 13 weeks, i have been so tired can't wait till second trimester kicks well in.

hi folks

uki - ds is very similar, adds a few words and then nothing for a wee while.

feeding - he is good with his left hand but not his right and he insists on trying to do it with his right - but it always tips up by the time he gets it to his mouth. on the attempts with his left hand, he gets it in flat, no problem. guess he may well be a lefty like his dad.

ds was suitably respectful and stood up when his hero Obama appeared on television last night. he was so good and let me watch the whole thing while we played an animal nose game, and did some jigsaws.

bored at work as usual - need to eat some chocolate i think.

good luck at the scan uki - sure it will be great. and yes roll on second trimester. my sil was due on 15th jan, had a sweep yesterday and nothing so is due to be induced on sunday - reminding me that even though you count 40 weeks, its usually a whole lot more than that. sorry not tyring to depress you but was just a reminder for me that when i think ah only 14 weeks to go, its probably closer to 15 or 16.

My nephew is 4 next month and the last time I saw him (just before xmas) was the first time I have ever been able to have a conversation with him. Dd is only a month younger and she seems to have been talking forever. She was advanced like Hersetta's dd though.

Good luck with the scan uki. The tiredness is the part I'm not looking forward to when I'm next pg. With both dc's I had no energy to do anything for about 4 months and dh got really fed up with me. He just had no concept of how bad I felt, along with the nausea, and had a go at me for taking advantage of him doing all of the housework, childcare and cooking. It was a struggle just to get out of the armchair most days but in the end I had to make myself so I didn't end up divorced. Hope you get more energy soon.

Did you find some chocolate conker?

Ds' room is coming along. Tell me if I've already bored you with this but dh has put a new ceiling up and the plumber has relocated the radiator and put the pipes under the floor boards. It's a fairly small room with a sloping ceiling and the radiator was in the only place we would be able to put the cot. The plasterer is coming in 2 weeks so hopefully dh will be able to finish it by the end of March and we'll have our room back to ourselves!

hi all

i'm not even going to attempt to catch up properly! have skim read though....

lizzi- so sorry to hear your sad news - (unfortunately) i've been at a few humanist funerals and they've been really nice, the prople that have led them have taken the time to find out about the person they are talking about.

conker - can't believe you've only got 14ish weeks to go! is your bump getting bigger and bigger?

gill - have your started on your medication yet?

helibee - callum sounds like a little genius! what a star he is

uki - hope the scan goes well.

my dd1 had her 4th birthday at the weekend and tomorrow i'm off to enrol her for school. can't believe she starts school in august - where has the time gone!

dd2 has got to be one of the most mischievious children i have ever known - even the childminder and group of childminders think she is (and that we've named her appropriately...). she's started, whatever mischief she's up to, looking at me, smiling, doing the mischief and saying no, no , no , no as she's doing it!

her speaking is coming on great too - her latest word is one of her friends names eilidh.

does anyone else's little one love big barn farm on cbeedbies? she squeals with delight when it comes on - also tries to see where the animals have gone if they appear to walk off the side of the tv screen - v funny.

will try and keep more up-to-date with what you all are saying!

hi my2 - yes bump is growing - seems to be slightly more wobbly at the bottom of the bump than last time, so need to get those running shoes looked out for May/June time.

dd2 sounds like lots of fun. Wonder what she will be like as a teenager . I like the name Eilidh - have been wondering about it if this one's a girl. I think its harder choosing a name for the second cause it needs to fit with Struan as well as being a nice name on it's own.

ds loves big barn farm - its one of the two DVDs he has and when he wants to watch it, he points at the TV and oinks like a pig.

have you tried the creche at the Mariner centre my2? Have been hearing about it on the Falkirk local thread and was thinking about giving it a shot once I start mat leave. sounds almost too good to be true - very cheap and very friendly.

Conker you should try thinking of a girls name for your 3rd pg . I'm 33wks pg and i'm thinking if this ones another girl we going to call her 'it'.

Yes Lexie loves big barn farm ans squeals for england when it comes on. Then crawls around the floor baking.

ooh never seem big barn farm as mostly DD watches channel 5 and loves Peppa, mr men and Thomas. Her favourite though is the simpsons which she watches with DH.As soon as she hears the theme tune she starts swaying and bouncing up and down and throws her arms in the air and squeels.

Helibee - Caitlin does virtually the same but says un (sounds like she's saying one in french), two and hee. She counts when she's building a tower out of bricks and when she gets to what should be 4 she starts at 1 again. i really should start to teach her the numbers past 3!

Her latest thing is if you say 'Cait high five' and hold your hand up, she runs over and gives you a high five and then cheers and claps. She really is very self
congratulatory because if she does something you ask her or says something well I say clever girl and she immediately starts clapping herself!! vain child.

Lizzie, i can't believe you are 33 weeks already. Get thinking on those names quickly!