December 2006- where they've grown so much we spend more time talking about our lives than our children

[Indith]

Well that and our pregnancies and other non-dec '06 children

Tis a good thing I feel.

Oh look he just learned how to peel a banana......

My god the child is hyper! When will he crash? I need a chocolate brownie

Tell me he's gone to bed now?

Twin-cuddles.....

Am having visions of Indith and her ds eating chocolate brownies together whilst watching late night movies

Castles, am around next week, though dd1 has been booked in for daily swimming crash course and various other omg-its-half-term activities so some days a bit bitty, IYSWIM. What works for you? Text/email me!

Wonder what the weather forecast is next week?

dh's chest and dd2's bowels permitting, we're going to Weston-super-Mare for the weekend, of all places. Don't laugh. I have a very nice uncle who lives near there, and we've found a dodgy sounding hotel with a swimming pool to hang out in....

I lurrrrve Weston, Eli . Had some very drunken nights out there while we were students in Bristol. Still have a good friend who lives there in fact. Did you know the pier burnt down? (Just in case you fancied spending hours shoving coins into slot machines and pestered to win teddybears!).

AQ, I am very at the thought of two tiny babies snuggling into me.

Ds wouldn't eat Brownies if you paid him, try to hand him chocolate and he shakes his head

He went to bed at 10 , woke up at 6 and has now crashed in a heap at the bottom of his cot while I was having a shower. Have left him to it, no blanket (he is on top of it) and curtains open for fear of waking him! He has 5 hours of missed sleep to make up for!

Eli sounds like a fun weekend

Indith, he is preparing you for teen years - late to bed, then morning spent akip

Yes, knew about pier, d'you remember the Old Pier, Oli? I lived on the end of it for a few months many many years ago.....

Not sure about the fun part, but here's hoping - meantime have got to rush and pack today before picking dd plus pal up from school, as tomorrow is going to be crazy. Did I mention we're trying to move house? Possibly not, mostly live in denial on that one...

You're moving? After finally getting the renovation? Sounds like dh and me earlier this year.

DD is sharing her apple with me - we are having strict turns

They're soooo cute when they are cute and soooo terrible when they're not iyswim.

Thanks for the parcel AQ - lovely surprise. Have sent your cheque today for the MB, sorry it took a bit longer than should have, been an awkward week.

Indith, i reckon it's spending his formative years with students thats done it

Eli, hope all are well for the trip to Weston, funnily enough my Uncle used to live there. He died of liver failure a couple of years ago, poor sod.

House move??? No, hadn't mentioned that major event....

DD just jumped over the back of the sofa I swear she is destined to be a gymnast! She's been working on her backwards rolls this week with little success (had forwards ones down for a while) and has started skidding on the carpet on her knees, cue enormous bruises which I daren't let anyone see for fear of them locking me up. Obviously still not worn out enough for a nap though

Oh no, did I scare everyone away??

I actually did didn't I?

I'm cake making so I'm not really here, honest guv!

5hrs and 40mins exactly Ooooh, cake, ok you are excused then. God, I have to get myself something to do...

Sorry Lennied, ainbows and Guides tonight!

I love the sharing, tis so cute. Ds gets a bit enthusiastic at shoving things in my mouth before I've finished the previous mouthful though

LenniEd

Plenty scares me, but not your posts...yet...

Jabber, house move is probably a fantasy: market is far too dire. We mostly did the loft extension in order to have the option of moving, because it maximizes house price. Or did . We actually had an offer today, but it was far too low...couldn't afford to move unless we got more, so may give up and sit tight. No problems with where we are, exactly, just been here far too long, and are greedy for a bit more garden so dh can indulge love of vegetable growing...

ps was obviously at your thinking you'd scared us off, not at your uncle's liver failure...thats , I'm sorry to hear that. Weston actually helped me not do the same, a million years ago - long story

Eli - he was an alcoholic, as is his brother. My family is pretty well off for addicts and otherwise mentally ill people. Sometimes I ponder my lucky escape. DH finds them all fascinating, like exhibits in a zoo. Sometimes he irritates me with the way he discusses them with people like they are saop opera characters rather than my only (if somewhat pityful) family. It was a very sorry way to go, wouldn't recommend it and glad you didn't go that way...

((LenniEd))

Working backwards: both dds were transverse, and both turned around 35-37 weeks....plenty of time yet. In my case, they then turned back, but thats probably because I have a slightly heartshaped uterus (sounds cute, eh?!) and they didn't engage head down. In your case, lots of time for manoeuvres, though be warned its a bit like Alien when they do it so late.

Food: new regime sounds wonderful, lucky dd, yum My dentist said same about raisins and fruit when dd1 was about 2 - and eating them as snacks all the time in lieu of biscuits etc. She now has the start of a cavity at nearly 5 as we found out on Tuesday, even though we've avoided dried fruit since we knew. It may be pure genetics/bad luck, but am definitely giving dd2 more bready/biscuity snacks and less fruit between meals.

Families and addiction...not easy at all, I'm sorry if I've brought anything painful up for you. Strangely, I seemed to be the only 'obvious' addict in my family (20+ years in recovery/abstinence, so not something that gets focussed on much these days) but I think a lot of dysfunction and/or addiction is harder to spot....so I say, beware the dhs that think they have 'normal' family members only...

Eli don't move house

Lennied get rocking, scrubbing floors and whatever else you are supposed to do! Hope it shifts.

Not entirely convinced mine is lying quite right but I'm seeing the MW later so I'm sure she'll let me know.

Ds is another fruit fiend. I go with fruit for morning snack and toast or something for afternoon. He does steal bits of my fruit though, or end up with fruit if we are out as it is so much easier to lob a banana and an apple in your bag that it is to find a tub and put biscuits in etc. He doesn't like dried fruit though, I think it is too sweet for him, he really doens't like things that are too sweet. Can't win really can you! Too much, too little, too many biscuits etc. Meh, so long as we are not feeding then sherbert dips and not brushing teeth then I don't think we can be blamed for the state of their teeth.

Both my Dds have loved raisins and fruit bars. They also love crisps and biscuits though.

Eli - is this DDs baby tooth? Will he radult tooth be ok?

ex-h is a pediatric dentist. He always said raisins were the worst snack b/c they stick to the teeth and hang around to cause decay. Sugary drinks all day same thing - bathing teeth constantly in sugar. Having said that, ds2 (and now ds1 of course) much prefers juice over water

Yes, baby tooth, surface between two top molars - not a hole as yet, just 'grey area' that needs watching and eventually filling, as molars don't fall out till they're about 10 according to dentist. Adult tooth will be fine

She never ate raisins more than once or twice a day at the most, and that was over two years ago, so tbh think its mostly bad luck...

I definitely think it's bad luck/genetics with teeth (unless you live on a diet of fizzy drinks and sweets and never clean your teeth). I am hoping my DCs inherit my gnashers: 40 years old and never had a filling

Bless you Lennied: pg is a time for much fretting. It was for me anyway.

I had the best news today: my friend is pregnant after her first round of IVF

Genes definately partly to blame - I have no fillings and neither do any of my siblings, yet none of us can claim a particularly healthy diet is responsible. Although saying that we didn't have fizzy drinks or sweets as children.

Castles - wonderful news on your friend, I always think it is amazing how they manage to do IVF, I used to love teaching about it.

Eli - what happened with your transverse babies? Midwife said I would have to be referred to consultant at about 33wks if baby hasn't moved by then and they would monitor things until 37wks. I am assuming by that she means that if he still hasn't moved by 37wks I'll be looking at a caesarian. There was no mention of anything else, bit early to start worrying me I spose... Am due on 13th Jan and m/w said that they wouldn't let me go into labour whilst baby transverse so I'm assuming an early c/s would be in order... so that means somewhere in the week 24th-31st Dec... what excellent timing I have . (DD born 28 Dec... )... please turn round baby

Hope yours is being better behaved Indith

No, nothing painful Eli, have moved on, as much as one can anyhow. Unfortunately DH's family are about as normal as normal comes, all very lovely and well balances...does help that there are only about 8 of them in total... hee hee, there are 8 in my immediate family... what did he marry into!

Sorry, eli, I didn't even see what the discussion about raisins was about. Re-reading that post it came off a bit...high hat-like I guess