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.

Gosh, my DD2 barely says anything at all! She says 'please' and 'noooo', 'dog' ... and not much else. Perhaps I should be worried?

Jabber, hope the counselling works for you. LOL at lop-sidedness

Congratulations, LenniEd! I completely understand what Eli is saying too. (When DD2 was born by c-section, DH gasped 'it's a boy' as she was pulled from me. He was chagrined to be told that it was the umbilical cord. I nearly wet myself )

That's DS1 to as T as well Eli. He starts on Thursday and is counting down the sleeps now!

Dd starts preschool for the first time on Wednesday but I was more and by the fact that the application form for her school place arrived this morning. She was only 3 last week, I don't want to even think about her going to school yet.

Congratulations, LenniEd, that's fab news. I know exactly what you mean about how you feel. I was expecting dd to be a boy (not by scan, just my feeling but I was 100% convinced - we hadn't even chosen any girl's names) and was blindsided by the fact she was a girl. I called her 'him' for about a month afterwards. It is lovely having one of each, and you'll soon get used to it!

AQ and BP, I meant to say Dd barely had 5 words at this age, she didn't speak until well after her 2nd birthday but you would never know now, she's a real little chatterbox. So don't start panicking yet .

Lennied, congrats, boys are sooooo lovely! DP still a little gutted that one of the dt's is a girl tbh. Glad all is well with him, I was strangely enough going to suggest 2 girl's names to you today as I'd thought of ones that went with your surname but oh, well. I am of course completely biased but my two are so huggable and affectionate, I never expected boys were like that. BTW, there are some newborn nappies for sale inc a set of XS sandies if you were looking for some (I got a couple and they're really cute although the bimble I got the other day is my favourite so far, hope I actually use them).

BP, first LOL at your dh and the cord and second, ds2 was saying about 5 words until last week. I called the HV about him and lo & behold we've had a new word every day for the last five days. I'm fairly sure I worried about ds1 in exactly the same way

Jabber, whichever way the counselling goes, I hope it gives you some peace & happiness.

Pretty stressed tonight as ds1 starting school (mornings only for a week)in the morning, I haven't even packed his PE bag yet. He was complete little devil all afternoon, so I'm torn b/t relief he'll be at school and despair at 'losing' him.

See, if I'd have been told that I was carrying a boy, then I'd have moaned for the rest of the pg. I was just pleased to have a healthy child when it came to the crunch.

I haven't had that many words from dd2 although she's learnt the usual words - in addition she says "more" "bicbit" and "mi-ilK". She makes signs for some things. She touches her nappy when she needs changing and takes my hand when she wants something. Most of her language is only understood by me and dh.

Sorry lennied - that sounds like I'm being a bit harsh towards you in my last post. what I meant was that I would have been unsufferable if I'd have found out so it was best for everyones sanity that we didn't find out.

I think my friend is going to try for baby number 4 as she has 3 boys and would really love a girl. We were quite surprised that she was contemplating another pg as she wasn't able to have any pain relief except for G&A for the last one and was quite shocked at the pain.

Good luck AQ's ds tomorrow! It does seem to be reassuringly universal that this year's Reception kids are in horror-mode atm.
I have similarly mixed feelings, tearful one minute and relieved the next. But a whole week to go

dd2 has far fewer words than dd1 did at the same age, and is less clear: thooooth for shoes, yeth for yes, etc. But omg is she loud to make up for it. I put her to bed with cuddles and whispers in her sleepy ears, thought she was nearly asleep as I put her down, then was deafened with yell of 'Mumma, BOOK!! BOOOOK!! AGAIN, yeth, BOOOOOK!!!'

BP, bless your dh, best laugh I've had all day

Margo, v impressed your dd knows when she needs changing! If I ask mine, she invariably says 'non, no couche (nappy)' with downcast eyes...

Thanks everyone, we go on Thursday morning so we'll see...

Congrats on the scan lennied! FWIW, I was convinced ds2 was a girl, had called him "Zoe" from the beginning, lol. But I really am a boy mom so it has worked out well.

Am feeling like the slightly un-natural mother that I am that I had no problems sending ds1 off to school Dh was absolutely ill over it but I felt fine tbh. I've always been a bit taken aback by the totally dependent stages of childhood.

Ds2 chatters almost constantly these days but it's a struggle to understand him much of the time. It's like he has his own little language. I've had to figure out that things like "amane" = "airplane", etc. But juice, water and things like that are pretty clear so that's nice.

Have you settled on names, AQ?

Good luck AQs DS

DD1 said about 5-10 words until about 2.4 so please dont worry if yours isnt chatting yet. I used to worry a lot. Knowing her perfectionist character it is hardly surprising she waiting until she could do it properly. Now I never get any peace.

DD2 knows when she needs a new nappy. I found DD1s old potty recently and she's interested. But she has the attention span of a flea so sits on it for a millisecond and then is on to the next thing...I'm not even going to contemplate potty training until about Easter.

My beautiful baby boy went back to school today. I miss him so much. But he was so happy.

In fact, I miss him so much, I'm having a funny turn and want to have another child especially with all this talk of boys (congratulations Lennied btw). Help! Olihan?! Anyone else with 3 or more?! DH is still on my case about no.4 so will jump on me the minute I show any sign of weakness.

DD2 has been "telling" me for a good 6 months that she needs changing. I can't be arsed to potty train her though

Help

DD2 has refused to go to bed for her afternoon nap. They have been getting shorter and shorter.

It cant be. I have been looking forward to my nap times when DD1 is at school for MONTHS.

"DH will jump on me the minute I show any sign of weakness" Yep, think I'm in that boat too Castles, for different reasons

Have recovered now from the boy shock - kind of - thanks for all your kind words of empathy and Margo even with my previously-confessed-to-pregnant-over-analysing-mode in full swing I hadn't managed to take that the wrong way. Perhaps I am slacking

BP - Is that you considering another I see on facebook? You crazy lady!

Aw, sad to hear of all these babies off to school - and wonderful too.

EV - no naps here for a few weeks now, except in the car and if I take DD for a long walk in her pushchair in the afternoon. That sometimes backfires and I end up with a long and very slow walk home again with DD out of the pram going 'baaa' 'mooo' 'bird' 'flower' Arrrgghhh!

No Lennied, it's me, me, ME! Have posted on FB too about my unhealthy maternal urges. I need help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jabber, I was a bit like you with sending DD1 to school Best place for her!

Castles and EV how did the first day go?

BP - DD1 starts on Monday so no first day nerves just yet!

DD2 eventually fell asleep on the sofa at about 4pm today but I want her to get back to a nice long nap in the afternoon.

castles, you simply must be firm with yourself. no prevaricating or dh will have you up the duff in no time. But seriously, you really did struggle in the early months with dd2, didn't you, with dh away? Look back at the early days of our postnatal thread if it's all a happy haze to you...

DS1 couldn't wait to get rid of his parents, wouldn't say anything about school when we picked him up but seemed to enjoy himself. If I wasn't so knackered, I'd probably analyse that more...

So many sympathies on loss of daytime nap, I would be equally horrified (please god, no!!!) EV and Lennied. Wear them out more in the morning e.g. swimming seems to do most children in? Even ds1 caves in occasionally if we've run him about until mid-afternoon.

We had swimming this morning AQ !

Ahh, oh well, twas the only thing I could think of!

I'm clearly losing my marbles - sorry EV. Glad it went well for you AQ!

Phew Lennied! I sent out a reply to my friends the other day suggesting duct tape rather than using high chairs when they all go out to lunch. I think I've offended them all. Either that or they've all reported me to ss.

at Margo, you're on good form lately!

Hello!

How is everyone? All present and correct? AQ managed to refrain from multiplying just yet I see

Wedding went well, dh() still congratulating me on my wonderful project management skills Ds had a fab time without us being fussed over by doting grandparents, great grandparents etc. Shall have to chuck him at my mother more often! Then we came home and the phone line was dodgy but Mr nice man from BT has just left and behold! I'm back

Am attempting to persuade dh to go to John LEwis and Ikea this weekend so we can spend some of our vouchers on bookcases and finish unpacking/have somewhere to put the wedding list stuff when it gets here. Am determined that the house will be pretty much sorted by the end of this month as October is booked up already and I refuse to do anything other than play with pushchairs and coo over small clothes in November.

So Lennied! A boy! Boys are ace YOu keep your dd well away from ds though, none of these non-napping shenanigans in my house!

Jabber hope all goes well for you tomorrow

Castles.....go on

Awwww to all the little school starters and hugs and tissues for their mothers.

To all thinking about fretting over words, here is the sum total of ds' vocab

Yes
No
ewo (hello)
aye (bye)
uh-oh
doggie- on one day, not been repeated
roar
hssss
eow (cat noise) once only, not repeated
woof, again once only.
daddy- maybe 3 times total
He chants mam mam mam mam but has yet to call my it!

And there you go you can stop fretting now.

Oh and the canines are still coming! 2 are through and after a couple of days respite it looks like number 3 is on the way.

Woohoo, congratulations Mrs Indith!!

Ok. I give up. Just been out for drive to get DD2 asleep. She has a bit of a cold, her teeth hurt and she has been wailing for hours Now sleeping after 3 min drive