Hello all sorry I keep reading everyone's posts and then not posting myself .
Thank you for all the birthday wishes for the DTs! Babies are now one year and two days old [proud]. Their birthday was fine, nothing spectacular. My parents came down for lunch and DS2 and DD ate cake for the first time! DD ate all her small piece and got more . DS2 was not interested and proceeded to smash the cake as hard as he could until he had created a thin layer of cake across his side of the table about 1mm thick!
Gill my top tip for your party is... GO TO M&S! I did this on Saturday with only 4 adults and 3 children . You can get soooo many nice things. Definitely get paper plates etc, will really lighten the load.
Princess I am at your day! You sound so blasé and calm about it all. I found one trip to A&E with DS2 bad enough, you have had such a year with Ferdie you poor thing and now having to the biopsy yourself. I know from a friend that it is agony (although she did say that fortunately the pain stopped as soon as the procedure did, so whilst it killed during the biopsy she felt fine afterwards - hope you feel ok now too). Fingers crossed it is nothing and you are ok. Hope the week goes quickly for you.
lljkk - with DS1 he started wearing his soft shoes before he could walk (but was cruising) and he never had a problem walking with them on. He then seemed fine with the "proper" shoes I got once he was walking outside a couple of weeks later. DS2 has been cruising for 4 months... he has the ability to walk but not the confidence and as soon as he realises he is not holding on he does a dramatic fall! He has only worn the soft shoes once or twice but I think I will put them on him a bit more to get him used to them.
Gill - my heart goes out to you with the sleep issues. I think it was easier with DD as she was fine going to sleep on her own, just wanted to be given some love and a drink in the night. The night nanny would check her when she woke up to ensure she was ok, check she had her blankie etc and then ignore her, and basically just check she was ok every 5 mins until she fell asleep. She was in the same room and tried to check DD without much intervention, I think she would touch her back very briefly to reassure her and then get back into bed. The longest DD cried I think was about an hour, but dont forget it took ELEVEN NIGHTS to get her to sleep through. Do you have any possibility of trying a night nanny? They are a bit pricey but DH and I both agree it was well worth it, god knows what we would be like if we hadn't done it (it is a lot easier to leave your LO crying when there it is "someone else's problem"... we knew she was safe and also knew we didn't have to get out of bed, we were whoopping with excitement when we went to bed that first night (not knowing how long it would take...).
Sarah you are ridiculously young... I am 33 .
Gill I also nipped down to Sainsburys today. Sadly I already have 14 of those economy huge 60 packs of nappies (yes I am still hoarding), so I only got 3 packs and also the entire remaining stock of Pampers Sensitive baby wipes!
Welcome back to joosey and also to Omy (we missed you... Omy not seen you since that I was stalking you and kept popping up on the same threads).
Have not read the private schools thread. DH was boarding school educated, as were both my parents. I went to the local "slapper" school (it was nicknamed XXX Slappers ). We had thought we might try to privately educated DS1 and his sibling, but then when we got twins we realised it was impossible financially. Round here lots of very good state primary schools, incl the one only 5 mins walk from our house, which is next door to the DCs nursery. Not sure about secondary here though.
Rozzy glad work is going ok. I really miss my DCs when they are at nursery, but at the same time soooo enjoy the time without them. We always have a lovely 5-7pm time when we get home on a Monday as I am usually so much more relaxed having spent the day without them. Not sure why I am relaxed as I rarely seem to even sit down on a Monday now, so many things seem to need sorting / doing etc. Been trying to do blooming tax return which has been doing my head in.
Swotty if you are 4.5 months you must be coming up to Scan No 2 in the next couple of weeks!!! When is it? I cant remember if you said whether you are interested in knowing the gender. How exciting for you.
Sorry have written a novel. Will post this before I lose it!
Oh and I forgot. Hallelujah but DS2 is finally holding his own bottle... so I dont have to sit breaking my back trying to feed them both at the same time.