March 2007- approaching their second christmas already!

[SuperSillyus]

Here we are, finally made it to another thread.

Congratulations Sponge, that's exciting! How do you feel? Rotten?

Auntgriselda, Hasan is feeding loads! Usually wakes at 5.30 for leisurely breakfast, then mid morning snack, afters for lunch, mid afternoon snack, afters for tea, supper, evening snack, midnight snack. Ooh he's a so and so.

When I tried to cut him down he became more demanding at night He really howls if I turn him down So I haven't the heart turn him down (for now - am a softy walkover!)
The thing is I'm available and on tap all day and all night.
I'm resigned to going cold turkey because I think if I try to do it gradually it will prolong the agony. At the moment he eats well but not alot.
Once I stop he'll eat loads like his brother I think.

But keeping going until he is two if I can.

Still co sleeping with Hasan and ds2. They cuddle up together -very cute. I'm planning to eventually relocate to my own bed in the next few months too.

Cor really can't imagine having another little one now

No idea what to get him for Christmas......

Happy new year one and all Dp went out and just before midnight ds1 came down and we saw in in together, lovely.

I don't really understand moldie thing but it seems unpleasant from what I have read.

I can't understand this being part of a group stuff, I've always hated that, much rather be hovering on the outside!

happy new year lovely ladies!! We had a brilliant celebration - a friend thoughtfully organised a family-friendly event (cos we're all saddos really!!)... a murder mystery party for the grown ups and the nine kiddies had free-run of the sitting room . I think Kate managed to upset every child at some point... and she was the last reveller still partying at 3am. That's my girl .

Aunty... glad to read that you saw out 2008 with a "bang" so-to-speak.

I'm missing the internet majorly. We have had some changes over Christmas... hubs bought a house and we moved in time to spend a quiet day surrounded by boxes. We have very little furniture which is fun and I am sure it will take us the next year to find homes for all our crap. I can't believe what we had managed to hide in our teeny flat !!!

Hope everyone is looking forward to a prosperous new year with adoring dhs, angelic children, housekeepers, and live in nurses.

wow Kiwi! a house sounds great, have you moved far?

Yeah, Yeah Kiwi !!!

Where is your new house - sounds great!!!?

Hello,

I'd like to join please.I did join the last thread ages ago but then my internet went haywire.

Freddie was born on the 20th March 2007, can't believe it was nearly 2 years ago now. He is very very noisy and always full of beans!

I've since had Dylan who was born 3 weeks ago on the 12th December at a whopping 10lb 5oz.

Hope you all have great 2009's!

Hi Kayzr welcome back! I remember you from before, congratulations on your new little one, wow big weight! So you had a good christmas present, how was the birth? And how is Freddie adjusting?

Kiwi how exciting, so that's what you've been up to!! Have you got much garden? it will take a while to get organised. What kind of furniture do you like? I love old furniture and got some nice sturdy bits in the charity shops You probably need lots of storage solutions, though, maybe ikea is calling you?

Hasan is still not saying loads but he's very good at saying 'sorry' with a remorsefull look which is quite funny. I've never taught him to say it, he just must have picked it up and of course he wouldn't need to feel sorry if he didn't keep whacking people!

One of my new year resolutions is to get him used to me being away more, so I can get some mummy free time, woohoo!

Looking forward to school being back on monday now

Hi Super, the birth was fine. I had him at home with my tens machine and some G&A which ran out before I had to push.

Freddie is still a bit dubious of Dylan but also gives him lots of cuddles and kisses.

We went to visit my grandparents today. A 3 hour drive which wasn't to bad as both boys slept most of the way. But Freddie needs to learn to play I-spy, I was sooooo bored. He was a right show off in front of everyone.

Hi Kayzr - you are very welcome

Some of us are on FB too (although I cannot recall how we all worked out who we were LOL!!)

How is your DS1 coping with DS?

Hi,

I am in the March 07 group on FB. I joined that too when I was here before.

DS1 is ok at times but he will hit him and run away laughing. But he is always wanting to cuddle him and wants to be near him alot. I think once he gets more used to him he'll be fine.

Kaz - my older two still fight all the time (well 50% of the time, the other 50% they are partners in crime), but they both get on with the toddler (22 months) although he is starting to annoy them now as he gets more clever and work out how to take their treats!!

Yes fighting goes with the territory really doesn't it. Rubs the corners off them. Ds2 is in the habit of screaming and whinging while Hasan chases him with various weapons. Ds2 is playing 'victim' not sure how to get him out of that. I might have to dig out that 'raising boys' book by Steve Biddulf or someone....

I don't think anyone goes on that march group much do they? But there's a bit of it where we explain who we are...think I need to update my name!

Bit of a relief to get the children back to school today. There are so many things I need to be getting on with but I've done nothing all morning except play scrabble

Super that conjours up a funny image of Hasan!!

The Fat Toddler enjoys chasing DD and pulling her hair

She is so kind and gentle and is surrounded by beastie boys!

Hello all. As I write, it's exactly two years since I woke up to find my waters had broken and one very early baby was on his way. I can't believe two years have passed.

I still have this wretched flu so it's going to be a low-key celebration later, but we are having some people over for it. I'm now going to attempt to go to sleep again if the plugged up snot ever eases and my cough leaves me alone for long enough.

Happy birthday mini-Callie (I remember how shocked we all were when we got the news!!!)

Have a lovely evening Callie

Hurrah - the first 2 year old on this thread - amazing isn't it?

Two already......

Happy birthday to ds Callie. Hope you manage to all have a fun time. I really feel for you with that flu, I've been tortured with flu aswell and just starting to feel human again.

It is very exciting to think of them all turning two now, I feel a sense of accomplishment!

Anyone feeling broody then, as babies approach 2?

nope

me neither

me

happy birthday jordi!!!!!

And me! Tho how I would manage given DS's special requirements at the moment, I have no idea. Hard enough a two year old and a baby, but a heavy, large two-year-old who can't walk and a baby...??? I suppose people do it. Too crocked to even think about the thing you have to do to get the baby anyway!

Kiwi, I am still curious as to where you have moved. Nosy, nosy. Also, can you or someone tell me the name of that clothing range which I think is either NZ or Oz in origin which I know you have mentioned before, apparently lots of nice bright coloured clothes?

AuntG, how is Monti getting on with his ELC kitchen? I've got Jordi one for his birthday, although given my state of decrepitude at the moment, haven't actually got it out of the box yet. One good thing about having his birthday so close after Christmas is the sales... it was half price in Boots online, the only way I have been able to shop in the past two weeks. I've also been to virtual John Lewis and got him an outfit in the sale and bought myself a book on CP - this online shopping thing can get addictive. So easy - you type in a number and hey presto, something arrives at your house a few days later! I'm going out of my mind with boredom and frustration at missing everything since Boxing Day, so it is a little bit of light relief in the times I feel well enough to log on.

Callie - have you got any further with DS's CP diagnosis - do you know which type it is?

I hve got mixed feelings about broodiness - couldn't cope by hey, who wouldn't want another baby?

One tip with the ELC kitchen - read the instructions before constructing!! We put ours together in haste and got the cooker and sink the wrong way round and the red knobs ended up wherethe blue knobs should have been. In the whole cosmic scheme of things it doesn't matter, but seemed quite annoying at the time

sorry!!!

Firstly, HAPPY BIRTHDAY JORDI... I've been thinking about Kate turning two alot lately but it feels even more special now that our first baby has "come of age".

I'm not broody after eighteen months of peeing on sticks and hoping. I am feeling really old and don't think I have the energy for another one.

We have moved to Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. We (hubs) managed to buy a house in a new development with the help of a government scheme - so they own a share of it. It all happened so quickly... it was four weeks from coming up to look at rental properties to moving in before Christmas. I'm bricking it about tomorrow when hubs is heading back to London for work and MissE will be at school... so our first day on our own.

My favouritest shop ever is Pumpkin Patch. I had a stock up at the new store in Westfield last weekend. I love the quality but prefer the prices in the sales so filled the cupboards with size threes for next winter .

We were going to get Kate a kitchen for christmas too but didn't order it online in time. I want a wooden one tho... but off to Boots for a nosey at the sale prices!! I think we will get her one of those mic thingys from ELC for her birthday cos she uses our fireplace hearth as a stage and has a piece of polystyrene as her mic and sings away... she keeps me smiling.

Kitty... would you really go for number 7???

AuntG - We haven't had a specific diagnosis, but we went to see the community paed last week for the first time, and my SNHV and physio were there too, so that was good to get into her system at last, so to speak. She is referring Jordi to a neurologist for an MRI scan to try and see what part of the brain has been affected. On the basis of what we have read, it seems Jordi has diplegic CP, which is basically where the legs and in his case lower back are affected, plus the stuff like him having a turn in his eye and needing glasses is probably caused by it too. It was a long meeting, and as I was still in a state of complete flu-ness, quite difficult for me, but it was very good as we really talked through lots of stuff. She was saying, which I did know but always good to hear it from a professional, that in 70% of cases, the CP damage happens in the womb and can be a cause of prematurity, rather than it being the other way around, although being prem is obviously a risk factor for it. I think she said the MRI scan may give an indication of when it happened, which would be good to know. I have to say I spent a very depressing time on the Scope (CP charity) forum the other day reading about people who had and did find themselves very isolated because of their condition - like they would say people would be ok to them in school when teachers were around, but wouldn't be included in social life outside of school because people were embarrassed to be seen with them. Jordi is a very engaging little boy, even if I say so myself (other people say it too, honest), and adults and older children love him, but I fear so much about what his peers will be like with him in a few years time, or in his teens, if he walks "weirdly" or has other obvious disabilities. DP was talking about him bringing girls home the other day, joking about me not being able to accept another woman in his life, and I was thinking inside - I hope and pray he will be bringing girls home (assuming he's straight, that is!), but would they be able to see past a disability? Am I being too uncharitable to the rest of the human race?

Callie, great that you feel you have made some headway with the meeting. That's really interesting about cp triggering prem birth. Like you I had always assumed it was the other way round.
It sounds like you have a good support team.

Yes, of course it is a worry about about the future and how he might fit into school etc. If I were you i would take each satge as it comes otherwise you will be frantic with worry.

Tbh though if any people were vile enough to exclude him because of his cp then they are wankers and don't deserve to be engaged with on any level anyway.

Kiwi, the house sounds great. I',m sorry about the non pg though. perhaps if you decide to stop trying it will simply happen. I have heard lots of stories like that.
I would dearly love another even though I am so tired and fed up. I think it is all about letting go for me though.

I have had a baby in the house now for 10 years and can't bare the thought of never having one again. Although i do find my older children so much more enjoyable to be with

Time is not on my side though.
We have no money
WE haven't had sex for over 2 years!