January 2008 Shiny New Year Toddlers - first steps to mischief !!!

[Lilyloo]

Hope that's ok all

Happy birthday to the trio!!!!!!!

Have a lovely day M , T and A

happy bday alek, molly and tamara.

gingeme is the meet up 12 feb...?? for some reason i thought it was 10th... i am going to find a bus route as i have a fear of push chair and escalators, i will also maybe have ds1 so that will freak me even more.

mm- i prefer nandos to pizza hut but am easy and will go with the majority. i think ds2 will love the soft play but the transport museum might be lost on him, happy to go there too as i will enjoy and we do need to fill the day... but lets def do soft play.

LaT - good luck for today hope it goes well.

Happy Birthday Molly, Tamara & Alek!!

Happy Birthday to Tamara,Molly and Alek. Hope you all have a great day
Nohing personal madmouse having London meet up first honest guv
mm I have just looked at my calender and it wil be on Wednesday 11th Feb if thats ok with you? Quite happy to change if anyone can't make that date....
of all your babies eating loads. George just doesn't seem very interested in eating lately. He half heartedly eats his breakfast which we have tried many varieties of. Even tried warm milk. Lunch is hit and miss depending if he's asleep or not and dinner is usualy a jar which he'll eat about 3/4 of. Bought him some organic carrot crunchies today. They look like fat Whotsits. He soon scoffed those while walking round Tesco

dd not eating here either.

Just gave her an ice pop as dd1 was getting one and she wolfed it hopefully make her feel better as she has really bad cough and temp!

Never had one before hope it's ok!

Gingeme - G has lots of reserves as he's bigger isn't he? and he's got lots to look at so food probably just isn't that important to him. Tom is like that. H loves food, atm, but who knows when that will change.
I know i have been lucky with H's 2 long naps a day but i think those days are behind me!
The last 2 days he's refused an afternoon nap and been really tired by bedtime. today he only woke at 9am
(though he was up in the night crying as he'd turned himself over in his sleep and doesn't seem comfy on his front - most babies have this issue at like 6mo!).
So, we went to playgroup and he went down after lunch. Can't remember when Tom changed from 2 to 1 nap but think we are there now with H.
Might mean we can go out more and get more done.....haha.

Planning a supermarket trip later - depending when H wakes up. not so much fun with the 2 of them but we really are low on most things, DH not back until tomorrow afternoon/evening sometime. and anyway we need an 'outing'

Hope the birthday boy & girls are having fun

Hi all

DD having a great day ELC electronic drum a big hit!!

Happy Birthday to Tamara & Alek.

Angechica - I know what you mean about being emotional today. Had to go to hosp to drop off yet another poo sample for DD and was quite emotional being in same building iyswim.

DD woke up sobbing t 1am last night and then took 4ozs of milk but she woke up DS who was awake for ages. Grrrr.

Hope all the poorly LOs are better soon...

On the eating front DD does ok for breakfast (bowl of porridge or ready brek) then half a fruitapura pot. She has very little lunch and will eat half a small jar. But her tea is enormous and she really packs the food away

Am doing roasted veg with broccoli for her tonight because its one of the few meals both DC will eat...

You saying George is fat JKS ? Yes you are right. DH was saying that this morning. How its one of our boys who isn't eating for some reason or another David doesn't stop eating however. He has a big breakfast and fruit. A big cooked lunch at school and afters snack and fruit after school and usualy another cooked dinner with us in the evening. I guess its all the energy he's using at school !

LOL gingeme not exactly!
Wow david does sound like a good eater.
Tom is normally a big eater but recently he's gone off tea times so i hardly give him anything - have had to try and teach dh not to overload his plate and intimidate him with too much as he won't even start then.
Yesterday of course he downed what i put in front of him and i felt mean
(i had made spare so it was ok)

H on the other hand eats and eats and eats and.... he's learnt the sign for food and just found an empty snack bowl and cried when he realised it was empty

off for fish & chips in a mo - have no inspiration for anything else and want to have my tea with them so can go to bed early. is an excuse to get out of the house too. (bad for my diet but hey ho).
H being weird with naps, woke at 9 this morning, put him down at 12.30 (he cried and i resettled him at 1.30) then got up at 4
so T & i have been chilling/playing/watching tv.
i have not been doing much in the way of jobs though, oops.

Simpson - glad DD having a lovely day

Hi all, thanks for the lovely birhday wishes....at exactly this time 1 year ago I was being left to rest for 30 mins before delivery...I've been feeling enormously emotional since yesterday afternoon, when I went into labour (iykwim! , nothing I should be telling you!!) but unfortunately dh and I both had to leg it out fo the house early this morning. We've told ds and the family that we'll be celebrating properly on Sunday and we're having a proper birthday party and everything Its going to be a challenging few weeks - some of you may remember that dh's father passed away very suddenly when T was 6 weeks old, so we've got the stone-setting next weekend and dh is obv quite wobbly and emotional. I'm just enormously broody and in shock that my little baby isn't a little baby any more. Time to start thinking about the next one !! xx

oh the next one, how exciting. I have been speaking to DH about this and he has nearly 100% agreed to trying from September as I would like to study again and dont want to have another baby after studying. He is still very keen on the must be a girl thing am working on that and my mum and dad keep making comments about 2 being enough etc etc. But we will see.

Filly - good luck for the next few weeks, undoubtably will be difficult for all. But you got through this time last year so hopefully it will be a little less this year altho i appreciate it wont ever be easy probably.

Filly - hope you don't find the next few weeks too difficult.

Mixedm - we are going to try for number 3 from Christmas. That gives my c-s scar 2 years to recover and helps me hopefully go for a home birth. (one of the 'rules' here).

I would like a girl if i'm honest, but i would only ever go into ttcing with the idea that i want a baby not a specific sex. I think i may look at the stuff that's meant to help get a girl and have a laugh with it for a few cycles. esp if it means i get to eat lots of different things - is it chocolate for girls? hope so
i always intended to have 4 so not too stressed if no. 3 is a boy, i may get more wound up by ttcing no 4 - i'm already outnumbered, would like someone to fight back against all the maleness

LoL JKS if it is choc for a girl no one told my hormones and I eat plenty of the stuff
Ah yes filly I remember. I hope you can get through the next few weeks ok
Ah all this talk of trying for another makes me kinda nostalgic. I don't think we ever realy 'tried' for any of ours just kinda concieved them still won't ever be doing that again ever
Right stenders on now.
See you later xxx

Hi all

Lovely birthday stories and sweet some of you feeling so emotional about last year

For me feelings about last year are so difficult that i am not thinking about it. The moment of the birth and the few hours after were magic, the rest was a nightmare .

Filly obviously for you things are very mixed as well. I do remember you losing your FIL, it was so upsetting , I hope the next weeks will be a time of lovely memories too, of the birth but also of your FIL.

Mixedmama it is so nice to see you again regularly. What do you want to study?

Simpon I bought Nathan a V-tech mobile phone for his birthday - and of course have already given it to him , is that the one Molly has?

Are all birthday babies exhausted in bed now?

Nathan is although he did cry for a few minutes. He had such a fun day, laughed grinned and giggled all day. I decided it was time for the next stage re feeding so bought a tommee tippee suction mat, plonked a bowl of fairly chunky casserole in front of Nathan and gave him a spare spoon. The MESS is undescribable, he loves squashing the food with his hands and messing with the spoon. I laught myself silly, which egged him on . After 20mins of that he got too tired so i opened a jar and he polished off another half a jar and a yogurt

He's just not drinking a lot at all, hard to get any water in and the only quantity he drinks is a few ounces of milk before bed. Yet his wee nappies are heavier than when he breastfed , guess the food is quite wet?

Hi

Molly was absolutely shattered when dhe went to bed today

She enjoyed herself though and got lots of pressies. A couple of friends dropped things and am totally as a few things arrived from Ireland.

Madmouse - DD has the musical beads toy. Its a singing cow she loves it.

But the big hit of the day was the electronic drum from ELC.

Major news today DD crawled right up to be and tried to pull herself up

She obviously couldn't do it but managed to kneel with her arms clutching my jeans for a couple of seconds

Filly - sorry to hear you will have a rough few weeks.

JKS - I was desperate for DD to be a girl and used every myth trick in the book

Mixed mama - What are you going to study?

All this talk for TTC is making me sad that I won't have another But don't think we could cope with another LO now.

Hi all,

Had lovely day today went to Chester to feed the ducks. Put some lovely pics on Facebook. I should be a photographer lol.

Hope the birthdays were good.

Happy Birthday for tomorrow Nathan (just in case I can't get online till late)

Evening all

glad lo's had good day

MM dd has vtech mobile (well replacement after she lsot original) she akes me laugh holding it on her shoulder

Def think next reccomendation for pressie should be a little kitchen. We have elc sizzling kitchen dd1 loves it ds just outgrown it and dd2 staring to play with it! Bargain for £50 2 years ago!!

Well just started up my ebay again. Listed baby bath seat , rocking feeding chair. Am going to put on M pram system.

Feel quite and broody too when i hear you all on here but am with Simps a lo wouldn't be good here.

Need some advice. DP hates his new job at the bank. Very stressful and he texts every day saying he hates it etc etc. I think it's really getting him down and he more shouty etc with dc! How do i support him ??
I alo think he more worried given the market he is in and being sole breadwinner.

Think N birthday Sun Lucky!

Do you think its worth him looking at getting another job Lily?
Other than that the best thing (with DP anyway) is just to listen and allow him to complain.

oh - i'm so crap at this dates thing!! LMAO

I know he has sent cv but give his recent job changes it doesn't look good to move too much!
Also i want some stability (does that sound selfish ?)
I worry that any job in finance is going to be stresful given the cc anyway.
He told me tonight he has sent his cv out
I just think a bank is prob one ofthe safest places to be.
I have tried to say not to let it get to him etc

Hmmm - Its ok to be selfish. I'm completely selfish with DP and keep annoying him about getting his promotion so I dont have to worry about getting a job.
I'd say just keep letting him winge at you and just be there for him best you can.

Lilyloo - what is it that he doesn't like about his job? One person, or is it everything?

I know DH found it very stressful being sole breadwinner which combined with DD crying all day led him to have mini break down.

Think talking about it will help and also if he has hobbies ie DH now goes off and plays golf sometimes and really unwinds iyswim.

What is sizzling kitchen BTW?

kitchen

I think they are really piling on stress as banks are finding it so tough at the minute.
I don't know but got worried yesterday when he said it's really starting to depress him.
I am glad he tells me it's crap but wish i knew what to say. I think a lot of his colleagues are in same position, a neighbour works for them too.
I also worry about that as he does football with ds but when he moved here with me he lost touch with his friends so doesn't relly go out. He had to give up his season ticket for footy when we lost buisness. We can't afford to go out. Vicious circle.

We've had a quiet day here, DS had a cake at toddler group - and he is toddling, really well now. Just as well, as he had his 1 year check yesterday and he weighs 28lb - that's 2 stone . He is also the tallest centile as well so it's not all fat!

He got a "baby grand" piano and a ride on toy. I'm also going to have to get him an Iggle Piggle as he laughs hysterically every time he sees him on TV.

He is also getting fussier with his food as others have mentioned, tho' I read in What to Expect that this can happen now. He turns up his nose at a couple of things I offer and the odd mealtime is just loads of fruit and yogurt. Clearly, he's not starving though!

DH has gone off to bed with the lergy that kept me off work this week.

Now here's the odd thing, last night I gave Alek a dream feed instead of waiting for him to wake, and he slept through to 5 am, and thinking about it a lot of the sleep problem started when I tried to cut out these dream feeds, HV says if he still wants one then no harm done... His nappy was a bit leaky by the time we got up though.

am staying up to try same again.

madmouse your mixed feelings are inevitable but over the years to come, for each of Nathan's birthdays you will be able to celebrate so many achievements - how wonderful is that to know