May babies.... build an extension!

[GeorginaA]

There ya go

Glad you like the titles - I'm really hanging out for a PMSL - I've had MN hugs and I think I've had an LOL, but pmsl has eluded me so far .

Athough this thread is about May babies, can I just brag about dd1 who we were told last week by her teacher is the best reader in her class and has a reading age of 8(she is 5)? Less impressively, we were also told that she doesn't concentrate and talks too much. Can't think where she gets that from

Haven't been on for ages - had a busy weekend with DS's social life. Sat - swimming lesson followed by play date (but also had to race home to get DD so DH could get to golf, then took her to see my Mum, sister & Grandad but had to get back for end of play date). Sun- birthday party am, met up with friend and her DS to go on Thomas day at local light railway - DD came along to that one. Today DH had the day off and we all went to the Railway Museum at York. Had a good day, although DD spent most of the time out of her push chair.

The baby across the road - he was a no 2 and his mum was in labour for 40 mins - they arrived at the hospital at 2 am and mistakenly went to the main entrance rather than A&E. It was all locked up and they were banging on the door for the security guard when she said "I'm having this baby now" whipped down her pjs and caught the head. A midwife racing down from delivery caught the body. So he was born among all the wheel chairs and fag ends... Another friend helpfully pointed out that it will have all been caught on the security camera.

DD is nowhere near walking, can only really do a couple of steps with one hand. She has started climbing the stairs though. And the hall is really central (ie between the living room and kitchen) in our house and with DS we can't really rely on shut doors. DS never climbed the stairs at all and we thought we had got away without a bottom stair gate but it is obviously not so. She is pretty good with her food though. Has been on family food for 2-3 months now. Only thing I do seperately for her is stewed/mashed fruit. Just have to be careful with the salt in our food, thats all. But sometimes she will cry/shout and turn her head from side to side refusing to eat for 5 minutes and then all of a sudden turn her face towards me and open her mouth. This is particularly the case at breakfast time.

Egypt - half of me is envious of you that your in-laws are willing to drive 45 mins to collect DD and have her and that she will go to sleep etc for other people. The other half of me totally understands how you feel! We had our night out with friends when MIL was supposed to be putting DD to bed and I ended up doing it. But its still well over a year since we last went out just the two of us. And DH wants to break this run with going to see the new Star Wars film. Great! Just what I had in mind (not).

I did chortle out loud - does that count? my pelvic floor does me no favours as it is so there will be no PMSL-ling here - thankyou very much!

Glad you are all well xx

Sorry - went on a bit.

You've all been so busy. Nothing much been happening here really.

Bozza I think you asked me how I got dd2 to sit in her buggy while I was in the garden, well, the first while I was out cutting down the roses she was actually in bed asleep. We live in a ground floor flat and the roses are right outside the bedroom window so I could hear her if she cried. She only sat in the buggy for a little while at the end while I was tidying up.

She loves walking, thinks it's a great laugh. She's now just standing there then letting go and trying to walk. She usually only manages 3 or 4 steps but she has no fear, even laughs when she falls down. tonight at my granny's she was behind the couch playing with a little Vtech table that she has, was originally dd1's, and she was peeking out from behind the couch then walking round and giggling the whole time.

She's learnt to say Ta. I was feeding her apple tonight and she kept holding bits out to me and saying Ta? and I had to take it from her, lol When she gets screechy, which is quite often, we say shhhhhh and put our finger to our lips so she copies us but puts her finger up her nose while she's saying ssshhhh, it's so funny.

They really aren't babies anymore are they, it's quite sad in a way. I look at dd2 and think where did my tiny little baby go? She's now this big girl trying to walk and talk. And her favourite pass time is still to pull dd1's hair.

So will we be changing our name to the may Toddlers?

Absolutely. First of May we should switch to a thread called May Toddlers and let this year's mums have the babies title!

oh, so sad.

we'll have to plan our next babies together!

Who else def wants more apart from me?

Bozza that's a classic birth story, hope they are all doing well.

Helsy LQALBNUTG.

(Laughed Quite A Lot But No Urine Thank God.)

I don't think there is much chance for me at the moment - I am giving menfolk a wide berth for a little while. Mind you, I have said that before and I got married a year later!

So seeing as my life is not panning out the way I assumed it would (nice hubby, 2/3 kids, own place etc.) . . . never say never as they forever say.

I think I will just sit quietly for now.

Bozza - what is the Thomas day like? I think it's over by us next weekend and we were thinking of taking DD.
We have had quite a few nights out - we're in a babysitting circle which is a godsend as we don't have family nearby. We're out for dinner this Saturday but have got a rather nervous mum coming to sit. She was horrified last time (pre-DS) that I didn't want her to go and check that DD was still breathing (DD only 2 - shock of scary, unknown woman peering at her would prob. have stopped her breathing in itself!)and I don't think she enjoyed the evening at all. I'll have to make sure that we put her at ease this time round.....
Got some good Playmobil bargains at our NCT sale - fire engine and operating theatre. Marvellous.
DS can walk holding one hand but prefers me to stoop and hold both. He can also go along with a babywalker quite well, but again prefers me to get involved. This is tricky if at the same time, DD is saying "pretend you're at the bottom of a swimming pool and I rescue you". So, anything to please the children, I stride round the house bent double, shouting "glub glub glub, I'm all wet. I hope somebody comes along soon...."
DS had his first haircut at the weekend before we went to a christening up in Lancaster. Dh did it and he looks bloomin' handsome! In fact, he saw off a 7 month old who was looking at his bird (little girl being christened, daughter of my best pal at univ) in no uncertain terms!

I'm not having any more babies. It took me 3 years after having dd1 to feel brave enough to have another baby due to horrific labour and birth, then nearly another 3 years to talk dh round to having another one. So I'm done I'm afraid. But I have all these lovely baby names buzzing round my head, will have to get some cats so I can use them up, lol

I feel sad that I didn't get to use my boys name, but no I'm not having anymore, can't afford it and don't have the space. But maybe if I win the lottery and we can move to a huge mansion we'll see, lol I can dream of course

oh, what was your boy's name? we always got stuck on that one!

off to some place called smilee faces in burton this morning with some babygroup friends.

yesterday my neighbour took dd for a walk whilst i went to see the physio. she had a good sleep. then at 4 her daughter who is 8 came in to see her. She was telling me how good she was at looking after babies - 'the best in her class', then 5 mins later, stood dd on the seat of a high, what i can only describe as a grandad chair in the lounge. turned her back and got engrossed in the tv, whereupon i screamed - 'WATCH HER!' as she tumbled to the floor. . she was that shaken up she could hardly cry bless her. god, the image went through my head again and again for most of last night. eeeeek

yes we want more babies. had a dream i was trying to get preg last night. no, not that ready just yet. maybe after our hols in sept.

oh yes 8 year olds can be so confident they really get you trusting them that way! poor your DD.

Noises central here today. We have had snake and dog as you know. Today we enjoyed Pig! very inexpertly done and very funny. And DH and I were pretending to be sick into her cot and she joined in. Yes, it's a noisy old world.

My boys name was/is Caleb. I love the name Caleb and once Dh and I had decided to go ahead and have another baby and discussed names, before I was even pregnant we agreed on Calista for a girl and I suggested Caleb for a boy. Dh hated the name Caleb but I was adamant that if I was to have a boy that is what he would be called. Dh got to choose dd1's name and we both agreed on a girls name for baby#2 so I was getting to choose the boys name.

In the end of course we didn't need it. But guess what my brother was round last night with his girlfriend to announce that they are expecting a baby in October. I'm going to be an aunty they had been for the first scan yesterday and she's 16 weeks already and they'd been into town to buy a big book of baby names. So my brother was looking up all our names to see what they mean and I mentioned that I like the name Caleb and guess what so does she!!! So there may be a Caleb in our family after all

Congratulations Linnet! I s this first cousin for your two? Do they live nearby?

DD is at c/minders. I have to mend the toilet...

i think me and dp are going to try for another baby at the end of this year. i have a million names for girls but none for boys, my ds was called 'baby' for a month until we decided on Finn.
girls names though i have loads

Lizzie
Lois
tilly
ivy

to name a few.
if i ever have another boy though i don't know what i'll do.

Hi kate79! We had Dennis all lined up for our boy (which I was sure we were having). To paraphrase a friend's two year old on the arrival of new sibling: no Dennis today then. Perhaps he'll come tomorrow?

Hope you're all well. Am I imagining it, or are the May babies now snot free?

Our dds were both going to be William if they were boys because DH disliked all of my other boys' names: Owen, Oscar, Otis, Milo. I miscarried just before I got pregnant with dd1 and called the baby Elvis whilst I was pregnant, but I don't think we'd have really called him/her Elvis.

Spots, see I PMSL at your LQALBNUTG.

No more words over here at the moment but lots of gesticulating.

I've just had possibly the worst day of my working life and am going to do the lottery so I never have to work again but can stay at home with my gorgeous baby and not have to take c**p from anyone. Rant over, nothing to do with May babies, sorry.

Yes, This will be dd1 and dd2's first proper cousin. There are two cousins that are 1 year older than dd1 but they are not dd1's cousin so to speak. they are actually 3rd cousins removed once by marriage or whatever it is. They are my mums cousins children. Not sure if that makes any sense to anybody but I know what I mean.

So anyway yes this baby will be my girls first cousin. and my neice or nephew they go back for the next scan next month and they're going to find out if it's a boy or a girl.

dd2's walking is coming along great. today she walked from one couch to the other, getting better. She crawled into the kitchen last night and stood up at the fridge and then walked and she walked so much better in there than on the living room carpet. I was right behind her waiting to catch her though as it's a stone floor in the kitchen so we try to keep her out of there at all times. I think we might need to get a stairgate to keep her out. She loves to sit in front of the fridge sticking the magnets on and then taking them off again, thinks it's really funny how they stick on. She then tries to stick them onto the drawers but of course then don't stick, but you can see the little cogs in her head turning trying to figure out why they won't stick to the drawers but they do stick to the fridge. I love this stage life is just such a huge adventure of discovery for them.

I might have to get some fridge magnets. Linnet.

Helsy, I am the opposite of you... mourning a job I wanted but didn't get yes, nothing to do with May babies but heigh ho can't resist a moan here either, just heard yesterday. Sorry you had a bad day. Of course I am all curious now & want to know why... hope things improve.

Am sorry to report that DD has snot, too!

And, not exactly an afterthought though it might look like it, how horribly sad about Elvis. x.

sorry to hear about little elvis too, helsy.

well, have unbooked and re-booked our egypt hols. we are going in sept - all 7 of us (parents, inlaws, us and dd). mil has read some pretty horrific reviews on the resort so have just had to have a rethink. am assured now that it is going to be great, hmmm.

dd asleep in garden again. what a lovely day.

yes we are all well arent we? except have a bit of infection where wisdom tooth is coming through, so on antibiotics, but never mind!

Dd has a snotty nose and I have broncitus(not sure on the spelling) but apart from that were doing fine.

I wonder where susis is?

MIL learnt DD to find her head, you say to her 'wheres your head' and like a model she puts one hand at the side of her head and puts it to one side' the problem is if you say to her wheres your nose, eyes etc she touches her head. Its quite good though its become her party piece
DH and I are trying for a baby now ok you can all get up off the floor now. It took me 4 months with DD and that was with precision planning ,so I figure that the way our sex life is I can at least double that figure, plus DD is helping to postpone it buy getting us into seperate beds. Therefore hopefully baby 2 will be due around next summer.

Kbaby, good to hear about your decision to try for a baby. Dh only has to hang his trousers up for me to get pregnant (not now, obviously) so I hope you're as lucky as us.

Thanks for the thoughts about Elvis - I didn't think I'd be sharing that one on the internet but it's been a bad week.

Spots, sorry to hear about the job. Another one will come along.

Linnet, Dd1 also liked fridge magnets. I don't know what it is about them. She used to spend hours dressing and undressing our Homer Simpson magnet.

Dd2 continues to be very jolly, is starting to drop her third bottle and still sleeping through -I'm still not sure we're feeding her enough and am going to increase her to four meals a day.
She started trying to talk but that seems to have died down somewhat, although when you ask her where someone or something is she points and says "dere". She also closes her own bedroom curtains! She is very scared of the cat but loves the hoover.