Aug 08 - odds on this one won't last as long

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new thread ladies

wonder why this one won't last as long

Hullo Cailleachna, welcome!

Bon voyage ALBS, have a great trip. You sound very organised.

HP so glad your party was fun! What a nice thing for DH to do. Remember the bin men don't know how many of you there were at the party, could have been hundreds for all they know so no required!

No1 good to see you, glad you had a good time.

TS it would be great to see you over here for August 09!

why is it always so late before I post?! It's hullo and goodnight as usual... Hope you all have a good day tomorrow.

Hi everyone! ust popping in to say hi.
And some good news - there is hope for my computer!! All I need is a windows disk, and we should be able to do a repair, and get it working again. Only problem is that we can't find our windows disk, so we're trying to get hold of one.
Little man met his great-great-grandad today. was quite strange - five generations of the same family in one room.
Hope everyone is ok. And hopefully will be back online soon.

knmm n/

Hello Seb. Ann, good news about the computer, and lovely your story about 5 generations. Hello Cailleachna.

Update - DS - gorgeous, doesn't sleep, and I think has just discovered his pincer grip and now spends hours (well minutes) looking at the washing labels on his toys.

Bit cry-y this evening, but just gone to sleep now. Thank you all so much for the helium balloon recommendation - we bought him a shiny blue one, and it is a big hit, but does tend to get him a bit over excited.

He laughed at the door handle in church today, and is in very strange nightwear as my washing is a bit behind and I have run out of long trousers.

Buckets, I am big on book then movie. In the case of White Oleander I was very excited because of the all actress choices but it wasn't up to my standards overall. Can't wait to hear your take.

HP, yes I have grown into a very justified fear of flying. My last "attempt" at flying, the PLANE made it to the end of the runway, nose lifted up...then BAM back to the ground followed by loads of screeching brakes. Thankfully we did stop. Seems there was a minor engine issue and the pilot decided it best to not lift off. The nice English gentleman sitting next to me took my name before we were unboarded (is that the word). You see before the plane got on the runway I had explained in detail all my previous plane "problems", from flipping sideways flying back from New York to having a compressor fail in one engine returning from Las Vegas. He took my name so he could check the passenger roster on all his future flights to make sure I WASN'T on the plane. So my trip to Chicago ended up not being a trip to anywhere and I've not boarded a plane since.

Ann, I just mailed my dad (who is still in Hawaii) his windows disc for the very same reason.

Hi Longway!!

Who was heading over to Hot Mamas??

Just in case you lost the link:
HOT MAMAS is over here.

TS you could look at it another way - any of those incidents could have been nasty, but they weren't! Maybe your presence on a plane has a beneficial effect after all?

Hi Ann, hope the pooter fix works out and we see some more of you and Seb soon!

Longway DD is also very interested in labels. Odd isn't it?! My brother used to love the silky kind when he was tiny but DD is far less discriminating...

Steak very quickly, my 2p worth on the shushing/patting thing...when we do this with DS, we only do it until it stops working IYSWIM - if he's getting more upset instead of less we will pick him up, rock/feed/sing to, whatever is necessary to calm him (and us!) I'm a great believer in 'whatever works' and following your feelings, especially with sleep.

Ooh yes, Joe is well into labels these days. Utter fascination!

Morning all, sorry not much to offer for breakfast here apart from chocolate oh and more chocolate. Both my dcs have too much.

buckets that sounds amazing. I wish I could come along. I bet the sound gives the most amazing goose bumps.
I love singing and have often wondered how to go about joining a choir.

I have read the book and seen the film a few times. Hope you enjoy and Ikwym bth

Hope you all have a lovely day.

missed a whole page AGAIN

Ds also loves labels.

Can I just say (not that I am complaining) but with 2 high chairs at the table and 3 meals a day the cleaning of crap crumbs and the like on the floor and the constant mopping gets very boring sometimes.

I have also signed up for Race for Life so off to report to Hot Mammas

Oh God my floor is the most hygienic it's ever been at the mo, still covered in food of course but it's never been swept or mopped so much. We do tend to leave it all day til bedtime though TBH unless visitors are coming.

No1 Any of these S Yorks choirs any good for you?

Oh and I trump your 2 highchairs with our 3! DD, despite being neat and pernickety and nearly 6, drops more food than DS1 as he just shovels his food in and she's too busy worrying about dropping it to let it reach her mouth. And Kurt just flings it everywhere of course.

Hello ladies, and welcome cailleachna . You are of course most welcome to join in.

I have ds1 who will be 5 in precisely 27 days, and ds2 who was born on aug 1st 08. We live in Nottingham.

steaky with the shh/patting I play it by ear. If ds2 is sleepy enough that I know he will go back to sleep fairly quickly, then I roll him on to his side and shh/pat. If he is kicking off a little more than this, then I pick him up til he settles, and then pop him back in his cot, with some more shh/patting if necessary. It's a similar thing to that which the Baby Whisperer advocates. The idea is that you comfort them but then don't allow them to make an association with waking up = cuddles back to sleep. KWIM?

Hope you all have a lovely bank holiday!

my baby who never cries, cried all not long.

TS - HUGS, we had crying from 12.30 to 3.30 without apparent reason - fed, changed, snuggled.

Does anyone esle just want this weekend over so their OH will go back to work??? DH is driving my nuts - he is currently sitting on the patio reading his newspaper having done p* all today and just came in to check I had fed DD her lunch DD and i are playing on the sitting room floor as we have no grass to sit on yet. She has every toy she own infront of her and is in heaven

Ah bums! No wonder it didn't work. Poor wee thing, tonight is, as yet, a clean slate so we shall see.

Too early wake up here so not the smoothest of starts to the day but we have agreed one thing we will each do to try to make life easier.

Mine is no baby in our bed after 6am, if she is awake I get up with her.

His is not to use insults if he is cross.

A lovely afternoon, lunch with the PILs then off to the local nature park - lovely walk and snooze in the sunshine.

oops I feel that way about DH pretty much every weekend, somehow it is so much easier when there is just the two of us to sort out.

DH just told me that in May they only work one full week, the rest all have a bank holiday in them - blummin lazy Frenchies.

Hiya, thank you for all the welcomes.

My DD was due first week of September, but arrived a little early so is now 7.5 months or thereabouts. She has 3 teeth (2 front bottom, 1 front top) and bites everything. She has just got the hang of proper crawling so our next investment is likely to be a BIG playpen! I like those old fashioned wooden ones but don't know if there's really room in our flat.

My DH works Bank Holidays so this weekend was like any other for us. I work nights on Thursday/Friday/Saturdays so he has charge of the little one - normally she sleeps through (has done since about 9 weeks) so apart from a quick dreamfeed at 10pm he doesn't usually have to do much, but for some reason on Friday night she kept waking up and wanting more milk. I think it was because she didn't eat much during the day; we're doing BLW at the moment and she turned her nose up at most of the stuff I put in front of her. But she ate well yesterday and seems to be back to normal now; she's certainly been napping okay today despite my sister and SIL being round - she's a very sociable baby and if there's people about it's normally really hard trying to get her to sleep!

Does anyone have babies with unexpected favourite foods? Someone suggested that I give DD ordinary rice (as opposed to baby rice) but she can't shovel it into her mouth very well with her fingers and she has yet to master the spoon, so today I gave her a couple of rolls of sushi rice (the kind that sticks together) and GOOD GRIEF, she loved them! She liked the little bits of cucumber and yellow pepper in the middle too.

Oh, and for the person who asked, Cailleachna is pronounced KALL-ee-ACK-na, with an Irish accent.

Hi Cailleachna - Are you based in Ireland? - we have a couple of other posters who are. DD's most favorite of fav foods at the moment is ......chicken liver pate - she nearly tore my arms off to get at it today after she tried alittle.

DD and I have just had a 2 hour nap and feel all refreshed now.

OIff for a bit of a walk before dinner.

Back later

New thread title Ideas PLEASE

Nice to meet you Cailleachna (so sorry if I keep spelling it wrong, I'm too lazy to flip the thread and spell it properly!). Welcome to the madness. Thread seems extraordinarily slow today, probably every off having RLs instead!

Had a lovely day out at a farm place. Loads of play areas and lots of opportunities to feed and play with the animals. Ds and his buddy were stroking a snake!!

Back to work tomorrow but I've only got to work tues and thurs this week! Yay. I love bank holidays.

I find myself wishing it was wine o'clock - I could just sip a lovely chilled glass of chardonnay

Hmmm, new thread titles.....

How about...Aug 08 - They're 8 months old, don't you think they should be sleeping through by now!

Or in keeping with how jolly nice we are:
Aug 08 - everyone welcome!

Gotta go, dh is grumpy and ds2 is shouting because ds1 is taking toys off him . Dh is 'too tired' to deal with it ** (cc smacks dh round the head)

8 months old! It's just not possible, surely they are still our tiny weeny brand new babies.

Cailleachna we're doing BLW too and DS is mad for sushi. Other things he's gone wild for include mackerel pate, hummus and steak. Today he has had garlic breath after having hummus for lunch...there's something not quite right about a rosy-cheeked baby breathing garlic all over you

CC whereabouts did you go? DP and I are always on the lookout for nice days out around here. Yesterday we tried to go to Matlock Aquarium but there was a massive tailback on the A6 so we ended up eating our picnic in the car before having a chilly cup of tea in Belper. As random days out go, that one's up there with our lengthy drive to spend 30 minutes on the beach at Skegness when I was 8 months pregnant.