Jan 09' Dribbling, drooling, swaying and babbling...thats just the mamas....

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fym - wow! is that not really early? c has a couple of times by accident, she is starting to move her legs with intent now but still think it'll be a few weeks - i think she is a couple of weeks older than your lo? not looking forward to it really, will have to stop swaddling and she is such a rubbish sleeper that we're all going to be wrecked...

well my DS1 rolled at 6 weeks so I guess it is 'in the family' - scared the life out of me as he rolled off the bed - now I'm much more careful as I've realised there are such huge differences when they all 'do' things!

James looks like he's going the same way as DS1, very strong legs and neck - unfortunately DS1 crawled at 6months and walked at 11 months (you do not want this, it's a nightmare when they move and they have no sense at all at 6 months)

wow for rolling!
too much to catch up on.
I read fiction, mostly new stuff... not crime or chicklit or horror.
currently reading 'post-birthday world' by lionel shriver
Has anyone read the accidental by ali smith? thats what I read last...

yes, i am a bit anxious that she'll take off early and i 'm not keen to have to start baby-proofing the house - the later the better (within reason, obviously)...

I'm so sorry for scaring you all with tales of my terrrrible twosome! They're not that bad usually - honest!

DD has also discovered the joys of thumbsucking in the last week. She's got it down pat now. I did start trying to discourage it, as I sucked my thumb until I was 21! It was a reflex and I always did it in my sleep which was very when sharing a tent at festivals etc! She was having none of it though - she's a very determined little madam. I remember my parents tried painting my thumb with all manner of nasty potions to discourage me, but nothing worked - needless to say I won't be doing the same to my daughter!

She's had a good go at the rolling but can't quite make it all the way over - her favourite thing is lifting her whole body up like an upside down crab and then pivoting around by her shoulders, I've found her in all sorts of strange positions in her crib, once she was upside down on her wedge with her feet at the top and her head at the bottom half-on half-off my mattress!

I have been very naughty and in the absence of anything interesting/special enough on ebay (despite hours of desperate trawling) for DD to wear to our friends 40th next month, I have bought a dress and leggings set from Little Shrimp that I saw in an advert when I was pregnant and wanted instantly. They were much much more expensive than anything else we've bought her, but our friends are such funky arty types and their kids always look stunning. The dress is the one on the home page here and the leggings are the same stripes as the fabric on the arms. Not everyone's taste I know - but DH has a thing about toadstools/mushrooms and I absolutely love the dress.

not read post-birthday world but did enjoy we need to talk about kevin, thought it was very well done

moose - oh no! another assault on the credit card imminent... the clothes on that site are so cute!

Just lost a post listing all the books I can remember having read - gah!

1. Very small but uplifting book - Johnathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

1. Read all of the Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles years and years ago, enjoyed them at the time but wouldn't read them again now.

1. Tuesdays with Morrie, Five People You Meet in Heaven, For One More Day - Mitch Albom - read at a particularly poignant point in my life.

1. Really enjoyed reading Marley and Me by John Grogan as having had many homicidal mutts in my life it struck a lot of chords!

1. The Time Travellers Wife - read because it was given to me while I was on holiday and was the only book I had with me - enjoyed it but my advice is ignore the hype and read it for what it is.

Sure there were loads more but too tired to think of the titles!

Stripey They don't have all their clothes available on their own website - I ended up ordering them from www.kulfikids.co.uk and www.daisychainbaby.co.uk. I love their stuff its funky and pretty at the same time.

Just had a squizz at that fish mobile - its really cute - we have to go to Ikea anyway soon - will definitely have to buy one!

have shopped ...

mmmm mitch albom is great, y.
i enjoyed TTW too, though lots didnt, i loved it.

Oooh Stripey whaddya get?!!

Dog tbh (and in my experience as a longstanding thumsucker ) I don't think there's much you can do to stop it - if she's determined to do it, she will. My parents tried everything from birth until I left home - nothing worked though. On the plus side, it never damaged my teeth.

Sorry you are feeling low. Could you try turning it on its head and think of her as if she was your last regardless of whether she is or isn't, meaning that that way you'll make extra sure you enjoy every moment of her? Not really explaining myself very well am I?

Thumbsucker not thumsucker

I do know what you mean, Dog. I felt the same way with DS2, as if every milestone was something won and lost (nostalgic is a good way to describe it actually). We weren't going to have any more and DH was definitely dead set against having more, but look at us now with our gorgeous DD - you never know what the future holds! My Mum would say, "trust in the universe" but then she's an ol' hippy!

I read lots of crime fiction - when I first got the internet at home I came across various online book discussion groups and one of my favourites was a crime fiction discussion group - I haven't been very active or able to keep up with the group reads for the last 2/3 years - since I got pregnant with ds1 - but the discussions are so good it was worth even reading the books I didn't enjoy to follow the discussions, and I've made some great friends through it. A lot of us have also met up at several crime fiction conventions, mostly in the US but one was over here in Bristol and there are some UK events as well.

Since C was born I've finished 10 crime novels - 5 by Rick Riordan in a series about a PI in Texas, and 5 written in the 1960s by a Swedish couple called Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo, and one sort of non-fiction book. I say sort of because the author, Jennifer Worth, has written a memoir previously, about working as a midwife, but in Shadows of the Workhouse I think she's used true stories but fleshed them out with imagining how things must have been for the people she wrote about. I don't normally read series books so close together but in this case it started off as convenience - I knew where these books were when I didn't have time or opportunity to search for others - and then I wanted to devour further stuff about the same characters.

I read crime, chicklit and literary fiction, some memoirs and biography (but I'm pickier here than with fiction, I like quite literary memoirs preferably by people who are famous for their writing, and very serious biographies). I also read a bit and buy quite a lot of political and historical stuff, most recently a history of childcare manuals that has been mentioned on mumsnet.

Dog, I can understand what you're feeling re whether she's your last baby. At least time is on your side - at 39, with a birthday (eek, the 40th one) looming this summer, I feel it would be sensible for all sorts of reasons to stop at two and give away C's clothes when he grows out of them. Emotionally, I'm not sure I'm ready to do that. But for now, we'll just have to enjoy.

Have to go up and feed the milk monster some more, night all.

Thumbsucking a new found love here too - tried to give him a dummy instead but he just spits it out and sucks his thumb instead. Is very cute [melting mummy emoticon]

MM - how gorgeous is that dress!! Oh no, I'm going to have to see if they do it big enough for DD now. Please say they don't - we're meant to be on a tight budget right now.

Right, back to work...

Oh no, they do blue and brown stripes - I am an absolute sucker for outfits like that. DH also has a mushroom thing MM! I think it stems from his 'experimental' youth

i was a thumb sucker and my mother was determined to get me to stop before i started kindergarden by taping these giant, fuzzy gold mittens on my hands. any time that i just sitting around or playing, i had those mitts on. i can remember them so vividly. my teeth are fine. i even have all my wisdom teeth.