Sept 08: They're under starters orders .... and they're off .... well, some of them!

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I thought I'd use this title as not all of our delicious babies are on the move yet, including mine

you're not selling it to me Carrie

carrie my biggest issue with my downstairs being open plan is that the buggy has to be parked in the living/ dining room (I have no hall and only a tiny porch) so everytime my otherwise wonderful mother rolls it through dog poo it ends up about 4ft away from my sofa , mind you its all laminate floor so at least I can get it clean. I don't leave the buggy in the garden since it was broken into as I have the back gate locked all the time now. There's been daytime break-ins round here so I'm extra careful with what's left in the garden.

DD had greek salad + pasta at tea-time today. She seemed more impressed than her brother who just scoffed the feta, olives and pasta. But I gave her some jar food too so she had a full tummy. She's gone off to sleep ok tonight, she's just in a nappy and I'll gro-bag her later.

Sunshine I hope Effy is better today.

We had a nice time in Ireland and the weather was pretty much like here. However hot days equals grumpy baby and not much sleep. E slept in just her nappy last night as it was far too hot - tonight should be interesting.

Robyn is just in a vest now, we have ditched the gro-bag as she was so sweaty and we are also keeping the windows open.

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed their black-out blinds/curtains are not as good as they were last year? When we hung ours up last summer it wss pitch black in our room but have noticed this summer that they let a lot of light in even though they are almost stuck to the window.

Poor Robyn can't have a room of her own so we are having to partition part of ours off so she will have a little corridor about 4ft wide and long enough to get a single bed in. She won't get any windows either. When dd1 moves out she can have her room but that will probably be about 10 years down the line.

Hi all. Effy is loads better but still not 100%. We saw dr and he said croup can last up to 3 weeks so we just have to ride it out.

I had a special shed built in my front yard for our buggies - it's very very handy.

sunshine we have a special shed for our buggies out the front too...its called the car boot! Like meglet I can't bear having the buggy in the living space.

We did loads of decorating last night - painted ds's room which had been plastered on saturday, there are few things more satisfying than fresh paint on a newly plastered wall. Its just so smooth and clean. Tomorrow night dh needs to paint the bathroom ceiling which was also plastered.

I've decided the time has come to get rid of the piano (have I already said this?!) I don't play as much as I would like, and we need the space for some sort of toy storage solution. And the houses we're looking at don't have space for it, so we'd better start looking for someone to take it now. It my 30th next year and my present wish list now stretches to a 3 piece suite, a dishwasher and a keyboard with proper weighted piano keys! I can but dream...

debs I don't know if the blackout is less effective, but something is waking ds between 5 and 6 each morning. This morning he had 6oz milk and some calpol and then we had to wake him for breakfast!

Hi all

Havent read all the posts, just checking in!

Nothing to report....too hot to do anything!

I can't believe we're complaining it's too hot!!

How's your DS1 Becaroo is he glad it's the end of term? DD1 is, she's SO tired and grumpy.

I think M's being reading the developmental e-mails. I got one the on Monday saying talking about clapping and I thought she's not and yesterday she started, she looks so pleased with herself when she does it! She's also standing alone for a few seconds but luckily her crawling is still very slow.

soooooo hot. Not complaining but makes teaching very hard work. In fact its not the heat, its that there is no air at all.

We have nowhere to keep buggies either so we bought a plastic shed thats at the back door and keep them in there. We're down to just the MacLaren now so it doesn't take up much room anyway.

I like the idea of tryng to section off a bit of our room. Wonder if there's a way to rearrange the furniture to make that work.

Our blackout blinds are working really well but ds2 is still waking between 5 and 6 as well. Only problem with the blackouts is that becuase they're velcroed to the window no air gets in even with the windows wide open. He was just in vest last night.

I've been trying to teach ds2 to clap but he's not doing it yet.

I love the heat. If it wasn't for the fact I am getting too vain to sunbathe I would be out there baking myself. I went to death valley a few years ago and it was 124 degrees in the shade, i remember saying to my sister it was so nice not to have to wear a coat for once .

I spent this morning sorting out dd's cupboard, she helped me by chewing odd socks and pulling pages out of books .

meglet my ds has a penchant for eating my shopping list! Maybe you've just answered the age old question of why there are so many odd socks in the world...!

Oh god, eating the shopping list goes on here too. He really grumbles when I won't let him have it! But without it I come away with only half of the shopping I need - my brain is frazzled!

Debi - how about one of those folding screens to partition off your room? DS2 won't be able to see you then either.

It's defo the fact that there is no breeze here. I used to live v near to the coast, so even on the hottest days there was a breeze.

it's been 36 degrees here this afternoon and I'm looking forward to November! We've had weird thunder with no clouds or rain in the last ten minutes though...

it's boiling here. Had to struggle to post office with stupidly large parcel, but at least the PO has aircon!
A has slept with just a nappy and no covers the last few nights. Last night MrNC opened the blind to get a breeze through, and rigged sheets round the cot to curtain it instead. Seems to have helped.

A's needed a nappy change in the night for the past week, which is really annoying. I suspect we're giving him lots of water in the day which doesn't help. I tried a disposable a few times in case they absorbed more - they might a bit but they give him nasty rash.

He's pulling up and into everything. Got his teeth into War and Peace yesterday. At least my new non-wobbly coffee table is being delivered on Monday!

M loves cardboard and paper too - she'd eat the packet before the raisins!! The Sports section of the newspaper keeps her amused for ages (and has the added bonus of annoying dh )

DD1 and I had a great game with M where she passed us a ball we gave her on command.

I find I'm fine when I'm at work but I HATE the journey home as I justwant to see my DD's straight away

DS has got a little bit of tooth poking through his bottom gum! I really wish it would just hurry up and grow, he's sooo grouchy with it.

However, the last couple of days I've been very good and taken him to playgroup yesterday and a music class today. His social confidence is up massively as he's started crawling into groups of babies (rather than away) and not crying instantly. Which is a huge improvment.

carriebo, ninja and nc DS also likes paper and tissue and napkins. His thing is to rip it to shreds.

WRT sorting clothes meglet , that's one of DS's favourite hobbies too. Pulling out clothes from the wardrobe/washingbasket/off the clothes hanger and sorting into a big mess on the floor. He's such a boy.

So hot!! Poor DD has woken up several times, and I eventually gave her another bottle which she gulped.

Finally I am eating my supper - including the rocket I grew from seed! I am so proud of myself. I have never grown anything from seed before, let alone something that can be my dinner!

oh yes - emptying the nappy bag is a favourite hobby here

starlight - In her nappy? And she's OK? Does this mean that I don't have to leap through the air everytime DD tries to eat the Guardian? It is far and away her favourite hobby. What is it about newspaper?

Looking at my shiney new buggy! Can't wait to use it! Won't get a chance until Saturday. (blah blah meetings, DH looking after DD).

It was 27 degrees in C's room last night! She has now learnt to pull herself sitting up from lying down, so woke at 2.15am crying cos she'd sat up but couldn't work out how to get back down to sleep. As soon as I put her back, she went straight back to sleep luckily.
We had the fan going in her room all night.

Was quite sad yesterday as spent my last wed in park with RL mums. They go back to work on Monday and I'm a week on Wed. But not feeling too bad about it yet! Just keep thinking back to work and then in 6 weeks off to france!

Poor M was so restless last night, everytiem I went in she was lying somewhere different in the cot!!

I'm working from home today , it's too hot to drive to my hot office in my hot car!

Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh, there's a breeze here today.

The heat in our bedrooms is awful. We have a dorma bungalow, so our bedrooms are in the eves of the house. Heat rises and all that, and sits in our bedrooms.

For some reason I thought you were a teacher Ninja, obviously not as you're working from home!

I have rl friends going back to work in the next few months We won't be short of things to do, but I'll miss seeing them so often.

I am kindof a teacher.... I'm based at the Uni and go and teach in schools and organise enrichment and other events.

But as I've been on Mat leave and haven't organised anything for myself to do I'm reasonably quiet which is a good thing as I have a whole years admin to do

I also want a new (well secondhand) buggy and I'm gtting engrossed in the pushchair shed thread - those people are MAD