Sept 08: The End of an Amazing year

[Pacita]

Here we are: the thread that will see our LO's first birhtday...

wow! and Simon loves her

Alice turned one! yyyyaaaayyyy! yesterday i felt like snuggling her forever. /i am so excited but sad that my baby is growing up.

ponymum. relish the glow that others can see how in tune you are to your baby.

Alice is now in the new branch of the same nursery dd1 was always in. for a while she was the only FT child there and so many people are now looking around. the staff keep telling me stories of people seeing this little dot sitting there smiling and babbling away. then their jaws drop to the floor when the little dot stands up and walks off! she is still in 6-9month clothes but walks like an 18 month old.

i think the nursery should pay me royalties for the added value her presence lends the nursery when people are looking around. [smug]

Happy birthday Alice

I watched XFactor - it's so exciting ....... and it's not even my sister!

DS took 3 independant steps about an hour ago - yay! I thought he was going to just cruise forever!

thanks iltmimi.

hurray your DS

Just watched last night's x-factor and agree with ILTQITI. I'm so excited that I have a facebook friend who's sister is on the telly! And is very very good.

And digi I've read bits of the x-f threads on here and am loving that you're like a spy telling secrets about who gets through

The Irish boys are really annoying. I hope they don't get through.

Watching tonights just now and it's cool that digisis is getting more coverage coz of the forming a group thing.

Just watched XFactor, so much more exciting when you 'know' someone!

Had a busy weekend at my cousins, lots of fun despite T effectively getting up at 4am . He snoozed on and off from then on, with DP or I in with him the whole time.

Looking forward to going to London again one day this week to finalise my engagement ring design! We're spending so much more than we should, but hey, I've got to wear it for the rest of my life.

DP and I are trying to plan the order of:

1. TTC
2. Wedding
3. Buying a house

I suspect that they'll go in roughly that order, but as I refuse to be a pregnant/BFing bride (huuuuuge boobs if this time is anything to go by), it will mean not getting married until at least summer 2011 (assuming I fall pregnant quite easily when we start TTC in january). That seems a loooong time away.

Foxy i take your 1 year old in 6-9 month old clothes and raise it with my 1 year old who yesteday had to wear a huggies newborn nappy and it fitted and held whilst crawling with a wee in it!!!!!

She is now starting to stand against the settee and today took a step towards cruising. She will be running off before we know it.

Digi I will watch your sis I promise but I will have to wait until DP is asleep as he hates X-Factor with a passion. Hope she does good tho

look like we've killed the thread Debs.

we just can't compete!!

M's party yesterday - a house FULL of people but we had a great time. DD1 had loads of friends there, my sister made a cat cake and was chuffed when M saw it and said 'Jasper'.

For Alice's birthday we sang happy birthday and were eating cake by 11 am. Big sister was 'sooooo patient' to wait so long after waking up (7am). Maya was very very excited over helping to decorate the cake and to plant a candle and light it. Ninja, it was a Sainsbury's rich choc cake and the 'decoration' was Dr Oatker sprinkles.

in the afternoon we went to the Wetlands Wildlife Trust where there was a grow your own food display, a bee keeper with a part of his apiary and the best, a man with didgeridoos. DD1 made her own didgeridoo from a pvc pipe, circle spots and gaffa tape. It works! and we got a lesson in playing the real didges. So a great first birthday if you ask me.

yum, yum!!

We made a cake too which Caoimhe helped decorate with hundreds and thousands and Jelly diamond. Funnily enough our tasteless cake went down better with the kids

At one point I counted 12 kids on the trampoline, I also dranks lots of Cava so a good time was had by all

Well our big news is C crawled to the stairs yesterday, put her hands on the bottom step and STOOD UP!! For the first time. She was still holding onto the stair though. I took a photo and then she promptly sat back down in a hurry.
She's way behind others at nursery in terms of walking but well ahead in other areas like concentration and copying things - but I'm not worried whatever.

I'm off to a conference tomorrow - overnight - first time I've ever been away overnight from her. Hope DP survives.

iom yay, well done C. I think you need eyes on the back of your head to see what they are up to sometimes as they don't like an audience. DS2 also stood up himself from the ground yest for the 1st time but only coz noone was watching. He was behind dh but as soon as dh turned round to see what he was up to he sat back down.

ninja how do you pronounce your dd1's name?

it's KEEVA - blame her Dad, he chose it while I was in hospital after giving birth, I was oo tired to object

Good luck with th night away Imo

That's a lovely name. I wanted to call ds2 Rory but only if I could spell it Ruaraidh but decided living in England that might not work very well. Esp as there are about 6 different versions of Irish and Scottish spellings of it. And it can be pronounced slightly differently too depending on spellin.

Robyn climbed up the stairs yesterday. My mum was following her and they got half way up. If she uses her left leg she can do it pretty easily but if she uses her righht leg she tries to stand on the step and gets stuck. She is ge3tting very quick at crawling and is almost cruising round the settee

A is increasingly standing for a few seconds, but has decided he's no longer bothered with cruising or trying to walk now there's other non-walking babies at nursery. He loves getting to the top of the stairs but still refuses to try coming down... he also climbed onto his toy lion and thence onto a dining chair yesterday. And of course got stuck.

Have still got the horrible cold we've all had even if it wasn't swine flu, and period joys to go with. I was planning to stop bf around now to get my fertility back but not so sure now. THink once his cold's better I'll try stopping for sure in the night and see what A thinks of going to bed with cow milk beforehand - but I know if he wakes up I'll feed him to get him to calm down and back to sleep. But I'm getting fed up of bf...but I'll be sad to stop. Oh the choices.

Anyone got a good book on toddlers and what you can expect from them at various ages? I got the 'WHat to expect...' one as it was the only one at Victoria Station, but it's very poorly UK-ised from the American and very medicalised.

I promise you all i have been reading the thread although not posting as much as I would like!

Been away for the weekend, and house stuff continues apace - seems to fill my every waking moment.

Dh has been at a geek day in manchester so I've been on my own today, the girls came round for a curry and now I need to wash up and fall into bed!

Ds is sooooooo nearly crawling, he can move around alot by getting onto his tummy, spinning, pushing back up to sittting, and shuffling. He's done single steps of crawling but not got it properly together. He still stays pretty much where you put him! Loads more signs coming though which is fab. He's pushed up onto his feet a few times from kneeling on the floor, not quite standing alone but I think the walking will either come first, or very soon after the crawling.

carriebo - maybe your ds will go straight to walking? Some babies do.

I don't know of any development books nc, I try to keep away from them otherwise I start to obsess!

DS had really broken sleep last night ... yawn.

But the walking is coming on at speed. This morning he wants to walk everywhere, but he goes a bit lairy and throws himself into a walk rather than slowly slowly.

T is still doing the wounded soldier crawl - two elbows and one leg in action, the other trailing behind. I'd be more worried, but he seems to alternate the 'wounded' leg, so they clearly both work!

Poor little chap - he's had an on and off cold/chesty thing/snotty nose for about a month now (since he started moving and interacting a lot more with other babies at the childminder and baby groups, I reckon), and yesterday he was pretty fine when I dropped him at the childminder, but she phoned me an hour later to tell me he had green pus coming from his eyes! Took him to the doc's (already had an appointment) and he not only has a nasty fungal infection thing on his genitals (the original reason for the appointment) but he has double conjuctivitis! He's woken up this morning with his eyes practically glued shut, but hopefully the drops will begin to make a difference. Poor chap

hopefully poor T. Hope the drops sort his eyes out quickly.

I just had a rare 8 hour sleep! DS was a pest on monday night and slept badly (he's just got his first duvet and isn't sure about it) but he made up for it last night and is still dozing. He usually wakes up by 7, then calls for me so loudly that it wakes up poor little dd too.

Hope T feels better soon

No news to report here - my flat sale has still not gone through (problem with the lease) and the house we are buying is being delayed as the probate-thingy has not been produced yet. I was hoping to sell my flat in April, and we should have moved in August. Fortunately we have extended our rental on a month-by-month basis and just keep fingers crossed things will work out soon.

Hope you are all well.

hello all!

I hope T is feeling better soon. The green pus coming out o the eyes reminds me of when Diego was 4 months old and I freaked out when pus came out of his willie. The fungal cream cured it in a day though.

Diego was 1 today. I did not make a cake because I was working and we'll celebrate on Saturday, but I served his porridge with 1 candle. He was snotty and not very hungry, but loved the candle. I think snot is a general baby condition this time of the year...

So, last year round about this time I was exhausted, in pain, and was beginning to push. He was out by 11. And life was never the same again. Sigh.