August 2008 - HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

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24JUL Alittlebitshy-Henry
30JUL Miamla-Theodore
31JUL DizzyDixies-Dylan
01AUG CaptainCaveman-Oliver
01AUG Alieight-Adam
03AUG LoveBuckets-Kurt
04AUG VintageGardenia-Edward
04AUG Skytvaddict-Lewis
08AUG Expectant-Samuel
08AUG Pertelote-Marianne
08AUG PoppySocks-Emily
08AUG HotterPotter-Isaac
12AUG SazzlesA-Emma
12AUG Sarahnh-Tess
13AUG Shazza2002-Lexie
13AUG RedLentil-Eibhlin
13AUG LWFH-Tomás
15AUG Foghornleghorn-Lara
15AUG SausageAndMash-BOY
18AUG TwilightSurfer-Reese
22AUG No1putsbabyinthecorner-Marcus
23AUG HazieDazieandBaby-Gabriella
29AUG PetitFilou-Toby
30AUG Oopsacoconut-Poppy
30AUG Steaknife-Izzy
01SEP Cyteen-Joseph
01SEP Stillhere-Owen
04SEP Sambo303-Felix
05SEP Skybluebelle-Jamie
13SEP Ataraxis-Lana
16SEP AnnVan-Sebastian

its aer lingus - I doubt very much they do business class lovely friend has offered to pay for the amendments however seeing as she was told today that there will be a meeting later in the month re pending job cuts its not an offer I'll be taking up

Dizzy seems stupid they wouldn't change the dates. Would you like me to call and YELL at them. I'm happy to do it.

All this talk about booking errors and I just got an email about a reservation cancellation I did back in MAY. The way I read it I OWED them money for not showing up for the room. I called and it was a delayed email. Seems they sent it IN MAY to "confirm" my cancellation NOT tell me I owe for it. WHEW!

HOORAYY!!!! I love the windows Sazzles!!! YIPEE!! Very . I need new ones too. Please share pics after you get the curtains....I'm looking into those for Christmas.

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Whizzing in quickly to say Hi!

Been to the Alton Towers water park today with ds1, dsis, dneice and mum. Blimey I'm knackered - why does water tire you out so much? . It wasn't that impressive tbh but ds loved it so thats all that counts in my book

Glad you booted nursery butt cyteen. I 'had a word' yesterday with our nursery manager as O hasn't been getting the milk I asked him to be given at 4.30-5ish, just to keep trying him to take milk from a beaker. I also popped in there at 11.30 yesterday to pay my fees and witnessed the girl in the toddler room washing the kids hands before lunch. This consisted of 2 seconds each under the cold water tap. No soap, and nothing to dry their little hands on either . I duly informed the manager (who is lovely) and promised to sort it out.
I was met this morning by the other owner saying that O won't drink the milk at 5, thats why they haven't been giving it to him...... I calmly pointed out that was why I wanted him to keep on trying! sheesh

mmmmmwah to you all x

Dizzy you slack alice, that is totally something I would do too. Those bastards really take the piss with their incidental charges don't they grrrr. Hope you manage to sort something out.

TS phew! Hope you get another phew very soon too I'm having a sort of opposite slightly moment, got my period today right on schedule after unprotected sex the other day . Now considering DH is adamant he doesn't want any more, he has either been paying closer attention to my cycle than is normal for a man, r he just couldn't resist the new hotter hotter Let's just see if I can persuade him to do it again on CD15

Sazzles yay for new windows , but d'oh you ahve just reminded me I missed Location Location Location, not sure what I've been doing tonight to miss it

Buckets I hope you're not frothing in the corner from too wide a variety of pharmaceuticals

Don't seem to have any time to actually stop and chat at the moment Look it's 10pm already, have to go and make my salad for lunch tomorrow then go to bed as I'm up at 6 but DS will wake me up at 5 whimpering then he'll go back to sleep and I'll stay awake until 5.55am . Got Friday off work though, hurrah!!!!!

Laters...

HP will you please tell AF she is needed elsewhere. Thank you.

evening all. mixed night here. took 2hrs to settle DS at bedtime so i'm taking drastic action and bringing his bedtime forward. it's going to mean that dp won't see him when he gets home from work but the poor chap (ds) is getting overtired (i think) which is why its taking so long to get him to sleep now. i'm hoping that this means dp more likely to jump out of bed in the morning to play with him before work and hence i get a lie-in til 7. all sounds a bit too good to be true but its worth a go!

cor you girls all fighting over who's having/not having AF! not sure if i've told you before but DS has got a real AF. haven't told my sister yet what her name means on here!

dp reading in bed and ds sleeping so i'd better toddle off upstairs too

sleepy babies to you all and see you (hopefully not too early) in the morning

ah, that's praise indeed from a sleepy dd1. looking forward to seeing pics

ps i'm not here, i've gone to bed

Hi all, I've been painting and varnishing here every evening so I've been missing out on posting because of that.

Tis lovely to see the house beginning to look nice though. It must be fab to have the new windows Sazzles. Cyteen - what a tricky time with being sick, and the nursery too. It's great too that you are able to talk so honestly about how you feel with DP and with us here.

You always appear to me to have huge strength - and that's not a twee comment on the fact that you have survived the grief you've been through. It's a compliment on your great sense of justice and passion for life ... I hope that makes sense.

I'm not sure exactly what happened with the Cruse person, but even the idea of meeting them must have brought lots of very big emotions to the surface, and you can't just put them back in their box at will.

Feeling overwhelmed by all that emotion is a rational response to that it seems to me.

One of my dearest friends had counselling a few years ago, and the whole thing from the idea of it until the end was purely awful for her. The difference it has made to her life is immeasurable, though it seemed impossible at the time.

Can I pass on birthday wishes too?
Plans are afoot here for celebrations for next week. DD2 has started say 'dedeya' so that she can point to the cows in the field behind our house ('There they are'). Her attempts to moo are delectable. And she is waking stupid amounts at night.

Love to everyone else too.

I must sleep!

Sazzles if you like them then I like them for you.

hello!

Just read the last page so far. DH never sees DS in the evening, but he gets to collect him at some point in the middle of the night, bring him in to bed with us, get woken up at 5am at the moment by a wriggly awake boy and by six is up and making him breakfast while I nap again until 7. So I think that they probably get enough time together ...

If I were more awake in the middle of the night I suspect that DS might settle back in his cot, but this isn't quite happening at the moment.

Those of you with super awake in the morning babies, what time do you give them breakfast?

oh and hello everyone who is still around at the moment!

The new baby does a few more kicks now. Work is a bit busy (its basically piece work, and I work from home over the internet, so when I get sent work I usually accept it) but DS doing really well with my ILs now.

PS - no periods here at all. We weren't actively TTC, but neither were we using contraception so not a complete surprise, but this is just a warning for anyone with no periods at all!

PPS - hello everyone. DS not remotely talking or talking yet, I am very impressed by all of your clever babies! You must be really proud.

PPPS think that I have stopped BF. We were down to once a day, some time in the afternoon, but this afternoon he was really tired and grumpy, BF one side for about 30 seconds and that's it. One bottle of formula before bed, otherwise cows milk or water in a cup with meals or snacks.

HI Longway. Just going to be early here (i hope). Glad to hear all is well with you and the KIDS.

Hi LWFH DS has breakfast around 7.30am. He wakes around 5.30 (5.46 again this morning) and I get him and he comes into bed with us. I don't feed him till 6am so we just have a cuddle till then. DH then gets up with him and I go back to sleep till 7 otherwise unlikely DH would see him in the evening although he tries to get back for bathtime once a week at the moment.

MIL arrived safely yesterday. Her flight was early so had to wake DS up from his nap to go and meet her at the airport. She is very impressed with his walking and attempts at talking. He managed to perform all actions and animal noises on cue as well. He can now tap his head when you ask him where it is although sometimes he hits me on the head instead .

Dizzy Beacon Hotel looks lovely. We also prefer to walk if we can.

Morning all

Dizzy - what a bummer about the flights- airlines ar notoriously crappy about changing flights - we tried to move our last flight to SA to the cheaper flight 2 hours earlier just after we booked it and it was a fully changeable ticket and they charged us £199 each.

Sazzles - window piccies please or are yoyu sleeping???

LWFH - Nice to see you - DD gets her breakfast at about 8/8.30ish as she has an enormous BF when she wakes and just won't eat it befroe then.

Hi TS any luck on changing DH's mind about the holiday extension.

Hi Red - DD loves the cows in the woods near us, she starts bouncing up and down in her backpack when we get to acetain point as she knows just around the bend are the cows. She now cack cacks at the ducks.

We are off to Cirencester today to get DH's car serviced. He was supposed to be coming too but is crazy busy at work so we are off to wonder the streets aimlessly trying not to spend money. BUT on the put side lunch at a place called 'Made by Bob' will make up for it and DDcancrawl around the roman gardens eating their pretty decorative stones! DD currently watch my newest discovery 'Tikkabilla', she asked to go into her playpan this morning. I know the mornings are early but she is just to lovely when she wakes up I can't help but smile.

Sazzles - hope you are sleeping!

redlentil you've got such a lovely way with words

lwfh no period?? that's warning indeed!

oops well done on appreciating her loveliness despite the early hour. i'm not having as much luck here

well last night was like the old days again... i saw 1am, 2am, 3am,5am and up at 6. i'm absolutely shattered!

morning sazz, hope your windows are still where they should be!

Morning all.

Miamla ouch not a good night!
TS mid-cycle spotting?! AF not arrived?! Sounds pretty to me. Your DH has had the snip tough hasn't he? DP says he'll never ave the snip, and he doesn't understand why it's always the man who has to do it. We'll see. But it's not an issue yet, as we're planning to have more.

hang on, S is smearing pro-nutro all over the couc and that stuff dries like cement.

Ann v. of pro nutro! where do you get it?

Morning everyone. for news on sleepless nights and early wakings.

dizzy so sorry to hear about the costly mistake.

sazzles windows sound lovely.

redlentil Hope you are getting some fresh air from the varnish.
How sweet of dd saying that.

lwfh kicks already,wow how time flies. How far along are you now? [memory like a sieve emoticon]
expectant hope mil visit is a good one.
On the subject of Periods. Mine is due tomorow. I hope.
My sister has offered to have kids overnight tomorow so me and dh can go out, which is fantastic, but if period does arrive. I wont be able to go anywhere as too heavy. bloody typical...

Off to try settle ds. He is crying in his cot. Struggling to settle himself. I think I have pushed his nap too far and now overtired.
Me and dh falling out of ds constant crying.
Me trying to defend and justify it. dh saying he is bloody mardy and has been since birth.
He says he isnt being nasty, it's just how can I possibly ahve a reasonn for his constant crying, surely some babies just cry.

Lots to sort out for camping trip on monday, pony to go see and possibly pay for this evening.
Lovely day today. Off riding this afternoon if I can get my jobs done while ds is asleep.

morning, was sick all day yesterday thank goodness my lovely sis looked after ds all afternoon and her 2 so I could rest. Not 100% yet today, but expecting friend round to explain the niceties of cashflows and double entry bookkeeping to her so hoping I manage to get it together for that. Horrible headache now though

missed lots of bdays, hope they've all been good. We have no plans for ds's bday...

lwfh ds is usally up at 7 ish and I bf him then breakfast at 8ish ,- I always seem to give him weetabix which is very unexciting

miamla goodness what a horror of a night. hope you have nothing planned for today

just heard that a friend's baby arrived last night, a girl called Esme. I cant wait to see her

I have implemented the suggested elaborate nap routine outlined in "teach yourself baby sleep" and it seems to have worked a minor miracle - instead of the hour of screaming and tears, ds goes off to sleep no bother... I am amazed. Also he is napping 1-2 hours. Such a turnaround. We always use this at the end of the routine where I leave the room and he's mesmerised by it, wish I'd got one ages ago.