Now We Are One - Happy B'day June 2004 Babes!

[moonshine]

Just realised that tomorrow is finally June. So here's a big Happy Birthday to One and All. Right who's first (of us that are still around, natch)?

As some of you know DH, myself DD and DS were flying into the UK this weekend to suprise my Grandma and Grandad on there 50th wedding anniversary. We left home a t3.30am (cyprus time 1.30am UK) friday morning to begin our weekend, we eventually arrived in Darlington at 3.30pm (UK).
we decided that as my mam and her siblings sere taking my gp out for dinner to celebrate we would suprise them there instead of at the party so it was a bit more personel.
My aunty came out to the bar to get DH and myself then as she walked into the restaraunt she said "mam someone is looking for you" to which my grandma was who would be looking for me in here. Then DH and I walked in shouting "Suprise" (sp doesn't look right!!!)
MY GP jumped up and pushed everyone out of the way to get to us bith as they were crying and saying we had made there wedding anniversary and if they had one wish we hve just had it given.

we left them just after midnight.
Then on saturday spent the whole day shopping, before getting ready to go the party on the night. Both children behaved beautifully. Nicole (8yrs)just said hello to everyone then spent the night dancing and singing on the Karaoke, and Scott (1 this week) well what can I say but he was suych a good baby most of the family had never seen him but as each of them came to say hello he just held his hands out to go to them for a little cuddle before wanting myself or DH husband back,, he spent atleast an hour doing this bless him.

Then on sunday we had a 50th Bday party to go to all day. Then we left hartlepool at 2.50am this morning and arrived back home at 19.00 (cyp time 17.00 uk)

Sorry if boring you but just wanted to let you know what a fantistic but tiring weekend we had. And the look on my Grandparents faces when they seen us was worth everypenny we spent to get out there and more.

Happy Birthday - Fin , T, Alex and SP DS2.

It is still very quiet on here. We are going to Water World for the day for Scotts bday. We let Nicole pick what we will do. I will bake a cake tommorrow for him and he can have it we get back on sunday afternoon.

I am saying that however we have our summer ball tonight with a 5am Champagne breakfast, nit sre if I will last that long but will give it a good go!!!!

well I made it to the breakfast but it was a 3am one sowe were home at 4.30am.

Had a great day today at the water park with Scott for his bday. I can't believe he is one. I am annoyed with myself though as we forgot to tke the camera and by the time we got home he was knackered . the only photos I have of today are with him in his highchair and me holding his bday cake. Atleast we have the memories though. Not that i suppose he will be bothered when he gets older.!!!.

Glad you had a nice time LL - must confess that we are really bad now about taking photos of ds, especially as with dd we just about recorded every movement she ever made! Hope it doesn't set him up for years of resentment towards his sister, gulp.

Alex is definitely becoming a proper toddler. He can now just about understand that he has to climb off the sofa/bed/down the steps backwards to be safe (r), he scoots around outside like a crazy thing and has tried to abscond several times already, and he has begun fighting with his sister! But he also loves impersonating animals and can do a sheep, a snake, a duck and a pig. He has also discovered turning round and round so that he gets dizzy and falls over. But despite all this growing into a big boy he still clings to his poor old mum and seems to have become very shy of people (hides his face in my arm or leg, bless). Soon he will be a proper tantruming big bundle of trouble no doubt .

Oh and meant ot say the ball sounds great fun but I would never make it 5am these days, champagne or not on offer.

hellooooo out there, we realy are crap at this thread lark !!!!
I think we should win a prize for the least number of posts......

Scott still isn't walking yet bless him. I am sure it won't be too long though. Everyday he does something that changes him more into a toddler than a baby

Hee hee. I think most people have given up, don't you but never mind, we can be like the teenagers whose parents have gone away on a long holiday leaving us 'home alone' to do and say what the hell we like.

Was your dd a late (r) walker then? I think the average is 13 months so it's early days yet anyway! I love that Alex is becoming more toddler-like. He now gives me kisses, doesn't scream quite so much (touch wood), and on the whole is now waking up after 7am (except this morning when some t**r rang the doorbell at 6:30am and woke up everyone [anger]). He also loves trying to make us laugh and tries to chase his sister around the flat. Tantrums aren't far behind though I'm sure, he has such a steely dtermination about him still.

even.

I'm still around girls... just peek in occasionally.

13 months is average for walking, and anything under 18 months is still "normal".

Tristan is still loud, toddling everywhere, timid, personable. He is discovering climbing but is so cautious he doesn't get into much mischief (yet).

Continues to amaze me how "like" T. is to his brother at the same age, and how different DD was at this age.

DD was walking doing some steps at this age properly walking at 13 months. I know DS is in thenormal range for doing everything, I am just waiting in anticipation for him to walk then the fun will realy begin

Must admit am having very very little fun atm and am back to finding it so difficult . Ds is so clingy, which means I can do absolutely nothing. He cries for me all the time, even if I leave him for 5 seconds! Don't know how I'm going to make it through this stage. But felt his 9th tooth coming through yesterday so I'm sure that accounts for a lot of his grumpiness (gums also swollen so others due I guess). And while this goes on am trying to find a house - I'm sure I already have a reputation with the estate agents as The One with the Screaming Baby.

The one silver lining is that he continues to be good at night whatever and he is still waking up later.

Am finally winding down after having spent a 'happy' few hours in A&E - Alex fell and managed to gash his head against the sharp edge of the radiator . I think I was in a worse way after seeing the blood spurting everywhere. Couldn't have happened at a worse time either - just before bath/bedtime when everyone was tired/grumpy and dh was out drinking with his mates for the first time in ages. Panicked a bit but managed to get taxi to hospital where they glued him up. He will have a scar now - am just hoping it won't be the worse case scenario one as outlined by (very dishy!!!!) doctor. I shall say it's his Harry Potter scar! Wish I could have a drink but am still on my 'diet' and so am trying not to ruin everything tonight.

Oh well, as dh and I have said, knowing our adventurous little boy, it will probably not be our last visit.

G'night.

Oh am here late tonight. DH gone to bed, have friends at a wedding in the area so expecting them home soon. Lily was 1 on the 12th June and is very cute - she is walking although a bit upset that mummy has withdrawn boob rations!

I have got a broken wrist but am still looking forward to starting Uni in September. House sold - 3rd time lucky - and DD1 due to start school in August.

All fine, but not looking forward to all the G8 protesters at Gleneagles as we are gym members there and can't get in for a few days - boo hiss! Actually I am sure I can't say that as will sound awful but honestly I am not that bad. Sorry if I have offended anyone. Right friebds have arrived home - cheerio!

moonshine- poor you, I hope you are OK. And I hope little Alex is OK now after his fall, bless him.
I am sure he will calm down again soon.

Gomez- good luck with starting uni on september.

I have started Scott on cows milk last week I thought I might have had a problem as he loves his bottles but he was fine. He is still havig between 4 and 5 9oz bottles a day. I don't mind though as he is still a skinny boy, starting to fill out a bit more now though. I don't know how he is so slight as both DH and I are big builds!! he is very fussy on his foods, he loves breakfast time, then is funny at lunch times have dicovered he prefers sarnies and fruit then, then he is happy (most of the time) to let us feed him his tea. I realkly need to let him start to spoon feed himself but he doesn't seem toi have the co-ordination. DD was defo feeding herself all her meals by now. Bad mummy must stop comparing!!

Still no walking here yet though.....
But still early days.

I have started my xmas shopping for the children though, feel quite pleased with myself as fed up with running around like a loony in dec. After I had started I remembered Nicoles bday is before xmas bless her so the little bits I have got her are for that now.

I do feel a bit quilty as it is getting hardeer and harder to buy for her but I could shop all day for things for Scott there is just so much to chose from for the little ones..

Hello! Typical - I spend a year writing about Fin then go offline for his birthday lol

It turned out to be quite a good day - my Mum and Nan came over to the new house (we moved 2 days before his b'day!) and it was a lovely hot day so we were able to spend it in the garden with a little picnic and a bottle or two of champers!! We got him a big ice cream van ball pool which dd had way more fun in!! My mum got him a Smoby Buggymobile which is just brill - its just a sit in car with a big handle so you can push him anywhere you go - he loves it!!

His personality has changed loads in the last few weeks, he's really developing his own little character which is turning out to be extremely cheeky!! He's not walking yet - or even standing by himself, he just refuses - a proper lazy-boy!! He loves dd to bits though and follows her everywhere. They play quite roughly now and loads of times i've told her off for being to rough but he just kills himself laughing so she doesn't see that it's doing anything wrong lol He's just as bad though, he will launch himself over her and pull her hair out!I dread to think what they'll be like in a couple of years!!

Good to see everyone's doing well, and happy birthday to everyone i've missed!!

Helloooooooooooo!

After a long time away, I thought I'd pop in and say hello and belated happy birthday to all the June babies . I feel like I'm just coming up for air after a really hard year - I've found the transition from two to three really hard, actually. It's just the lack of time to do anything at all that's been difficult. J is still the most lovely and easygoing baby, as he has been since birth. He started walking a week ago and hasn't stopped since. The bigger two adore him and best of all, he's finally started sleeping through the night this week after a whole year of waking every 2 or 3 hours. I'm feeling incredibly un-broody, whereas by this point I'm hankering after another. I think it's unlikely we'll have another, although give me a year and maybe I'll have changed my mind. Has anyone else started thinking about another? Off to catch up on the MN gossip now, see you all later xxx

agree with Skara about the transition from 2 to 3 is... really tough. Much worse than I expected.

Little update on Fin - He's now discovered his mouth lol He makes horsey clicking noises, can do a proper kiss and today has learnt to take a big breath in and then blow his bottom lip out - mostly whilst a spoonful of spag bol was going into his mouth!!
At the moment he's standing here at the table with a 2p in each hand - he will spend ages and ages just picking them up and dropping them so they 'spin' lol. Bless him!?!?!

Still no standing or walking though!! ooh - but he is having big temper tantrums when he cant do something or get his own way - not good!!!

I found the transition from 1 to 2 bad enough so my earlier broodiness has definitely faded to almost nothing! (Welcome back Skara btw - was wondering about you recently). Don't think my nerves and patience will stretch anymore. Also am currently house-hunting and we cannot afford much more than a small 3 bedroomed one.

Swiperfox - having had an earlish walker who is constantly falling over and getting into everything (he was swishing the water in a stranger's toilet bowl the other day whilst we were looking around their house!) I wish now that he could have stayed immobile a little longer. Alex also does lots of kisses, although he is rather a little too fond of licking me at the same time - yeuchhh!

Still, at least all his various plasters stayed on but that means haven't had a good sight of the scar yet - am too scared to look anyway.

Scott is still not walking, but is in to absoloutly everything.

His new thing at the moment is to punch and headbutt mummy.. not sure what to do really as he doesn't do this to daddy, and when I tell him off he pulls a funny face then does it again.

We have however started where is your nose, mouth eyes etc.
Lasat night I said where is mummys mouth and he pointed to my mouth really gently, then when I asked him where is mammies nose...............

he butted me right on the bridge of my nose, then clapped himself

what's with the name change, Karen?

Just popped in to brag that T. seems to be trying to talk, he tries to sing Baa Baa Black Sheep (it comes out like "Baaaah BLAH! 'ee"). Plus he is waving bye-bye, pointing at everything, says something like "Wow"... copies everything we say in his own fashion.

May not sound like much, but my other kids were such late talkers, a 13 month old trying to say things is new territory for me.

And tantrums, and getting into mischief while giggling about it, that's boys for you!

fqz- The change was due to a thread that no one had answered in 36 hrs so I decided if i changed my name I may get a reply and it worked. I have now gone back to LL though as you can see.

Great news about T. Defo agree about boys being mischevious (sp!!!) and laughing about it, Scott can be alittle terror but he is just soo funny with it that I can't dio anything for laughing.

He has now taken to putting his arms up to women at the pools so that they will pick him up and as most of them are in bikinis he then starts to pat there boobs whilst lookingat his dad laughing.#

Hi all!

Another cheeky boy here! Fin is a nightmare. He is sooo naughty - and he knows it!! But soo cute i have to laugh. He idolises his big sister and they wind each other up a treat and gang up on Mummy! He's still not walking yet - not even standing alone, only holding on and cruising. HV said to give it till 18 months (to which i thought "and then what, you're going to push him?" lol) He can go really fast with his push-a-long walker so i reckon he's just being lazy still.
He's having lots of tantrums too and if he can't get his own way or a toy gets stuck etc he throws himself on the floor and writhes around kicking his legs in temper! Such a sweet boy!!
He's chatting a lot more now but the only proper words are still 'look' 'milk' and 'dada' but understands lots of things - if you ask him where something is he'll go to it.
So not much change really!!!! Glad to see everyone else doing well

Tristan puts his head down on the floor when he's cross (tantrumming) about something. Head down, butt up in the air, looking out the side. It's so funny & pointless....