March 2009 - The crawling / walking / talking race is on . . .

[jollyjoanne]

the new thread for March 09 mummies

Back from the wilds of Wales! Not too much to report, loli am keeping fingers crossed for you, jolly in that case I will be old in March!

loli Good luck for these last few weeks, I remember they sucked with only one baby, so hats off to you with two!

meep Ben also gets very grumpy if the food is not in his mouth fast enough, but it also depends what he's getting. I'm fascinated by the fact that he seems to love chicken (his dad) and potatoes (me). And he has a new way of just closing his mouth if he doesn't fancy something - it's cute now, buuuuuut.....Glad your water trick worked!

Corgi Ben had a snotty nose for ages and then two teeth came out, so maybe it's that? We burn tea tree oil in his bedroom for an hour before he goes to sleep and that helps a lot with a blocked nose. I also have Melaleuca cream that I rub under his nose and on his chest to open the snotgates. He has a snotty nose again and is chewing everything - including my chin - furiously. So another tooth coming?

slick Can't say that dh gets more cosy when I'm PMT, he gets a very evil eye.

Wheredidi Happy birthday so long for Thursday (I will forget). Hope you get a lovely baby for the day and spoiled rotten! And 40 is the new 20. (I am now 35)

I have had a nasty cold with fever the past two days, was hard with lo toay, me not feeling like doing much, so we just rolled around the floor. He is now moving forward in his own version of crawling: pushes himself gently on his face with his feet, and then forward. Hard to descrtibe, hillarious to watch. And he's already chasing the cats. But my, he is CUTE!!! Giggling and blowing rasberries, and I swore he said 'ma' the other day...

Thanks Mdavza.

DD1 (5.8yrs) made feel heaps better when i picked her up from school tonight. I got

dd1 'Mum, we doing about dinosaurs at school today.'

Me 'Thats good. what did you learn'

DD1 ' Well they lived millions of years ago. Like when you were my age' .

Me 'why thanks DD1.'

DS could be saying 'mum'. I know when i go into Robbie room in the morning he lays on his changing mat going 'mum, mum, mmummm'. He also keeps shouting 'nannan' at me.

Congratulations to mdavza for kicking the ad's. I know it can be really tough, so I think you're pretty awesome for being able to do it with a little baby around!

Happy Birthday to wheredidiputit and jollyjoanne

Very excited for all the mums of sleeping better babies too. Hope you are enjoying all the lovely sleep.

In the Law household we've just started our second no DP weekdays routine as he's gone off back to work - it's actually okay. DP and I have done long distance relationship before so we're all sorted on keeping up the communication. I'm still wishing the days away until he gets back though.

and... I've just quit my job. I'm not totally sure I'm going to do the SAHM thing long term, quiting was really because work and I couldn't come to an arrangement that suited both of us when I go back. I'm sad about it, because I liked the job and I was good at it, but when I am on my own without a car I can't be scooting off all week going to obscure places to do courses for them.

However, having worked out new benefit's calculation etc we will be better off. Which is a bit of a relief, if an unhappy one, because I would much rather we did it alone.

not back to work, sorry DP's gone back to University.

BTW - snotty baby here too, snores like a trooper - I think we are well and truly into cold season now.

Not had a chance to catch up with everyone's posts again and will try to tonight but may be going to see my friend who just had the op.

Well HB is sitting up himself now which is great but I still put cushions round him just in case. He also seems to have a chesty cough which is his first, but so far, he doesn't seem to bothered by it.

Am off to go and get the last of my wisdom teeth out. Am dreading it. Weird, having been through three childbirths, I'm dreading this more!

Hope everyone is well.

Law Hope you enjoy being a SAHM for the meantime, these are precious years so if you can stay off it's worth it.

Just glanced - Happy Birthday Jolly You're not old! Am 37 on Halloween and I really, really can't believe it. Where the hell does it go??

Popping in to say hello although have very little to report. Another snotty baby here - has been for a while so maybe teeth ???

Happy Birthday Jolly and wheredidI. Slick - hope the wisdom teeth pull goes ok. I had to have a baby tooth (yes really - I still have a couple of others too) out just after I'd had dd1 by csec and was soooo scared about the tooth extraction. I had to keep telling myself I'd just had major abdominal surgery whilst awake. There's just soemthing about teeth though !

law Jealous of HHB sitting himself up! G can stay if plonked (found the breastfeeding pillow was good to save any falls).

Morning all!

Rosie is also okay only if "plonked" (see photo on profile) but not up to HB standards yet! It is great when they can sit and reach for toys by themselves - a whole new world of amusement for them.

happy birthday wheredid - you are officialy a dinosaur today

slick ouch for yourteeth - am also in the camp of hating any kind of messing with my teeth even though I know it won't hurt!

wheely both mine are full of snot at the moment. Rosie's cot is propped up at one end, which would be fine if she stayed with her head at teh raised ened. But, oh no, her latest trick is to whirl abouit in her cot so that she is perfectly placed with her head at the bottom. She is in such a straight line that it looks as if we've put her in that way (the first time she did it I actually accused dh of having being an eejit and putting her in upside down). But it really does nothing to help the snot and we've been awake since about 5.30am with her huffing and puffing.

law well done you for quitting your job - it is such a shame that employers can't sort things so that we can all juggle work and children/childcare. The most difficult part of having children and working is the mad dash to nursery - which for me means leaving work at 5pm and no later. I do get "looks" from people for leaving early - despite the fact that when teh kids are in bed, I am normally catching up in eth evening - boo.

Dd1 is shouting "mummy, cuddle" over the monitor - so i'd better go.......

aaggh - pic didn't work - will try later

photo of "plonked" baby finally on profile.

Have just come accross a poster called "mrsmeeps" - hmph! Thought I had a name that was unique!

Don't worry Meep - you'll always be the true meep to us !! Lovely picture - she's so cute.

L has truly mastered sitting here too so much so I was able to plonk her on the floor of starbucks this morning so I could drink my coffee, a major perk (no one point out how filthy those floors are please !). However, she's also getting herself around on her tummy (I still wouldn't call it crawling but sort of commando-ing) so we seem to have missed out on that being able to put baby on the floor stage and leave them happily playing. I had it for 3 months with dd1 as she sat quite early but crawled quite late. Ah well.

Happy birthday WheredidI !!

Hi everyone

Gosh it's been ages since i posted. Going back to work has totally taken it out of me - even when i get time in the evenings to look on here, i cannot ever manage to lift a finger to actually post...

Have just been reading everyone's news. Very jealous of those with sitting babies - G can commando crawl/face shuffle forwards about a metre but he's not even close to sitting. If plonked he looks confused for about 4-5 seconds and then keels over, none too gracefully... He eats like a horse, and has moved on to sitting in his bumbo with his mouth wide open, waiting for me to shovel food in. Which is rather cute! He's also huge. Have no idea what he actually weighs but I had to buy a load of 9-12 months clothes online yesterday as he has already outgrown the 6-9 month stuff. Such a chubster...

I have just got a new job, starting after christmas. Obviously I'm mad, but it's more flexible and a lot better paid than class teaching, so I am quite pleased. Will be able to drop DD off at pre-school twice a week too. Still jealous of the SAHMs though. If we weren't mortgaged to the hilt I would love to be doing the school run and spending all day with G. Grass is always greener though I suppose!!

Slick - hope the extraction went ok. I still flinch when people mention wisdom teeth!

Loli - hope the last few weeks are ok. I am in awe of how well you are coping. One of my friends is just about to have her 3rd baby in under 3 years and I am exhausted just looking at her...

Re coldy babies, I love snufflebabe, it's great. I use it on myself too!

Arg, got to go. Life calls!

Ex

Hey Y'all. I really just don't know where the time goes at the moment!

Thanks for the kind wishes about my tooth, but er...in the end, he never took it out! . Instead he fitted me for a night mouth guard to stop me clenching my teeth. So the mouth full of gag-inducing cement in the gob was still better than having the tooth out! How relieved was I?? He said that it may help stop me grinding all together and then I may not need to get it out at all. Hurray! We shall see!

Meep Awww, what a cutie! She's gorgeous! How's the older one getting on with her? My DD2 is still generally very good with HB but just ocasionally in the last couple of weeks I've seen her taking something off him and say it's hers! It is occasional tho and quite often she's taking him stuff to play with which is cute. Her speech is just rocketing at the moment. She's coming out with stuff and I'm thinking, how do you know that?? "Sheep crossing the road..." "Oooh spinning top! Round and round!" She's way better than her sister was at this stage, which is great because it helps stave off some of the tantrums. (So far)

Happy Birthday Wheredidi! Hope you had a great day!

Ellie Good to hear from you! Hope your work situation improves. HB is a chubster too. People are always surprised when I say he's only the age he is.

Well I've got the bathroom renovation started next week (I knoe another bloody room) and have been a bit tressed because our
friends husband who is a plumber was going to fit it but is noew too busy having moved house and working on that and now won't have the tme which means i'll have to rely on DH and his friens. God help me. he always gets really grumpy doing diy. sorry am typing with one hand.

I'd better go. The room is filling up with two stinky bums and things are just too funky in here....

Hey all - just a fleeting post before I have to run out the door for meetings...

Happy birthday to those who are a year older. I was officially old in May and can't believe I am now in my 30s. Like someone said, where does the time go?

Still not pg but not actively ttc - DH wants his wife back for a little while before getting huge again and he has only just "reclaimed the breast" - his words! So we're going to wait until after we've been skiing in Feb before coming off the pill. I've not even had a period yet so I don't think we'd get pg even if we tried now. I have come to terms a bit more with going back to work, so I am less "must get pg now!".

Penny has been sitting up on her own for about 2 weeks now which is great - she can play with the other babies at child minders and is happy to sit and roll all over the place. She also got her first tooth coming through (felt it yesterday) and today I can actually see it! And another one is there too I think - 2 teeth in 2 days! She refused her bottle last night and this morning so I almost rang work to say I was keeping her home, but a bit of teething gel really did the trick and she took her bottle not 10 mins after giving her the gel so I packed her off to CM this morning and will try not to worry about it all day! Can't believe my little baby has teeth!

Have uploaded latest pic of Pen on profile showing off her sitting up skills - DH bought her the dress before anyone says anything...

back later xx

lol at one hand typing! 'a bit tressed'! yeah, my hair's looking fantastic - not!

Boobz She's just gorgeous! DD2 just saw her and said, 'awww baybeeee...and a gog!'

Boobz: Cuuuuutie! I like the dress, think it's much more fun to dress girls, they usually have loads more clothes for them too. Glad you've made your peace with work. My dh has also rediscovered my boobies, but tbh, bf has spoilt the fun a bit...

Slick: you and dh seem like our type of diy'ers, constantly (s)tressed, and it has to be done NOW and not a moment later. Honestly, we've slept in every room in this house except the kitchen and bathroom, in our diy history. But B has his own room, at last, and we'll be staying in this room until we win the lottery. Or something.

Question: what cereals do you give your los? We've been giving B Organix and Hipp Organix cereals, but its expensive and he's now chomping through it like a caterpillar. Oats? Polenta?

Ben is sitting up and every day his crawling technique improves. My dh calls him a snail because he leaves a slimey trail of slobber wherever he goes, haha! He is so cute though, I just cannot stop cuddling him! He is defo trying to communicate, nothing makes sense yet. I'm sure for him it does!

Meep: Rosie is beautiful!

Another question: does anybody have a baby carrier that you wearon your back? Is it worthwhile? Thanks

mdavza WEETABIX! Usually half a biscuit squished in milk.

Hee, G was having his BLW lunch (toast and apple)and DS1 was sneaking the apple pieces off G's highchair!

gorgeous picture boobz ! Glad you're happier at work. Where are you skiing ? We're deciding whether to book a trip - depends on whether we're brave enough to take dd1 out of school for a week and if DH's balance is up to it so we're planning a trip to the Milton Keynes snow dome to practice !

Mdavza - I give dd2 weetabix and porridge.

Hey all - another one here who's been too tired and stressed by work to actually post, but I did just want to say howdy before we head off for an actual HOLIDAY.

Happy (current, belated and future) birthday to my fellow oldsters. Though I think I'm still older than anyone's owned up to being yet!

Gorgeous pics, meep and boobz. I can't WAIT for Rhys to sit up - it will make a world of difference for both of us. He still seems far from it, though, and his crawling attempts usually end in his patented stranded turtle impression...

Went to the paed yesterday and came home with some homeopathic syrup to give him before bedtime - hopefully it will stop him coughing just enough to let him sleep. Otherwise, we just have to keep plugging along with the saline drops and that horrid torture device that you stick up their nose and suck out the snot with your own inhalations. R is to the point where he howls every time he sees the thing!

We are heading to the south of France tomorrow night. We've chickened out and are doing the trip there and back with overnight hotel stops, as the longest R has ever been in a car is 1.5 hours and he wasn't overly pleased at that. Wish us luck for the long trip to Avignon! Will look forward to catching up on things the week after...

Have a nice holiday corgi.

And yes i am the oldest at 40 today.

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enjoy your hols corgi wheredid, I hope you are having/have had a big party to celebrate - I am not far behind you and I tend to hit 40 with style !

mdavza we inherited a baby rucksak carrier - and we've nver used it! That being said, we don't tend to go out on walks very often - and now that we have a rampaging toddler are probably less likely to!

Also, shreddies/malties are very low in salt and if you leave them in milk for long enough they go very mushy and baby friendly.

slick I left Rosie on the bathroom floor to sort out dd1/s clothes for the day - turned my back and dd1 had lain down beside her/on top of her giving her a "squeezy cuddle and BIG kiss" . At the moment dd1 adores her for some of the tikme - but can quickly get bored and likes to take toys away (needs constant reminding that they are Rosie's toys and needs to share etc). Rosie really adores dd1 - likes nothing better than being carried by me in teh sling and giggling as she watches dd1 run around.

dd1 did profess the other day that "my share with Rosie. She my baby sista. My luff PodyPody". And the girls at nursery have to ask dd1's permission before they are allowed to hold Rosie.

Had to take Rosie to teh doc today - rash all over her face/tummy/legs accompanied by a lot of howling and night waking. I kind of knew it was a virus or heat rash, but I am very cautious of rashes - but it was confirmed as a viral rash. Poor wee thing is all out of sorts - and I am sooooo tired - ugh!

wheelY I am like you - dd1 hardly moved at all - sat early and just stayed put (was great when you met friends for a coffee). But I think Rosie will move earlier - she has taken to rolling onto her tummy now (very annoying at 1am!) - but still prefers to cover distance by shuffling around on her back!

boobz Pen is always so cute and smiley!

Right - off for a cup of tea and at some point I need to have a shower..........................