October 08 - More birthdays to go!

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10th Sept (Due 1st Oct) - loulou33 - Boy - Joe Louis David - 6lbs 12oz
16th Sept (Due 8th Oct) - Ksal - Girl - Emma Rae - 6lbs
21st Sept (Due 5th Oct) - myjobismum - Girl - Naomi Caitlin - 5lbs 10oz
2nd Oct (Due 12th Oct) - star6 - Boy - Quinlan - 5lbs 15oz
3rd Oct (Due 26th Sept) - purpleflower - Girl - Rebecca Jill Erzsebet - 8lbs 10.5oz
4th Oct (Due 30th Sept) - Aubergenie - Boy - Stanley - 7lbs 12oz
8th Oct (Due 6th Oct) - ronshar - Boy - William Dexter - 7lbs 11oz
9th Oct (Due 17th) - Marthasmama - Girl - Martha - 7lbs 10oz - Elective c-sec
10th Oct (Due 1st Oct) - CantSleepWontSleep - Boy - Duncan Elliot - 8lbs 4oz
12th Oct (Due 4th Oct) - pistachio - Boy - Thomas Fraser - 10lbs 2oz
16th Oct (Due 11th Oct) - heather1980 - Boy - Alexander James - 9lbs 5oz
17th Oct (Due 10th Oct) - pepperrabbit - Girl - Jessica Rose - 7lbs 15.5oz
24th Oct (Due 29th Oct) - Ekka - Boy - Matthew - 7lbs 15oz
26th Oct (Due 20th Oct) - jenwa - Girl - Phoebe Jasmine - 9lbs 2.5oz
28th Oct (Due 23rd Oct) - RachieW - Boy - Jack - 7lbs 4oz
31st Oct (Due 20th Oct) - KnickersOnMaHead - Boy - Samuel Paul - 9lbs 11oz
5th Nov (Due 29th Oct) - Honeymoonmummy - Girl - Poppy Grace - 6lbs 15oz
5th Nov (Due 30th Oct) - MamaG - Boy - Harry James - 10lbs 9oz

I can't understand that royal icing stuff. It's not yummy and it's hard... it makes the cake look weird imo. I hadn't really seen much of it until we moved here. I've never made a cake with it because I don't like the way it tastes.

I'm sure some people love it, though and it does look smooth and nice.

the icing you buy and roll out is fondant, not royal!

oh sorry, I was just taking 50ft's words, there. I always assume she will know the proper british terminology I should have known to run it by csws first.

Our Tesco has "ready to roll" Royal icing as I commented to DH about it last time we were up there. You can get both.

Just looked it up..... I was actually thinking of the ready rolled sheets of icing that you can get which look like rolls of tinfoil.

But good to know that everything I say will be run past CSWS first to make sure it's correct.

oh dear...
50ft I'm just kidding We must be delicate with csws of late, you know

myjob I am totally with you on the 3rd baby I always wanted 4 and because I am such a clean frea dedicated house wife I think I would be more likely to go insane... more than I am now I love my girls and the thought of having 4 teenagers would actually be really nice as would love to see their personalities etc and have a big family but I know that like the reasons ronshar gave it would also apply to us really for 3 kids. Just watch now, I will be on here saying "whoops we had an accident"

Glad you had a nice anniversary 50ft sorry about the lumpy mash, I am sure it tasted better than the 'wood' though

Feel a bit sad this am as DD was calling for me this as she was on the loo and had had a poo and wanted me to wipe her bum, I thought she was just shouting in her bedroom so told her to be quiet until DH got up and wiped her bum, he never told me what was wrong so I felt really guilty as he had asked if I was going to get up to her. Makes me feel sad when I cant hear my girls in my defence though we do sleep in the attic so it is another floor up but still DH did hear her!

Great wedding dinner 50ft! Some friends of mine got married in the Horniman Museum in early January and it was really cold and wintery. We all had sausage and mash and then (chocolate) wedding cake for pud. It was so lovely!

HMM - You could buttercream the cake and then just add some cut outs of the rolly-out icing (flowers or something) to decorate it if you're worried about it being too much.

DP and I had a really long chat about various things last night, including when we were going to start trying for another baby. Although I realy want another child, I surprised myself by getting really upset about having to start so soon. I'm enjoying my time with S so much, it seems a shame to spoil it. My own fault for leaving it so late, I know. Also - and I know this is ridiculous really - but I find it hard imagine I'd love another baby as much as I love S. Did anyone else feel like that?

Aubergenie - I worried loads that I wouldn't love another baby as much as I loved ds. When I was pregnant I imagined cuddling another warm little body and it made me feel really sad rather than happy. Obviously the reality is totally different and I love them both equally (well, sometimes I love ds more when M is being a nightmare and sometimes I love M more when ds is being horrible, but I think if we're honest this is the way it works for everyone). I had a problem bonding with ds because we had a traumatic birth, he was very had to bfed & he was so difficult as a baby in general but I bonded with M instantly.
On the food front, we had mini fish and chips as a starter, sausage & mash for main course and jam roly poly with custard for pud! Then in the evening we had a hot buffet of bacon butties and chips! There was a choice of bread.

Jenwa - DH didn't get his wooden present last night. If you need putting off the idea of a third you are welcome to borrow M for one night. At the moment she is the best contraceptive you could ask for!

Ooopps, ds was very hard to bfed.

Oh yum yum 50ft! I love jam roly poly, and it's dairy free! Would have liked some veg with my sausage and mash though .

aubergenie - yes, totally normal. I found with ds that I had a huge rush of love the moment he was born , whereas I didn't get that with dd.

Oh they had minted peas CSWS. But not me, I don't like peas. I think I've been scarred for life by the hideous tinned peas my mum used to give us. Heh heh to the . I'm not sentimental but I was the same with M, once I got over the fact that she looked like a pink monkey with a furry back. With ds I just thought "Oh God! What have we done? What's this huge blue screaming thing?"

Thanks ladies - It's good to know that I'm not alone.

50ft - that menu gets better and better!

We're in the house of snot at the moment. Ds still has a cough and a terrible cold. Now dp and I have both got it too. Ds has been crying pretty much constantly since he woke up and I've got no idea what to do for him except give him milk.

Just noticed that you called me 50ft CSWS, not MM!

Thanks for the tips guys, I'm not sure which it is but it's big soft blocks in cellophane wrappers to be rolled out. I've bought it specially so I'll just use it, I'm making a pig face for the top of the cake so I'm gonna stick to that. I just wondered if there was anything underneath/ in the filling/ on the sides that would be a little less sweet. No matter, they're only having small slices anyway.

BTW, have you guys seen this thread?

aubergenie - I feel the same but everyone assures me you'd love another just as much It's not my reason for stopping at 1, though.

oh pistachio - your post just made me cry!
You are so hard on yourself. What you have just posted just shows what a fantastic mum you really are - and you don't even realize how fabulous you are... that even for you to recognize those things and think about them is just so great. You are a terrific mum Your DC are so lucky to have you.
I remember seeing this photo of you (on fb, maybe?) you were holding DD, your Dh was holding DS and you were just gazing adoringly at DS and lovingly holding DD and I remember thinking how real that looked... just perfect

Pistachio - I went though something similar with ds when M was born. The relationship between us changed so drastically, he wasn't my baby anymore because suddenly there was a tiny person who needed more than he did. Poor little fella couldn't do anything right for the first few months. He didn't understand that the world no longer revolved around him so continue to be as demanding as ever while we struggled with M, who seemed to constantly bfed. It made it very difficult for us to enjoy him and looking back I can see he felt really pushed out. He acted up and did lots of really naughty things, obviously to get attention. He told us he loved M but then did things like slap her face and shake her. My gorgeous little man was suddenly a horrible, badly behaved bully and I felt that I although I knew that I loved him, I really didn't like him. Eventually I realised that it wasn't him at all, it was me. He is such a mummy's boy and M had taken me away from him. I made more and more effort to spend time with ds and, as if by magic his behaviour improved. Eventually things got back to normal but there were some very difficult months for us too. It broke my heart when I thought having M had ruined my little boy but he was just reacting to my behaviour towards him.

Myjob - So did you cope with holding tiny gorgeous babies without getting broody?

I'm watching Dr Who, DT is just sooooooo gorgeous. I am getting distracted. Yum yum yum. Where was I......?

Oh yeah. We took M to the local council firework display and she was totally underwhelmed by the whole affair! She was more interested in looking at the other children. Oh well, ds enjoyed himself!