Dec 08 babies are nearly one - PARTY TIME!

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As I accidentally filled up the old thread I thought I'd better start a new one

I am married to the only straight man in the world who likes Rom Coms. He loves Love Actually. And he doesn't seem to be ashamed of it!

urbane Lucy is into making up jokes all the time at the moment. Example jokes:
knock knock
who's there?
Orange
orange who?
well peel me then.

why do horses poo in the road?
because there wasn't a grit machine today

knock knock
who's there?
a melon
a melon who?
well let me in then

They are completely not funny, which makes them hilarious, IYSIM, and I'm so used to fake laughing at them, that I actually laugh now .
My friend told me a joke the other day, although I'm not sure how it will come across non-verbally...
what did the horse say when it came out of the fridge?
"brrrrrrr" (kind of neighy whinnying horse noise) - proabably better in RL that one!
Veggie nice to have you back. Miss you when you're not around.

P was up loads last night. I fed her about a million times but each time it's just for about a minute and I think she gets very little milk (saggy boobies), which I know means it's just a comfort thing really. I need to try to stop the night feeds again...

on films...I'm so not a film person. I'm never in the mood to watch a film, or just fancy watching one. I get bored, even if it's good, and I just keep wondering when it will finish. I get confused by the characters (if they wear similar things I have no idea who's who), and rarely manage to follow a plot. I could identify about 3 world famous actors and the rest is all a mystery to me. And I can watch a film then forget it completely, to the extent that if I watch the same one again I have no idea how it's going to end. Dh on the other hand loves films. We're a great match

wg how's madam's lip? any change?
P has a bruise and little bump on her eye brow bone bit, from the 5 minutes that I left her in the capable hands of her daddy today...something to do with a window and a bed...

pox - my 2 have never had it. I've never deliberately tried to get L infected, but she's been at nursery when her entire room has gone down with it, and the same when she started school, and she always manages to avoid catching it! kiwi I would have done the same as you, especially as you don't want to have to take time off when you're only just back at work. Hope nursery goes well this week.

nighty night.

DH has an awful horse joke.

What cheese do you use to hide a horse?

Mascarpone.

It is dreadful.

I have taught DS1 the no idea joke. It is so funny as he just laughs all the way through.

urbane - my DH actually persuaded me to see atanajurat the fast runner at the cinema! That one, I actually enjoyed. The real low point was a film about a choir of norweigan fishermen whose name now escapes me. I think we were the only people in the cinema. For good reason.

WG - DS actually had his first haircut last week, in preparation for my brother's wedding. A bit sad to lose his crazy quiffy hair, but sweet at the same time. I'm too chicken to try cutting fringes etc myself so they go to a kids hairdresser (I can give you the details if you want).

Veggie - lovely to see you back on and very impressed with the Dutch. I picked up the minutest possible amount of Flemish in my time in Belgium.

We're off on Tuesday and am in a slightly mad frenzy of trying to get work stuff and home stuff sorted. Had a mini meltdown last night when finished a paper at midnight only to lose the file somehow when I tried to e-mail it. Had a frantic couple of hours failing to retrieve it and was all set to rewrite this morning when it mysteriously reappeared after a reboot.

Kayz - I'm looking forward to DCs getting into jokes. DD sometimes gets really tickled by something and just dissolves into giggles, but I have to say, I don't always get it. Fab to hear you have a holiday coming up. Would definitely recommend UK holidays - have really enjoyed ours and this long distance malarkey is not much fun so far...

spot - your book sounds incredibly worthwhile - sadly there are so many people who end up having to go through that IVF mill these days

Morning! Quick one from me as need to get stucj in at work.

Haircuts: I am refusing to cut DS2's lovely curls, despite the odd comment. I thunk of you Kayz at the hassle you used to get over your DS1's gorgeous hair!

Films: I am prob the only woman in the UK not to have seen Love Actually. Not keen on rom coms at all, though I do of course love Alan R. Luckily DH and I agree on most films and happily alternate Clint Eastwood/Al Pacino with odd 30s comedies and the like. Guns or witty dialogue and people falling down the stairs. He does try and sneak in the odd cerebral thing with subtitles though.

Spot: yay for the book and for Mr T getting over whatever it was. DS2 had an odd unsettled night last night, no idea what was up but he kept waking up and yelling. Calpol didn't do much so not sure if teeth or general orneriness.

DS2 also finds DS1 madly funny. He also loves music (we had all sorts of ideas about exposing DS1 to lovely music but he just wasn;t interested). I've got a great little video on my phone of him grooving away to Fleetwood Mac.

Daisy: hope MIL is home and you are all doing well

Trace: well done on talking to your DH, I'm sure he'd prefer to know if anything was wrong ratehr than floundering around in the dark. Hope you had a better night

thunk? Where did that come from?

Effie I haven't seen Love Actually either. I don't really like rom coms either. I find them a bit boring.

We still get lots of hassle over DS1's hair. Everytime we see MIL we get moaned at.

HELLO ALL! Sorry have been silent for a while. Haven't got time to read everything, but from brief skim, everyone seems happy! Hurrah.

I'm just waiting for plumber to turn up as our central heating doesn't work - why does this always happen when it's freezing?? DD slept in long sleeved vest, sleepsuit, knitted cardy and 2.5tog sleeping bag last night. We turned on an electric blanket and laid it out on the spare bed in her room and her room stayed at 18degrees. Ours was 10 degrees, so she was snug in comparison!

All well with pregnancy too - am starting to show, but wowee, am less interested in myself this time! Whizz taking up so much time now - still not walking, but so close! And not saying any words yet, but nearly there and knows what we're saying when we say certain things to her, which is great!

xxxx

Well I'm a bit jealous of all teh hair talk - DD is still a bit, err, thin on top! Can't see her needing a haircut until she's about 10 at this rate...!

So it turned out that it wasn't chicken pox, but viral foot, hand and mouth, whatever that is. Apparently also very contagious so on the whole I guess it's good that we stayed away. DD had her 12 month booster jab this am, was not impressed with it but seems on good form now despite waking up at 5.45am today - very early for her so I'd expect her to be
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Ah, that was her input on teh keyboard there...
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Swweet! I like the typing input!

DD had her jabs on Friday and she didn't seem to have any reaction to it at all. They offered swine flu as well and I said no to it - what's the general thinking on it? I'm just not convinced it's necessary at the moment.

beans- madam had the lot last week, booster, mmr, pneumococcal (?) and swine flu. if SF hits, it may hit babies and children v hard, so i'm not taking any risks. i know it's not perfect, but i want to feel i've done my best by her just in case. but i am very much a believer in science and medicine, some people aren't. for waht it's worth.

madam has a cold sore. this is rubbish. poor lamb. i hope she doesn't have a puberty ruined like my was by the dreaded herpes. not suprising, really, as i had so many cold sores while pregnant and also the day after she was born (made for some luvverly photos). ugh.

Thanks WG, I don't know why, but was all ready to have the swine flu and just quiched out at the last minute - might have to rethink my actions and go for one soon. It's just all quite ifs and buts at the moment and I feel like she's a bit of a pin cushion at the moment! Did your DD have any side effects from swine flu? My DD has MMR next month. I have no qualms about that one at all.

Oh poor little bird having a cold sore. Not nice. I am lucky enough never to have one, but friends with it curse it!
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Ouch at the cold sore.

Re SF, I rang up the surgery this morning and they said they'd be senidng out letters to (as it's available to under 5s both of mine will have it). I'm happy for them to be vaccinated as they both have a tendency to get very wheezy after even a minor cold and I'd be worried about complications.

Hello everyone,

spot Your book sounds like a really good idea. I'm sure lots of people would find something like that helpful going through IVF. I used to hate transcribing when I did interviews for my PhD. I had a tape machine with foot pedals and earphones, it made me feel strangely efficient .

kiwi We're in the same boat hair wise. DD has some blonde wispy bits at the back but is bald on top, very much like Alan Shearer.

Enjoy Norwich ladyT. Over Christmas DD pointed to a photo of Alan Partridge in the Radio Times and said 'Daddy'! I chuckled heartily.

beans Hope your heating gets fixed soon. Ours was out of action just before Christmas. Make sure you tell them you have a young baby as you get prioritised.

Hello trace. Love the jokes! I remember my younger brother discovering jokes, he came out with very similar non-funny but very funny stuff.

The pram got a flat tyre this morning so combined with snow, slush and ice it made things rather tricky this morning trying to get some shopping done. Oh and rather excitingly DD can also ,sort of, say 'cat'. The prounciation is a bit off. She points to our cats and ones in books but still can't say mummy . Offended, moi?!

We haven't even been offered the swine flu jab and I forgot to ask about it this morning. Ah well.

Hey DD has a weepy/oozy eye as of lunchtime - sort of yellowy snot coming out of it. Does anyone know what - if anything - I should do about it? It doesn't seem to be bothering her though she has rubbed it once or twice.

I've lost track of which babies are walking or not - is anyone elses stubbornly refusing to even consider it? DD has been cruising the furniture since she was 8 months but shows absolutely no signs of wanting to balance without holding on to something/ walk. Those who have walkers, was there a long period of balancing before walking, or did they just go for it or what??

Kiwi - when I saw her at the meetup the way your DD got around really reminded me of my DD. Absolutely loved cruising/being walked and moving all the time from a very young age, but she actually only started walking on her own at a pretty average 15 months. When it happened, it kind of all happened all of a sudden. DS is cruising very confidently and gets around, but no attempts at walking yet - I think he'll be a little while longer.

Kiwi, your DD sounds like DS2. He is always on the move but doesn't seem to want to walk.

I burst into tears on a friend at work tonight. I feel like an idiot!! It's just because I am not going to see
the boys much this week. They were in bed when I got home tonight, will be asleep when I leave for work in the morning so I'm not going to see them until about midday tomorrow. DH is looking for a new job so I can either work less or completely quit.

Kiwi it's just a bit of conjunctivitis, just boil some water let it cool to just a bit above room temp an then soak some cotton wool with it to bath the eye. She may wake up with quite a gloopy eye in the morning. If it doesn't settle you can get an ointment called golden eye from the pharmacy or get something on prescription from your GP. Is she at nursery tomorrow, if so, they won't let her in with even a hint of a weepy eye, conjunctivitis is very contagious and they freak out about it.

Oh kayz poor you that so sad about not seeing them. Hope things work out with DH and another job.

DS2 has a hair do which is more David Seaman than Shearer, DH keeps threatening to cut it but I just love his curls I'm in denial that he is no longer a baby so I want to keep the curls.

He is def a toddler now, he wanders quite happily around the house and was even helping me put the washing on the clothes horse today, then promptly helped take much off. Not talking like LadyO, mostly just mama dada and...well a high pitched wail. He also does lots of pointing, the other morning when I'd dragged them both out of bed to take DS1 to school be kept pointing back to our bedroom, I think he actually wanted to go back to bed.

Oh gotta go I think DH wants to talk

lol Veggie at 'I think DH wants to talk'. Well done for spotting it!

Kiwi, can't remember if you're still bfing but a bit of expressed BM does wonders on gloopy eyes.

Re: walking, DS2 cruising but not walking yet. He has just started being able to stand for a few secs but is v wobbly. DS1 walked at about 11 months, but as DH points out we were constantly wlking him about and generally prodding him! DS2 is left to his own devices more. Am impressed at baby Veggie helping - DS2 likes taking stuff off the clothes horse (or out of bags/boxes/cupboards) but not so good at putting things away . He is quite sweet at trying to get stuff, he points and says Dis! Dis! Usually it's a knife or other baby-friendly product so he's disappointed.

Kayz: sorry you're having a rubbish time at work. Hope your DH is lucky in his job search .

A bad night for us last night, DS2 settled well and didn't wake till past 12, but then was v restless and woke again at 1:30 - then DS1 woke up at 3 and promptly woke everyone else up as well. Gah. Dozed off on the train this morning, partly cos I need a new book. Have Amazon vouchers for Xmas so may have a browse later.

effie - so sorry for your bad night. i think you have them a lot and you never really complain, and you have a job to do. just wanted to say poor poor you.

Effie I am indeed still BF and did the express in eye trick a few times, though it did get an "are you INSANE Mother? That goes in my MOUTH" look from DD. Sympathies with the bad night, DD was up at 3 for feeding then decided to get up at 5am. Today is my first day at work (clearly I'm busy eh?) so I shall be slumped on my desk shortly...

The eye actually seemed better today and nursery haven't yet banished her, DH dropped her off earlier. Fingers crossed...

She's not said any words yet, either. Well, she pretty much keeps up a constant chatter of "dadada dadada dadada" all day but it's just noise, I don't think she knows what it means and it makes it impossible to tell if she actually means "dada" when she sees DH! She's only said mama a few times when really upset, no sign of any other words..

Effie he kept talking at me and didn't give up when I continued typing to you guys so that usually means he wants to talk. I think he knows better than to tell me to stop these days as you guys and facebook are my only connection with my friends at the moment esp with the boys being unwell and keeping me at home.

DS1 went back to school today he was upset again about going. He says he likes school but misses me. I think that's true but I think the other problem is he has no one to chat to due to the language issues. There is one little girl who speaks English but she seems to ignore him (bitch). He does have lots of little friends, one tall blonde girl in particular has taken him under her wing. But he can't make himself understood which is what is mainly bothering him. Anyway he has gymnastics at school today and he loves that so he should be ok.

DS2 is still unwell and had a very bad night just kept wanting to feed. It is times like this (well and lots of other times) that I'm happy I still BF as he is right off his food and fluids so he is keeping hydrated with BM but his requirements seem a lot higher than DS1's were and when he is off his food he needs loads of milk. Oh well it's nice to know he's getting what he needs.

Which reminds me SL. Just thought I would let you know something I have noticed. As you know my DS1 is similar to your DS with his eating whereas DS2 is a huge eater, loves his food. However, I was comparing growth charts and they are pretty close the way they track however DS1 is slightly taller and heavier than DS2! It shows they will achieve the size they are suppose to be an know what they need to eat to get there, as frustrating as it is for you, please know from my experience that he will be ok. I hope though that your next child is a good eater as it is soooooo satisfying to watch him eat.

Kiwi glad the peepers are better, LOL at her reaction to you putting your BM on her eye.

Oh and Invis I'm not sure if I've missed you but I had an idea for your DHs birthday. As you have loads of family around for the wedding could you maybe farm to kids off to them for one night while your away and book a night in a really posh hotel or even just the hotel your in and have little dirty night 'away'. You could have some pamper time or even just dinner and a day together without kids. You could get some dirty sexy nice wholesome nightwear for the occassion and just lavish him with lots of attention and well some extra sweet sugar! Just having sometime for yourselves would be a big treat for him.

Hurrah...I've caught up! Had to skim read as there were a good 25 pages. You ladies have been busy!

A very big thank you for my Secret Santa gift. Lovely to have a pressie to open after a nasty 20 hour journey back from Canada.

Invis - Was it you looking for travel tips? We have been to Canada 4 times with DS, the States once, plus a couple of intra-Europe trips so we are experts about plane travel! So much so that I have decided I am NOT travelling to a different time zone with DS until the summer. But it's not the travel that is the problem, it is just the sleep adjustment that makes me crazy. But good sleepers tend to get over the jet lag so easily, so I'm sure you'll have no problems. What airline are you flying and did you book separate seats for your DCs?

We have had a month of terrible sleep (the whole time in Canada = terrible, and the first 5 days back = beyond a joke), but the last two nights he slept through so fingers crossed he is over the hump.

DS is on his second full day at the childminder and it seems to be going okay. DH has done the drop offs and said there were tears, but nothing major. Hope he's not lying to make me feel better! DS napping much less than at home, but maybe that will improve.

Okay, I just spent FAR too much time catching up while at work. Naughty naughty MOM.

Waves to everyone. Glad to be back!

Welcome back Mom! And indeed, Veggie, after being cut off for a bit (was starting to get worried).

Right...might be in a spot of bother so apologies for the Me Post.

Had unprotected sex on Sunday (been using withdrawal method as contraception, probably silly but was working ok until Sunday when we had a slight miscommunication - TMI I know). Unfortunately, I am pretty sure I was ovulating then. My cycle is a bit haphazard and I am only saying that because of how I felt (eg I always get a very slight pain). It was day 25 but last four cycles have been 63 days, 60, 53, 46. Anyway, I was really cross with DP because I DO NOT WANT TO GET PREGNANT until I have got rid of this weight. Plus, I have a few things to do this year so was imagining would try at the end of the year. I was really cross with DP (was his fault really) and thought about getting emergency contraception but then I thought - hang on, I am 38 in April, it would be silly, even though it would be mighty inconvenient to be up the duff right now.

Anyway, this morning I have tender breasts, which I would only expect a few days before my period, not now. And I remember that from last time I conceived. I know it is incredibly shallow but all I can actually think is I don't want to be even fatter, and I didn't want this small an age gap because I think I would find it very difficult to cope. I know I am getting ahead of myself, but just wondering when to test, with my crazy cycle...