October 08 - The Second Year

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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

aubergenie - I wish I had read about that event - we would have met up with you there!! Q LOVES to dance

Pistachio I'm laughing so hard at you right now

hahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaahahahaha!!
mmmm yummy choc kit!

Glad DCs are down myjob - how are you feeling today?

pistachio & aubergenie, sounds like you both had lovely days! I had a G&T while feeding them all fish fingers and felt quite decadent earlier!
Have read to catch up but woefully behind - hope the sinuses improving 50ft & myjob.
All ok-ish here. DD finally slept through last night after weeks of teething/cold/sicky things and I woke up at 3am out of habit took me ages to get back to sleep....
Our car broke down today, DH took DS1 on an adventure - to the dump (woohoo!) and then to get a Xmas tree, he stopped for some cash - post dump-thank goodness, and the car wouldn't start. So now we have no car for possibly the busiest week of the year for carting stuff around. . No doubt it'll cost a fortune too, sigh.
I don't think I can manage mondays 9.30am MMR followed by 10am me dentist without a car! It was always going to be a push anyway. Might cancel MMR as v close to Christmas really?
On the plus side I've finished my Christmas shopping and have turned my woefully brief attention span to holiday brochures!

Ergh......

go on, 50ft, we're listening.
That's horrible about the car pepper. I'd be so too. Really bad timing!
glad you're feeling better pistachio
is "squash" the same as fruit juice btw?
Once Q went to a playgroup with a friend and her 2 year old DS and apparently had squash and a biscuit... I was and but took it all in stride and said "oh that's absolutely fine..." I don't give Q juice at all. I'll give him treats adn chocolate sometimes - I've come around to that. But I'd like him to keep enjoying water. It was a long time ago, he's not hooked on juice or anything, I'm not angry about it. Just wondered if squash was the same thing.

I think baby disco sounds so awesome. I can imagine Q doing his little dance for hours with a big smile on his face.

ew. Why do they make it then? Why not just sell fruit juice? So it's like concentrate with sweetner? We have frozen orange juice concentrate in America and you add water... My parents never let us have this, but friends had it a lot. Looked cool.

Oh Star - I didn't think to ask if anyone from here wanted to come along. It would have been great to meet you and Q!

Pistachio - it was a full on disco, with all the light and lots of 70s music, complete with a chill-out area with lots of cushions for relaxing/feeding etc. It wasn't a squash-fuelled event at all and the children were really enjoying just bopping around. A really good atmosphere. They did one near us a while ago but it was pricey (something like £7 per walking person) so I didn't go.

Pepper - What a pain about the car. These things always seem to happen at the worst time.

I think I'm going to order one of those chocolate kits - I can't stop thinking about how delicious it was. And healthy!!

I've bought squash for my class's Christmas party, but only because it would cost a fortune to buy proper juice for 25 kids, as well as all the food. I figure that it's fine once in a while, but I wouldn't want my child drinking it all the time.

I don't get "sugar free" because it's usually filled with sweetner, aspartame... I just don't get why they do that!

yes I can see where it would be cheaper for a class of children.

I should be in bed but I can't sleep -

We let ds have this natural orange squash stuff. It's not too high in sugar and it has a real natural orange taste, yum! He's the only one of his mates that doesn't have coke all the time (he doesn't EVER get coke unless he's at a friend's house). I occasionally let him have lemonade but mostly he like fruit juice mainly because of his five-a-day obsession. M does have very very diluted fruit juice because she always wants what DS has. So I fill her cup with water and tip a tiny drop of juice in to trick her into thinking she has the same as ds.
DS had a LOT of fruit juice as a toddler because he wouldn't eat fruit (he'd eat olives, sprouts, spinach, just not fruit) and the HV suggested it. He has perfect teeth and is skinny as a rake so it must be fine as part of a balanced diet.

Pistachio - Oh dear. Those immediate hangovers are the worst!

Star - You don't want to know about my sinuses. Yuck yuck yuck. There is hideous stuff coming out of my nose!

Pepper - These things come at the worst time don't they? Our boiler/heating is fixed and it didn't cost much, BUT, it could have been a disaster! I did have to laugh at your FB up-date. DH missed his train the other day so obviously he had to wait in the pub for the next one...... Funny how that happens isn't it?

Aubergenie - Glad you and S had a good day. Did S strut his funky stuff?

Argh! We need a new thread!!!!! Someone else's turn I think.....

Running is really relaxing myjob I've been jogging for a few months. Until I started bleeding from it in pregnancy, I used to run a lot. I tried to go out for a slow jog when Q was about 1.5 months and I thought my insides were going to fall out - put me off for many many months!
I'm not back to running shape by any means, but the slow jog does help make me feel good You always feel the best when you are right in the middle of your session, it's like a zone of happiness and afterward, of course!