October 08 - Toddling round the Christmas tree & Ooooing at the lights!

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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

Ooooo that sounds good! I will investigate the mooncup. CSWS - Look at the Grand rather than the regular C4. Haven't seen the regular C4 only the Grand.

We have thunder and lightning with our snow. How odd!

Ah, dh just discovered that there is a grand c4 picasso (did you say that already and I missed it ), which does look worth a look, thank you.

Ah, x post 50ft!

I would start to encourage her to fasten her own belt. It saves a whole load of trouble when you are strapping DS & baby in. With three seats the space will be tight in any car. Little hands are much better than grown up ones.

(I have left my cup in for over 24hrs because I completely forgot it was there

Go to bed CSWS. You have ages to look for a car.

I am off to bed. I have a funeral to go too tomorrow. A cousin 14 years old, died of Strep A infection. Gonna be bad. Loads of dramatic teenagers.

Right I think I'm sold on the Mooncup. Thanks ladies as I said on another thread, you are all wonderful & I am very glad to have 'met' you all.

DS still claims he can't do his own seat belt on occasion, but I think it's laziness and general 'being a male'.

Oh how horrible Ronshar! Hope it's not too traumatic for you.

Oh dear ronshar - hope it goes 'ok'.

Just configured a C4 Grand. Was encouraged by a starting price of £15k, but our version is £30,625 . There's a Citroen garage near somewhere I want to go before Christmas, so will pop in and have a nose (armed with car seats) if they have one in.

Am off to bed now miss. You all kept me up chatting!

they catch the bus pistachio .

Go to bed woman!

I think I'd rather strap one of mine to the roof than brave the bus with three!

CSWS, we drive a Galaxy and it will easily fit 3 highbacked seats in. I can comfortably sit between both dc in the back for long journeys and we have had 2 adults, 4 dc several bags and 2 large double buggies in the car on an outing one day, though the buggies were a tight squeeze!!!! I've seen an Smax with 3 highbacked the boosters in the rear, but the headroom in the very rear 2 seats is not as good and as we ferry adults as well as kids that swung it for us. Didn't like the C4 Grand Picasso because of the poor legroom in the back compared to the Galaxy (mind you it is a smaller car as my dad pointed out, so that shouldn't be a surprise). But I did much prefer the way the back 2 seats folded - far less faffy than the Galaxy, its the one thing that really drives me nuts!

Anyway, off to clean the floors which of course will get filthy as soon as the kids come round, but I just can't bear the thought of leaving them as at the moment I can feel my feet sticking to the floor around my kids' area of the table .

Brave the bus - NO WAY!!! I had dd walking in the supermarket today at her request and I was a limp rag by halfway round. Trains I can brave on the odd occasion, but the thought of having to use the bus with her and ds at the moment makes me feel ill. I love her loads, but she is definitely a livewire and doesn't sit still for a second.

Grrrrr... After staying up till 1 cleaning, its snowed here, so our party is now in doubt. Ah well, we're off to put on wellies and all-in-ones and go play in the snow till I freeze (so for about 3 mins then )

I am so annoyed that I didn't get M some boots. She has pretty little Mary Janes which won't do in the snow. She'll have to observe from her push chair. DS is so excited that he's completely dressed.

I have just heard that boy from X factor for the first time. He's nothing special, he's not a particularly good singer. I'm better.

We ordered ds some snow boots that were allegedly in stock, and then we got an email to say that there was a 'stock discrepancy' so they didn't deliver.

We specced up a Galaxy the other week Ekka - it was going to be £37k, which seemed a lot for what it was.

It has occurred to us that dd could have a little booster seat now, instead of a high backed booster, which might make things a bit simpler.

We suspect that the XC90 will be the strongest contender, but will look at all the options.

How annoying Ekka!

We've got no snow at all here, but it's still "travel chaos" apparently.

I made scrambled eggs for me and S to have for breakfast. He made such a fuss about wanting mine that he's eaten about one and three quarter eggs and I've had a teeny tiny bit. I did have the pleasure of finishing off his cold porridge though.

Oh dear - hospital left a message yesterday wanting to speak to me about one of my blood tests . Trying to get hold of them now.

Oh dear CSWS, I hope its ok.

That does seem a lot - we got an ex-test drive Ghia model with almost all the extras for far less than that. It only had 50 miles on the clock so hardly well-used. Because we need automatic it was either take that or wait ages for a 'new' one. Tbh, I wouldn't have bothered buying the integral satnav, I'd rather have a separate one which is way cheaper, but it was installed, so we took it!

Aubergenie - why on earth is it that kids always want stuff off your plate even if its clearly the same as what they have! I end up making 3 slices of toast at breakfast and am lucky if I get one to eat....

Ronshar - How horrible!!! Is that strep throat? How very very sad.

Oh Ekka, I hope you have your party!!

I'm interested in this mooncup... do you have to insert it with your hands though? I know it's terribly environmentally unfriendly but I can't deal with tampons without applicators. I can't get myself to do that without vomiting. I know I know I have big issues. Can't do it, though... and no, before you ask... I don't do that either!

I let Q play in the snow with double layered socks and his £5 wellies from tesco
And a snowsuit of course.

I hate the applicator tampons Star! Tampax in particular make me feel sick as they expand length ways instead of width ways. I don't speak from experience but I guess the Mooncup must be hand inserted. Star you have vagina ishoos m'dear! Have you always felt like that or is it since the traumatic birth ordeal?

50ft - I have always felt like that. Which is a huge reason for the traumatic birth ordeal...