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

Myjob, it sounds as though you do the same as me but in reverse IYSWIM. I'll eat lunch with S but he has his dinner on his own (I'll eat a ricecake or something). Well done for the run!

Star - at your dh's lunch. Sometimes it's just nice to have something that's got no nutritional value! My equivalent would be a crisp sandwich.

We either all eat dinner together or the DC eat dinner together and we eat later. We are a one pot meal household. DH does most of the cooking in the evening as he loves cooking (I am more of a baker although I am very good with flavour so I tend to add that).

DS and I went out for lunch with my mum and my brother today as it is my mum's birthday. We went to Carluccio's. Yum!

Myjob - I wouldn't be able to go for a run here at the moment, I would break my ankles! It's still very icy and the floor is wobbly. Well done you though! That's dedication. You'll have an excellent running habit soon.

Star - I will look at that thread but I have a feeling I am going to agree with you....... Maybe you should try just stopping the purees. Q knows how to eat solid food so if he's hungry he'll eat normal human food!

Has everyone got their SS now?

No don't look 50ft . I let my blood boil past boiling point!

I got my SS!

Crisp sandwich??? yuck. sorry. We were snowboarding one year and the place we stopped off at on way to resort on the coach had chip sandwiches (like french fries inside of white bread!!) ewwwww
DH and I just went hungry until we got to the resort.

Carluccios is sooooooo yummy!!!!!!!!!!!! mmmmmm. I like the pasta soup. very salty, but yummy. I also like the mushroom pasta. mmmm.

We sit down and eat with Q but rarely eat the same thing unless we're all around for lunchtime. Q is hungry for dinner at 4.30 or 5 latest really and that's so early for us. But we do sit with him and nibble.
When my friend has him she sits on the floor with him and they eat together. But he eats what I put in his lunch bag and she eats her lunch .... and he usually eats some of what she's having She eats very healthily, so I'm ok with it. But lately he's been wanting to share in toasted cheese sandwiches . Will have to make sure they have courgettes or something else in them, too.

He also loves baked beans...arghhhhhh

Myjob - I don't think you mean you hate who you are, at least I hope you don't mean it. I hope you mean you're unhappy with your body and want to improve it. I am actually excited about the New Year and making important changes to my diet etc. Well, I am looking forward to it now, when I have to live on healthy food I will be feeling very different.

Baked beans are ok Star, even better if you get the reduced salt and sugar ones (not the ones with sweetener instead). They count as one of your five a day after all. M loves them too and would eat your hand to get to them! I did look and as predicted, agree with your view. One year my mum did the charity gift thing for us and I loved the idea. Oh and I had the mushroom pasta for lunch! Yum indeed!

I've just posted again about how when my class last year gave me the generous donation to great ormond street hospital in our names, I was so touched by it. Really, people saying "this is such a crap gift" or "s/he didn't put enough thought into this"...etc. It's just so ridiculous. I honestly think "there's no thought put into this gft" is the new way of saying "i don't like (or didn't want) this gift". It's rude. And ungrateful. I just wanted people to realize that the thought is giving a gift at all and should be appreciative. No one is entitled to a gift or should judge it or how much thought has been put into it. I think some people see that.
Sorry, rant over.

I like that philosophy pistachio. I need to work on doing that, too!

As for running, for me it's past the 20/25 minute mark that I get the "buzz" or feel "in the zone". I've been doing a (flat, only one small hill!!) 5 mile run near to me lately and it feels really good. Only 4x/week, though, so not up to my pre-Q fitness level. But I'm not bothered by that too much.

And I should add, it's a jog not a run that I'm doing.
I used to get up in the morning and run every day until I started bleeding when I was pg with Q. Finally got back into it and it feels really nice. But need a few mornings off now because of Q's lovely sleep habits.

My run only has one small hill. The rest is pretty flat! I can't bear big hills anymore. It's not that far because it's to the park and a little further, then back. It's the park where we've walked with Quinlan millions of times, so it seems like it's just down the street and back iyswim. Pre-Q I did a very nice lengthy run with a few hills through some fields and I don't think I'll ever be able to do it again.

I'm not doing gym classes like I did before pregnancy either, like you are, pistachio. I have some hand weights and do about 15 minutes of conditioning exercises with those after my runs but other than that, no strength training, so it's really not as good as it sounds at all.

And I ate 3 of my home made truffles this afternoon.
they are so yummy. Dark chocolate (g&bs) coated and the ganache in the middle is bailey's irish cream, cream and a mix of nice milk choc with green and black's dark. mmmm
I am so proud of myself for making them!

Ooh star - if you happen to be making any of those truffles around 29th June next year, then you know where I live . They sound divine.

Don't worry pistachio - you'll never be the worst runner on the thread. I don't actually know where you all find the time to go running. I don't have 3 lots of 15 minutes to myself in a week!

myjob - when do you eat breakfast and lunch? I hope that you aren't skipping meals. If you are then that would explain why you aren't losing weight.

We eat dinner all together at 5pm. It's a bit early for my liking, but I'd rather that than have to start cooking again at 8pm.

I love crisp sandwiches and chip butties, but both are a rare treat requiring real butter.

csws - I run in the morning early early early hours... that's how I have time. That's also why I can only fit in 4x/week. Sometimes just 3x/week. Depending on Q. he and dh just sleep through it.

Oh and today's car update is that we test drove an XC90, and I think it far more likely that we'll buy a used one of those than a Grand C4. It's just more 'us', and this week has been a good reminder of why a 4x4 is not wasted on us! With any luck we'll manage to hop up to Bedford to test drive a Landrover Discovery that we like the look of tomorrow. I don't think I've ever even been inside one before, but am liking the sound of it.

and on weekends, I can run while Q naps. But one of the days I usually want to nap with him

They sound yummy Star.

I've just spent a very happy half hour decorating one of those Ikea gingerbread houses. I can't wait till S is old enough to do that sort of thing with me!

S has a streaming cold and has hardly eaten anything all day. He at ate a little bit of frittata for lunch and he dropped his spinach cannelloni on the floor piece by piece, followed by his grapes and then refused his yoghurt (practically unheard of).

Poor S.

Talking of dropping food on the floor, ds has taken recently to throwing both his cutlery and his food across the table/at people/on the floor. He's also taken to pulling dd's hair at every opportunity, and likes to hit people with either his hands or other hard objects, which he finds incredibly funny. Anyone else encountering this yet? I seem to recall that dd was quite early with this phase too. Tedious.

Yes CSWS, we're having that here too. M thinks it's hilarious to punch mummy in the mouth. She has also started hitting DS with things like the remote control. She also bit me and then laughed today. It's always accompanied by a little 'have some of that' noise. DS never hit me only DH. Hmmmm..... M has never hit DH. She doesn't throw food, but she does throw things in a temper. And yes very tedious.

Awww poor S. I am going to make Christmas muffins with DS tomorrow for his breakfast on Christmas morning. Yay!