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

Really nice way to remember your mum Star. You must miss her expecially at this time of year.

I love a good carol service! Well, I just love a good sing-song really as I'm not religious.

I looked up that muffin recipe 50ft. They look lovely. I like the idea of having a bit of a Christmas morning ritual. We're driving up to my parents' on Christmas morning, so the reality will be more like me and dp charging around checking that we've got everything in the car.

I'm getting away lightly with the whole Christmas thing as I've only had to buy some booze and will be making a trifle (also Nigella) as my contribution. I'll be helping my mum with the cooking, but I've got every sympathy with those of you who've had to clean/shop/cook etc for loads of people.

Pistachio - You've probably gone now but I hope you have a safe journey I've been listening on the news and it sounds pretty treacherous where you are.

And I forgot to say well done to N!

S has started giving proper kisses and cuddles which is lovely except that he is very full of cold and I keep getting covered in snot.

He also only had two 10 minute naps in the car today. He was very grumpy. I've already had a sherry.

I know I'm going to sound like an old worried mother, but I do hope pistachio can get online when she gets there to let us know she's arrived safely! Maybe fb if she has her phone...

aubergenie - 2 10 min naps? What a nightmare! Q would be a disaster heap of tantrums... I'm surprised you haven't finished several glasses of sherry!

It's ok 50ft - it wasn't insensitive!

A friend I taught with in Japan is now teaching in Mumbai and is in London for 2 days before flying out to somewhere in Europe... so I've agreed to bring Q in and have lunch with her at 11 tomorrow... On Regent street in london. It's not a long journey, but I'm dreading it a bit. I know it will be ok once I get there - it's just so cold! And it will be manic and busy!

We're going to go to the service at 4pm. The church is quite literally right next door, so, perfect

what's awol?

absent without leave (armed forces term originally)

Absent WithOut Leave, Star. Going missing, in other words.

I hope it's not too crazy in town Star. I heard something on the radio about the fact that most of the shoppers -something like 70% - on Christmas Eve are men rushing around getting last minute presents. One of them will be my dad. He phoned me up yesterday to find out if I know what my mum wants for Christmas.

Thanks

Seems everyone knows but me... haha I thought it was an MN term. As an aside, I think idiomatic expressions are so funny, btw and I'm a very visual person, so they are even funnier in my imagination
Anyway, I heard "he can talk the hind leg off of a donkey" a few days ago! LOL.

50ft - yes, the discovery fits 3 seats across the middle row. And there is a good amount of room for 2 adults in the back row. With all 7 seats up the boot space is actually rather small (mountain buggy requires both wheels off to fit in, compared with 1 wheel off in our current car, and no wheels off in the XC90, but it's not like we'll be using the back seats on a day to day basis, and with them down there is enough room in the boot. Really the XC90 is more practical in several ways, but it just didn't excite us, and wasn't as nice to drive as the Landrover (XC90 a bit heavy on the steering). We would have prob bought the XC90 if we hadn't looked at the Landrover though! I think we'll prob cancel our C4 test drive, as I just can't see us buying one, even if it is a good bit cheaper than the other options. Dh thought that he wouldn't be that keen, but likes it a lot more than he had expected. And they gave us an estimate of what the A4 Cab might be worth in part ex, which is a little more than dh had been guessing, so that is good news on the price front.

aubergenie she has to have at least 3 lots of chemo (usually up to 5 depending on dose and dog), I think it has taken its effect on her today as she sooo sleepy but she has also been at inlaws with their dog and 4 kids today so that may have something to do with it too

csws P the same as D! She threw a bowl of past down my leg and over my bag yesterday at lunch, my friends commented on how well she could feed herself with her cutlery after she had spag bol, youghurt, orange then raisons then a piece of DD1's garlic bread then took dd1; left over pasta and started on that until it ended up on the floor to her amusement she also hit dd1 and the dog on the head with her toy tim saucepan which to be honest was funny but of course we did not show this in front of dd1 who was horrified she had been hit on the head

pepper about the man shouting at you, I would have got back in my car and rammed him of course I would not have really but I bet you felt like it! How awful though and not nice to be shouting those things at you. Yeh for getting your ar back and hopefully dd is getting better now, sorry she had a bad night though.

csws have you looked at these my friend has one and its lovely.

myjob yeh for N....see she is doing just fine, bless her. We def have to all meet up next year to see those gorgeaus babies together again.

star awol is absent without leave

P today was sooo cute, she has said 'bumble' from 'FIFI' but today said 'bumble beeeee' ahh.

Oh that's so sweet, jenwa!
Poor puppy

Q says "da" and "ba" and "mumumumumum" and "mmmmmmmm" and "oooooo" and a bunch of gurgles and grunts- basically the vocabulary of an 8 month old.
But he can get around! He also understands things we tell him to do, so at least he has receptive language developing even if he's not expressing. Probably the confusion of accents between DH, me, cbeebies ( ), friends...etc. He probably doesn't know how to say anything! lol

lol jenwa - I'm guessing that that was a cross post about the XC90!

A friend who had an XC90 recently traded up for a land rover, too. Very interesting!

evening ladies (sheepish waves from an infrequent poster) I just saw you on most active threads just popping into wish you and the LOs Happy Christmas and Best wishes for 2010. Ollies is doing fine apart from an ear infection which has been going on for 4 weeks now but hopefully it will be sorted next week when he has to go to hospital to have the gunk cleared out. I hope you have splendid Christmases

Hi hedgepig! Happy Holidays to you, too.
Yuck to the ear infection.

at P's talking Jenwa!

My sister was really happy today as S has started saying her name. (She's got the same name as myjob)

Happy Christmas Hedgpig!

Oh yes and Q does a lot of pointing to whatever he wants and making a sound and nodding ferociously to show he wants it .

csws! Off course it was a cross post ...I actually had no idea what they were until I linked it, just knew it was a volvo!

hi hedgepig Glad Ollie is ok other than the infection, hope the appt goes well and hope you have a lovey xmas.

star Q is not at all behind, P babbles mainly and tries to communicate by saying "norwa" whatever that means she says it when she wants me to do something or get her something! She does say quite afew things but its usually on her terms! She is a little monkey though and has a tantrum when she does not get her way and even throws things

aubergenie I bet your sis was pleased, how sweet.

Jenwa Q is tantruming now, too. It's annoying so we ignore it and tell him "no" (each as appropriate). I want the tantrums to stop! Q has a variety of sounds and combinations of sounds that come out in a rhythm like a sentence iyswim... sometimes like a question, sometimes like a command...etc. But we have no idea what he's trying to say as it's not English. I call it "doodle language" or "uggle buggle" because it sounds a lot like that.... For example:
ugggg aaaa baaaa daaaa mmmm buuuuuu gggggglllll da oooooo? (with voice raised as in a question at the end)
And we answer in English, something like,
"Well Q, that is really interesting. what else would you like to say?"
And he'll nod his head and say
ggggggllll da DA mmuuuuuuUUU oooogggggoo abababababa gluuuu shluuuuu ba DA! (looking at us knowingly, nodding)...
It's hilarious....
do you all think he has problems now??

Star O is also just babbling mmmm dddd and not very much else. He does know what he likes, mostly anything with a button TV remotes, phones etc he goes into a total frenzy for them.