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

Oh yes, I forgot the fridge ones. We have some Boden fridge magnets but they are very weak from a thing they did years ago but they don't stick together so I imagine they won't be a problem.

Poo. I put the extra bit of the sentence in the wrong place and now it makes no sense. Ah well.

I never knew that about magnets

Congrats she who doesnt sleep

I would love another baby, I am getting terribly broody, but I would need a man for that and tbh, one of those is the last thing I need right now.

Aubergenie, Star, quick question. How annoyed would you be/how serious would it be if someone posted photos of a school play on FB? We had a warning about it before the concert but one of my friends has posted pictures anyway. The thing is..... they don't only contain pictures of her ds. I would be pretty pissed off if someone I don't know posted pictures of DS or DD on the internet for their friends to look at. She's only a sort of friend and is very aggressive so I wouldn't be able to say anything without risking my health! WWYD?

Can I answer? I would report her to the school, expalin that you don't want her to know it is you that has said anything, but that you are not happy about having the pics there, and, if you can actually view the pics, report them to facebook saying you havent given permission.

The big letter and number magnets often have only a small magnet in the big piece of plastic, so could be swallowed if they came loose.

There have been lots of threads re that on here in the past 50ft, but I'm not sure how you should deal with it. Is there a 'report this' button on fb pics ?

Thanks knickers .

If they repel each other then it's just that the +ve -ve sides of the magnets are facing the wrong way, but obv if swallowed they could turn around and attract each other.
I know the kind you mean re the thomas ones and even I can't think of a problem with those!

Thanks ladies. The thing is if I report it she will know it's me as I am the only one arsy who is rule abiding enough to bother. She's a mum on her own with two kids & is working despite the fact that she would get more in benefits and she really can't afford to be fined. She needs telling off so that people take it seriously (I can feel the system crumbling...... [melodramatic]) but not if it's going to cause her such hardship. Oh Lord the moral dilemma!

Let me just add......

I don't tend to get involved in that sort of thing... most of our parents don't really care - I see parents who are friends of mine on fb posting pics of school assemblies all the time. The rules are not to, but unless someone really minds...
Our school is a bit more loosey goosey with that stuff though...
Some people have posted pics with Q in them on their fb and I'm really not bothered. It's not like he's being used for something inappropriate. But that's just me.

Maybe I'll feel differently when Q is older, I guess? At the moment, if Q is in a photo with other babies and other friends/family of other people were looking at him, I really wouldn't be bothered at all. I wonder if this will change as he gets older? Some people seem really bothered by it?
I've never heard any parents at our school even give it a second thought. There are always announcements/emails...etc about it and I always hear parents brushing it off saying "oh isn't that just silly?"
Like, teachers aren't meant to use their own cameras for class pics or pics of students. I can see why, I guess, but I use my camera... and delete the photos after they've been downloaded on my iphoto at school. If I use a photo of something in my class for something else I usually email my parents and ask them if it's ok... never once have I had someone even give the slightest bit of a care about it.

Ive given in to him today, in the hope that he will get board.

He understands alot, I can ask him if he wants a nap/go to bed, and he will shake his head like mad saying No....Im sure dd wasnt saying no until much later

I've decided to leave it.

Brrrrr it's bloody cold tonight isn't it? We're going to do some wrapping tonight. Exciting......!

50ft - I would be a bit annoyed about the pictures to be honest. Not from a paedophile on every corner point of view but because it's private. I'd expect someone to ask permission if they were going to broadcast S on tv or in the papers and it's exactly the same thing I think people forget the Facebook is public.

We don't have that many events where parents can attend as our school is massive and there isn't enough space to fit them in so I'm not sure what the protocol is actually. I know that we do have to protect a number of the children from being in the papers etc for child protection reasons.

If they explicity posted a warning not to do it, I'd ask her to remove them if I wasn't happy. Is she a fb friend of yours?

BTW did you ladies know that FB have changed all their privacy settings a couple of weeks ago so that if one of your friends signs up to an application, that application can then access all the personal information about you that the friend can. I knew they'd changed the settings and thought I'd got my information secure until dp pointed out to me that I hadn't. Make sure you check yours. Go to Settings/Applications and Websites/What your friends can share about you. FB are cheeky motherflippers!

Ah Xpost 50ft.

I watched Life. Might see about trading M in for a baby Orangutang.

50ft - We watched Life too and were saying how much the baby orangutang reminded us of S.

I'm up for the day and slightly in shock that S hasn't woken up for a feed yet. Normally he's rattling the sides of his cot around 5 and has usually woken once before that as well (but we just give him water then). Of course I kept waking up wondering why he hadn't, so I didn't get a great night.

He's started taking 2 hour naps during the day now. Can't wait till I'm off work to take advantage of that.

Myjob - My Christmas tree in class looks a bit like yours sounds. I got the children to decorate it, and we made paper chains to hang round the class room. It's very home made, but I think it's sweet.

I thought the tiny monkey in the hot springs was more like M. Fast asleep with a boob clamped firmly in it's mouth!