January 2008 Shiny New Year Toddlers - Happy 2nd birthday to us!!

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Where did 2 years go ????

David will be 6 in April not 5 Doh....

Happy New Year everyone!

2nd birthday absolutely delightful. Sabela was amazed and delighted at all her presents - she had 15 to open!

She loves her playdoh set and her baby annabel (particularly its raspberry noise which sounds like a fart). She's got loads of books and then bits and pieces. Really lovely.

My SIL has bought her another doll, so this birthday we have racked up a total of FOUR! We're going to have to space them out.

The first thing she did with the Annabel was to introduce her to her old baby. Cute!

JKS - glad he's slowly on the mend.

Sorry for no catch up - I have to go and make cakes with DH and Sabela - DH is in control, I'm supplying organisational know-how!

LaTrucha - DD1 1st Jan (Sabela) HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Housemum - DD3 3 Jan (Amelie)
Gingeme - DS5 10 Jan (George)
Mixedmama - DS2 11 Jan (Ediz)
LuckySalem DD1 16th Jan (Aaliyah)
Lilyloo DD2 18th Jan (Martha)
JKS DS2 21st Jan (Henry)
Nicky DD1 23rd Jan (Charlie)
MrsMcJnr DS1 24th Jan (Xavier)
Bluebell82/Rubysmom - DD1 (Ruby)
Filly DD1 29th Jan (Tamara)
Simpson DD1 29th Jan (Molly)
Angechica DS1 29th Jan (Alek)
Madmouse DS1 1st Feb (Nathan)

LaT - sounds like a fab day

Gingeme - i suppose it depends what & where they offer you. i thought you were def on for moving into the new places opposite?

H happier again today, phew. His last bit of bandage has come off now too so we can see the scar, not too awful really though i imagine a person seeing for the first time might be a bit & (may try and upload a photo later)

Went for a cold walk earlier, to justify a film (Shrek2) and a fire when we got back

Wow what a lovely day LaTrucha. xx the birthday girl.
Yes JKS but this flat is getting colder and damper by the day. Its lovely in the summer with its great big windows letting in the warm sunshine. No wonder my cactus is nearly 2 foot but in the winter its so drafty and wet . If we can move to a decent place before the new lot are built I think it would be much better tbh.
My rl friends visited this afternoon with their little baby. She is sooo sweet and makes George look massive. I was holding her and George kept trying to pull her off me saying 'come.come' to her then stroking her cheek and saying 'ah bebe'.

Happy Birthday Sabela

happy new year to you all, just found you.

oh very mad christmas - didnt really feel liek christmas in some ways charlie and noah kept us busy, went to my mums and back on christmas day and then dh mums on boxing by the eve of 28th charlie had flu and then 29 onwards me and charlie poorly and noah not sounding good, so new year i managed to stay upf for but toasted with glass of water. dh staring to feel poorly today - yuk yuk yuk. Not good start to 2010!!!

Hope you are all doing fine.

Just booked last year (2008) christmas present mini weekend at champneys!!!! lovely cant wait in March.

ok ladies who is up for london meet one wednesday next month 3rd 10th 17th 24th feb or 3rd march.

will find a soft play place with a nice cafe bit for us xx

nicky - count me in as long as we can work around me picking DS up from school

Or have enough notice to beg ask my mum

Get well wishes to your family Nicky6
I can do 10th and 17th as HD has 2 weeks annual leave

all still ill here, charlie has had temp and off food for 6 days .

and too tired to try to get noah going through the night although he wakes at 12 and 4 ish he only takes a couple of ounces so need to sort out him going through but cant afford to lose the sleep at the moment.

also have 3/4 stone still to lose and my mum i sgetting married in May so need to start weight loss/exercise plan but again too tired!!!!!!!!!

anyway ladies get your request in for dates so far i have 10th and 17th, will work out best date then arrange.

Happy new year ladies and birthday to Sabela!!
Had good new year , M fell asleep on neighbours sofa so we got to see new year in then dp brought her home just after midnight.
I came in at 3 am bit rough yesterday!!!

Hope you all get better soon Nicky. It's totally miserable, isn't it?

Can I run something past you? DH and I have agreed a list of possible names for boys and girls. There's one on our girl list that I DO really like but I think it carries too much baggage - old lady type baggage - in Britain.

Don't want to post it in baby names because I rarely agree with people on those threads.

It's Silvia (Spanish spelling)

Totally out of the question, do you think?

I know a lovely warm, bubbly Spanish Silvia - my age. If it feels good it is right for your child xx

Silvia and Sabela sound lovely together
, do you pronounce it Sil veya or Sil Vea ? (which i imagine our Sylvia spelling)

LaT - totally not out of the question if you love it.

One of my RL best friends is called sylvia

Think the spelling with the i is much prettier though and agree with madmouse totally goes with sabella

sorry just realised I might have given impression in last post I don't like the name

Sorry, forgot to say I like it and think its really pretty

Ok. Thanks. I thought it might be a bot like Rita, IFSWIM.

It's pronounced the second way - just as in English. Our criteria names is that they're pronounced - and hopefully spelt - exactly the same in English and Spanish.

Silvia isn't a dead cert. My current personal favourite is Ainoa, (Aye-noa) which is a Basque name (where FIL is from).

Plus we have boys names too. Can't wait to find out what we're having. I want a boy because I haven't got one and a girl because ideally I'd like two girls and a boy.

Did any of you have preferences as to gender and did you get what you wanted?

LaT - I was desparate to have a girl with M

Did not find out at scan as I would have been disappointed with boy

Decided to wait till birth and hope

Also if M had been a boy, its hard to be disappointed when holding actual baby iyswim.

I hoped for a girl every time

I like the spelling of Silvia

(i have an aunt Sylvia who's a tad OTT on the religion front so i wouldn't be choosing it as a name in my family, but i like it)

Didn't care either way with DS1, would have preferred a girl second time round just so the 'pressure' was off in the future. Having 2 the same is easier though. (and i'm happy with either in the future too!)

Long drive home today but we made it without any weather probs thankfully. Had a fab day and night out in London on Saturday! The Woman in Black was good. Nice Turkish meal in Soho. Lunch in Greenwich. All good!

And I still have another day off work! bonus!

I like Silvia - had friends and pupils of that name in Bcn (also in Bulgaria ). I also like Elena for a girl. If we have another I wouldn't mind either boy or girl. We had lots of girls names but found boys much more difficult! I would have prefered DS's name without the spelling quirk, DH's idea!

dh - now v ill here and we have ascertained that actually w e have all had/got swine§ not §good start to 2010 - just hoping Noah not get it. me and charlie on mend so another week or so and we should be back to normal again i hope xx so excuse lack of posting

Happy new year everyone! So sorry I've been off the thread for a couple of weeks (esp after promising an update after visiting JKS in hospital....but she beat me to it! ) but somehow I can find the time to get on MN when I'm at work but not in the middle of family chaos !

It sounds like you had mostly lovely xmas' (bar the colds/flus) and similarly quiet new years to us...in fact dh and I had a massive arguement about school fees just before midnight so I was in floods of tears as 2010 rolled in...not the best start But...then we got 2 whole nights away in Brighton without the kids over the weekend (Fri afternoon-Sunday evening!!!) thanks to my parents, in a lush hotel, which more than made up for it ...so generally a good start to the new year albeit a little bit late

JKS - how is Henry doing today? He's such a cutie...and so brave (and so are you and your dh!). How is Tom? Was he fine about you being away for 10 days?

No idea what we're going to do for Tamara's birthday...going to make plans this evening. We had quite a big 1st birthday party for her, to make up for not being able to celebrate her arrival, but I think this one will be more of a family + good friends tea party...we had a proper 2nd b-day party for ds, but that was easier as it was summer so we had loads of kids playing in the garden. Hmm...not too sure. And no idea at all about what to get her...eek! Not sure she'll care that much - she's already got loads of toys (all of Ari's hand-me-downs, all of his existing toys and her own more girlie stuff), so we'll have to find some small stuff.

LaT - I did find out with Tamara, but that was mainly because I had convinced myself I didn't mind if it was a boy or a girl. Obviously I really wanted a girl, but I was quite happy to have a 2nd boy...will be finding out this time too, and telling the kids so that they know what to expect Happy birthday Sabela!!

Gingeme - lol @ trofast taking over the flat!

Lily - glad the hamsters were a hit after all the effort you put in to find them

PS Nicky - 17th is good for me, as long as I can be back in N London by 3.30 for school collection

Afternoon ladies
Would anyone know if a child can have the swine flu jab if they have a cold? George and Edward are booked in for theirs on Friday but George has a snotty nose! Just wondering if I should re schedule it.
Anyway glad to hear you all had a good new year if a bit shakey filly. at your hotel stay.
Sounds like you had a fab time too Ange
DH and I are going to book some theatre tickets tonight. Its for our Christmeas presant. He has 2 weeks off in Feb so it will be one night then.
We had a realy fab day yesterday. We went to a woods near us, Highgate Woods, and had a looooooooong walk round. They have 2 playgrounds there. One aimed at younger children with swings and a sand pit and slide etc and another aimed at 6 and up with more roap climbimg stuff and a jeep and tractor type climbing frame. Came back all muddy and cold. The lo's had their sleep then in the evening we went to a gorgeous Italian resteraunt near us and had a wonderful meal. The boys tried calamari which they all liked and muscles which Edward didnt like. The waiters are so lovely there. They even cut the boys pizza up in small pieces for them like I would a realy lovely end to the Christmas holiday

Afternoon all , well dc's back at school and dp back at work and we have tons of snow.
Had massive snowfall on Saturday. Luckily neighbours have 4x4 so they took dc to school and will pick them up.
Just wanted everything back to normal to get ready for girls birthday. Have got to get cake and party bags for L party on Sat and then have her presents to get for next week. Hoping it has all cleared by Sunday next week as was going to do little tea party for M!!!