Oct 08 - Chair climbing, spider greeting, potty training? NOOOOOO, they're still babies! <wibble>

[50ftQueenie]

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
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 Oct) - 50ftQueenie - 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

Hope this is ok ladies.

Ronshar - I am strangely not allergic to kittens only cats! Can you imagine one of those cats rubbing itself on you? The squeaky skin rubbing on your skin! M discovered her reflection on the train when we were going through tunnels. She spent most of the train journey trying to kiss her reflection but being stopped by me when I saw as well, yuck! I should have probably asked Star to look away for that bit. I expect she's passed out at the very thought of the germs!

Yes Star, bungalow means no stairs.

YAY to finally meeting lovely S and his mummy! You better work something out and be there!

So will M be the only little October lady there? She'll be in her element with all those gorgeous little fellas.

We will all be getting puppies or kittens when we have all finished having babies and long for one still . That seems to be what people do.... from what I've seen!

NO! Not us! Yuck to dogs and atishoo to cats!

who knows what you'll get, then

A pygmy goat please.

Just place marking.

An hour of screaming from ds again tonight. Not sure that I can blame it on teeth or milk when he is perfectly fine whilst being cuddled . Expect he'll be up at 5/5:30 screaming the place down again, just like last night .

Off to bed v shortly. Night all.

Hmmm... That sounds like M at the moment too CSWS. I was wondering if it was a sudden attack of separation anxiety as she is starting to get a little bit more independent. M will only settle if she is nestled right up close to me in my bed. Good luck tonight and hope he sleeps later than 5.30 for you!

Ah, you'll be fabulous Pistachio. Good luck!

Good luck pistachio - am sure you'll be as great at it as you are at eating baking cakes!

Who knows what the cause is 50ft, but let's hope that it passes quickly. Am dreading nap and bedtimes at the moment.

Poor little D

Good luck Pistachio, you'll be great!! And you can celebrate with cake later

I have 2 hives on my arm. yuck. no clue what from.

That sounds tough CSWS. It's horrible when you start dreading putting them to bed isn't it.

I'm tired. Had a lovely night out last night with friends, but S didn't want to eat much yesterday and so woke at 5 shouting the house down for a feed.

Pistachio at your dh's reaction. Then end of the year's a long way away though, so he might feel happier at the idea by then.

Can I canvass opinion on here. About staying in a hotel and leaving your baby in bed while you eat your dinner downstairs? Is that not the done thing since the Madeleine McCann disappearance? I've no idea what is and isn't appropriate any more. We want to go away to the Lake District for a night, but not sure what to do in the evening. I suppose this is why people go self catering isn't it.

morning all!

All ok here in the jenwa house except poorly Jess the dog. She is not well and we have decided to just give her meds for the pain now and no more chemo as made her poorly and they think the cancer may be back in her front leg.

I have been looking for places to go this xmas I know super organised!!! Looking for a place for 10 adults and 4 kids! I love the place CSWS is going for ester and they have 2 fab places, the bigger too much money and the other too small unless one couple do not come. I think I have looked at everyplace in the country and now I have a short list. The ones I like are either bloody expensive or already booked!

Oh it's such a tough one Aubergenie. I personally would never have left my DC on their own even before the Madeleine McCann disappearance, but that's my preference. We would always self-cater or go out for dinner early and take the children with us. We have stayed in a hotel a couple of times when DS was little and we had dinner early, put him to bed and then sat in bed watching telly! Maybe we're total martyrs but I don't think I would be comfortable leaving a child on their own. I know how distressed either of them wold be if the woke up in a strange place with no mummy and daddy. Sorry if that's not what you wanted to hear....

Aw Jenwa - I am sorry your dog is ill again. How is dd1 coping with it all? Looking for places for Christmas is very organised, but then you strike me as a pretty organised woman!

I have left ours twice in a hotel room while we had dinner downstairs and kept the baby monitor on the table. That has worked fine - though we have only done this at a family hotel we've been going to for years and years and the whole hotel was booked to people we know. Probably wouldn't do it in a travelodge or somewhere big.
Also, now they're bigger, they can do themselves more harm - like i could picture DS2 getting locked in the bathroom or somehting..

aubergenie I would probably see if there is a babysitting service? And then put ds to bed, make sure he's well asleep and let the sitter sit in the room watching tv while we had dinner for an hour or so. Otherwise, I'd do what 50ft did. But, I'm also paranoid... so if I got a bad feeling or anything less than warm fuzzy about the babysitter, I'd just not leave her with him anyway! Sorry to be unclear.

have fun on holiday myjob!!

Jenwa to xmas already!! And sorry about the puppy
I can't leave Q when I pay for petrol either.... do people really do this? sorry if anyone here does... just surprising to me...

Afraid I'm with the others re the hotel aubergenie. That's why we always look for somewhere with wi-fi, so that we at least have entertainment for the evening!

I wouldn't leave dd to go in for petrol when she was little, but with 2 I have done on occasion, as long as they are still in sight. With 3 I don't think I'll have any choice but to leave them! Although I don't often stop for petrol, and try to get pay at pump when I do.

Thanks for the feedback ladies. Actually I wouldn't feel comfortable leaving S on his own but wasn't sure if I was being silly. While I'm typing this I've just remembered that I know someone who went away for New Years Eve and their hotel burned down. They came home in just the clothes they were wearing. The thought of there being a fire and not being able to get to S makes me feel sick.

Finding a place with wi-fi a good idea, and bringing some DVDs to watch.

It makes me realise how things have changed since I was little. When one of my best friends was a child her parents were having a meal in a country pub and left the children playing outside next to the road. They got bored and all got in the car. One of them took the handbrake off and the parents looked up to see the car went careering off down the hill past the window. Fortunately they crashed into a parked car because further down the hill was the junction to a busy road. Well, it was the 70s.

Oh, and I forgot to say good luck Pistachio!

about your dog Jenwa.

Hello J is much better thanks and has actually eaten quite a lot today, phew!

Ronshar- J also likes looking at himself in the mirror. Last night I gave him a pair of old sunglasses and he stood there with them around his neck smiling at himself. I wouldn't have been surprised if he'd suddenly said 'lookin good'. He's so vain

Jenwa sorry to hear about your poorly dog

Aubergenie- very exciting news about ttc I wouldn't want to leave J alone in a hotel room either. We'll be going self catering for years to come I'm sure. Where abouts in the Lake District are you going? We went to Windermere when I was about 3 months prg. It was lovely but I had such horrible morning all day sickness I spent most of the time in bed.

CSWS- Hope D sleeps well tonight. We've had to do controlled crying with J a few times now and it's so hard but it's worked for us. I find it very difficult when he is ill or teething though and won't leave him to cry then but then I do wonder is he just being mischevious!

Pistachio - Hope you survived your assessment and I am sure you were fabulous. I thought I'd link this for you.