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April 2009 - Episode 12 - 'I'm wearing mine pink one Princess Tutu'

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Feierabend · 15/02/2010 12:20

Here we go!

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PuzzleRocks · 23/03/2010 13:03

The list people!! The bloody list!! 550 posts in.

[wanders off muttering]

05 Mar: Kazkiss: ISABELLE FLORENCE 4lb 6oz & OLIVER THOMAS 3lb 7oz
15 Mar: Cakeforbrains: OSCAR WILLIAM 7lb 2oz
27 Mar: ZuluWarrior: Alexander James 7lb 15oz
28 Mar: FrogmellaMoonbeam: VIOLET ROSE 7lb 9oz
29 Mar: WhatFreshHell: FELIX DEVLIN ALEXANDER 10lb 5.5oz
02 Apr: Oddeyes: ELEANOR 9lb 8oz
03 Apr: Bebemoo: MEGAN LILLIAN CONSTANCE
03 Apr: Bumpalump: JACOB 8lb
04 Apr: BabyBolat: KARAHAN 6lb 5oz
04 Apr: Kingbeat23: IRIS
05 Apr: JumeirahJane: MILLICENT ROSE 5lb 15oz
06 Apr: BoffinMum: FELIX DAVID GORDON 7lb 9oz
08 Apr: girlylala0807 JAMES EUAN
09 Apr: SardineJam: NICHOLAS JAMES 9lb 11oz
11 Apr: SpringySunshine: GEORGE NATHAN 8lb 15oz
11 Apr: RachelinScotland: CLEMENT JAMES 8lb 14oz
11 Apr: Lou031205: ISLA SOPHIA 7lb 9oz
11 Apr: Electra: ISABELLA CAROLINE 6lb 3oz
11 Apr: AuldAlliance: ALEXANDRE 7lb 6oz
12 Apr: Phdlife: Name TBA GIRL 9lb 3oz
13 Apr: MathsMummy27: AMELIA CHARLOTTE
15 Apr: Guimauve: HUGO GEORGE 9lb 2oz
15 Apr: Bronze: ISAAC JOHN 7lb 14oz
15 Apr: Kalikaroo: Name TBA BOY 8lb
16 Apr: PuzzleRocks: HOLLY ELIZABETH 8lb
16 Apr: Brettgirl: HANNAH GRACE 6lb 15oz
16 Apr: ReallyTired: Name TBA GIRL
18 Apr: Staryeyed: Name TBA BOY 7lb 11oz
18 Apr: Dawntigga: SAMUAL 5lb 11oz
20 Apr: Wrigglyfish: SEBASTIAN 9lb
20 Apr: Swaliswan: BETH 7lb 9oz
21 Apr: B52s: SAM MARTIN 7lb 9oz
21 Apr: Feierabend: HAZEL LOIS 7lb 9 oz
21 Apr: Mrsgboring: EDMUND 8lb 12oz
23 Apr: Tristalewjac: LEWIN 8lb 4oz
23 Apr: NuttyTaff: TIAHNA SKYE 8lb 8oz
23 Apr: Purplemonkeydishwasher: ISLA ELIZABETH 8lb 14oz
26 Apr: Carameli: THEO LAURENCE 7lb 6oz
26 Apr: Surprisenumber3: EVIE ANNE 8lb 2oz
26 Apr: Bicnod: OSCAR MATTHEW 8lb 1oz
27 Apr: Loobylaboobs: OLIVER STEPHEN 7lb 7oz
27 Apr: Gingersarah: VERONICA ROISIN 9lb 1oz
30 Apr: MegBusset: ARCHIE 8lb 15oz
30 Apr: Elpis: ISLA JESSICA 8lb 11oz
30 Apr: Ladyofmuswell: SAMUEL
01 May: Satheresitting: Name TBA BOY
03 May: Conkertree: Name ANGUS ANDREW 8lbs 8oz
06 May: Frekkles: HARRIS MERLIN 8lb 5.5oz

BabyBolat · 23/03/2010 13:16

Yes I will be there, have just booked the day off work! woohoo only one more full week at work then 3 short weeks! How is it only March and I am already full of the work grumps! These time last year, I wasn't even on mat leave x hurrumph

BabyBolat · 23/03/2010 13:17

Oh Puzzle 550 posts in, I would be slapping some wrists....

Bicnod · 23/03/2010 13:45

WFH - so sorry about your mum's results hopefully once she is recovered from the op you can talk with the consultant and work out the best way forward. thinking of you x x

BB - you make me feel like a terrible mummy. I'm planning to make O a cake and stick a candle on it and have some local mummies (who I see most weeks anyway) over with their sproglets on his birthday. And that's it. No party, no family, no balloons and just a box of duplo as a present (which I will probably wrap). Is that awful?

Schulte - can't wait to see you tomorrow. What time do you want us? Maybe we could go for a stroll along the river after lunch so that I don't have to fail to get O to sleep in his travelcot for the umpteenth time?!

Just realised I don't even know if we're invited for lunch . Happy to come just morning or afternoon - let me know what suits [presumptious emoticon]

Puzzle - slack. very slack.

O woke up at 5.15am - he has been doing the early waking thing for the past 2 weeks and I think I'm going to expire at some point soon.

BabyBolat · 23/03/2010 14:21

Oooh no hey that sounds like a lovely birthday party. And hey at least you are getting him a present!! Kara wont care about the party, it's more for everyone else and my mum who loves things like that and has been brilliant this year for us.

K wakes up at 5.30 most mornings, I think he has tuned himself in to my timings as i leave for work at 5.30 three times a week so on the other two days I no longer get a lie-in [annoyed mummy emoticon]

I'm having a bit of a slack afternoon at work watching the first few episodes of Married, Single, Other (which I watched for the first time last night and after balling my eyes out decided I must watch the first 4 episodes!), whilst writing a briefing doc for a financial advisor. hmmm

conkertree · 23/03/2010 20:13

Hi everyone. I know I know I have been very slack the last few months, but keep an eye on those of you on facebook, and hope the rest of you are doing fine.

Only read back a little bit - but sorry to hear about your mum wfh - hope her recovery from the op goes well.

bb - i have the same problem with ds2 playing when his nappy is off - ds1 does it too though and never managed to find a good way to avoid it - it does occasionally make me wish I'd had girls though. Mind you saying that, dh would probably do exactly the same if I took his boxers off, so I guess its ingrained in males!

Quick update on us - ds2 started walking last month - but of a surprise as ds1 was 14 months when he did, so have had to baby proof the house a lot more than we did previously. ds1 and 2 are getting on quite well most of the time which is surely all you can hope for, and dh's job is pretty busy.

Kilts are going well, still not overwhelmed with orders, but a nice amount to keep it ticking over - just means less time in the evenings to go online and catch up with all you lovely ladies.

Finding it a little difficult to adjust to being at home full time - more than I thought I would - although having the kilts does keep me doing something non-family orientated, I do think it's about time I got out of the house for some adult time.

Still havent sold the blxxdy house - more viewers tomorrow. Really starting to get us down as ones we like are going to closing dates all over the place - really don't think there is anything wrong with our house so cant see why it's not selling.

Anyway - sorry gone on a bit - will try and come on a bit more as I do miss chatting to people.

Hope you are all still enjoying your little ones and can't believe we are entering birthday season.

Bicnod · 24/03/2010 08:25

BB I was kidding

Conker - lovely to see you another fast moving baby then. O has just started crawling, I find it hard to believe he'll ever be stable on two legs!

Zulu - you just dropped BW's morning nap didn't you? How did that pan out? O has been sleeping less and less at lunchtime so I'm going to try and drop his morning nap in the hope he'll sleep longer at lunchtime, be less knackered come bedtime, go to bed slightly later and wake up slightly later. Sounds reasonable doesn't it? If only it were that simple

Can anyone help here?

ZuluWarrior · 24/03/2010 08:43

Bicnod, dropping the morning nap has been brilliant. I found he was sleeping loads in the morning and not having an afternoon nap so was wrecked by bedtime. But now I give him lunch slightly early and put him down by 12 and he sleeps for 2+ hours. Bliss, bliss bliss! He sometimes squawks after an hour but I just ignore him . I only have to watch if I'm out on a dog walk or in the car about 10ish when he's apt to drop off if I'm not careful!

WFH so sorry about your mum. Hopefully once she's over the op you can all get together as a family and chat over the options. And I hope also that she has a sensible consultant who will give you some good advice.

I'm off work sick with d+v. Yuck. Although miraculously I don't seem to have given it to my husband or my baby. Yet.

Hi conker! My baby is obsessed with his willy too. He likes to stretch it right out and then push it right in with his thumb so it disappears. It has almost reduced DH to tears .

dawntigga · 24/03/2010 09:28

Bicnod I'll be watching with interest, we got the Cug the Tomy octopals, a digger and some cars all from ELS

Conker, I need to see your kilts - post a link lovely.

QuiteEmotionalFromWatchingOBEMTiggaxx

WhatFreshHellIsThis · 24/03/2010 10:12

Bicnod you might also want to keep an eye on this

Bicnod · 24/03/2010 12:12

Hehe WFH that thread just made me PMSL

Zulu so far so good. He managed to stay awake and vaguely pleasant this morning (I took him to the children's centre drop in session to distract him), ate his lunch at 11.30am and has now been snoozing happily in his cot since 11.50am. Fingers, toes and any other parts that can be crossed crossed.

Boo to d+v hope you feel better soon. DH had norovirus months ago and managed not to pass it on to me or O so it is possible.

Conker I want to see the kilts too.

AuldAlliance · 24/03/2010 13:01

Hello,
WFH sorry to hear about your mum's results. Sending supportive vibes for the coming weeks.

A's sleep has gone to pot after a nasty tummy bug. I had got him down to only waking once, at around 4am, and was planning to try and eliminate that soon. Now I have to go right back to the start all over again, after several nights where he was so miserable and in so much discomfort he'd only sleep in my arms or my bed.

BUT spring has come, and it makes such a difference.

AuldAlliance · 24/03/2010 13:06

I'd like to see the kilts too. (I mistyped that with the l just after the k, sounded very dodgy indeed).

DH and I had a really silly row last night. I showed him the photos from DS1's carnaval at school.
The class is working on little insects and plants, and they'd made themselves ladybird, carrot and radish costumes.
DS1 was a radish. He had a headdress with leaves, and a pink and white sack thing. Sounds crap, but when they all paraded together they looked really good.

DH was put out at the pinkness, and asked why DS1's teacher insists in giving him pink stuff (he has a notebook for announcements,etc. with a plastic slipcover on, which is a deep, almost reddish pink colour).

I told him he was attaching too much importance to something ridiculous, and it kicked off from there.
AIBU?

dawntigga · 24/03/2010 13:12

YADNBU and you know it!

What the feck is it with men and colour. Until the beginning of the last century red/pink was considered a very manly colour.

WandersOffMutteringAboutMenTiggaxx

WhatFreshHellIsThis · 24/03/2010 13:20

Definitely NBU. DS1 loves pink and always asks for the pink plate and the pink cup. Breaks my heart when he says 'Pink is a colour for everyone, isn't it Mummy?' because the girls at nursery have been telling him only girls can have pink things.

AuldAlliance · 24/03/2010 13:22

Was expecting that reaction!

I just don't get it.

If DS1 turns out to be gay, I am utterly sure that it won't be because he was a radish in a parade at the age of 5.

AuldAlliance · 24/03/2010 13:30

Pic on profile of effeminate radish...

Bicnod · 24/03/2010 13:50

My son is still asleep and we were supposed to be at Schulte's house 15 minutes ago . Sorry Schulte - just texted you - will wake him in half an hour and drive over at breakneck speed if he hasn't stirred before then.

LOL at effeminate radishes and Auld YADNBU. The lady at the children's centre kept trying to give O the cars this morning but he was much happier playing with the baby doll in a pink dress

He stirs - I'm off! x

BabyBolat · 24/03/2010 14:20

K loves babies and pink, DH had a real issue with it until I told him the more he doesn't allow him to play and enjoy these things, the more likely he is to think of them as a taboo and end up gay and now he is fine with it.

Bicnod, we stopped K's afternoon sleep and while he gets a bit ratty near bed time, it's made my night time lovely as he is gone by 7 so I actually have an evening (although sad when I am working in London as I miss bedtime)

WFH I LOVE that thread. Hello Puppy Calling drives me batty.

Schulte · 24/03/2010 20:22

Auld would a ladybird or a carrot have been more man-like then???

WFH sending lots of good vibes to you and your mum xxx

Bicnod sorry today's meeting was so short, we'll have to try harder next time

Off to write some thank you cards for DD's birthday presents...

Schulte · 24/03/2010 20:23

Oh, forgot.... Hooray, Conker is back!!!

AuldAlliance · 24/03/2010 20:48

Carrots are clearly utterly virile, Schulte. You know, phallic and upright, rather than pink and rotund.

I have asked DS1 discreetly and he chose to be a radish, rather than a ladybird or a carrot. So his lovely teacher has been cleared of all charges of trying to fiddle with his sexual identity.

TBH, I think DH has been adversely affected by reading A. McCall Smith, that series about Scotland St where the right-on mother dresses her son in raspberry dungarees and paints his room pink so as to flout gender stereotypes.

Schulte · 24/03/2010 20:56

Uh-oh, I seem to have got involved in a Tesco shoppers vs Waitrose shoppers thread...

WhatFreshHellIsThis · 24/03/2010 20:59

linky please!

OddEyes · 24/03/2010 23:21

hello everyone!
just spending a little extra time researching pressies for elle ans thought I would come but and say hello!
can't believe it was this time last year that we were all getting ready to pop, indeed some had!
haven't read back but will make an attempt.
us - dd sleeping through now, still breastfeeding as the girl hates all formulas attempted, trying cows milk with little success as yet. loving kids playing together. dd almost walking she does it occasionally but hasn't realised yet. finding not having gone back to work difficult at the moment. made a pact with self that no new clothes until I was a size 12 again - i have no new clothes and am starting to look rather unkempt. dh working late means i eat too much!
right off to find out what has been going on with you all.
oddeyes.x

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