Dec '09 - We're learning to roll, we're learning to eat, all we need now is to learn how to sleep!

[hendo77]

New thread everyone...!

Nope, I hate the football too. Just set my facebook status to read "feels the need to remind everyone that it is only football" and am getting pasted!

If we were facebook friends, could could back me up

Apparently, I'm not patriotic. I am, but just for important things and football is not important! Grrr

Looking forward to them losing this afternoon so all the blinking flags can come down. Next door has a massive one on a flagpole outside his house and his car looks like St George had thrown up on it - 2 flags, a massive sticker on the bonnet, a flag holding teddy in the back window and even a St George air freshener on the rear view mirror!

Mine says something like, am going out for a walk to get away from all this bloody luntic hysteria! This is following on from my previous status that i thought football was the most dull game on the planet, dominoes included, and i actually got about 7 'likes' for that, unsurprisingly all from girls! ha ha!

I am so over it and the bloody awful flags and associated tat. I just glare at people that have them. I am just a barrel of laughs! ha ha ha!

Oh no, I've even got women telling me I'm "wrong" and should be "humouring" the "poor sods who care"!!!

just added a couple more pics of A on the fb age. Just to say, not sure about the head-band on that piccie...my mum is to blame!

God knows what it will be like if they actually win this game and we have to endure some more of the competition. what will happen if we get (i know i am working in the realms of fantasy here) into the final? Will it be a national holiday??!!

Lee,Just on the weaning subject, anna seems to love orange food. she eats most things we give her, but seems to prefer the orange stuff?!

And just back to your monkey story you told before, our friends were at an animal park when they saw a monkey doing the same, and were standing laughing whilst all the mortified parents were trying to get their children to look the other way. Then to make it worse, once the monkeyd had, ahem, finished, he procceded to lick it off his fingers!!!!

LaDiDaDi - wow 180 mls is brilliant amount! Imogen had only been drinking a couple of ozs to start with, then suddenly drank almost a whole feed on one go and that was sort of it really. She now only had formula during the day no bf at all and then bf before bed and through the night. She had seemed to not be as interested in feeds since starting solids, only feeding for 5 mins at a time. I probably had about 2 weeks of offering formula for every day time feed before she was happy not to bf during day.

Sorry Ethelred and Al - huge football fan here and just finishing writing this now ready for the match, got lots of people here too for the fun... c'mon England!!!! On the other hand, I don't mind that people don't like if though, each to their own and all that!!!

Come on England!

Just changed my FB status to "Holly just stood with me for her first National Anthem... and looked at me like I was bonkers.... hmmm".

My goodness that was eventful!

Just took Alex to his swimming lesson. Just before the end, he slipped in the pool and couldn't get his feet back under him. Teacher was doing something else and didn't notice. I watched him bobbing just under the surface looking straight at me and after shouting her twice, I just got in the pool myself - fully clothed - and brought him up.

He's fine (was playing happily again minutes afterwards!) and it was a genuine accident so I'm not mad at the teacher but I am feeling a bit wobbly!!

Ah Jeez! He's just caught the top of his ear in the LEGO train and even though it normally stops when it can't move anymore, it just would not stop going when I held the wheels still!! I got it off by forcing the wheels backwards and now it won't work at all!!

Luckily, the Mr Bump cool pack seems to have sorted the ear and it's looking a lot less chewed now.

Please just let me get through today without blood-loss!!

Oh no Al!!! I hope Alex is feeling a bit better soon, the trip to the zoo will definitely cheer him up.
I recommend the chimp house, when Jake and I go there, we amuse ourselves (and the chimps!) by passing bits of paper through the gap on the bottom of the door to each other. We have a very nice system going, I'll pass the paper to the chimp through the first door and then the chimp will go to the second door and pass it back through, we then "shake hands" by touching fingertips, Jake thinks it's amazing!

Lizzy and I managed to avoid any football hysteria by watching Gilmore girls on DVD, but we did have to pass the pub half an hour ago which had lots of rowdy fans outside it expecting us to join in on their drunken celebrating.

Oh dear Al, that all sounds a bit crazy this afternoon, poor Alex, and you for having to get in the pool fully clothed!

Klerka, hope Holly enjoyed the football as much as Imogen did. She slept through the first half but woke up for the second and sat in her ring copying my brother clapping his hands and shouting at the tv and thinking it was hilarious! He is now convinced she is a good luck mascot and is pleased our next match is now an afternoon one!!!

Hope you are ok Al, that sounds like a scary afternoon.

Hendo... Holly did the same - after the Anthem she went for a nap for the first half and woke up for the second. I think I was a bit loud at a couple of points as she gave me a funny look. It was only her and I in the house - she must think me mad!

SunshineonLee, you are right about the orange food. I seem to be constantly presoaking white stained onesies before the wash, it was warm enough today for naked noshing!

Al, that sounds scary. Hope you are recovered and relaxing.

We didn't watch the footie, went to the shop to buy a birthday present instead as I knew it would be quiet.

I'm OK. I just keep having "what if I hadn't seen him" moments that make me feel a bit sick. He'd been ducking through a hoola hoop (to get him to put his face in the water) not 5 minutes before and I had been jokingly told off because I'd been chatting to one of the other Mums and not watching. I could so easily have been doing the same when he slipped and not seen him. Urgh, makes me feel all wobbly.

But luckily, I did see him and he's fine. I suppose days like today are what the swimming lessons are for - to make sure he can swim if it happens again.

Al that sounds really scary. I hope that you are both ok.

That does sound scary. Glad the crisis was averted and that you have dried off now!

I too think that us football haters (bit strong i know, but football dislikers or football ambivalents just doesn't have the same ring!!!) and football lovers should be able to co-exist on this thread...we have more than enough other stuff in common!

I'm such an idiot - I splurged on some unnecessarily expensive solar lights for my garden (the ones that look like rocks!) and put them in about 6 weeks ago. I thought they were rubbish as they never seemd to light up, I picked one up tonight when watering the garden and realised you have to turn them on!!!! Duh!!!!! Now they are working marvellously and I think I might even get one more set...

Al, I reckon that will be one of those stories you eventually (probably not tonight!) find become legend in your house and that you have to tell over and over again as he gets old, you know the type "Muuuum, tell me again about how you jumped in the pool with your clothes on to save me!"

Well, no nightmares last night so I think DS survived yesterday untraumatised!

Catherine made sure I had no time for nightmares by waking up at 11.30, 4am and 6.30am even after having Yorkshire pudding again yesterday. Seems they're not magic after all

Ha ha Lee, that made me giggle! My mum's friend knocked on my door the other day randomly and I invited her in. As soon as she stepped through the door I started making my excuses as to why my house was such a state and how I was in the process of cleaning it, which always makes it look worse etc... etc... It was actually tidier than it had been in a long time !!! Also well done on not texting sitter and glad you had a lovely time out.

OOh Lee, that sounds fab; I've never seen the stage version of the History Boys, but DH and I loved the film. Bet it was brill!

had a nice day today with a couple of mates from NCT and their little ones. It has been scorching again here today.

Need to have a sorting out weekend this weekend, 'cause for the next 5 after that we are busy...with next weekend being our first of leaving Anna with my mum...eeek!

And just to second Lee's suggestion above, hanging out stained clothes in the sun does seem to get rid of nasty stains, including poop.