MSE Parents Club Part 9

Squishy

Morning all,

not had a chance to catch up yet, as we only got up at 9am! :j Elena slept from 10pm to 4.20am, had a feed, slept again until 6.30am, another feed, then dozed until 9am She has since been trying to wriggle her way out of a nappy change, and has recently found she can move all over the floor on her back by digging her heels into the floor! So she has been shuffling around the living room and isn't even showing any interest in eating again yet

Right, away to read back xx

r.mac_2

hello! Sorry I haven't popping back in sooner. Things have been busy here. We've been pretty snowed in since the day before Christmas eve but now we are back to almost - normality and with trying to set up the business and deal with a walking, talking little girl I have no idea where the time has gone!

LO is doing really well. She's been spoiled rotten over Christmas and loves all her new toys (lots of nice wooden educational ones I approve of!!!!!). She has her first pair of shoes too. However as she's rather young and has such small feet she couldn't get 'proper' ones to fit so is in a soft shoe as anything for support is better than nothing. She's having a great time running all over the place. She has also learned to talk - her first words being yogurt (!) and daddy. Mumumum is getting there slowly.......but it usually just means she wants something rather than wanting me I can't believe her first birthday isn't far away now. I'm busy planning a hungry caterpillar themed birthday cake/party/food. another thing to add to my growing list!

I do hope you are all well - how big has rhys got? How is it back at work for some? and at home for others (esp 3)? How is little Andrew? and Charlotte and Alice and Keira (the older ones as I like to call them!)? Was your holiday good Sami? and how is Bruno and family? And how are the little bumps coming along? Have I missed anything?

If you have a moment and are bored you could have a wee peek at my work in progress - my website. www.pattacake.co.uk we are updating all the time and all comments and suggestions are welcomed - just PM me.

Happy New year!

SugarSpun

I think it's an excellent idea Weezlie.

SM try Freecycle?

Big hugs all round - too tired and sickly feeling for anything indepth but I hope you're all ok.

searching_me

SeptemberBaby wrote: »

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Freecycle?

xx

no way of picking it up and nobody is ever nice enough to drop it off x

feelinggood_2

Great website Rmac, I like all the cake pictures! Feel free to post me any that need testing.

ladybirdintheuk

Oh SM I take it the machine isn't in warranty then? Could you afford to get it fixed (I've no idea how much getting it fixed would cost, but maybe less than a new one?!) Freecycle is worth a look too.

feelinggood wrote: »

And sometimes you shouldn't even worry when they have a ridiculous line like Toby! 10% weight loss at first, then normal gain, then mega-super-huge gain, then average gain, then loss, then really slow, then loss. Will find out next week what he weighs now. He has very few wet nappies too (2-3 a day) but is happy and meeting milestones. Odd!

Toby has a new trick - he blows raspberries on my belly! He is also getting very adventurous and feeds sitting up in bed, and standing up in the living room. Crazy!

That is everso cute

I wouldn't worry too much about the charts. If we didn't have them we wouldn't be worried when we can see our babies healthy and happy I haven't got Izzy weighed since the beinning of December - she had lost weight then, but I can tell by my aching arms that she is putting it on again now Will pop to the clinic this week, seeing as we will be having lunch there anyway - it will be her 1st birthday, so techinically I no longer need to weigh her with nothing on I want to measure how tall she is too, but I doubt she will be co-operative!

Hi Rmac I looked at the website - I love the daddy in front of the tv cake! One question - your list of occasions you do cakes for you don't mention weddings! Is that a deliberate thing? I bet you could make some fab novelty wedding cakes! We have mamamama meaning "I want something" too, but it is just starting to mean me specifically!

Fitzio

Weezl - I think it is a good idea if it's financially viable for you. But only if you are happy with it yourself. It would be a good chance for Fergie to meet other children and for you to have some time with Kester in the same way you had one to one time with Fergie at that age. However, you need to be happy with it.
My friend has 2 kids and they are quite a handful. Her mum takes them 2 days per week as she sometimes does work from home so this gives her space to do so. The older one was at nursery 2 afternoons, and her husband recently encouraged her to make it full days. She now feels that for someone who is home 5 days per week, she rarely sees her son.

SM - You don't know that no-one would deliver unless you ask. I dropped a sofa off to someone once who could not get to us. The woman was very well off and hardly said thank you so I wished I hadn't bothered, but never mind! I had thought I was helping someone who needed it.
And if you need your washing machine then you are going to have to do something about it, so cheapest thing might be to hire a van or something.

Rmac - Hello, nice to hear from you. Well done to Annabel for walking and talking! Bet you can't wait for her to say mummy properly. I had a look at your website and it looks lovely and homely. I think you could do with some more yummy pictures of cakes to demonstrate your variety.

feelinggood_2

Washing Machines, my handle broke and they sent me a replacement door, it cost £80 but other companies might do it cheaper? Or look on ebay/freecycle for a new door. Can you take the door apart and look at the latch? I was missing a whole plastic bit that wasn't easy to fix, but if it had been something else I think some glue could have worked.

We have a few mamamama's but mainly Mum. If he is with OH he'll shout Mum until I come and see him! and when he charges at me when it is time for a fuss he yells Mum. OH and my Mum think it is a real 'Mum' but my Dad says not

searching_me

it was second hand when i bought it as it was cheapest around ... the warranty doesnt cover wear and tear as its classed and i just called my insurance and they said the same thing .. i was tempted to lie alittle but im not risking being found out ..

just gonna wah by hand til ive saved the money i really dont wanna buy on credit as id really paid off on very dont wanna go back to that not like i havent washed by hand before i did just do 5 loads yesterday so the only thing needing to be washed at the mo is zoes uniform x

BrunoM

r.mac wrote: »

She has also learned to talk - her first words being yogurt (!) and daddy. Mumumum is getting there slowly.......but it usually just means she wants something rather than wanting me I can't believe her first birthday isn't far away now. I'm busy planning a hungry caterpillar themed birthday cake/party/food. another thing to add to my growing list!

I do hope you are all well - how big has rhys got? How is it back at work for some? and at home for others (esp 3)? How is little Andrew? and Charlotte and Alice and Keira (the older ones as I like to call them!)? Was your holiday good Sami? and how is Bruno and family? And how are the little bumps coming along? Have I missed anything?

If you have a moment and are bored you could have a wee peek at my work in progress - my website. www.pattacake.co.uk we are updating all the time and all comments and suggestions are welcomed - just PM me.

Happy New year!

Hi Rmac sounds like you've been having good times! Walking and learning to talk is a fun period :T we went through first shoes, and banana, and dadden, a few months back he also started saying "More", and then "MoreMoreMore", before he started saying "Mama" but he did get the two confused sometimes for a bit
Thanks for asking and Bruno and family are mostly-ok but OH remaining very stressed with the world, her own anger management and patience etc. She even ordered an amazon book yesterday about not being angry with toddlers.

She had a little vent after his bedtime about how much she hates early evenings at the moment, first dealing with him as he becomes a little stroppy tyrant as bedtime approaches (he is always less good-natured and more demanding in the early evenings!), and then after he goes to bed we have to tiptoe around for quite a while or he wakes and wails a lot. I like our flat but unfortunately the "only sensible room to be the nursery" is in the centre of the house, beside our lounge and on the corridor to and from the kitchen and bathroom...

Nice website start are you aiming primarily at "kid's cakes", birthdays and parties and such? I only ask because I think right now the site style is very child-friendly and might subtly put off people looking for wedding cakes or other more formal 'grown-up' affairs as they will assume you are child-specialised... iyswim. But feel free to ignore me, not my area of expertise by any means!