Babies born~September 1st-15th 2009 #3

[Now we're 3]

Hi girls

Sorry haven't been on posting recently. Have been reading posts but just don't seem to find the time to actually post myself. Worst thing about leaving it you end up having heaps to catch up with.

Wow Kelly can't believe that T will be one on Monday. It must seem a little sureal that a whole year will have gone by since he was born. It was a bit funny looking at the list that Sanchez sent round and not seeing my name but I was in the October Belly Buddies thread at Sams due date wasn't until 5 October. Hope party on Sunday goes well I am just trying to finalise what we are going to do for Sam's b'day. Will just be friends as we don't have any family over here Loved the new photos on FB - must say the food was very artistically laid out on the tray.

Taurean - glad to hear that the horrid teething time seems to have eased slightly for you. We've been reasonably lucky with Sam's so far - says she touching every bit of wood she can find! He's got six now and I can see the next few in his gums so hopefully they will be equally as easy when they come through. It just changes their whole face when they have teeth. Your birthday party idea sounds great. What ever I come up with will be very tame in comparision. Have done invites so they go out tomorrow so will know then how big small its going to be. Our house / garden is pretty good for entertaining so we used to have a few parties here each year but haven't had anything now since I was pregnant. Looking forward to seeing the piccies on FB. You'll have to post the invite too so we can see what it looks like. Know what you mean about how great it is to enter new stage with the bubs when you were talking about the new playground. I took Sam to a play centre this week and he just loved it. We've got stairs at home so he is pretty comfortable on them but to my surprise he took off and basically climbed a ladder !!!!! without any help from me. Okay it was a soft and squishy one but it was still a ladder!

Sanchez welcome back. Was wondering where you had disappeared too. Well done you and V on the sleeping through. Sounds like you guys have it down pat now. PMSL laughing at the image of her sitting in the shower as proud as punch. As soon as Sam sees an open door he puts the burners on to check out whats behind it. He knows damm well if I get there before him I'm likely to close it. He loves playing with the doors at the moment so am terrified he will catch his fingers in them. I have now also become one of those Mothers you see on the TV who are trying to cook dinner with child between their legs. Looks cute on TV but in reality a nightmare. Our house is on split level so Sam can stay in living room but if he sees that I am in kitchen he will crawl to bottom of stairs and stand on bottom step hanging off the gate calling for me to let up come up the stairs to the kitchen. He will only play with his toys for a short period of time before he thinks I should be involved which normally means holding his hands and practising walking! We've two sets of stairs in the house so two lots of gates. PITA to be honest as I spend the day opening and closing them to let the bloody dog in and out! The carpeted ones don't bother me so much but the ones from living room to kitchen are open which scare me- though he is always in his bare feet at home so at least he won't just slip!

Sangie and Art - go the bubs for walking and cheering themselves on when they do! Art hope the sleeping gets better. Don't have any words of wisdom I'm afraid as while Sam did/still does wake at nights it was normally only the once and can pretty much (I think though I could be wrong) put it down to the days when he doesn't eat that much so he is hungry. So I would just feed and he would go back to sleep. I know heaps of health nurses would probably tell me not to feed as he shouldn't be hungry but I feel that he knows how to sleep through so there must be a reason why he doesn't. At least I normally get to have two breaks during the day when he goes down for day sleeps. He grizzles a bit but I just leave him too it and only go in if it escalates! Have had a couple of days recently though where he has only had one sleep - no baby no - way too early to move to one sleep! Mummy won't get any of her &*%$ done if you have just one sleep!

Things going fairly well here. Sam mainly sleeping through though as mentioned earlier have the odd night when he wakes. Mr Independent has well and truely arrived so feeding is PITA as he just wants to feed himself and not really take anything from spoon. Makes for long long mealtimes. Okay ish when you are at home but not when you're out. I normally just try to offer him larger bottle in the evening in the hope that he will take more milk and not wake in middle of night as he is hungry!

He is very active and crawling and climbing everywhere. Our house is on split level so two set of stairs and gates. If he is in lower sitting room and I am in kitchen he comes up and stands hanging on to gate at the end of the stairs shouting until I come and get him. Only time he is happy for me not to be there is when there is open door and then he off and through it.

Okay will have to come back and finish this update as computer died on me (again) and I lost the last bit of this post. We had 5am wake up and get up call this morning so I need my bed. Will post more tomrrow.

Kisses to all - sweet dreams xx