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Come on, you damn' Goose Green daffodils, you're starting to make me look stoopid, and PGC will give me the fish eye.

Excellent post, made me smile. Would you like to borrow my sausage thingy (wahey) to see whether it suits? I use it from time to time but would not miss it for a couple of weeks. *goes off hastily to wash suspicious reek of elderly baby sick from pillow*

Many congratulations, and enjoy your babymoon.

mockney piers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As long as the dead leave us alone whilst we're > having a pooh. That thought really disturbs me. I wish the bloody living would leave me alone when I'm, er, communing with nature. One imagines that a guardian angel might at least have the decency to turn its back, and certainly not bounce up and down and ask to sit on one's lap and enquire exactly what one might be doing.

Harrumphwassat?! *sits up with a snort. Spots Tarot, hauls up by seat of pants, chucks into Quiet Room swimming pool (see pages passim)* *settles on sofa with crossword and cross word. No-one slips Mickey P a mickey finn!

buggie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > citizenED Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > ...wake up at the slightest squeak of a > > floorboard. > > > ..... Oh cripes - do they not grow out of that?! Course they do, buggie - then they only wake up if they're thirsty, or need a pee, or a bit cold, or scared of the dark, or fancy a chat, or hear a funny noise, or have a cold / are generally a bit out of sorts, or it's too light (o too dark), or have lost their favourite stuffed animal, possibly because the animal is in the wrong hand. Hope that helps! :-)

First real smile - 6 weeks with no.1, 8 weeks for no. 2. First laugh 12 weeks for no.1, much later for no.2 when I realised that the strange honking noise was a giggle.

Or The Silence Of The Lambs (technically)

Or Terminator 2.

Oh, OK - thanks, didn't know about those. Perhaps it might be interesting/fun to do one here as well?

OK, so here's a thread to tap the mighty parent power and experience of the EDF family room. The idea is to create a list of things that children and babies learn how to do over time, and the range of when it happens. Perhaps contributors could each copy the list and either amend what's already there, or add a new item - either something they can offer experience in, or somethig they'd like to know. So my experience is that my first baby rolled over at 4 months, so I'm going to put that down. Someone else might have a baby that did it at 3 months, so they could copy my list and change it to 'between 3 and 4 months'. Another person might have had children that did it at 6 months, so they could change it again to 'between 3 and 6 months'. Then again, you can also use the thread to ask. I'd like to know whether I'm being unrealistic to expect my son to brush his own teeth (with a little help) or whether he's taking me for a ride insisting that he can't do it, so I'm going to put that down as a '?' and would be grateful for your experience of when your kids learned to do it. Right, so here goes, and hoping that this isn't all mad incomprehensible waffle.. When can babies and children: Q: Roll over A: 4 months Q: Brush own teeth (with help) A: ?

...like to do an enormous exploding yellow poo when you've just put them in the last of a too-small size of nappy, to use them up? Just askin'.

I tried breastmilk, didn't really do the job for us. However cooled boiled water several times a day quickly cleared up a couple of eye infections in Twosling when he was very small.

Made me giggle, Hibbs!

At what age is it 'OK' to get chicken pox? I assume I should do everything I can to avoid Twosling (<4 months) getting it? If it weren't for him, I wouldn't worry if Moosling (3.5) does.

Bugrit. Not even on ED Grove? I was so sure. Goose Green was a bit excessively green today, I agree.

supergolden88 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > CRAP ...and he is awake. Did not even last two and > a half hours. He did better as a newborn :( Twosling usually wakes before 11 too, the little beggar. Ho hum.

I've often wondered whether there's a black market for breast milk... it would be a logical outcome of the proven benefits of breast milk vs. the comparative difficulty for many exclusively to breastfeed. But to the point, I'd never eat the ice cream. And anyway, it's horrid-tasting stuff to the adult palate! (I've kissed enough droplets off my dribbly boys to have an opinion.)

*thinks Blimey, Citizen's turned into a guurl* *wonders whether might have accidentally thought it out loud*

But what about their lovely glowing colour in the fruit bowl just before they rot because you never got around to eating them?

Honestly, this modern age. What's wrong with a good old-fashioned staking?

*slurps coffee* bless you, Mr. Plinkyplonk. Tell me, what's behind that door?

I'm not enjoying the rain this morning, but the daffodils don't agree. All along Goose Green and East Dulwich Grove banks of daffodils are shaking off their paper skirts. Tomorrow will be a hullabaloo of yellow.

What if the pocket chainsaw had a silver chain?

*awakes with startled snort* *gazes with mild wonder at the pot of steaming coffee on a small and wobbly table only a foot away* *wonders how long it will take to get there*