Re: Lonnie

[Guest guest]

LOL Caroline I know that boys are not monsters (though I do sometimes worry when

I hear dh next door shouting at the tv when it wont do like he wants it to LOL)

but they do things differently and well (I admit) I LIKE Barbie and I like

flowers and pink stuff (can you tell I have to girley girls LOL) and when I go

to my friends house it is all action man and cars and thunderbirds.. I am sure

dh would love it (and Phoebe does like playing with it at friends houses but has

never once requested one for home) I just don't think I am a boys mummy

(dykwim?) I can't imagine it anyway.. Don't get me wrong I know that if this

one is a boy he will be loved and I will probably adore him as much as I do the

girls but I do worry... (oh and my friend with 2 girls and a boy she says that

her boy is far more trouble than the girls combined LOL) Also one serious

problem is that should we have a boy he will have to be known as baby Fletcher

for the rest of his life as dh and I have never once been able to agree on a

boys name.. (though yesterday he did tell me he liked Bastian - I love

sebastian but he wont hear of it... I am sorry but there is not that much

difference.. - apart from to my dh)

Lonnie Phoebe & Eloisa's mama

& expecting a Christmas delivery...

My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what you

start.

So far today, I have finished 2 bags of chips and a Chocolate cake.

I feel better already.

Re: Lonnie

> I know that there is not much anyone can say I guess I just needed to put it

> down someplace.

> I think also I am a little " worried " as I think this baby might be a boy and

> that would be a whole new ball game for me ;o)..

Boys are totally gorgeous! Very cuddly and also not as clingy - when I

compare my DS to girls of the same age I realise how independent they are.

The only difference when they are babies is that they tend to pee in your

eye when you are doing nappy changes - and you have a extra bit to clean

around with the baby wipes!!

I thought I was going to have lots of friend help when I have No 3 - but

have discovered over the last few days that 3 of my closest local friends

will be moving abroad before the end of the year (

I will rely on my virtual help from you lot instead - and you are all

welcome to visit!!

Caroline

Caroline Pearce

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H/B Support St Albans, Mummy to Sam,6 and Joe 4 and EDD 10/1/02

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[Guest guest]

Lonnie, if you have a boy just get " Raising Boys " by Steve Biddulph. Not

only was I not a boy's mummy, but I didn't even grow up round boys (only one

sister, all girls boarding school etc.) so had no idea about boys!! It's a

brilliant book.

Now, of course, I adore my boy to pieces. He can be rough and tough and

difficult to control, but he's also a heart-breaking charmer, and when I

tell him off, he looks at me from under a mop of white curls and widens his

eyes and says " Shall I cry? " which just melts me!!

Of course, my life has come a tragic place: I now know the difference

between a backhoe loader and a skid-steer loader. I can probably name three

manufacturers of dump trucks. I can tell a Massey Ferguson from a

Deere tractor at 60 paces... and lets not even get into the flaming

Tank Engine- though thankfully the latter is in the process of being

replaced in his affections by the Hoobs which is a step forward, IMO! Still,

I cope ))

Vicki Portman

http://www.plushpants.co.uk

[Guest guest]

Lonnie, if you have a boy just get " Raising Boys " by Steve Biddulph. Not

only was I not a boy's mummy, but I didn't even grow up round boys (only one

sister, all girls boarding school etc.) so had no idea about boys!! It's a

brilliant book.

Now, of course, I adore my boy to pieces. He can be rough and tough and

difficult to control, but he's also a heart-breaking charmer, and when I

tell him off, he looks at me from under a mop of white curls and widens his

eyes and says " Shall I cry? " which just melts me!!

Of course, my life has come a tragic place: I now know the difference

between a backhoe loader and a skid-steer loader. I can probably name three

manufacturers of dump trucks. I can tell a Massey Ferguson from a

Deere tractor at 60 paces... and lets not even get into the flaming

Tank Engine- though thankfully the latter is in the process of being

replaced in his affections by the Hoobs which is a step forward, IMO! Still,

I cope ))

Vicki Portman

http://www.plushpants.co.uk

[Guest guest]

Lonnie said>>well (I admit) I LIKE Barbie and I like flowers and pink

stuff (can you tell I have to girley girls LOL) and when I go to my

friends house it is all action man and cars and thunderbirds.. I am

sure dh would love it (and Phoebe does like playing with it at friends

houses but has never once requested one for home) I just don't think I

am a boys mummy (dykwim?) I can't imagine it anyway.. Don't get me

wrong I know that if this one is a boy he will be loved and I will

probably adore him as much as I do the girls but I do worry<<

Oh Lonnie!! I could have written this word for word!

Angi_________________

Angi 0:-)

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married to Tim

mum to Georgi, 3 years, 7 months and Susy, 23 months

[Guest guest]

Hmm.. I burst into tears at the scan when they told me my first child was

going to be a boy and they weren't tears of joy! I couldn't picture myself

with a boy (I'm the eldest of 4 girls). But he is just gorgeous and I love

him to bits. Kitty is my dress up doll - has far more clothes than

(who has much more than he needs) and is a totally girly girl - there is

something very different about being Mummy to a girl than to a boy. Also

since having Kitty I have become more 'girly' - wear more pink etc. than when

I just had !

http://www.foxstitch.co.uk/

Angi Nutt wrote:

> Lonnie said>>well (I admit) I LIKE Barbie and I like flowers and pink

> stuff (can you tell I have to girley girls LOL) and when I go to my

> friends house it is all action man and cars and thunderbirds.

[Guest guest]

> Hmm.. I burst into tears at the scan when they told me my first

child was

> going to be a boy and they weren't tears of joy! I couldn't picture

myself

> with a boy (I'm the eldest of 4 girls). But he is just gorgeous

and I love

> him to bits.

having met i can only agree - a total heartbreaker LOL! I

am a complete sucker for baby boys - spent today cuddling 2 of

them - and completely ignoring their little sisters! I really do want

another boy - I have a name lined up for him and everything! I

am certainly going to ask at the 20 week scan - are you going to

this time?

Caroline

[Guest guest]

Caroline Pearce wrote:

> I

> am certainly going to ask at the 20 week scan - are you going to

> this time?

> Caroline

This is a subject of much debate here (and will be for the next 7-8 weeks) I

don't want to know but DH does... We asked first time when really it was very

obvious he was a boy, and then again second time because I desperately wanted

a girl - they said it was 6:4 chance of being a girl - which for me wasn't

enough to believe I was having a girl so we only had boys' names planned and

I refused to buy anything girly prior to having a girl in my arms - didn't

want to tempt fate. This time I really don't mind - although , with

perfect 4 year old logic, says he doesn't want it to be a girl because he's

already got a little sister!!

http://www.foxstitch.co.uk/

[Guest guest]

This time I really don't mind - although , with

> perfect 4 year old logic, says he doesn't want it to be a girl

because he's

> already got a little sister!!

Sam would 'rather have a kitten actually'..but then asked if

'daddies sperms were still swimming in my tummy' ! Child of a

NCT fanatic methinks.....

Caroline

[Guest guest]

Hi Lonnie

> I am expecting my 3rd child this Christmas and I am getting worried about how

> I will cope. I don't really know why I am worried

Just because it's something to worry about being PG seems to do this to

most of us!! You know you can do it, you know you will be fine, but the

hormones kick in and you worry!!

> I keep thinking OH MY what have I let myself in for..

Me too!! I swing from elation to anxiety and back again to elation whenever

I think of Babi

> I think also I am a little " worried " as I think this baby might be a boy and

> that would be a whole new ball game for me ;o)..

When I was expecting I wanted a girl, he was born and once I had him I

was glad to have a boy.

When I was expecting Mari I wanted a boy (because they were what I knew

about), she was born and once I had her I was glad to have a girl.

Thing is I felt I knew all about boys and what would I do with a girl but it

just comes naturally ... you go with the flow ...... and before you realise

what's happening you know all the latest girlie/boy things Thing is

when you had Phoebe you didn't know anything about being Mama to a girlie

did you ... it just seems to happen. I'm amazed at how I love being Mam to

a 'girly curly'!!

> IKWYM about boys' names though, it's very hard to choose one.

I find it really easy to choose boys' names!! I struggle with girls, so I've

found a solution, I get to choose any boys' names and Gethyn gets to choose

for girls - but with the proviso that I have to like it too

Jenni

(& Gethyn) 17yrs, Mari 3yrs (HB), Babi Bach exp.09/2001

[Guest guest]

I did this!! When Jemima was born, she was dressed very trendily in lovely

bright colours, and was very definitely not a pink girly girl - though she

got her own back by going totally OTT lace and frills when she was 6 or so!

Josh wasn't a dress up baby at all - well, you can't with a boy, can you??

Though my Mum bought him a rugby strip quite early on. Freya, though, wears

something pink almost every day - she is the girliest girl you ever did see.

DSis keeps buying her jeans and so on, but it's just not taking!

Vicki Portman

http://www.plushpants.co.uk

wrote:

> Kitty is my dress up doll - has far more clothes than

> (who has much more than he needs) and is a totally girly girl