sjc Posted December 10, 2017 Share Posted December 10, 2017 1 minute ago, Bairnardo said: Superb. She's a baller wee Sakura! Is Christmas big in Japan? Presumably not so much if they schedule hospital appointments on the day annual gift man is due Cheers mate. Yeh Christmas is a normal working day here. Young couples and families tend to acknowledge it with gifts but certainly not with turkey dinners though. New year is a big thing with everything being shut and a national holiday. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heedthebaa Posted December 10, 2017 Share Posted December 10, 2017 18 minutes ago, sjc said: Exactly that! She has a scan & blood tests on Christmas day. Good to hear bud 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RH33 Posted December 10, 2017 Share Posted December 10, 2017 Local Facebook selling pages and gumtree. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjc Posted December 10, 2017 Share Posted December 10, 2017 34 minutes ago, heedthebaa said: Good to hear bud Thanks mate. Appreciated. Still just taking it one step at a time. Long road. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcintyre_gmfc Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 My boys trying his hardest to take little steps now, takes one or two then gives up, I don't think he's confident yet to let go fully. Any tips on how to help? He's not really interested in his walker or that he prefers to sofa surf and play! Here's him dressed up as Mickey. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19QOS19 Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 We would walk Aila with one hand and another thing we did was sit facing each other about 6/7 feet apart and let her walk between us and if she fell we were close enough to catch her. He'll walk when he's ready though and I wouldn't worry about rushing it. You want to be thinking of ways to slow him down from walking, believe me! [emoji38] 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RH33 Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 My youngest didn’t walk until she was 18months old. Just leave him to it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honest Saints Fan Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 Catherine says the tree is "messy" and hasn't went near it! She's a wee OCD freak. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcintyre_gmfc Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 1 hour ago, Rowan said: My youngest didn’t walk until she was 18months old. Just leave him to it. Fair play, I'm not trying to force it as such, but he's obviously lacking the confidence that's why I'm asking for advice, as he is capable he takes steps to each bit of couch without holding on. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19QOS19 Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 Fair play, I'm not trying to force it as such, but he's obviously lacking the confidence that's why I'm asking for advice, as he is capable he takes steps to each bit of couch without holding on. This will sound daft but do you have any other toddlers in your social circle? Monkey see monkey do is massive with Aila. She threatened to crawl for almost a month but just couldn't get her other leg to go where she wanted. My mate brought his wee one round who had recently started crawling and after half an hour she had managed to figure out her legs for the first time. We were actually sitting there open mouthed when she did it, given we'd be trying to help her for weeks with it. The confidence will come. Do you have carpets or wooden floors? She was a lot more cautious at our house (laminate) than she was at my mums (carpet). She actually took most of her big strides at my mum and dad's house and I'm convinced it was because falling down on carpet was less uncomfortable so she took more 'risks'. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 Is Aila pronounced like Eilidh with an “A” sound at the end of it? Or is it more like Isla? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcintyre_gmfc Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 1 hour ago, 19QOS19 said: This will sound daft but do you have any other toddlers in your social circle? Monkey see monkey do is massive with Aila. She threatened to crawl for almost a month but just couldn't get her other leg to go where she wanted. My mate brought his wee one round who had recently started crawling and after half an hour she had managed to figure out her legs for the first time. We were actually sitting there open mouthed when she did it, given we'd be trying to help her for weeks with it. The confidence will come. Do you have carpets or wooden floors? She was a lot more cautious at our house (laminate) than she was at my mums (carpet). She actually took most of her big strides at my mum and dad's house and I'm convinced it was because falling down on carpet was less uncomfortable so she took more 'risks'. Yeah, he interacts with my nephew's, and some of my girlfriend's friends have kids as well. We just moved house there last month, and got all new carpets. I know what you mean, in our last house we had wooden flooring in the hall and he found it slippy to crawl on never mind take steps. He's much more confident on the carpet, as you say it's less uncomfortable. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleslie99 Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 My wife is due in less than 3 weeks. Can't wait, she's at the stage where she's fed up and just wants it out. Everything is sore and can't sleep. Us guys do get it easy lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcintyre_gmfc Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 45 minutes ago, pleslie99 said: My wife is due in less than 3 weeks. Can't wait, she's at the stage where she's fed up and just wants it out. Everything is sore and can't sleep. Us guys do get it easy lol Superb. Get as much sleep as you can! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Kincardine Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 58 minutes ago, pleslie99 said: My wife is due in less than 3 weeks. Can't wait, she's at the stage where she's fed up and just wants it out. Everything is sore and can't sleep. Us guys do get it easy lol Best wishes to yer Mrs. Is this your first? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19QOS19 Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 Is Aila pronounced like Eilidh with an “A” sound at the end of it? Or is it more like Isla? Apparently it's supposed to be pronounced the same way as Isla but we don't. We pronounce it 'A-la'/'Eh-La'. We wanted a name that wasn't common but wasn't ridiculous either and one that was easy to pronounce. We thought we had ticked every box until we heard all the different ways folk tried to say her name [emoji38] 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 Apparently it's supposed to be pronounced the same way as Isla but we don't. We pronounce it 'A-la'/'Eh-La'. We wanted a name that wasn't common but wasn't ridiculous either and one that was easy to pronounce. We thought we had ticked every box until we heard all the different ways folk tried to say her name [emoji38] You have probably had to explain that a thousand times already. And your child will need to explain this all through her life as well! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19QOS19 Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 I can understand some of the pronunciations folk have come out with but others are borderline stupidity. One was 'Al-eh-ah' - so I assume they were just dyslexic and another was 'Ah-lia' - basically say 'A liar' without the R. I've not heard it pronounced like Eilidh as you suggested so that's another new one [emoji38] To avoid confusion, regardless of whether the next one is a boy or a girl, it's getting called Bert. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 I can understand some of the pronunciations folk have come out with but others are borderline stupidity. One was 'Al-eh-ah' - so I assume they were just dyslexic and another was 'Ah-lia' - basically say 'A liar' without the R. I've not heard it pronounced like Eilidh as you suggested so that's another new one [emoji38] To avoid confusion, regardless of whether the next one is a boy or a girl, it's getting called Bert. I didn’t mean pronounced as Eilidh but just the first syllable as being the same! I had originally thought about the name Aaliya when I saw the name as well, she was an American singer who died in a plane crash in 2001. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19QOS19 Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 Ah, I get you. Most the names I liked began with an A oddly enough. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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