The BRAG thread

wow thats awesome ! good work !

I knew there must be a brag/gloat thread around somewhere.

I'm just going to have a big gloat - not that anything in particular has happened I just feel like it.

I'm very happy with me and my life, I'm confident in my abilities as a mother and partner and in myself as a person. My partner is awesome, more than awesome - I'm pretty smug that I have someone like him. I almost never complain about him, he does everything perfect (and no we aren't in the honeymoon period, we've been together for almost 8 years ). Jude is the smartest, brightest, bestest and most cruisy baby ever. I'm not biased at all My family is wicked and we are all super close (parents, siblings, grandparents etc).

I think all of this a lot - isn't it awesome when you don't doubt yourself too often and don't have complaints or regrets about many things?

hey everyone, what an awesome idea for a thread after all who doesnt like to brag!

so proud of my little boy! hes 5 months old and has cut is first 2 teeth no problem at all! and to make for a super happy 1st time mummy hes been sleeping through the night since 2months, makes life much easier! hes such a beautiful happy little man i love him to bits!

Ohhh I love this thread!

I have a brag today too. We switched DS to a big bed a couple of Mondays ago and he has taken to it SO well, I am so proud of him! He's growing up so fast though...

I was driving home today , with my 8 year old daughter, and a song came on "big girls don't cry " by Fergie , and it made me cry , not just because of pregnancy hormones and being tired, but cos that was the song my darling friend listened to ALL the time before she died, and it reminds me of being at her house .
, Caitlyn noticed my tears as I was singing along , and she put her hand on mine and said "I know this song reminds you of N mum , its ok , sometimes big girls DO cry "

I feel so blessed and blown away that I've raised such a compassionate amazing child .

In the last few months Jude has learnt, among other things, to clap, wave, pucker up and lean in for kisses and he signs "finished" and "milk". He loves playing chase- giggles, shrieks and gallops around the floor and then turns around and heads straight for the chaser. He's so clever

He signed finished first and has been doing that one for a while - it's the one we are most consistent with. He started doing it perhaps nine and a half months? But only after we asked him if he had finished while doing the sign. For the last couple of weeks though he has been doing it by himself without prompting. Milk is only very recent. Perhaps a week or so. He also does "eat" sometimes as well but it's hard to tell whether he is doing the sign or whether he is just putting his fingers to his mouth naturally when he is hungry. So I don't quite count that one yet. The next one we are introducing is bath or wash because he loves having a bath! Hopefully it gets easier to be consistent with them now he is signing back!

Jude has been using a spoon and fork himself for ages and ages but yesterday and today I noticed that he ate his whole bowl of porridge without using his hands at all - just his spoon. Even tilts the bowl to get the last bits out. Minimal mess, none on the floor at all. Clever boy.