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jaykay34 ·
03/04/2016 12:57
Not posted for a while and have quite a bit to catch up on !
J currently has chicken pox. My eldest two have never had it so it's all new to me. I had booked this week off work and had loads of lovely plans - which even my teenagers had agreed to join in with. Now, instead - we have a week of being quarantined with a grumpy little man and endless baking soda baths and calamine. Ah well...J actually seems to have a mildish case so I guess we have been lucky. It's quite heartbreaking seeing him suffer though - especially as he has no idea of why he is so itchy 
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LillyBugg ·
04/04/2016 22:02
I'm home from my weekend away and managed to get some cuddles with my
boy before bed (just!). Will do a proper post tomorrow hopefully 
TeamEponine ·
05/04/2016 05:06
Yay! Welcome home Lilly. Glad you got home before bedtime for cuddles 
It's another horribly early start. DD seems to always wake being upset about having her sleeping bag one. She always wants it off as quickly as possible and sometimes taking it off is the only thing that stops her crying. She keeps grabbing her feet and pulling at the top of the bag saying "toes" and "off" over and over until I take it off. She's fine having it put on and generally sleeps through not, albeit with early starts.
I don't think she's ready to come out of the sleeping bag as she moves around loads in the night c
Any ideas???
KitKat1985 ·
06/04/2016 17:21
Ahh, just discovered this new thread. Thank you Lilone / MyGreensofa!
Team could you trial putting your DD in bed with blankets / a duvet instead and see if she prefers that? May be worth it as an experiment.
I'm starting to notice the tantrums are starting to creep in now with DD (joy). I took her to soft play today (wouldn't have been my first choice in the Easter holidays to be honest as it was like a war zone, but was meeting a friend there). I was trying to keep her in the under 3 area but all she wanted to do was either:
- Climb up the slide when children were trying to come down it.
- Go into the older children's play area which was 'boisterous' to say the least.
So I kept trying to lead her away and show her other things to play with, but she just kept sitting on the floor and screaming at me because she was cross that I was stopping her from doing what she wanted. I was relieved to go home! I found the whole thing knackering. I'm pretty lucky so far that I haven't got any bad pregnancy sickness or anything this pregnancy, (but it's still early days), but I do feel exhausted, and getting up with DD a 5am and dealing with her tantrums all afternoon have rather taken it out of me! I felt really light-headed at one point (I have low blood pressure anyway). Being pregnant and having a toddler is undoubtedly a lot harder than first time around. [Fondly remembers having lay-ins and maybe an afternoon nap if I was feeling tired first time around]. And it's only going to get harder once the baby is born. A newborn and a toddler in the middle of the terrible two's at the same time. What have I done?!?
On a side note DD has started trying to use a fork which is pretty cute. She's obviously been watching us because we never taught her how to use one!
Does anyone else's DDs / DSs not really talk much yet? We still haven't progressed really from 'uh-ho' and 'da-da'.
MyGreenSofa ·
07/04/2016 10:33
ah KitKat! I remember the first trimester exhaustion, and have definitely been thinking about having that again with a toddler! Think it's important to try not to do too much and rest when you can - easier said than done though! Have you seen dr/midwife yet?
Words - DD is a big chatterbox though it's mostly still babble. She does have a fair few words: dog,duck, oh no, oh dear, go, up, wee (said when running etc.), poo (accompanied by patting her nappy), fish, shoes, teddy and the new favourite - Apple. Constantly asking for apples now, but I suppose that's better than biscuit! Daddy is about there too but no sign of saying mummy anytime soon! oh she also says ponk for pinky ponk/ninky nonk and 'akka akka' for makka pakka 
Toys - colouring is our favourite at the mo. Also starting to like imaginative play with soft toys, don't have a dolly yet but she also likes pushing toy prams. Books are big right now too. Most of her toys seem to get ignored now though!
jaykay34 ·
07/04/2016 21:52
polka
Re: Toys. J loves cars, he plays cars every day - mainly spinning the wheels or rolling them along. He also likes shape sorters, stacking cups and building up mega block towers which he then destroys. He has some little ITNG and Twirly woo figures that he likes to line up and study. He likes books - on his own terms though !
Words - says all of our names; "look!" "oh dear", "oh no", "good boy", "bye", dog, cat, duck, nana (banana), bicbic, digger, car. Lots of Cbeebies names - Bing, Mak (Makka pakka). He tries to say facial features but can't end the word - so no is nose, mow is mouth, ih is ear, dee is teeth. I think I understand him more than anyone else does though .
kitkat Congratulations ! Exciting times ahead for you 
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TeamEponine ·
09/04/2016 09:27
We moved DD into bigger sleeping bags a while ago. She's fine getting into them and through the night, but really needs it off as soon as she wakes!
Speaking of waking - I woke up this morning to the sound of her singing twinkle twinkle little star! So cute
In terms of toys, DD is still a total book worm. In fact, she's sat on my lap looking through a pile of books as I type!
She's also very into playing with her baby dolly. Feed it, give it a bottle, change its "poo poo nap nap" about fifty times, then lie it down with teddy, tuck it in with her blanket and kiss it good night!
I got her a sticker book recently for a flight, and she loved that, so I've just got her some fuzzy felts, which she loves. She also will spend quite a while colouring, and tries to draw over the lines in the pictures!
She is very verbal, unusually so. But both DH and I were early speakers, do I think she has chatterbox genes! They do develop speech at very different rates though. DD has loads of words, but quite a few could only be recognised by me. For example, peanut butter sounds like nee up dudder. She can name lots of body parts, animals and sea creatures. She knows and can quite clearly say the names of our close family, all the nursery workers and most of the children in her room at nursery. She is getting quite good with her colours and knows yellow, green, blue and pink. She also now quite often puts two or three words together.
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cookielove ·
11/04/2016 20:52
Argh I have tried to post three times and failed grrrr!!
So E sits down in protest if we go the "wrong" way
Am i right in thinking that he was late to walking lilly? could it be that he is still sorting out his balance?
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