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to wonder what goes through the minds of babies?

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TigerFeet · 02/03/2010 14:12

dd2's current favourite thing is the remote control.

She has brightly coloured plastic crap.
Many furry squashy animals
A wnaky basket full of alledgedly interesting things
Some stuff that goes ding, squeak and so forth when you poke it
A few worthy wooden items that are probably a bit dull to be fair

But no, it's the remote control she wants to to exclusion of everything else

Trouble is, she is 23 weeks and has no co-ordination yet . Give her the remote control, she bats herself on the head with it or pokes herself in the eye. And cries. Take it off her because she's going to end up looking and feeling a bit battered and she cries.

Arggghhhhhhh.

At least I can reason with my 5 year old.

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Seeline · 02/03/2010 14:14

Mine went through the remote control phase to the extent that we had to get an old one for him so that we could watch the TV! Take the batteries out - they aren't nearly so heavy then.

Minshu · 02/03/2010 14:19

My DD is getting to that stage, too...

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TigerFeet · 02/03/2010 14:20

Batteries already out Seeline, I am trying to watch Murder She Wrote difficult enough what with MN to lurk on and dd2's attempts to bash herself on the head as hard as possible to police.

I can do this multitasking thing to perfection.

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Original poster
TigerFeet · 02/03/2010 14:26

Hi Minshu! This is one of those phases I will be glad to see the back of even though the look of surprise on her face when she --bats- herself on the head is quite amusing

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BadGardener · 02/03/2010 14:28

It's because she can tell it is an object of desire for grown-ups and that it has hidden powers. The same thing happens with keys.
We gave dd our old remote after she was sick on it and it stopped working, and of course she didn't want that one any more and she wanted the new one.

StealthPolarBear · 02/03/2010 14:29

Hi - how are all the other september babies?
DD hasn't found the remote control yet, but I remember using it to encourage DS to start crawling - we'd hold it a couple of feet away, he'd crawl to it, we'd move it another couple of feet...we did let him have it eventially
DD has only had a couple of tantrums when her favourite 'toy' (e.g. carrier bag!) is taken away from her, they are so cute, like mini versions of the full on screaming fits DS has

Morloth · 02/03/2010 14:32

Give her to remote, she is learning about physics!

Ladyem · 02/03/2010 14:42

DD used to be like this with the potato masher! Loads of toys to choose from and all she wanted was to potato masher! DS doesn't seem too bothered about anything at the moment, so I suppose I still have it to look forward too!!

Ladyem · 02/03/2010 14:43

to? I obviously meant the!!

Rockbird · 02/03/2010 14:47

Everything to dd (2.1yo) is a phone at the moment. She went to nursery this morning talking into a duck shaped shower timer. She has phones, both toy and old real phones. She prefers the shower timer .

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TigerFeet · 02/03/2010 18:16

Hello September mums! And everyone else of course
I had to interrupt my viewing of Murder She Wrote for the school run
DD2 still has the farking remote
But now dd1 wants it
This is a sign of things to come isn't it?

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Minshu · 03/03/2010 13:19

They'll be begging to use the car before you know it

BalloonSlayer · 03/03/2010 13:22

What's a shower timer, Rockbird?

Is it for timing yourself in the shower?

ScreaminEagle · 03/03/2010 13:31

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BustleInYourHedgerow · 03/03/2010 13:33

DS (32 weeks) also obsessed with remote. Only the Sky remote though, nothing else will do. He dribbled on it so much one day that he broke it. Dried it out on the rad and it started working again though.

I've given up watching TV if he's awake though, he's started to watch it along with me and I don't want that! So most of the time it's hidden before I take him out of his cot.

But, if it's not, he makes the 'I want something and I'm not going to stop making the annoying noise until I get it' noise.

It goes:

Hoo

Hooooo

Hoooooo

Hoooooooooo

HooooHooooHooooHoooHoooooHoooHooo

I am beginning to hear the noise in my sleep.

AutumnLady · 03/03/2010 13:51

Yep, DS (16 months) loves the Sky remote nd if the batteries are taken out he seems to know and hunts the TV remote out instead.

He also has a thing for taking the Sky card out of the Digibox

He mainly uses it for walking around with it attached to his ear saying 'hiya' like mummy does into her mobile phone.....

fiveisanawfullybignumber · 03/03/2010 13:56

I remember those days, not so bad now, although the remote was in the kitchen bin last week, not a regular occurence thankfully. Strangely have lost a few pepper mills that way.
Just be grateful it's not keys yet, especially if they controll your alarm on your car. DD2 dribbled all over mine a few months back, and it stopped working. Only problem was we were out, so i had to unlock the car using key and drive off with the alarm blaring. We not very inconspicuous as it is with a huge LWB people carrier, nevermind one that announces it presence with NENAW NENAW as it passes.

Lionstar · 03/03/2010 13:59

My 22 week DS is obsessed with hitting things with a bunch of teething keys - it's his one joy in life to smack the living daylights out of something or someone with a bunch of plastic keys. Actually people are better because they protest more

harecare · 03/03/2010 14:03

Just hide it. Out of sight = out of mind.

Lexilicious · 03/03/2010 17:00

Bustle I think we have that noise too - (what's 32 weeks in terms of months? well, mine was born early august)

We call it the Demented Woodpigeon. And my god it is annoying.

BustleInYourHedgerow · 03/03/2010 17:55

Lexie

Hooooooooooooooooooooooo

DS was born late July, so hoooooing must start around the same time.

mumtobe23 · 03/03/2010 19:43

Haha just read this post and my DD is 24 weeks and is also at this stage, remotes, mobiles, keys if its mine or it lights up she wants it!
She also has a thing about crisp packets or plastic bags or what ever it happens to be that makes a crunch sound... she hasn't started with the hoooooo sound yet, shes just discovered her lungs and screams, not a unhappy one, just one thats ear peircingly loud...but also quite cute as its normaly follwed by a cheeky little smile!

lobsters · 03/03/2010 19:53

My DD is 14 months, she takes after her dad and loves all gadgets. Remotes (but mainly the sky one), iPhones, where she's quite proficent, and my Blackberry, fortunately she's not learnt to unlock it yet. I've also had to replace one lap top as she broke the keyboard.

sparklefrog · 03/03/2010 23:57

My DD is 18mnths, and loves the remote control, preferably the Sky one. She also has loads of toys, but ignores them all in favour of the home phone or the remote control, my car keys (no non working substitute will do).

I had to laugh to myself the other day when she picked up a wedge shaped doorstop and pretended it was a phone,ha ha ha.

What I want to know though, is when I pretend to be chatting on her play phone, saying hello etc, then pass DD the phone, don't you feel a teeny bit cruel knowing she is listening for someone who obviously isn't there?? I wonder what babies make of that?

tortoiseonthehalfshell · 04/03/2010 00:15

I wonder the same thing, sparklefrog. My 15 mo old holds out the phone for me to talk on it, and I say oh hello Nana, yes she is here, and hand it back to her...and then she listens and hears nothing! I'll give the poor girl a complex at this rate.

Mind you, yesterday she decided the cat wasn't hoofing it fast enough out the door and tried to post her through the catflap. Sometimes she is crystal clear in her thinking.