Oct 08 - On our way to the terrible twos! Noooooo we're not ready!

[50ftQueenie]

Here we go ladies.....At the speed we've been moving it might be the terrible twos thread! It's the final count down.......

Ooops managed to miss your post there Star!

It's probably not a coincidence 50ft. S definitely knows about happy and sad. If one of his friends cries, he often says "X really really sad". There was a wooden statue of an owl on the campsite and he said "Owl really sad". I asked him why and he said "wants his mum". The statue did have quite a sad face, so I can see where he was coming from.

He's in my good books at the moment as he said earlier "Mummy can do anything". I'll try and remember that moment when he's older and telling me that he hates me and didn't ask to be born!

Pistachio - I've got an Australian friend who told me that among all her friends in Sydney who've had babies, she's the only one who had a vaginal delivery. Apparently cs are really common. Do you think it's an insurance issue?

CF - S is a genius. I am in absolute awe of his language abilities. M is really good with her speech but S is in another league. M said 'I love you' to me the other day, but it was closely followed by "MILK! NOW!" so I think she might have been being trying to soften me up.

My ds is a genius with speech too. He said 'more' earlier, and then combined it with 'no' to say 'no more'. Great progress for us. He now says no, mummy/mumma, boo, boo-boo (a bf), hello and a sort of daddy (more diddy).

Ds can talk pretty well but is unfortunately going through an awkward phase. So we get 'I want a pancake' then when brought 'NOOOOOOOO Mummy, no pancake, I don't want pancake!' Screamed over and over.... At 5am canadian time, just to wake the gps .
He also announced at teatime last night, 'I don't like tea, I want to go to bed' sometimes I wish he didn't talk at all .

So, we arrived ok, but dh has put his back out on the flight and is now only able to stagger from bedroom to kitchen or lie in bed/on the sofa. And he's been like this for almost a week. So I'm feeling sorry for myself at the moment as the all the stuff we had in mind to do isn't going to happen (camping, whale watching etc) in fact I can't even get very far as I'm not confident on driving on Canadian roads and dh can't even sit up in the car. I'm still doing all the kid stuff, but I suppose that at least I don't have to cook and clean! The kids are having a great time with the gps and that is what matters most and tbh dh is in a lot of pain and with his holiday ruined, so I'm really not that badly off, just feeling sorry for myself today (AF is due so definitely feeling hormonal!)

Anyway, at least we have you beat on the weather - 32C but lovely here as we get the ocean breeze.... Kids have been out in the garden with the sprinkler every day, and picking fruit and veg in fil's massive veg patch. He and I have even taken them on short trips to the rock pools around here, so not that bad really....

Ugh Ekka, that sounds tough for both you and your dh. Is he likely to make any kind of recovery before you all come home again?

50ft - Apparently both me and dp were early talkers (they used to say I'd been vaccinated with a gramophone needle) so I suppose it stands to reason that S would talk early. Not that it means anything long term, I just think it probably makes life a bit easier when they can tell you what they think.

Pistachio - Even thought I knew about it before, I still find myself amazed that home birth is illegal in some states. Mind you, I think interventions you get in the UK vary so much from hospital to hospital. My labour was very medicalised in the end but I know that they did their damndest to ensure that I didn't have a cs. I'm pretty sure that if I'd been in the other local hospital I would have had one.

Plus.... if you have a c-section you have an extra two weeks paid maternity leave......

Do you 50ft? I didn't know that. That's good.

I'm so happy that the weather's cooled down a bit and I've been able to dust down my trusty slow cooker. I've just made a delicious balsamic chicken and porcini stew with canellini beans. Really rich and yummy.

Actually.... a friend in California got 6 months mat leave... in New York another friend only got 3 months. I think 3 months in more the norm, sadly :( It is awful, I totally agree!

Sorry if I came across as rude, I just feel the need to point out that it's a big place and each state has different laws... even education varies from state to state!! I can't STAND it when people talk about "American curriculum"... there are some standards adopted nationwide, but curriculum is state by state and often district by district within states. Same with birthing practices and laws.

However, I do agree with what you are saying... there are a lot of reasons we choose not to live there. :)

CF - S is a verbal genius!!! WOW. Q is nowhere near that. He says loads of words but only one or two at a time. And repeats everything he hears from us, sometime sjust the last word out of our mouths. It's all becoming very clear now, too... but not full sentences like that. And when we tell him "no hitting, it makes me sad" with a :( face, he just laughs at us...

:( for your holiday not going as planned Ekka. Glad to hear that the dc are happily unaffected by it all though.

Sorry Ekka I read your post on my phone at my mum's. Poor DH and poor you missing out.

Sorry Ekka I missed the part of your post after pancakes!! I think my phone scrolled down over it. I just went back to read after the last 2 posts. How awful for your dh and you. Good that kids are enjoying, though.

I typed out a lovely long message and the stupid lap top shut itself off to update. Pants.

Thanks for your birthday wishes. It was really crap. DH is a git and the children decided to try and make me cry. Which I did, several times.
Then we wnet on our hols which were good. Back yesterday.

Satr poor you with the mooncup. Dont bother love, they are seriously hardcore. It makes me a bit ickky and I dont mind yuck stuff at all!

I have read through and my cloth head has lost it all already.

Poor MrEkka. I hope his back gets better soon.

Myjob & CSWS any news from the hospitals about your boys?

Hello everyone else.

Ronshar :( for your birthday. What happened? Glad holidays were good :)

We have orientation tomorrow, where parents come in with their kids for 45 minutes to visit the classroom and listen to me welcome them and tell them all about procedures, snack...etc. I am excited to meet them. One is another teacher's dd and one is my infamous friend's ds... should be interesting.

Q had a really restless night. And a very high fever this morning. He was up at 5.30, too, which is odd. He's on antibiotics for the ear infection... other eardrum that is burst is "healing" (?they say?).

Hello Ronshar. on your behalf for your rubbish birthday. Naughty family. Glad you had a good holiday though.

Gah, DH's BIL is a twat. As I mentioned, DH's sister went in to be induced on Tuesday and since then nobody has heard anything. DH phoned his mum this morning to see if there was any news but nothing. Not even an update. So I popped on FB this morning like I always do and there was an up-date from SIL's idiot H. So, he found time to up-date FB but no time to give his wife's mother a quick call to say everything was ok. Twunt. Now, I make no secret on here of the fact that I do NOT like my MIL but bloody hell, that's just cruel!

ronshar - J had his scan on Tuesday. Hole in heart is about 2mm, and should hopefully close by itself at some point over next 20 years!! He gets another scan next year, and then prob just a check with gp when he's 5. Thanks for asking :).

CSWS - I find it amazing that something like like a hole in the heart, which sounds so scary, can heal itself. The dd of a friend of mine had to have open heart surgery when she was a tiny baby and I was astonished that they only need to see her once a year after something so major.

50ft - I agree, that is twattish behaviour.

Ronshar - Glad the holiday was good, but what went wrong on your birthday?

I know cf, I thought the same thing. The human body is amazing!! As is modern medicine and technology.

I am sooooooooo tired as Q was up so much last night. He's drooling like a lab, so I'm assuming the back molars are coming through now. The dentist said they would very soon.

I just went in and he was very very short of breath :( He was taking very short breaths, wheezing a bit and leaning against his pillow looking exhausted. (??? what's going on???) I'm quite scared. I know he probably has asthma but I don't want it to be severe. wtf. You do everything you can to make your child healthy and it doesn't matter!!

Oh interesting that you mention molars star - I was going to ask if anyone/everyone had them yet, as I suspect from ds1's behaviour this week (disturbed nights with screaming, hand shoved in mouth and not eating like he normally does) that he has one (or more) coming through.

Think my gallstones are going through a rocky patch - seem to be in pain every evening at the moment :(. Can't remember, does/did anyone else on here have them?

I put one hand on his front and one on his back and it is defnitely not "clear" breathing... sounds like there is something in there. arghhhhh

Ok one more puff of inhaler and now it's clear and regular..... I hope this doesn't start happening more often. Hoping for a one off. Is pollen high today or something?

Fun about music class, pistachio! Enjoy :)

Morning all, just a quickie as I'm at work.
star - hope Q got a good nights sleep after you used the inhaler, good that it works so well for him.
CSWS - hope you had an ok night, I feel for you, I really do
50ft - some men are just crap - has she had the baby yet?? (probably as I'm about 3 days behind on here!!)
ronshar - you poor thing for your birthday, makes you want to say "sod the lot of you I'm off out!" - I once did that to great effect (had to go back for my cardie which did detract a little....)
ekka - hope DH is a little better?
waves to everyone else!
We're off on holiday on sunday - I cannot wait , though not packed anything at all yet so tomorrow may be busy