April 2004 Toddlers Part 2!

[Yorkiegirl]

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I find the theme tune of Fifi goes round and round my head...usually when I'm on the tube. Hope I don't hum it absentmindedly!

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Hi girls - just found this thread... been away awhile, but still in Denmark & now expecting no4, so back on MN on the due Jan 06 thread. But nice to see so many names I remember from when we were all pg last time

My dd2 is an April angel too of course, and so many things on this thread seem so familiar! Especially the eating/not eating, pushing the plate away then getting on with it, and Fennel's use of the word stout!! She is completely adorable, but such hard work - always on the go - not sure what she is going to think of a new baby in the house .

Back soon!

Sorry, it was MrsD with the stout word

Oh, wow! I can't believe I won - DS will be SO happy (as am I, I think Fifi's fab too )!

Will have to post a pic of him yodelling with delight and doing "ta-da hands"

Hi Tickle - another Apr 04/Jan 06 mum

Wow busy posting - am off to Bicester this mrning for a bit of retail therapy!
Hope you all had good weekends.

What did you win Hunker?
Congratulations anyway.
How did you know yor blood sugar was off?
I have such a sweet tooth I wouldn't be surprised if that was me too soemtimes.

hi Tickle. Congrats on no 4

i really like large families especially when they're other people's! met a family with 4 pre-schoolers at the weekend, and was really impressed with the way the toddler twins were so self sufficient. i guess they had to be.

dd3 is in 18-24m clothes, she can still wear 12-18 but they look a bit short. and like yorkiegirl we have loads of clothes anyway from the other girls.

wow tracyk you r a lot braver them me , i do like biec but oh the crowds
re dora ds is a bit random in that he sing the backpacksong as opposed to dora herself - no fif i as such - bear i t bb house and bob the b and thomas of course barney is till banned and not sure about the wiggles is it me or do they look like rejects from the origional star trek ?? hello tickle and congrats on the comp hm

Hi Dolbear - Bicester wasn't too busy - we got there for 10.30am so got a good head start. I didn't buy too much - my friend got an ipod mini and a Bose docking station as her Xmas pressie to herself!
Had high hopes for getting lots of Xmas pressies - but the stuff wasn't that cheap.

Hi all

v. dramatic week here - I've been in hospital - my migraine turned strange and I got paralysis of one arm and my face - on and off until they admitted me for a CT scan, which thankfully was clear! All very worrying for a while though, as they mentioned tumours and strokes... Anyway, dp coped wonderfully with the kids and we're all trying to get back to normal now.

Meanwhile, I think I horrified ds2's nursery staff yesterday - they mentioned his screaming sessions and I said we were dealing with it with a zero tolerance approach - putting him in another room if he doesn't stop it. oops. I think they think he's too young for this to work - but I think he knows he shouldn't be making the noise (it's soooooo loud!) and after a couple of trips to another room he can usually calm himself down.

Ah well - we'll be known as the mummies from hell at nursery..! His talking continues to amaze us - big sentences now - usually bossing us around!!

Well we are back...and it has been a full on week for the first one back in NZ. Have already started on house renovations, bought a car today which we pick up on Tuesday and I can't see it slowing down in the near future. Bit of jet lag which made for long days say 4.30am till 10 trying to get back in the scheme of things and it seems to be sorting out. dd has been great, we have found group hugs a great way of her feeling safe when having the kisses by everyone and she just loved my parents farm with the pet lamb etc.

Dot glad to hear that you are OK...what a worry, have they given you a reason that it may have happened? TIA that needs looking into?

dd is in a mix of 12-18mth and 18-2 and 2yr fitted clothes depending on what they are, brand etc. She had her first library lap time on Thursday which is a singing, reading session of about 1/2hr at the local library and looked rather 'lanky'beside some of the other kids. She doesn't really have the 'baby'features even if she is the same height as some of the others.
As for double buggies my mother is convinced we are going to hate having a buggy board and everyone she has talked to hated them (she works for a kindy so has tons of mothers with a 3 or 4yr old with younger sibling) and thinks we should buy a second hand E3. dd is like yours Tracy in that she can walk a really good distance and often fights like hell being put into her buggy. We are looking at that strolli bike thing that clips onto the back/side of the buggy instead of buggy board now. Might make it easier for us to walk pushing the buggy too as the baby sleeping position on the mountain buggy doesn't really lend itself to a buggy board.
Well had better be off, hope all is well with everybody.

Dot - that sounds really scary, hope you are ok now.

You've started on house renovations already, Chuffed? Wow, where do you get the energy from..?

Hello Tickle! Congrats on your pregnancy, hope you are feeling well.

HM - I had high blood sugar one time (before I had dd) but nothing more came of it.

Not much to report here - though had a day off work yesterday and took dd into town to do some Christmas shopping, then had a friend and her dd over for lunch - it was lovely

MrsD, won Fifi and the Flowertots DVD and books - DS doesn't know it's aimed at 2-6 year old girls and adores it!

I knew my blood sugar was off because I was thirsty all the time - have never known thirst like it. I was literally retching because my mouth was so dry and I woke up every morning with a sore throat and no voice (despite having drunk loads of water in the night). Plus I felt shocking - breathless, SO tired, had a cold I couldn't shake off, etc. Just really run down. Feel SO much better now.

Chuffed, am thinking I might get a Buggypod for our pushchair - would it suit yours?

DS not been well again - has had a temp of 41.3 this evening, but it came down with Disprol and Nurofen and he's asleep now. Taking him to the doctor tomorrow. Hate that he gets these horrible temps - wish there was something I could do to stop them. Am sure it's teething-related. Have phoned NHS Direct twice, but each time they've said we're doing the right thing and to keep an eye on him for a rash (which is scary). It's weird - he's had this about five or six times now since he was one) and I'm so blase about a temp of under 40 now because he gets SO hot

Dot - hope you are ok now - sounds scarey!
Poor ds Hunker - hope he feels better - thank god for drugs!
ds still sleeping for Scotland these days. Still about 2 hours in the afternoon and back in bed for 7.30. I do hope it lasts - although a bit of a pia as we don't get out and about in the afternoons. But if I try and do anything remotely more energetic than tv and floor toys with him in the afternoons - he's dead on his feet by 6.30.

hi everyone. Sorry to hear you haven't been well Dot, and poor ds hunkermunker - hope everyone gets better soon / Welcome back chuffed - are you back in London then or New Zealand [confused emoticon needed!!]

hi everyone

Dot hope you are ok. that sounds a bit worrying

at dd3's nursery they do use the naughty step technique for children this age, just a minute sitting in the corner of the same room. it seems to work. but dd3 doesn't seem old enough for it yet - she's not really deliberately naughty yet that we can tell.

Chuffed, glad to hear you're getting back into NZ life. am still vaguely looking at the job websites there but nothing ideal - a good job turned up last week in Palmerston North but i've been there and it was in the middle of nowhere.

HM how are you and ds doing? feeling better?

DS's temp up to 41.3 last night He woke in the night, hot, but not as hot as that, but slept till 11am, then asked to go back to bed two hours later - lay on the bed, pointed at the curtains and said "uh" till I shut them, then pointed at the door, then when I asked him if he wanted to go in his cot, he grinned at me! So I put him there, he rolled over onto his teddy and he's asleep again now.

He has an appointment with the nurse practitioner this afternoon. He does eeem much better today, just tired and his temp was climbing just before he went back to sleep (gave him more Disprol - yes, thank goodness for drugs!).

I'm feeling much better than I was - have the energy to do housework (which I'm finding strangely satisfying...can I be nesting already?!).

Dot, how scary - hope you're OK now. Chuffed - does it seem surreal you've travelled so far?

Right, off to dust things

eek dot - glad all is ok - hated all that 'fuzyy ' stufgf with pg
HM - ds also suffers from sill high temps with teeth also got v used to it
happed abou 'mid-teething' iyswim has not happed alot lately though
chuffed - glad to hear all back sas
still stupid paced here 2-day parts for car as failed mot , job interview
sis in hospital for blood trans - 5 pts and the loo broke
christmas anyone ?

hope you have a quiet one dolbear!

humkermunker - how is ds now?

Dolbear - blimey! Sorry you have a high-temp-babe too - scary, isn't it?

HD, DS is much better than he was - temp's gone.

He's being such a little sweetheart - don't think we'll manage to have a naughty step in this house though... DH moved the stairgate up a step so that DS can sit on the bottom step to have his shoes put on. So now, he puts his shoes and his coat on the bottom step, ready to go out...before breakfast! LOL!

He's learning new words all the time now - and is fascinated by colours. The first one he's learnt is purple - it's funny how some words he says immediately (purple's one of them) - but some he doesn't manage for ages. He was making his bear wave its arm and saying "Hiya" yesterday!

Baby's breech at the moment and quite big, so not sure how much room there is for turning - but we will see! I have another scan at 34 weeks to see how big the baby is, but I'm managing my blood sugars relatively well, so hope it's not a 20lb toddler

Cold, isn't it? But then, it is winter

Glad to hear all the bugs/temps have dropped away a little. Seems completely surreal that we travelled now and have been back almost 2wks, it has been manically busy and we are getting really stressed we won't be in our own house before the baby is born.
dd is a little parrot and attempts to say what we say all the time, her big thing is ah huh for yes and hardly ever says no which is nice - so far so good. She is forever singing the tune to twinkle twinkle as well or baa baa black sheep although she hasn't managed the words yet.
HM that attachment to your pushchair looks so neat but nothing seems to fit on the mountain buggy unfortunately. My dad is going to try to rig something up like attaching a small bike or something to the frame that detaches when not in use but we will probably end up buying a pre E3 phil and teds double quite cheap hopefully.
Well better go and do some more stuff with the house - take care all.

quiet , quiet ? was is quiet ? mmm
well all is so far 2-day - only 11.30 mind
is v cold yup ds has loads of words , just can't understand any of them!!! we do have no and crash thats about it
can't cmplain realy the temps so far are all that he has suffered from no bugs etc -yet we have jsut started another nursary ses a wk so only a matter of time
breech mmm - sorry don't know much other than it seems all babies seem to wait until that very last minute to go back the other way !
( i have now fixed the loo )

ds2 said this morning when we opened the door to go to nursery "Chilly! Need a hat on!" and pointed to his head..!!

Oh, bless him! DS was amazed and amused by being able to see his breath this morning - looked like a little dragon