April 2004 Toddlers Part 2!

[Yorkiegirl]

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oh go on mrs d do tell? i will have to resort to lurking on the pregnancy threads otherwise!

That's why I'm moaning Fennel. I shall leave them alone now I think.

It's a boy!! Dh is thrilled. He was worried about being surrounded by a harem - the dog is female too!!

that's great. are you telling everyone? have you told dd?

I have been on another thread where everyone moans about the stupid things people say to whatever combination of children you have. apparently this is what you say to people with one of each - to really annoy them:

a pigeon pair. aren't you clever? so you can stop now?

btw nothing wrong with harems IME. we have 6 females including 2 cats and just dp to represent the male side - and we are doing our best to castrate him with the snip. some of our fish are male. and presumably some of our worms and ants (dd1 likes small creatures).

Congrats Mrs D

Thank you you lovely ladies

I have already had "You lucky girl!" at the ultrasound reception desk.

I would still love to have three, hope this doesn't put dh off.

Oh wait and see

Dh always said two, then when I minded two and had ds he decided three was a nice number, but he knows I'm aiming for four

If we ever get there! ttc definately not the most fast paced thing in the world!

Aw, MrsD - how lovely! Boys are fab Don't know what we're having - we like surprises

Only read as far as that on the thread, so sorry if I'm ignoring people

DS is climbing, on everything he can. Cried buckets when we left Tumble Tots on Tuesday - first time we'd been!

Very, very sweet - he pats my bump when I ask where our baby is. And wants stories read to him all the time - loves ones that start "Once upon a time, there was a little boy called Hunker's DS!"

And he's walking too (at last!) - not sure if I've said that before - and SO pleased with himself for it! LOL!

lunavix, that's interesting, most people seem to revise their estimates downwards. so they want 3 or 4 til they have one or two and then change their mind.

at least with your job you are getting lots of practice in caring for several at once.

Fennel - I know! I'm lucky my mindees are so lovely too, but a big family will definately be the way to go if it's possible. I actually got him to provisionally agree to 6, but the last two are apparently only going to happen if we are rich enough to buy him a sunseeker too

hunker - ds loves tumbletots too! It was his third week this week and he thinks its brilliant. He likes the music the best, he dances a lot and sometimes in the circuit time he just stands in front of the stereo dancing. It's really helping him, he only started walking 4 weeks ago now and he's coming on in leaps and bounds!

I'm hopeless at keeping surprises. I couldn't stand of thought that I could know and decided not to. I was a little surprised though, I have only ever imagined it being a girl.

Dd has just started walking too Hunker. Not unless she has to mind. She would much rather get where she wants by crawling.

But the tantrums lately!!! My GOD. The child a metamorphed overnight into some kind of demon!!!

Hi Lunavix, looks like we will be moving to Stockcross now. I'm think we will have have to arrange a childminder for two next year.

Maybe we can get together when I'm on mat. leave next year?

Oh gosh yes tantrums. Mostly when someone else has a toy, ds decides it's HIS FAVOURIE TOY and they CANNOT HAVE IT.

He's now walking in preference to crawling, but occasionally crawls if he's being lazy. He's trying to learn to jump atm which isn't going too well, he just lands on his bum

MrsD - definately, if I'm still around! Dh is looking for a new job, preferably moving further up North... however saying and doing are very different to him!

Stockcross is lovely Are you working in Newbury?

I really didn't think he'd like Tumble Tots (shows how much I know him, right?!) - he's never been an adventurous child. But after he'd had a good look at how the equipment was put together(!) he was off. Hogged the slide a bit, but I was mindful of being a good mother and not letting him get in the way of other children who wanted to go on it

And then set off at a fair pace to go on the foam shapes when it was music time - incredible! DS loves music too, Luna - he's started giving us CDs and pointing to the CD player in his room!

Part of me wishes I'd found out what we were having at the scan - I know we could have done. But I do like wondering too. It's making name choosing a nightmare though - we'll be calling this one "the baby" for weeks I think! Have you got any names yet, MrsD?

And yes, tantrums aplenty here too - especially when we won't read him the fifth book in a row (because he has to go to bed or we have to go to work in the morning - LOL!).

Luna - so cute re trying to jump!

Ds doesn't show much interest in the slide unless someone else does - another little boy had a turn, so ds had a turn, then the little boy, then ds.. they were doing it for about 15 minutes!

He loves a wide range of music, he can turn MILs stereo on and change cds to find one he likes, and he can turn the tv on and (more by chance) usually find a music channel. We got our tumbletots pack yesterday and it has a cd and dvd in it and he loves both, the four of us were doing the routines on the dvd today! Although ds's new dance move is walking in circles wiggling his hips!

Ruaidhri.

But dh wants a simpler spelling!

DS has a very varied taste in music... He likes Mozart, Abba, Rolf Harris and Eminem to name but a few

DH found him putting his Baby Bright DVD in the machine the other day - the right way up and everything... No wonder he's not walked till now - too busy observing us and plotting how to work things

Aren't they cute when they dance?! DS wiggles his bum, jigs up and down and does knee bends!

Yes, my DH would too, MrsD - gorgeous name though!

yes, I'm constantly video-ing ds dance as it's so cute!

Walking in circles, arm-flapping, knee bends and bum wiggling is his dance! When he stops he usually sits down and makes up for it by singing!

Thanks Hunker. I like it, infact we both do. It's just we can't agree on the spelling.

Years ago, when we lived in London, dh was given a freebee teddybear with RG embroidered on it's chest. The shop was Racing Green. He wouldn't let me send it to the charity shop. He has been saving it or his son Ruaidhri!!! (Our last initial is G)
How sad is that?

I'm sure you ladies talk about your boys defferently to how we talk about our girls!!
Anyone else notice that?

cool name mrs D!

even my 5yo can't work our tv or video or stereo - dp is a computer geek so everything in our house is networked together. you need a degree in computing really to turn the video on.

dd3 doesn't dance or sing. not sure what she does do actually - not a lot, but she's cute in a quiet, not-doing-much sort of way. she pootles around really.

Not sure what you mean about the way we talk about girls and boys? Am intrigued though!

Fennel - awww - pootling!

one of the things I'd have liked about having a boy was rigidly talking about him in exactly the same way as the girls, and rigorously treating him the same, in good feminist "nurture not nature" style.

poor boy, lucky he never got born probably.