Fab Feb 2009: things that go bump and "mummy, mummy, MUMMY!!!" in the middle of the night

[dinkystinky]

New halloween inspired thread (in honour of this time of year) to talk about our little jekyll & hydes [hgrin]

Is anyone going to be taking their little ones trick or treating this year? We'll be at MIL's for Halloween and she's already told me she has both Danny and DS1 costumes -so it appears that decision has been made for us

SR that is so sweet! Luke likes dolls too, whenever he gets his hands on one, he gives it lots of hugs and kisses and says "duh doo" which is his version of "love you" lol

awww.... how cute are our little modern men?

Thanks guys - pretty sure my mum has told most of the northern and southern hemisphere by now about my sister's engagement so was nice to share with people here first

Lol at all those new age little men we're raising

Can you believe it? Within weeks, our little babies are going to be turning 2!!!!!
2, Where has the time gone?

[eek]

No more babies for me

Me either

I veer between saying stopping at 2 and saying going for 3. However we went to the Science museum today (which both boys loved, despite it being uber packed) and lost Danny (for which am partially blaming DH who was supposed to be keeping an eye on him at that point - and he was wearing a backpack with a harness which DH just refused to hold ) for 5 minutes then found him thank god, then when we were in the shop lost DS1 for 5 minutes (the scariest 5 minutes of my life) (for which am blaming myself too) and security found DS1 in tears at the door to exit the building. I think my heart stopped for a minute or two both times. So seeing as we cant keep track of 2, am fairly sure we'll be stopping at 2.

Hope the return to work goes ok for everyone.

OMG dinky That must have been awful!
Glad both boys were found quickly and safe

Dinky whoops - don't blame yourself for losing DS1! They can scamper off in the blink of an eye. I lost DS in Ikea about a year ago - I was fiddling around with getting Lilian comfortable in the pushchair and when I looked up he was nowhere to be seen. After 10 minutes of frantic shouting and running around like a headless chicken someone else found him hiding under a bunk bed

Can't believe that Lilian is nearly two - being so small she still looks about the size of a 12 month old.....bless her. A close friend is due her third baby next month and I have to confess to being more than a little bit broody though definitely not going to have any more

Just dropped DCs off at nursery - blissfully quiet here. I'm still not over the flu so going to have any easy day today.

Thanks Calico - still feeling pretty bad about it today but DS1 seems less upset by it all today (and Danny wasnt even remotely upset by wandering off by himself for 5 minutes - he sees it as a game ) Cant quite believe Danny is nearly 2 either - he looks like a toddler but is still a baby in so many ways. L sounds adorable - how is her hand doing now? Hope you recover soon from that flu (DS1 had it and it wiped him out for about a week before christmas - horrid strain).

Lilian's hand is much better thanks - just a patch of darker reddish skin but that should fade over time. She does a little routine where she holds her hand up and say 'hurt hand' and then strokes it and says 'all better now' - it chokes me up.

I seem to have had the flu thing for about two weeks now - the DCs bounced back to health after about a week but I still feel pretty lousy. Off to make another hot lemon drink....

Evening all
Calico, glad Lilians hand is recovering. She sounds so sweet!

Dinky, we really have all been there with wandering toddlers.

You poor thing dinky! It's always horrible when they do it... we lost ds1 in a department store for about 10 minutes once, the place had about 5 exits onto busy streets and there was no security in sight..... he'd wandered into the grocery section and wan't a bit bothered

I think i must be getting immune to the panic now, we went to the sales today and the older two wandered off repeatedly and had to be hunted down (by dp, while i browsed ) and i was very zen like about it. Even A's tantrums when i wouldn't let him pull the bottom box from a stack or steal a football didn't faze me today... maybe i've just given up!

Calico... A is a tiny lad as well, still fits into 12-18 easily and is wearing a few 6-12 t-shirts that certainly aren't tight on him. It's hilarious as the other two were monstors (dd has always been thin as a rake but she and ds1 have my families height) so it's funny having an almost two year old that can wear babygroes and dungarees!

Good to know that the panic subsides and you can end up zen about it eventually Summerrain Danny is a terror in shops - have to restrain him in his buggy or he gets everything down off the shelves and sneaks stuff into the trolley (god knows how!)

Lol dinky
I have been very lucky with both of mine and for the most part are both quite good around the shops.
However, Luke can be very interested in things that are on shelves, but we have to let them walk around and cause a bit of mayhem in order to teach them appropriate behaviours.
I was in Tescos a while ago and had both boys walking around with me, I went to the fag counter and J and L were both running bak and forth from the sweets counter with chocolate bars, I was telling them to go and put them back, we are not buying chocolate, but they carried on, taking it back to the shelf, bringing it back to me and so on.
They then pulled aload of chocolate/sweets onto the floor, so I told them to pick them all up and put them back. We then went to make our way out of the shop when I heard a woman say "Look, she's still letting them walk about"
How else will they learn?????

SM... I always give mine free rein as well and i do agree it helps them to learn a lot more effectively how to behave when out. It was chaos when the older two were younger but they're good as gold now about touching stuff (90% of the time anyway!) and are well behaved in shops other than a bit of running around. A is still at the bringing me 200 chocolate bars while i try and pay stage but luckily round here the shops are very child friendly and just smile and laugh at his antics and he doesn't get away with causing a mess or touching things so they can see I'm dealing with it and no one has ever said anything.

It was so strange yesterday... the most child friendly shops we were in were the two without kids sections... River Island and Oasis. The staff were lovely and turned a blind eye to my lot running around and being noisy and were extremely understanding. Monsoon, Next and TK Maxx though, all of whom have kids sections, all had staff who glared and pursed lips at them even when they weren't doing anything! In Monsoon ds1 went behind the big hanging 'Sale!' boards in the window and dp and i immediately pulled him on it and told him to get out... we were already dealing with him when a member of staff came over and asked us to get him out I'd understand her doing it if we'd been standing there ignoring him but fgs he had two parents already giving out to him... what the hell did she need to say it for?! And as the lovely girl in River Island pointed out when i mentioned it when we were chatting 'But sure, they're window display is wide open... it must happen all the time, how are kids to know?'

aww calico thats so cute about lilian with her hand bless her.

ooh cute things they do isobella's atm are...

saying I wuv you (but only if i say it first) and the otheer day i said "i love you" and she said "i love cheese"

saying I and me i don't know why but its just cute!

knowing that puttin cold hands on me is going to make me jump and finding it highly amusing

awww i love her sooooo much little squishy cheeks, sorry

been ill since boxing day with fluey crap then sinsitus urgh just about going after docs gacve me anti b's. horrible. Back to work today really missed it. Izzy doesn't have the separation thing when i go to work she waves me off Its when we are together she gets clingy phases and says "want milk" Anyone else still BF'ing i don;t think izzy will ever stop

well broody! but waiting til we move house an dmaybe have a few more dancing comps to ghet through first

dinky you poor thing bug hugs xxx

ooh dinky you have special kind of hugs there bug hugs very special! i meant big x

littlesez... A is also still bf-ing

Littesez - sorry you're still ill with flu etc. - that sucks. Hope you get better soon. Are you taking echinacea? That combined with Vit c and zinc always peps up my immune system v quickly when am hit lot by lurgies. And thanks for the bug hugs BTW, Danny is still bfing and showing no signs of EVER wanting to stop. Sigh.

Mr T is also very committed to bf! I fed DS1 until he was 4.5 and somehow I cannot imagine going for that long with DS2. Bloody hope not anyway!

Littlesez* we are also a lurgy house here. All four of us have had one cold followed straight after by another. I have had enough and am fantasising about going to live in the Seychelles where I am sure I'd never be ill. Really annoying as it's DH's 40th on Saturday and I was going to take him to a very nice restaurant but I fear Michelin star quality food will be wasted on us as we can't taste anything!

Littlesez - at Izzy's "I love cheese"! Bless her.

SR little A must look really cute in his teeny t-shirts and is about the same size as Lilian by the sounds of it. She is just wearing 12 - 18 month clothes now and some of it is so baggy she ends up with an unintentional 'off the shoulder look'. She has yet to reach 9kg!

My parents came over today and took my children away....my mum decided I'd never get over the flu if I had to run around after the DCs all day so I have 24hrs respite . Very, very quiet here....I am looking forward to a whole night's sleep without being woken. DS has been waking up 2 or 3 times a night the last few weeks with anxiety attacks. He has been really upset but does calm down as soon as DH or I go up to his room and goes back to sleep fairly easily but it is exhausting for us.

THOM... i fed ds1 til 2.5 quite happily despite being pregnant with A but i'm so tired and worn out now i really would like A to show signs of giving up. In April i'll have been pregnant, breastfeeding or both for 7 years straight and i feel so tired and 'used up' I could cry. A's not showing any indication of wanting to stop though [sigh]

Calico... A was just under 10kg at his last weight check at paeds i think. The consultant mentioned his dinkiness but said he was just about within normal bounds so she wasn't worried (25th centile on weight and 5th on height or vice versa... can't remember for sure ) He is very cute though.... amazingly small and perfectly formed, lol.

Very of your parents taking them for you... when we were at my parents on Christmas night my mother woke when A cried and picked him up and brought him straight in to me! Then the next morning she got up with them but left A unfed ('I din't know what he'd eat'... err, anything!) and in a filthy nappy, so don't think i'd trust her on an all nighter just yet! Besides, A is so clingy he only let my mother hold him for the first time a coupe of months back so it would probably overwhelm him....

Hope the nights rest sorts out your flu

I feel so much better for having had a full night's sleep and a lie-in - bliss! Mum has offered to have DC's until tomorrow, she really is supergran, they get looked after so well that I have no worries about them, though mum is in her mid 70s so I do worry that she will tire herself out!

SR your mum sounds like my MIL - she'll play with the kids until one of them wants food / toilet or is crying and then she hands them immediately back to me.....
I remember once when Lilian was about 10 months old and I was cooking dinner for 12 people and was also on the phone trying to sort out a work problem when MIL came into the kitchen and handed a crying Lilian to me saying that she thought she needed me - er thanks! She could at least have handed her to DH who was sitting in the other room reading a newspaper but I think she is old fashioned and thinks that dads shouldn't have to deal with any baby issues!

Aah, your mum is lovely Calico! Glad you're feeling better - hopefully one more night of good sleep will see you back to 100%.

Summerrain - at your mum. I have my own issues with my mum but she'd still try to settle Danny if he woke up rather than bring him straight to me (not that he'd let her - he's rather dubious of the crazy indian lady who looks alot like his mum ) - and would never not feed him/leave him in a filthy nappy. I bet you were quite pissed off.