April 2009 Episode 14 "Operation Kill is standing down."

[AuldAlliance]

Voici FWs!

Orbit says individual words, his only real sentence is Daddy go wah wah which means DP has gone to work.

All mine says is 'MUM!'

Alex adds "words" together 'daddy byebye brrm brrm" /"Mummy, oh no, a mess, ooooovvvvaaaa (hoover)" and so on, but nothing like proper sentences. Think that is average, really.

That twins clip is fab.

lol at Moo orating soon...I was just thinking I could/should get her a muzzle to stop the whining and so I'm not being told off ever minute...

It's quite normal for 2yo to be mostly words with a few phrases...
my mum (teacher, specialising in child development) said typically it was 'favorite words' they use with a smattering of others thrown in now and again. She was impressed at Meg's speech (when I asked worriedly about the repetition thing with sounds and phrases) BUT She reminded me that we were all rather early talkers, and said that the first grandkids were especially, so we're just on par with what's typical for our family.

there are definitely things which I notice she's not good at...
shapes in the shape sorter

crap at puzzles,
(tho I think those are patience issues)
she's not much of a climber
(or do many 'physical' things -but that being said she's very careful abt what she does do and hardly ever falls)
and she's only fairly recently started building 'towers' and knocking them over again,
she doesn't put on or take off clothes,
and she's just started running, tho it's toddler running

On another note:
SPD -for those of you who had it do you remember how it started? Was it a continuous from the get go or did come and go a bit first? Is there anything to be done to stop things from progressing to being unable to walk?

What I've been experiencing:
Moo and I go out for walks (pretty much)every day during walk there's some clicking or grinding (esp if going up and stairs)
If the walk is longer than say 2 hours my lower back (and I mean really lower like pelvic girdle) begins to hurt as well as the sides of my legs like I've been doing scissor kicks lengths in the pool.
In the evening my 'lower back' seizes up while sitting and the joints don't move well in my hips so I kinda flat-footed have to walk not always problem -but more and more often it seems to be happening
At night when I wake up for the toilet getting out of the bed is pretty much impossible unless I roll out, using the side table and arms to hold up my top half while I hope the legs/back hold up and I can get through the intense pain enough to stand upright. Then I need to shuffle, walking flat footed, holding onto the walls, door handles etc. to get to bathroom. Sometimes on the way back it's better and I can just flat-foot it back to the bed.
In the mornings I have the same bad back, and flat-footedness and need to hold on, but it does ease after about an hour of moving about.

Does this sound like the onset of SPD? or just a sign of pregnancy pain or that I need to be exercising/strengthening my back and legs more -both of which I'd say are needing it...

Hurrah for park :) Good plan to wait til June for Vezzie - but not too late as I might be otherwise engaged (eek)

O is talking pretty well - he can recite most of 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' and various other books from memory which is insanely irritating when you're trying to read to him.

His singing is the best bit though - he can sing the whole of the alphabet song (although he has no clue that he's supposed to be singing individual letters - 'ellow mellow pee') and the other day he got a sticker at the childminder for standing up and singing 'I can sing a rainbow' in front of all the other children

I was slightly less proud when he started singing 'head, shoulders, knees and willy' however.

runs in dramatically
I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!
BB it's your fault - EXCITED :)
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to all

Sounds like SPD, Bebe. Get thee to an obstetric physio, methinks.

Felix is a bit slow on speaking, although he understands a lot. However he can now climb out of the cot, run along the top landing, navigate the stair gate and make him way unaccompanied downstairs to ask for further refreshments. As his father found out just after Christmas. We were a bit .

He can also do yoga and is a big fan of Waybuloo. He comes to fetch me specially when it is on and we have to copy everything on there.

Holly vocabulary is quite extensive. I was particularly proud when she said FFS a few weeks ago.

Puzzle I love your kids, they really are amazing! They are honestly just what I want my little girls to be like . Can I borrow them? And you can have the twins when they arrive? Just for a little while...

Oh ok so K is normal then and Holly, Oscar and Meg are just very clever little boys and girls!!!

MathsHoney!!!!! - where have you been? How are you?

I have to point out that O was much later than any of your babies on the physical front - he didn't crawl or walk for a long time compared to other babies his age. I've heard that they either concentrate on walking or talking early on, but they all level out in the end. K was very early on the crawling, walking, climbing front as far as I recall - he was running when O was just about rolling over!

Puzzle - I would have thought 'eeks' was more appropriate given the context I have had to be very careful around O since he went through a phase of saying 'oh bollocks' (we've managed to knock that one on the head) and a one off repeat of 'fuck it' when he woke up for the fifth time in the night over Christmas and heard me say it under my breath

I see Bron's in the paper again.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2470175/Romanian-woman-44-gives-birth-to-18th-child-in-Canada.html

The Romanian woman looks old for 44!

Hi Maths! :)

as for inappropriate lang... Meg when she gets upset because something breaks of falls says : GRRRR BUHCK! at first I wasn't positive she was actually doing it, but it's getting clearer I told dh he better start watching more closely what he says when he's upset.
Do you say: don't say that? or do you just let it go? she really has no idea what she's saying...

Glad i'm not the only one with a mini Gordon Ramsay.

I seem to have a mini dictator. 'Do this', 'Do that', 'Get up', 'No!' No idea where he gets that from

bebe - with the 'oh bollocks' thing we had to have a conversation about it as he was saying it all the time. I told him that it was a naughty word and that mummy was naughty when she said it (he must have picked it up from me - I used to say it all the time) and that I was sorry for saying it. I said that it's much better to say 'oh bother' as in 'bother that cat' in Mog the Forgetful Cat. He thought that was hilarious and spent the next few days saying 'oh bother that cat' very loudly with me on tenterhooks every time to see which one he'd come out with. He did say 'oh bollocks' a couple more times but each time I reminded him it was a naughty word, got him to say sorry, and reminded him that 'oh bother' is what we say instead. Seemed to work.

The first time he said it repeatedly while sat in his highchair I had to leave the room as I was laughing so hard.

BB - O is incredibly bossy too. The best thing is when I've directed asked DH to do something and O will then repeat my demand request to DH in exactly the same nagging tone

Felix is imperious as well.

Buggar buggar buggar! (Bottle!)
Clothes off!
No nappy! Wassis? Will-ll-ee!
Hi joos! (orange juice)
Ah joos! (apple juice)
Biggie, biggie, biggie! (biscuit!)
Coat off!
Coat on!
Shoes!
Mummy baf! Daddy baf! Clothes off!
Bear!
Go doo doot! (Go and see the trains!)
Car!
Pat pat pat! (Watch Postman Pat on your iPhone)

Missed you all! :) I have been attempting to have a social life... Bloody stpuid idea. What did I miss? X

BB is having TWINS!

Oi Boff you have as many as me.
Need word of the day (actually yesterday) is dot-ter. dd when to the hospital so I think it's doctor

I also have a mini dictator who likes to boss every one around particularly her big brother 'Odder'. She doesnt like being told No and most of the time you will get' No mummy topit no touch gen' or 'mine... Mine... MINE' which she is often growling/screaming at Oscar. She is very very independant 'Me doit' or 'Me gettit' we are currently hoping that she will take after Oscar for her exclamation of displeasure as he has just started pronouncing 'Oh Chicken Feathers' if something doesnt go his way

Hi FM.

Now, where is Vezzie????