April 2009 Episode 15 Bebe & BB have babies n stuff

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I said it on FB but wanted to say it here too... Happy 3rd Birthday to all our gorgeous April babies. Well and truly out of the baby stage now although H will always be my little baby!

H is so excited about her birthday this year, she keeps asking whether it's her birthday yet and who's coming to her party and what kind of cakes/biscuits there will be... she thought it was her birthday when it was Easter and we had to explain that there was another celebration still to come. She's getting way too many presents and I have an ambitious cake project... something like this although mine won't look anything like as good. It's shop bought cakes next year, that's for sure.

Hope everyone is well, sounds like Kara needs grommets BB3, I haven't read far enough back but H had them done in December 2010 and it was really quick and easy. Fingers crossed for you.

This thread has been around for almost a year and has only got 600 messages... what has happened to us?

Happy birthday all the wee ones who turn three this week!

Please come and tell me (again) that we are not the only house suffering from epic tantrums. I thought we were coming out of this stage but they are worse again, and more sophisticated too. He can keep the screaming up for over an hour! It can't just be us. Everyone else's children seem so chilled...

Schulte, I just can't get my head around Holly being 3. I see her as much smaller than Ellen at the same age. Which is daft because she truly isn't and is a fair bit more independent.
Shop bought cakes for us this year. Holly has requested a pink butterfly cake. It will match all the largely pink presents. Bleurgh. I console myself that she likes F1, Motorhead, and kicking arse though.

Sorry Zulu, sounds grim. H was like that last year for a bit and it was awful but it stopped suddenly rather than petered out. I hope it's the same for you. Sending you a virtual gin bottle x

'twas not me being Jesus, in a cabbage van or otherwise ...

Wrt potty training boys, the Pirate Pete book worked for us, as did buying a splendid Fisher Price frog potty. Nursery were great too, as they have very sociable toilet moments all together. But Felix still has lots of accidents overall.

I knew we were getting there when I walked past the bathroom one day and Felix had taken himself off to sit on the potty voluntarily. "What are you doing?" I asked. "I doing a poo" came the reply, and he was as well! The next day he did the same but tipped the poo into the sink in an attempt to clean up, before using wet shredded loo roll to complement to effect. It smelled like something had died in there. I had to bleach the whole room. We now have an agreement that he will call for help when finished!

Boff... Bleurgh!!

I always jump when H announces she needs a poo - I can just see the stuff smeared everywhere if I am not quick enough to wipe her bottom. Luckily we are way past the potty stage now - she's quite happy to use the loo. In fact the potty is going in the skip today together with the rest of our old bathroom We have also taken DD1 out of night time nappies at last at the grand old age of 5 and H is dry at night (always has been since around 10 months old) so we are a truly nappy free house now and it's great.

Don't talk to me about poo.

Have just cleaned up a monster poo accident from Mr Buttonhole. He has wees pretty sorted, in that he will do a wee when taken to the loo and hold it in between (unless we forget and leave it too long )....but he doesn't tell us he needs to go and poos are a complete mystery.

Just now he did a wee in his pants, so I took him to the loo and put him on, said 'Is there a poo? Have a push for a poo' and he said 'Don't want to' and got off the toilet.

Two minutes later, massive poo accident.

Am at end of tether. My hands are dry and cracked from constant hand washing, the washing machine is expiring from overuse, and yesterday the nursery threw away a pair of his pants because the poo accident was too much for them to cope with.

Gah.

Moo won't poo in the toilet any more. We were doing really good with it and then suddenly...nope, not happening. (toilet training so not going well here) She holds it and has it first thing in the morning (pretty much the second she wakes up).
At some point, when everyone is finally sleeping through the night and I start waking up before her again, I'll get her up and take her straight to the toilet to do it then... so I figure she may be 10 before we're sorted.

On a change of subject, someone has just bought Felix a Trunki for his birthday and it's brilliant! We have been wheeling around the house all afternoon!

Ah I like those. Nice.

I always thought potty training was supposed to be easier with the second child?

Little Miss Independent here has this thing about doing everything for herself and will throw a tantrum if you dare to put the toothpaste on the brush for her, or help her put her shoes on, or whatever. It's hard work.

I get a better version of that. Felix stands by the door with hat and coat on, after a fashion, nursery bag in hand, sometimes 'cardian' as well, announcing he is ready and we should be too!

Hello ladies and happy birthday to the April babies (can I still call them that?!) - how can they possibly be 3?!

Poos and wees pretty much on the toilet here - although he hates stopping to go to the loo if he's in the middle of doing something and can jiggle for a VERY long time before rushing to the loo and then having a dribble in his pants. This is particularly annoying as he KNOWS he needs to go. Pirate Pete book worked for us as well.

Zulu - Tantrums here still occasionally - we had an uber tantrum the other day in front of a new mum friend and her son who we'd invited over to play (new house etc) - it was because O wouldn't share. It was epic. I was mortified.

BB3 - any luck with flashcards etc with K? Fingers crossed the consultant will move things along quickly - you'd think they would seeing as it took them so long to diagnose him poor little mite.

So - are we going to attempt a meet up in the summer as the April one seemed to die a death? Would love to see you all...

I am up for a summer meet-up, but we need to avoid August please. How about June/July?

H cried all the way home yesterday because I had committed the cardinal sin of pressing the lift button in the nursery lift before she could. Jeez it's hard work, DD1 never had this independency thing, is it a second child speciality?

Bicnod, DD1 has been toilet trained for years now and still leaves it to the very last minute before she announces she's desperate and legs it to the loo. I don't get it.

I want a trunkie! The gruffalo one in fact!

Bicnod how are you enjoying Winchester life? Flashcards are helpful but signing is a big no! He just refuses to let you do it and holds your hands - unless it's donkey or ginger cat - bless!

Schultes at miss independent, I might have one of those in Ayse-Rose (no fear for her lazy sister though I'll probably be doing everything for her for the next 20 years ).

Puzz - how is e getting on?

She's ok thanks. The weather is playing havoc with her chest but she's a little trooper.

Hello everyone!
My second April baby was 1 on Sunday.
Happy birthday to all of your gorgeous April babies!

Has anyone seen Auld recently?

Just popping in to say hello x hope the remainder of the April babies have / had lovely birthdays x

Hi BB! Quiet on here at the moment. Hope everyone is ok xx

Hi hope the last of the lo's had lovely days.

We had a breakthrough with Moo and toilet training. I got brand new treats for poopoo and she likes them so much she tries throughout the day now. AND she also managed to go to the toilet at her Nana and Gramp's 3x!!! I had squirrelled away some lollies from Starbucks (which she really loves) for sometime when she went outside the house. And when I got one out for her after she went her eyes nearly bugged out of her head. (usually she just gets a tictac for going to the toilet at home). I feel like we've had a turn around...tho maybe she just really wanted candy that day as she didn't eat anything her Nana made for lunch.

How is everyone else doing?

Well done meg!

Hi Zulu! You back at work yet?

Hi BB - yes, I've been back at work for nigh on 3 months now. I'm really enjoying it, although have the inevitable sadness about leaving a baby. I don't feel so sad about leaving the three year old! What are your plans?

I'm back at work but not loving it - and thinking of leaving for something closer to home.

Currently on hols though then back just in time for the jubilee weekend! Bliss at all this time off!

Shame the weather wont last

Same work just different location?

Yes we've been bought out by a bigger agency so the flexibility I have currently will not be sustainable long term so I just won't see the kids the days I'm in London!

How are you and the girls?

K has his operation at the end of June - excited and scared in equal measure x

Bugger. I hope you find something.

We are good thanks. Grateful for the sunshine, Ellen has been much better. We went to the cinema on Sunday and had the whole place to ourselves, it was fab.

Keep us updated. The people I have spoken to have had it done said they couldn't describe what an amazing difference it made. Like a switch had been turned on.