Feb 2010 They're all walking and talking....and some are even sleeping. The babies are doing okay too.

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Pull up a comfy chair, grab a cuppa and a piece of cake, switch the monitors on low and let's PARTY.....!!!

When she's proper ill she sleeps a lot, so that stage is alright. It's when she's better enough to do things but ill enough to be grumpy, tired but not sleeping. At this point I still try and take her out for a bit in the morning and just survive the afternoon. If I can get DS down it's normally fine (but that's most days anyway tbh) As she's waking at night, I take DS and DH takes her

At the park today not only were there puddles to splash in but a big tractor thing came and parked next to the fence. She was almost beside herself. Plus she was generally adorable at playgroup today and said 'pease' to someone offering out fruit. We haven't taught her to say it, just hoping she picks it up. She seems fine today just a bit rashy but mouth has cleared.

My mum tells that brother no. 2 slept 15 hours at night waking for one feed at 13 hours.

Sorry to Rainbow's ds for missing her big day. Happy birthday anyway.

Fantastic news about the scan IC.

Sorry to hear about so many poorly ones. Wishing speedy recoveries for all and not too much grumping!

Ds2 is now pretty much back to normal, though considerably lighter. Will get him weighed tomorrow to see how far he's dropped and will then go monthly to see if we are going in the right direction.

Off to watch One Born and avoid getting broody.

Happy birthday to IC DD

bethy good news on your DS2

rainbow

Happy birthday to your DD too IC. Birthdays coming in fast now!

The picking up approach seems to work with DD too, who says thank you spontaneously :). "Please" now occurs when she particularly wants something, likely picked up as we say it to her when we want her to do something she not keen on at the time. And on the topic of getting parents to do what you want, yesterday when I was upstairs and she wanted me to come downstairs to her, she told me she had poo-ed, though she hadn't. According to DH that has happened a couple of times before! Where do they learn these things!?

Good news on your DS2 bethylou, how's DS1 too?

Belated happy birthday to rainbow's dd and very happy birthday to IC's dd today. (Not very organised...)

dd2 has started the terrible 2s a little early (well, a week early ) and spends quite a lot of time whining, howling, or carefully lying herself on the kitchen floor before having a full blown tantrum with screaming and kicking her legs... . One night last week she was beside herself and her shouting upset dd1 who was trying to eat her dinner, so I picked dd2 up and took her down the hallway and just into the living room (carpet) and lay her down there. She carried on howling on the floor but pushed herself like a slug back into the hallway and towards the kitchen. I left her a minute, then went up to her and asked her if she would like some dinner. She stopped howling, said yes, got up and meekly followed me, sat down and ate her food... I found it really hard not to laugh at her but it was pretty funny at the time!
In other ways she's growing up fast though. She now likes me to do her hair in the morning and happily walked into nursery today with a cute little ponytail . She is now also in proper big girl vests and pants (and nappy...) rather than bodies. And no more babygrows but proper big girl pyjamas... All very cute but she is definitely no baby any longer.

We lost sleeping bags and babygro's in one swipe at the weekend :)

Happy Birthday IC's DD

I'm keeping the sleepsuits until spring as DS room get cold in the winter and he's wearing a warm cotton sleepsuit and a fleecy over sleepsuit.

Weird question but how do you keep their belly warm when using birg boy/girl vest? When DS wears one it always gets out of his trousers and he also like to pull it up to look st hid belly

IC did your DD enjoy her aquadoodle?

you say your keeping them until spring but... like us, you might not get a choice

Is that because they don't fit or LO refuse to wear them?

because they were on the floor

Crakey, I'm well impressed by your DD. He hasn't really started to undress himself yet also DS sleepsuits have poppers on the back I hope it may help to delay the change.

However, he will pull down his nappy if he doesn't wear trousers....

Nappy comes off if no vest, thankfully the reusable nappies give her a bug enough bum that she hasn't worked out how to take trousers off, otherwise she's capable of taking tops and vests off if they can fit over her head (i.e. no buttons).

Sorry had to run up before finishing last post as DD was waking. scones on the trampoline, it was just the standard toddler trampoline with a handle, so quite small.

Hehe - couldn't help chuckling at your description of your DD's tantrum bg

DS is a 'no' phase - it's driving me nuts Yesterday morning I spent 5 mn arguing convicing him to put his nappy on, the conversation was simi;ar to this:

Me: Let's change your nappy
DS: No
Me while taking the nappy off and making sure he didn't fall: For nursery you need a clean nappy
DS: NO
Me: Okay so if you don't wear a nappy you need to wear a big boy pants and use the potty for your pipi
DS: now screaming: No
So then I put his nappy on as he was already screaming anyway

Deep breath!

Ahahahaha! evil laugh! DD2 hasn't fit into a sleepsuits for a while. She has been in proper big girl (boys? very cute 5 yo boys zara home pij. They do size small, she is not a freak!) pyjamas for a loong time (a year?). She has always refused grobags . But the blanket has to be put on exactly right, cheeky monkey!

The "no" phases has been full on for a long long time too, actually it is probably the only things she can say: "NO" and "Ma maman" to any baby who dares come close to me; sometimes even only look at me .

IC happy birthday to your DD! I hope she had a nice time.

rainbow happy new year, sorry you couldn't celebrate properly. Hope it gets better soon.

BG chuckling too! DD2 like to tantrum hidden into dark cupboards; really

Thanks for all the birthday wishes for DD!

She's had a lovely day, although fairly low key as her little tea party is on Saturday.
I took her to a soft play cafe this morning, the first time she's been to anything like that and she loved it. Was Little Miss Independent, too - quite happy to bounce around in the soft play area, push toys about or sit and play with whatever she found without needing me to be nearby or even within sight. A new friend bought all of us fairy cakes as a treat, which was perfect birthday timing for DD!

She hugely enjoyed opening her presents and seemed pretty pleased with all of them. She had a brief go on the Aquadoodle, but I think was initially most taken by the little play mobile phone a friend of mine gave her and the collages of family and friends photos (BG and PA's respective DDs are featured!) we made to go on her bedroom wall. She's now asleep with her new pillow in her cot, she was pretty chuffed about that too.

I do hope the poorly LOs are well on the way to recovery now. And good to hear rainbow's DD had a fun early party, even if the actual day was a bit downbeat. Your DD's tantrum sounded pretty funny, BG...!
Boo to the house business, Bc.

Also thanks for the good wishes wrt the scan. It has made me feel so much more positive about things, although I'm aware there are still plenty of possible slips twixt cup and lip.
I have my booking in appointment with the midwife the week after next - not sure if that's linked to the 12 week scan booking or not, Scones - if they're going by my LMP, then they will still be looking at closer to four weeks than three for that. I guess I'll find out soon.

Tantruming in cupboards mous that's a very unusual place.

I think I can consider myself as lucky as DS is still in sleepsuit, sleeping bag and never tried to escape from his cot as it means we all have good mights sleeping

mous dd2 realised today that it is much nicer to have a tantrum lying on the small rug in the corner of the kitchen than on the hard cold quarry tiles... Yesterday I stopped a tantrum dead by opening the kitchen door and inviting dd2 to have a look at the cat poo left in the garden by a neighbour's cat.

BG

No real tantrums here, today's bonus was a fire engine parked outside. I had someone round who had a 3 year old who was equally impressed.

I am getting quite inventive . Picking her up for a huge cuddle and a bit of a dance sometimes helps too when she is just too overwhelmed with being nearly 2 to cope with her emotions. She's getting very aware of her position in our family ('the baby' ) and I think she may no longer like that. Coming home from nursery she brought a tiger mask with her that she had made and told me before we got home that it had to go on the kitchen wall. I now make sure that there are an equal number of pictures etc on the wall from both girls

Happy birthday to IC's DD. Sounds like she had a lovely day.

My DS is also 'no'ing and tantrumming like a good-un. They don't last long luckily but they are over such silly things. For example I asked him if he wanted an apple - he said yes. Then he shouted at me because I wanted to wash it before giving it to him.

He had a mammoth nap today because I fell asleep too. He did 1.30 until 4.15 so I didn't bother to put him to bed on time. I gave him another hour and he went down very nicely when I did.

We had unexpected guests for dinner. My tenant had locked himself out and I had the spare keys so he came round with his little boy who's about 7 I think and I was cooking a thai curry (was going to leave leftovers for DH tomorrow) but as they were running late I asked them to stay and DS had a brilliant time chasing and throwing toy fruit around with the big boy. They really do love older children don't they?

And when I was reading to him in my bed he bent over and kissed my tummy unprompted. I nearly cried.

Happy birthday for yesterday to IC's DD. And I'm sure you will all have a lovely time at her tea party tomorrow

bethy very relieved to hear that DS2 is better.

at all the tantrums. We haven't really had many here yet but one in particular of DD's little friends is a terror. She screamed for 10mins solid at a toddler group yesterday, I didn't think it was possible

I was wondering about when to go into 'big' vests too. We bought DD's 18-24 vests in Asda which was a mistake as they are rubbish - necks too stretchy, poppers coming off. So she needs some new ones and I suppose we'll have to move up to big girl vests I'm putting off proper PJs for as long as I can because I think she looks so adorable in babygros.

What is an aquadoodle?

bc aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

DD1's cold continues to be quite ferocious, mine peaked on Wedsnesday, I really felt at the end of my tether. Why is there always so much sodding washing to be done, it drives me mad. I've put DD1 in disposables for a couple of days because her poos were so, so foul I just cant face scraping any more of them into the toilet (she never does nice neat poos you can just plop right in sigh) - of course she hasn't pooed since Anyway I'm doing a nappy wash every other day at the moment, at least one other wash load per day and sometimes too, and I feel slightly hysterical with it all.