April 2004.... count down to the second birthday!

[Yorkiegirl]

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[tracyk]

ds still not really settling at his 2 nurseries. Seems to get better as the week goes on and is fine by Friday - but then regresses over the weekend - so left there howling by dh this morning again. Hope it will get better soon.
Hope you all had nice weekends. We had fab weather Sat and not so nice yesterday and a bit mixed today.

[fennel]

We're also living with everything lost in boxes, can't unpack til move from rental to new house - but have found a house to buy, hurrah . Unfortunately all the documents we need to buy it are lost in boxes.

dd3 has been sleeping in a proper bed at a friend's house this weekend, she behaved so well in it and was so proud of herself we might move her from a cot to a toddler bed soon.

am v impressed at tennis playing dd, chuffed.

[fennel]

oh, tracyk, dd3 is also howling at her new nursery, she's going twice a week and complaining about it. it's hard when she was so settled at the old one. i suppose it's just normal toddler behaviour but it's horrible leaving her yelling pitifully.

[Chuffed]

Hugs for you both with homesick littleones, sort of glad that I don't have to do that at the mo.
Totally understand those boxes Fennel, still living around them.
Is everybody's littleones still having an afternoon nap, dd is certainly trying not to, she has been in her room an hour and a half and is quite happily playing by herself but no sleep. This happens more times than not.
Fennel wouldn't call dd tennis playing yet but dh and I are both keen to get back into it so she will most likely start at some point.
dd really clingy today at the playcentre (parent co-op preschool) not sure if it is the MMR thing starting to kick in she had it last week or if she is just having a bad day.
Take care, hope you all have good weeks.

[tracyk]

Thanks Fennel - good to hear not just ds howling. Tho he is happy as larry when I pick him up at lunchtime. But it does break your heart hearing them cry for you.
If ds has been up early in the morning eg pre 6.30am or if I know he is going visiting in the afternoon - I force him to have a nap by driving him around in the car till he falls asleep - otherwise he won't stay in his bedroom - just follows me back out to the lounge! Tho I have found that he is more willing to fall asleep at 11.45 am ish rather than 1 ish. I think he is naturally sleepy at 11 and gets a second wind by 1pm.

[LucyJones]

Hi everyone!! Chuffed - ds still hs an afternoon nap but sometimes it takes him ages to get to sleep and i do wonder what the point is!! When he doesn't have one he usually falls asleep on me sometime in the afternoon. I remember my SIL used to let my neice at this age fall asleep in front of a dvd on the sofa after lunch so maybe that is what will eventually happen!!

[tracyk]

I find if ds goes to sleep for his nap too late on the afternoon then he goes into a really deep sleep and is grumpy till bedtime.

[fennel]

dd3 is dropping her nap too, some days she has it late or not at all.

with dd2 we gave up naps at this age cos the effort of getting her to go to bed and stay there TWICE a day was just too stressful (she was in a toddler bed, having climbed out of her cot too often). getting her to stay in bed once a day was hard enough.

[tracyk]

If ds has a decent nap he's in bed for 7.30 and usually asleep for 8. If no nap then in bed for 7ish and asleep for 7.30. No matter what - he's up at 6.15am!

[fennel]

dd3 sleeps about 7pm - 7am and has an hour or an hour and a half nap - but the naps are getting shorter and later in the afternoon. today it was 4-5.30.

[hewlettsdaughter]

DD still naps most days although yesterday it was only for half an hour. She never naps in the cot, just on me or in the buggy. At night she sleeps from 7.30-ish to 6-ish (we had a lovely period after the clocks changed where she slept in for longer, but she's gone back to her old ways now - boo!)

Hope unsettled children become settled soon. Was ds ok after his fall dolbear?

[Dottydot]

Fennel - congrats on finding a house! Dp and I have noticed that ds2 is cutting down his afternoon naps - although he still really needs them. He used to have a good 2 hours after lunch but he's down to an hour now - and then is really grumpy by tea time... Still sleeping 7pm - 7am though! We're hoping to either fling him in his brother's room or get him in a bed in September (after our holiday in August where we need him to still fit into a travel cot!!).

[MrsDoolittle]

Dd sleep from 7pm til 8am maybe later of we didn't wake her. Often she won't nap atall these days, at weekends though she'll sleep for a good while.
Maybe I'm spoilt, this is why I'm having such a hard time this time.
It's getting better though, I think we have turned the corner. I'm not using Gaviscon anymore, I don't need to. Thanks for asking

[fennel]

Mrs D, glad to hear you're feeling better.

any progress on the hens? do you have any yet?

[MrsDoolittle]

Yep! I have three beautiful Buff Sussex hens. I bought them from a breeder suggested by HMC. I love having them, they mark the beginning of my recovery meaning I can see the wood for the trees now
We had poached eggs on haddock tonight for dinner - scrummy!!

[hewlettsdaughter]

Sounds fab MrsD! :)

[MrsDoolittle]

Cheers HD How are you?
You're not the pregnant one who's not telling are you?

[hewlettsdaughter]

No, not me! (wondered what you meant there for a moment but have just checked out the thread).

How are you? How is dd1 adjusting to life with a brother?

[Dottydot]

Mrs D - really glad you're starting to feel better - try and take it as easy as you can though (ho, ho...).

[tracyk]

Anyone else going through a 'challenging' time? ds is driving me nuts.
He goes to nursery in the mornings and I have a choice - either try and drive around till he goes to sleep in the car - hopefully he has a decent nap and is ok - but 50% of the time he wakes after an hour and is hell on earth till bedtime. or I don't let him nap and he is fine up until about 5 o clock and then it's hell on earth!
the slightest little thing sends him into a full blown tantrum. I know its sheer tiredness that makes him do it and there is no reasoning with him - so I usually give him what he wants - but then 10 minutes later its something else!

[fennel]

tracyk, dd3 was like this a couple of weeks ago but has improved dramatically since then (but she still howls when taken to nursery, which is a downer). she was appalling for a while though. I decided she must have been more stressed by the house move and nursery move etc than i'd realised.

one thing that's really improved her mood is going out to more toddler focused activities. we started a toddler group which she's loving (luckily i'm quite enjoying it too) and went to soft play another day, she really perked up a lot, made me realise i was probably not doing much with her (being toddler-activity fatigued on number 3)

[tracyk]

My prob with going to these type of outings is the leaving at the end - ds can really kick off when being put back in the car to go home. It really takes the shine off any good time we've had.

[fennel]

oh yes well i am just hardened to that tantrumming bit . it can last a long time. my new neighbour has 2 lovely children age 6 and 4 who i really like but every time they have to leave our house to go home they both have a tantrum. and seriously, these are nice children i welcome into our house.