July 2010: Talking Tenacious Tantruming Toddlers Too Tiny To Turn Two.

[Spirael]

Here we go again...

They said they think he was dairy and wheat intolerant but had grown out of it by the time the results for the coliacs results came back but saying that I dont give him dairy anymore and his poo is fine too.
of my am I tired! everyone has goe from the thread, bet mlic is having a fab time! cakes where are you?

Im having a cuppa and going bed, and im not pandering to L tonight, I mean business!

How did last night go memphis ?

I've still got my 360 and I love it. I was pushing S in the single babyjogger this morning and was wishing I had the 360 instead, it's just easier to push! I did cc with both of mine and I'll do it with B for sure if he needs it. Tbh though I didn't do cc til 11 months with L and 12 months with S. I wanted to be sure they weren't hungry, were eating well and just needed a nudge to get them through the night. I won't do it with B til 10 months at the earliest just cos I couldn't do it when they're tiny!

Last night was loads better, he got up at 11.30, but only needed lying back down, then 2.30 bu then I had more sleep than I had in the last few days so felt ok getting up but stood firm and told him to lie down, he did, then 20 mins later he was hysterical screamig about a bear and I wet in ad he clung to me screamig that there was a bear in the door, turns out he watched the golde compass at my mums with a fight scene betwee bears so I had to show him there were no bears then he slept til 7.30! so not a terrible night after all, he realised pretty early on he wasnt getting a drink or book!

Is L quite affected by stuff he watches then? My L was as well, we had to ban a few cartoons or fast forward through the scary bits. So far S doesn't seem too upset by things and just laughs them off. You never know til they wake up screaming though unfortunately!

viks I'll fb you so people can't stalk us and meet up on the same day :)

He hasnt been in the past but he is starting to dream i reckon. Last night i checked on him and he said mummy mummy ooohhhhh (as in his elephant noise) including his arm for a trunk then went back to sleep!

If he still has 18oz of formula a day Memph you are giving him dairy, and a blooming' lot of it for that matter

I have no idea how much milk W has as I just give him a cup every now and again I don't measure it. He has weetabix every day so has a good amount with that and he has maybe one cup to drink a day. Plus cheese, yogurt and butter etc.

Holiday was fab but I've been I'll since Friday - had a heavy cold sine the weekend before and it's done something to my ears leaving me dizzy all the time :( I have tablets to keep it in control though.

W is asleep on my lap. Not good at 4.20pm is it...

Sorry you had a shitty birthday vik :(

Yep childcare is insane. But staying at home drove me insane too so it's worth the short term pain for me...only one more year of both in, then one year of just W, then I'm home free

mlic he is on soya formula. I know its a lot of milk we have dropped 6 oz this week so far I just dont know what to do I cant cut it off it totally and je wont drink anything but formula.
Hope your feeling better soon.

Went oxford last night had first drink at 12 noon and rolled in at 4am. My hangover hit while we were still out, but after a 3 hour kids party im shattered!

Ahhh I didn't realise that

Just waiting for an Indian as I cba to cook! Football on the tv but rest assured I'll be watching 24 on the ipad

ha, I'm watching the football here at 6.50am, well, in between flicking it over to kids tv when G gets grumpy.

Dh's birthday is tomorrow (Tuesday) and I have bought nothing yet so I have to rush round while A is at pre school and get him something.

Busy Sunday here - I woke up to Sky news showing me pics of Hebden Bridge all flooded - my brother and his family live there so I chatted to them on Facebook to find out they were ok, then I had to go out to get a birthday present for a party A was going to, then we went to the party for 3 hours, then on to another party for the head teacher of her preschool who is retiring. Sugar-fuelled craziness all day :).

Chul I have NO IDEA how you keep going on the tiny amount of sleep you are getting.

No I have no idea either chul!

It's W's birthday then mine then dh's in the space of 20 days next month. Makes for an expensive time of year. In my house there are two adults, two children and two dogs - three birthdays in July and three in December!

Birthdays here - in June I have my nephew, my brother, then me, then dh, then mil! And G in July. I've sent a card to mil, I'm leaving it to dh to order some flowers or something - I've spent plenty of time in the past putting together photo albums for her and she is his mother, after all .

Memphis A has nightmares occasionally but no sign from G yet - she is sleeping through well now - though still waking at 5-something sometimes.

We're quite spread out on birthdays here which makes life easier, although June is house insurance, landlord insurance, car insurance, car tax and tv licence plus anniversary spending which basically wipes out our pay packet in the first 3 days...this year I thought I'd be clever and buy 6 months of car tax to knock it round a bit although then it'll be due at Christmas so we can't win either way!

S doesn't have nightmares yet although twice last week we woke up to him crying and found him standing by his bed. He hopped straight back in when we told him though and went to sleep without a peep so who knows what that was

DH is away now til Wed night, back for 2 days, one of which is a 7am start and a late finish, Sat we're off to my parents' for the day and then he's away again for a week on Sunday. The older 2 dicked about in their room despite neither of them having a nap today, finally went quiet about 30 mins ago. I'd get an early night but I'm a footie fan so gotta watch the game. Early nights all this week for sure though, I'm shredded (and not in a good way)

You don't have a choice on keeping going though, that's the problem. If someone had told me 5 years ago that I'd be surviving for 3+ months on 5 hours broken sleep or less a night I'd have called them a liar. I'm not functioning well though, I scare myself driving sometimes cos I'm just not concentrating and the house is nearly always an absolute shit tip! It's just a phase though, itisitisitisitisitisitisitisitis

Sorry you were ill on holiday mlisc always the fricking way isn't it?! Hope the dizzyness goes soon!

chul I dont know how you do it, last week nearly killed me off, It worries me with my illness as i know when I get run down so quickly and if I dont get sleep I could end up in hospital.
In July we have L's, MIL's and dh's grandma then no birthdays til september. In Dec we have birthdays on the 16th, 18th and then new years day.
DH is away tomorrow, we are going to our first wedding fair on Sunday im looking forward to champers on arrival, mums friend works there so im hoping to get a few glasses in!

Rahhhhhhhhhh hay feaver, its driving me mad, im having a 24hr tablet twice a day and its still bad! Cant tell dh that the amazing bunch of flowers he sent me for my birthday is driving me nuts though can i and i cant put them out it must have cost him a fortune!
Been to the nursery this morning, D played like a dream and was sooooo sooo good, i was very proud, its gona cost £840 a month. Hmmmmmmmmm thats such a lot of money but i think it will be worth it for D's development and my state of mind, im slightly more concerned about F though, hes so young and its going to be hard for me to leave him but it has to be done so i cant fret about it too much.
We have had a lovely weekend just stayed in and done jobs around the house, D has enjoyed helping dh and F has enjoyed..........crying, whinging and a bit more crying, fab!
Nights are crapola here chu too, F is waking up two or three times and taking ages to settle again, i really think he has a tummy thing going on, im gona go back to the HV tomorrow and discuss weaning and milk and his general behavour coz i dont think he is right. Is B settling any better for u?
mylife what u gona do when E goes to school on work day, wil he go to after school club, what time do u pick them up now. I will be picking them up from nursery just before 6pm, its a really long day for them and i wish i could get there earlier.
So how many of our 'babies' are in big beds now, im wondering if we should do it over the summer, dont want it to clash with nursery though or should we wait till after christmas??

W is in a bed. has been for about 6weeks, a couple of months maybe. He is fine in it.

He wanted to sleep in E's bed tonight so I called his bluff cos he sometimes does that then screams when I shut the door. He didn't tonight, they've both gone to sleep!!!

I drop E at school at 8.30 vik then W at nursery about 8.45/8.50. I get the about 5.30 to pick them both up. It's only 4 days a week though and not all year round so I don't feel too bad about it.

My next decision is whether to potty train just after his birthday while I'm only working two days, or leave it until he's back at nursery four days a week.

G not in a bed yet, she would be fine in one but once she goes in a bed she has to move rooms and I cba to do all that yet. The room she's in is too teeny for a bed, it literally fits a cot and a table. I want to paint the room she is going to move into (currently the spare room) and I haven't done that yet either. Will prob get round to painting/ moving stuff at Christmas when dh has extended time off work.

Will prob look at potty training in summer when it's warmer, so Dec/Jan here, if she's ready by then.

I'm back from holiday! If you can call it a holiday. It rained pretty much the whole time and a combination of routine disregarding, sugar overload (doting GP-I-L) and teething meant that my normally reliable sleeper didn't sleep through once while we were away.

DH and I are shattered and have come home and back to work for a rest!! Unfortunately July is manic for both of us with both work and home lives, including blocks on any more days off and DH out of the country on business for a few days. Ugh!

M has had her big bed now for over a month and (holiday aside...) sleeps much much better in her toddler bed than she was doing in her cot! WSS, M's room is also cot/table only, but we've managed to get a toddler bed to fit horizontally under the window. Just.

Potty training isn't likely to happen for a while yet here. Preferably not until we've moved house (to somewhere with a downstairs/second toilet) and she's moved up to Tweenies room at nursery - as that room has junior toilets attached, whereas the Toddler room just has the nappy change area.

Still no-one interested in buying our house though, boo!

Has anyone else had an appointment through for the 2-year-check for their toddler? M has hers booked in two weeks time, apparently scheduled for a 30 minute appointment. That'll be novel, given that most of my HV appointments have been

You mean M can't recite the alphabet backwards in cantonese whilst standing on one leg, patting her head and rubbing her tummy already? Slack spirael, slack!

I wrote a long post last night and only just realised that it hasn't posted grr...
I'll be back hopefully after tea/bath/bed/Shred (if I cba)

spirael L will probably shout noooooooo for the whole 30 mins, he thinks its highly amusing that he can hold the ooooooo for so long! ours will be with our new hv so im wondering what to expect, L still hardly eats compared to the others on here!

L has for the past 2 days been drinking mostly soya milk! I cant believe it so looks like formula is off of our shopping list at long last as it has gone up to £9.22 a tin, it was £6.99 when I bought the first tin for him!

I have been painting all day, dh came home at 3 and I set him about it too and we have totally decorated the living room.... well glossed and painted the 2 walls, now we just have to wallpaper the long wall!

chul

Yay for shredding chul, I've done it before work the last two days

It's opposite here spirael! It goes baby room, weenies, tweenies, toddlers, per-school. W moved up this week from Tweenies to Toddlers where they too have a toilet in the room

No 2yr check appointment here yet

I was told they were running approx 2-3 months late here with the 2yr checks so I'm not expecting S's til September ish. With L they just did things like seeing how many bricks they could stack, could they point to bob the builder's nose/ears/eyes, could they hold a pencil the right way, could they follow simple things like 'put the ball in the cup' 'take the ball out of the cup'. s has no chance

memphis every time I think bfing is a tie and I don't want to do it anymore, the price of formula puts me right off!

I don't really want to Shred but both L and S are pratting around (again) DH is due home soon so I might start once he's back, I don't want to have to keep stopping to run up and shout at them tell them off but I want to do it before the footy... I can't really be arsed but I'm more of a weight loss by exercise rather than diet person so it's the only way and I know it sheds weight if you can keep it up, and it is only 30 mins mlisc I can't believe you do it before work!

viksam have you heard of acupuncture for hayfever? I read about it somewhere and I was wondering about sorting it out for DH, I don't get it but it spoils our summer when we're all outside and DH is hibernating indoors.

chul holds a pencil the right way??? Oh L wont hold a pencil long enough to see it in his hands! Right then the lessons start in the morning
Does any of the toddlers know colours? L hasnt got a clue!

S seems to react positively when I ask for specific colours but he often can't tell the difference between me asking him for the nappy changing mat or the baby wipes so who knows what's going on in his head...