December 2012: the little monsters continue to surprise us.

[MaMaPo]

I for one have a very surprising baby.

Poor you utopian, dd2 and I had a bug when T was a few weeks old, somehow she escaped it. Fx lo does too and you feel better soon.

Today at the baby course we go to I realised something. DS is not like other babies.

Now I know allllll babies are different, and DS is the oldest at the group. But nothing phased him. Today we had a paddling pool filled with balls. Which DS wanted to dive into head first, repeatedly. Then there was a big noisy toy with little balls inside that run down (like a colourful rain stick thing with little wheels and things that spin). Both of these things made at least three of the other babies cry and the other 2 babies found it too much after a few minutes. DS, on the other hand, tried to steal the course leaders rattle stick thingy. He loved it! When she tried to get it back he head to be distracted and bribed with a colourful cloth.

The other mums describe him as a hooligan (well that the direct translation) but he is a very friendly happy hooligan . Who else has a stranger loving, fearless, noise addicted, smiley baby?
I think we're going to be taking him to a lot of sporting activities in the future!

I just found ds lying on his tummy across his car seat I have no idea how he got there.

I do have good HV round here. Will see how she is tonight.

I missed a parcel delivery and if I miss it again tomorrow I have to pick it up from my local depot...in Fareham miles away don't see why they couldn't just leave it with a neighbour or round the back (or even on the doorstep like everyone else does!)

Nutella I meant to say I think you should go for separates in the underwear department sixties style

utopian hope you are feeling better

spotty no better suggestions I'm afraid, but I do know it's horrible when they have accidents. Doesn't happen very often but dd1 gets very upset when it does.

So, baby lazza slept 6.45 to 4.10am last night!! Then went back to sleep (admittedly on me!) until 5.50am. One off? Hope not! Although it seems (or something)has played havoc with her naps today. She went down fine first thing, but then would NOT sleep again till 1.30ish. So just 2 x 40 min sleeps all day

I do, Nutella - at 9 months he's still happy to go to anyone. I'm waiting for the separation anxiety thing...

Today, in response to my mum giving him a biscuit and saying it, R said Ta :o

DS isn't phased by anything tbh, oh I lie, he hates it when dd and ds1 put boxing gloves on and start "boxing", but that's it. He goes to and smiles at anyone, isn't bothered by noise/toys etc. He is completely fearless and generally likes to scare the hell out of me/DH with his climbing skills (he can now do stairs and climb on the sofa if he has anything to step on )

Bless him nutella, DD is pretty unphased but is definitely choosy about who she goes to, and has been known to freak out at a particularly loud sneeze!

What gets me is how behaviour by boys are put down to them being just boys, boisterous, little monkeys etc, but the same kind of thing from girls means they are little madams, difficult, stroppy etc etc Not aiming that at anyone in particular here but we get it a lot from mil & fil. Ayone else? Their other gc is a boy and he can do no wrong! He trashes the place, breaks toys, gets easily frustrated etc and I know they wouldn't (don't) tolerate it so much from dd1. I wonder if it's because he lives near them so sees them more. I hope our DD's never pick up on it.

Ds will go to anyone too. He started saying dada as well as mama and actually says it when dp picks him up or if he comes into the kitchen looking for him. He also looks at me, dp or dd if you say, for eg, 'where's mummy?' Just got to try and get him to say dd's name now

That's very cute pidg

Aw sweet spotty we don't have any of that. DS makes a mummmmummmmm noise when he's tired/wants attention/boob. But that's it really. He makes other noises now but no really babbling as such. He's more interested on hatching an escape plan, he worked out how to get out of the plastic bath seat earlier (one of the sit up ones that suckers to the bottom of the bath) I was watching like this you could almost see the lightbulb go on when he figured it out. I'm going to have problems containing this boy!

Best get a cage IsThat

I know just bought a load of ball pool balls to put in the travel cot to make his own ball pool that I can put him in safe in the knowledge he can't get out

IsThat I know exactly what you mean about that lightbulb moment . DS is getting into a proper crawling position and rocking, when he does it he has this really pleased look on his face; he knows! He also is pulling on things but isn't strong enough to pull himself up thank goodness

pidj that is cute!! Awww, little man makes lots of noises but nothing clear yet.
Spotty I can't wait for a mummy he better not say daddy or papa first! And yes that's sort of what I was thinking re undies spotty.

Lazza I know what you mean, I was that boisterous bossy little madam oh and I was also a reluctant napper ... so DS shouldn't really be a surprise

The baby group I was at today took a break over the summer, today was the first of the new sessions. DS is the only crawling baby (he is also the oldest but he has been commando crawling for a good 3/4 weeks already). But he did crawl over to a crying baby which was quite cute (123...awwwwwww ). I told the other ladies to enjoy their still babies!!! Oh and the vacuum cleaner does upset him to be fair he very rarely sees it... lazy mummy

isthat DS has a playpen already - a necessary item!!! Hmmm maybe he would be happier if it was filled with balls....

I have no room for a playpen sob

My SIL is trying to teach DNeice to crawl, she's 5mo, I laughed at her in a few months she will learn! absolutely had my heart set on another baby not crawling until 9mo, 6mo DS had other ideas!

Doctor says I have mild gastro. Yay. Have anti bacterialled myself hugely and hoping lo doesn't catch it.

On behaviour front O is very much a rampaging boy. He can crawl but would rather walk so is pulling himself up on everything and everyone who stays still long enough. He's also an absolutely collosal flirt, which is quite amusing..

Oh no Utopian, I hope you get over it quickly and ds doesn't get it

Get well soon Utopian .

Spotty/Pidge - sounds really sweet. We've got a lot of random noises, and the mamama/mum-mee seems to be becoming a bit more consistent when he wants me but still not often enough to be sure whether it's fluke or not really.

Lazza - I've often wondered that about gender stereotypes. It's already clear that DS1 and N are quite different personalities in lots of ways, but as they are both boys we attribute their differences to the fact that they are little individuals. If we had one of each, I'd like to think we'd do the same, but I wonder if we would end up falling into the trap of thinking it was due to gender.

Isthat - I'm using a travel cot as play pen too, however N has most definitely taken against it! Great idea about the balls though, will have to give that a try.

N is generally quite easy going, but over the past few weeks he's become much more selective over who he'll go to. He got really upset when my neighbour tried to hold him at their son's birthday party the other week and he also refused to go to my auntie today. If he's with someone he's ok with (largely seems to be me, DH or DM atm - hopefully this will widen again) and he sees someone he'd prefer to be held by he practically leaps towards them. He's quite assertive in making his preferences know. I also think it's coincided with him becoming more sensitive to noises like the food processor etc.

Get well soon Utopian

H will go to anyone smiling and play with everything in sight. She claps hands and waved when we ask her too and this week has learnt to high five when we ask her. She can say dad and grandad and hiya quite clearly and appears to know what they mean as she looks at them whilst saying the words or waves when saying hiya. She also puts mobile phones to her ear when you say hiya. But on the other side of it she can't crawl and appears to show no desire to do it, she can't really pull herself up and can be quite clingy she will not be left alone at all. My friend has Twins one boy one girl who are a month older an she says the boy is more developed physically and can crawl and pull himself up but the girl is more developed vocally. I wondered if this was the case for most babies as the babies i know seem to follow that pattern.

Evening all.

Hope you feel better soon Utopian.

My DS will currently go to anyone and will smile for anyone too, but his fear of the Hoover is definitely increasing! He now screams the house down if it's in the same room as him even if not switched on. People keep saying to keep exposing him to it so that he gets used to it, but I don't think they understand how scared and upset he is. He stops breathing and is inconsolable for at least 10 minutes after he sees it.

No definite words yet. He says hiya, hello, baba, mama but not in context. He is a demon puller upperer though, and he can cruise and stair climb with the best of them.

He's just been a fucking nightmare to get to bed. In the end I had to do pick up put down and then sit at the side of the cot while he snivelled as it was getting ridiculous. He's only been asleep 5 minutes.

I also spoke too soon on the bed thing as he inched past me when I thought he was asleep and fell on the floor.

utopian I hope it passes really quickly for you! Get well soon!

hales that is really cute. DS waves and claps. excpet he waves all the time and it seems to have different meanings. I think he waves heelo and goodbye (not always mind) but he also waves when he has had enough of something. A sort of "stop" wave I suppose...
When he claps I clap too and say "DS clap" which makes him squeal with delight. I love that! In fact I love tickling him generally and making him squeal

Willyou i hope hes ok. We've had a nightmare couple of weeks with trying to get her to sleep and to stay asleep

Nutella H shakes her head when shes had enough but she also does that when shes really excited.

Wow to all the meaningful communication! We have no words and some babbling but generally she's quite quiet - probably because her sisters are so bloody noisy ALL THE TIME! They talk at her loads so she doesn't really get a chance! Dd1 thought her to clap which is lovely. There will be some fierce competition for who's name she says first!

She will go to most people but sometimes has a cry and reaches for me.
Fwiw, I don't agree with the exposure willyou. He'll get over it in his own time. T shakes when I put the food mixer on, and is still scared of the washing machine!

He's also being a pain Hales. You have my sympathy. We had a relatively good (if weird) night last night. Slept 9-4:30 up for a play and then 6:00-8:50! I got in the spare bed with him and slept when he slept.

Second and third babies are always slower to talk in my experience as they have siblings to do it for them WL. You'll be willing her to shut up soon enough. And I won't be exposing him unnecessarily again. I had to yesterday as I dropped an entire kg tub of poundshop knock-off vanish oxyaction all over the kitchen and couldn't risk him touching it.

I went and picked up a new (2nd hand off eBay) seat for my pram today. It stated from a smoke free home and their house didn't smell but it must have spent time in a smoker's house as it smelled deep down. Luckily it's a quinny so everything came apart and I washed it all.

Yuk willyou. I'm just about to eBay my car seat, it is from a smoke free home, never been in a smokers house and I've washed all the covers. Smokey baby stuff makes me very sad.