tea - sounds like good news about the job, one less thing to worry about. Well done to dd for walking (ds still isn't - quite - but my defence is he is a very young Junie )
Still feeling v iffy, had to cancel a long-planned lunch with some friends today, one of whom lives out of the country and so I only see her once a year Extremely dischuffed about losing one of my only 'me-days' but what can you.
EYM, we are (I think, having not checked work email today) meeting in Leeds for lunch on Thur (I may have a dry crust of bread and a glass of water but Leeds I can do). Please come along if you would like! You can email me on tribunicia underscore potestas at hotmail dot com.
Any other Junies are naturally welcome as well.
Bubb - I don't think there anything wrong with not talking, ds doesn't have any actual words, just mama (mummy AND milk), dada (just daddy), ba-ba (ball AND banana) and wo-wo. Wo-wo means, and I am not joking, any white paper or cardboard in rolled form, particularly kitchen roll and loo paper. This was his first 'word'. He goes mad when we go in the pharmacy and there is an entire basket of wo-wo on display.
However, he understands a lot of other words, and can point at lots of things when we say 'where's such-and-such'? so I'm not concerned. One of my dnephews had virtually no words at 2 either, but he soon picked up a gear when he moved into the 2-3 room at nursery.