November 2012 - Walking or not walking, talking or not talking, any other skillz?

[StuntNun]

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We have quite a range of ages and they each develop at their own rates... so what can your toddler do?

Not wrong. Obviously if j screams you will run. If p screams I run. P does sometimes scream and I belt in. Different babies.

And I forgot about pp's lovely post about hopes for the babies. I watch p now with her utter self-belief and total assurance that everyone is nice and everyone loves her including ransoms in shops and I wish there was a way if harnessing that and coupling it with being nice. I see her utter determination to tackle things and I wish that could be coupled with not being a prick.

I would like her to be utterly charming and completely uncompromising. Impossible?

I just watched an episode of Criminal Minds about a little girl being abducted. Am now snuggled up to DD1, for once not resenting co-sleeping. It was horrible I don't know why I watch anything involving children. (She was reunited with her mum in the end - phew)

Stunt I'm the same as pass. L screams I run, L singing to himself and chatting I lie and listen.

Poor boy in so much teething pain.

PR that's awful. Snuggle in.

That's really interesting Pennie. O's grandma on XP's side is from HK and I have noticed that she is a 'stricter' with O and his cousins than I would expect. Although not in a bad way. She commands respect very well and all the kids adore her.

Midnight

Sophia that's exactly what I was thinking!!!

Wow midnight! I was just wondering what F would do until midnight once I had gone to bed at 10pm -

GT Wow, I though F had big feet at a 6F, a 7 is very impressive! With regards to buying next sizes, I havn't bothered as last time F was measured he was a 5G and is now a 6F so the width has changed. Also for some off reason he often wears a shoe half a size smaller then the clarks measure. several fitters have measured him at different times and all agree he generally fits shoes half a size smaller instead- they don't understand it and all say they have never found it with any other child. Just to make life more complicated!

Also, all you who have babies that play in their cots in the morning you are very lucky. As soon as F wakes up, whether its morning or in the night he stands up and cries until we go in. I wish he would play in his cot (especially as he keeps waking at 5.40 for the day!)

I remember the letter part of sizing shoes when I was a kid. I was always a C which was awful as they had awful shoes for skinny feet, barely any choice. Here they don't measure width. I wonder why.

ditsy me too - I usually go upstairs around 9pm and potter/read until just before 10!

Shoe talk reminds me that DC probably both need shoes again. JOY.

I have a question. I'd love for my DC to call me mummy, but they call me maman. Are your LOs calling you mum or mummy? Or mother which is quite often what I call my mum. Or if neither what do you want them to call you?

I confused O. I always tell her, mummy will do this, mummy will do that. And my mum is Mami in Hungarian, Same pronounciaton. So now I want her to call me Anyu which is Mummy in Hungarian but she doesn't really get it. Iykwim.

Yeah the bilingualism complicates things doesn't it.

Btw seller has 65000 feedbacks so I guess large business seller. I think I'm going to email that I'm happy to post it back if they pay the postage. Although that would be nearly £10 I reckon.

It is. I really need to make sure that I say things in English and don't mix the language. It's amazing how she understands nearly everything in 2 languages.

Languages

Ditsy 80% of the time he wakes to an immediate squawk so I have to come running!

Jonas calls me Mummy and Mama.

Yeah they say the one person one language is best way of doing it but i mix up languages all the time

Everyone is dada.

This is because we talk about daddy a lot. I don't talk about myself.

The girls call me Mumster.

DS1 calls me Captain

I too was impressed with size 7f O is 3 1/2 g

ditsy that is what I thought! I go up anywhere between 8 and 9 potter, shower, put washing away, catch up with you lot/4OD/my never ending book! O would be at a loose end.

Oh and I would usually be sleeping by around 10 maybe a bit after.

sophia captain is ace!

DD has taken to calling me "Mummy Lion" as she is going through an I'm-not-a-girl-I'm-a-lion phase.

S calls me "mummum" or "bah". But everything is "bah".

Mummy is what it will be I think. I was wondering what the bilingual babies end up doing.

LO calls DH maman too. She understands Daddy and nods when Iask if she is talking about daddy. But we are both maman.

At the moment O calls me mumum. I refer to myself as mummy hardly ever mention daddy