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

[StuntNun]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/2000561-November-2012-The-exciting-all-new-all-singing-all-dancing-fred

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

Well done for Pointless win Eliza's family I haven't watched it since the audition that never was. Too painful

Det, my O was also super cute today. He has started making animal noises - he clicks his tongue for a duck's quack and when we were reading his bedtime story, there was a picture of a lion and O roared He adores books at the moment. He pushes his bedtime milk away to have a story at the moment. He was also super cute at the library today - trying to clamber onto the laps of the 8 year old girls who were in there, so they would read to him He's bloody hilarious lately, and I am trying not to think about how much I am going to miss him when I start work next week. I won't ever get to spend a full day with him

No that isn't them Det, but they were in that price range and are still more expensive than I will ever spend again!

Eliza I did see Pointless yesterday but missed today's - well done your bro-in-law & his sis! More to the point well done E! Fantastic news about her first steps.

Yay go E! That's brilliant Eliza! I bet you can't wait to see her tomorrow! I love watching these new skillz .

JJ the prices are crazy, aren't they?!

Chasing did he properly roar?! O screams like a girl. But he means to roar! He thinks it is terribly funny . O is a recent story convert. Only short ones though. He likes flap ones or repetitive ones at the moment!

I am scared to go the library. He rips all the flaps off the books .

Bed time bottles - for those who have them, have you stopped them yet? I think I should. He doesn't need it, will have it happily in a cup. I better do it before he starts demanding it and having tantrums. I will do the dairy challenge as soon as his scars have faded. Then cut the bottle after that.

Speaking of scars - it's been 3 weeks, and he is most definitely scarred on his arms from the fecking HF&M and his feet are a disaster area with peeled skin - and dropping off nails. My hands are similar, but nowhere near as bad, and no problem with my nails. Just holes of peeling skin.

I wish it would fuck off now!

det If he'll drink it ok out of a cup I would ditch the bottle before it becomes an issue.

Det we make the dog go in a specific area of the garden so it's easier to find the landmines other than the time-honoured technique of letting the children play out. Could you take the dog out on a lead to do her business?

Also J doesn't really point, just gesticulates grandly in the general direction of whatever he wants. He's definitely saying Da for yes, must be Russian he's speaking, no wonder we don't understand. Although DS2 and I both heard him say ketchup today and he was definitely waving at the tomato ketchup bottle and when I picked it up I got a Da. So I put some on his plate bad mummy but it isn't the worst thing I've ever fed to a child and he scraped it up carefully with his knife and ate it! I suspect he will be like DS2 - all food is merely a vehicle for getting ketchup into his mouth.

We're continuing with the bedtime bottles Det but on to toddler milk now, which I'm sure I remember people saying were a con and it was best to continue with the first milk? I checked the labels and it didn't have any more sugar than the first milk, is it the proportion of curds to whey that's wrong or something? Anyway he seems to be sleeping okay so far tonight so FC for another better night tonight.

I had scary parent-teacher meetings today. They like to give with one hand and take away with the other at that school. Turns out DS1 did get the highest mark the school has ever had in the transfer test (the new name for the 11 plus in NI). Mutters under breath about them wanting to expel him four years ago. But DS2's teacher reckons he might be dyslexic but the school won't refer him for assessment because he is 'of below average to average intelligence so it isn't that surprising that he's doing so poorly in literacy and is in the remedial reading group'. Now my kids aren't peas in a pod by any stretch of the imagination but I'm struggling to get my head around the idea that DS1 is academically one of the smartest kids the school has ever had, and this is in spite of his special needs, yet DS2 has been assessed as having below average intelligence with an IQ of 95. I just can't process it at all. DH is going to be fuming when he finds out, and I wouldn't be surprised if he pulls DS2 out of school.

Still on bottles here. 1 to 2 at night/1 to 2 during the day. I figure he'll stop when he's ready. Despite being a run around boy he still loves a cuddle and some milka - it's my only time I get smooches.

He drinks water out of a plastic tumbler that has a lid and straw attached. Not made the leap to sippy cups or cups without lids (yet)...

IQ tests? Pardon me? Now, don't get me wrong, we test and measure children in a thousand ways. However, it is for statistical purposes only. Actually , it is most often to find out where we are failing - not to see where we can pass the buck. If that is what they are trotting out the your DH might be right stunt

And I am perpetually anxious about milk. 3 bottles a day. I have reduced to 90Ml morning but it is 120ml lunch and 240ml before bed. No sign of reducing at all

Pls pls pls. 4wake ups since 8. Now I'm kinda new to this baby not sleeping thing 5.5months ain't new us it but a wake up every hour! Wtf.

Fh is being a shit. Whenever he tries to sooth baby. He gives up and brings him down. Getting quite annoyed at him actually.

A is still feeding every two hours except when he has ff twice a day then goes 3 hours.

Given up on cot last few nights as I get more sleep with co sleeping. But can't decide if I should just put up with it and put him in cot. Argh. But at 3am I have no will power to get him in his cot. Particularly when I know A wakes up super early. I WANT A LAY IN.

Have to caught up but hoping for buggy opinions before my reservation expires tomorrow!

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Det h has3 bottles a day. A month ago 7oz each. Recently cut down to 4/5.
I was discussing this with myself a few days ago actually. He won't drink his milk himself. I have to give him it. While he plays with my phone apart from the phone (recently his fav app a learning baby sign thing. And he likes watching the babies sign and talk) I quite enjoy the cuddle with him. Although it would be nice if he would drink it sometimes, I know I'm going to miss it.

stunt wtf? That's just beyond ridiculous . You know your children, do you think ds2 should be assessed? How old is he now?

O was up between 12 and 2. She just wanted to sleep but something kept waking her? Could it be the jabs? It's been 2 weeks. She fall asleep after I gave her calpol should have given her earlier not at 1.30.

det I'm trying to reduce milk! she has 2 7 oz bottles.

Still on three bottles a day here - 7oz in the morning, 4oz after lunch and 4-5oz before bed. He is veeeeery gradually reducing these, so will take it at his own pace.

stunt I would ask for a separate appointment to discuss both sons' progress/testing/needs and get some common sense out of them.

Ds gets around 21oz of toddler milk over a 24 hr period. At nap time he particulary enjoys it, makes little stamping feet movements when he sees the empty bottle about to be filled.

Cross post sorry

particularly I mean - too early

Woooooooo
After almost 3 months of shit sleep M slept through last night!!!! DH put her to bed as I went out just as she goes to bed, maybe he should do it more often

DH is slightly in my bad books though, it's my birthday on Friday, I mentioned ages ago the possibility of him booking it off so we could go to the zoo or something, he hasn't so it looks like Friday is just me and M

Also I mentioned on Sunday, should him and M have gone shopping (for my card/present). Then last night he commented on how I wanted the car today and tomorrow so when would he have chance to go but my card
A bit of forethought would be nice instead of me having to organise when he goes shopping for my own card

I have started a thread in Gifted and Talented about my school woes. I have been left wondering whether I have severely misjudged DS2. I always thought he was bright: he had an extensive vocabulary from early on, he has excellent and imaginative problem-solving skills, he grasps new concepts quickly, he loves books and is very interested in maths. But the school have always had him down as performing adequately for his level which is somewhat behind most of his peers. I also wonder as he comes from a smart family: DH has a PhD, I have twin degrees, DS1 did exceptionally well on the transfer test. Then all of our siblings and our parents have degree-level education or higher. I do find it unlikely that DS2 isn't of above average intelligence. And then I get all self-doubty and think is it just parental blindness that makes me assume all my children are geniuses? But I really don't think it is. I don't have those kind of expectations, I treat them as the individuals they are. So now I'm wondering if the school have got it all wrong and pigeon-holed DS2 as one of their less-able students when he is actually underperforming for some reason. Since dyslexia has been mentioned I'm going to arrange for an educational psychologist to review DS2. I probably should have done it before but it's going to cost nearly £600 which will be difficult to find. But hopefully that will give us an answer one way or the other.

1 bottle about 11oz at bedtime here
Lots of pointing and new words here but he has also grown hair!!

Another sleep through here so think follow on milk is the answer.

DP being a twat this morning. Glad I'm on the way to work.

stunt I mistakenly posted an answer on your other thread so it looks like I have assumed stuff. Sorry about that. That issue has got me raging. Kids are different I think like people. Regardless of the fact they are siblings.

Just trust yourself stunt, you know him better than anyone else.

det o has never pointed. Never. So don't worry, she talks all the time and her understanding is great.

Anyway. No bottles In the fairy house we have a beaker of randomly poured milk In the mornings and a beaker of randomly poured milk in the evenings. I have to say when I get them to drop the bottle I feel a massive sense of freedom. Then again when they start eating by themselves. Then again when they go to the toilet and wash their hands! Happy days.

When they can email you, just amazing!!

Allegedly someone is driving me to get my car today. and we will go to Sainsbos in celebration.