October 05 - First Birthdays

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Happy Birthday to Joey!

Hi Bonnie I remember you too, good to hear that you and Ruby are doing so well
mb The signing sounds fab.
Thomas is still poorly and I have been very sicky today too, that plus the bad indegestion that I have had this week made me do a pg test this morning. First test failed (nothing in the control box) and second showed a neg result (if we had have been pg it would have been a miracle! )
I am hoping that this is just another 24hr bug am fed up of 1 or another of us being poorly!

yay Thomas has got a new word!!!! he has now added "ow wow" I'm sure he will have a lot more to say very soon (so far we have "no" "mummy" "da" "grandma" "light" and "ow wow") but if he wants anything he has started coming and getting hold of your finger and taking you to what he wants
Anyway had better go and get on as we have the PIL coming next weekend and I am trying to get Paul to paint the guest bedroom ceiling before they come!
Have a good week everyone

I have stopped breast feeding this week & bloody hell the boobs are painful!!

Did you go cold turkey Elf? Any particular reason for stopping?

I am going to get a docs appointment for Johnny tomorrow. He has had a green 11 under his nose for more than three weeks and my sister suggested that he might have a sinus infection. The poor mite is not himself at all and is very clingy and waking every 1.5 to 2 hrs at night which is not like him at all. Of course, it will have dried up by the time we get an appointment!

MB Hope Johnny is feeling better soon

Thanks YF. Soonest appointment is Friday, so hopefully he'll be fine and I can cancel it!
My last post is a bit nosey Elf, sorry. It's just that I am thinking ahead as to when Johnny might stop as he is showing no signs whatsoever at the moment!

I phoned the estate agent today and they are coming to take pics on Thursday so I had better get decluttering and making it look all fancy before then! I've never sold a house before - wish me luck!

no problem, not nosey!
I was down to just 2 feeds a day - morning and night time. I had been umming and ahhing but made the decision based on the fact that she rarely sleeps at night without a b/feed. As much as I have loved b/feeding her, I need to stop at some point.
Its sad though. She really doesn't understand what is going off and it has been a struggle for the past two nights makes me feel like she thinks I dont love her anymore.

God that last post was depressing!
Tonight she lay on the bed with me and fell asleep within 15 mins. She wouldn't take any milk from her bottle but she is now in her cot.
Still sad that I'm not feeding any more and blimming heck my boobs hurt!

That's great that she went to sleep without it Elf. I had to go out a few weeks ago at bedtime (work related, not a night on the tiles!) and was really worried about Johnny fretting for breastfeeding before bed. I told dh to put some cows milk in a bottle and give Johnny that instead. He spat it out and looked at DH like "WTF" and then just went to sleep anyway, so I guess I would just have to make myself scarce at bedtime if we were to be giving up just now. I can understand that you are feeling sad but hopefully once your boobs are back to normal then you can look back on your breastfeeding experience with fondness.
I have just filled in our mortgage application form. I just want to move. I don't want the blooming hassle of decluttering for selling and viewers and paperwork. What do you mean I have to???

MB - selling homes is naff, I'm fed up of having mine on the market but I have no patience!

Curious question for everybody - how much liquid does your little one have a day? Yesterday Evelyn only had 7oz of liquid all day (discounting liquid in food). It seems fairly low?

We are hopefully completing on the sale of our house in Yorkshire on Friday we were very lucky that the person who let our house from us has now decided to buy it so (touch wood) it has been plain sailing for us. Hope you get both yours sold soon.

elf Thomas takes between 2 and 3 beakers of milk a day (12-18 fl oz)he has done this since we stopped the bottles at 12months and sips of my water on top of that, he just loves the water bottle!

Hopeless mummy here Elf re the fluids. I have no idea how much Johnny drinks. I offer him water and cows milk out of an open cup and he can do anything from take one sip to drinking the whole lot. Also I have no idea how much breastmilk he is taking. I have noticed that if we are out and about and I have to buy milk or water, the fact that it is in an excitingly different carton/bottle seems to make him drink more. He loves the McDonalds milk that comes in the little carton with the cows on it and will glug it straight out of the bottle in between playing with the screwtop. Disclaimer: milk is the only thing that Johnny has eaten out of McDonalds.

My house is a disaster. I am supposed to be decluttering to get the photos taken by the estate agent, but it seems to be getting messier and messier instead of tidier! At least for photos I can just shove stuff in the cupboards to make it superficially neat and tidy...

mb How is Johnny now? you still going to the Dr's tomorrow?
Hope you are all out enjoying the sun!

He's a lot better thanks YF, but we are still going to the doc as his nose is still running. This has been since the Easter weekend, so it's more than a cold. I am thinking sinus infection maybe, but it's not impossible that he has hayfever or some other allergy. At least he is sleeping through again which is a relief for us. We had our first viewer today and my goodness it is stressful trying to keep the place like a show house with a toddler around. I took the fire guard off and of course Johnny was right in there twiddling and fiddling. He is relegated to the travel cot for now which is getting put up and down in between viewers to make more room. Poor child doesn't know what is going on!!
He did some fab signing today. He told me with two signs that the aeroplane was gone. and now he tells me when he has finished eating. Usually it's obvious because there's none left but he did the "finished" sign yesterday and handed me his unfinished bowl of porridge. Awww

MB Glad that Johnny is sleeping through again I don't envy you trying to keep everything spot less with Johnny around, when Thomas has his late afternoon nap (4pm ish) I always run around like a mad woman getting everything cleared away and tidy yet I know that I am wasting my time as Thomas will get everything out again. His fave thing is getting my plastic chopping boards out and standing on them so that they slip across the floor almost like skiing I imagine!lol
I think the signing must be brilliant to see in action!
Thomas doesn't point to what he wants he comes and grabs your finger and pulls you across the room to show you what he wants..bless
Have a good bank holiday weekend all, we have my PIL coming tomorrow morning to stay the night so I have loads to get ready before they arrive, better go!

Ah well, a typical doctors response. It's probably viral, he's over the worst of it, no point in giving him anything now. Come back if he's not better in 7-10 days. Fair enough I suppose.

All of a sudden, Johnny has started playing with large lego type block. He is joining them together and no doubt in his head he is building something!! He also loves to tip over his walker (trolley type with blocks in) and put one of the blocks onto the wheel then set it spinning. I suppose a square shape spinning round is fairly interesting.....if you're 18 months old.
Blimey, I have just turned to look at him and he has 4 blocks all balanced on the wheel. Impressive stuff!

YF the leading you by the finger thing sounds very cute! Johnny likes my plastic chopping boards too, but he's not on his feet yet, so skiing isn't on offer just yet! He got the potatoes from the cupboard yesterday and I found him rolling a potato round the house. It had little teeth marks in it, but he obviously had decided against biting a chunk out! Hope I can find them all before the viewers come. Can you imagine. "This is the bathroom, erm, um, where we keep our potatoes" LOL

lol
Evelyn will point to be taken somewhere, esp when my dad is holding her at his house, she leads him all over the place making him fetch toys! YF - bless on the taking you with him to get what he wants

Oooh, the blocks thing is sweet MB - Evelyn will put her lego type blocks together but she is really particular and gets annoyed if we add blocks of different colour to the one she has already set going! I think she is going to take after me with an organised mind!

V happy bunny today as we completed on our house!!! yippeeee

YF - Congratulations on the house. lol at Thomas pulling you across the room. Ds grabsmy trouseur leg and tries to pull me. Makes it quite difficult to walk lol.

Elf -Hope you manage to sell your house soon. Fluids-I don't really knowhowmuch ds take. We tend to have a water bottle available and he just helps himself whenever, sometimes he hardly seems to have a drop, other days we have to keep refilling it. Plus whatever he has from breastfeeing. Sorry thats not much help. I guess they just have what they need Hope your boobs are recovering! That's the thing I'm dreading when it comes time to give up.

MB-goodluckwith your house sale too.Hope Johnnys nose clears up soon.

Am I the only one not moving house lol. Never mind, we did it about 16 months ago when ds was 10 weeks. Don't envy any of you. Wouldn't want to do it again in a hurry.

Ds does a limited amount of signing, he does 'all gone' and a slightly different version to indicate "Gone?/Don't know" to questions like "Wheres the cat gone" He puts his dish/plate on the table rather than his tray to indicate he has finished but gives it to me to indicate he wants more. He hasn't really got many words ,yet if you say to him "Wheres the X?" he willpoint at it and say "there it is" !!

Has anyone else noticed how they suddenly seem to wake up one morning and can suddenly do things they couldn't do or weren't interested indoing the day before. Also seems to coincide with a rubbish nights sleep.

Well I have my OFSTED inspectio for becoming a childminder on wednesday (hence the namechange) so we are busy tidying the house and getting prepared. Am feeling quite nervous but excited all at the same time.

ANyway thats enough waffle from me,Hope you allhave a nice BH weekend

I would love to give you some top tips for your inspection DLAMIANW, but in Scotland we are regulated by the Care Commission which is a completely different body so I can't really compare. Good luck anyway, and I am sure you will be just fine. I remember feeling ok about the inspection, but afterwards felt so relieved that it was over and actually didn't realise how stressful the whole thing was until it was finished. I am going to have to do it all again in the new house, but at least I know what to expect and it's only the house they are inspecting as I am already registered IYSWIM.

We took Johnny to the zoo for the first time ever today and his eyes were like saucers. He miaowed when he saw the big cats and did the horse sign at the zebra and said Daddy at the chimps. LOL only kidding about the chimps if you're reading this DH, mustn't laugh at my own jokes... We have joined as members because it is not that far from where we are moving to and we only have to go three times for it to pay for itself.

His nose is still running....

We're back! Just a quick message as i'm at work and i haven't had time to go through all your posts whilst i've been away. We all had a lovely time, though Joey's now getting a cold. Totally missed the earthquake while we were away, but my Mum's house (only 12 miles away from us) suffered extensive damage. Ours doesn't appear to have suffered too badly, but i'm relieved we weren't there when it happened as i'm sure Joey would have been terrified. M-I-L has been a pain in the bum as usual, although she did say she'd had her tarot cards recently read, and i'm apparantly supposed to get pregnant with a little girl very soon! Time will tell.... Enjoy your bank holiday, SM x

Re fluids, Joey has 300mls cows milk in the morning, 300mls really diluted juice at lunchtime, and 300mls cows milk before bed. He usually has a few extra cups of plain water too, especially if its hot. I was always taught when i did my nurse training that infants should have 1 litre plus 100mls for every year over the age of 1 as a minimum per day, and its stuck!

Hope Johnny feels better soon, Mawbroon. i fear i've got the snotty baby stage to come imminently!

Glad you had a lovely time stinky! That must have been a bit of a shock for your mum in the earthquake. I hope she gets the damage sorted without too much hassle.

JOhnny seems to be over his runny nose and is now up to mischief like nobody's business. I think it is partly because the house isn't childproofed any more at viewing times and also because there is so much going on and he's a bit out of sorts. He can now flush the toilet and does it when he knows I'm not right there to spoil his fun. His appetite has returned with a vengance and he is sleeping for scotland. This morning, he slept until 7.50am, right through from 7pm last night. Mind you, saying that, he's lying in his bed howling just now instead of sleeping but he is exhausted and needs his nap. We have a viewer tonight at 6pm and another tomorrow at 6pm. I wish they would all just come on the same day and be done with it.

Do any of your LO's have attachment to any particular clothes or anything just now? Johnny has a little hooded top with a little teddy bear on it which is getting a bit small for him. He saw it hanging up when we were on our way out and went bananas because he wanted to wear it. I had already put on his jacket and said that no, he wasn't wearing that one so I had to stick with my decision, but he got so upset. It's about the lack of control I suppose rather than the love of his teddybear hoodie.

my word!!! I didnt even realise this thread was still going!

Far too many posts for me to catch up on, but i hope you are all well! Im now in the due in december ante-natal club, on baby number 3! I must be mad!

Becca is a real character, but luckily a lot more chilled out than her big sister! She still sleeps like an angel - 2.5hrs uin the day and 13-14hrs at night, lets hope this new baby has the same idea!

Take care all and squish those adorable 18mnth olds for me!