June 2013: Here come the terrible twos!

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New thread. :-)

Is it wrong that I just want to send her to nursery with a bag of pants and let them deal with it?!? She's done one proper wee in the potty so far. That was luck. She thinks you can only sit on the potty if you are naked. Nursery may help normalise this!

Dd did a poo on the potty, stood up and announced no more potty.... That was two days ago, each time I have suggested the potty or she has seen it, she points, and says no, while rolling her eyes....... Attitude improves right, I mean, teenage years are a walk over aren't they..... We are not all going to be here in 11+ years going 'give me back potty training days and sleepless nights, crack of dawn starts and the cute talky phase please' .....

Those of you who got the grow clocks to teach your LOs when to get up - did they work at all?

Can you guess why I'm asking?

J is definitely well into his GroClock. He knows yellow means 'up' and blue means 'shhhhh'. For the most part it works though he often is awake before 8am obvs so he spends a bit of time saying 'C'mon yellow! Up!'. Standing outside his door and hissing 'SHHHHH BLUE' tends to shut him up!

We haven't moved him to a bed yet. The deal for us when he does will be that he just has to stay in his room till it goes yellow. 8am is lovely....

Snap Sunny. We had the same conversation yesterday. And came to the conclusion that ds was too young at the mo.

But (and this may not be music to your pregnant ears) making his nap significantly shorter (under an hr, rather than his preferred 1.5-3hrs) has made nights better this week. After a run of wake ups at c4.30am, he is sleeping until after 6, sometimes til 7. Still early but less criminal

Cross post with Rae. 8am?!?

Yep 8am. He's always awake before then but knows it's not get-up time till 'yellow'....

DD actually slept till 8am today. We're early birds so I don't like it - the day feels all wrong now (DS has just woken too - though he did have a quick feed at 5.30am)!

It must have been all the paddling pool and water table fun yesterday.

Thanks folks. She's normally a 7 am waker which is perfect but we've had a couple of weeks of 6am and even a couple of crazy 4.30s. DH thinks its because she doesn't know what time it is now the light is changing

DD would be eating her bed if we said she wasn't allowed out of her room before 8! She generally wakes around 7 ish. Sometimes 8 if she's knackered.

DS is a 6.30-7.00 waker in the main.

Both are very hungry when they wake!

DD sleeps better in her bed than she did in the cot bed. I think having no bars agrees with her. :-)

We have a grow clock kicking about, I might try and introduce it at some point, the 5.30 starts are getting a little boring now. I'm putting money on her sleeping later tomorrow when I need her up and out by 7 so I can get to work!

Although having said that, sometimes I'm sure it's my useless bladder in the morning that wakes her, it's the one time of day I just can't hold on, and seem to wake 5.20 ish and even if I tip toe past her room within minutes she's awake.

Tena Lady are your friend, Pinky! ;-p

Yeah Polly is always fast asleep when she is brutally awoken for nursery, wide awake at the weekend. Obviously. It's probably no bad thing that she seems to naturally wake around 730. That's likely to be school get up time in due course? I know a girl locally who has her child sleep 10-10 as it suits her as she doesn't work. I reckon he will struggle when he starts nursery!

She's been in her big bed a week now. No issues whatsoever. Stays in it until we go in. We have a gro clock but I'm not convinced it makes a difference. We do have total black out though so no issues with changing seasons etc.

One thing that seems to have suddenly arrived is being scared of stuff. Flys- won't go in the garden. Birds. Elephants- understandable. The Hoover. Less so. Is this a thing?

Just back to civilisation after 11 nights in campervan in Ireland! Hello! The trip had it's challenges with a toddler but we're calling it a success. DS was a 5.30 am waker pre trip but his days moved on a bit during the holiday and he was napping later (about 2pm) and going to bed later, around 9ish. He slept till around 7.30am most days, utter joy! I just cannot do the early starts at 5.30. We have a gro clock and he loves the sun and the stars and waves bye to the sun each night. Not sure that he gets the keeping quiet till the sun shows in the morning yet though. We've set it for 730am tonight so let's see...

That's another reason that DD's usual wake-up time is perfect, bean (school).

Sunny, do you have black-out curtains? Apologies if I've missed it. DD does and her get up time is consistent throughout the seasons.

Bean, DD is scared of the hoover now. That's all I can think of though.

My niece is a nightmare if she sees a spider because of how my sister reacts to them so I've told DD that spiderwebs and spiders are pretty and she's fine with them (for now!)! One was on her cup the other day and she just told me that there was a spider on her cup in a matter of fact way, and I calmly took it out into the garden!

Why am I still up when the children have been asleep for hours?!

Actually this morning she is still asleep - its me who's woken up at 6 .

She does have blackout curtains but they are a teensy bit too narrow. I was too lazy to make them myself and so asked my MIL so really can't blame anyone but myself for that one!

Hungry I have considered a pot by the bed! I am not known for drinking anything in large amounts, and therefore it's never normally an issue. Sleeping child and suddenly it is! Stupid body.

The being scared of things is quite funny, we were at crealy recently, been on and off since dd was small, all of a sudden she was scared of different things, I had to show her they weren't real and really distract her. I guess it is just them suddenly being able to remember more and knowing the difference between reality and not.

My parents put a swing chair up in their garden yesterday. I got home from work today to my mum telling me that dd will be the death of her in worry. Apparently swing seats are not something to sit on and enjoy, but something to climb on and swing from the bars.... I am naturally cautious and will try things once weighed up and carefully considered. Dds father however, is a dare devil and adrenaline junkie.... Good to see where it comes from, and made me chuckle and decide on the whole nature and nurture debate, clearly it is both! Not like he spends enough time with her to nurture her ways..... Mum and I both decided dd has a determined facial expression, and clearly this is something we are going to love and loathe in equal measures as she grows!

Did I break us?! Or is it something to do with the log out/hack issue....

Not broken!

Just back from meeting Sunbeam & Sunny. They are just as lovely in real-life - and the dcs were hilarious together

DS is snoring in the car so I'm trapped listening to the radio and the snoring and the rain. Could be worse!

How lovely, Mrs. I bet it was great seeing the children together.

Was our fb group ever really active? One of my other postnatal groups is so active that I can't keep up with mn because much of my internet time is spent reading that. I'm not sure I can keep it up long-term!

The log out issue was annoying though.

Ah how lovely that you were able to meet up. I love seeing my kids play together with others, its great.

How brilliant!

Awesome times - good work!

Not broken (well I am a bit broken but already in bed at 7pm on a Friday so hoping that will help!).

Have lovely weekends, all.

Yep it was fun catching up though I had to stop myself from calling folks by their MN names. The boys played and Lil just flashed her bum at everyone in the garden centre!

Rough as a badgers wotsit this afternoon so told my mum i was pregnant just so I could get some sympathy.