Nov '05 Toddlers!

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Hi Londoner

Today DS has had:

Breakfast - Around 50g of Goats' Milk Yoghurt mixed with some honey and banana slices followed by toast and cheese. (He only ate 2 tiny squares of the toast though before throwing it all on the floor).

Mid-morning - A couple of celery/carrot sticks with hummus. Small bottle of water.

Lunch - A few of grandma's homemade chips , rest of morning's banana, a couple of grapes and 8oz bottle of milk - sleep.

Mid - afternoon - Too many breadsticks w/soft cheese, some organix snacks, (refused a petit filous pot). More water.

Dinner - A small roasted chicken breast cut into strips, steamed carrot, brocolli and mashed potato - will not eat it from spoon has to be laid on tray and eaten like finger foods. Very messy. Milk and bed.

Some days he eats next to nothing and I worry, other days he stuffs the food down his throat like there's no tomorrow. As his favourite food is chicken I just try to make as many different chicken finger foods as possible. Oh Londoner, you'll wish you'd never asked, I go on forever these days Everyone is asleep here!!!!!!!

Diege, ChaCha, thank you sooooooooo much girls. What a relief, I could weep! Sounds like they're all doing pretty much the same thing. I was thinking Bets was supping from me all night to make up the calories but it looks like it's prob more to do with comfort and/or teething. Oh and thanks for the pat on back Diege... ahhhh baby up again.

Hi girls,

Are you all snowed in then? It's still snowing here! DS was watching out the window for a while but then shook his head when i opened the window and gave him him some snow to touch. Wonder if i should let him run around in the garden later? Am cold thinking about it.

Hi ChaCha, same here. Was wondering if I should take lo out too, but she's not sure either, sweet image of Z shaking his little silky head. Think maybe will just watch from the warmth of our house for now...... and the thought of you 9 month pg on icy ground is making me wince ChaCha, now at the risk of sounding like an old bag stay right where you are please!

oops sorry, not again lol, like to keep this thread separate from other stuff.

Hiya Londoner,

We never ventured out into the garden in the end, DS has been a little bit clingy since waking and i'm just monitoring his temperature and hoping we're not in for yet another poorly baby week! So far, so good though but keeping him warm and my eye on him. Hope all is well with you. About to eat again and watch a movie, i'm all over the place today, cleaning - sitting down, crying - laughing, irritable - calm, my poor MIL will be dying to get home!

Starving...

Perhaps Z is being sensitive to your emotions? Know when I am stressed mine all hovver round me wanting something, think they instinctively know to keep an eye on you.... I hope he's not coming down with something, fingers are crossed for you. Poor you feeling so all over the place {{{{{huuuuugs}}} honey.

Hello All!!

Thanks Nova - I did look at those reins in JL, but have also found these
though I think I might prefer the backpack ones to be fair....am definitely goign to get some, have decided, don't care what others think - so there!! (perhaps that might be the wine talking!!)
Chacah - oohh I am soo excited for you - am starting to get a bit broody myself now!! Thanksf or promising to let us know the night before! a true friend, if ever there was one!

Enthusia - haev every confidence that you will be fine, however if you feel you need support or an ear to bend, you know where we are!

Londoer - think I might be totally if I worte down the amount T eats ina typical day! Ok here goes, bearing in mind, today he was at nursery:

7am (ish) 5oz cows milk (most drank)

7.30am ½ weetabix for breakfast (often also has bits of either mine/dhs/grandad's toast too!!)

Morning snack - toast& butter with melon

Lunch - turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, carrots, leeks, broccoli and sponge cake & custard.

Afternoon snack - Buscuit & banana

Tea - Taost & honey, with flapjack for pud

Biscuit when Daddy got home!

6oz cows milk before bed

Gosh - writing that down, it is a wonder he isn't the size of an elephant!! Not sure what size the portions are at nursery, however, they always tick the Appetite V. Good box on his form!!

Beks - hope things are goign ok with your Grandad - lots of love to you all.

Diege hope there is light at the end of the marking tunnel!?

Rodeo - good to hear from you as always

To all others I haven't mentioned - I am thinking of you all,

brownie
xx

Morning!
Half the Infant school are off today, because the heating in the main building has bust - not Joe though, his class is in a warm little terrapin! Good job really as I have a slight hangover, ugh, after drinking too much wine at a Virgin Vie party last night. Sounds as though I'm not the only one though, eh Brownie?!
Aw Londoner, glad you've got some reassurance, although I feel like I'm starving Jess now, she doesn't eat as much as the others! Weetabix for breakfast, Egg on toast or a sandwich for lunch with a beaker of tea , and a jacket potato or pasta for tea, with maybe a couple of grapes, cherry tomatoes or crackers with butter as a snack. She rarely gets pudding, a yogurt if she's very lucky and I've just been shopping or she might get an actimel with brekkie if B&J haven't had them all! She must get through about 2 pints of cows milk but have never quantified it, we get though about 6 pints a day as it's the kids drink of choice too.
Diege, hellooooo! Glad the markings going well, the end is nigh!
Chacha, how you feeling today? I'm not surprised your emotional, but you're doing fab!
Hello to all, you're not still in the car are you GG?? I'm going to rest my eyes in bed while Jess is napping, see you later x

Rodeo - Love the 'rest my eyes in bed' - Always reminds me of my DH when I say things like 'You're not going to sleep are you?' and the reply is always 'No, no, no...just resting my eyes! zzz' LOL!

Well, feeling a bit giddy at the moment, hospital appt was fantastic! Really put my mind at rest, the anaesthetist was just amazing and we went through everything together and I feel so calm and relaxed. Guess what? He said they can lower the screen so that i can see the baby being delivered and then i can have it placed directly on my chest I never had this with DS, they took him away for cleaning/weight etc and then brought him over to DH...I was sooooooo happy that the tears were running down my face and then i felt like a real idiot but i can't believe i'm going to experience that....yipppeeee! Oh fingers crossed/pray that it all goes to plan girls.

Right, feeling very giddy and silly and teenage like so will waddle off and have a silly afternoon before my life changes yet again. Hope you are all well. x

hi all,
well its still snowing
Enthusia yipee!!! we will be able to meet up lots where ar you moving to?????
Diege when u finish the marking let me know and we will meet up,how is the house / moving thing going????
twinkle

Hi just a quickie . I am out of my car!

ChaCha, hope you're doing alright. That's brilliant that you'll be able to see baby being born (although bet that'll be strange), and will be able to hold little one straight away. And hoe you're doing alright too Nova of course.

Diege, when's the marking finished? I'm going to be at FILs 1/2 term week from the Saturday - Wednesday, so if you're free, how about meeting up?

Anyway, off to read my FREE magazine , courtesy of one of those survey websites. I get 6months of Cosmo sent to me, and then I have to fill in a survey about it. Fab!

Hi guys! Beks sent me a message so I thought I would pop in and say hello.

Chacha, I understand you're having your baby next week! Fantastic news. I had an elective cesarean with Rosie and I wish I had been as organised as you are and asked to hold her immediately afterwards, etc, etc. Very nice idea. Hope you're feeling well. I must say that having two has generally been much easier than I expected and with your two so close in age it'll be lovely watching them grow up together. Toby and Rosie are great mates (most of the time). It makes my heart melt when I see them being sweet to each other. So excited for you!

Nova, how are you doing? Your time must be fast approaching too. Hope it's going well. The last few months are always the hardest.

Londoner, sorry I haven't been in touch. We seem to have been in a cycle of illness since early November. Today DH was saying he actually felt well for the first time in ages. Would love to get together sometime and will get in touch after half term. I'm guessing you have your hands full next week!

I've been absolutely bursting to post the most amazing news but wanted to get the OK from BoB first... she had a baby in November!! A gorgeous baby girl named Sophie. It's the most amazing story and will leave the details to Bob to share in her own time but if you have her number do give her a ring. It's all been quite a shock and surprise and I'm sure she would love to hear from you.

Hope everyone is well. We're fine. Keeping busy. I'm still taking the antidepressants and, thank goodness, they're still working. Starting to worry what I'm going to do when I have to stop taking them!

Just scanned back a bit and saw Londoners question about the PRU. I definitely recommned it. I had Rosie there and have been there for various things - hearing tests, Toby's heart check-ups, an ERPC after a miscarriage, etc, etc and always found them to be very efficient, clean and often very kind (which I think is unfortunately quite unusual these days!).

OK, off to bury myself in Notting Hell. Really enjoying the book and then an early night. Take care guys! Hope to pop in more often.

Tex, Hi. Oh wow! How amazing. Any chance you could email me bobs number (or anyone else if they have it?)

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Real quickie...

Hey Tex! - It's great to see a post from you! I'm so glad you were able to share BoB's news, I was hoping she'd have posted by now but can imagine just how busy she must be with two little ones. If you speak with her please tell her that i've sent her an email recently and have been thinking of her and her family - Thank you

GG - Hiyeeeee...gotta run, finally have some time with DH before d-day.

xxx

OMG OMG!!! Just read about BOBs news , wow, how amazing! Hoping you can fill us all with the details BOB (when you're ready to of course!)Had a feeling the big news was pregnancy related but gosh, well done!!! Congratulations!!!
Just starting my late night marking shift, after having been out with friends for a meal, then having to leave before pudding to start the marking ; so of course I'm on here...
GG, our half term starts on Monday, and I'm off work on Wednesday if you fancied meeting up? (Twinkle too maybe?) Only slight 'hitch' is that as I'll have all three off and don't drive, the most ambitious I could get would be Warrington town centre Though you are more than welcome to pop over for lunch at my house of course! (open invite to all!!). Don't know if Warrington is do-able for you, or if it's miles away from where you'll be?
Hi to every one else! Better get back to the poor student's script that has been abandoned mid-way through so gripping it was!

congrats BOB
Diege yeah wednesday is good for us but i also will have all 3!!! just let me know what you fancy doing????
hope evryone else is ok??? we are off up to the N/E to visit FIL again.This sounds really selfish but we go every weekend and have done for almost a year now.We just dont have any quiet family time anymore we wish we could have time off.ah well must feed children and get them all ready
twinkle & Josh

OK - am I the only one who finds the news about BoB a bit weird? Or is that not allowed?

Hello! Hope everyone is having good weekends . Dh and dds are at his mum's to let em get the ba**ard scrips marked, and tbh I have been going full steam, so needing a little rest .
TWINKLE: yah, wed would be great (and GG?, could you make it over to Warrington?))but I am limited by transport (don't think I could face the train with 3, 2 is bad enough!)Would you like to come to mine and we could take them to a near park/have lunch etc? Or if you prefer (because that does mean loads of travelling for you, and easy life for me , we could wait until schools are back for our usual? I'm easy either way, so your call .
NOVA: Yes, I have to admit I was a bit confused, thinking of dates etc etc, but I suppose we are in the position whereby it's difficult when you just hear snippets of info' and then have to try and go back over things (not making sense I know!). So come on BOB, fill us in with the details .
Right, back to the grindstone.

Hey all!
Congratulations BoB thirlled for you, don't have your number, hence why I can't contact other than via this thread - but thoughts are there.

Nova - kinda get where you are coming from, but I try not to think too much about anything these days! Hope you are well - remind me when is your due date? Have you been using the little life daysack reins thing with Noo? Am still trying to decide which to go for, am thinking it will probably be the LL backpack - am getting to the stage where I need to get something - and fast!!

Chacha - hope you are doing ok - gosh baby will be here this week!!!!!! WOW!!

Well, I went on a mammoth hike yesterday with DH, FIL, Dad and a few friends (9 of us plus 2 dogs!) anyhow, it was supposed to be an easy 7 miles - but because of the snow/rain and so on - it turned into a bit more of a difficult hike! Took hours, and we were all soaked and shattered when we got back! But it was good fun!
The next one is in March, were thinking of doing MamTor (near you Rodeo?) but are now re-thinking due to length of time required (approx 12 hours to get there, do hike & get back) which is a bit too long a time to "dump" T on someone! yesterday took loads longer than expected too!

Anyway, off to check on my roast chicken that is in the oven.

Oh yes, one more question if I may -

At what age do children usually switch from a cot (with the sides and everything) to a bed or the cot/bed without the sides?? Have no idea myself - so thought I would ask you lot!

Brownie

xxxx

Brownie - keep forgetting to try noo with the reins at home, but I really must get on with it as we let her walk home from Portobello yesterday and she kept wandering off into peoples front gardens and trying to pick up all the red elastic bands that the postie had dropped on the floor.

As I've mentioned, we moved noo into a bed about a month ago. It's a toddler bed, so it has slightly raised sides on the top half, but I've found that since she began using a pillow she doesn't travel around the bed as much. I've got a folded up eiderdown on the floor next to the bed 'just in case' but noo just uses it to launch herself off the bed in the morning, when I free her from her sleeping bag.

Chacha - soooooo excited for you

My official due date is 28th March, but they'll let me have an induction from 18th so I'm going by that date (sorry, but if I have the option there's no way I'm waiting it out). If, however, it comes as early as noo, then it could be here by 7th March - who knows!

I have a question about mornings - When do you decide to go in and get your lo? At the moment I'm still using a monitor, so I hear noo stir at about 6am. However, I can usually leave her until about 6.45, but even then I don't go in because she's crying, more because I've been awake listening to her for 45mins and I can get her ready for nursery. Do you wait for your lo to cry or do you have a set time you go in every day? Just wondering if I should be leaving noo for a bit longer, (ever hopeful for a bit longer in bed), but I'm not keen on waiting until she gets upset

Aha! I forgot, our 1/2 term is later than everyone elses, so it's next week that we're up. Is that Weds OK for you? AA says Warrington is 1/2 hour away from FILs, so yes that wouldn't be a problem, and we could go straight home from there. Sorted. Just need to let DP know!

Brownie, I think really everyone's different. Whenever you think T is ready to move onto a bed will be the right time, IYKWIM. I think Owen went into a bed at about 18mths. Sean will be next month when the bunk beds arrive.

Nova, Sean's still in our room, so can't help there, sorry. Now we have a big stairgate at the top I just let him wander around upstairs until I decide it's time to get up!! (He's one of the 5.30am wakers, grr)

My turn for a question! Are any of the biters still biting? I can't get Sean to stop. I've tried all teh reccommended techniques, all my own things, but he's still doing it. Today he bit Owen really badly. His belly was bleeding for quite some time this morning. It's got to stop, I just dobn't know how.

Hi ladies,

Brownie - Envious in the best possible way of all that lovely fresh air, sounds great and something i'd like to do later this year! DH and I had very different ideas of what constituted a break/holiday - him with his caravans/camping and the great outdoors and me with my hotels and resorts/room service etc. Times have since changed and the thought of camping outdoors, lots of fresh air and being in the midst of nature actually appeals to me now - would like to try somewhere in Wales (DH's native land) this summer - he always enjoyed it as a child - hopefully ours will too!
Not much help on cot-bed transition as we co-sleep (all in bed). I have the same sort of question but with regard to the highchair. Seems we have a small Houdini on our hands and he also finds lifting chair up from its legs and toppling it over much fun. What is the alternative now? Got rid of our dining room table to make room for his things a while back.

Nova - Fill us in on how you are? How are you feeling these days? One thing i missed during this PG was the great ante-natal thread we had going - didn't really happen on this year's one, probably as i didn't have time to keep up with everyone else and have only started to post the odd update now and then - shame really - do you keep up on the March thread? Am so glad that we are all still in touch - it's been great having you all to share stuff with.
If DH gets up at 7.30-8am then DS 90% of the time wakes with him and I then take him downstairs. If DH goes to work earlier than this or has things to do, i leave him sleep, keep door open and sit in DH's study on laptop having some quiet time until he wakes up himself, usually quite soon after. Only if i really need to get on with stuff or go somewhere do i wake him before time but then DS probably sleeps a lot later than most of your LO's. Never followed a routine and does have it's disadvantages to be honest but we've gotten this far! [phew] The real test is yet to begin I think. HTH but it probably doesn't. Sorry.

As for BoB - nice surprise, I do hope that she'll post all the details herself soon, seems that baby was destined to be afterall and a story that we are all looking forward to reading! Hurry up with the details BoB!!

My mum is with me from tomorrow so hopefully a bit of a tidy up at home (being an understatement) and a few days of rest and relaxation if possible. Parents and ILs are now aware of date and are making their plans but feeling guilty now that i haven't told my friends especially when they are now all calling to see if i need anything and when it's all happening. I hope no one will be offended and see it as my choice to surprise them all - with hopefully good news!

Rambled on again didn't i?

Thanks for the replies so far . Chacha, are you going for 4 in a bed when lo arrives?

GG - now you ask, noo seems to have stopped the biting. I hadn't really noticed, but she's really calmed down, it may have been to do with the fact we ignored her when she did it and made sure she got no cuddles etc until she stopped?? Probably harder to do when there's another child involved though . The only injury I'm sporting now is a black eye thanks to being the landing pad for a flying book.

Chacha - I didn't keep up with the march thread, I get all the support I need from you ladies (ahhh, group hug). I keep trying to forget that I am pg as I really hate the way I look right now, it's only when I try to squeeze through gaps that I realise the bump is still there. I'm really looking forward to having the baby and getting on with it, can't be doing with all this waiting around. Also looking forward to getting my life back, and hopefully being a bit more of a wife to poor DH. Noo has been showing her nurturing skills with the baby doll we've given her, and we keep telling her she's going to have a little brother or sister soon. Thanks for asking

Hi Nova - Ouch at black eye, sounds painful! We suffer from the odd 'thick lip' here when DS decides to head butt us with no prior warning. Lovely!
I am sooo with you on looking forward to the end of pregnancy Nova and although it's not much consolation must remind you that you looked great when PG with Noo (remember the meet up pics) and remember one of the ladies commenting on how great you looked when you were nearing the end Some of us just don't 'do' pregnancy that well, I am one of them and to be perfectly honest with you, It is an absolute blessing/mercy that we are given this ability to forget the sickness, pain, trauma and everything else that comes with the whole having a baby lark once they arrive otherwise we would all have just one child families - always amazes me!
LOs will be with us soon along with the Spring too i hope very soon and here's to health, happiness (losing a good few pounds) and some serious pampering!

I am feeling a bit weird. Going to lie down or be sick, or eat or something...