November 2014 - The one where they outrun us!

[MrsAukerman]

New thread ladies.

Strawberry by some plastic reusable lolly sticvks shove one through each lid and pop in freezer ready made yog lolly the lids just peels off round stick or peel it back acts as drip catcher n pop the pot off. They keep for about 3mths fine in freezer.

Am I the only one with a baby that's terrified of in the night garden?! Haha

I really struggle to keep dd up until 6.45/7. I don't know what I'll do tomorrow night!!! She just rolls around on the floor in between tantrums. I got in the bath with her and she just kept laying on top of me and making me sing to her. The singing... I am terrible and it is dd's 'thing' at the moment, all day, before I've even finished the song she's saying (and signing furiously) 'more, more, more'. I don't love it I have to say.

My mil is staying with us and she is really hard work and makes me and DP quite anxious so not it's quite exhausting having her here. Although she did babysit last night while we went to the cinema so that was a nice treat.

Food/feeding is so hit and miss. We went to a thai place for lunch and she scoffed thai fishcakes, honeyed pork and spring roll no problem but by dinner time she gets a bit fussy and I worry we're always repeating things we know she'll eat (satsumas, baked beans, cucumber).

She has 12 teeth, the front 8 were painful but molars weren't that bad. No canines as yet...

Easter eggs anyone?

The napping during the day is hit and miss here between 1 and 2 - yesterday it was one, today 2; but she was running around the playground for about an hour this afternoon which does seem to knacker her out .

We did an Easter egg "hunt" (really not very difficult to find them!) for DD and her one year old cousin this morning - had to be an indoor one due to the pouring rain . Neither seemed too interested in looking for the eggs, but the cousin liked banging 2 creme eggs together and DD looked giving her eggs away!

DH and I had our first day together minus DD on Thursday - we both took the day off work whilst she was at nursery....was very odd. Nice, but odd .

9 teeth here (with 10th coming through I think): 4 top front; 3 bottom front and 2 molar-like ones one and the top and one at the bottom both on the same side.

Ark, I think we may be the only ones who have never seen The Night Garden...are we missing out?!?

Well Night Garden does make them stop in their tracks and watch in glazed fascination. So we find it good or winding down. He snuggles in and goes really quiet. Unless someone is chasing someone in which case he gets so excited! And I do like how cuddly he gets during it. I get to have lovely snuggles.

Downside: I fucking HATE it as it's mind numbingly boring and not even funny, and have had to watch literally hundreds of hours of it. And as DH reminds me, with another on the way we have another 2/3 years of it!

Btw DS is developing a baby mullet. So much so that people have started mistaking him for a girl!

But I don't want to have to pay to tidy it as there's virtually no hair on the top of his head! He looks like a 1970s footballer. Balding on top, with a wispy thin mullet fooling nobody! I may have to attempt it myself.....

I was just about to ask if anyone else's babies had starting being fussy eaters and I see that DD is not alone! Meals seem to be a constant cycle of toast, omlette, avocado, cheese and fish fingers. She'll most fruits but won't entertain veg at all, and it's pot luck whether she'll eat meat or not- some days she can't get enough but tonight I offered her roast chicken and she wouldn't touch it. She used to eat actual meals like spag bol and cottage pie with gusto but these days she won't even try them. I'm torn because I don't want to entertain the fussiness but I don't want her going to bed on an empty stomach and waking up hungry.

anantha I've been giving her a couple of options (so tonight she got some roast dinner and half a sandwich) then just before bed I give her a banana. Like you, I don't want her to go hungry but I don't want her to her think this is a bloody buffet so hopefully because the banana isn't at dinner she doesn't realise that's an alternative.

Anna We also have a mullet, the hair on top just doesn't grow and is really fine but it's darker and thicker at the back. Poor love...

So, one of the signs of this leap is 'irrational fears' which we have definitely noticed. Today dp was eating a biscuit and opened his mouth and stuck out his tongue with the chewed up biscuit on (I know, totally childish, but I love him anyway :)) and dd absolutely lost it. She was inconsolable!! Real tears, it took about 10 minutes to calm down. I was TRYING so hard not to laugh but she was also eating a biscuit so dp was like 'the irony is that now you're doing it to me'.

Babys first ever snotty nose! A big day! DH and I are hilariously clueless "No! Don't use the muslin to wipe! " "But what else, we don't have any tissues!" "I thought I saw some in the glove compartment once....."

Yes I'm aware we've gotten away with murder thus far, I'll get me coat.....

Hope everyone enjoyed the long weekend ds2 had a df choc bunny he wasn't impressed so its in fridge its got a year date on it so sure it will get eaten, we brought him some toot toot animals he loves them as he says a lot of animal noises.

Today we left his pushchair up in hallway which we have done many a time and he decided to climb in and about at us to go out normally he gets his coat and points at our coats or brings us our shoes.

Had his feet measured and is a 4.5f didn't buy shoes as only cruising will wait until been walking few weeks Clark's lady eluded to mid season sale which could fall just right for us she thinks he will be a 5 by time he needs shoes. Ds1 has always had big feet too at 5 and half he is an 11.

First snotty nose Anna?!!!!!!! Wow you have been missing out!! I had to give DD a hair cut due to her fringe getting stuck in it. Ew.

DD must have consumed about a cubic cm of her chocolate rabbit over 20 minutes - she was kind of grating it with her little teeth! I don't think she'll be having any more of it as she had a hideous nappy afterwards. MIL gave her the chocolate and said as she was eating "oh did you know chocolate can have a laxative effect?" Well why the f* did you give it to her then....

We have had a fussy eater here for a few months now. Sometimes it really gets me down :-( She eats breakfast really well, lunch is a bit hit or miss, dinner she will not entertain unless it's macaroni cheese or sausages on the menu. As others have said, she will eat all fruit but no veg; occasionally she'll eat a couple of peas maybe once a fortnight. Hiding veg in things is hard because she doesn't like tomato sauces; luckily she doesn't notice the mashed butternut squash and broccoli in the cheese sauce of her macaroni. Some things she will eat freshly cooked but not from the fridge or reheated. Carbs are a particular problem, she won't eat plain pasta, bread, rice or potatoes. I try to put some form of veg on her plate every lunch and dinner just to drum into her that it's normal, but it's such a waste as she never even touches it.
At nursery she seems to eat better and they say she tries most things so I figure with that two days a week, one dinner of macaroni cheese, one of sausages or meatballs, and the rest of her dinners just picked at, we are probably getting enough nutrients in her. Cheese and pickle sandwiches used to be a cast iron lunch but now she she'll nibble on a cracker and have some cheese and ham bits and everything else gets chucked on the floor. It's so hard staying calm sometimes.

DS has a pretty woeful diet at the moment. Carbs and meat basically, and by meat I mean sausages or ham. Thank god he eats cheese. Oh and he'll eat fish fingers. Before I became a parent I never thought I'd be thanking my lucky stars my child ate fish fingers.

Today we decided as a family, to go on a lovely woodland walk down by the lake. BAD IDEA He's too young and it was a nightmare. Firstly he wouldn't budge beyond the muddy puddles in the car park. After 20 mins of us standing around bored we picked him up to go on further. Meltdown. Then he had to splash in every single puddle he found. Or else. Which was fine in principle but we weren't getting anywhere! Took us an hour (& 10 meltdowns) to get 50 yards to the lake. But then once we got there he decided nothing would do him than to commit suicide by attempting to fling himself bodily into it.

When we finally got back to the car DS was covered in mud and well and truly overwrought and myself and DH felt like we'd been through Boot Camp with a tiny US Marine.

We're going to try the beach next. Surely that can't be worse???!!

Moggle ds1 never ate any carbs really til he was 3 and started eating plain pasta he had rice occasionally before that he didn't eat potato til he started school at 4 now at 5+half he eats all carbs but plain no sauces or gravy.

Have you tried her with Cous cous ds2 loves it we don't really eat so just make it for him it quick n easy too. I blitzed up the left over veg from roast dinner last night chopped chicken and little stuffing mixed into Cous Cous and when reheated added knob butter and he loves it had 3 pots for freezer too.

Ds1 and I sorted loafs of his clothes today have 2 large boxes 2-3yrs and a box each or 3-4+4-5 ready for ds2, ds1 is still in some 3-4 bottoms and mostly 4-5 as he is a skinny whatsit.

Welcome to the world of snot Anna!

I so want to do different things together with DD, but at the moment we cannot even go to local supermarket without her kicking off. There is always a reason for a good one. Since she was 10 months old, she wouldn't want to have any milk during the day, only night time. But last few weeks she has thrown a strop over the fact we would be half way home from nursery and I wouldn't have milk with me (obviously, if I just got off the train from London, right?). Hopefully when we can have proper conversation it will get better and we can agree on things without screams.

In the nursery she seems to eat everything of everything, while at home I havent seen anything else apart from her shaking head at every bit of food I produce. Last weekend I made custard with even vanilla pod in it, hoping she would eat it. Hey ho... It seems to travel to the bin regularly in small portions.

Anna Your First Snotty Nose??!!! Wow!! DD has an almost permamently snotty nose. Now she has a cough again too. Muslins make great giant hankies.

The clock change has been good to us though. She has slept until 8.30 this week, but this has required a hour of crying and screaming at bedtime and/ or about midnight which is not ideal but not too bad while I am on annual leave and don't have to take DD1 to school so can appreciate the lie-in.

Tomorrow DDs and I are going to Wales. My parents, sister, BIL and nieces will be there. DH has to work. I initially thought this was a good idea, but despair at the thought of trying to get DD to sleep in a travel cot (I only have short arms so can't easily reach to put her down in there without her noticing), in a room that won't be dark (she has black-out blinds in her room) while my parents wait to make comments on the fact that I'm not just leaving her to cry... They are also likely to want child-free dinners so there will be time pressures for me to get her sleeping before they want to eat. At least it is only 2 nights, I will have a double bed so she will sleep with me if she wakes up later, and DD1 will have fun with her cousins.

My other problem is the biting while I feed her. It really fucking hurts! And, it is especially while I am trying to get her to sleep, so I can't shout ow, or just put her down, because I am desperate for her to stop crying and go to sleep. It got to stage where she is crying and screaming in the cot but I can't pick her up because she will just maul me for milk, can somehow unbutton my pyjama top and then is biting me :(

happy as soon as you get there clip a thick blanket to the curtain rod with clothes pegs if its a plastic rail. Or if its one of those round poles clip the blanket back on itself with the pegs. The more pegs the better.

We have to do this in MILs. Her bedrooms are lit up like a nuclear winter.

The biting......jesus. I dont know how you keep at it. I dont think I could go on with the teeth they have now. DS was able to chew a bloody pork chop earlier!

Happy a travel gro blind was one of our best investment actually ds2 has it on his window as still haven't got a proper one.

Ds2 sometimes bites when feeding but only when fallen asleep and latch is crap so take him off the thinking he does ispinch at bare skin when feediyaas tired its comfort thing and difficult to stop.

I second the gro blind, we also have one up in the window of her bedroom.

Anna I can't believe this is the 1st runny nose. He must have the immune system of an athlete. This is the 2nd one we've had this month!

Last night was the worst night we've had since Christmas. DD was up from about 12 until about 4 on and off so me and dp were up the whole time. She was ANGRY. In fact when I came back in after the first time I tried to sort her out dp said 'tried a new tactic of hot pokers in the eyes to get her off did you?' I don't think I've ever seen her so angry, she kicked the living shit out of me when I changed her nappy which was full at 2am. Then again when she pooed at 2.30am. I think we had a perfect storm of needing a poo, teething and a cold keeping her awake. She's sleeping soundly now of course... grrrr.

My comment about improved sleep since the clock change came back to haunt me all night long. She woke up at 11, just as I was going to sleep, coughing and coughing and crying about it. She continued to cry and moan and scream and cough for the next 1.5hrs despite calpol until I bought her to our bed where she stopped crying and was happy, but didn't go to sleep. She was talking and singing very loudly, climbing over me, pulling my hair out, poking me in the eyes, everything but going to sleep. I tried feeding her to sleep, I tried lying down and pretending to be asleep, I tried making her lie down and cuddling her but she was not going to sleep. At 2.30am I gave up and put her back in the cot and she screamed like I was murdering her until DH came up and 'rescued' her and I went to sleep on the settee. I didn't hear her screaming for long after that but I don't know what I was doing wrong for the previous 3hrs. She has to wake up soon as my parents will be here to pick us up, and I am facing 3 days with my family on 4hrs sleep. A repeat of this will be fun when I am the only parent and we are in a house with 7 other people to disturb :(

Oh no :-( happy I third the gro blind, I will have to put ours up soon - last year it was up the whole of british summer time, despite having blackout curtains. Don't know what she will be like this year.

DD has been lying in too since the clock change, which has been nice as I've been able to get all ready for work, wake her up at 7:45, dress her, play with daddy for 10 mins and then we are all out the door at 8. Very different to our normal hectic mornings with a background of her whinging but I'm sure normal service will be resumed by the weekend... on the flip side she's woken at 1am the last couple of nights... on Sunday night she had 12oz milk in the night added to the 12oz she has before bed... I have never seen a heavier nappy by the morning!
Sorry for those whose DC are reacting a bit more strongly to the time change!! hopefully they will all adjust soon.
Sympathy to those getting bitten too! DD has surged forward with her teeth, she got her first in october, second in december, third to ninth or tenth in the past six weeks! She stopped feeding in January and when I look at her mouth now I'm very glad, she's so impulsive with physical behaviour, I can well imagine getting chomped on a lot.

DS pulled over a really heavy wooden old fashioned bedside cabinet this morning. If it weren't for all the drawers slipping out and making it stop at a 45 degree angle he may have really hurt himself. As it was the glass lamp on top broke. I got such a fright! It didn't help that DH minimised it (if I hear "he's a little boy, this is what they're like" one more time......)

Tbh it's getting a bit stressful now around the house. We've emptied a lot of the kitchen drawers but he's learnt to open the bottom one, climb in it, stand up, and pull at the kettle/knives in the draining rack/chopping boards etc. So we're going to have to put locks even on empty drawers! Oh and he can reach a good foot into the kitchen table. So much for not leaving things on the edge - we have to shove everything into the middle!

He is also now tall enough to open all the doors & is constantly "exploring". We keep the back door locked but we're getting to the stage of having to lock internal doors if we don't want things wrecked.

I'm worn out with the vigilance to be honest. It's exhausting. I don't want to live in Fort Knox either!

Is mine the only one at this shit already?

anna I've got a climber too. I got my dad round and he and dp nailed everything to the wall. We do have one unit in the living room with cupboard doors that she can open but they're quite soft closing so I just left them in the hope that she'll learn that doors can close on your fingers so be careful. DP is more of a worrier about that. We left one cupboard full of tupperware open so she just plays with that (annoying but not harmful) and a bottom draw with a few boring bits in that she was obsessed with for about a week but now ignores. She's never got 'in' a drawer though...
The washing machine is another matter, she frequently gets into the drum, never made it all the way in but I wouldn't be surprised.
The one thing we haven't figured out is how to keep her away from the buttons, she has figured out a way to set the alarm on the oven and me and DP have no idea how to unset it when she does it. And if the washing machine is going she presses the buttons and managed to reset the cycle already.

When do we get given the eyes in the backs of our heads mums are supposed to have? I need mine now.

DD loves rummaging through cupboards, but not so much of a climber into drawers etc. Her main interest is the cupboard where we store her baby snacks, plates and bottles and my bathroom cupboard. Both have its advantage though. I can carry on doing things in kitchen while she after good rummage sits on the floor with snack packet. The same for bathroom but I have to keep an eye what exactly she picks and does with it. She is obsessed with the micellar water and has learned to open it, probably not the best thing to drink.
One proper suiciadal episode with her was last Friday, we went to a NT property with mill and she HAD to get into the water, so ended up with tantrum obviously, but otherwise she is fairly ok. Said that we only have her at home from 6.30pm- 7.15am on weekdays, so not such a big window of opportunity.

Well DS has already figured out how to rip the drawer out of the washing machine. If its just been turned on and washing powder and fabric conditioner spill all over the floor so much the better. So now we have to only start the washing machine when he's outside or napping.

The bathroom is a nightmare. We've had to put the bin in the bath so he cant empty it but he still throws everything down the loo. His latest thing is deciding everything has to go into the kitchen bin, so every time we open it we see poor Iggle Piggle or similar staring mournfully up at us.

We put oven locks on the oven but he ripped them off. So now we have a kitchen chair in front of the oven but he's strong enough to push it out of the way.

Basically he gets around every obstacle in his way to destruction!

It doesnt help that he's at home a LOT. Particularly on wet days. So he's tested every single inch of the house. Cant bloody wait for July when his nursery place becomes free........

On fuck he's throwing toys in the bin again, have to go......

Ok yes, he's definitely more destructive than Babydolly, the oven is only for admiring her reflection in, the bin is only to get things out of not put things in and thankfully she doesn't even know there is a washing machine drawer! And of course she's at the childminder's all week so she can work on destroying their place first.