November 2014 - the one where they answer back.

[MrsAukerman]

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No not really. I had 3 days out planned in the next 4/5 weeks but they were all with him. I find it so hard to come to terms with the fact that we were planning our next holiday a mere 2 weeks ago. Why promise me stuff like this when he was obviously going to go and break my heart.

New house is good, counting down the days till my internet starts though!

For anyone else wondering what to get the 2yr old who already has everything for Christmas, Early Learning Centre have brought out some new HappyLand and they have a half price sale on some of it. Which is nice of them, because I was thinking we already have all the good bits. I am wondering whether if I buy the house with furniture and pets, she will leave her sister's dolls' house alone. There is a great jack and the beanstalk set with giant, cow, goose and harp and sound effects, but DD doesn't know the story of jack and the beanstalk so it might have to wait until next year.

She fell on her face at the park today, cutting her lip and gum at the top, narrowly avoiding knocking out her teeth, then fell off her chair at lunch though I don't think she injured herself anymore that time.

happy how did you get on at the GPs about your ears?

Re: you visiting the 2-3 room. I was thinking about how successful DS has been in the 2-3 year room in crèche. I realised that when he was in the Waddlers (or whatever it was called) in July he only had about 3 words and I was all fretting about it. Then he was moved up and we reckon he has about 30! And he can identify some numbers too. And he's stringing 2 words together all over the place. I fully attribute this to the 2-3 room (as god knows it's not us!). It's been fantastic for him.

The downside? He's learnt the word "MINE!" Oh well, swings and roundabouts!

He did get over his rotavirus, but then promptly gave it to all of us, like a mini Typhoid Mary. But we're over it now. Pray we get a week free of nursery nasties next week!

Ark keep calm and carry on.

Moggle how are you since?

Anna congratulations! Been so hectic here I haven't had a chance to come on, so only just seen that DD has arrived! Well done and glad DS is feeling better.
We're all good here. Period came last week so will be starting another frozen cycle in a few weeks.
DD has just gone into the 2-3 room too and her language has also exploded. She's just started putting two words together for the first time, apart from "bye bye X", the first thing she said was "white owl" after seeing some at the zoo! She loves putting words together now especially when we are in a car park "white car!" "Red car!" Etc and she's so pleased every time, bless!

Ohhh, I can't wait for putting words together! We have 'that way', but I think he thinks it's one word. I too, am glad he's in the 2-3 room, as it'll help language no end. We're getting there with settling. Still tears and shouting, but he eats like a horse when he's there and apparently a couple of the bigger boys are looking after him! At only 4 sessions in, I'm pretty happy with that. Especially as I've managed to get some freelance work from my old company for the next few months, so I'll be donning business attire and going to London on Wednesday! It'll be almost 2 years to the day when I went on maternity leave.
Went to toys r us today to get some inspiration for birthday and Christmas. What a lot of tat. Decided to get some more brio, and that's about it!

Yay! DD slept through last night! She went down at 9.30pm (her normal bedtime) and there was not a single squak from her room until 5.30am. She made a little noise then and went quiet. Considering the unique occassion I went in to check up on her, she had picked up the milk we had left next to her. Emptied it, said "night, night" and turned around till 7am when we had to wake her up for nursery run. She probably will not repeat this till end of the year, but it was great.

Other than that she continues with numbers obsession. DH bought her another numbers puzzle from 1 to 20 and she has learned to recognise and name most of them. She sometimes mixes up 12 and 20 and calls 19 a nine-nine. Also she has learned most of the alphabet thanks to another wooden puzzle. She has worked out that W upside down is M

Talk wise she has surprised us with perfectly normal sentences like "are you alright?", "where are we?", "I dont know", "this way", otherwise it's single words mixed with some lalalalalala. And when she gets excited and speeds up the talk I can understand nothing and little more.

happy hope you feel better and your hearing has been recovered.

Wow strawberry that's great both on sleep and on letters and numbers - wow again!

My least favourite combinations of words are "oh dear X"... Which I usually hear from a different room. So far "oh dear paper" = I've drawn all over myself, "oh dear wet" = I've spilt my drink all over everything, and this morning "oh dear bear", she came into the kitchen clutching the brown felt nose of my beloved 35 year old teddy :-( he has been put away in the cupboard again!

strawberry your 1yr old is better at recognising numbers 11-20 than my 5yr old.

Everyone who asked: the GP last week said there was nothing she could prescribe for my deafness, it was just a long-lasting side-effect of the terrible cold I had had, but, to be fair to her, it did gradually get better by itself at the end of the week and I am no longer deaf, yay!

anna glad you are all better. No you can get on with enjoying both of your babies.

Good to hear happy! Have to say I admire your resilience with the whole situation. I think I would be in a massive panic, breastfeeding out of the window and me on all tablets available .

Let's see if she is still good with numbers when 5yo! Was on messenger the other day, talking to a friend who has 6 yo, she is now going through a phase of not wanting to do anything. Result: she has abandoned singing and dancing she was very good at and only goes to a lego type modelling class (because she chose it herself!). So I would not be surprised few years down the line DD has forgotten what she knows now.

glad you're feeling better happy and anna. That was a rough start with the new baby Anna - a vomiting bug! We had a brief bug here over the weekend, just one puke (DD2) and then done. Was rampant in nursery apparently so feel we got off lightly. She's fine but turning her nose up at most dinners since in favour of eating fruit and beige shite so hopefully that will pass too.

strawberry - I agree with happy, that's pretty amazing with DD and the numbers. My 4 year old probably isn't 100% on recognising 11-20 either now that I think about it.

Hm, all of your toddlers haved moved up room already - nursery told us a while back that DD would be moving up to 2-3 any day but it still hasn't happened. I wonder if it's to do with numbers or maybe they're just waiting til she's officially 2? I don't think she's particularly behind or anything but we never actually talk about developmental milestone stuff so who knows. It's funny seeing my petite little DD the oldest in the room!

Thanks for all the toy suggestions...am making notes so keep them coming...

PS meant to say yay strawberry on the sleeping through! woohoo!

Amazingly DD slept through another night! Has something just clicked and she has learnt something was enables her to do so?! Well, we are off for 2 weeks holiday today, chances are it will get screwed with the unknown place and bed.
DD is moving to the next room in a month. I have an impression our nursery takes into consideration what other kids are in the current room and the next one to see how child would fit in. DD was the only older one left in the baby room so they moved her to the toddler one way before the age bcs she didnt have similar LOs to play with. Now she and other girl are two older ones in current room and have figured out they are bosses there.

Ds2 still in toddler room and they said he will go into 2-3 room once turns 2 which is end Nov so guess they may have shift around in Jan, 2-3 room and pre school are upstairs so guess they have to be confident going up and down. Ds2 does those wooden peg puzzles and the chunkier Melissa and Doug ones by himself but no amazing number recognition :)

Half I think with nursery it's down to the numbers in each class. I know at ours they have just had a glut of new babies starting, so the equivalent number of babies had to go up to the 18-24m room, and my DD being one of the oldest in that room had to go up to 2-3 with a few friends, despite not being 2 yet. It's all fairly vague anyway at this age. Plus some smaller nurseries don't even split that way... my friend's nursery just has "babies" and "preschool"!

I think ds had a better day at nursery today. He ate well, slept for an hour, and played with cars. Tears on drop off and collection apparently, but we're getting there.
Which is great, because I had my first day back at my old company today. I'm doing one day a week for them. It was so strange being back in the same office, with some of the same people, but with so much change. I'm excited and terrified!

That's fantastic, really positive!

Today Daddy taught DS how to burp. Accidentally of course. DH burped after dinner (lovely....) and DS, delighted, imitated him. They both fell about laughing. I was NOT impressed!

Thank goodness the 5am wake ups seem to have passed and we're back to 6.30. I feel almost human again.

Ark how are you doing? Got internet access yet?

Speaking continues to amaze me, we can have an actual conversation. Yesterday she came in and told me she'd bumped her head on the chair and then that she needed me to come and move the chair to get to the stickers. Incredible!! Last night she'd splashed DH's phone from the and was worried it was broken. Over and over she kept saying 'Daddy's phone broken', it was then the first thing she said this morning from her cot 'Daddy's phone broken wet' - weird that she thinks this long about anything.

Recognising numbers though? No way! she can count to 10 and tries to count actual things but with not much success. And as I keep saying, no joy with colours!

So last night ds2 deciders to flip himself out of cot - didn't climb just tipped over so that's that lowered to bottom

And this morning ii fell most way down stairs yes I cried it frigging hurt twisted ankle one way and knee the other its agony knee not long been better from ds2 playing bouncy bouncy on my lap and Landing on it funny so dosed up on pain killers ds2 cried because ii did and ds1 wasn't sure what to do as never seen me cry so pissed off to play Lego!!!

Ds1 and dh gone off to his first football match gone to England game WO t see them til late tonight with all travelling. So got ds1 asleep on me on sofa

How terrifying! I'm constantly running into the bedroom because I'm worried DD's about to flip out of the cot.

The early wake ups continue here, I think it's her teeth, I'm trying to embrace it by getting stuff done in the early morning, washing, cleaning etc. DD doesn't let me use the laptop without grabbing it so I can't get any work done. Does mean I have to go to bed at 9pm though.

Saturday was one of my favourite days of the year, the NCT sale, I get to spend a morning chatting with my sister while we set up and then mad dash to buy stuff before the sale starts. Got a lovely pair of Stella McCartney trousers for £6 and then some stocking fillers, dinosaur figures, dolls house furniture etc and as usual a bundle of clothes.

Away with work this week so at least one not so early morning ahead of me :)

DS slept at GPs last night and slept til 9 when he was woken by the binmen! Why can't he do that at home????

We went out and got absolutely rat-arsed, which was nice!

Well today I ended up going for xray on leg I was at a meeting in a hospital so went to minor injuries and they were pretty sure fracture thankfully not as would screwed up holiday plans, just nasty sprain so rest and pain killers will take 6weeks to heal.

oh no east! That sounds vv painful. Hope you get some good drugs.

How's everyone doing? Ark? Anna, how's DD?

I am still a bit in baby fog. Breastfeeding constantly and having fussy evenings. Oh and still bleeding/constipated/stitches pulling..... lovely Deja vu!

But DD absolutely thriving which is fab.

DS had his 2 year check this morning ! Rather unexpected - I suspect cos I'm newly on public health nurses mind cos of post natal visits etc.

He was asked to point out features on a teddy and give the teddy a drink and stuff like that. He passed with flying colours to our huge relief! Anyone else have it yet?

Oh east you poor thing!!

anna I didn't even know there was a 2 year check??

DD back to 5.30 wake ups, how do you stop this?? This morning she was up at 4.50 (but I was away with work so missed it thankfully!)