November 2014 - the one where they answer back.

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2 year check??? I'm another one that didn't know they existed

Ladydolly, hate to break it to you, but you can't "stop it" - think of it as "just another phase"....DD's "phase' of waking at 5/5.15am lasted literally months. It's only over the last 3-4 weeks that we've had "lie-ins" until 6am!!!! That is a luxury in this house . She's currently managing 7pm-6am, and we're definitely NOT complaining!

Am finding myself much more obviously pregnant this time round - I look like I did at least 5 weeks further down the line when I was pregnant with DD. Still, at least the queasiness has (hopefully) ended.

Ark, how are you doing?

Haven't heard about 2 year check either. I was wondering if there is supposed to be an eye check any time soon? Mainly because read an article that in other countries they do it around this time because eyes are developing and if anything gets picked up, it's easier to correct it.

We are on our last days of holidays. The sleep has been back to old bad since we arrived here after she slept through 2 nights in row just before going away. Last night we had a massive scare with DD. We were all in the lounge and she was running around and banged her nose on the coffee table. Nose bleed, crying, stress, awful. Bleeding stopped fairly quick, crying lasted longer, but then she just suddenly stopped as if cut off and went all cheerful as nothing happened. Now looking back with steady mind, I think she cried more because we didn't let her rub her nose. Went through google looking up nose injuries and was fully expecting swelling and bruising, but today she's been absolutely fine.
The weird thing is I don't remember in detail how it happened, as if waking up from a dream and having a feeling it was bad/good dream, some generic idea what it was related, but that's it, all gone. I know that she fell because of me, I think she was charging towards me and I moved, but I am not sure about details. It just happened all so fast and then followed by the panic about her bleeding nose, could it be that brain didn't register the detail in the chaos? So confusing... The bang was really bad, I was convinced she broke her nose. So DD being absolutely fine today has been a massive relieve.

Other than that she seems to enjoy being away and on the go all the time. If we decide to have a relaxed morning about 10am she starts to bring over everybody's shoes and tell that we should go to the car. :)

eastmids oh no, hope you are feeling better and out of pain soon.

I haven't heard anything about DD's 2yr check yet and she is 2 in 12 days, and I won't be able to take her to it for a few weeks after her birthday as I am on a week long course at work then on jury service for 2 weeks. It will be like trying out 'normal' 9-5 Monday-Friday life for 3 weeks - I will miss taking DD1 to school and picking her up sometimes and spending a couple of days a week with DD2 but I will be home everyday for bedtime and all weekend.

strawberry you don't routinely get eyes checked until they are in Reception. At the HV checks they will ask if you are worried about their sight but, if you don't know to look for any problems, you probably won't notice them. DD1 was 3 when DH noticed her squint while looking at photos of her, which led to her being referred for eye testing at the hospital and then glasses, but I had never noticed anything and nor had anyone else.

Oh shit maybe it's just in Ireland? Sorry for the anxiety!

He's also already had his eyes checked for a squint and is apparently down for an eyesight test at 3.

I just assumed it was a universal thing!

2 year check is a thing in England too. There's a notice about it at our nursery, so I'm assuming it's done there. It says up to 2.5, so no hurry there!

How long did you all find it took to get good communication with the nursery? I have an online learning platform where they are meant to be posting observations about ds, but they haven't done any yet. I also missed out on them doing professional photos as I only found out they were doing them after they happened, and ds hasn't brought home any artwork since his settling in session. I know he's only there 1.5 days a week, and they are busy, but I thought I'd be seeing a bit more variety in his play... There's a parents evening next week, so I'll raise it then, but I wouldn't even know about that unless I'd seen the sign for it and dug around for the sign up sheet myself... I feel I must be missed off some email chain or something...

Sorry to hear about that accident strawberry, I find seeing their blood so distressing, only happened once when ds got a nose bleed on holiday, but it still makes me wobble.

Ark, thinking of you. X

2yr checks are done from 22-28mths you will get an iinvite, we don't bother.

Eye tests are free any opticians will see any age child, ds2 has had glasses since 14mths.

Thanks everyone have managed to walk without so much of a limp today but still painful.

Half term here next week.

I wasn't even shouting when my 5yr old said 'don't shout at me like that.' I was speaking in a frustrated tone though as I asked her to get ready for bed for the 800th time. She said 'you sound cross and angry and sad and too tired. You should go to bed earlier and not put DD2 to bed!!!!' I did question who would put her sister to bed in that case and she suggested daddy. I pointed out that DH is ill (dying of man flu, has had 2 days off work, probably his cold is not as bad as the one I had when I worked 13hr shifts and looked after DC on minimal sleep). It is nice that she cares though...

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ladydolly, EVERYTHING sleep related is a phase . After 3-4 weeks of post 6am waking, the last 4 mornings have gone back to just after 5am and this morning it was 4.50am ..."and this too shall pass".....

repeat ad infinitum hey haven't?? We've got to 5.45 which is an improvement but another half an hour would be great...

At the weekend DD came with me to put the rubbish out and I realised that she dens't normally see nighttime when she pointed to the sky and asked 'where light gone?' - she's a genius right?? Can't tell the difference between red and blue but notices light and dark.

We also managed to get a sneaky video of her singing baa baa black sheep in the car, I already know we'll be playing this for years to come! So cute!!

Oops! Just realised my last post was under a different username I created so I could post an anon rant in 'AIBU?' about my mil but decided it was a waste of energy.

So monday night we follow usual bedtime routine and when DP is giving DD her bottle I heard him shout and she had puked EVERYWHERE. She was immediately fine and was just stood there covered in sick saying 'mess! mess!' and pointing out all the peas boak rebathed and bed and it was like it never happened. Kids are weird. This morning I was putting her in the car and she starting saying 'daddy all mess' 'mess and peas' so I don't think she's forgotten about it. Poor love. I find it strange that she now has memory and things that are beyond what is happening right now are actually relevant to her.

Wow lady she's a bright spark that's for sure! DD fell off a boingy thing at the playground a couple of weeks ago and whenever we go back she says "bang head, bang head, daddy mwa (kiss), daddy mwa" it's like, let go of it already! bless them!
DD is having an absolute explosion in speech and comprehension here. It's really amazing to see, she is so much fun at the moment. Feeling very glad that this leap has not been accompanied with sleep problems although she is being pretty fussy (fussier, I guess) with food. I discovered she could count to ten last week - had no idea at all (just parroting though although I think she knows what 'two' means). She's also started saying thank you in the cutest voice imaginable. And narrating everything she's doing although a fair amount of that is still incomprehensible even to me.

Same as that here. Talking non stop but gibberish really. But he never shuts up!

It wasn't that long ago he was virtually mute!

And yes to the memory thing too - it's surreal to see things being retained.

He's interacting with the world in new ways. This morning he was watching Blaze and Blaze was careering around a track being a fire engine and putting out fires, and it was all "when you see a fire, say fire!" And I suddenly realised that he was screeching FIRE! every time one appeared. That's new!

We are shitting ourselves with the upcoming time change though. We're on 6am wake ups (and he screeches so loud he wakes the baby) and we just can't cope at the moment with them going one minute earlier. Not when we have a newborn waking us during the night too.

But all previous attempts to move bedtime past 7pm have historically been a disaster, so we have serious foreboding about the clocks going back.

anna yes, I'm terrified of the clocks changing! I don't want them to start getting up earlier. DH suggested putting them to bed a hour earlier but I don't know if that will work. On Monday she was lying on the floor with DD1's small dolls' house and 3 HappyLand people apparently narrating whatever they were doing, mostly in gibberish. That kept her entertained for quite a while. She definitely can't count. She just randomly shouts 2 6 2 6!!
She was very confused today because I took her to nursery. DH always does that on the way to work, but today he is ill (again). She kept saying 'where's daddy?' And looking round once she realised where we were (as I was literally running pushing the pushchair to get her there in time for breakfast after a long walk/ run/ bus ride via dropping DD1 at school for breakfast club). I now need to clean up house and pop to shops to collect stuff I ordered online before it is time to collect them again as nursery is nearly 1.5hr round trip by bus depending on traffic.

happy aw that sounds a pain. Hope DH is up and about again soon.
Usually me and DD leave the house after DH has gone to work, but this morning I was ready to leave earlier and told DD to say byebye to Daddy. She got really confused that we were leaving him at home and refused to say bye, was shouting at him Daddy Work, Daddy Work, DADDY WORK!!! Really bossy! (oh wait we're not supposed to say that are we... she displayed great leadership skills or something...)

Love all the funny chat stories. How cute are they at this age? Last night DD2 was putting her hands down my top (not really sure why, it's just a thing they do I think) and I said to her 'do you remember you used to have milk from there?' and she looked at me very seriously and said 'Yeah. Boo' (boobs). (I'm pretty sure she doesn't remember though.) Then she said 'Moo too, boo. There. Baby moo' (translation: Cows also have boobs which they use to feed baby cows) and pointed at her side!

Everything is 'baby' at the minute: a small poo is a baby poo, if I have just a little bit of tea left in my cup, I have a baby tea.

lady - I remember realising that about night when my older dd was little - it's weird when you realise that things like moon and stars in books are just theoretical for them mostly - weird!

Everything is "baby" here too, which is adorable. DS pointing to cot "BEH BEH!" Pointing to Infacol bottle "BEH BEH!" When changing DDs nappy "BEH BEH POO!"

Yeah and stars in the sky don't even look like the stars in books... must be really confusing for them! I was about to correct DD when she pointed at a pic of the sun in a book and said "star", then I was like WHOA you are a science genius already :-D

I've started pushing DD bedtime back to try and beat the clocks changing but she does whatever the hell she wants with getting up anyway. I guess we'll wait and see. I mentioned my plan to DP yesterday and he said 'that's a bit early, they don't change until March'

I fear we've gone to far with the manners with her, I've never really forced it but I do say it a lot and loudly to DP in front of her so she sees it but now she never says just 'yes' or 'no' but the full 'yes please mummy' or 'no thank you daddy' and when she says 'yes please' she has puts a little 'a' in there so she sounds like Jar Jar Binks 'yesaplease!' - shopkeepers etc love it!!

Oh dear, hope ds isn't falling too far behind. No two word sentences, and not very independent at the moment.
Had a hard day today with full on screaming before each meal (because it wasn't raisins).
We had parents evening on Tuesday, and they said all was ok, but just reaffirmed that he's a watcher, and holds back from things. Not sure how to encourage a bit more self motivated play. Sigh, sorry to rant, just fed up with tears today.

Don't worry porsmorck! Fussy mealtimes would try the patience of a saint, we've all been there. Your ds is perfect. The nursery sounds v. impressive by the way, what with parents evening and online reporting. Zero of that here, it's pretty much shove them in and come back later
Poor dd has a cough and a sad croaky little voice. Been up lots with her the last 3 nights. I can't believe how used to it you get once they start sleeping through...then when it's back to getting up at night it's so hard to handle. Speaking of which - Anna, are you surviving there? Mainlining tea?

Porsmork we don't have any 2 word sentences here either - lots of one word chatting and pointing out things (e.g. we saw a man walking to work who was carrying a bag and wearing a fleece. DD KEPT repeating the words "man", "bag", "fleece" in random orders!). DD has only just started to play alongside and sometimes with other children at nursery. It was a bit sad almost to see her standing on the sidelines sometimes when I picked her up, but now she's started to interact a little bit.

I just think they're only 22-23 months. That's NOTHING in a lifetime

Starting to survive anyway! DD is ten times the sleeper DS was/is already. She sleeps 11pm to 4am, has a dream feed, and then sleeps till 7.30am. I know we have dozens of regressions ahead, but omg the difference in the two of them!

That said, you forget how tough it is when they won't be out down, and you forget how shit constant breastfeeding is. Thank God for the nursery as DS is BUSY.

Posmork DS only joins very few words together. Daddy Shoes, Mammy Cup, Big Car. That's about it!

We had the screaming before meals last month - that was when I was just giving in and giving Frubes as a starter, lol. It passed.

Our nursery is the basic type too - no feedback other than "napped fine, ate fine". Sometimes I'm glad!