November 2014 - the one where they answer back.

[MrsAukerman]

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Oh east you poor thing, my hangover last week also turned out to be a stomach bug, really wipes you out when there are babies to look after.

Yes anna! The comprehension, so close to an actual conversation. This morning I was rummaging in my bag and asking DP if he'd seen my keys and dd walks over, peers in my handbag and says 'where's the keys?' - what? That's almost a sentence?? It's a shock whenever you pulls something like that.

We went to a NT place at the weekend and I was trying to teach her more words so when we saw swans I said 'that's a swan, can you say swan?' and she replied 'Two' - I've been trying to teach her some numbers and she thought I'd said 'one'! Then while I'm trying to say 'isn't it a big tree, can you say tree? She replied 'four'. Same problem! Maybe I need ot ease up on the numbers, she only likes the even ones anyway. Writing this down it's not funny at all but it really tickled me at the time. (Humour me, I come here to bore you lot with talking about dd so I don't end up with no friends on facebook because I won't shut up about her there)

Half how are you getting on? hoping it's mild case. I quite enjoyed dd's because she was so snugglyand didn't appear to be that itchy.

Funny about the numbers. DS seems to have learnt from either the CM or ITNG.
I was getting his rucksack ready for CM and was counting how many nappies were there and said "one, two" then he said "three"! Amazing but he's not yet repeated it!

Ds2 says lots words now gets very excited at cup of tea think we drink too much of it. He does all action to twinkle twinkle and incy wincy and animal noises for old McDonald and teaching him head shoulder knees n toes.

Wow amazing mrsA! Dd definitely not counting, just copying me. And most of the time she just says 'two, two, two, go!'

We already have an in home class war/north-south divide. DP is winning since dd calls her evening meal 'tea'... grrrrr.

Ds recognises numbers in books (so if I say, 'can you show me the number 1'etc he'll,point to the symbol), but not saying them, awesome the stuff they are learning now.
What's not so awesome is these bloody night wakings. 11 and 4 last night, and he's currently grizzling upstairs now. Bet he'll be up at about 3 again as well. He ate snacks all day today, but refused breakfast, lunch and tea. We're getting into a bit of a bad pattern and I don't know how to break it without total lack of sleep!

Flipping hell you guys are up to numbers???! Shit!

Lady. Ds has 'tea' as he eats about 5, then we have 'dinner' when we eat at 8ish. Good compromise! X

anna she's just copying words from me, she doesn't know what they mean!

I'm more impressed with the few party tricks I've taught her 'rock and roll' which is air guitar, 'hip hop' which is waving one hand like a rap star and 'yeahhhhhh' which is heavy metal arm waving. Trying to think of a few more to add to that...

I'm sure you've all tried it but the banana dd has at bathtime was a gamechanger for keeping her full overnight, we went cold turkey on the 3am bottle, replaced with a cuddle and she was going off in about the same amount of time, about 10 minutes and stopped waking up at all a few weeks later.

CP turned out to be hand foot and mouth Round 2.
Oh yes.
It can happen.

She's fine, much spottier this time but form much better, no temp at all.

Hadn't even considered numbers here yet dd2 is much more of a baby in some ways (talking) and more grown up in other ways (plays with her sister's toys i.e. Claims them for her own).
Sleep been mixed over last few days but not hideous. If she wakes at all though, that's it. No going back to sleep for at least 2 hours. None of this 'a cuddle and then down' business. She just gets wired.
What vegetarian meals do yours all eat? Bean and lentil stew and homemade green pesto and pasta are the two winners here but the dds are getting sick of them I'm sure.

Half star hope she is better soon.

Ds2 loves ds1 toys particularly finding small bits he is not allowed. We actually sold a load of ds2 plastic toys and replaced with wooden toys much nicer and they both play with them, think once hit 3 though plastic crap is inevitable.

I really must stop online shopping lots indies have offers on Frugi, kite and maxomorra so have had load clothes turn up for boys my excuse iis ds2 will getget ds1 stuff and iit sells well second hand. Today matching maxomorra iice cream t-shirts, Frugi rainbow parsnips for ds2 ready for winter, max sheep trousers, Frugi snuggle fleece and for ds2 kite seagull shorts and max tractor boxers...... This is in addition to ds1 Frugi shorts yesterday and ds2 lgr order at weekend - I have sold aload of ds2 bits that I had stashed then he hasn't worn or I am not so keen on them so has pretty much evened out.

The journey to and from the childminders is spent counting, animal noises, useless party tricks. Makes me feel better for rushing around once we get in

Yes to bean stew aswell! She loves risotto and veggie laden pizzas too.

Lady our journey home from childminders and nursery iis usually singing anything from nursery rhymes to eye of the tiger as ds2 is a right ragey pants on way home (ds1 sang eye tiger for mths last summer for school and ds2 v quickly picked it up had tune from early on and now most words - they sing chorus)

Veggie meals - ERM dh adds ham or bacon to anything without meat so I do t tend to bother - I made some eggs bake thing think it was Spanish with veg all roasted down into a sauce and ehggs then baked in to wells in it its was called Spanish eggs I think was pretty nice not made again as Mr meat asked where bacon was!!

Talking abput north/south we are from sussex and live in east Midlands and obviously pronouce words like bath and grass as Barth and grarss and its breakfast lunch and dinner ds1 is v good and interchanging between his school accent and home accent bless him, ds2 is learning hi ya is not a home thing but a nursery thing we say hello!

We have been here nearly 14yrs and ii am sure I slip into some of local pronouciations when being Lazy but I do try to speak properly.

I do veggie shepherd's pie with queen mince. One of the only things he'll eat at the moment, that and sweet potato and beans.
I tried to involve him in cooking a bit at lunch time, we made pasta with spinach, peas and bacon, with a mild mustard sauce. He ate a bit more of it than I expected, so maybe getting him To 'help' might make him more interested. Going to sit him at his mini chair and table tonight inested of high chair and see if he does better. He's been asleep for 3.5 hours. Need to go and wake him up...

Found you again. DD is a water spitter, anyone else have this problem? Leave her with a sippy cup for 30 seconds and she'll have spat water down herself/all over the floor/on the sofa. She spat it all over her little brother yesterday. Luckily he found it hilarious but she knows she isn't meant to do it, and only does it when our backs are turned.

Exactly my thought too Anna. A big fat "0" amount of words being said here let alone counting

Lots of spitting water (not inherently problematic but naughty) and milk (yucky and potentially smelly) out. He had a long phase of it then appeared to have forgotten about it.

Anyone else having milk refusal? Bedtime milk is whole cow's milk used to be a whole tommee tippee full and tonight was one glug which was spat out. I do wonder if it's why he's started waking at night again.

This is the thing, they're all different. DD has a lot of vocab but really isn't that into toys that involve any kind of thinking, even the happy valley stuff. Things that make noises, role play/physical toys that's kind of it for her. She's quite passive. She'd rather be on the ipad (so we've limited it to a distraction in restaurants and an hour or 2 over the weekend).

No water spitting here... yet. But she loves to pour water all over the sofa whenever she can. She has those no spill cups but has never managed those ones with the straws and gets really angry with them.

How much milk is everyone giving now? We do about 6oz in the morning, 6-8oz right before bed and then maybe 4-5oz during the day. I'm wondering about cutting the daytime one...

We don't have water spitting (yet) but we do have deliberate dribbling from beaker i.e. "I'm pretending to drink the water but really I'm not swallowing it and as soon as I move the beaker away I'm going to let it all dribble out" and it's REALLY funny

How much milk ladydolly? - none. Apparently she has up to half a beaker after her nap at nursery, but I don't give her any as a drink - she has plenty with cereal / porridge etc and eats tons of yoghurt and will pretty soon turn into a block of cheese (if she has her way!)

Water pouring from free flow spout only allowed iim highchair has 360 cups,elsewhere.

Milk wise bf morning and bedtime and milk in breakfast, nursery still make custard at 1/2pm as doesn't have any other milk products so they use oat milk although has DF cheese at nursery and occasionally oatly cream so considering replacing custard with a diff snack.

We stopped giving milk altogether about a month ago. We swapped to a sippy cup of milk when she started squeezing the teat on the bottle to pour milk onto the floor/coffee table to draw in, but now she won't drink it at all, she just spits it down herself or throws it. I try and give her plenty of cheese, yoghurt etc and sneak it into sauces. I'm hoping the spitting is just a phase. I mop it up as soon as I see it but she's crafty and has slipped in it a couple of times. Some words here but mainly gibberish. She used to say "dada" but now calls dh "doggy"

And she's determined! She has no spill cups and one of those beakers with straws built in. She bangs th sippy cups on the floor to make the water come out and sucks loads of water out of the beaker to then spit out. I've got a spirited one

Pmsl at 'doggy'

No spitting here! But she spills her water out of her cup to announce she's finished eating.
6oz of milk from a bottle before bed, milk in cereal in morning and that's it pretty much. But Also going to turn into a block of cheese some day soon.

She likes Peppa but that's it, and only happy watching TV if someone, preferably a parent, watches with her. It has a limited value. I seem to remember I could plonk dd1 for half an hour or so at that age. Main things she likes are books, colouring, and pulling every single last item of clothing out of her drawers and creating a large clothes pile in the corner. Eating cheese also.

Yes to cheese. For a child who was dairy-free when weaned, she would now quite happily only eat dairy products and could easily turn into a block of cheese (takes after DH, we get through a crazy amount of cheese in this house). And yes to spilling/ spitting/ pouring drinks everywhere. I get milk out for DD1 to drink with meals and DD2 points at it and shouts and makes it very clear that she would also like a cup of milk, preferably in a cup without a lid like a big girl, which is obviously very messy. She is able to drink from a cup with handles but no lid without spilling it all over her if she wants to, but is quite happy to end up soaked in it and put her food in the cup too.
We only really eat veggy meals at home because DH is vegetarian and I can't be bothered to cook seperate meals for DDs and I. DD2 likes pretty much anything, for example risotto, veggy chilli, dhal, pasta with any kind of sauce, stir-fry with veg and tofu and noodles.
She doesn't much care about what is on TV. It is only on for DD1 on the weekend or on the rare occasion that she is ready for school early. She likes books (the same ones over and over again), drawing (on DD1's things and the furniture), the ride-on zebra, her sister's dolls and ponies or anything her sister is playing with. This week both of them have mostly played in a big cardboard box, big enough for both of them to sit in, long enough for DD1 to lie down in or stand up if it is upright like a space ship.

No spitting here, thankfully!
Favourite games are, cars (or anything that rolls) water and books. No interest in colouring or painting at all.
He was up again at 4. Dh was with him and said he took a tiny bit of water, and tiny bit of milk, and then settled again. So it seems he just wanted the company.
Can you guys share some recipes for veggie meals?