April 2006 (part 3) Soon they'll all be 1. Where did the year go?!

[DebitheScot]

Thought it was about time we started a new thread and this seemed like a suitable time. I am now going to try to link the old one to this one.

Our Tom doesn't talk either. He goes 'dadadadadada'and 'mamamamammama'. I'm more worried that he won't 'self-feed' ATM. He's a very good crawler and climber! He stands for about 30 seconds and kinda walks around furniture.

Does anyone elses bubbas stare at you when you're getting dressed? Tom just stares at my boobs. Not sure if it's because i'm still breastfeeding or not, lol.

stranger alert

Havebeen sooo busy over easter it was untrue... we even went to teh seaside (on the coldest day)...and I am supposed to be on a MN break but my battery on work laptop has died so I am here instead.

DD3 is no-where near walking. She cruises the furniture and will push a walker along (which we ony got out a couple of days ago) very unsteadily. I think she will struggle will confidence. Even when she learnt to stand she wouldn't just plonk her bum down - she had to feel the floor & 'prepare' to sit down IYSWIM. I don't think she will be brave enough to traverse gaps unless she can reach the other side IYSWIM.

At nursery they should move up to teh next room at 1 but they are keeping her with the tiny babies until June as she is so small (only just in 6-9m clothes!!!) and not as mobile as the kids in Baby2. Felt at first, but it is for her own good as she will only get knocked about I fear.

She doesn't really say comprehensible 'meaningful' words much eihter N&T&B (or should that be N&T&E???). She does say 'bah' for 'boo', and kind of calls yu if she can hear you upstairs or in kitchen but shouting 'ba-ah'. The last couple days tho she has started to say 'gon' (gone) really clearly. Especially when you are feeding her chocolate and she has emptied one mouthful and is ready for the next!!! We are still waiting for the important ones like mama & dada tho (she bables them but doesn't mean mum & dad).

Oh well she is 1 on Tues (24th) and we still havn't got her anything (well - just an outfit) - she has all of DTDs toys. We just can't fit any more in....

yeah! An april 06 thread!

My dd is now 1 yr. I've noticed alot of boys but very very few girls in the last year. Thought it was just local to me...maybe not!

My dd calls everyone dada, including my boobs now? And her tummy? Oh and whenever someone comes to the door...ie postman..."dada!".

She's just beginning to push herself up from my legs when I'm sat on the floor and can stand for minutes at a time. She also knows what an elephant is and can wave her arm like a trunk, a dog "da" and woofs and pants, and she incredibly cutely goes to a 'forbidden' object ie fireplace, sockets (with safety sockets in) and waves an arm and says 'nnoooo, nooooo' ))

That's all for now, but great thread to have!!

I think, as a rule, boys talk later. Apparently, dh didn't say anything until well after his 2nd birthday. MIL was so worried she took him to a speech therapist!

Dd is babbling all the time now (think she takes after her mum) but she's a bit on the slow side when it comes to physical development. But I think that's all par for the course.

dd3 is one on Thursday

she can stand up on her own and is starting to take a lurching step between bits of furniture

she says 'row row row' and makes a singing sound when you sing 'row row your boat' with her, she has a special noise that means goodbye and hello, she says quack quack if she sees a picture of a duck, and I think she says thank you

she is on the move constantly and thinks she is about 12

she REALLY looks like a boy

I can't believe this time last year I was in a lot of pain which (at the time) I thought was going to go one forever .....

This time last year I was being told I was going to be kept in overnight to be induced in morning because my blood pressure was sky high. But then they didn't need to because he was born before they got a chance (Phew)

Woopeeeee a year ago at this time I had (literally) just given birth!!!!

Me too. 6 minutes ago.

Since when is 5.30am playtime??? And who decided it should get light so early? Ds is in our room at the moment as we have visitors and dh and I spent an hour this morning lying dead still trying not to let ds realise we were there otherwise he'd want to play with us. It was very hard not to laugh at his funny stories and sounds he was blethering away to himself and bouncing up and down.!

Oh and who's stupid idea was it to get the cot with the balls on the end. The noise they make gets very very annoying

LOL at trying to lie dead still. Bean there, done that (with DTDs)

Oh and I can definatively state that it was not my idea that you buy the cot with balls on the end !!!!

It wasn't my idea either!

dd walked 4 steps today!!!!
She hasn't really managed to repeat it yet, she does 2 then flops down to crawling again. So far we have 'mummy', 'daddy', 'bobby' 'byebye' and a version of the dogs names. She talks non stop, but its all babbling rather than words.

hurrah well done wigglejiggle!

tom has a new word, "yeah" he says it and nods when i get something right (ie, what he is pointing at and saying "eh eh eh eeeeeeehhhhh")
one thing i have made an effort to watch out for is how much he understands. and he does! alot of what i say he gets, and if i say "show me" he does, when i ask for his foot to put shoes on he offer one then the other, so i think he just isnt interested in putting it into words yet as mummy tends to understand anyway so theres no need iyswim?

speak soon girls,

N&T&E

DD3s big thing at the mo is to stand on her own. She knows she can do it so she is actively practising LOADSSSS which is good. She can probably manage 10-20secs when she wants to but hey its a start...

Oops, I just realised I've not posted on this new thread, and it's a month old already!

It's so amazing to watch babies at this age, when they're turning into proper people, who interact and understand! I can now see that DD is following a different trajectory from DS (who is autistic), and tbh she seems like a genius to me! The way she understands language, imitates, gestures, makes eye contact... I'm just bowled over by it. I keep having to remind myself that that's the way all normal babies develop!

DD has been walking for a month now, and has a few words (juice, bye-bye, bear, ball), and lots of signs (all gone, more, milk, hat, wash, open, eat, hurt, no, music,...) It's so easy to teach her signing it's unreal, with DS it was such a struggle! BTW I don't believe babies can ever be "too lazy to talk", that's what people used to tell me about DS, and a load of rubbish it turned out to be! They will talk as soon as their developing brains are ready.

Please someone tell me I'm not the only person whose baby is still waking up at night! I know it's just a habit now, but I'm too knackered to do anything about it. Hopefully when I stop bf in a month's time it will get better (as I'm not going to start making up bottles in the middle of the night!)

Ahem, following on from SMS "Stranger Alert!" I'm back! We've had no internet for a month now!!! It's like having your legs chopped off! I've missed all the birthdays and everything, at least Homsa's been awol too.
DS2 is lovely, can't walk, still cruising and can't stand alone at all but he's very chubby so I think it's a gravity thing .
I'm back at work 2 days a week now as well which is lovely. No biscuit smears, milk dribble, snot at knee level, and as it's a really smart office, I get to look like a grown up and there's even a cafe and atrium on my floor so it's a different world. It is , obviously, a vile commute which I didn't miss at all. But it's so nice to be back. DS2 loves nursery (phew!) and DS1 just shows off to him the whole time they're there apparently.
Off now before internet crashes again (I'm supposed to be doing a tesco shop but who needs food when you have virtual friends to catch up with!)

Hello strangers. Sounds like everyone is doing well. DS2 is both cute and trying at the moment. He's got a couple of habits that he does constantly with a funny grin on his face for a reaction. The first is walking round in circles on the coffee table (very dangerous) and the second is sending his food flying from his high chair. When we say no and try to stop him, he just looks so happy to get that reaction that it makes him want to do it again. We quickly caught onto this and stopped him with as little reaction as possible but the problem is that DS1 starts laughing really loadly and shouting "No Luke" whenever he does it!!! I never had any of this with DS1.

SMS, are you coming to the Mile for Maude Nottingham walk on Saturday? I am really chuffed because we have nearly made our target amount in donations. DS1 is looking forward to doing his "Special walk to stop babies getting poorly". He keeps doing a John Cleese style walk whenever we mention it!

Now DS2's most favourite thing in the whole world is to try to gain access - of any kind - to the potty.....
So ladies, do you a) remove potty and contents first and leave DS1 running around the house with shall we say, potential issues or b) deal with clean up of DS1 while DS2 makes merry with the contents?
Sigh, we have a pretty open plan house so there are a limited number of ways to isolate one from t'other without one being so bored they just scream.
Perhaps I'll just shut me in a room?

LOL Pepperrabbit. We have just the same problems here, although sometimes, DS1 does use the toilet and that's slightly better. I wonder why potties are so interesting. I always go for clearing the potty first. There's more volume involved there! I got DS1 to learn how to wait where he was pretty quickly, avoiding any 'potential issues' whilst I at least put it somewhere safe . It helps a lot to get him to stay put if his trousers are still around his ankles! If, for any reason, I can't go for the potty first, I try and block DS2 with my back whilst sorting DS1 but that is bloomin' difficult because he is a very determined chappy.

HI Ponka - just a quickie before I go to bed.

Is there a venue for Notts? I thought Holme Pierrepont fell thru? I am free - I think we finished the birthday rounds last weekend, I am 50/50 for coming. DP will be working anyway, BUT I would have to get his approval for meeting a "bunch of strangers" from the internet. Sponsership list would be v short - but I guess every penny counts...

It's the Arboretum in the centre or town, SMS. It would be good to meet you if you do make it.

Hi Ponka. Will try and ake it - just have to tell DP. Where is the best place to Park (I will coming from L'boro A60 direction)?

Scuse the slight highjack, everyone......

There's not too much nearby. A lot of the parking right next to there is metres on the road (50p per half hour, 2 hours max). The other option might be to Park and ride (on the tram to the Nottingham Trent University stop) from the Goose fair site. The Victoria Centre and it's big car parks are only about 10 minutes walk so that's the best biggest place to aim for.

Map. The Arboretum park is at the bottom of Waverley Street

Will I criticise picnic contents? God no. I'm not like that. Not unless you bring Fruit Shoots

well its picking up a bit in here, where did everyone go?
im gearing up for impending birth... 17 days till my due date, scary!
tom getting more independant, and we are having alot of full blown tantrums (screaming stamping feet throwing himself on floor and pounding fists) if the "terrible twos" are worse im really scared
still no help from council for a house, so we are trying to squeeze another baby into our one bedroom flat (oh the fun) do you think social services would be impressed if i turned the cupboard into an extra bedroom (im jkin dont worry!)
how is everyone elses LO?