October 2005 - and then they were 2!

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My darling boy's birthday today

We gave him a Fisher Price Little People garage as his main present, which he loves, as well as loads of Bob the Builder trucks and Thomas the tank engine bits.

He's currently having a nap, then we're having a little birthday tea later.

A good day SM x

nice to see you back Elf and glad to hear the Evelyn is doing well.

we had friends round this afternoon and my friend has a 3yr old boy too and it is so lovely watching Thomas try and copy whatever her boy is doing! They were in the garden this afternoon and the 3yr old was doing a funny little dance and Thomas joined in bless him!! it was really nice x

hope everyone is well xxx

We finally HAVE SOme fantastic summer weather here. Just what we need when johnny has had a fever since Friday . He seems to be up and down but today we are taking him to the doc. He is off his food, but will of course manage his very favourite treat foods like biscuits and juice . I owuld rather he ate those than nothing, but he will get a shock when he's better and i tell him no, eat your mince

Hope everybody else is doing ok

aw bless I hope that Johnny is back to his usual self soon MB. The weather here is lovely too and Thomas has been in the garden all morning, I am going to be getting him in for his nap shortly and am expecting there to be trouble!
Thomas keeps putting his fingers in his mouth (near enough his whole hand to be honest!) and has been like this for a while now, I don't know if he still has some teeth to come through or not but he just isn't quite himself, gets upset much more easily then before.

Hope you all had a lovely bank holiday weekend x

Hooray, Johnny seems to be on the mend! He had no calpol yesterday and his temperature stayed down and he went through the night without getting drenched in sweat.

I also took a chance and put him to bed without a pull up because he's been dry every night for almost a fortnight, and he was dry in the morning which is fantastic. He was awake in the night and had breastmilk, and didn't want to go to the potty until the morning. It was nearly overflowing when he finally did go!!

Today was week 4 of the breastfeeding peer support training. I am enjoying it, especially that I get to sit down for 2 hours in the afternoon and have tea and bikkies. Johnny loves the creche there and today the girls there finally managed to lure him away from the cars, trains and other vehicles!!

Spoke too soon. Back to the docs this morning. Seems that his ear which was pink on Tuesday is now very red, so he's got antibiotics for it. It's times like this that I realise that really, my big boy is still just a baby.

Aw poor babes, I hope that the AB's kick in quickly for him hunni xxx

Thomas did his first poo on the toilet today! yippeee (he poo's in 2 nappies first but hey its a start!)

Well done Thomas!

Hmm, Johnny seems to be much better now, however I have got whatever he had. Despite as many painkillers as I am allowed, I have a splitting headache, my eyeballs are aching and I have a sore throat. I did have a fever, but not sure if it's gone now or if the meds are keeping temp down. Not nice, no wonder Johnny seemed so ill last week.

Nothing new here really. Johnny has started the whole "no!!!" thing. It is a phase which too will pass.............

Hope everybody is well.

aw hope that you are feeling better soon MB! sounds nasty.
We too have the whole "NO" thing going on at the minute plus some bad nights too. He didn't settle until just before 10pm last night and then was distrubed in the early hours too....do you think that he is just reminding us what we have let ourselves in for with new baby on the way!! lol
Spent a lovely day in the garden and ended up having the kids in the little paddling pool which they loved, doesn't take much to make them laugh does it!

Hello, hope everyone is well. Thomas is still really grumpy and constantly saying NO but I know..... its just a phase!! lol xx

I found myself saying the "It's a phase" mantra this week. You know when you go to toddler groups and there is one nightmare child there - well my angelic ds1 is turning into that child!
I have to confess alot of it is my fault. I am shouting at him far too much at the moment and he's copying. Also he is really into tigers and is going round roaring at all the other kids alot of them quite a bit younger. He thinks its a tiger game but the other kids look terrified. Fortunately he is good at apologising as I can feel the other parents stares burning into me. Then I repeat the other mantra (not out load) aimed at the parents "You'll learn, just wait a few more months"

Yesterday he was roaring at everyone in sainsburys . I've never done a shop so quickly!

He had his first SALT session yesterday. She said there were no problems he was probably just a bit slow to want to speak/shy of speaking. She gave me a few tips and we go back in 6 weeks. Tried one of the tips on him today and it worked. woohoo.

Ds2 is doing well, he's 3 months now and we've been getting the cutest smiles but he's still quite a wee little thing. A woman at toddler group has got a 5week old girl who weighs more!!

ANyway better go and catch up on everyone elses news. I haven't been on for ages!

LOL DLAMIS, your poor wee ds! He probably can't understand why nobody else is enjoying the tiger game. I can't believe your ds2 is 3 months already! Where does the time go? What was the tip that the SALT gave you? I tell everybody how good a talker Johnny is and then he is silent as soon as there is anyone there he doesn't know! Just shyness I guess.

YF - JOhnny is a bit grumpy too just now, but the NO seems to have subsided a little bit for now. We dropped his nap ages ago, and he was fine, but now he's looking like I need to bring it back in again as he falls asleep at some point every single day at the moment.

Not a lot else doing. We had more allergy tests at the hospital last week. Skin tests for egg showed that he is still allergic and they did one for milk too (not sure why, I already told them he wasn't allergic and that it is an intolerence) which came up negative. They took blood from him to get a level for the egg allergy and to test it for penicillin allergy. I will get the results of these in a couple of weeks time.

Johnny amazed me the other day by recalling in great detail the time he saw a glider. This was around Christmas time, because he remembered that we were with his Auntie, who we haven't seen since then. He also remembered that we were in the swimming pool car park at the time. I think that's amazing, but it's probably absolutely par for the course for a 2yo. Anybody know?

Hope you are all doing well. These 2.7yo dcs must be keeping us all busy as nobody seems to be around much! I hardly put the pc on during the day any more because Johnny just pesters and pesters to see birdies (RPSB website) or planes (he watches planes with Daddy on You tube etc)

We have had a lovely week with my sister who is visiting from London. Johnny had a great time with her and said today that he was sad because she was away.

Nothing else new really. Johnny is doing great and is amazing me every day with some of the stuff he comes out with. Today he nearly toppled over backwards in the bath and said "ooops, Johnny capsized". For some reason, it was terribly cute.

Hiya MB, yes certainly keeping me busy here too!! Thomas was poorly with teething most of last week so really bad long days and not alot of sleep at night either but he seems much better this week so far thankfully (lovely to hear him laughing again!)
Thomas's speech is still coming on slowly but he is putting words together a bit now which is nice. He just said "daddy home?" for the first time which is nice! I still have to translate half of what he is saying to dh but I am assuming that it is just cos I am with him all day iyswim.
re Potty training, we are still putting Thomas on the toilet whenever he tells us that he has poo'ed although he is thinking he has poo'ed he hasn't usually but if he is happy to sit there on the loo trying then I don't mind.
I am now 30 weeks pregnant and I got weighed at slimming/exercise class this morning and I weighed in at 15 stone 4.2lb at 30 weeks pg with Tom I weighed 15 stone 5lb! I couldn't believe how similar it was! When this baby was conceived I was a stone heavier then when Tom was conceived! ah well thats all the news from me that I can think of. Hope everyone is well and I hope that the sun returns soon!

You are 30 weeks already YF! I don't know where the time is going. I wondr if running round after a toddler is the reason behind the relatively less weight gain

Johnny is breastfeeding more than ever just now and his sleeping is dreadful so he is feeding in the night too. My cycle this month has been affected by all the feeding so I can say even before AF comes that there is zero chance of conceiving this month. Spotting until day 14 and still haven't ovulated and it's day 20. Oh well, I am getting lots more work at the moment so it will give me a chance to earn enough to qualify for maternity benefit before getting pg again. It just feels like it's never going to happen and I keep thinking that I would have been around 6 months gone if I hadn't miscarried.

We are organising some hols at the moment, but we are a bit skint so looks like a week in my parents' caravan over at the west coast. I think Johnny will love it but we really need good weather which is most definitely not guaranteed on the west coast of scotland!

Hi all, I've not been very good at keeping up with this thread recently - am a bit pre-occupied by being 35 weeks pregnant with no. 3 and I end up spending hours trying to keep up with the ante-natal thread. I wonder if you're finding things harder this time around Yokefleet - I certainly am. Alice is still insisting on being carried a lot and has now regressed to asking to be fed when she has been feeding herself from about 8 months! I suppose she is just feeling insecure about the new baby but I find it very difficult to be kind when she just seems to be whinging all day long. I keep losing my temper, then I feel awful. Dh is away for 2 weeks as well at the moment so I am feeling very sorry for myself having to do dog walking as well as all childcare.

Mawbroon, hope the feeding settles down soon and you have more luck TTC . It seems that you are inadvertently doing natural family spacing, and there must be some evolutionary advantage to having a slightly bigger gap between children - often things do work out for the best in the end. I don't want to sound heartless, just trying to find something positive in all this for you. Perhaps a week on the west coast of Scotland will be productive!!

Sounds like you have a lot on your plate at the moment ponto, especially with your dh away just now. I guess things will be rough for Alice for the next while, poor wee mite. Was it you that was cutting the hedge a week or so before you were due in Oct 05? Funny thing for me to remember eh!?

Yes natural child spacing indeed. I actually quite like the fact that the responsibility of deciding the age gap has been taken away from me for now.

The longer it takes to conceive no2 does make me wonder if my choice about a third will be taken away. If I were to feed no2 for as long as I have fed Johnny, and had the same ttc probs, then I would be well into my 40s when thinking about no3. Not impossible, I know, but seems a bit unlikely from where I am standing just now.

We have just booked the train to go down to London to see my sister in July. The fares were great and DH and I can get there for much less than it would cost to drive. It's only 4.5hrs from Edinburgh and I know that JOhnny will be soooo excited to go on the train.

We had fantastic weather today and took Johnny to the beach. He wasn't keen on the beach last year, but today he absolutely loved it. He was in the water splashing around and loved knocking down all the sandcastles. He zonked in the car almost immediately when we left and was completely whacked by bedtime. LOL, tonight was the first time that he has ever said that he's not tired and doesn't need to go to bed.

Hi Ponto, glad to hear that you are well. TBH in most ways I am finding this pg easier then the last one as I don't have so much time to worry about every last detail like I did last time round, Thomas certainly keeps me busy. The sickness was so much worse this time and the tirdness in those early days I had forgotten quite how bad that was but I am doing ok now and the pg doesn't seem to be lasting forever!! I don't think Tom really knows what is coming to us in August, so we haven't had problems of regression....yet! Hope that Alice comes round for you soon, it must be so exhausting for you. Thomas has been poorly on and off with his back teeth for what seems like months now!!! this had made him clingy and distrubed nights just hoping that they come through soon!
MB - sounds like you have a really good deal for your trip, I bet Thomas would love the train too like johnny! I really hope that the ttc happens for you soon.
Right well I had better go and get ready as my mum is on her way to pick me up as we are taking Thomas to Ikea in Cardiff (he loves going - all the bright colours I think!)

Hope you are all enjoying this lovely weather. We have had Johnny outside all day for the past few days and last night, he was so exhausted, that he didn't wake do a pee and wet the bed not once, but twice! I have put him in a pull up tonight and hope that I am not going to cause confusion for him.

I finally took the decision to cut down drastically on the breastfeeding. I couldn't understand why he was getting so clingy and whingy and demanding, but now I reckon that because I was doing never offer, never refuse, he really felt the lack of boundary and didn't know how to deal with it. I have started saying no and we are down to morning and night, and also through the night if he wakes, or rather when he wakes because I couldn't tell you the last time he slept through...

Nothing else doing really. Johnny's eating has increased drastically, presumably since he's no longer drinking a gallon of breastmilk a day.

I am nearing the end of my breastfeeding peer support training and it will only be a few weeks before I am let loose on unsuspecting new mums! I hope I can be tactful and diplomatic and not come over preachy. I think that's the hardest bit about it!

Hope you are all well.

MB - I am sure you will do fine with the support work. Johnny sounds like he is really coming on! Thomas had started saying if he was going to have a poo but then he got poorly and then the teething it has knocked him off completely he isn't telling us at all now so back to square one with that really. Although he will sit on the toilet no problem which is still good I guess, potty training and new baby hmmm what a lovely combination!! lol
We have had a busy weekend as my inlaws came up for a visit which was nice as we haven't taken Tom back up to Yorkshire since the beginning of April and his speech etc has really come on a lot since then so it was nice for them to see him as we aren't planning on going up to Yorkshire now until the end of September for a family wedding and to hopefully show off new baby.
8 weeks to go for me hopefully and I need to start thinking about what to pack in my hospital bag, I can't remember what I took last time but I know I hardly used any of what I did take and Paul fetched me different stuff in!
Hope you are well and I had better go and get some washing done! Have fun x

Hope everyone is well. We are all fine, Thomas is jabbering on more and more each day, still having to translate to everyone but it is coming so I aren't worried.
Have you got any plans for fathers day? we are just having my family over for a nice roast lunch and afternoon in the garden if the weather holds. Whatever you do, have a lovely weekend x

We are having in laws over for dinner on Sunday for Father's day. Johnny bought ds a chocolate plaque from Thorntons which they iced for us. It's really cute and I'm sure ds will like it.

Not much else doing here really. My hormones are raging because I have dropped all the daytime breastfeeding. JOhnny is much happier but it has left me feeling really cheesed off and unmotivated. I know it will pass, but it's not nice for now. I spoke with LLL leader and she said it could last a few days, or maybe even a whole cycle or two! Eeeek

Johnny bought DH a chocolate plaque, of course....

oooo the chocolate sounds nice MB!! I could eat some of that right now!! lol I bet dh loves it. Hope that you are feeling better in yourself soon. Have you finished your training now for the BF support?

Yes, the training is finished. We are "graduating" on Wednesday and then there are some paperwork things to be sorted before we can be let loose on new mums. It has been interesting, but tbh, I didn't learn much more than I had already read from tiktok and co.

I am feeling a lot better today, we had a lovely day out, roaming around Edinburgh on the bus which Johnny loves. He is a bit of an anorak though, he recognises the bus numbers and is starting to know where some of them go! He plays with his bus at home and talks about which number it is and where it goes. He even makes the "pssssh" noise and leans his bus over to let the old ladies on!

Has this thread died a death? Hope everyone is ok.

Nothing much doing here, except poor Johnny has a nasty diarrhoea bug. It's been about three weeks since I stopped feeding him in the daytime, and he has a constantly runny nose, is a bit short of breath and has itchy eyes and nose. He has had rough skin on the tops of his arms for ages which the allergy consultant said was mild eczema, and now it has spread to his legs, and it's very itchy for him. I am so tempted to start feeding him in the day again, and I know he would be delighted.

He has also taken a huge stretch. A couple of times, I have seen him with something that I thought was out of reach! He can reach pretty far on to the kitchen work tops now, so I have to be super careful with hot stuff and knives etc, not that I think he would touch them, but it's when you get complacent that nasty accidents happen.