March 2007: Babies no longer: the road to Toddlerdom

[MrLSG]

MrsLSG suggested it, so her it is...

I've observed that calling Toby a baby isn't really accurate anymore, he (as one of the younger March babies - actually being born in April) is now toddlering (or is that staggering?), hence the title of the thread.

Sorry if Dad's aren't allowed around here: But Toby just loved joining in garden football with his big brother and dad earlier tonight.

Has your cat come back Rosy?

no cat

Sometimes they can disappear for ages Rosy and come back as if nothing happened.

Aw I hope she comes back! she has disappeared a couple of times but that was years ago, she is 9 now and more sensible. She has been with my mother for 3/4 years and I only got her back a few weeks ago.

It was so wonderfull to have her around agian. So I am gutted that she is gone and sad for the kids, especially ds1, because they love her.

I know losing a cat isn't really the worst thing in the world. Reading mumsnet reminds me of that. There are people having such hard times.

I'm a bit of a misery guts.

yesterday I went to the loo and had to run out to the sound of screaming.

ds2 had decided he wanted to make lemon juice and he had got a chair, climbed up to reach my sharp knife and stabbed his hand trying to cut the lemon. deep. Argh! But it stopped bleeding quite quickly. So lucky!! it could have been much worse. of course I was telling him off as I put his plaster on.

rosy-could your cat be making her way back to your mum's?

the cat i had as a child went missing for 2 months at one point.she had been staying with a woman a couple of streets away,who brought her back after seeing one of our posters

glad ds's hand is ok.

i feel shattered today,i have no energy whatsoever and everything is a struggle.i feel i could fall asleep standing up.i dont know if its because my digestive system isnt functioning(i cant stop eating today and have bad water retention like i normally do when i cant 'go')or because my period is pretty heavy.

hope everyone else is having a good weekend

ds1 found the cat a few streets away!
I think she must have got lost. She purred and butted ds the whole way home and was very hungry. thank goodness, I still can't believe it.

Diva have you ever tried taking aloe vera gel? Maybe that would sort your insides out a bit. I keep eating too much sweet stuff. I'm staying the same weight but I would like to drop another stone. I'm a bit bloated today too. I'd like to go on aloe vera but it's not advised when breastfeeding or something.

Great news Rosy

morning ladies. Rosy glad you found youir cat, i worry in the morning if i do nto see either of my cats at breakfast as as soon as the box with food is shaken they appear out of nowhere. i have spotted my male cat on walks round camp so i know he roams a bit.

i ma having problems with brushing Haydens teeth,he loves the tast so much that as soon as i stick it in his mouth he sucks it of and swallows it! then he clamps his mouth shut so i end up brushing his lips! what can i do? teeth brushing takes all of two seconds which cant be good! worried about him having black teeth next year as he eats copious amounts of fruit!

Glad your cat is home Rosy.

I had a funny experience this morning. Amos was ferreting about in my chest of drawers (which he loves to do)....I was bust emptying bins etc and came back into my room to find that Amos had managed to put my swimming costume on. Bless him...he looked so pleased with himself !

laidback lol at Amos.

Bethoo I have trouble cleaning Hasan's teeth too. He often gets just a token brushing.

Hasan has just started calling me mummy in the last day or two...he's so cute and scrumptious.

I got ds2 one those wooden trainer bikes (on ebay) and it is a fantastic thing, he loves it.

laidback Hayden watches me do my facepaint make up on a morning and once i looked down to see him with a lipstick and a cotton bud trying to apply it to his face! hope it si not a future of cross dressing as i will blaine myself for encouraging it! he keeps himelf occupied by holding my make up! once i gave him my face cream to hold without realsieing he had unscrewd the top and was licking the lid like a scene from a muller joghurt ad!

Monti-chubs likes to eat moisturiser too. He must have really soft and smooth intestines by now!

Rosy glad the pussycat cane home. Our new neighbours cat walks the 2.4 miles to his old house most days. Past one main trunk A road, over two railways and the town centre, where most people do not dare cross the road!
this is the same cat who stalks our budgie and if we leave a window open wide enough... Oh and it shits in our garden... And gets locked in our garage where it tears up stuff and shits some more.... Ahhh bless him

Laid, giggling at Amos ( god I LOVE that name so much) Finn likes to wear knickers on his head mostly.
he is a bit umm err atm, high temp and poorly ish Friday off his food low appetite all weekend. No other symptoms except tired and clingy, but sweet cuddly clingy. I like it.
Maybe this is the real him? Not the 3 weetabix eating, cupboard emptying, ram raiding, door slamming little chap who ruled the roost previously...

Sod all else to report aside from kitchen floor saga sorted next week. Kitchen pulled out, floor and sub floor ripped out, new subfloor, underlay and gorgeous new karndean floor!!!!!! All on the insurance!
hooray
and we need to buy a new dishwasher
oh thank god my hands are like horned hooves, not pretty.

Dp in Milan home late tonight... Ds1 is being asked to write to Cambridge uni to ask maths professor to review a formula about Pythagorean triples he has astounded his maths teacher with I did a thread such is my pride - not that I understand it no sirree!

Wimbledon next week my two weeks of heaven and domestic strike are ever closer
last year I just sat and fed the hungry baby...
might be harder this year!
he is still getting the boob 3-4x a day plus a couple of bottles.
he is yummy and can now say apple. Well more like uproar but we get it!
doing cute counting things with my buttons
Un do dee door tye
like a little tumbliboo!
right must go bloody windowcleaner wants paying!

Piff your DS1 (and 2) sounds amazing!! have you got a link to thread? [lazy emoticon]

for lazy foxy

Anyone expressing - need sil vous plais dvice (Polar?):

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/1364/550324?ts=1213735046278&msgid=11240885

I mean "need advice sil vous plais"
or rather "need to buy a new keyboard" LOL!

Evening all, where is everyone?

I'm here, with not going to sleep anymore baby on the sofa..... These past few weeks, he's suddenly turned from easy-to-put-to-bed boy to nightmare will not be left, screaming if I leave the room before he's asleep (which takes ages) monster. Help! He's also waking in the night more often and same thing, screams, and has to come in with me, won't go back to sleep in his cot. I had been avoiding letting him have a second sleep in the afternoon but couldn't stop him today as we were in the car coming back from somewhere and he was out solid when I came home, even slept through the cold wind between car and home, so I had to put him down properly. It's a bit wearing, especially after a day in work then an evening with him not going off. I wonder if it's a combination of teeth, more awareness of being alone, maybe having nightmares? (is he old enough for that yet?). Any advice?

That aside, not too bad over this way. We're redoing part of our garden, so the kitchen floor looks like a mud bath as things are getting tramped through it to the skip out front.

Rosy, glad your cat came home. I still mourn my dead pusscat, and it's four months since she died.

Diva, how are things with your DD now?

Laidback, hello, and giggling at Amos. That's very dextrous of him! As DS can't walk yet, I don't think there's any danger of that happening in my gaff for the time being.

Hello everyone else.

Hi Callie...Amos can walk a bit but prefers to crawl very quickly !! I think he must have put the swimming costume on sitting down, legs first, then the halterneck bit over his head. He also takes his pyjama bottoms off every night, without fail. Thinking of putting him back in an all in one...but to tight to buy one !!

Had a rollercoaster week this week. Dh's cousin had a baby last Monday and then on Friday her sister had to have em CS at 31 weeks as one of the twins she was carrying had sadly died in utero. The surviving baby was rushed to SCBU intensive care and was on a ventilator. Little thing at 3 1/2 lbs. She cam off the ventilator today and appears to be a fighter - but her mum, understandably is a total mess. So harsh.

I've found it a bit emotional - probably being preggers makes it worse.

nice to catch up on all the gos

congrats laidback and bethoo (anyone else pregnant on this thread?!)

pmsl at all the babies - sorry toddlers - stories. amos sounds v cute in swimming cossie. impressed by the mighty finn and his talking. emily isn't saying anything really.

Emily is running and climbing now, little monkey can almost climb into her highchair, regularly climbs the climbing frame to near the top, has to be watched all the time. yesterday the boys left the front door open and she escaped off down the road. only got a few yards but needs watching !

the other day she got a new jar of jam out of a cupboard, opened it and ate about 1/4 of it before I found her, looking v pleased with herself. even I can't open new jars of jam.

love to all

I've just uploaded some pics to Facebook and addeda video of finn talking...
First I've done for ages, finally get on the big pc instead of the little ipod thing.
Might stick them on the march group if anyone fancies a gander at the mighty Finnster.

Callie oooh Jordi sounds like a handful atm. Sounds like teeth maybe, mine are good sleepers but when teething they were cling on devils.
Hope it passes, perhaps try calpol and see?

Right got to go pay the window cleaner!!!!

we have hailstones here

Callie could be teething? Hasan has a big one coming through and he has been a bit whingy with it. They do go through clingy stages don't they.

Morocco lol at Emily opening the jar of jam! Wow!

Laidback I really feel for your dh's cousin. She must be in turmoil.

Piffle lovely video on facebook.

hailstones Rosy?