AGH!! Was at friends yesterday (with Looshkin, BTW) so recorded Simply, and now you've wrecked it!!!! (Well, actually, I heard the result on t'radio before switching on computer, so it was wrecked anyway...) I think they were all smug tits really, but especially glad that Rachel didn't win, can't stand her
Toddler beds - TBH, my advice is the same as eandh's - plonk them in. They either love it or hate it, and you have no control over it!!! Be prepared for it not to work for a few nights, so stick with it, don't put her back in the cot.
re: food - they do all go through phases. One week they won't eat and you get used to making teeny portions, then out of the blue they start eating all day long, so eventually you adapt to making huge portions, just in time for them to go back to living off air again. I usually assume that if they're eating lots they're gowing through a growth spurt, and if they're not eating they're shrinking ha ha, maybe not! But they do seem capable of surviving on absolutely nothing. Most important thing is not to get stressed and not treat them as if they are naughty - Loosh was saying her Mum gets really angry at W when he won't eat - it's actually important for them to learn that it's up to them to say when they've had enough to eat. If you keep forcing them to take another mouthful you override their normal body's messages about when they've had enough. If mine don't eat, fine. I'll go into the kitchen and do a slient scream that they won't eat what I've just spent 1/2 an hour cooking. I might offer fruit a little later, but otherwise they get nothing until their next meal, dsis got into problems with dd offering snacks because she wasn't eating meals, but it just meant she snacked the whole time and never ate a meal. Shit, I sound smug, I really am not, I learnt all of this the hard way with ds1, got really worried about him not eating (and p!ssed off that he would just turn his nose up at wahtever I cooked like I was poisoning him)
So when are we opening the SS presents then?!