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Happy First Birthday April 2004 Babies!

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Yorkiegirl · 01/04/2005 08:39

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dot1 · 23/05/2005 16:16

I'm still really enjoying teaching ds2 signs - although we tried "more" yesterday - as in "do you want more food?" when he's eating, but he just doesn't get the concept - OF COURSE he wants more!!!! It's really weird to see him walking everywhere now - and he's just getting to that really irritating phase (lasts about a year...) where he wants to walk everywhere and doesn't want to be carried - always diving down to the ground when you're holding him. I seem to remember this 2nd year (ish) being really tiring with ds1 (but then I was pregnant for most of it!), so am not really looking forward to doing it all again...

Chuffed · 23/05/2005 16:57

dd puts her arms up in the air and breathes in and she just slips right out of your arms like a little snake...

TracyK · 24/05/2005 08:36

I was just thinking the same yesterday - when ds doesn't want to be carried - he kind of folds his shoulders into their sockets and slithers to the floor!
He now doesn't want to go in his car seat and wants to climb all over the seats and play at 'driving' in the front seta. V. cute when we have time - but not when trying to get to nursery!!

MrsDoolittle · 25/05/2005 14:55

We're nowhere near that yet. Dd is tantrumming all the time at the moment. God the screaming!!! I just ignore her but the neighbours must think I am torturing her. The nursery told me thay had experienced their 'first' tantrum yesterday. Lucky them, I say, I've had it for weeks now.

Oh I saw some effort to pull herself up on a draw this morning but that's the first I've seen.
I wonder of the tantrumming on the floor is frustration because she can't get walk yet?

dot1 · 25/05/2005 16:06

maybe... ds2 hasn't had any yet and I think it's because he's lucky enough to be both walking and 'talking' - expressing his basic needs at least - so he's not getting frustrated - YET..!!! I think he's got a bit of a temper though, which only shows at the moment when he can't have something - just a few seconds of rage but then something else will distract him - can't be too long though before he starts to think this roaring thing is fun..!

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Yorkiegirl · 25/05/2005 16:18

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Chuffed · 25/05/2005 16:21

dd occasionally throws herself down on the floor but not too bad yet. She is reasonably good at expressing herself although we really don't have too much official language or signing, she just sort of makes her needs known somehow.

All is well on the other front, although apparently the girls in the baby room (dd no longer in that room but have a good relationship with one of the girls and we were having a gossip) were wondering if I was pregnant so she asked, she said there was no particular reason it's not like I'm showing or anything they just wondered. I'm so curious to know why they were speculating.

MrsDoolittle · 25/05/2005 19:12

Go on ask them Chuffed!! I wouldn't be able to help myself.
Maybe you are glowing?

TracyK · 26/05/2005 08:33

ds teething too - 2 bits of the back molar are through - I can see them when I lift his swing high up and he puts his head back. So presumably 2 more bits to come through - more wakings in the night to come then!
Eventually bought a swing from a neighbour who was getting rid of stuff - so now ds wants to swing all the time! I knew it was a rod for my own back!

Chuffed · 26/05/2005 09:24

easy entertainment though Tracy.
MrsD maybe I will, I don't know about glowing, covered in spots maybe my skin is just ghastly and was the same with dd, the glowing is all the excess oil sitting on the surface of the skin.

LucyJones · 26/05/2005 10:27

Hi everyone. No tantrumming here yet thank goodness. Glad everything is going well Chuffed. At least you won't be big for the hot summer months too. Do you remember how i said I was nervous about mums and toddler groups. Well now I go to two!!! I have impressed even myself!!!

Fennel · 26/05/2005 11:39

hot summer months? huh. not round here. it's still winter coats and woolly tights for the girls.

we are still tantrum-free with dd3. i have resisted having a swing in the garden, not wanting to have to push it. instead dd3 spends her time trying to get up the slide and onto the big climbing frame. she has a baby one but is more interested in the full size version. (but she can't climb either at all yet).

MrsDoolittle · 26/05/2005 11:43

That image makes me laugh, Fennel.

Fennel · 26/05/2005 12:11

actually I'm talking crap we do already have a toddler swing in the garden! specially low-slung so that dds can climb in and out on their own while lazy adults don't have to lift a finger. but dd3 hasn't spotted it yet (clearly not the brainiest child around).

TracyK · 27/05/2005 08:28

well - it's 19 degrees already here - before 8.30am! going to be 27 today - too hot for me though! will have to try my hat training this afternoon for ds.
Smacked his hand 3 times yesterday afternoon - he just will not take No for an answer and was almost uprooting one of my plants by tugging on it. So we shall see this afternoon if he tugs at it again.

LucyJones · 27/05/2005 08:32

I still think it's a bit early for them to learn consequences of their actions (I'm probably wrong - lol) so we stilll use distraction. Like when ds goes to play with the video recorder for the zillionth time I just wave a toy around and say no firmly. Still not sure he gets it but hey ho. The hot summer months are supposedly July and August - big heat wave predicted, although it's pretty hot today!!

TracyK · 27/05/2005 08:37

I'm hoping ds is starting to understand when he's done wrong - he used to bang his fork/spoon really hard on the table and its a ll dented now. I now take the spoon from him when he starts it and he's not really done it since. Maybe just a coincidence tho.

dot1 · 27/05/2005 08:38

ds is turning into a right little monkey! Deliberately goes for his older brother's "special" toys (anything with wheels!)with an evil glint in his eye and teases when you ask for them back - puts them in your hand and then snatches them away!!! Very hard not to laugh and try to look all serious!

hunkermunker · 27/05/2005 12:16

Hi all - just to let you know, if all goes well, DS will be a big brother in January!

dot1 · 27/05/2005 12:19

FANTASTIC NEWS HM!!!!!!!!

Chuffed · 27/05/2005 12:26

so that's 2 anybody else joining us?

Fennel · 27/05/2005 13:03

congratulations hunkermunker! will you be tandem feeding then?

that's 3 - KristinaM as well.

it's even sunny here today. for a change. just as well as we are supposed to be going camping this weekend. and have bought a new tent. i am sooo not keen though - i bet it will be raining and cold in Snowdonia (where we will be) while sunny everywhere else!

hunkermunker · 27/05/2005 13:05

Maybe Fennel Depends if he self-weans - unless I feel dramatically worse than I do now, I won't do anything to actively wean him off.

Fennel · 27/05/2005 13:08

my milk dried up when i was pregnant with dd2, when i was a couple of months pregnant - but i wasn't going to carry on bf anyway, maybe it would have come back given time.

LucyJones · 28/05/2005 10:14

congratulations Hunkermunker

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