Happy First Birthday April 2004 Babies!

[Yorkiegirl]

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Lj I do not go to any groups and also have the same worries , although my mum has him for two days a week while I am at home working on our business , deliveries , invoicing etc , he goes to nursary one afternoon a week , we see lots of epople . animals at the weekend , mostly adults though so may try and start to go to a baby swimming club or something all my frines are ttc and pg about now so he will have lots of younger childers to boss about soon

Yes i think you're right, i just need to take the plunge. Then I can stop feeling guilty about not going

Re the chucking plates around thing - I seemed to have cured ds of this. My methods might not be to your liking though - every time he did it I shouted NO!, wagged my finger 2 inches from his face and gurned at him with a brow knotted frown. It seems to have done the trick!

Re how much going out is done with ds - well he joins in with everything dd does. When at home with them (4 days a week) we have at least one outing per day varying from the relatively simple (walks, trip to the shops, friends houses) to the more involved (trip to the zoo where we are season ticket holders etc)

Re the chucking plates around thing - I seemed to have cured ds of this. My methods might not be to your liking though - every time he did it I shouted NO!, wagged my finger 2 inches from his face and gurned at him with a brow knotted frown. It seems to have done the trick!

Re how much going out is done with ds - well he joins in with everything dd does. When at home with them (4 days a week) we have at least one outing per day varying from the relatively simple (walks, trip to the shops, friends houses) to the more involved (trip to the zoo where we are season ticket holders etc)

Sorry for the double post. What a plonker!

DS has had an ear infection, also raging temperatures of 40.9C - he's woken up every night burning hot and very upset since Friday. Doc thinks he has a virus. He's hot in the day too if he doesn't have nurofen or disprol (won't take calpol - screams with his mouth shut!). I want my happy boy back (preferably with a full set of teeth through)!

He sat in the middle of his bedroom sobbing while I washed my hands after changing his nappy this morning - broke my heart

poor baby Hunker. At least Baby Brufen and the like makes them feel better.

Re the outings. ds goes to nursery 5 mornings a week and gets his socialising there - but we have had a couple of weekends of friends staying over with their children and ds just loooooves having other children around. Not so much to play WITH - but just having the company iykwim.
So I'd defo advise joining some groups - I need to organise summer visitors to keep ds amused in the afternoons.

My mum was visiting this weekend and I was stunned when she told me that I knew my colours by 14 mo and was potty trained in my second year!
I think I have to get the finger out and start teaching ds some stuff.
It just didn't occur to me to do things like - I'm putting on your red jumper, going out in the blue car etc. Lazy mummy - must do better!
Will defo try some potty training over the summer.

Ummm TracyK - dare I be so bold as to suggest that your mum's memory may be a bit selective

It's unusual for children to be successfully toilet trained before 2 years old and 2.6 is a good batting average. Our mums and grandma's like to tell us that they trained their children early, when often all they were doing was anticipating when junior needed a poo and whipping out a potty to shove under him.

Good luck if you do decide to have a go this summer - I'll be following your progress with interest

HMC - I have done a similar thing for chucking beakers. As you say, done the trick!

I would suggest too that ignoring mothers' selective memories of their parenting is crucial - it just doesn't seem likely that children 30 years ago were ALL lots better at toilet training than now . actually my mum says my brother (the oldest) was over 3 and my sister (the youngest) was 20 months. she can't seem to remember about me (the middle one).

going out - with dd1 and dd2 at this age I took them out twice a day when at home with them all day. but i am one of those weirdos who actually quite enjoys the gruesome experience of parent and toddler groups and managed to make some good friends at them. despite hating communal singsongs and being bored by new mum talk.

Yes, they're never too young to be told off .

What a rotten disciplinarian mum I am! - quite unlike the mum I planned to be....

I'm very hardline on chucking things from the table - believe me they do know and are PERFECTLY capable of not doing so at this age. I just don't give the stuff back if it's chucked even once. it works very well.

waggling fingers and saying NOOO makes dd3 giggle like mad. she doesn't take it very seriously

hunkermunker,

I hope ds recovers soon..poor little lad

My ds has had 2 ear infections and they made him a bit miserable but not too bad. However when dd had an ear infection as a baby she was in agony and extremely miserable. They can be the pits!

Meant to say Fennel (although I am a bit late) - glad you bad a good holiday.

that should have been 'had' not 'bad'

I sense that she is testing me. Soemthing to with the sly sideways look, I think!!

HMC thanks it was a good holiday. surprisingly relaxing - it has got easier having 3 children lately .

mrs d - they are clever little things underneath all the dimples.

MrsD dd has started the 'testing' too.
Sorry to hear about ds hunkermunker. I hate ear infections!!!!
dd full time in nursery so no groups for us.

Hello! Phew - what a busy week! Had a fab day on ds2's first birthday - went to a local garden centre in the morning which has a miniature train running round it you can ride on - both ds's absolutely love it! Then a family birthday tea in the late afternoon/tea time which went really well.

But he's back to waking up at 5am again.... ggrrrrr... We're wearily accepting he just doesn't need as much sleep as ds1. Last night I kept ds2 up until 8.45pm in a desperate attempt to get more sleep. He woke up at 3am, 4am and 4.30am - when I gave him medised (might have been his teeth?!) and finally we all slept until 7.15am! Not sure what the answer is though - I love getting the kids to bed at 7pm and having a bit of evening time, but don't love being up at 5am!!

dot glad to hear it all went really well.
I don't envy you the 5am waking times that's for sure. Am considering myself VERY lucky, dd seems to sleep reliably till at least 7am and it was 7.45 on Sunday which was very nice.
Now I've just said that I'll get a 5am wake up this weekend won't I.

ds seems to wake 'reliably' at 6am on the dot. But he sometimes dozes and chats for another 20 mins. Enough time for me to have a pee, nip downstairs,let the dog out, put the heating on and get some milk for him.
He normally is in bed asleep for 7pm - but with grandma visiting it's been nearer 8pm and last night it was 8.20 pm. Still 6am on the dot though! I thought I'd get a longer lie this morning - bah!
ps re pottys- You are right HandlemeC - the way mum described it was as you say - anticipating and shoving a potty underneath. Which leads me to ask - do you train a boy to stand and wee into the potty or sitting down??

dd3 also been waking in the night lately. could it be teeth again? or maybe cos am cutting out the bf and she's not keen on bottles so she might be thirsty. who knows. but I am tired too.

I think with ds2 being a year it really hit home - we can easily count on both hands the number of times we've been able to sleep past 6am over the past year

We're all on today aren't we? Busy busy. I am supposed to be doing some work. Instead I am daydreaming about giving up work all together. Oil prices are going up and I think it's likely to cause trouble with both of us doing long commutes. I think we are going to have to lose a car. But we live in the sticks? I'm getting headache thinking about it.
Rant rant rant Sorry!
Dd is totally oblivious of course! She's coming along brilliantly - atleast I know we've got something right!