Happy First Birthday April 2004 Babies!

[Yorkiegirl]

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dd loves to dance too, used to dance holding onto the furniture and sometimes dances sitting down and does the bop with her hands.
She is super mobile, has really come into her own in the last couple of weeks but then has always been really mobile. We actually had to get one of those tie you still things for her cot at about 4wks old as she would move up the cot and try to roll over.
Not a lot of talking going on but we do get a dog, cat, an occasional duck and dat all of which go with pointing.
Agree on the eating out of house and home, dd is eating anything and everything (may it ever continue). Her favourite thing is dried fruit cut up into raisin size bits such as dried apricots.
For mobility just remember that dd is a bit older than some of the others.
Better get back to work!

TracyK,

I think that getting them to take milk out of a beaker comes into the 'don't sweat the small stuff' category - i.e. if they will take a beaker then great, if not don't worry.

I think my ds is going to be last to do everything He only started crawling a week before he was one so isn't pulling himself up on furniture yet so no standing on his own or walking here. Is cruising the same as crawling btw?!!

Cruising is where they walk along furniture holding on to it

That came very suddenly with ds, but I was using remotes and phones as bribery to teach him!

Cruising is when they can 'walk' but only by holding on to something - i.e. they can lean against a table or sofa or something and 'walk' around the perimeter but can't do unsupported steps.

Lunavix beat me to it!

Thanks do you guys 'teach' yor little ones to do these things or just wait for them to do it iyswim

i'm trying to "teach" dd3 to walk using a trolley but I don't think you can really, they do it when they feel ready.

dd3 has bottle or cup but takes much more milk if it's from a bottle so I tend to give her the bottle in preference. suspect I should give the cup more but am lazy, and just glad it's not me she's clamped onto

I did kind of teach dd to walk - in that she was cruising a lot and I encouraged her to take my hands and take steps with me. But she was my first and I was keen to see milestones. With ds I don't want him to grow up too quickly as he may be my last

Dd took her first unsupported steps the day before her 1st birthday - so maybe my coaching did something?

Ds - whom I don't actively encourage to walk is cruising well but not taken unsupported steps as yet. But then again he is a boy and therefore by definition lazy

we tried to 'teach ' ds to walk , but he just got cross with me so I let him get on with it , is now toddling around @ a fair pace , no words yet though seems to me that BB's R either walkers or talkers , not both

I've been trying to 'teach' ds things because I worry I don't do enough with him!

I helped him learn to roll over (which I'm sure we all did - when they get stuck push their bum over!) and I moved his legs to help him crawl - that took longer though.

I have taught him how to cruise though - stuck a phone in his eyesight on the sofa which taught him to pull himself up on the sofa (although I agree you can't teach things like actually pulling themself up as it's a development thing - he was already pulling himself up on things just couldn't manage the sofa) and then motivated him with phones and remotes moving them slowlu down to get him to walk down!

Trying to teach him to walk with a push along toy, but he doesn't have the balance and I'm fairly sure balance is something he'll aquire on his own!

Took some presents he had doubled up back today and we got a load of Happyland stuff!!!! It's so lovely! I love the early learning centre!!!

hmc - crawling is so cute I wouldn't mind dd3 (my last) crawling for a long time yet!

she's definitely my last baby now, dp had the snip a week ago so that's it for us (thank goodness )

dolbear - I agree on the walkers or talkers thing. one of the best talking babies I knew didn't walk or crawl til 18 months - she just sat and listened and talked.

So agree on the crawling being cute - their delicious little bums waggling. Also ds moves his head from side to side when crawling in a rather endearing way.

I'm so sad he is growing up

Bad attack of broodiness looming.

Good for you Fennel re dh and the snip. Must be good to know your family is complete (rather than my persistent nagging doubts about whether to have another - heart = yes but head = no)

Hello! Ds kept himself very amused today by learning to stand up in the middle of the room - without using anything to pull himself up with! Then tried a couple of tiny steps - with lots of falling over in between times!! Very very cute and he's sooooo pleased with himself!

well!
I finally lost my temper with ds yesterday!
He is turning from being cute - to being destructive! He has been nicking petals off the flowers in the garden - but I've been ignoring him as they are only tulips - so no big deal. But yetserday he has started pulling whole plants up - my lovley new viola plants! I said no in a stern way (absolutely no laughing!) and wagged my finger. He laughed and continued - I said no again and picked him up and moved him away to his slide. But he kept going back to the bloody plant and pulling it up again. I smacked/tapped his hand and said no - but he just kept laughing!
Not cute anymore!!

Luvanix - I've posted on your other food thread - just saw it yesterday!

OOOh you'll have to whisper the word 'smacking' on MN TracyK - it's just not de rigeur. The Alphafemales will have you for breakfast if you ever admit to it. You're safe here...but be careful [hushed tones emoticon]

Bet it was blinking frustrating to have your viola's pulled up. Cheeky little monkey! Do you think he figured out from this that he shouldn't do it again?

well - I just tapped his hand and he didn't even feel it - so no - he still thinks its funny! So I don't know what to do - if I ignore him for him to get no reaction from me - I lose my plants - if I say no and tap his fingers he thinks he's getting attention and will do it more!
I spose I need to engage him and play with him more. But it used to be so nice to sit on my backside reading a book watching him potter around on his own! lazy mummy!!

We have that problem here too - ds likes to play with the kitchen bin and one day he will pull him over. Dh gets cross and removs him from the room and shuts the kitchen door. He just crawls right back though and pushes it open!! I just ignore him. He also pulls all the videos off the shelves and dh gets cross but I don't see the harm. We're off to Mother and Toddlers this afternoon - wish me luck

Good Luck LJ.
dd is into everything, loves to pull off things from the shelf so I have just moved things around so she can pull out at her heart's content, yes I need to pick up after her but it is almost less effort than running after her saying no.
I did give her a 3 warnings and remove on Sunday. We were picking daisies in the park and she started putting them in her mouth. I removed it, second time I removed it and said no, 3rd time I removed it and said no and if she did it again we were going hom, 4th time we went home. I wanted to stay in the park but seeing as how I'd threatened I had to do it.
Not sure what to say Tracy, can you put something in front of the flowers to make it a bit harder to get into which might be a bit of a deterent in the short term?

Yes I think I will have to rearrange the pots in the garden or just accept that it will be trashed for this summer.
Now the question is - do I buy a swing for the garden? and spend all my time pushing ds on it - or just keep going to the playpark (2 mins walk from house)- means I have to keep walking back and forth to the playpark numerous times a day as ds attention span isn't that great.

Personally for 2mins I'd use the park Tracy. dd's favourite thing there at the moment are those little see saw horse with the spring under it. She loves to watch the other kids running around too.

Well our little playpark is almost always empty - we live in a tiny village - otherwise it's be much more fun to go there.

ooh Traceyk you're moving into toddlerdom

HMC it is good to not have those niggles about having another. I am very glad I had a 3rd even though my body is never going to recover this time I think [flabby unfit emoticon ]

happy birthday to Dolbear's ds!
and happy birthday to me too!!

Oh happy birthday fennel!!!
Also happy birthday to hewlettsdaughter's DD for yesterday and Dolbear's DS.
I lost track of dates this week. Missing dh who is away on business until Sunday