January 2008 Shiny New Year Toddlers - Oh for a minutes peace!!

[Lilyloo]

Very apt LaT.

What a week for you JKS. Have Googled a bit about the procedure and the outcome looks exciting - "total control of seizures and catch up in development". Guess you can always bear that in mind when the going gets tough.

DS has learned to say "No" and shake his head this week. That brings his vocabulary to 3 words

Enjoy your night off Simps .

I think DH has swine flu. Certainly has flu symptoms. Has been in contact with his deputy head this week who also has it.... Have packed him off to bed with lots of paracetamol and plan to make me and DS scarce for the rest of the day. He's not the best patient and I'm not the best nurse!

Have good weekends all.

Morning all

The whole thing feels pretty unreal right now tbh, we keep thinking did it all really happen?!

Simps - hope you had a fab night & not feeling too delicate this morning! Sure J will be having a fab time, don't worry.

Whatever title is fine by me

Ange - yes it has high possibility of great results well done to Alek with words, shame it's no though, lol
oh and bad luck for your DH! hope he's ok soon.
i'm a terrible nurse tbh and hate it when dh is sick!

Well H was up for longer than usual this morning, so possibly, maybe the new drugs are already kicking in....
2 clusters of spasms/nods yesterday, none so far today

although means he's totally unpredictable now which we're not used to lol!

Afternoon all
Had a lovely morning out this morning. Went to our local shopping bit. Got George a Humphreys Corner sleeping bag. 2.5 tog, 18-32 months. It fits David
Got a birthday present for my bil. A birthday presant for my Mum from my Dad , Body Shop body butters. They smell realy edible
Had lunch in a pub called 'The George' and it was delicious.
Best of all we finnished it with Thorntons ice cream

G - sounds good

can i just check something, your parents are separated but...you are buying your Dad a present from your Mum???

today's update:
well......H only had 1 cluster of spasms today (normally 3, 2 yesterday)...so that's 1 improvement. and....he was more awake today, in fact did NOT want to go bed at 7 as he'd only got up at 5, went at 8 ok. this may sound normal but he used to go 2 hours awake, then straight back to bed. and sometimes even less than 2hrs.

He has been very grumpy and unsettled all day so not all positive.
We are keeping records of everything at the mo.

so far positives since starting vigabatrin/sabril are:

• a couple of backward steps
• a few one-off clap(s)
• enjoying a nursery rhyme
• helping to get dressed by putting his arm through the sleeves

negatives:

• more grumpy & miserable
• walking is definitely on the verge of disappearing, lots of staggering and falling over

anyway, a change. a change is as good as a rest isn't it?!

On a separate note:
we have put the boys into long trouser pjs tonigh as got suddenly chillier. in fact H is wearing a sleepsuit tonight (the legs are too long, lol) what's everyone else's LO wearing at night now?

Oh, another Q - by this point T was in a bed with a duvet. H is staying in the cot for foreseeable future.
as it gets colder what do you all recommend re bedding?

could stick with blanket (that he chews) and those fleecy over-pj things?
or buy some kind of cot duvet?

Sabela's in a sleepsuit and 2.5 grobag. She won't take a blanket. I'm in no hurry. We've got fleecy suits for colder weather.

I'm glad you've seen some positive changes. HE could be grumpy because of all the disruption? Or am I being naive?

Hope you have a good night's sleep.

Chepa fleecu suits in Matalan BTW. If you haven't got one near you I could see if they hav his size here. I think they were £5, maybe 4. A padded sleepsuit was £6.

Thanks LaT

Sure the disruption could be causing the grumpiness. Or teething. Or headache brought on by new meds. Or his parents bunging him in bed every 5 mins cos they think he's tired but he isn't. Or something else i haven't thought of yet....

We have a Matalan here, think i have lots of the fleecy sleepsuit things - will have to check what sizes - but thanks anyway. i just can't seem to think clearly/remember clearly. do i dress him in a sleepsuit + a fleece thing on top?!

JKS - I'm sorry to hear whats happening with H but there does seem to be some positives there and I hope the surgery does some more for him.

Bedding - Aaliyah is wearing all in ones with a blanket. Although we have bought her some more fleecy all in ones and when it was deadly cold last year she had a vest under that too.

JKS - there are these too. Supposed to be good for cot / bed transition too and last until 3.

This ebay seller does the best deal on toddler sleeping bags I've seen. I got two for £26 - they are very long - lonegr than grobag so should last well into third year. They have a fold up bit at the bottom for the age of our LOs.

Sorry - just done all the winter buying so I'm well up on it.

How's everyone this morning (although it's Sunday so I guess no one's here)?

Had a big ding dong with DH today about early mornings. Anyone else having this put a strain on things?

I'm also getting peed off as I have no time without Sabela (apart from naps). Do you get time to go to the gym / swim or do something you like on your own or AIBU?

LaT no i don't and would really love just an few hours to myslef , i don't go to the gym or anything maybe i should

JKS guess there isn't going to be a straight forward step but a lot of sideways ones ! Sounds good on the less nods and less sleep front though ? Is his development regressing then or not progressing ? Still can't believe this is the H who we met who was stressts ahead of M at the time. Will getting the right drugs help with the development stuff ? Sorry loads of q's please feel free to ignore

On the sleep thing M has vest , sleepsuit and cot duvet now.

Simps how was the girly night ? How long is J away ?

L starts school tom she very excited , chose what uniform she was wearing today right down to socks so hope that's one less argument for tom

Lily - lots of nods & usual sleep today so forget yesterday's positive steps, hmph.
His development is still regressing tbh. he's functioning at a 6month old level most of the time. but he still walks - though that's getting wobblier

for eg, he makes such a mess at mealtimes - take yourselves back a year and i would have been saying, don't worry they get tidier, but he's getting messier.

The new drugs should help to calm down the craziness/white noise going on in his head, which should mean he's less tired, therefore up for more of the day, so should be able to do more.
Whether he can still do the things he used to be able to do or if he will have to relearn them, no-one can tell us....

I can talk about it all day tbh, so don't worry about asking, ask away!!!

Good luck to L for tomorrow

LaT -thanks for all the info & tips. we are experimenting with things for now.

Today i have:

• moved H's cot to spare room so the boys are separate again. hope they both sleep better.
• borrowed a high chair with a tray for H as he can't seem to cope with the one we've got up to the table.
• put the feeding/rocking chair in the spare room so we can sit there with H to keep him calm if he has seizures in the night that wake him up.

all backwards but necessary steps.
also need to get the plastic spoons from the loft for him.

with everything we have to think, would we give this to a 6month old? would we expect a 6mo old to cope with this?
eg. peas. nightmare. he used to be ok with them, yes some would end up on the floor but mostly ok. this evening, disaster zone.

ho hum, ignore me, a few glasses of wine and mostly negative day (re H, nothing else) and i'm off on one!

Hi all

JKS - thinking of you and H.

TBH M a total nightmare wirh feeding and makes total mess and she still uses plastic cutlery and her fingers TBH.

I also tried her wirh highchair with no tray and was total nightmare so she now has tray too.

Can't remember who was asking about sleep clothes but M wears long sleeved vest and just a sleeping bag but our house is very warm.

Have tried her in PJs but she manages to get them off inside sleeping bag and have them pooled at the bottom

If it was very cold would still but her her baby gro TBH.

Hope to have broad band by end of tom

Madmouse - hope your hol going well...

Lilyloo - good luck to L for tom. J not going till end of month.

He had fab time away and my night out V good although suffered the nest day and had to do boat trip which did not help

Morning ladies.
I have just delivered a very happy 5 year old to his new year 1 class all fresh in his new uniform and shiny shoes.
Had a brill day yesterday. Had my nails doe while DH took the boys to Kidzbiz. Had McD's
for lunch. In the afternon we wnet to a rl friends daughters 2 year old birthday party which was absolutely fabulous.
George is still a total messy chops as far as meal times are concerned and his chair has a tray too.
He sleep in short pyjamas, long if its a bit chilly and a 1.5 tog grobag. I have in act bought a 2.5 tog one for when it gets realy cold. Its 18-36 month and David does in fact fit in it
Going to try to take pics of our double buggy and Georges Graco sit in toy today and put them in loot. They are just taking up room in our shed.
Right off for a quick cup of coffee then put some washing on.

Hi all

Sitting in lovely holiday apartment in Torquay with large windows in the living room overlooking the bay.

Sitting in the apartment because dh has managed to damage himself on the very first day by tripping over a stone edge in the park yesterday, falling nastily and badly spraining his ankle - so he is immobile!

Had a lovely day otherwise yesterday - some pics on fb of Nathan's first time on the beach.

Hope we can get out to SOMEWHERE today

Morning all!

Well, there is one side to Sabela not wanting to stay in her pushchair: I had to carry her round Morrisons today while I put the shopping in the pushchair (we do not have car so always have pushcahir) and I realised that Sabela is saying LOTS of words, but not very clearly, e.g. butter, cheese (which is kind of a Donald Duck sound andvery funny). Lots of times when I picked somehting up she said the word!

Madmouse- oh no! Will he be ok with you getting out with Nathan and leaving him with a DVD?

JKS - I do get what your saying about H and it must be incredibly hard going but Sabela still in highchair with tray and plastic spoons / fingers here too so you are not alone in that.

Gingeme - glad you had a good day. Every tried selling a pushchair on ebay? Or is Loot better. We're thinking of selling a lawnmower! V.cute image of David (it was David, wasn't it?)

Lilyloo - I'm glad I'm not the only one. Did you get away with NO arguments?

Simpson - yay for Broadband.

Well L walked in without a backward glance

Just put pic on my profile proud mummy

MM oh no hope you can get out somewehere today!!!

She looks absolutely darling! And so pleased!

Yes Lat it was David and Lillyloo what a pretty little girl you have there. Well done her and you
Oh no madmouse don't suppose you had a bag of frozen peas handy
I have sold a pushchair in Loot before and it was pretty straight forward plus it was free plus you don't need a pic. I am awaiting a friend to get back to me about it first though as she has 2 lo's who aren't yet walking then I'll give it a go.

Hi all, thanks for trying to cheer me up, and i don't mean to be totally negative but....it's not that he makes a mess, or that he needs a highchair, or any of these things, but that he is going backwards.

so whereas (apols for picking on M as an example btw!) Simps's M might not have be the earliest of walkers, she's always been a great talker, so her walking might not be much diff to H's right now (tad on the wobbly side and staggering about?) her speech is still racing on at great speed.

So say i was to complain about his walking, Simps could reasonably say, oh don't worry M is like that. But it would be like M suddenly saying only 3 or 4 words, vaguely, and someone else saying, don't worry, Z is like that. it's all relative i guess i'm trying to say, very clumsily.

Madmouse - i hope you can get out without him today and he's better tomorrow!!! cr*p timing

Lily - love the photo, and what a grown up big girl she is!!! hope she loves it.

Simps - broadband yet???

G - manicure sounds lovely

So H woke at 5.25. T 6.40. well worth splitting them up just on today.
Today is the first day H is not going to nursery on Mondays & I have stopped work (only helping out in an office). hopefully by his birthday he could benefit from going back but at the mo, they can't adequately cope with him and he doesn't enjoy it.
Leaving T there for the whole day for a couple of weeks while we reconsider plans. would be easier to have T in pre-sch round the corner 5 mornings but would mean i don't get that extra respite of him being out for an afternoon (& being fed 2 meals i would otherwise have to do).

thinking of booking in PIL & my mum for more time up here to give me a hand/let someone take T out/etc.

sorry on a downward loop atm, promise to be more positive...soon.

JKS - I know it's not the same. I was just thinking of you getting the high chair tray out and maybe thinking, 'I'm the only one doing this.' That's all.

Hi all

I seem to have broadband back but its not the one I'm supposed to have

JKS ((hugs)) Think you are coping fantastically well. Anything I can do to help let me know

Lilyloo - L looks sooo cute J still got 3 wks till he starts

All good here. Took kids to music class this morning as all the toddler group type things have started again even though J gets a bit bored at them as he is too big for some stuff at least its better than being at home

Thanks all

JKS i don't know what to say other than i am thinking of you and wish i could say something to make you feel a little better.