April 2004 Toddlers - Babies no more!

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Ys v. broody - but ds likes older children - so not much point in having another baby for his entertainment.
ds points to the birds and planes and goes wooo.
He learnt to blow kisses yesterday from his auntie in law - so cute! cousin/friend is expecting twins = more brooding!!

me too

How thick am I? - I saw this thread title in active conversations and didn't click for ages that it was anything to do with ds.....doh!

Congrats hunkermunker! a New Year's baby eh? So many new babies conceived now hey? DON'T send any baby dust my way though - my 2 are sufficient at the moment! Dh and I would top ourselves if we 'with child' any time soon...(had a taxing w'end with the lo's - can you tell).

Hope lunavix junior is feeling a little brighter?

Big Congratulations Hunkermunker

hi all

lunavix I hope ds is ok. also dolbear's ds with the bump.

it was so wild and windy in snowdonia most of the tents had blown down or broken when we arrived on the site! so we headed back to the coast for a few days of sort-of-sun. no snow though. dd3's latest developmental stage, get this, only about 10 months after the average, is rolling! (my babies have never been rollers, too portly maybe). she's had fun rolling around the campsite.

um yes am still a secret and only semi-willing breastfeeder, only 2 x a day and not in public though.

How are the little injured soldiers today?? all better I hope?
No sun here yesterday or today!

Hi everyone, sorry that I have been absent for so long. We are about to be homeless so being on MN isn't a great priority at the moment
DS has been poorly lately too. He still isn't back to normal yet which is very tiring.
He is growing up to be a cheeky little monkey. He has a few strops now and drama queen moments. He started taking his first few steps last week, but doesn't seem very adventurous that way, however he climbs like a mountaineer and has mastered my DD's 5ft slide all by himself

spagblog is everything going to be OK? Is it just a very temporary thing...I hope so.
dh is having major stresses at work at the mo, is having a meeting with the biggest boss today to try to sort them out. He currently does two jobs and they are trying to make him choose one or the other yet haven't offered him packages with either so not sure how he is supposed to choose when he doesn't know what the salaries are going to be. If he has to take a pay cut then we will have to go back to NZ before baby is born as we won't be able to afford to live in London

ds is fine !! thanx looks worse than it is has gone a nice brown/yellow colour now mmm
got fed up telling people how it happened so have resorted to saying that I beat him !
ds also turning into drama boy ! amongst my friends we have a drama boy of the year comp , the person who does the silliest or most embarassing thing ( mainly due to drink ) gets the trophy for a year and his name on a sheild , maybe a should nominate ds this year !

Spagblog,

I'm sorry to hear that you are about to be homeless . What on earth will you do? Will you be moving in with relatives for a while?

spagblog - hope everything's ok. post to let us know if you can.

dd had her mmr on thurs. she was weighed for the first time since she was 6 months too - is just under the 50% line (which is fine by me).

hi my ds was born on 15th April 2004 just wondering what your little ones are doin now? isn't it amazing how much they have achieved since christmas?

totally agree how much they have changed.

it's going by toooooo fast

ds drank through a straw for the first time yesterday at lunch! he was so pleased with himself that he drank a whole glass of watered down apple juice and was too full for his pasta! tho he did manage space for his ice cream!

HI everyone!

Thanks for all your well-wishes, ds is much better now, a round of penicillin did him the world of good, although he seems to be allergic to it (vomiting and rash) but they said to keep going. Also had all four top teeth come through at once!!! Poor little mite has been through it all.

He's still not really doing anything... we have no words, occassionally he says something (think I mentioned him saying 'hi' and 'bye' before) but then once he's said it he loses it... still not had dada and he doesn't say mama much now. He's getting about fast crawling and behind his hippo walker but again no interest in walking. I'm trying not to worry much for now, I'll wait for his mmr (no idea when they're planning on doing that but I'm hoping to wait till 18 months) and I'll have a chat to the health visitor about it.

So sorry spagblog... hope it all gets sorted.

hi lunavix

i read your other thread too. your ds doesn't sound that different, developmentally, from dd3. she's not yet walking, she seems to have "lost" the words she knew a couple of months ago, though she does point and communicate very well without many words.

i am still convinced she is very clever, she just hides it very well . seriously your ds does sound very normal to me (i know lots of late walkers and talkers, including quite a few who've been late on both and very "normal" by about 3 or so.)

lunavix - dd does point a lot but hasn't a lot of words and tends to loose words as well. You just seem to have a word sussed and she just seems to 'forget it'.

we dont have any words here yet either , maybe eh-oh but like the others it seems to come and go !
got mmr appt through, but have put it off untill ds head is healed !

having had a quiet child and then a chatty one, i have learnt to thank my lucky stars for the quiet one! life with chatterbox dd2 as a toddler could be very tiring, some days she didn't seem to shut up for even a moment. on and on and on.... quiet can be good

ds2 is just flipping wonderful! We actually had an argument at tea time!!! He'd finished his pudding (jar of something vile) and I told him it had all gone, so he looks me straight in the eye and says "more" - whilst doing the baby sign for more, just in case I didn't understand!!! So I told him there wasn't any and he kept saying it - insisting! Cheeky thing got some banana instead..! He's can say more than 10 words now + his signs and obviously I think he's the most clever baby in the whole world!! It's just so strange having a chatty baby after a completely silent one at this age!

Having said all that, we've had a couple of tantrums in the past 3 days, so I'm slightly worried that ds2's got a horrible temper, which we've never had to deal with...

lunavix - agree you should try not to worry. DD doesn't say any words (apart from babbling dada and mama - she has only just learned the latter). She isn't quite walking yet (my ds walked at 15 months). Sounds like your ds doesn't feel the need to walk right now if he is a fast crawler!

Wish I'd done the baby signing thing. I meant to but never really got round to it.

ds is chatting away - but I have no idea what he's saying! he can also turn his tongue upside down! I think he will be a hit with the ladies when he's older!
Still snotty and a cough - on and off now since Xmas. I have now made a rod for my own back by taking him into the shower with me in the mornings to clean and clear his nose. Now he wants in EVERY morning - so I have to wait till he's filled his nappy before showering which sometimes makes me late. But he just stands under the running water - he loves it.

sorry... reading back my post sounds a bit like I was 'showing off' ds2 and not very thoughtful re: your post, Lunavix. Try not to worry - ds1 said absolutely nothing at all - not even much babbling - until he was 17 months old (I can still remember the exact date!!) and then said "fish" while pointing at a picture of one! That was his only word for ages and ages and it really took him until he was going on 2 to start properly talking. Now he's 3.5 and there's no stopping him - his sentences are incredibly complex and the nursery staff were just saying last week how intelligent he is!! . If I witter on about ds2 it's only because it's such a different experience for us this time around.

dot1

nothing can convince me that dd3 is not the most amazingly perfect baby ever even though she shows no signs of being particularly interesting, intelligent, or anything noteworthy to the outside world - nursery keeps commenting on what a good eater she is, it only now occurs to me that that could be because she shows no other personality traits .

you know what I say ..... pants !
seems that some are eaters , some are walkers / signers / smilers / sharers etc , all bb's are cute , lovely smartypants little cuties then they turn into teenagers and seem to loose the ability to do all of these things ,
don't smile or talk - grunts only available , they slouch or swagger not walk and the only signs they use are unrepeatable on a family thread ha ha !!