April 2004 Toddlers - Babies no more!

[Yorkiegirl]

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Back at work again so have time to post. Isn't it amazing which words they come out with. dd has come along so much in the week or so she has been off with us at home - it is rather scary to think she may have been talking a lot more if she hadn't been at nursery . She sits and says whole sentences but not many words make sense it is just jumble but you know she is trying to say something. She can name and point to all the family now nana for both, poppa for both, daddy, mummy, both our sisters names, a lot of animals sounds and names but can't imagine her saying hi gorgeous.
dot hope ds2 feeling better. dd woke us up at 5.30 this morning with a temp but we have given her paracetamol and sent her off to nursery. We've had to juggle over a week off now and so hopefully she will be fine. She was happy to be back after being stuck away from everybody for so long.

I know what you mean Chuffed. Dd is a different child after a few days at home with me, makes me wonder what she would be like if she didn't go to nursery too.
However, I doubt she would be anywhere near as sociable as she is and confident with other people.

True MrsD I suppose she has got other things from it.

Morning everyone. Okay I'm probably being mrs Paranoid here but ds was the last to crawl I think and we still have no walking and no words either. He babbles away but doesn't say anything coherent. Should I be worried?

Lucy Jones - ds1 STILL didn't have any words at all at this stage!!! Don't worry - some are quicker, some are slower - seems to me unless there's a very serious problem they all even out by the time they reach 3/4 years old (this is certainly the experience we've had with ds1 and friends his age - some didn't walk until 18 months, he didn't say anything until 17months and now they're all doing the same things!). Try not to worry, but if you are, maybe double check with your HV or GP?

Lucy, please don't worry. Dd is not showing any signs of walking either!
She surfs around on the furniture but she really doesn't want to walk!! She can walk with a trolley and her little car thing but only when she wants to. She can walk when I am holding her hands but if she doesn't she just sits down and won't be shifted.
She babbles away quite happily too, doesn't say Mummy but says Dada and Sasha (the dog) although she knows who Mummy is.
I have decided she is just VERY stubborn and a bit lazy, but as both her parents are prone to the same, can I blame her?

She is very interactive and confident withother people, loves cuddles and being picked up. So I'm not worried.
She'll walk when she's ready but not a second before.

(But she is very proud of the few seconds she can stand up before she crashes to the floor though )

thanks Dot1. I think I know deep down that he's okay because he seems very bright in other ways. For example he has the leapfrog drum and if we say to him 'play the drum' which is what the drum says he knows what we mean and goes and finds his drum. He has just started waving too which is a good sign. His cousin who is 5 weeks older than him only says car at the moment so I'm trying not to worry too much. But he's definitely not saying 'hey gorgeous'!!!!

MrsD - your dd sounds exactly like my ds! He will only walk holding hands when he feels like it, lol

dd is a 29 March baby too so a couple of weeks older than some. She really wasn't saying a lot but her language has totally just spouted in the last week or so.

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ds still chatters away and I've not got a clue what he's saying most of the time. He understands a lot now tho.
I can tell him to take him plate/cup into the kitchen for me and he can do it and reach up far enough to balance it on the edge of the worktop. or he knows if I tell him to give something to daddy.
I just need to work on the making me a cup of tea!

ds can do the signs or sounds for a pig, elephant, cow, cat, boat, snake, sheep, rabbit, fish, crab, frog, horse, and duck. Its the only ones I could think of signs for - ran out of ideas for any others - so he's had them repeated over and over for months poor boy.

ds not realy into talking , more doing , climbing exploring etc , he says oooo god which we think is all gone !! we got dady and mum and g for granny
have also discovered that he will feed himslef with a spoon @ nursary , but not @ home mmmmmm
i know ny situ weith nursary is a bit diff as also sahm , but i honestly think it is very good for him / kids , solalising , eating , manners all that , it can not be done on a 1 32 1 basis and i think best decision i made re ds

IME nursery kids tend to be more chatty, not less. I was really pround of dd2's amazing speech at about 20 months til I went on her nursery day trip and was surrounded by a coach full of 1-2 year olds talking fluently. a whole class of gabblemouths.

dd3's latest fun activity, since learning to walk a month ago, is to make a beeline for tarmac roads and walk slowly down the middle of them. wherever we are, park, home, whatever, she heads for the roads. great, that's all I need, now there are 3 mobile but irresponsible children to look out for. I feel frazzled by the long summer holidays and too many children at home too much.

Oh Fennel don't! I'm hoping for three!

How did the interview go?

hi Mrs D

3 is fine except in long very very LONG summer school holidays. it brings out the worst in us all here in fennel house. it's really school summer hols which is the problem not the number of children.

In the end I didn't go for the interview, just decided it wasn't quite the right job (having to give a presentation on something I didn't know about was perhaps a clue there) and I just went on holiday. not sure if it was the right decision, would still love to live in Exeter, but maybe another time....

Dd is staying with her grandparents this week as her nursery is closed. I have too much marking to do before I finish on Friday (I'm taking a break) but I miss dd awfully. I saw her on Monday!

But she is ssooooosoososoosooosooo Gorgeous!!

Hey Fennel - we are ttc for no 3 in Jan / Feb to aim for an October birthday (school year and all that - plus spreads out kid's birthdays: April, July and hopefully October) - so despite your sage words of wisdom I am throwing caution to the winds. I have noticed that things have got easier for you though since dd3 turned 1. So I'll just expect October 2006 - October 2007 to be sheer hell and to turn the corner in 2008! So with ttc soon I calculate that if my slimming world diet is successful I will enjoy approximately a month of being thin before gaining a pregnancy bump.

LucyJones - deffo don't worry. One of my dd's friends (who is now 3) was a source of worry to her mum, because at 2.3 she was barely saying a word whilst her peers were coming on in leaps and bounds..but I kid you not, when she turned around 2.5 she started acquiring words at a rate of knots and within about 8 weeks had totally caught up with her peers. She's a right little chatterbox now!

Ds is no great linguist. He is saying: Mamma, Dadda, Uh oh, no, bye, look, and what's that. He prefers climbing, jumping, and throwing balls (constantly - dh is very excited that he might be a future England bowler). Ds is the entire reason I am going for no 3 - he has been such an easy peasey baby [loved up emoticon]

HMC - I knew you would have to do it! it's that itch that just won't go away. Have you read my grumbles on the "3 or not 3 thread"? Am currently, i have to say, extremely jealous of those with just one. we are really struggling here lately.

we have just dd3 for a few days (and she's in nursery for most of it) while the others are at my parents for 4 days. I have to say I do not miss the others in the slightest! Just one 16 month old is absoloutely delightful.

Here's a question.

I am not showing now - 14 weeks. The day of the wedding I will be 16 weeks. So, do I need a new dress, the one I have fits me perfectly now?

I guess what I am asking is, when will I be showing?

Now now Fennel! You juts told me 3 was fine!
Are you telling me porkie pies??

mrs d i just don't know. i thought 3 was fine for most of the last year but this last few weeks it has been too many it really has. sometimes, we seem so restricted. like with chuffed going off travelling. We used to do that with just one. and now the thought of taking them anywhere a bit interesting makes me shudder.

ask me again in september!

Mrs D - goodness I don't know! You could stay pretty much the same in a fortnight, or you could wake up tomorrow with a glorious little mound. Why not get a larger dress anyway - as long as it is not too 'dressy' you'll be able to continue to wear it as you get bigger.

Fennel - the older ones would travel well wouldn't they? Isn't it just dd3 who would be the issue?

I know I could cope on a long haul flight with my 3 yr old dd since she would sit and watch in flight entertainment, do a couple of puzzles, colouring etc. However ds, as lovely and easy as he is in most situations, doesn't do sitting down in one place more than 10 seconds. So, presumably when your dd3 gets to around 2.5 ish you can be more ambitious in your travel plans? That's not so long to wait...

I don't think anyone knows the answer - it's just not knowing is a pain in the arse.

Anyway, I really should be excited