May Toddlers - still toddling along!

[helsy]

Oi! Over 'ere!

I'm using my sick leave well and have just booked a holiday in Oban - we're going to see Balamory and sea eagles, hopefully.

How far away from York is Cardiff? Actually where is York?

DD was awake again last night. She woke at 1am and give a moan, but when I went in she seemed ok. She did this for the next hour. She cries out very briefly but I just cant figure why. At 3am I had to go in and tell her to lay down and go to sleep as she was having a conversation with pink ted. I think he must of been in the dog house because he was having a very loud telling off.

Boo! well, moving house is not the same with a little one! doesn't help that ex keeps staying round his new bit of fluff and taking the car. Buggies don't really carry quite so much . . .

Glad you are all well and also sharing the joys of bouncing babies, DS shot up the stairs at the new house and then launched himself back down - luckily I was sitting half down them at the time so broke the fall a bit. We now also have a patio door that is just calling his name . . .

to be honest I have been distracted and have not really paid much attention to his development as much as I should. He babbles constantly and I often get a telling off, we have been attempting sandwiches for lunch but maybe the summer holidays at the childminder's is not the best time to have a go. He loves his jars too much so once the dust settles I will focus on changing that. He loves nibbles though, cheese, pieces of ham, breadsticks, dirt, cat fur,video cables. He has also discovered tantrums, I have to leave the room and laugh because he looks so indignant when I don't react.

Oh, and I 've chopped my hair to a bob so winter won't be far away. Sorry guys.

Right, had better get on. Love to you xxxx

oh, hope you enjoy your new house libb. a good new start for all of you.

i may do a meet-up in york, yes.

I would do a meetup in York - I imagine I am the nearest one. York is in Yorkshire and quite a long way from Cardiff (4 hours drive I would say but good train links as Spots mentioned).

Well I am now the mother of a school boy and so feeling rather old. Said school boy is less than impressed that he only got to go for 2.5 hours and now its the weekend. But he looked so young in his little flannel shorts and red sweatshirt. His sister is really going to miss him next week when he starts going properly. She follows him around so much, always wants to do what he is doing.

Libb I hope it all works out well. Tell your ex that he ought to be looking after DS while you use the car to move. He does seem to opt-out of responsibility.

helllooooo??..............

They're all busy Egypt! Meant to ask - who's looking after DD while you do the supply teaching? Have you got something sorted?

My current issue is the childminder being on holiday at half term and my colleague being on a course that week and wanting time off because its his birthday the following Monday and he has to work that week because its financial period end week. Also think DH is on a course on the Thursday. Actually I am just stressing myself about it because I haven't even got term dates yet so it might be a different week.

oh dear, so you have family you can ask?

the plan is that i will do one pre-arranged week a month, so not much, and my mum will come and stay that week. dh also has some days he can take at a days' notice and so does his mum, so this month may be the busiest. it's really for money, i don't want to go back at all tbh. might make a nice change....hmmmm

where is the bloody estate agent? having house valued at 1230!? now 1311. trying to avoid giving dd her lunch until they've gone, and constantly tidying after her every few seconds. grrr, i hate it when people are like this and dont ring

i meant do you have family you can ask..................can hear dd emptying a box of some description......... sigh

this is RIDICULOUS! phoned estate agents and they agreed, yes i was due to have someone at 1230. said they's check and phone back. its now 2.10 and have heard nothing. gave dd her lunch in the end and put her in bed. when they need to see her room, i guess they'll just have to creep in. botheration.

I suppose the York in Yorshire shouldve given where it was away. Ill blame it on Nappy Brain.

Egypt, I hope they turned up eventually.
I normally find that the minute the house is a mess people normally turn up.

DD has taken to copying what I say. Yesterday she was climbing the stairs and I was behind her and I said 'chop chop' she then kept muttering chop chop, chop chop. MIL also said that DD spilt her purse on the floor on Friday and DD said 'Good God' Not much else to report apart from she can now climb to the top of her slide and go down all on her own.
I wonder if the feeling of looking at them and feeling so proud of them ever fades as they get older. Some days I am overwhelmed by how wonderful she is and her ability to make me laugh at the silliest of things.

It sort of changes as they get older kbaby. But I have been looking at DS in his school uniform these last few days and my heart has been melting.

Not sure about the family thing Egypt it is tricky really because they don't live that close and Mum and MIL work part time and when DS had the time away in August I didn't feel he reacted that well. But will discuss it with DH when he comes home from his hard working life of a corporate golf day with dinner/drinks etc tonight. Hope the estate agents were suitably apologetic.

I was a proud mummy tonight. When I collected DD from nursery they said that she was the best one at sitting at the table and eating her food and they were sure that we must sit at the table and have family meals at home. So doing that bit right. TBH she seems to be sit less well than DS but I think thats because he takes so long now that she has to wait longer.

Hi guys,

My gawd how stressful is it having pup plus child?! if one of them isn't crying, eating something they shouldn't or otherwise generaly destroying the house then the other one is. However we are loving it. Spook is still quite bitey but kiera has got the hang of literaly pushing him away if he goes further than sniffing

Bozza- wonderful you can all eat at the table together, it sounds lovely Unfortunatly DF doesn't get home until K has been fed so it doesn't happen with us, but hopefully when she is older.

Egypt- Grrr annoying when someone is later than they say when you have a napping child to consider isn't it? we had the same when we had central heating quotes, for some reason they ALWAYS turned up half way through her nap.

Well apart from running around after Spook and Kiera and being knackered (he gets up at sodding 6.30am) i am also stressed because the doc is reffering K to a dietician in a month. She is still 19lbs which basicaly means she has put on no weight whatsoever since Feburary. She currently exists on nothing and has lost all of her lovely chubby bits Even the doc said she looked thin. K is still normaly happy and is still sleeping 12-12.5 hours a night tho, it seems to be just me in floods of tears and looking pale and worried!!

Actualy the good news is that we've really seemed to have bonded lately (yes i know it's about bloody time ) and she has stopped hitting me as much, even when she does i think i handle it better. I generaly feel more in control and happier at last and the numb feeling that i have had since she was born has all but dissapeared. 15 months after she was born things are looking up! She even cuddles me occasionaly. Life finaly is coming into color instead of permanent black and white. Okay i am going to stop getting emotianal now

Love to all xx

BTW when are you all going to come and see my baby boy? I promise i will try and post a pic of hime soon.

Cat sounds good about how things are going with Kiera but understandably worrying about the weight. I had a friend with a little boy who was under a dietitian at this age because of his low weight/not eating - he is now a healthy, lively 4 yo(went to his party on Sunday) but still on the slight side although he does eat more now. Can believe it is hard work with the puppy and Kiera - you will be getting very fit.

I know I was being smug about the eating at the table thing and thats it not possible for everyone but you have to bear in mind that I also have DS so even when DH is not there (away last night) there are still 3 of us at the table. Also I sometimes think that with me working and DD being the second she is somewhat neglected. DH chose the right night to go away anyway.

For some reason the builders who fitted the alarms on our street did not choose models with battery back ups. So anyway we must have had a series of short powercuts in the night and everyone's alarms kept going off. Ours went off 3 times and it wasn't even set. And obviously one of our neighbours is away and not left a key with another neighbour. Grrr. So both kids woke up and we're all knackered. DS will be especially so, because its his first day at the CMs and first full day of school.

oh bozza,whata nightmare with the alarms. eek, excuse the typing, on dh's laptop and i cant get the hang of tiny keys. our pc is bugg'd for the millionth time. dh dfecided to get a broadband wiress modem thingy and it wont install, has caused us to loose use of the cd disk drives and lost bb on our old modem too.

cat, really please things are looking up with you. dont take the slapping mummy thing personally. N does it all the time, including pinching and stratching. it's always when she's hungry or frustrated about something and i hate it too. but she doesnt mean it and i know loves me, as she won't leave me alone either.

lol at your dd saying 'good god' kbaby. dd copying words here too but i'm sure most other people wouldnt be able to tell!

dd eats on her own for dinner. poor thing. well i tend to snack with her, but dh doesnt get home until 6ish so its too late. we eat when she is in bed. i do eat lunch with her mind. she is good at sitting in her highchair and has had plenty of family meals with grandparents etc, and in the pub! but i wish it were more regular. saying that, dh is at home at the moment again. his back is still bad and i havent managed to get into the habit of cooking for all of us together. didnt even think!

Hi all, am at friend's babysitting and using comuter becaause ours is I think quite DEAD. dammit. All going well here. But I may be a bit quiet until we get something sorted with the computer! AND I was going to shake the bedcovers on Judd, Ponka and Helsy who've all been v. quiet recently. Ponka, hope all going ok with the pg.

Friend's dh just got back early! cheerio...

How inconsiderate of him spots. Really should be in bed but the pull of mumsnet..... Egypt we generally eat at about 6 - collect the kids from nursery at 5.30 if I am working. But they've already had nursery tea although apparently today DD refused her beans so ate all the small portion I gave her and then started demanding mine. Dunno how its going to work out now I've two pick ups to do though.

(Staggers blinking into the light) - oh, is that the time?
Sorry, we've been away a lot over the holidays. I did an update last week, but since we got broadband we keep getting cut off so I lost an entire waffle.
School started today. Dd1 is now in class 1 - apparently they did science today, geography tomorrow. Me:"what's geography?" Dd1: "I dunno."

Dd2 WALKED! Last week, the day after my birthday (41 actually, I know, don't look a day over 42). She took a couple of steps and hasn't bothered since. The eating's coming along, she's eating pretty much the same as dd1 for tea but I can't seem to get her to eat fruit or veg as finger food. Whole raisins are ok, aren't they? Can't believe I don't know this. She turns her nose up at banana and leaves apple. She seems to like orange but I'm afraid it will give her tummy ache. She loves Organix carrot stix (sic).
I think she has about ten words, if that. Mummy, daddy, bird, cat, wassit, yes, ta, bye, couple of others. Not sure that's very good really but she seems happy enough. Yes, I am a pushy mother and yes I will compare her with dd1 constantly .
We went to Leicester last week and I bought a bagful of great toddler clothes from H and M for under 40 quid. I love H and M and my life is DULL.

Belated Happy Birthday Helsy. DD has been having raisins for ages but I'm afraid a lot of them do reappear whole in her nappies (sorry for TMI). Have had the problem with fruit with DD but she has now gone for pears in a big way. I chop one up for her to share with DS and we have to monitor her for stuffing several whole slices in her mouth at once and then choking just to make sure she gets her share. Would have thought orange would be OK for your DD though - does she have digestion problems?

Hi Everyone. Sorry for disappearing. I've been lurking a bit. Every evening I put DS to bed, we sort tea, clear up etc. and it's about 9pm. Then a few nights here and there I've been going on mumsnet to keep up with you all but by the time I've read all your posts, I'm so knackered, I go to bed and promise myself I'll write next time!

Egypt, trying for a second eh! That's great news. Sorry to hear about DH though.

Helsy, I think orange is fine but loads produces a runny tummy.

Prufrock, Yay! The yellow brick returns. I was going to tell you DS' latest posting place was behind radiators if you were still looking.

Cat, congratulations on your new baby!

Spots, hope you are feeling O.K. Meet up in York would be possible for us. Not too far.

Libb, congratulations on the house.

Hi to everyone else. Hope you are all o.k.

We are doing alright. DS had diarrhoea for about 2 weeks not long ago. We kept taking him back to the doctors but they kept saying there was nothing they could do. They did tell us to try and fast him for 24 hours and we did. He wasn't even allowed milk. He was such a good boy considering. We only gave him apple juice and water for the whole time. I read afterwards that too much apple juice causes chronic diarrhoea so no wonder that didn't work . He seems fine now, anyway.

I'm feeling pretty sick at the moment and am finding it quite physically tiring looking after DS but we've been having a good time recently because we've had time off work and have gone on loads of nice day trips as a family (including, Prufrock, White Post Farm, which we do really like). DH is being a star and doing loads of the cooking because that's what makes me wretch the most.

Oh yeah and if anyone does buy Practical Parenting (October) at the moment, check out page 62

Proud mummy monent alert

I went out last night with sum antenatal mums and one of them said ' my brother said if he ever had a baby girl , he would want it to be exactly like your DD'
How sweet is that!

Cat i'm glad that you are feeling better, Try not to worry too much about DD, hard I know. I'm sure she is fine and if she is tearing your house up then shes certaintly getting the energy from somewhere.

We dont get to eat together either. DD eats on her own at MIL on her own table and chairs. DH ad I tend to eat after shes in bed. Im not organised on the weekend to even think of cooking dinner for us all. In fact DD is probably the only one who eats properly on the weekend.

I was talking to our next door neighbour yesterday and she is potty training her 18 month old DD. The problem is she cant walk yet and so sits there and says 'wee wee' and then her mum has to run over pick her up and put her on the potty. She said its very strange potty training someone who cant even walk to the potty.
I cant imagine DD not in nappies it seems too grown up.

Ponka. I have it, what a tramatic birth story. You look normal considering you had just had a c section.
In my first picture with DD after the birth I look awful and have one boob hanging out which DH forgot about when he emailed the pictures to my work.
How many weeks pg are you now?

Snap Kbaby, I went out on Friday with three other mothers and they all said they wished their babies could be like dd2! I think it's because she just sits and watches quietly and is very cuddly. DH and I are quite shouty and yet we have two very placid little girls. I was always afraid that I'd have to curb my drama queen tendencies so that my children didn't become gibbering wrecks, but Dd1 just says "mummy, stop shouting you're making my ears hurt" when I go off on one.
We don't eat together much - I try to make sure we do at the weekends, but everything usually comes out of the kitchen at different times as we're not quite eating the same foods yet.
I started a new job in the same place last week so I've jiggled my hours around and will be doing 3/3.5 full days a week - if I play my cards right I get all of Thursday and Friday off - might mean doing a few hours one evening to compensate but I'm going to try as it means I'll get two whole days with dd2!

Ooh Ponka, are you famous?
How's the move Libb? Are you in your new place yet? Sorry I haven't read all of the recent posts.

Tried dd2 on raisins - she just threw them around the room and then put the plate on her head . She now feeds herself all the time. There are so many things she does that I could be taking pictures all the time, especially with dd1. This morning dd1 was pushing a pram and dd2 was following her around with a pushchair.
Did anyone go to the Nottingham meet-up in the summer?

hi all. feeling terrible and worried about dd. she tripped in the lounge today and fell head first onto a wooden chair leg. she smacked into it with such a force, she didnt even have time to put her hands out. a huge egg shaped bruise appeared immediately. bless her. god, she screamed. she was ok within a few minutes, and i put a cold press on it when she sat still enough, having her milk. she went to sleep fine, but i'm worried that she perhaps shouldnt have slept so soon. (she did it at about 6pm, asleep at 7). anyway, at 8, she woke and screamed and screamed. i git up up and there was nothing i could do to calm her. it took an unusually long time, and razzle dazzle's not so long song on cbeebies website for her to calm down. then she sat with me on the settee, then started to crawl about the settee and play. so i guessed she was fine and put her back to bed. she is now crying again. oh, i gave her some calpol at 7 incase she had a headache, but i dont like this crying. what do i do?!

Oh, Egypt, how awful. Could she be crying about anything else? It's going to hurt after a bump like that. I'd call NHS Direct to be on the safe side but I'm a bit of a worrier.
Hope she's ok tomorrow.

Egypt - hope she is better today. When I called NHS Direct about DD in similar circumstances a couple of weeks ago the things they seemed to be concerned about were whether she had been sick, was floppy, lethargic, couldn't be roused etc. In fact, in a way her waking up like that and screaming is a good sign that it is not really serious IYSWIM, rather that she just has a nasty headache. Hope you she settled down for you.

Right time to post a bit more. Helsy/kbaby glad you both obviously have such gorgous little girls. Ponka sorry that the pg is hard work atm - how far along are you?

Friday when I picked DS up from school he cried because it wasn't the childminder. I put it down to the fact that he had got into a routine (T/W/T) of the CM picking him up, that it was confusing because she was there as well picking up another boy in DS's class and that he was very tired (starting school, DD waking him early).

Had a busy weekend with DH's work bbq on Saturday afternoon and then a wedding night do on Saturday night. DS and DD stayed at my Mum and Dad's (although I believe my sister did most of the childcare!) so that was the first night away for both of them since DD was born and it went well so we can send them again!

DH away last night and CM.s husband rang up to say that she couldn't have DS today because her Mum is very ill. So I had to ring work and tell them I would be late and take him to school and he is going to my friend's after school. But I am guessing that it might be more than one day so will need to try and sort out the rest of the week. Hmmm

I was going to start a thread about getting DD to sleep better but then last night she slept from 7.20 to 7.10 without a murmur! And she was really in top form this morning. I gave them their cereal and then said "right who wants a yoghurt?" and DD put her hand up and said "yeah". It was so funny - DS and I were extremely amused. Then when we were taking her to nursery I said "DS hold DD's hand while I open the garage door" and she held her hand out to him straight away so she obviously understood.