May Toddlers - still toddling along!

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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.

Just a quickie - happy second Christmas to all the May toddlers! Here's to them putting their own wrapping paper in the bin......

Merry xmas everyone. I guess your all still busy.

DD has been a Star. 2 nights running shes had late naps to be able to stay up later with all family and friends.

Her Kitchen was a big hit and also the doll and pram. In fact so much of a hit that she wouldnt open the rest of her presents so I opened them Boxing Day. She wasnt too keen on the trike she had thought.

Santa was also kind to me. I had a new mobile phone, DAB radio and also a chocolate fountain which is being put to the test tonight
Happy New Year
xx

Happy festivities all.. hectic times! We have had a good run of it so far; was v. worried about DD's tolerance of groups of people/ lack of nap opportunities/ etc. but she really seemed to have a ball. We stayed with all the inlaws on boxing day and there are 9 cousins in total, which freaked her out in the summer when we were all together, amnd frayed my nerves too. But she happily tottered around offering people single crisps from her sticky mitt, and charmed everyone by remembering their names. She is really starting to speak in sentences. 'Look, I see a bird/ cup of tea/ man' comes out quite a lot, and mimicking me saying 'No sitting on' or 'Be gentle (she says 'dantle') with your eyes'. In little baby voice. We gave a play kitchen too! and she loves to mix dry pasta in her little pans. Luxury of just having one child this xmas... am really milking it!

Hope everyone is feeling nice and bloated, love to y'all. xxx

Spots I beat you with the dry pasta. I found a tin of baked beans in dd's kitchen this afternoon. The little monkey had obv been in the cupboards.

she knows exactly what to do doesn't she!

Lovely to hear your stories. Our Christmas went well. I wasn't at all concerned about DD because I know she responds well to crowds/party atmospheres. She was giddy for a week, running up and down the hall with her brick trolley past bedtime on Christmas Eve (we let them stay up to watch the dancing) and I'm sure that was because she picked up on DS's excitement. They both slept in on Christmas Day .

DD loves her kitchen (aren't we an original bunch?) and DS is mad about his Millenium Falcon spaceship. DD is not doing sentences yet but has started putting two words together. And I have to go to work for half a day tomorrow . Think thats about it for now. Oh must see if I can book a restaurant for New Year's Eve. Will do that now.

This will be our very fisrt New years eve in on our own. All our friends are going out.

kbaby don't get all . The booking is for 6pm and is for 3 and a high chair! After various abortive attempts at going to PILs and sitting round with their neighbours while DS was in bed upstairs and things we have stayed at home the last two years and taken the kids out to a restaurant early evening. Much better for us to take the pressure off than plan some complicated arrangements. Its an Italian and less than a mile away and last year they had crackers, party poppers etc which the kids enjoyed.

Have got a cold now though so may not be able to taste anything. DH has used the lemsips up so I had to have mulled wine instead.

Happy New Year to you all. I hope that it's a great one (and an extra specially great one for all those with a new addition on the way). Glad to hear everyone had a good Christmas. Hope your cold gets better soon, Bozza.

DS loved his kitchen (Ahem - yes, another one here!) We've been cooking Playdough sausages today. We just had a few people around to slob on the sofa's and play games with us last night so that DS could stay tucked up in his ususal bed.

We are thinking about making the most of the last day of our holidays tomorrow by going to an aquarium. There's one about an hour's drive away from us.

DS is getting very chatty at the moment too. We've got a few 3 or 4 word sentances coming out and what really surprised me the other day was a rendition of the Teletubbies, otherwise known in our house now as the Baddybees.

"Widdy -widdy, La La, Po"
"Baddybees, Baddybees"
"Say E - o"

Anyone got any new year's resolutions? Mine is to overhaul the finances. I've caught a couple of programmes of 'Make me Rich' on ITV recently and have decided that we don't check around to see if we've got the best deal enough so I'm going to look into the mortgage and credit cards etc. and try to work out a decent budget.

Happy 2006 Everyone

I cant be bothered to make New years resolutions. I only break them anyway

We ended up having not a bad night. Our neighbours invited us over for a drink and so we took DD and a few other children were there. She played until about 11pm and then I came home with her and DD stayed over there.

Im still trying to put DD to bed!!! Everytime we leave the room she cries and its pointless doing CC as it never works so were taking it in turns to go upstairs and settle her. Shes still waking at night but now were down to a 'Lie down' and then we go back to bed a may shout 'sshh' a couple of times. I hope she eventually sleeps before baby2. Theres no way I could get up with both.

Yes thats what happens with DD kbaby - just needs a quick telling to go back to sleep. We've developed a new problem though which is that she has got attached to a Po that she takes to bed with her. But because its just one of those little beanie ones she loses it. Trying to persuader her to change her allegiances to something bigger.

Ponka you have got a very chatty boy. Most impressed with the teletubbie singing bit.

DD was being funny yesterday. She was playing with a doll at my MILs and taking it out of the pushchair, laying it down on its front (she sleeps on her front) on the settee, giving it her Po and puppy, covering it with a blanket, saying "sh" and then proceding to wack it on the backside. Thats her equivalent of our gentle patting. No surprise then that it apparently woke up after about 10 seconds.

But the great thing was that for the first time ever DS and DD spent the night at my ILs. DH and I went to see Narnia last night and shopping in Leeds this morning. It was brilliant, I had crisps for my breakfast in the living room, I crossed the road on the red man etc.

hey girls. happy new year

we had a rough time and are slowly recovering.
lucas had cought bronchitis just before xmas; then dp had, then caitlin had it (!) - and well, i have got a plain simple headcold.

but nevertheless lucas enjoyed xmas; had 2 parties at home - one xmas eve for austrian tradition and another one next morning for english tradition. - and he too got a kitchen

today he surprised me again with his talking.
we've got one of them cardholders with a big santa at the bottom. he stood in front of it and said 'santa! - hand! hand! hat! nose! (and pointed at the rights places )

new years eve we've spent at neighbours (unexpected invitation) - and we managed to stay up till 9.30 (incl. lucas) - but hey, there's always another one

bozza @ your 'bum slapping'

oh, and we'll have to get a 'big boy bed' soon. new years day morning we got our very own special surprise. a big 'bump'! and a little boy standing in the middle of his room - was supposed to be in his cot!!!

im trying to keep DD in her cot as long as possible. Well at least until she attempts to climb out. Its just so much easier knowing where she is.

DD saw dadas winkie today and its suddenly become her favorite word to shout she also keeps saying clock but without the L. DH and I just looked at each other horrified when we first heard it. It wasnt until she started going 'tick, tock' that we could finally breath out.

Susi - sorry about the illness - hope you are all feeling better now. Lucas is really coming along by the sounds of it. I was thinking that DD wouldn't be able to climb out of the cot because of being in a grobag, until I realised when I was up with her in the night (teeth I think) that her feet are right at the end of it.... Does anyone else still use a sleeping bag?

Happy New Year! DS is still in a grobag but it's 18-36 months so loads of room yet. He can say Chocolate Penny, Blue Cow, Imagine a Story...all very grunty but discernible. Will come and chat properly later in the week, but was just passing through!

Well when you pass back through could you let me know where you got your grobag from? Is it an official one or a cheaper version? Have an 18-36 month one that DD used last summer and DS used when he was in a bed but with the covers as well but its only 1 tog.

It's an official one from fleecybabe dot com (can recommend). COuld you do one tog plus sleepsuit and fleecy pj's (£8 in Tesco). We are heavy duty grobag plus sleepsuit and fleecy pj's but our house is quite cold.
Crying child....will return

Gosh Judd I hope the crying has stopped by now. Hmmm not sure now.... And only have one 1 tog so washing would have to be organised.

Oh ha ha ha. I'll have you know he was crying over a Very Important Issue. DD had taken his clip off him (one of those you get in bags of about a thousand from Ikea) and he needed it back urgently!

When were you planning on moving DD into a bed, Bozza? I suppose that may influence your grobag decision. We moved DD in at just 2 (coz of DS arriving) but kept her in her grobag until 2.5, hoping it would stop her climbing out of bed. It didn't - she would just shuffle into our room in it, like a toddler sack race entrant, but it was never before 7am so OK.

Not yet. Would have to buy the bed and sort out her room. She's showing no signs of doing a Lucas , so no rush. We moved DS into a bed at 2.3 which was May and he had bed covers then but when the cold weather came he started waking up and crying because he had kicked the covers off and was cold. So we put him back into the 1 tog with the duvet over the top and this helped the duvet stay in place, I think his wriggling was contained in the bag.

happy new year to you all.

back to the usual routine. dd is sleeping in a sleeping bag - 18-36 months. although i dont believe it will fit her until 3. anyway, it's a proper grobag 2.5 tog and she has a long sleeved vest and pj top and bottoms. its very cold in our house at night. she sleeps through, so must be ok!

is anyone sending d's to playgroups in their area at 2? our local playgroups take them from 2 although i think i shall have to wait until the term after. then free from 3, as national.

just been down the pub with all our neighbours. (4 house loads). we all live in the converted barns around a farm and have spent the day filling the holes in down the lane over the field that leads to our courtyard. well, i say we, i spent the day entertaining dd and the neigbours little girl whilst sending out flasks of tea and bacon butties. the whole lot of us descended on the poor ol' pub. eaten them out of crisps and am feeling a little bit tipsy. dh is now bathing dd and i am drinking another glass! (whilst cooking a sausage thing for tea). have to take over bathing at 630 as there is an EXTREMEMLY important footy match on - din't you know?!

lots of love to you all xxxxxx oh better change my name........

Sounds fun Egypt and like you got an OK bargain out of it. DD sleeps in 2.5 tog bag and just pjs and is back to sleeping through now that she has got another point through on her molar - still need to join up though.

DD will not be going to playgroup because she goes to nursery 3 days a week anyway. So although I could probably get her sessions on a Monday and a Friday it seems a bit pointless and as though the time would be better spent just me and her. If I was a SAHM though I would definitely be looking into it - I think DD is the type of child who would go for it. I think round here you have to stay with them until they are 2.5 though.

DS won't be able to go to ours until 2y9mos - next February! Could possibly find one that started at 2.5years but I'd like him to go to the one that DD is at. So I've got a whole year of being stimulating...........

hmmm. took a look at one yesterday. it was ok, carers are all mums or grandparents so that was good. but..they take them to play on the local park! dd loved it mind. i'll need to search a few more first. boo hoo, my little girl is growing up. i think we'll do a day or 2 a week. no more