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.

We've had a fall down the stairs too. Terrifying. Dd2 and I are both off today as we have conjunctivitis and nursery won't let her go for 24 hours after starting drops (and actually my colleagues told me to stay away too).
Bozza, what do you put in your risotto? We eat it once a fortnight but I don't give it to Dd2 as we use stock cubes - too much salt - can't be bothered to make my own stock, and it would be a bit dull with just water?
Also - anyone live in Manchester? We're hoping to go there for the Chinese New Year celebrations on Sunday and I wondered if anyone else had been and is it worth going with a six year old and a 20 month old? It would take us an hour. Might post this on another thread too.

hope you're both better soon helsy. think there are some lower salt stock cubes that people use. not sure what they are though.

I use that marigold bouillion powder but less than the recommended amount. I don't worry too much these days. Use it instead of stock in most things. Although have actually made some turkey stock today.

DS is poorly too. Think it might be tonsilitis again but can't get him to the Dr until tomorrow pm. DH not too well. So not sure what is happening workwise tomorrow. DD woke up early so grumpy this am but full of life after her nap. Also very unsympathetic re. poor DS.

Thanks BOzza, will try it. We both still have gunky eyes but dd2 is in fairly good humour. Got to go, takeaway has arrived (vegetable biryani yum).

at that takeaway. I am starving. If I had brought sandwiches I would be eating them by now. But too disorganised at home. DS has gone back to school today but DH still off so I'm having to do all the CM/nursery runs. DS's book bag has gone missing etc etc. DD spotted DS going for his breakfast and said "bwekfass" in a really sad voice so I had to let her have some too.

That Biryani was nice, though. Chicken summat tonight. When I can be bothered to get off here (DH is working late).

Hurrah! Got the Child Trust Fund sorted out before the government did it for me - only took 11 months. Dd2 has started Rhythm Time at nursery - they said she's really good. They put her in by accident when I took her in for a couple of Thursdays (she's not booked in for Thursday really, but sometimes I have to work ) and they've suggested I just take her in for that. Might do. There isn't really anything locally on a Thursday. Apparently she was visibly disgusted by some chiffon scarves they used for a dance, though!
When is the next baby due? And where is Libb?

I got a new year message from Libb, I think she has no at home computer access so only posts occasionally, but she sounds like things are going pretty good. I quite miss all the crowd that used to post - we're not such a crowd now are we? I sometimes see Prufrock's name appear on a thread but not often, and haven't noticed Georgina for ages. Twiglett can be caught more easily... Say hello, if you all are passsing through!
Are Ponka and I the next babies? We are both due 6th April. I am madly trying to get my driving test before the baby is born so you can all test me on my theory if you want. Unfortunately I keep having saucy dreams about my instructor, which is rather distracting. My pregnancy hormones are doing me an injustice.

How are your new regime mealtimes Bozza?

looks sheepish

Can I say hello?

Sorry I haven't been around for so long. I tend to keep an eye on this thread but don't really keep track of mumsnet as a whole anymore except for the odd browse. And then it's been so long it feels awkward jumping back into the conversation, so I don't!

Ds1 and ds2 are fine (ds2 FINALLY said "Mummy" last night - he's been saying "Daddy" for ages! He really hammed it up and avoided going to bed for ages... saying Mummy, then I'd go take him into Daddy so he could hear, but ds2 would collapse into giggles and refuse to say it in earshot of anyone else. Little monkey)

I can generally be found over on my blog or on Flickr these days. I will try and pop back to this thread from time to time though

How excellent, hello Georgina! Lots of love to the ds's xxx.

did someone call? Sorry I haven't been around much - always too busy but still keep an eye out for you all.

Sadly I only have access to a computer when I am at work - I would kill for a nice little laptop at home, I miss just being able to pop by and natter.

Things are pootling, money is a nightmare but I am partly responsible for that as I am lousy at keeping an eye on things. DS is doing well, not saying a great deal but I am learning that he is the type to wait until I am considering a visit to the health visitor and then suddenly doing what I think he should be doing. Like his walking, he showed no interest at all and then one weekend he was up and off! must get it from his father I reckon.

Speaking of which, I have been asked not to contact ex unless it is crucial and about Reuben - it would seem that the new girlfriend doesn't like it! Tough bloody luck, we will have to start talking once DS gets to the manipulating stage because he will run rings round us otherwise. Why is ex such a stupid man? oh well, at least I don't have someone who needs to be obeyed!

Sorry, that was a bit of a rant there. Thanks for letting me get it off my chest!

Anyway, I hope you are all well and blooming in your pregnancies. If anyone wants to CAT me for my e-mail address then that would be great - I tend to do hotmail a bit more than Mumsnet these days.

Lots of love to you all xxx

1hi libb, lovely to hear from you. you're doing great by yourself by the sounds of it. make the most of not having anyone to be answerable too - that's what i say. xx

georgina, hello! you are going to be famous one day girl. well done on the piccie. how do you get the time?

dd is chatting away so much now. she can repeat everything. it is so scary. only one word mind, except for 'where's (insert noun)?' and 'here it is'. bless.

went to docs to get referral for gynae specialist re: no 2. have polycystic ovaries so prob need some help. been trying for about 6 months and practically no sign of a cycle so i think i need some HELP!

Loads to catch up on here. No time to post, 3 poorly people to run around after.

Mealtime regime gone awire due to them all being poorly and me trying to persuade them to eat jelly or soup instead of sticking to my guns. Will resume shortly...

It was lovely to hear from everyone. I found the list the other day of all the mums on the expecting in May thread and there were so many names. I guess everyone is just busy now.

DD is being very clingy at the moment and follows me about the house demanding to be picked up. Its getting very tiring as shes whinging most of the time. It seems that only I can do things for her.

Not much else happening. DH phoned the builders tonight to complain. They told us the extension would be complete in 6 weeks time. We are 8 weeks into it now and they havent even finished the brick work. Weve had loads of dry weather and they havent been here since wednesday. I want to tell them not to bother but of course we cant. RANT OVER.

Forgot to say whispers DD has slept through for the past 2 nights. Even if she doesnt sleep through we can normally go into her tell her to lay down and she goes back to sleep. We only have to do this the once. I feel like a new woman.

Hi everyone.

Sorry to hear you're having trouble ttc, Egypt. I've not heard of polycystic ovaries. Wishing you all the best trying for no. 2.

Kbaby re. the fall down the stairs. That sounds like it was a bad but lucky one.

We've bought a potty this weekend. We got it home and DS pointed to it a few hours later and said "Jake. Sit on. Wee - wee". So we put him on it with his trousers on and he quite liked it. We asked him if he wanted to really do a wee - wee on the potty straight after and decided to give it a go. He sat down straight away and just as I was thinking, this is easier than expected he said "No, no", got up, walked a metre onto a rug, squated down and weed all over it! Hey - ho. We're not planning on training properly for a while yet. Just here and there to get him used to it a bit.

Anyone else having a go yet? You're probably going to think I'm stupid but which way are they supposed to sit on it?! Is the high handle bit supposed to be in front of them or behind?

Oooh. Hi Kbaby. We're both on at the same time then.

I don't want to Jinx anything but congrats on the sleeping. Fingers crossed it continues!

Ponka, we bought a potty when I first found otu I was pregnant, in a flush of mad thinking that it might be possible to train her and not have two in nappies simultaneously! She absolutely knows what it's for as I suppose they all do, but the key thing about anticipating the need is just not there. She peed in it a few times just to get us excited and then the novelty wore off. I am resigned to having strings of nappies drying on every available surface for the next year at least.

Lovely to hear from Libb, hooray!

Kbaby, am sure the extension will be worth it in the end. Is it kitchen? can't remember...

Egypt hope your gynae appt. was helpful.

Ponka the high bit goes at the back. I am set for spring potty training dependent on when DD gets moved up at nursery but with her reasonably reliable for when we go on holiday in mid August.

Spots, you are so good. I didn't realise you used washables.

Cheers Bozza. DS seems to like sitting on it the other way around! I think it makes him feel more secure because can hold onto the handle.

Hello all

How hectic is everyones lives now?! Can't believe so many of us are having no 2, i remember when we were all stressed out of our minds with no 1! good for us i say
I'm still happy with my gorgeous one and my baby boy puppy.
Well kiera is addicted to Cbeebies atm, if it's not on she asks for the remote! She's doing well, we've been to see the Paeditrician who was pleased with her progress in regards to eating and says she is a few months ahead when it comes to moter skills and words We've been reffered to the dietician anyway just so they know who we are in case she stops eating again and we son't have to wait for an appointment for so long but she currently weighs 21lbs (i didn't think we'd EVER see the back of 19lbs!)
Hmmm, we havn't even introduced kiera to a potty yet- am i bad mummy? she just doesn't seem that aware yet tbh, i know loads of babies who say "poo poo" when they've been or "wee" went they've been or even when they want to go but, sadly, she just isn't one of them maybe i'm not teaching her enough...did you guys teach or did they just know?
Hi Libb!
Hope you're all ok i promise to come on a bit more often!

Cat xxx

Hooray! Just sat my driving theory test and got that under the belt. Now just have to do the DIFFICUT BIT...

Bozza, can't believe you are going to potty train in the spring! Yyou brave woman you. How old was ds when he left the nappy behind? Do you have a Technique?
DD is funny telling you about poos actually. She has a habit of statng the words she wants to hear you say, rather than her own point of view. So if she's done a poo she says 'Haveyoudoneapoo?' We have sanded floors and quite often let her run around nappyless after a bath. Quite often a pee slips out and she will be so casual about it that she'll tell you she's been 'Skating in the Pee!' rather than anything to do with clearing it up. Perhaps this is the wrong direction to go in re. potty training... Serendippity, I think it's just to do with how they perceive the subject through you, and it has to be said that we talk about poos and pees quite a lot in this household. Keira is prob. just nicely laid back about the subject. It does sound as if she's doing brilliantly; great to hear your news.

Ponka yes I love my washables! Don't really mind an excuse to buy another batch, if truth be told!

Potty training - eeek! Only did DD at 2y 8mos (but she didn't speak before then so there wasn't really much point). I read the Gina Ford Potty Train in One Week and found the whole thing OK, but then DD was on the older side which may have been why. I do remember suddenly realising that she hadn't ever seen anybody wee on the potty before, not attending nursery, so I did feel obliged to....ahem....(don't tell anybody)..close the curtains and hunker down next to her in front of C Beebies on our matching potties.
Would like to have DS done a little earlier, if only so that I can save the nappy cash and spend it on nice coffees and mascara!
DS is saying a bit more, sometimes 2 words together. This morning we were sprinting to Pre School and he was pointing downwards and saying "abble dop abble dop". All the way down the road, DD and I had a conspiratorial giggle about how we couldn't understand him, and then I realised he was saying "apple dropped" but by then we were miles away and there was no going back!
We made buns last week and left them to cool in the kitchen. Whilst we were in the lounge, he dragged a chair over to the kitchen counter, stood on it and crammed a whole bun into his mouth at once. Came in to me, spluttered "bun" and sprayed crumbs everywhere. Little tyke!
Right, got to go, sibling play-doh nirvana seems to be coming to an end

Spots - congratulation on the theory test. Just remember to Mirror Signal Manouevre (where does the "e" go in the middle of that word?)
Oh yes, nappies. To summarise. DD got rid of daytime at 2y8mos and night time at 3y 10 mos (could have been sooner in retrospect but wasn't really a hassle to wear one.)

We bought DD a potty but she hovers over it and says its too cold. Her little bum never even touches it. She has a habit of weeing on the carpet before a bath and gets your hand to show you and says 'naughty wee wee' I feel bad that she thinks its naughty so I have to say each time ' its not naughty if its an accident'

Shes quite funny at the mo with her doll. She throws her out the back door,closes the door, opens it again and then shouts 'baba come in her its cold' or she throws her and then says sorry baba, what happened' Its lovely to hear her talking to her even if I can hear phrases that I tell DD.

Weve had yet another close miss this week. MIL looks after DD but her dad isnt very well and is bed bound so she goes up his house 3 times a week to change the bed etc. Anyway on Thursday she brought DD home and said that her father had been ill today so she was up his house arranging for the gp to come and took her eyes of D and found her playing in the bathroom with a bottle of bleach and the lid off she had bleach on her clothes but hadnt drunk any. I just wanted to grab DD off her and tell her how iresponsible she was. I vented my anger at DH when he came home and said DD wasnt to go up his grandfathers again and that she would go in a nursery on the days mil looks after her father. There is no way I am putting her at risk like that again. DH spoke to MIL who was crying because it was a accident and she felt bad enough, she doesnt want DD to go to nursery. In the end weve agreed the DD is to be looked after by a friend who looks after her own grandson for the time that MIL goes up her fathers.

Sorry for the long rambling message.

Blimey Kbaby that does sound like a near miss - can't help feeling sorry for your MIL tho, she sounds like she had as much of a shock as anyone.
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