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.

DD Had me up last night from 1am - 3am. But I couldnt be cross because I kept laughing at whats she was talking about.
The conversation went something like this
'Mummy'
'Yes'
'Milk'
'ok' so I traipse downstairs and get milk
DD laughing ' mummy, i fluffed'
'ok go to sleep'

Then I can hear her introducing the cat to a dog and asking the cat to carry the dog downstairs!
telling baba that she was naughy, something to do with teletubbies and then shouting as loud as possible 1 2 3 go.

What was all that about, I have an insomniac for a child.

Awwwww. Cute, kbaby. Even at 2 in the morning.

We are moving DS to a new room very very shortly. We've done up the spare room for him and DS2 will go in his room now where the changing unit is etc. We've turned the new room into a Digger room and bought a brand new Digger lamp shade to replace the old plain orange one that was there. Well, I don't know why we bothered! Every two seconds yesterday it was, "Orange light gone". "Orange light broken", "New bulb orange light", and this morning when he woke and was talking to himself in his cot on the monitor, just when we thought he'd forgotten.... "Mend orange light", "Mummy widdit (do it) orange light". We were just lying there laughing at him.

We've got quite a bit of snow here, today. Anyone else?

My god, you are all going for it on the potty front. We just keep trying DS once in a blue moon so that he gets used to what it is. I don't think we'll be trying anything significant for a while yet.

Ooooh. I'd love to go to France over the summer. I think we're going to go to the Isle of White in late summer. My Great Auntie has a holiday apparment there and she's happy for us to stay. We thought that'd be a good thing to do with a really little baby and we didn't get DS to the beach last year. My god this thread's been going a while now. We were talking about sumer holidays at the beginning of it, too.

at Ponka remembering what the start of the thread was. Very imprssed. Spots Edinburgh is not definite but will get back to you if it gets firmed up. Kbaby I think your DD is a genius not an insomniac. Do you find that she doesn't get as frustrated as other 21 month olds because she can communicate so well? DH was holding DD in the kitchen tonight and I opened a certain cupboard door (was cooking) and DD started to make a fuss and try and tell him something and he hadn't a clue what she was on about. She wanted to dip her finger in the tub of Marigold powder and lick it. at what I let her do. DH said he would never have guessed in a million years.

Bozza, I do find that she can say quite a lot and I can understand her pretty well. Sometimes I have to ask her to say it again and I still dont know what shes on about. DH cant understand hardly anything. I heard her the other night when he was changing her telling him to get a nappy and he was saying 'Happy, your Happy' she was shouting at him in the end 'Nappy'before he finally clinked.
The problem is though she gets frustrated by other things, she has little patience and insists on doing things herself ie putting the baby einstein dvd's in the player and turning it on, putting socks and shoes on.
Its quite funny if we go to friends houses and she doesnt want to be there because she says ' go now, coat and shoes please'
It will be interesting to see if baby 2 will follow her or develop at a more laid back pace.

ps whats Marigold powder?

Marigold powder is boullion for making stock with, so probably pretty salty and not the sort of thing you are supposed to eat like that. It's a bit like breaking off a bit of a stock cube for her!

As for the socks and shoes thing - all of a sudden DD has got it into her head that she wants to dress herself. She can't. But gets very cross at even the slightest bit of help. Argh! Yesterday she had a the most major tantrum yet. She started downstairs in M&S where I was buying the kids dressing gowns because she wanted carrying and I said either walk or pushchair. Anyway it carried on all the way upstairs and through the car park and 20 minute drive to Ikea and right through Ikea to the cafe. She even sat herself down on the floor in M&S and refused to budge while DS and I stood by the lift. When she found herself surrounded by concerned elderly ladies who assumed that to make so much fuss she must have been abandoned she decide to get up and come trotting over to me screaming all the while.

Anybody else faced with the joy that is Broken Food at the moment? DS goes MAD if I snap a biscuit in two, taint his yoghurt by sticking the spoon in, or cause disruption to his food in any way. DD did this a little bit but DS is really going for it!
We were in M&S the other day and DS leaned over a double buggy with sleeping twins in it and shouted "Wake Up Babies!" really loudly. Luckily they didn't or else he would have been in trouble (mum was looking a little tired!)

My two insist having a smear of margarine on their fingers when I make their sandwiches. Don't know why they think this is such a treat, but anything for a quiet life.....

So what is it about M&S then Judd? We have a touch of the broken food atm but mainly related to bananas so not too bad. DS was awful - he complained that his rice was broken. DD is capable of major offence though if you do something as simple as offer to help her so it can be a bit like treading on eggshells. Also she insists on eating with a fork rather than a spoon which is not always appropriate. And I must serve her food the same way as ours - so if our sausages are whole hers must be, if our potatoes are in skins hers must be etc.

LOL Judd - DD has also been known to help herself to the raw pastry that we have been making. And then do it again.

Top tip for broken food (well it's worked for us both times). At the first sign of wibbly lip syndrome, say in your brightest breeziest cheeriest voice without any wavering "don't worry, it all joins together again in your tummy!" - if you look slightly worried yourself that they're going to kick off on one it doesn't work. Ignore any tantrums that do ensue over broken food and it's a fad that soon passes

Now tantrums over toys & sharing - haven't cracked that one yet.

Dd has done 3 wees in her potty! am so proud i phoned my mum at 8-30 this morning just to tell her!
havent had the broken food thing yet, she still likes to have one for each hand, so we break biscuits etc.
she will insist on feeding herself all the time, and she likes to make everything into a sandwhich, beans, crisps, anything she has with bread!

Ah, five minutes to myself! Just come back from hospital (problem with my eyes - now even more so since the Dr squirted something into them and I have pupils like saucers .

Dd2 varies between wanting things whole (breadsticks which almost reach down to her knees but MUST remain whole or she screams until she gets a whole one) and bananas (which must be broken in half or she demands another one so she has one in each hand). She's also started insisting her food must look the same as ours - whole meat, gravy, potato skins and drinks in glasses, which is a bit more tricky.
Whenever she gets dressed she says "wewew!" (mock wolf whistle which Dh does when she wears something pretty) and insists on going over to dd1 and DH who also then have to say it.
She seems to be more of a tantrum queen than dd1, which I find strange as I'm used to a quiet toddler, but it doesn't really bother me.

We do not have broken food OR whole food tantrums.

We have sharing toy tantrums
shoes on tantrums
nappy change tantrums
mummy help me tantrums
correct cup tantrums

but biggest are def. the sharing toy tantrums. A friend who was round today says that it tails off by the time they get to four. FOUR!!!!

DD has taken a fancy to a large puffy velour heart pillow that the course leader for our parenting group left behind by mistake. She has to have it in bed with her nightly and in the morning the first thing she said to me was 'Mummy get le heart.' (she can't say 'the'.)It will have to be given back on the next workshop. But she loves it.

It bloody doesn't tail off when they're four... sorry to disappoint.

Ignoring potty training for the foreseeable too. Can't be arsed to do it until he's nearer 3 and practically begging to be grown up like his brother. ..

Hello! Are we all having a reunion?

Yes but when they're four you can say "right neither of you are having it" and stick it on top of the wardrobe. That's what I do. We went to my friends yesterday and DS and his friend (5 and 4) played quite well really. DD and her friend (just 2 and 21 months as you will realise!) were forever arguing over juice cups, pushchairs, babies, toy cars etc. But they really like being together. When DD woke up from her nap I said "do you want to go see X" and she broke into a big smile and said "yes X X" and even allowed me to put her warm coat on instead of the little jacket she wants to wear all the time.

We went to see a friend and her baby today and DD was not impressed when I held the baby, she laid the blanket in the moses basket and told me the baby had to go down. argghh how will I manage when its our baby.

It will be SO worth it in the long run Kbaby. I keep having to tell myself that. DD plays so intently nowadays, I love the idea of her having a playmate. Hope the newcomer shares her fondness for soft animals and little people. Short term, I am resigned to playing a degree of piggy in the middle.

How are you keeping anyway, preg-wise? Is it September you're due?

Hi spots, Im due the end of July i'll reach the half way mark next friday. Arent you and prufrock due sometime this month?
I know DD will always have an instant friend with a brother/sister and it will be good to see them play together when they are older but at the moment she is so possesive of me that I keep thinking the poor baby wont get much attention or if I do then DD will feel pushed out. I guess I have another 20 weeks to get her used to the idea.
How are you feeling anyway?

Ooh, postings getting few and far between.....

Took Dd2 to a birthday party on Sunday, just her and me for the first time - a neighbour who's little girl is in the same room at nursery was 2 last week. It was very sweet. There were four toddlers, all playing alongside but not with each other. At one point dd2, who spent the whole time wandering round, nosing in corners and moving things, went into the kitchen and came back dragging a 2 litre bottle of coke behind her - I don't think they believed me when I said she didn't know what it was. The birthday girl's mum had made a lovely lentil bake which dd2 promptly spat all over the floor.
Anyone's child eat egg? Mine won't touch the stuff, doesn't matter how I cook it.

Helsy - DD loves egg - scrambled, boiled, ommelettes, pancakes (made a real pig of herself on that one but I think it was the lemon and sugar that did it). She was the opposite when we had the same scenario in January. Neighbour's party, same room at nursery, DD's first invite without DS - she sat down at the table and quite happily ate all sorts of soft fruit (in a salad with jelly) that she totally rejects at home - red grapes, blueberries etc.

On the jealousy issue, the bad news is that my two are still like that now. DD is the worst and really tries to push DS away sometimes, however DS has worked out that it is a great way to wind DD up.

Ah well Bozza, she will eat yorkshire puddings and pancakes no problem but not omelette, scrambled, boiled, eggy bread, poached, nothing that tastes vaguely eggy. Funnily enough she also ate strawberries and raw carrot at this party, and she won't have either at home.

Dd1 (6) wants to play with all of dd2's toys - she says hers are all boring. I just let dd2 have some of her toys and she soon changes her mind (dd2 puts things in the bin a lot and we don't always notice ).

DD isnt that fussed on eggs and in fact thinking about it her diet has become worse as shes got older. She loves carrots and peas and eats them most meal times and leaves everything else, but my dad keeps giving her pop when shes with them on the weekends, ive told them not to and theyve tried diluted fruit juice but she wont touch it but funnily enough in our house she never has pop and quite happily drinks water or juice. Shes also become a tea addict and every morning has to have milky tea. All my good intentions about eating a healthy diet have gone out the window. What she eats at meal times is fine but its the snacks that have gone downhill. Oh and shes also started eating meat but then spitting it out ans eating it again urghh..

Eggs, dunno reallly. Snacks too, dunno about them either. DD's diet has become a blur. We are reasonably conscienscious and will attempt to limit pure sugar, weirdy additives and sick meat... but other than that we seem to do a lot of toast and peanut butter type events which turn into her main meal when we realise her appetite isn't good enough to cope with real meals. Still pancake crazy, if that counts as eggs. The odd scrambled one has passed through the net too. Here, now, on the subject of diet-you can tell me: I give DD toast with jam quite often. We stayed at a friend's who watched me spread the jam on and she said:'You give her JAM? You must be mad!!!' I thought this was a bit harsh! Who else is mad enough to give JAM???

Kbaby, both Ponka and I are due around April 5th. Don't other people's pg's pass quickly? My bump is fantastically neat and all is going well. We are reorganising the house this week. DD is in box heaven.