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.

On the contrary Helsy, am not doing sickness at all! would've been handy in a way, to have had some sort of signal... as it was I will have downed more units of alcohol than I ought to have done as the blastula was forming and will worry about that a while. Though DD, as honeymoon baby, survived a couple of champagne binges.

Sorry to hear about DD's bumps and sickness. Hope she recovers for your trip. (weekend forecast quite good btw!)

Georgina it sounds ... divine...

o
o
o

o

(picture of me drooling)

Congratulations Spots
I wouldn't worry to much about the alcohol that you've drunk. With dd1 I was 9 weeks along before I found out I was pregnant. Discovered I was pregnant between christmas and New Year and I'd been horribly horribly drunk on my christmas night out a couple of weeks before Dd1 is fine though.

You're not the first person and you certainly won't be the last to have had a good few drinks then discover that you're pregnant.

How is everyone else doing? Dd2 has calmed down a bit now. She's still clumsy but so far, touch wood, there haven't been anymore huge bumps,cuts,bangs. She still won't sit still for long but I'm hoping that will come in time, well I know it will eventually.

Yesterday we had our first day out of the holidays, quite bad really seeing as dd1 goes back to school in three weeks time. but with dh and I both working we don't often get a day off together so it's hard to fit in days away. Anyway we went to Edinburgh zoo and we had a brilliant time. It's built on a very steep hill, I'm hoping all that hiking up the hills have done wonders for my bum! Feeling quite good today wouldn't mind going back again next week and having another hike, lol Dd1 loves lions and of course where are they? right at the top of the hill! So we went to see the Lions then followed the hill down the other side then realised that we'd managed to miss the tigers and had to go all the way back up again, lol Dd2 was very impressed, every time she saw an animal she said "Miaow"? Everything is a miaow just now, no matter what it is, the doggy says miaow, the duck says miaow, you get the idea.

FIL is coming to visit next weekend, I think the plan is to go through to GLasgow to meet up with family there and have a get together, should be fun especially as Dh's granny hasn't met dd2 yet she's 14 months old and we've never managed to get to Glasgow to meet her great granny what awful parents we are Glasgow is only an hour away!

Nothing much else has been happening here really. Got another date through for the MMR but we're not going to that one going to wait a few more weeks. Dd1's birthday is in 2 weeks time as well, she'll be 8, trust me all you mums of one it goes really really fast.

ok, going for now talk again later

Linnet
x

Congratulations Spots. Thats lovely news.

I just put blueberries in a bowl and DD/I spoon/finger feed them into her mouth. Sometimes serve with ice-cream.

Haven't posted for a while - for me anyway - but seem to have been horrendously busy this week. I've been digging out a new border against the house wall in the front garden. Also had to have Thursday afternoon off to take DD to stay at her Grandma's. Was a bit anxious about that especially as DD was a bit clingy when we got there. Then DS had his grommets op yesterday and yes Spots it was a general. I thought I would be OK about it because it was his 4th op and grommets are pretty straight forward and quick but I didn't sleep very well Thursday night and then was totally exhausted Friday evening and went to bed and sleep at 8.15 pm so I think I must have been a bit tense. We had to be there at 7.30 am (so DS straight out of bed into the car at 10 to 7) but he didn't go down to theatre until 11 am (having not eaten or drunk from 6 pm night before) by which point he was getting fairly grumpy although he never once asked for anything to eat or drink. They managed to get the gas into his hand so didn't need the mask and when he came round instead of moaning, crying and throwing himself around like last time he was just pleasantly sleeping. Then he woke up and milked the situation a bit and got me to feed him 3 cups of squash, a slice of toast, a yoghurt and two mini muffins I'd made specially but then managed a pack of buttons on his own. By this point his hour was up and he was allowed to go home.

Today apart from the "whats that noise mummy" questions you wouldn't know anything had happened.

Feel like I ought to talk about DD because its her thread. She's fine not talking much although we do have "quack quack" added to her reportoire. Also sings the first bit of Amarillo (sha la etc). She spends most of her time following DS around at top speed carrying some random object. Got a black eye at nursery on Tuesday because she fell into the bolt on the gate (type that goes into the ground).

Hello everybody. Glad the operation went OK Bozza and DS is doing well. DD would quite happily be spoonfed her tea every day if I was willing to do it!
DS is also a high speed stalker, follows DD everywhere and it drives her mad! He chews on her Knex, opens her special bobbles box and tries to put them in her hair for her (I find that really cute - she hates it!), climbs up on the sofa next to her and tries to read books with her. We went over to Heaton Park in North Manchester today and he was racing around the animal area saying quack quack to everything he could. He was like a loose cannon, getting under everyone's feet and I wished I had a pair of reins with me to tether him a bit!

Bozza glad the op went ok. I for one have no problem with hearing about DS once in a while... family is just as relevant as anything else and I'm sure DD wouldn't mind!

My DD is listening to playgroup song CD. It has some of the songs we put on her holiday compilation, so she thinks the order of play will be the same. After ' wheels on the bus' she shouts 'pider! pider!' because Incey Wincey comes after it on the other one.

She does the actions to Incey Wincey hilariously. her rain coming down is totally all-encompassing and her spider is tiny and careful.

Hey spots! I've just seen that you are expecting Number 2!! Big congratulations!!

congratulations spots!!! i'd better get a move on. not really.

have been at my mum and dad's for the past week, and here until thurs. dd is being an angel and is so happy. she loves it here, running all over the place, not bothered whether i'm around or not, so quite a relaxing time for me really.

we have cancelled the hols to egypt. my mum was too scared to go, so fair enough. then i decided i didnt want to take dd there. it wasnt fair to put her at risk when she cant choose for herself. anyway, told mil this and she was very very angry. thinks we decided without her - not that we cancelled it before telling her our thoughts - but thinks we took the decision out of her hands. she could have still gone. shame she can't put dd first really. so, havent spoken to her for a few days. all this was relayed to me through dh. scared to see her.

glad the op went ok bozza.

i havent had an email re the meet-up. how many of us are going?

Oh Egypt that sounds like a classic with your MIL. I'm sure she'll understand in a way, esp. with dd in mind, just feels slighted as MILs so easily can!

Yeah Egypt I think Spots has probably got the measure of it re your MIL. Been busy sorting the kids outside toys out this morning with the help (not!) of DD while DH took DS to golf with his two sawn off golf clubs. Then took them to a birthday party this afternoon. DD was a nightmare, disappearing into the soft play at regular intervals and trying to walk down quite a high slide holding onto the netting. But she held her own at food time. Sat eating sausage, chips and beans with a full size fork quite happily (managed to get hold of a teaspoon for the beans) and ate more than any of the 4 year olds.

woheyyy spots! congratulationssssss - and welcome to the club!

ohmyohmyohmy - 9 weeks left!
finally managed to get a nice cot off ebay (still waiting for a few other things to drop into my basket )
i also started on sorting through ds' clothes!
WOW, has he got loads
poor girl all in blue(ish) - well, guess she doesn't care really!

pregnancy is going so far so good. had a little scare with very low B12, but that seems to be in the limit now *phewwww
besides that heartburn, headache, tight bump, no breath, tired - but i am allright

can't wait to get this over with!!!!!!

guess the big challenge is still ahead

oh and bozza: glad the op went well ))

Susi I can't believe that - 9 weeks, really??? coo-ee!

Thanks also Mrs D. by the way and hope you are feeling well yourself! Did I (lurk)gather you're moving? But not to Scotland. O well, good luck with that!

DD has found out how to climb onto sofas and chairs. This morning I put on her CD while I did housework and twice walked in on her reclining thoughtfully on the sof furnishings doing absolutely nothing, just listening to the music. Just like her dad! (tho he listens to much rowdier sounds.) The third time I walked in she was 'helping' wipe the floor - I had given her a cloth and some water and she was saying 'wipe,wipe' and splashing away.

It's like having a little window into her understanding of the world with all this talking. The water I had in my bowl was 'sea', the cogs in the arms of the corkscrew are 'flower', and four wheel drive cars are 'tractor'. Amazing to see these things through her eyes and the few things she knows about.

it just amazes me to hear them say words at all. she's still my little baby - how can she?!?! we have gained a great new set of words whilst being at my mum's, probably because my mum spends real quality time with her, including 'clock, ticktock, bird, tweettweet, bubbles, bath', a kind of 'arkark' sound for quack and 'ball'. (as i speak!)
oh and bumbum when she has done a poo! so that's handy. she's taken to getting the changing mat and carrying it across the floor. bless.

back home tomorrow then travelling to blackburn for a friend's wedding on fri morning with mil and fil [eeek]. dh is arriving in at manchester airport in the morning and will travel to the wedding, so i'll see him there. he's worried dd has forgotten him. bless.

dd got a bridesmaid's dress for my cousin's wedding in july. she looks so gorgeous. if you go into debenhams it is an ivory one, plain satin with a band around the waist with small embroidered leaves/flowers on in in gold and ties to a huge bow at the back.. trouble is the smallest size is 2yrs so its having to be shortened and i'm having to stuff cake down her for the next couple of months

i'll see if i can find it on the debs website, you have to see!

susi, i cant believe you are just 9 weeks away. good luck gal! xxx

here it is!

bootiful

Lovely Egypt. Try not to stress too much about the journey with the ILs - hopefully things will calm down a bit.

On the words front DD only has a few and they are very random:
Ben (beh)
dack dack (quack quack)but for all animals although particularly ducks
hiya (for arrivals and departures and the phone - very clear)
laa laa (for all the teletubbies of which she has Po and Tinkie Winkie but I believe there is a Laa laa at nursery)
Here your are - pronounced as one word

heartbreakingly cute frock Egypt... dab dab

dd's repertoire of words are not pronounced as spelled though!!! more luck, du, (duck) gock! (clock) etc...

so cute this eve. she was sitting on my mums lap after her bedtime bottle, half asleep, and was singing with me old macdonald. when you get to the appropriate part she sings 'eeeee yiiii eeeee ii eeee yiiiii eeee yiiiiii' ahhh

yes, 'wrong' words are so cute. Bumber = cucumber, tanda = panda, bappy = nappy!

No words here, I'm very jealous

Well okay, sort of words, but in his own very special language.

A sort of muffled 'mum' noise, but 'da' of various different intonations to mean various things and I know what they are most times too - so I guess he's getting the idea. 'Da' can mean daddy, a long drawn out 'daaaaaaaaaaaaaa' is his version of "ta" (copying the way I patronisingly say "ta" sternly when I try and take something off him ). We get an excited "DEE!" which is his word for peekaboo. We get it for peekaboo games and for lift the flap books and when ds1 is running in and out of rooms hiding from ds2. 'Baa' while doing the sign for duck is his generic animal response. 'Aaaaaaaaaaa' for anticipation (so if you're going aaaaaaa.... boo! or aaaaaaaaa ..... tickletickle! he anticipates and copies the aaa and even says 'aaaaaa' to get you to repeat) Oh, and a 'brmmm' noise for when he's pushing cars around. He's very "vocal" otherwise though, quite a range of different sounds, but nothing particularly meaningful that I can work out.

Very jealous of your quacks and hiyas

oh thank god .. no words here either

gobbles like a turkey and says mamamamamamama but that's about it

think its 2nd child syndrome???

Yes I do twiglett because DD only (to our knowledge ) started with la la yesterday and I know for a fact that she learned it at nursery not here. But when DH laid her down in her cot she got up and said la la and he gave her Po and she settled down and is cuddled up still with Po so we may have a bedtime buddy now - just incorrectly named. I forgot that DD can do boo but not sure she still can. again. DD also does "aah" for a cuddle and smacks her lips for a kiss and screams very impressively after rowing her boat. Although DS was also behind with his speech and it turned out to be glue ear so I hope I am not being complacent - second child syndrome again.

Got the day off tomorrow and we are going on the Mums and Toddlers trip to the Farm. It includes a guide (not much use to the toddlers) but might be good for DS and some of his best friends are also going and lunch. So DD will be pointing and quacking away and chasing the odd baby goat that always manages to escapre.

No proper words here either . . loads and loads of babbling with hand signals but nowt else. I heard a few coming through a few weeks ago but we were clearly being too pleased for him and so he stopped.

I get a nightly rollocking whilst washing the day's dishes from the stairgate though - that sets me straight!

I am moving out of this hellhole on the 31st! I need to juggle figures and will have to change my hours to part time though because of having to travel into work (such a joy to spend over an hour 50 mins on a bus for a journey that a car can do in 40 mins)

Ex-p is still with his floozy but I am now weirdly fine about it - probably because I know it won't last, he is too much like her ex and he doesn't like insecure neurotics.

Me? I have come a long way in 2 years and am feeling quite powerful about the whole singledom thing - the house I have found is clean, safe, (expensive! eek) and lovely - am now off to number crunch!

I wish I could acknowledge you all individually but I am pleased that you are all doing great xxxx (crikey! we are good aren't we?)

Libb - it's lovely to hear from you again. I hope your move goes really really well.
No proper words here either - gack gack with hand signal for quack, and a ba for baaaa (but he does it with a very short, clipped "a"). That's about it.
DS isn't really bothered about his toys at the moment, although will have a crack at other people's. Not sure if he's bored with them (CAN'T get any more, have got 18 month stuff in the loft for the appropriate time) or if he's just perfecting the old walking and hasn't really got time for them! Mind you, he's well and truly dissed his Hoopy The Hula toy in favour of DD's ELC wooden abacus with much smaller beads and 5 prongs to slot them on. He can do it quite well, although the temptation to pop one in his mouth is always quite strong....

Libb you have come a huge way in 2 years .. well done you .. you are such a strong lady and your DS is the luckiest baby in the world to have you as a role model

I second what Twiglett says - Libb so pleased that you've got a date for moving out at last! Things are really looking up, aren't they?

Twig: I'd agree about the 2nd child thing, except ds1 didn't speak until around 15 months either (and even then words came slowly). It's obviously a family trait