October 08 - Got ourselves some crying, talking, sleeping (sometimes!) walking, living dolls.

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Well somebody better start the new thread, so might as well be me!

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for the child being raised by 5 year old brother, pepper

Maybe we don't give him a chance or a reason to talk.... since we're always talking to/for/with him. He sees no reason to talk himself?
I just realized that my "maybe he can't hear us" idea is totally not possible.... because he can understand what we say and follow instructions... so he can hear us... but I think maybe it's jumbled and not quite properly heard... because what comes out it so weird. like his attempt at "moo".

OK, will stop obsessing about this now... sorry for taking up so much of the thread with this nonsense!!!

You don't sound crazy star, just like a first time parent, which of course you are!
If Q can point to parts of his body for other people then he can do it, and is just being difficult for you . D wouldn't be able to point to body parts for anyone I'm pretty sure. He can point out mummy and daddy and dd, and can point to what he wants, or where he's been, and answer us clearly with nods or shakes of his head, and he's quite content with that for now. It's not that we don't give him a chance to talk, or a reason to talk - he just isn't ready to yet. But he will in his own good time, and then he might be like dd was and increase his vocab really quickly so that he overtakes all those early talkers by miles!

Oh star - have you read the thread about insulting Americans? I'm sure you will have something to say about it once you have finished laughing at the thread!

Ah yes, DD wouldn't have a clue about body parts because I don't think I've actaully told her any bits.... except her nose, when there was a conversation on here about it .
Though she can ALWAYS locate "shoes" but that's probably a girl thing !

haven't seen that thread! Will look around.
Pepper - Q knows his shoes, too... maybe he's really quite feminine after all

Star - I honestly think you shouldn't worry at this stage. I've got a friend whose ds - like Q - is very advanced physically but not saying any words yet. Also, like Q, he's got good receptive language. Anyway, my friend was talking to a speech therapist at one of the children's centres who said she shouldn't worry unless they get to two and still aren't talking. But, she gave a suggestion of something that you could try. Basically, spend 10 minutes a day doing an activity with your child when all you do is name things, so for example you just say "book", "car", "ball" etc and nothing else. Resist the temptation to embellish the sentence with something like "the ball's really bouncy" and just stick with naming the things over and over. Then, when the child is saying the word you can do the same but say something like "green car". Obviously, the rest of the time you just talk normally! Oh and she said not to keep saying "what's this?" to your child. (I've no idea if you do this.) That's just testing them and if they want to say it, they'll say it anyway. If you want to tell them, just tell them.

I've not tried any of this but thought you might want to feel like you're doing something and it might appeal to the teacher in you! But, I repeat, she did say not to worry!!

LOL pistachio!
DD has a very useful word at the moment - "bee-bee" this, i have discovered, means Biscuit, CBeebies and Book! How economical!

Oh, ds does know his body parts after all. He managed to point out his feet, tummy, nose, head and knees earlier .

I keep asking "what's that?" too, Pistachio. It's really difficult not to. S is another one for multi-purpose words. "Bar" is car, sheep and blueberries, grapes or strawberries.

I'm off to a surprise 40th party this evening in Soho, so very trendy. I feel like a real dowdy cow in my usual knitted dress and boots but I've got nothing else. I'm very tired and not really in a party mood (S has been sprouting lots of teeth suddenly and keeping us up in the process). Am hoping that a couple of glasses of something fizzy will perk me up.

Have fun, aubergenie! Thanks for the tip. I can't imagine a whole 10 minutes of just one word utterances... sounds like it would help but I can't bring myself to not speak words in their authentic context at at least some point in 10 minutes. That's hard!
Q has been saying "birds" all day now... just to make me look silly and sounds more like birds than boyts now, thankfully. He also said "cheeeee" for cheese a bunch of times. Then, we were reading Just Like Mr. Croc and he clearly pointed to his eyes and said "eyes". He must sense my worry .
Watch... tomorrow he'll just grunt and cry. lol.

Loving the economy of talk, pepper. I'm sure if Q can figure that out he'd love that idea.

ROFL at the hand gesture pistachio.

myjob that is so cute about the eye rolling!

who was it who said they were scared of moondog before? Was that 50ft? I've read some of her posts of late... just out of curiosity because I figured I'd be frightened of her, too. I have found that a lot of the time, she is just blunt with her words, sometimes bang out of order and doesn't seem to care what anyone else thinks. Don't let her scare you.

I just realized that there are loads of chocolate eggs in shops but no chocolate easter bunnies, other than the lindt bunny. In America, it's a chocolate shaped like a big bunny (hollow or solid, big or small depending on how much you want to spend...etc). They usually come in a box, much like the "eggs" here. Has it always been chocolate eggs?

Like I said before I remember as a child, we had a chocolate bunny and our painted boiled eggs on some easter grass in a basket when I was little...
Not sure why this is hitting me now... I guess I never even bothered to look at the easter aisle while in the UK before this year! lol

I hope everyone is having a nice day

DH has taken Q to the park... after I entertained Q from 6-9 while dh had his lie in.

Q has obviously been reading this thread Star and decided to put an end to your worry.

I've been nursing a slight hangover all day. The party I went to last night was in a private members' club where the staff hover over you filling up your glass all the time so I've got absolutely no idea how much I drank but dp said I stank of booze when I got into bed. Anyway, it was fun and lovely to catch up with loads of people I've not seen for ages.

We seem to have ended up with quite a lot of chocolate even though we weren't goingto bother this year. I bought S a small chocolate egg (about the size of a real egg). I know he doesn't need one at all but I couldn't resist. Then we went to the park and they were having an Easter egg hunt so we won a smarties egg as well. Then my sister gave me a Green and Blacks egg that her husband didn't want. Yum!

I'm making a sourdough starter today. I've got to keep feeding it for about a week before I can make the loaf. I can't wait!

Q has a swollen penis. It's quite red and swollen and hurts to touch. He's fine otherwise and has done a wee and poo and all normal colours...etc. But very very swollen and hurt when I lightly touched it when changing nappy and he would touch it ever so lightly and wince (he usually stretches it and pulls it when nappy-free...)

Thoughts? Of course I've called nhs direct and got a nurse call back and awaiting dr callback now... ugh.

star - DS2 has had that, it's quite common but he needed antibiotics for it. I think it's either a cream or penicillin. Can't for the life of me remember what it was called...

Thanks, pepper. Can he live with it through the night, then? Still haven't had call back from dr and have just put him to bed in the end... I'm going to bed soon and hoping we don't have to go anywhere tonight.

oh, yes! The doc didn't even see DS2, he prescribed over the phone. At the risk of TMI, does he have a discharge?
balanitis?? is that what it's called??

No discharge. He had a normal wee and a normal poo (both while nappy-free ). But the swelling did not go down. We put him in a warm bath to see if that would help... it didn't. He's sound asleep now... OOH dr still has not rung us back.

Is tomorrow a bank holiday, too? I'm thinking I could just take him to the gp surgery first thing in the morning.... at this point not sure there's any point going anywhere tonight if it's nothing horrible.

Tomorrow is a bank holiday star, yes.

Pistachio - I hope you get your share of chocolate today
Aubergenie - sounds like a good night out! I hope you got some rest today.
Pepper - thanks for the quick advice!! I love MN!

damn it. All of these bank holidays!