January 2009- toddlers turning 15mths and all that jazz (really just a new thread so DOG can fit it on her poncey iphone!)

[PatTheHammer]

Good enough for ya dog .

And sorry I do realise some are only turning 14 mths and some are nearly 16mths etc,etc......apologies!

All officially toddlers now though i think (well 120's H and HKZ's J are pulling up/taking steps now I think, think mostly everyone walking of some sort!) Scary thought!

Ahhh Moose the things I do to squeeze in a shower with 2 LO's and living alone. Your plan sounded fine to me

My DS is now in reins almost 24-7 when out and about as he is such a pickle

Glad school is finally recognising gluten probs too. Here's to hoping the week flies by, test done and back off gluten

Lenni - really hope things return to normal soon in your household

Well Moose I suppose one thing is if this 'gluten challenge' type thing has got you personal confirmation that it is gluten, and the school behind you - then I guess you have gained something. Poor lad, it must be awful for him to be struggling with all this stuff n his head. Poor all of you!

How long before you can go gluten free again?

I nearly always shower with dd2 roaming about, as she naps mainly with me t'is the oonly way!

Gawd Lenni! Poor you!

Haven't left the house today, I hate that. Meeting with a friend tomorrow though.

DD2 was a bit of a faff to get to bed. Tears and hot face. Her lips are red raw from all the licking and nervous stuff. She is tired, plain and simple. Of course she won't sleep in the car on outings, so she can never catch up Mum took her to the beach after school, she had fish and chips and an ice cream and built sand castles. So I really wish she could thnk and see that she has had a kick ass time and crying because she can't bring every teddy she owns to bed is a bit annoying!!!!!

She's just tired

Oh I give up working, I'll catch up a bit. There is too much to remember more than a page at a time anyway so I can do a page and then work again...

Tree - is good to have you back, work sounds stressful. DD2 sounds less stressful than when you left iyswim. Maybe you won't. The fb photo btw (save me typing in two places - lazy emoticon) is my two and my nephew. My nephew is the redhead.

I have a weeks extension on my dissertation, which expires a week on Friday so I am kind of doing both catching up and writing at the same time tonight so popping in and out. Will probably clock up about 20 posts all of which will not make sense as will be old news.

Moose - DS doesn't hold hands either. My nephew is a great handholder so walks with the pair of them usually start well and then DS makes a run for it in the wrong direction so I end up abandoning my nephew to retrieve him, by which time my nephew is sobbing through abandonment and I give up and trudge home with one tucked under each arm. I now just chase them around the garden. I tried reins for DS but he gave himself a real shiny bruise from having a (dare I say it) tantrum on them. He is getting so headstrong, the slightest thing and he is doing the old screaming and then peeking to check you are still looking routine. I keep telling him it is old news on me, if he'd been first baby he might have had more joy but he doesn't seem to be listening.

OK, best look like I am working for a while, DH loitering with intent.

I've had a lot of tantrums from DS on not liking reins but he's sloooowwwlllyyy adjusting to them

I'm just mean

He has just told Daddy that he feels sick all the time and like he has got butterflies fighting in his tummy. Poor little boy.

So easy to be compassionate when he's not in the room screaming at me.

He is hopefully having the bloods done next Tuesday. (Should have been Friday but would have delayed the results due to bank holiday so decided to give him a couple more days of full on gluten to try and get enough into him for a decent reading.)

Results should be a couple of days, but if they are negative or inconclusive he will have to stay on gluten for another month and be retested. To be honest though, if they come up as negative, I think we would just go straight back gluten free with him and treat him (diet wise) as if he is coeliac anyway. Really can't face another month of this.

Poor dd. Its horrible when little ones get so stressed about little things. I suppose they just don't have the perspective they need to see the positive side of things.

Oh the poor little man Moose

We had one of those little backpacks with a handle attached to it for the boys, but we never needed to use it. Will defintiely have to dig it out for dd though. I have a feeling that wrist straps and reins would be seriously disputed, but with the backpacks they don't seem to notice you have them, especially if you get them to help you put a couple of little things in it first, as they are so proud of themselves for carrying the backpack themselves.

They only did two types when we bought ours, but they seem to do lots of different designs these days.

We have one of these in red but without the litte picture on.

The new ones are here.

Yes to those back packs - dd2 will tolerate those. So long as it in no way hinders her masterplan. Be that headin into the road or nearest bush.

Moose - big Amen to the compassion when they aren't there in front of us being hard bloody work. Am now feeling sad for dd1 who is just tired. At the time could have fairly throttled her, which she can sense. I just kept repeatng 'love you' but I guess my body language gave me away

You are nearly there, not tooo long now. I seem to think the withdrawal you did first time saw a brief escalation but then great results quite quickly? When can you look forward to your boy back?

Fingers crossed for a big fat positive.

Good luck and concentration vibes to you Lenni. Much respect!

Am sorting out that corner of your house where the paper work gets slung. Finding all the paperwork from the job centre and all that shte from when dd2 was tiny. P45's and insurance claim forms and mortgage statements and all the debris of our life collapse and trauma.
More trauma comng, our tax credits are based on a pay assumpton that bears lttle reality to rl I fear. I think we will end up owng them, let alone getiing funds
We haven't heard yet, has anyone else had their renewal pack?

Hello Ladies, too many posts to catch up on. I guess its been a few days since being on. Sorry, this is a me post, albeit a little hilarious too.

I ran my 10 k at 1:07:04! I'm so impressed with that, it being my very first race! I kept a steady pace all the way. It was actually really fun. The overall winner did it in less than 30 minutes. Half Marathon, here I come!

This post is about my crazy ass family. I stopped talking to my mother in 2004, and spammed her email so to stop the harassing emails she was sending me. This past weekend, she has moved in with my middle sister, (MS), her husband and their two children, 9 and 11. Saturday morning, my little sister, (LS) posted a funny comment about procrastinators, which I responded, "Its a fine art...blah" and her friend also said the same, adding a coincidental remark. We all laughed. Then my mother, logged on as MS, publicly berated LS on her page about the OP and berates LS's friend, whom she doesn't know. I text LS to tell her she should erase it but she wasn't near a computer at the moment. I text MS and said 'don't be that person that lets their mom use their profile to harass other siblings', and a whole can of shit came out! In the end I had to block MS because she said she logged mom on and went for a shower and I cannot have her accessing my life or being in a position where she can contact me directly. I had to ring MS to explain why but she just yelled incoherently to me and said have a nice life kind of stuff. I rang her back and left a calm message that explained simply why she needed to respect my reasons. Later the same day, I get an email from MS, But it is actually mom posing as MS! That's twisted! I laughed so bloody hard. (It was the Easter letter all over again!) I had to respond but I did from a good place. I went through every single sentence and commented on each; untrue, I don't know so no comment, where do you get these notions... I started out by saying I knew it wasn't MS. It was evident. I ended saying I would contact my lawyer if she ever contacted me again. She emailed back, with a wee bit looser language, but just ragged about the same old bull. I rang my MS this morning, and after she screamed and screamed at me with mom in the background nattering at her, she hung up on me. 2 minutes later she rang back and I answered, jokingly, 'Are you going to start harassing me by phone now?' She was much calmer and we sorted it, I telling her how much I love her and have no intention of stopping talking to her, its just mom, blah blah blah, I won't bore you all with the details. She admitted it was mom too, after screaming a few minutes before that it most definitely was herself. Holy crap, my family is fucked to say the least. I'm thinking I should ring Dr. Phil for them, because the antics are hilarious to watch now that I am hovering between inside and out of this weirdness. Anyhow, its all a laugh to me, I'm ok with it. I told MS that I am there for her when she needs me. Its going to be tough on her and her family.

x-post chef. Whew!! Families, can't live with 'em, can't live without ...er......with em.

Well done on being so calm and impartial!

Chef, well done on your run. I am exhausted just thinking about it.

As for your family, we have similar shenanigans going on on my side of the family and it seriously does my head in on occasion. I have to admit, one of our reasons for not being on FB is that we don't want to be that contactable or 'watched' iykwim. I think you handled it all admirably and you do an amazing job of not letting your mother get to you.

Tree. You're right, there will be a period of withdrawal, which I think might be worse this time as he is on at least 3 meals of gluten a day, plus gluten filled snacks at the moment. The withdrawal will hit him pretty much straight away and can go on for a few weeks, but we are hoping he will be improving by the time a month is out. Because the gluten proteins cross the blood brain barrier, they have a similar effect on the brain to morphine and therefore the withdrawal is nasty to put it mildly. We thought he would find it harder to go gf this time after being allowed all the foods he likes, but he says he can't wait to stop eating it now, so he can feel better and stop getting into trouble.

Well done on completing your run chef!

Can't believe everything you've typed about your family conundrums Well done for keeping cool. I'm not sure I'd have been able to in the circumstances!

good time chef! Congratulations. The running must help you keep calm through the family turbulence. Glad you managed to sort it out with your DMS

It's a great time - well done chef!

morning Tree!

Hello dear! Have joined you on the siblng thread.

hopefully we can all support each other through the toddler coming of age..

mm - it must be hard!!
ds sounds so cute
how old is she?
bracken is 15 mnths and the complete oposite of her sister doesnt sit still

chef - your family sounds stressful
hope u r all having a good day

i ordered dd2 from elc online activity ball table and a wooden puzzle and popped into elc and bought 2 sets of happyland people were half price she luvs them got farm animals and bday set.

enjoyed sing and sign too

Have spoken to the hospital. Appointment booked for ds to have his blood test next Tuesday at 2.30 pm. Feel a bit more positive now I know exactly when its going to happen.

Am still sat here worrying about how he's getting on at school today though.

Dd is currently walking round the room with a pair of stripey leggings on her head and spotty legwarmers on her arms. At least I have her here to distract me from fretting and make me laugh!

Tink, not sure if that question was for me or not. Dd was 15 months on April 15th.

Dd loves her brothers' old ELC Planet Protector figures. She particularly loves Ice (he protects the arctic - apparently ). She also has a strange affection for the mega block fella.

I think I have finally sussed that all the night wakings of the past couple of weeks have been down to a developmental leap. She has now slept through for three nights in a row and is suddenly quite different. Can't quite put my finger on it, but she is more toddlery and less babyish, seems to understand a lot more and has started to do more complex things and try a lot harder to articulate words correctly.

She's can't do this to me! I don't want her to grow up, she's my last baby!

it was for you mm

glad u have date for appmnt must be a relief

my dd2 is growing up as well

moose I think H has done the same (though still getting night wakings from 12-2 most nights). I'm not sure but it sounds like he is trying to say 3 word sentences, which I can't quite believe. DD was pretty precocious and I don't think she was doing it this early so not really sure if he is just repeating, but it's not straight after we've said it.

He also keeps going off in very cute little strops. He'll shout at me and stamp a bit, then wander off into another room for a second or two, still shouting. Then come back and shout a bit more! After that he seems to have worked it off. Want to video it but think it might be a bit mean.

H is in her cot and has laid down and is just lying there. I'm sat on bed wondering what strange fate is this?

SHe had a screaming fit on my chest so I flung gently placed on her sheepskin in the cot.

Poor DD1 just in from school and abandoned downstairs

Hi everyone.

Great news about appointment Moose.

Yay Tink for the bargains. We like bargains

120, dd is definitely doing the three word thing. We've had 'Daddy at work', 'want in there' and 'Boo want down'. As you can tell, there is a bit of a theme developing involving telling me what to do! We also have lots of two word statements and demands 'want mook', 'Boo book', 'poor Boo', 'Daddy there' 'Gaga there'. I shouldn't be surprised, both boys were bossy at a young age early talkers as well.

Tree, how long did it she last? Here's hoping she had decided her cot is the place to be and she'd like to spend more time there.

Such fun these litte strops they all seem to be having at the moment aren't they?

Meanswhile in the Moosey household, dd has been screaming the place down because Mummy was doing homework with her brothers rather than playing with her. Never mind that Grandma was sat in the same room as her, trying her best to occupy her with books, toys and various items of food and drink. Little madam, she wasn't going to be satisfied until I had her in with us in her high chair and I wasn't backing down. Twas especially pleasant when I had screaming in stereo, while ds1 had his usual meltdown about having to practise his spellings.

Still, dd is now asleep (great timing, she'll be awake until 9 now) and the boys are having Nintendo time, so calm has been restored. I have just been summoned to look at ds2's tallest ever MegaBloks tower and then I have to cook tea, but at least I can do it in peace.

Moose - it lasted time it took to post message and refresh

Afraid I then thought 'sod it' and left her to it. SHe screamed and gave holy hell for about 20 mins and finally dropped off. So I now have dd1 in bed, fed, and dd2 up out of bed, n ot fed.

Hoping dd1 will drop off quckly, she is zoned out tired. SHe is currently lying wearing her swimming goggles talking to a toy dog

I need to eat and go to bed - work in the moring 8-8.15 and I'm sleep deprived. Last night not great really. Disaster in fact.

H can say 'heyow' for hello and is starting to do 'unnn' and 'woooo' counting her arms into her cardi. Very cute. Amazing to hear of these 3 word wonders!

Have M&S lasagne for adult tea as too tired to care that it cost £4.99. £4.99!!!! Have a massive pile of ironing Wonder if can find motivation and half hour to get it tucked away so Thursday can be all mine

mmm. love m&s lasagne. and their canneloni.

the counting is very cute! am meeting the midwives tomorrow, so shall be thinking of you!

H asleep and DD in bath being supervised by DP. They both ate a massive supper, so am hoping for a good night. we shall see.

Work over for the week now, so all I have to do is organise for the 100 3" silver postal tubes I bought for my business to be taken back to the wholesaler, and a different hundred silver tubes to be specially made and re-delivered to me. simple really, but an expensive mistake!

Am still trying to plan this ruddy party and buy presents and favours. Think I'm now going to baker ross it.