April 2009 - Episode 13 - 'I've been looking for the exit for months!'

[Schulte]

Fanjo Warriors, here we are

Yeah, I can't imagine feeling that rough and dealing with a toddler. I think that would actually stop me getting pregnant now (deliberately, at least! Choice didn't come into it last time!) even if my circumstances were otherwise right (including a suitable bloke). When I had a sickness bug, George was climbing over my back while I was hugging the toilet. Months of that would not be enjoyable. I have massive respect for those of you who're managing it x

Moo's pretty good abt the being sick bits. She's run to get me a tissue and tends to pat my back when I'm at the toilet (though she does ask, 'why mommin tow up again?') And the time I had to throw up in the middle of changing one of the most disgusting, smelly, nappy she's ever had she just laid there, 'Meg wait, wait wait wait...Mommin where are you? Meg wait wait wait...you tow up again Mommin?') I told her she was a very good girl and gave her lots of cuddles for staying put.

Blimey Bebe, that is very articulate.
Best Felix can manage is "Where is it?" as a sentence. I hope he doesn't need speech therapy like DS2 as that was £500+ and a lot of effort driving aorund Cambridgeshire.

Bron, that did make me laff.

Doughnut, are you bringing doughnuts or are you just messing with us??

Hello I found you! Trying to work out what's going but distracted by baby in bath armed with lots of squirting dinosaurs (yeah thanks for those Father Christmas)

She is articulate at moments. (usually mornings are better for her) There are certain phrases she knows 'Mommin where are you?' and 'Wait wait wait' 'Tow up' is a new one (perhaps because I tell her not to jump around on the bed/couch when I'm trying to lay down for a minute because 'I might throw up' or 'I'm trying not throw up')
She's quite shy around strangers tho and won't say her name or anything really besides 'daddy.'

But every morning we lay in bed and I ask her what she dreamt about and she babbles nonsense at me. And I respond as much as I can. When she gets screamy I tell her I cannot understand her and to use her words. And when she is whiny and mumbles I tell her I cannot understand her and she needs to talk more clearly. It's the way my mother did it with us so I've just been copying her...

She's incredible Bebe! Basti says Mummy and does a few animal noises (woof, quack, roar) and that is absolutely it.

well she's only just learned how to make towers from blocks... and she throws fits when she tries to play with her shape sorter or do puzzles because the pieces don't fit... so advanced in some ways perhaps and not in others...
(but thanks you all make me very proud of her- you don't know sometimes where you're children excel when you mostly just spend time together and don't see other kids their age -all our friends have older kids-)

Basti is obsessed by shape sorters. They are obviously wired in opposite ways. Interesting!

:) yes even watching her with her cousins over the holiday we saw how different she was from them. She likes playing and running around for a while, but then she really loved it when I brought out her little doll house and she could play quietly by herself. Each child is so lovely and unique. It's a pleasure to watch them growing and learning things. :)

Izy manages set sounds for his siblings. Minma for Nia etc. his latest favourite is didder (digger) which is an obsession. No sentences though. Megs amazingly articulate on videos you have posted.

I'll do s post on fanjos

Just popping in to say Boff and Bronze - thinking of your poor DH's friend Boff and your friend Bronze.

Am now heading over to FB to see Bronze's thread - another

Huge hugs to all FWs in need of them x x x

Felix ("Heeks" he calls himself) has a range of noises. Funniest are 'Moo' as a high pitched noise for a cow, 'Poo' with same inflextion for a poo (unsurprisingly) and a cough thing for anything related to Dr Who or daleks. Oh, and a very polite 'roar' for dinosaurs. Funniest word is still 'buggerbuggerbugger' for bottle, although the other day he stopped, thought for a moment, and said 'bottabotta', which actually made me quite .

Aaah 'polite roar'.

Sorry it was so grim Boff. And sorry about whingeing on my post, I felt crap as soon as I clicked on post message.

Very sorry to hear about your bad news, Bronze. Hang in there...

Shame about the sickness, bebe. I've had d&v and spent yesterday with both boys at home It was grim, so I sympathise.

A says "bonjour", "au revoir", "bye bye", "ee-aa" for DS1, "papa" and "daddy" for DH and calls me "mama", "ma", "mum" and "mummy", which makes me feel I have a multiple personality disorder at times. He says the names of the kids at the CM's, too. And "apple". His only sentence so far is "ee-aa dodo" (DS1 sleeping).

He has a fine line in senseless babble, which DS1 never did. At the moment he keeps saying "Robert" (in French, not English) mid-babble. Maybe because that is the Dr's name, Dr Robert.
DH is starting to look like this , though, wondering who the mysterious Robert that plays so major a part in A's life can be.

As if I had the time/energy for an affair....

(schulte, I will try and post about OPOL when my brain is a little less dead. The d&v has done for me).

Good morning

I hope today finds you all well.

Did anyone see that thread about sharks in the streets of Brisbane? And "water teeming with snakes". Eek.

Ha ha Auld. When Ellen was just two she told DH that Mummy has a boyfriend and goes to the pub when he is at work.

My DD told people I was an alcoholic at one stage. As I drink about a glass of wine a week in a good week, this wasn't taken very seriously!

Yes but how many vodkas Boff?

Hahaha -maybe we should go to the pub when they are at work. I'm with Auld on the lack of energy for an affair though

:) lol I cannot 'wait' for such utterances from my child.

Flat hunting in Germany via translated websites. So many lovely places, but the commission!! :(

Super. Let's drop the girls at nursery then get on it. We can turn up at home time smelling like Patsy & Edina.

Cool. There's that pub across the road that looks like a but of a dive, and conveniently located right by the road so the little ones can play in the traffic.

Bugger! Just realised you get to be Patsy - being all svelte and properly blonde. Leaving me to be Eddie.

Sorry to interrupt your banter, but I need your wisdom.

Bumped into my former neighbour when dropping DS1 off at school this morning. Her husband has been having an affair for some time and she found out recently. They have 3 DC (9,5 and 2). I didn't get much info through her tears, and made endless offers of help, but feel useless.

I have half a chocolate cake, made yesterday, in a tin. Is it cheapskate to give it to her for her and her DC the evening? I've no time to make anything today... Would half a chocolate cake be a crappy gesture or better than nothing?

I think that would be a lovely gesture. I'm sure she would appreciate it enormously. She's got 3 children so she'll understand that you didn't have time to whip up a whole new cake.