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Awwww I don't get to meet Dr T :( Booo!
Why does Qld have to be so darn LARGE! :p
Well this morning DS had a tanty because I wouldn't give him toast. I had toast there and I was going to give it to him in the car, like we always do on the way to child care. But no he decided he needed it as we were putting shoes on ready to go. Tanty. :rolleyes:
Hi Guys, how is everyone?? Hows everyones kiddos?? I have been so incredibly busy, but thought I would pop back in. Miss Ayva has goten so big now .. It's crazy how fast time goes. Her and Aiden get along pretty good, but if she touches his trains (which he organises in a perfect row) he goes nuts, then, she notices his reaction so she hits the rest of them .. She has definitely got a big temper and is very cheeky, so opposite to my little man lol .. I've uploaded new photos of them in my albums :) She is still breatfeeding as well, and 20 months, is anyone else? Its still the only way to get her to sleep .. :) ... Also, Aiden is betting checked for aspergers. A friend of mine works in mentl health, and he has picked up on a lot of the things he does.. I don't see it as a bad thing though, he started pre-school a few weeks ago and they told me he's the smartest kid there :) Made me feel very proud :) He goes ok there because my dad works at the school he goes to preschool at :)
Anyway, just thought I'd pop in and say hi. Fill me in on whats been happening! lol .. Hope your all well x
Hey M2A!! long time no see. Great to hear that your two littlies are going well. I still breast feed B as well, but only at night. He's dropped all the other feeds himself. I definitely take advantage of 'boob juice' time though to get him down to sleep at night :lol:
I'm going to have to go have a look at your albums. I'm keen to see how big they've both gotten.
I don't think I'd see aspergers as a bad thing either, she says totally different to autistic children. My mum works with a lot of kids with 'learning disabilities' (for whatever reason they tend to class aspergers in there) and she reckons they are really good to work with. The hardest part is to keep them interested by providing them with things that are challenging for them. That if they get bored, that's when the whole 'learning disability' thing begins.
My other news….we're expecting #2 in September. Super excited. We've been talking to B about it a lot, and every chance I get I point out babies to him and then say that there's a baby in mummy's belly. Now every night before he goes to bed he gives daddy a cuddle and kiss, mummy a cuddle and kiss and baby a cuddle and kiss (it's SOOOO CUTE) before he snuggles up for his boob juice.
Omg, Congrats!! I should have notced by your ticker! lol .. Ayva feeds a lot. She is right now. She feeds every hour, i swear lol .. Aiden likes to stick to the same thing, he will sit there and organise his trains for hours if noone interupts him. And did you watch xfactor on tv last year? There was a guy on there called luke odell who sang his own made up song called "introvert extrovert" .. well Aiden will sit there and sing "introvert extrovert doesn't matter" over and over again .. just those 4 words lol .. But he's such a good kid. He loves learning stuff, and he makes numbers and shapes out of his body, like for 4 he puts one leg up while hes standing, he can do a bunch of others though. :)
Thats so cute how he kisses your belly :) Can't believe how big our babies are getting :) Glad to hear your well :)
M2A - It must be so cute/funny to watch Aiden making numbers and shapes out of his body. I've been sitting here trying to imagine what some of the other numbers might look like.
Sounds like Ayva still feeds quite a lot. B dropped 2 feeds at 6 months. Then another two by 11 months (so was down to basically just overnight) and he's recently dropped a whole heap of overnight feeds. He had been having one for bed, and then waking up 2-3 times a night for a feed as well but for the last 3 weeks or so it's just been his bedtime feed and MAYBE one other during the night, but usually just his bedtime one. It's kind of sad, but kind of good at the same time ITMS?
On a completely different topic…..do you still live in/near Ulladulla? There is a small chance I might be going down to visit a friend who will be home from England for her Grandmothers birthday. Feb I think.
I live in Orange, out in the central west :) .. My mum lives in Ulladulla :) ..
So far out of his fingers he makes c,d,x,y,1,v,a, 7 & h. Out of his legs he does a & 4. We got 2 chickens and he named them chugger and 8 lol .. He loves trains and he loves numbers. 2 of his teddy bears are named 6 & 7.. I tried to get a video of him doing his letters and numbers but he gets shy lol .. Though here is a video of him singing introvert extrovert More of my little man Aiden. - YouTube
Ayva never really had any set feeds, it was just on demand. Ayva feeds at least 10 times a day. Though she goes all night without one :) I know what you mean, its a lot easier when they feed less, but sad because it means they're growing up ;( ..
If my memory is right, you have fish right? Or at least, you used to? Well, we started up a tank agan, we got guppies.. The fancy kind :) .. And we have only had them a little under 2 months and we already have 14 fry, and the same female is about to drop again as I can see all the fry eyes in her belly. Exciting! lol .. Instead of the crazy cat lady I'm turning into the crazy fish lady lol
Hello mummy2aiden! Good to hear from you! Aiden is such a cutie, I checked out your youtube videos. I'm interested in the aspergers thing, both DH have it in our recent family histories. I'm so in awe that Ayva breast feeds that many times a day. Trav still has a comfort suck once or twice most days, I doubt he gets more than half a teaspoon of milk out though!
OP - It was great to meet you and your littlies on Monday. I hope you enjoyed the rest of your holiday!
AFU - Travis has really gone through a developmental growth spurt the last couple of weeks. I think I mentioned he went through a months-long phase of calling all numbers and letters "eight". Then all numbers were nine but that was only for a couple of weeks. Now he sort of counts to six - "one, chew, ree, or, ive, ick". I'll say "seven" then he'll say "eight". It's so cute! He's starting saying "ane" when a plane goes over instead of just "wow". :lol: and he's generally saying lots more. It's a relief more than anything. I've found this parenthood thing so challenging, not knowing what's the cause of T's frustrations!
Hi Dr Tal and everyone else!
Hi ladies,
Emma - so lovely to meet you on Monday! Mr T is a cheeky little monkey - so very cute but an adventurous little boy hey! My mum loved when all the kiddies went across and had a little picnic - I think T was there too hey? Was very cute :D thank you for making the trek to meet up, I really appreciated it!
So glad his speech is improving. I've got a friend IRL who's DS is only a week younger than X and he says even less than T. She's trying not to worry about it til he's two... I reckon they all just develop at different rates.
X, as you may have seen, is a veritable chatterbox. Pretty much can't shut him up these days :lol:
M2A - nice to hear from you!! Sounds like you guys are going well! Impressed that Ayva still feeds so much, that's awesome :)
Hi to everyone else!!
It's been aaages since anyone's posted! I wonder what's happening with everyone? Don't have time to stalk unfortunately!
AFU, T has figured out how to jump with both feet on the trampoline, so his olympic journey has begun. :rofl: His speech is still coming along. DH swears he heard T say, "My apple is gone" on Saturday. The "is" part surprised me... I think it was a hearing mistake. :)
Hope all is well with my baby buddies!
Hi EJ! Yes, it has been ages since anyone posted!
Not much happening in our part of the world. X has really changed in the last few weeks, we went away for Easter and he has turned into a real little boy - he went fishing with DH twice and just loved it. He can now say "Mummy, caught fishy! In the water!" it is very cute. And he has moved on from saying "mm-hmm!" to actually saying "Yes." Complete with a definite nod. Like yes, there is no other option.
He still has his little tanties - I'm trying really hard to be patient and tell him to use his words instead of crying, which sometimes works.
We are in the process of cleaning out the spare room to make it ready for the little man to move in, which will involve a big boy bed. Scary!
Our babies are growing up - almost 2 now!
We have been particularly quiet in here of late…even for us….haven't we?
Emma - How cute that T jumps on a trampoline. I had B on one at a friends place the other day and he didn't want a bar of it….which surprised me because he loves to jump. He jumps all the time, on the floor, and also off anything and everything he can climb onto (which often gives me a bit of a heart attack and sends me racing trying to catch him :o )
I had to laugh at your hearing mistake. DH is constantly filling in words for B. Telling me he heard him say this or that. Like he holds up his finger and says I back for I'll be back, but whenever DH relates it he ALWAYS says he head B say I'll be back.
OceanPrincess - Fishing huh? Too cute. I should get poppy to take B fishing. I think he'd really like it. B still doesn’t say yes….at all. Not even a mm-hmmm. We get a head nod most of the time, be he occasionally mixes it up with a no shake head. But he can DEFINITELY say no. and he gets quite indignant about it at times too if you ask him if he wants something and miss what he says the first time and ask him again.
AFU - B LOVES to help his daddy 'fix' things. It's so funny to watch him crawl all over and around DH and hand him tools (and drop them on his head) as he desperately tries to help him work on the car, mower, bike, whipper snipper, air compressor….you name it. He'll often grab a screw driver or spanner and wander out to the ute to try to take the nuts off the tyre or do some other type of 'maintenance'.
He's also fallen in love with Thomas the Tank Engine. I had a work colleague give me a heap of his sons old toys, including about 6 metres of train track, a huge Thomas carry thing (which doubles as a train station that the track can run through) 5 motorized trains and a dozen or so train cars/carriages. And well, lets just say I've done nothing but play with trains for the last two weeks straight! :o
Sitting here on the lounge room floor sharing my laptop with T, who's on the potty next to me watching fire trucks on youtube on his half of the screen. He doesn't point at the laptop and ask for Elmo anymore, now he points and makes siren noises or says "fire!" :lol: Obsessed.
So I'm a bit worried. As OP saw at the Gold Coast, T has a habit of pushing or hitting other kids. It's gotten worse since then. It's like every time we hang out with other kids he'll do something. I haven't had a chance to chat with his day care ladies with it yet. I hope it's a phase. But what if it isn't?
He's not eating much at the moment, but still wants a bottle of milk 3 times a day. I haven't stopped giving him the bottle and I only realized I should have weaned him off it ages ago! So that's going to be a challenge.
OP - That's really cool about X going fishing! There's no way T would be patient enough for such a caper! How lovely for you.
Remind me, where has X been sleeping until now?
Dr Tal - T loves "helping" his daddy too. It's so cute how industrious they can be, isn't it! What does your DH think of it? All fun and games till he gets a spanner to the noggin?
T has only started saying yes recently, which is a nice change, because he used to say no when he meant no and no when he meant yes - very confusing! Actually, it's "yeah". Still doesn't make the s sound.
:hello: to everyone else, if anyone is still reading...
DH gets a kick out of it most of the time when B tries to 'help' but I know he gets frustrated a bit as well. Because B's always getting in the way and making the job twice as long as what it's suppose to be. That having been said he always comes to get him to 'help'whenever he's going to be doing something, so he can't think it's that bad.
Sorry to hear that you are having a problem with T hitting. Unfortunately I can't give you any advice. But I do think it's a good idea to chat to his daycare about it. It may just be something he does when he's around you...sort of like a possesive thing?
So I had to tell someone who might get it.
B has weaned himself….which is good. He's not wanted a breast feed since Wednesday night and now my milk is dry. I didn't want to have to force wean him so to speak but I wasn't really wanting to feed to at the same time and now I don't have to worry about either of those. So it saves me and him the hassles and heartache of making that decision. And it means he was ready and there was no trauma and all that……..
But. I'm really sad about it. It's like the final end to him being a baby ITMS? He's now officially a toddler and growing up and well…it's really hard.
DH just doesn't get it….not that I was really expecting him to. He's not callous about it or anything, he just can't grasp why I'm upset. So consequently he doesn't know what to say and while I know he means well…everything he says just makes it worse :doh:
So I thought I'd cry on your shoulders about it :cry:
I get it hun. DD weaned herself when I was about 32 weeks pg. I was same as you, relieved and sad. DH didn't get it either. MW at the hospital was much more understanding!
:hug: He is growing up. He's decided to be independent from mummy - that's ok. I know it is sad, I know :comfort:
How is everything else going? X is back to super whingey mode. Don't know if it is because he's fighting off a bit of a cold or something (constantly runny nose) or if something else is happening... dunno. But it is really frustrating!
Thanks so much for the hugs. It's so nice to talk to someone who understands. No one I know IRL has fed much past 12 months and like I said DH tries, but just doesn’t get it. I kinda knew the weaning was coming, as he's been less and less interested of a night time (was down to one feed anyway, just before bed). It's still just really sad.
Apart from that he's doing really good. He's been really clingy lately though….I've had to get my sling out again because he's getting too heavy and my bump is getting in the way of a good hold. But pretty much from the time he wakes up in the morning till I leave him at day care and from when I pick him up at day care till bed time he wants to be held….but not on the weekend :lol: I kind of suspect it has a bit to do with the pregnancy…in that he kinda gets that something is up, but doesn’t quite know what…so wants that comfort. It took me ages before I remembered you can ring sling a toddler, so had entirely too many days of one VERY sore arm, but since I've been putting him in the sling it's been good.
Sorry to hear X has gotten whingey again……all these phases…takes a lot of adjusting doesn't it??
Hi all.
Dr T - I can kind of understand where you are coming from. Although I only fed Adele for 4 months I was very very sad to stop :(
Hi OP!! And everyone else :)
I havnt been around for awhile. Mainly exhausted with the kiddies - Lily has gone from a pretty good sleeper to being a nightmare if we don't let her sleep in our bed. Adele (8 months) is sleeping well but still wants 2 feds a night....yawn....DH helps alot, but its catching up with us I think- all this sleep deprivation...:o Anyhow- for some stupid reason we are talking about trying for a 3rd....madness I tell you...especially since we are walking zombies lol
So what's the go with kids that wake up in the middle of the night and won't go back to sleep?? :cool:
Hope your all well xx
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Delph - I still get sad on occasion, when I am putting B to bed and he cuddles up next to me and starts to rub my arm (SO CUTE) I'll often think he use to do that when he was feeding, and get a bit teary….I'll blame it on the preggie hormones :D
AFU - I've officially become a permanent bed hopper! We moved DS into his big boy bed about 3 weeks ago. He goes to bed really well in it, but inevitably he'll fuss about 1ish, so in I go. Settle him….usually falling asleep myself….will wake up about 3ish…go back into our bed….then he fusses again about 5ish, so I usually tote him back into our bed because I sleep better in there. His mattress is REALLY REALLY horrible, and made even more so I'd imagine because I'm preggie. There have been a couple of nights where DH has just told me to put him to bed in our bed so I can get some decent sleep….bless him.
B was really sick the other week. High fevers (as in 39-40…got up to 40.2 at one point :o ) really chesty cough, then he developed this interesting rash, which saw the doctor call in two others for their opinions then got us packed up and sent off to the emergency room, only to be ushered into quarentine where he was tested for meningitis and meningococcal….talk about stressful. Thankfully he was cleared of both of those, but they still don't know what it was apart from a 'virus' (thanks….real helpful that one). He was really ill for about 10 days, but has made a great recovery (although the daycare workers say he looks like he lost a lot of weight) and is his usual over active self again.
Crikey Dr T that's no good! Sorry they couldn't give you any real answers, how stressful. Glad he is back to his normal self however.
We are going to do the bed move soon... we are putting it off, but he really needs to be in there asap... the cot just isn't working out for us. Maybe this weekend, it's a long weekend so we can spend a good few days at home working on it.
I try not to be a bed hopper... It's one of my things, I like my bed, I like my own space. On occasion I have lain down next to DD but never really get comfortable so I'm soon back to my own bed.
DS was sick over the weekend and ended up spending Sat night in with us, which drove me insane - I'd just get comfortable and he'd start kicking and invariably kick me in the belly or DH in the nether regions, which neither of us appreciated!!!
So Sunday I was determined to get him sleeping back in his cot. I think it was just the sickness. Some sort of cold or something. Poor bub, he just wasn't himself. I hate winter!
Wow it's been a while since any of us have posted in here.
:hello:
Just had to tell someone.
B IS NEARLY TOILET TRAINED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He's not had a pee accident in nearly a week and he pooed on the toilet for the first time yesterday and he just asked to poo again this morning!
I AM SOOOOOOOOOO PROUD OF MY LITTLE MAN!!
(such a shame there is no proud mummy emoticon on here!)