Mp - sounds like things are a bit crazy at your place, I really don't know how you do it. Fingers crossed that J doesn't have whooping cough. No, we didn't get the car.
Noni - how is Asha going? poor little thing, scratching like that.
Clare - sounds like you had a very fun day.
Arte - very impressed that W got to this age without a scraped knee, I can't recall how many we have had here.
MM - so glad the grommets have made a difference. Isn't it great when they get that language explosion? K just chatters away all the time now, sometimes I wish she would be a little bit more quiet...
Well we are having big successes with sleeps. 3 weeks ago, she refused to have a day nap at home, took 30 minutes to get off to sleep at night and would end up in the spare bed with one of us in the middle of the night. Bedtime is great now, put her down, walk out and she's asleep in 5 minutes. She's had heaps of naps this week too without any fusses. I don't know how much of that though is because she is so zonked from not sleeping at 1am. We have put our feet down and no more spare bed sleeping, but she's not really getting the hint on it. We did resort to putting a gate across her door to keep her in her room - she can still see the spare bed from her door and we are taking it in turns. Tonight she is clutching a pair of DH's shorts and has a photo of DH and I stuck on the wall looking down at her. I think she is waking up scared of something, but it seems to happen about 4 times and it is every night so I really don't know. I do know that DH and I are going crazy though if we don't get it sorted soon!!
We are doing intensive swimming this fortnight too. 2nd lesson today and she has progressed so much. Yesterday I had tears when I made her put her head under water - today she was sitting on the steps and deliberately sliding down to the next level and putting her face under - such a difference! We also went swimming twice in Canberra last week so I think after these holidays she is going to just love the water.
DH wanted me to ask everyone how much whinging they get every day. We have had a lot lately where there is just nothing that seems to satisfy her. She is also very particular about things we do. We were having a babychino this morning and I passed her a fruit bar. She wanted me to open it, but I had my hands full so DH did it. It is her favourite sort of bar and she just chucked a complete wobbly because the wrong person opened it, ie throwing it across the table like it was contaminated waste!! He ended up taking her outside and I'm not sure what he did, but she was in a better mood when she came back. Dh thinks we have at least a solid hour of whinging every day. I'm tempted to get some multivitamins for her though after everyone's comments on them.
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