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MM, I think it's pretty normal for the TTing to go back and forth a bit...that's why it can be a bit of a long process sometimes. Perhaps reinforcing the message of "we wee in the toilet/potty" and some rewards like a sticker chart or even better IMO a lolly bribe LOL might help get her back on track. Make sure she gets a lot more attention & really make a fuss when she gets it right.
BTW I'm sure you're doing really well, we haven't even started with the TT yet. :)
Yeah, they can have a bit of regression. I don't know why they do, because I guess it could be for loads of different reasons, but it is normal if they do. Just keep doing what you were doing and she should get past it easy enough. Perhaps introduce some different rewards for when she does do it right to keep her motivated.
MD, I have got some reading stuff already that was online and they have dispatched my textbook and a CD-ROM. I also got the assignment schedule and it seems pretty full on, but nearly all of them involved a group task - but I'm not sure how that will work considering we are all taking it off campus?
hi girls!
MM: good luck with the scan next week. and i too reckon that considering you had a chem pg so recently it HAS to be a good sign :hug:
MD: it took leila a little while to drop the swearing...but she did! of course i am sure that the moment she hits school it will be back with a renewed vigour LOL!
hope that those trips away arent like the last one that was aaaages long...that's when you need to get a holiday house in the bahamas with full wait staff lol!
Sherie: hmmm group work with open university courses! i'm guessing you'll just each assign yourselves a section and write it up and hope like there's no tomorrow that each person pulls their weight. bit like how it goes for on campus group work lol!
Oz: hi! hope you are travelling well!
AFM: well, i am a soccer widow today :( DH left at 8am.... ah well. we had a lovely night out last night as a friend offered to babysit so we went to carlton for amazing pizza and dessert, then headed off to bookstores and spent about 2 hours browsing (and buying lol!). i bought 'pride and prejudice and zombies'.
Trill, like Cass said, I'm guessing everyone will contribute a section. One person organises it into a single document, another person edits, another person cracks the whip/sets the deadlines etc. Don't forget you should have a chatroom/online forum for each of your subjects, plus there's always skype or what's that old fashioned thing called...um... yeah that's it, the telephone :rofl:.
Cass, totally jealous, that sounds like my dream date...only DH is pacing after about the first 5 minutes in a book shop. :lol: Please please let us know how you like P & P & Zs, sounds like a great read! Relieved to hear a successful toddler swearing rehabilitation story. LOL
MD - I think you must be physic, it seems that we have ended up with a completely white Trofast unit and boxes due to what was available in the store.
Cass - ahh, wandering a bookshop, certainly can't do that with a 2 year old!!
MM - sorry, can't help much on the TT, we only had our second wee in the potty last night. Well done for not reacting when she did it on the washing, I don't think I could have done that!
Trill - good luck with your studying - especially those group assignments!
Well I got a heap of plants in this morning. Yes, I may be a bit crazy seeing as we will be on Level 4 water restrictions (bucket watering only) in about a month and our dam is as low as it ever has been, but those open patches in the garden were driving me crazy!!
Cally, did you get the fence finished? I hope you are enjoying the freedom of an enclosed yard.
MP, yay for getting the house! The move is coming up fast now.
MM, good luck with the scan, although I know everything is alright :hug: Remember that it takes an average couple 6 months to conceive, I am sure your little bubba is just waiting for the right time to join your family.
Clare, OMG that sounds like a whopper of a tantrum! We only have foot stomping and a grating yell. So far it hasn't occurred to him to hit/pinch/spit/kick (touch wood). And WOW at spending two whole hours in a bookstore! I would love to do that but the only bookstore here is a combo post office and it is hell on earth in there with a toddler!
Ginger, the echidna experience sounds awesome. That is something I miss about Australia - seeing random unusual wildlife. We used to get flocks of Galahs flying over, wild budgies on the front lawn, cane toads jumping out at us when it rained, geckos, green frogs... at work one day there was even a death match between an iguana and a bush turkey.
I actually got to do something today! DH looked after the kids while I cleaned the house ready for painting. It feels so good to get out and achieve something. Hopefully I will get two sides finished tomorrow, will see how it goes. Amelia is really good, she will quite happily spend time with DH and I only need to come in and feed her and put her to bed. There is no way that we could have done that with W - now that I have a comparison I can see he was the clingiest baby ever.
And I think that DH just realised that I don't sit around watching TV all day (as he has suggested I do in the past) - he was trying to watch a programme he had taped and after 4.5 hours he had only got through 24 minutes of it lol.
ETA: Amelia can sit by herself now. She isn't a little baby anymore.
Sounds like a double bonus Arte - time to get something done AND realisation by your DH...I hope this takes care of some of the complaining! Are you painting the whole exterior of your house or just windows and things?
BTW I would love to have seen bush turkey v. iguana ...or was it a goanna?
Cally LOL at my psychic prediction. You can always add to your set later on, mix and match some other colours in if you want to. Well done on getting your plants in. I too have planted things crazily in the face of water restrictions. We got on quite well in Canb just using the rinse water from the kitchen sink on the garden...kept a basin with handles inside the sink & rinsed in that - got all the vulnerable plants watered about twice a week that way.
MD, yes a goanna! I knew it didn't sound quite right!
Arte - OMG the fence, has that ever been a drama! It took yonks for the posts to get in, that happened a couple of days after Christmas. YESTERDAY!!!, the cross rails went in. Still have to make the gates and put the palings up, probably a day for each section. I've said it must be done in two weeks as I have to go to Sydney for work for a week and my mum is coming down to give DH a hand and give Miss K some time off from childcare and it is not fair on her if there isn't a secure backyard. I get in trouble for nagging, but somehow the idea that if you just get on with the job the nagging would stop hasn't sunk through. Very frustrating that he had all that time off over the break (yes K was home most days, but I never got a day totally by myself during the holidays whereas he had about 4) and now it's being squeezed in with work (he also went in for 4 hours this morning). At least he has given up on cricket for the time being. Rant over. Glad that your DH is slowly realising how much work littlies are.
MD - I have a bucket in the shower that catches that first flush of cold water each shower and that gives us lots of water. Plus I've been catching all the washing machine rinse water and K's bath water. The plants are probably getting more than they do when it rains. Unfortunately because we are so close to the beach it is very sandy so the water often runs off the top. Trying to get some more compost in the soil throughout the garden, I put heaps in the new ones yesterday. I've got some of those orange spikes with drink bottles on top too that send the water slowly down to the root zone. Not attractive, but they work! Some of Miss K's toys are currently in a plastic tub like you mentioned, I'm hoping to get the Ikea stuff next weekend and then I could start using one of them in the kitchen.
Well we have had two nights in a row without a wake up and need for Mummy or Daddy to go in to her room. Day naps are sorted, bedtimes are good, things are looking up on the sleep front here!!
Hi ladies, i've been so MIA sorry!
arte- goanna v turkey sounds scarey!!! who won the fight?
we love our echidna, we go looking for him everyday now to say hi.
cally- how far from the beach do you actually live, you lucky thing
trill- i hate group assignments with a passion, even when you're on campus they're a total PITA. hopefully you get put in a good group.
not much going on around here. dh bought lewis a new bike and he is totally obsessed with it. rides it at every chance he can get. the first day he got it he was out the back practising on it till 9pm! crazy!
dh is busy working on his boat most of the time, we're heading up to echuca for a holiday next week-can't wait!
Ginger, are the fires near you?
yes, fires are on this mountain but on the other side from us so we are not at risk. they are about half an hour's drive away from us. we are ok where we are, they are not coming in this direction.
That's good Ginger, I worry about you every time I hear about fires.
Ginger - glad you're OK. We are 400m to the beach. I haven't been swimming in the beach for years (too cold) but we also have a lovely creek that is about 600m away that runs out onto the beach. There is a little playground next to it and it is a great place to take littlies. I swim there, but only when the creek is running out and it's the nice warm water!! Otherwise just my toes go in and I let DH hop in with K.
DD has a really yucky looking rash on her inner thigh so I thought this afternoon we would try undies so the nappy wouldn't rub against it. 4 wet undies and 1 dirty one later - nothing in the potty!! I am so not starting toilet training yet!! She went and sat on the potty after each time so she gets the idea, but dearie me....
hi all - MIA MamaPan again! hope you are all well!
Ginger - glad you are safe - was thinking of you. xxx
MD - i am so glad you seem to be getting back to some 'normality'- i think 2010 will be a great yr for you.
Arte - woo hoo on some 'you time' - i am v impressed with your handywoman skills...
Sherie - lots on your plate this yr - are you excited for uni? you are going to do so well
i feel like i am a bit beyhind on the TT front - we have a potty and have had a few wees in there but havent done much more. i think we have had too much upheaval... will try in a fe months i guess when we are settled in melb..
afm - all is well here... Jacob had an awful cough again... went to the locums on saunday and they scared me by saying he prob has asthma... but been to paed this morning (6 month heck up) and he is pleased with him and thinks this is unlikely - made me feela whole lot better even if it could be asthma. he also checked the big list of other things i have worried about (LOL) and is really pleased with him.wants him to spend more time on the ground (he spends A LOT aleady) to encourage the rolling etc (he only rolls one way, and not too often LOL) but is generally happy. he is 7 moths this week - wow! not too ijterested in solids - chg for me as N could never get enough!
N is great - did i tell you all he finally pretty much sleeps through... yay!!iamwondering how he will go settling into the new house etc - but expect it to be ok... mainy worried about how he will settle at a new kindy (he is NOT Happy to be back ay kindy after his 6 wks at home with me)
aside from that busy with the move etc... packing happens on mon, we are going on a little road trip and then will be in the new house on friday! yay!
hi guys
Mp- good luck with the chaos of the move :)
i have a super sore booby again, bloody mastitis!!
Gosh, it's quiet in here.
Ginger - hope those antibiotics kick in soon, poor thing.
MP - good luck with your big move, I'm sure you will handle it expertly (unlike me who would most likely be curled up in a corner sobbing just thinking about it all!!). We've only ever had two wees on the potty too so you're behind us! Glad that N's sleeping is improving.
Arte - how's the bedtimes going over at your place?
Hello Sept07 peeps!
MIA MP - hope it all goes well with your move, I'm sure you'll be super organised like always. I bet you're looking forward to being all settled in again. Is the rolling one way connected at all to the torticollis?
Ginger been thinking of you today with your sore booby. I hope you turn the corner soon :hug:
Arte I meant to say, my GF has a supersmart son, he was always very clingy/demanding as a baby, I wonder if there's a connection there with the early talking etc? I'm sometimes surprised at how less demanding/exhausting it is with Missy E than DD1 was at the same age...can't work out if it's because it's a different kid or because I'm a different person now and I cope differently. Hmmm
MM how are you going with your furniture decisions?