Yay go Kate

This is going to get confusing for a while, posting in both the babies & toddler section

It was so cute this morning, when I dropped Ella off. She was wearing her pink skirt and the 3 year old boy came up to her and told her she looked like a pretty ballerina and then asked his mum if he could dress up today as well. awwwwwww

Ella gets upset as well, when I tell her off. She knows she isn't suppose to do, but still wants to do it anyway. I read somewhere that young toddlers have no sense....which pretty much describes Ella at the moment. We always try and make sure the toilet door is shut now, as I have visions of Ella getting into all sorts of trouble in there.

oh my morning sickness has been much worse this time round and very tired...

Tristen is VERY cheeky and loves to try and push his limits.....gets very angry when i tell him off too... eg tonight i was telling him off for throwing his food over the side of the highchair to the cat and he looks and me and starts yelling going red in the face and everything was so hard not to laugh... im so got my hands full and im having another CRAZY i say.... what was i thinking lol

yes he was pretty proud of himself too got quite upset when I took it (very carefully) off him and out of the bathroom - what a mean mummy I am LOL

weve also discovered that he likes to drink milk/water from a normal glass!! none of this baby stuff for him except for his bot-bot....

todays lesson

must remember to put the lid of the toilet seat down and/or shut the bathroom door!

was watching the news this morning in bed and thought all had gone a little too quiet when i went to investigate there was the little person having a marvelous time dipping the NEW toilet roll in and out of the toilet bowl!! thank goodness i had been in earlier and it was flushed ( DH has a "disability" with pushing the flush button)...

thats not good about daniel hope he gets better soon.

Surely we dont move to the toddler section until all of the little people have turned one??

nooooo..not yet......

hehe..thats funny about Daniel sharing. Not so good about him being sick...hopefully he gets better for his birthday.

Doesn't sound like Tristen will be too far off walking

heyall,

nothing much new to report here, still plodding along and mr t is now doing the standing up from the middle of the floor thing

Cute with Ella and the PJ's tristen has a blankie that goes everywhere he gets up with it in his hands and drags it round everywhere and when hes ready for a sleep he puts it over his head and starts self soothing...

Ella is going through a 'helpful' phase atm. She has decided that everything on the floor has to be passed onto Mummy so spends all day walking around picking up everything and passing it to me. One good thing is that now instead of throwing food on the floor if she is finished eating she just passes me the food instead......is very cute and definitely cuts down on the cleaning. wonder how long this phase is going to last for.

She has also decided the last couple of days that she wants to take her PJ with her EVERYWHERE she goes. As soon as she gets changed in the morning she grabs hold of them and drags them around the whole house and goes to sleep cuddling them. I think they are turning into her comfort blanket- luckily she also has a nightgown made out of the same material (merino wool)so I can give her that to cuddle up with at night.

Awww Poor Paige- hope she gets better soon. I have heard about slapped cheek (thought the name sounded interesting), but haven't really seen it before. It's hard at this age when you know something is wrong, but they can't talk and tell you where the pain is.

Shellis, Ella never did the furniture walking thing, so no help there. She just taught herself how to stand by pushing upwards. She started doing a few steps byself just before 9 months (I think) and by 10 months was full on walking and has now started to do a bit of running.

She has started doing really little fast steps on the spot this weekend (almost like running on the spot). It's so cute and is now part of her dance moves (along with the head moving, arms waving side to side and knees bending).

CT- I am sure Spencer will catch up soon, he is probably too focused on other developemental things and for him it doesn't seem really important.

Stacey- hope Daniels 'boy bits' get better soon. Poor little thing.....at least it will make for some amusing stories on his 21st

LOL daniel must be a typical boy huh just cant leave it alone

Yep tristen has had his share of bumps and scratches. He too fell off the bed the other week as I thought he was asleep (he puts his blankie over his head then puts his fingers into his mouth so hes sucking on balnkie gross really  luckily i have 3 of them) and he was real still so assumed he had gone to sleep. I went to the lounge and started writing the shopping list when bang. I felt like the worst mother in the world. Hes also had a couple of run ins with then cats. Keep trying to teach him to be gentle.......

Yep we too have the tanties but i usually try to ignore it as its usually when hes touching or doing something that he knows well enough that hes not supposed to do it but i thought tanties dont start till they are two....... LOL Still not walking but walking along furniture, standing alone, crawling in and out of doorways (eg onto the deck)getting into all sorts of mischief and he gets angry if things dont go his way. Oh yes he loves the rubbish bin too.

Well tristens invites have gone out for his party ended up inviting 15 kids (he has heaps of cousins) and goodness knows how many adults but they are all close to him so yeah will be a full house here too. As tristens is a jungle animal theme and hes going to be a tigger - im doing him a tiger face cake. Thank goodness im not working and will have the time to do it lol

We don't get full on tanturms, but if Ella doesn't want to do something (i.e. go to bed) she makes her whole body go limp so it is really hard to pick her up (and you have to end up dragging her). She does get really upset if you take something away from her, but luckily she gets easily distracted so if you offer her something else 9 time out of 10 she is happy (particularly if it is food- we always have to take food when we go out as it always calm her down).

Stacey, Ella learnt to stand exactly the same way that Daniel is trying. It is a harder way to learn it, but when she started walking it meant if she fell down she could pick herself up and start walking from the same position (as opposed to having to crawl to a piece of furniture and then pull herself up). She does look really fun through, with their bums up in the air.

Poor Ella has 2 big bumps on either side of her head. She keeps putting stuff over her face and then walking around the room, last  night she had a blanket over her so she couldn't see where she was going and walked staight into a TV cabinet at my parents placesilly girl.....

For Ella birthday have decided to have a combined family & friends parent. Since her bday is on the Fri we are both taking the day off work and might take her to the Zoo and then have my family over for dinner and then in the weekend we will have a party. Was suppose to be only be a small party but so far is around 30 people (including 10 toddlers/young kids) so the house is going to be quite full.

Took her to plunket late last week to weigh her- she now weighs 10.2kg and is approx (can't get to stand still for long enough to do a proper measure) 75cm.

We are still on 2 day sleeps and think we will be on them for a while- Ella has always had quite a high sleep requirement during the day (thank goodness). She has one nap at from 9- 10/10.30 and then another from 1/1.30 to 3.

Haha...Ella does that too Phat_Cat. She knows when she is suppose to do something, but when she thinks we aren't looking she tries it anyone.

Yesterday she figured out that if she tipped the washing basket over she could push it to where she wanted to reach and then could climb up on it to reach it. Came in to her room in the afternoon to find her trying to walk on the washing basket, whilst trying to reach the clockradio in her room.

yep ladies i hear you on the sleep thing. Tristen i think is going to drop to one sleep. He usually goes down between 11 and 12:30 (depending on what time he gets up in the morning which lately has been 8am) and if its closer to the 12 mark i try to get some lunch into him then he will sleep for 2-3 hrs and then up til 8-8:30pm (sometimes later) but if weve been out and about in the car its a whole different story. Hes now going to his cot and grabbing his blankie when hes tired so cute.

We are also having the test the boundries going on. He knows "no" but still tries to do it and looks at you to see if he can get away with it - i dont think so. So then when he is moved away he will throw a little wobbly and i just walk away he gets over it pretty fast.

happy 1st birthday James....

that reminds me must get the invites written for Mr T's party..... its in 4 weeks eeekkk!!

well done kalyx!!

tristen is standing up on his own more and more and for longer periods of time, loves to walk behind his block trolley and constantly pulls himself up on me so we cant be too far off... kinda cant wait as hes getting heavy and im finding it hard to pick him up all of the time...

Well done Kalyx , even through Ella been walking for a while I am still not ready to call her a toddler yet.

Had the first of the 1st birthday partys in our postnatel group yesterday- Ella had a ball and it was so cute watching all the kids interact together and try and 'talk' to each other. We let them loose on a bunch of cupcakes and you can imagine the mess they all made.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAMES hope you and mummy have a great day

Ouch poor Caprece

Wow 6 teeth in one month. Ella cut her top 4 teeth in the space of a couple of weeks and boy did it seem to hurt. 1 year old already- where does the time go?

Is anyone else baby trying to feed themselves with the spoon? Lately Ella has been taking the spoon off me before it goes into her mouth and then putting it in her mouth herself. Of course the food goes EVERYWHERE and only a very small amount ends up in her mouth- makes for a very messy (and long) meal time.

awww poor girl!!

 wow one year olds already where has time gone??

we joined a toy library in the weekend. Costs us $80 a year (we have to help out once a term for a couple of hrs, otherwise it is $160) and it soooo worthwhile. There were quite a few different toys, so am hoping it will provide her with a bit of a variety (and heaps cheaper than buying new toys).

no tips on the biting sorry. Ella has a bad habit of biting me on my shoulder. She sometimes does it when she is excited, but in the weekend she got a bit upset when I tried to put her down for her afternoon nap and bit me hard on the shoulder- almost felt like she meant to do it, as I told her 'no we don't  bite Mum' and held her away from me. Don't know if she got the message or not.

Ouch Annie- Poor Laura.  Ellas 2 front teeth are pretty close together. I think she is also teething again...hopefully it passes soon.

good to hear that I am not the only one with a messy house. Not looking forward to the day when Ella figures how to open doors.

Nikki- what sort of food does Daycare feed them for lunch? just curious and looking for some new suggestions.

Hope everyone had a good Mothers Day  DH made me pancakes for b/fast (which Ella 'helped' me eat, despite having a huge b/fast herself) and I got a top from him, a bookmark with photos and chocos from Ella and my brother brought me a cookbook since it was my first mothers day (which I thought was very sweet of him).

OMG is anyone else house constantly looking like a hurricane has torn through it? Ella seems to love picking up random stuff and then carrying it around and putting it in some other strange spot- makes cleaning up interesting.

She has turned into such a stunt queen recently. One of her fav activities is climbing up on this really low rocking chair, standing up and then walking off it...needless to say she ends up falling down, but then she picks herself up and does the same thing over and over again. She also likes just randomly walking around and around in circles and then falling down. Why she is not covering in heaps of bruises I don't know...but thank goodness when we got the new carpet we got extra underlay so our floor is quite nicely padded.

What a beautiful day it is today  think when Ella wakes up from her nap we might go for a walk to the park and then go to the pools for a swim (have decided not to do swimming lessons this term and I am just going to take her myself).

 jen glad your feeling a bit better. Sorry that you have PND but good on you for doing something about it. Dont sweat about the formula thing I was guttered when tristen stopped BF but its worked out real well for the both of us - we were both alot happier as tristen started sleeping better too.

tristen has started the clingy stage - doesnt like me leaving the room but he will have to get used to it LOL i cant really take him to the loo and he only wants to come into the shower so he can play  hes been sleping through the night again the past few nights YAY!! hes still waking and grizzling but then going back off am so glad. He was sleeping through until he got food poisioning and then i think it became a bit of a habit so touch wood that the sleep throughs continue.

tristen got me a card & a lotto ticket for mothers day pity i never got a merc i could so see myself driving one of those LOL

Hope your all having a lovely mothers day.