March 6 Thread

[yummeecookee]

Hope you all don't mind me starting a new thread seeing as it's a new week!

[littleredfish]

It's starting to look like spring here! DD1 got outside (with permission this time) to enjoy some fresh air. DS was gassy this morning but he's finally asleep, and DD2 is actually in a good mood; I think the worst of her teething is over.

DH is ripping apart the upstairs. The girls bedroom is massive and more space than they need so he's creating a powder room up there. It will give us another bathroom and the kids won't have to go all the way downstairs in the night to use the bathroom. I'm a little nervous because he's never created a bathroom before and the kids room is a disaster.

[yummeecookee]

Sorry, didn't mean to pnr earlier...
A few weeks back, C was saying a good number of words. Now he seems to have forgotten them all. Everything is just "muhhh" now. I can prompt him to say a few things- shoes, bubble, ball - but even those are hard to understand. I'm not worried about him yet but it's pretty frustrating.

[yummeecookee]

That's awesome that yh is able to do that project himself littleredfish.

[littleredfish]

Mar 6, 2017 19:34:57 GMT -5 yummeecookee said:

That's awesome that yh is able to do that project himself littleredfish.

Well we will find out. At least FIL is coming over tonight to check out the walls now that he's opened them to see if they can plan how to run the pipes up. I will be very disappointed if he's ripped apart the walls to just have to put them back up again.

[samelly]

So yesterday when I went to pick up my kids from their dayhome, I noticed all these vehicles parked on the street and when I went to turn left onto her street, access was blocked. She is in a corner house, so I circled around to try and park in front of her place and that road is also blocked and there are dozen of cop cars. I circle around again and park a few blocks away. As I'm walking toward the day home, a person in a vest tells me to walk on the other side of the street. There is a big crowd and video cameras right outside the dayhome. I am getting nervous ...but it looks like they are focused on the building next to the dayhome.

I get to my kids and everything is fine. It turns out they were filming a scene for Fargo on the street. DH saw them setting up in the morning and didn't bother to tell me. The owner of the dayhome didn't bother to send me a text. It would have been nice to know that I couldn't gain access to the street and not to be alarmed about all the police vehicles.

[yummeecookee]

Thank goodness samelly! That would give me quite a rush of panic too.

[sunfrogger88]

Oh gosh samelly how crazy! Glad it was nothing though.

littleredfish at least YH is willing to try! Mine isn't. It's very annoying..

Same old here. E is such a ravaging toddler already. She's going to be very difficult. We learned 'no' and I want to teach her that her in consent is important.. Except you know for changing diapers and bed time and things. Our upper 2 molars are coming in though, so she's pretty grumpy.

[samelly]

littleredfish, your H is going to do all that work. Wow.

We actually want to do something similar in a new house too. One of the bedrooms is massive and the other one is tiny (more like an office). So we want to move the bathroom into the large room so we can expand the other bedroom.

[winogirl]

Hai!
Attempting transition to crib is going horribly. We've ended up putting him in the crib for the first stretch (2.5 hours last night) and then I bring him to the futon for the rest of the night. Probably making it more difficult for us in the long run but.....
I'm hoping this next weekend we can try again with the whole night but starting that off during the week just wasn't working

[schmella]

yummeecookee, my pediatrician and I were just discussing this, apparently it's pretty common for boys to prefer to point and grunt rather actually use words. So we ignore a whole lot of "uhn" in this house.

[colinsfebmommy]

yummeecookee, I wouldn't worry either yet. Alwasy good to stay on top of things but they are still so little and stubborn! Thinking of you though

[ldubhawksfan]

Mar 6, 2017 19:34:26 GMT -5 yummeecookee said:

Sorry, didn't mean to pnr earlier...
A few weeks back, C was saying a good number of words. Now he seems to have forgotten them all. Everything is just "muhhh" now. I can prompt him to say a few things- shoes, bubble, ball - but even those are hard to understand. I'm not worried about him yet but it's pretty frustrating.

DD only says like 2 words that I can tell. Mostly babbling. When do drs start asking about it??

[ldubhawksfan]

Mar 7, 2017 10:05:47 GMT -5 yummeecookee said:

Thank goodness samelly! That would give me quite a rush of panic too.

Same! How crazy!

[yummeecookee]

Mar 7, 2017 12:53:44 GMT -5 schmella said:

yummeecookee, my pediatrician and I were just discussing this, apparently it's pretty common for boys to prefer to point and grunt rather actually use words. So we ignore a whole lot of "uhn" in this house.

I am literally LOL at this! I'm just picturing little cavemen grunting and pointing 😆
Thank you for the reassurance (and the laugh).

[littleredfish]

I saw this on FB today and it made me laugh and reassured me since DD2 is still mostly babble too.
www.good.is/articles/first-words-spreadsheet

I think her vocabulary will explode like this. She's so funny, she'll say a word clear as a bell that we've never heard her say before but then we can't get her to repeat it lol. So frustrating.

[samelly]

My sweet little baby is turning into a real PITA. It seriously took me like 3p minutes to get him strapped into his car seat after picking him up from day care.

Damn toddlers.

[younglove316]

We aren't very verbal here yet either. She just said stop last night for the first time and it was a big celebration haha other than that we only have a few others words.

[kensie5226]

Toddlers are nuts! Ellie keeps wandering around sating octopus to nothing in general.

[samelly]

Uggh...that's how I feel today. Uggggh!

[yummeecookee]

Anyone do anything for International Women's Day?

[sunfrogger88]

Mar 7, 2017 15:44:03 GMT -5 ldubhawksfan said:

Mar 6, 2017 19:34:26 GMT -5 yummeecookee said:

Sorry, didn't mean to pnr earlier...
A few weeks back, C was saying a good number of words. Now he seems to have forgotten them all. Everything is just "muhhh" now. I can prompt him to say a few things- shoes, bubble, ball - but even those are hard to understand. I'm not worried about him yet but it's pretty frustrating.

DD only says like 2 words that I can tell. Mostly babbling. When do drs start asking about it??

My pedi just asked at our 15mo check up. # on how many words she knows. I'm like uhhhhhhh

[samelly]

The words thing...he says "Awa Emote" to everything. I don't know what that means. I think it's his way of saying that he wants something.

He sometimes says "Up" when he wants to be picked up and he says "Nay Nay" when he sees an animal because when I was trying to teach him to pet the dogs, I said "Nice Nice"

Other than that, it is a lot of babbles.

My doc said he should have 10 words by the 18 month check up.

[colinsfebmommy]

Mar 8, 2017 12:31:52 GMT -5 yummeecookee said:

Anyone do anything for International Women's Day?

LMAO I feel like I should have gotten the day off to spend at the spa.

Sadly not happening though, just work lol 

[ldubhawksfan]

10 words in the next 2 months?! Oh crap!

[yummeecookee]

I remember being all concerned about my DD also when she was just over 18mo old (and she was head and shoulders above C as far as speaking went). Language really does take off closer to their 2nd bday. It's amazing.

[samelly]

Mar 8, 2017 14:49:32 GMT -5 ldubhawksfan said:

10 words in the next 2 months?! Oh crap!

Lol, I know.  But toddlers eventually get to a place where they are learning several new words a day and they have a language explosion.  So you never know.

[littleredfish]

Mar 8, 2017 12:31:52 GMT -5 yummeecookee said:

Anyone do anything for International Women's Day?

Treated myself to a Cadbury McFlurry on my way home from DS's 3w appointment. It's my favorite McFlurry and I hear from my F17 board this is not a thing in the US. You're missing out, ladies.

[yummeecookee]

Mar 8, 2017 16:35:30 GMT -5 littleredfish said:

Mar 8, 2017 12:31:52 GMT -5 yummeecookee said:

Anyone do anything for International Women's Day?

Treated myself to a Cadbury McFlurry on my way home from DS's 3w appointment. It's my favorite McFlurry and I hear from my F17 board this is not a thing in the US. You're missing out, ladies.

Definitely not a thing, but tbh I don't think I've ever had a mcflurry.

[schmella]

Mar 8, 2017 7:51:16 GMT -5 samelly said:

My sweet little baby is turning into a real PITA. It seriously took me like 3p minutes to get him strapped into his car seat after picking him up from day care.

Damn toddlers.

Every time we get in the car. Every diaper change. Omfg, I have become a yeller. I never thought I'd yell. I'm so frustrated, and so disappointed in myself.