April Munchkins 2013- enjoying our wonderful babies!

[LittleSpy]

aww thats cute! My lo is called Campbell so it gets shortened to Cam a lot. His little friend is called Ellie but neither of them can say the other ones name so they call each other Eddie and Pam. sooooo cute xx

Hehehe, that's so cute. I'm trying my best not to encourage it, but it's so cute when Maisie mispronounces words. She just started watching Sesame Street and LOVES Elmo. But calls him Melmo. So any time we pass by the Sesame Street icon on Netflix, she points and yells "MELMO!!!!!!" Just like if we pass by the Yo Gabba Gabba icon, she yells "BROBEEEEEEE!!" And she pronounces tree, teeth, and cheese all very similarly (teeeesh or cheeeesh) so it takes me a minute to figure out what she's talking about sometimes. Ugh, talking babies are so cute.

 

[TeAmo]

oh my gosh yes. I love listening to campbell speak! its adorable. He has an awful habit at the moment when we go to restaurants with repeatedly asking the waiter for 'chips' (fries). He says Maaaaaan!!! Chiiipppps!!! Apart from chips sounds like Tiiiiiits! err sorry waiter... I promise he said Chips.

Yes cheese and teeth (he loves both of them equally) sound the same in our house too.

Kiss is tiiiisss Mommy, tiiis! Love you is ov oooooh. xxx

 

[melissasbump]

Our "teeth, cheese and keys" are all very similar here, bless them i love this age!

 

[doggylover]

Oh TeAmo and littlespy those stories of speaking LOs are too sweet!!!!!! Nothing more adorable than a toddler mixing up some words wee cuties!

My nephew is 18 months and just starting and anytime he says anything remotely word like he gets a full round of applause from myself and my insanely enthusiastic family! Even though his newest sound is something along the lines of 'shhh-it!' he didn't hear it from me!

 

[maybesoon]

hahah one of my favorites is with my bffs 2 yr old says spaghetti (pasketti)!!! I just love it!!!

 

[ukgirl23]

awww teamo that is so freaking cute!! lol

sorry to hear your little man is sick too, hope he gets well soon and you dont have his bug x

Littlespy that is so funny with your parents being called the smae thing. Atleast you can't disappoint if you go for middle names xx

 

[ukgirl23]

Lucas can say Mississippi, (I cant spell it) supercalifragaliciousispiallydocious, and a few other major words... but he can not say lasagna at all! it comes out as lasanla and monopoly... that comes out as binoculars for some reason! :/ haha!

 

[TeAmo]

pahahaha shhhhh-it! We are currently keeping score in our house I am 3 to my partners 2 in the swear word whoopsiedaisies! We are by no means those disgusting horrible parents who swear on purpose at their children but I have to admit I have a wee bit of a potty mouth when its just the two of us... and when baby was little it didnt matter too much however this last month we have realised we need to consciously switch our words to toddler friendly ones! hahaha bad mommy!

So the other day we had some friends visiting us from Canada and we have taken them on a drive to a nearby christmas market. they are following in the car behind and we've taken a wrong turn. My hubby is getting more and more wound up and there is now an old woman driving in front of us who cant decide where the hell she is going. Campbell is asleep in the back (or so we thought). The tension is now building between OH and I and old lady decides shes just going to stop right in the middle of the road and we nearly go into her! Oh- "Stupid bloody bitch!" Campbell " BITCH! Daddy beep Bitch!" WELL... I couldnt breathe for laughing. It could not have happened at a better moment. We think our angel is sleeping but hes listening to our every word and just as were about to scream at each other he breaks the tension. OH and his quick thinking seeing a football (soccer) game going on says "yes campbell... football pitch!! they're playing football!" oh my it was funny but we need to be careful now!! xx

 

[TeAmo]

awww teamo that is so freaking cute!! lol

sorry to hear your little man is sick too, hope he gets well soon and you dont have his bug x

Littlespy that is so funny with your parents being called the smae thing. Atleast you can't disappoint if you go for middle names xx

thanks hun! he's feeling a bit better today but im praying mine goes with it x

 

[ukgirl23]

My little guy has a high temp but cant find the thermometer so Aarons gone to buy a new one and get him some cool n soothe strips poor thing. I hope he will be better soon. I hate seeing him so poorly. Beware new mums to be.. sick kids break your heart! Xx

 

[TeAmo]

^^ oh my gosh this is so true. I have the worst thoughts about Cam when he is ill. I dont know if its because he had kidney problems or what but anytime he has like a normal cold or virus like his current throat infection I have these irrational thoughts thats Im not going to hear him coughing in the night and he will choke Worries the life out of me!! xx

 

[ukgirl23]

Im completely the same Teamo! I dont sleep when mine are ill. I check their temp every hour and make them drink even if they hate me for it. I just hear so many horror stories it scares the crap out of me. I have nhs direct on speed dial lol x

 

[TeAmo]

yep me too!!! download the NHS Direct app. Its fab and you can request call backs through it xx

 

[ukgirl23]

Ooooh I didnt know that. I will download it now. Thanks hun xxx

 

[doggylover]

TeAmo at that story in the car!!! That was some quick thinking from your oh!!

My dad is awful for swearing, but he makes such a big effort around my nephew, it's the rest of us who need to reign it in a bit!

And noooo I don't want to think of my LO being sick. My nephew breaks my heart when he is ill because he just looks so pathetic it does mean we get good cuddles though, but its so sad! I can't imagine how you ladies deal with it as mums! I'll be a wreck!

 

[TeAmo]

Yes very quick thinking. We spent the rest of the journey coming up with replacement words to use going forward!

My mom has a potty mouth on her in a funny way. She looks after Campbell while I work so shes had to reign it in. Although a few weeks back she received a prank call on her home phone. She answered it and it was heavy breathing. She told them to 'f*ck off!" and hung up. No sooner she hung up they called again to she did the same thing! A third time they called her back- she was starting to panic a bit. This time she listened to the breathing. she said "Campbell?, it that you?" She walked into the spare room where Campbell was 'sleeping' to see him waving goodbye to her at the handset! hahahaha. I was like you told my son to f*ck off twice!!!

Cam is often in and out of hospital with his kidney issues so he is pretty good with that. His next operation is on Jan 3rd (happy new year!!!!) so planning for that. I worry much less about his going under than I do with him having a stomach bug. That frightens me! xx

 

[doggylover]

Oh my gosh, my mum would have then died if she found out she had told a LO to F off!!!!

I guess you are used to Cam being in hospital and going under, but I'm sure the first time it was as bad as you would feel now if he got a stomach bug! What problems does he have with his kidneys?

 

[TeAmo]

yes that is true. The first time he went under it was a bit of an emergency operation and it lasted quite a while. He has been under four times already this year so I am kind of getting the hang of it!

He has a dysplastic (non functioning) left kidney, severe reflux on his right kidney and Posterior Urethral Valves. That basically means his ureter has an obstruction which causes urine to backflow into bladder and then from bladder into kidneys. It can cause a lot of problems including kidney failure. At the moment he is doing good and to look at him you would never know! xx

 

[doggylover]

Whoa, I don't have much in the way of biological knowledge, but that sounds really serious and pretty awful for him, and for you and oh as well. The poor wee munchkin but I'm glad he's doing well at the minute.

 

[TeAmo]

us too! He is under the care of our local hospital but more importantly Southampton hospital where the specialists are! He sees a kidney and urologist specialist regularly and we have lots of trust in them. In fact he has an appt tomorrow here and an ultrasound on Friday in S'ton xx