--Lion Cubs - Mummy and Baby Group!-- We are all One Year Old!

[Shiv]

Hi KayGeeBee

 

[angelstardust]

Hi!

I've been busy (failing) college and trying to decorate and gah... just urgh. Amber has been up and down, not ill just not right. Boys have been ill. I have been ill (tonsilitis, ever tried keeping 3 kids in check when you can't speak? I was using type'n'talk app on the iphone!), hubby has been ill.

I've also started Christmas shopping for 2011 taking advantage of the sales. My aim is to get all non immediate family for under £5, and I have been doing very well. lol!

So whats been happening?

 

[Boothh]

how much is spammer elite cleck?

 

[cleckner04]

20,000... I figure it will take me another year to get it.

 

[HeidiLSparks]

20,000!!! DEAR LORD haha I wish!

 

[angelstardust]

My princess decided to scare us all yet again by waking up from a nap blue in the lips, sky high temperature, shaking and struggling to breath. She'd been up the past few nighst with a 'bad cold'. Turns out she had a febrile convulsion (btw, the don't always loose concousness) and a bad virus. So we ended up with an ambulance going to hospital. Kept in and given IV antibiotics (not for the viris but as a precation against any bacteria that decide to take advatage of the situation).

I think she just fancies one of the doctors...

 

[spidey]

oh my- that is sooo scary

How is she doing now?? When will she come home? I'll send good thoughts your way

 

[angelstardust]

Oh ghosh sorry, she was taken in on Monday and we got home tea time Monday. Mainly she was kept in because Dr.S was the one who sent her home with a tummy bug that turned out to be liver failure back in October/November. So he didn't want to risk it.

It was scary, it was actually more that I kept having flashbacks to when she was in resus and was slipping away so I was a lot more paniced than I normally would be. Also I was a bit hysterical at points, not crying but doing that woman-right-at-the-edge-of-hysterics laugh.

 

[cleckner04]

Oh no!! That's so scary. I'm glad she's home now. I hope she's okay.

 

[spidey]

I would be in hysterics too if I were you I'm glad she's doing better and at home. Did she tolerate the doctors and nurses touching her this time... I sort of remember her developing a fear of nurses wearing a certain color (hope my memory is right!)

 

[jelr]

Oh no angelstardust so sorry to hear that I would also be hysterical - I'm so glad she is okay

 

[cleckner04]

We need to keep this thread going girls...What have you all been up to?

 

[Shiv]

hmmmmmmmmmm well i have mainly been house hunting online! David is applying for jobs so each one he applies for I start looking for potential houses nearby for us to move too! it is so much harder lookign fo rhouses now that I have to consider good school catchment areas etc. It rules a lot of schools out!

And the prices, you can move a couple of miles down the road and a similar house will cost £150,000 more just because it is near a good school! It's crazy

Not been up to much else, mayeb I'll just start putting potential houses on here and you can all comment! hahahaha

 

[cleckner04]

Ooo that'd be fun!! You should definitely post some potential homes up. I always look at houses back home. And in all the towns in the surrounding area of home. I just can't wait to move back there. And looking at houses is fun.

 

[spidey]

I love looking at houses too!!

So for me... at Kira's 12 month appointment she had blood taken to check lead and iron levels. Her iron was in the normal range, but at the lowest end of normal. The doctor wanted me to give her these nasty tasting iron drops 2 times a day for a month and re-test. But that seemed a bit extreme because she wasn't technically anemic AND I wasn't told about her low iron until her 15 month appointment (so how urgent was it!!??) So I decided to try and raise her iron with diet only. This past Monday I got Kira's blood taken so they can re-test it, and I don't know what the results are yet. Yeah- so that is boring! haha

On a more exciting note... Kira poops in the bath tub waaay too much! Do your LO's poop in the bath water? She did it tonight and I have all her bath toys soaking in bleach right now

 

[cleckner04]

EWWW!! Emma has never pooped in the bathtub. But I'm off to find some wood to knock on right now. Hopefully she never does.

Oh yeah, Emma's newest cute thing is to say Ewww every time I change her diaper. Because I've always made it into a huge production. And she also follows me in the bathroom and will say 'ewww' when I'm going. And she picked up the dogs tennis ball the other day, dropped it real fast, said "ewww', and wiped her hand on her shirt. LOL!!! She's so funny.

She really doesn't talk much still. I mean still the babbling that makes no sense. She has said diesel a few times(the dogs name) but only a few times clearly while looking at him so I don't think I can count it.

 

[spidey]

awww.. thats so cute that Emma says ewww I am so lucky to have 2 bathrooms because after she poops in bath tub #1, we carry her into bath tub #2 to clean her again! Then I spend the next 30 minutes getting the poop out of the water and bleaching all of her toys! We had to stop using the tub squirters because I was concerned that poop water would get stuck in them

Kira doesn't talk much either. She never says mama and she'll only say Dada if I say "say Da Da" and then she'll repeat back "DA"

Spontaneously she will say:

mmmmPA! (up)
mmmmBAAA (open) only a pro can distinguish between the 2 words!
Tink (drink)
all done (this is her most perfectly spoken word!)
da (down)
taa (tv)
bye (also spoken very clearly)
tee (for deedee- thats what we call a pacifier)

once my DH was wearing a purple shirt and Kira kept pointing to it, then she said "pah" and I KNOW she was trying to say purple. Perhaps it was just a fluke though, LOL

all of her other words are only spoken when I ask her to say them so I don't think they count. She'll make an attempt to repeat any word I say, but she'll only say the first sound.

 

[Shiv]

Sophia says quite a few words now (I won't bore you with a list) but the funny thing is she will only speak proper words when she is in a situation where she is really comfortable which basically means at home or at my parents house, so everyone else thinks she can't say anything

 

[Boothh]

jesse has never pood in the bath either! i hope he never does cus i always go in the bath with him

jesse says loads of words now too many to list and remember, he also doesnt like to talk alot in situations he isnt used to, like a friends house we dont visit often etc, but at home and close familys houses he never shuts up! he understands alot more too, if i ask him to get certain objects (shoes/socks/toys etc) he will go get them even from other rooms so not like im pointing at them he just understands, and if i ask him stuff he will answer with yes or no or whatever the answer is, its great i love it xx

 

[cleckner04]

Emma understands literally everything I ask of her. Like if I ask her to go get the cup so I can fill it with water, she runs to the living room to get the cup and brings it into the kitchen so I can fill it. Or I'll tell her we need to change her diaper and she'll go grab a diaper, and wipes and bring them to me. And she does say yeah but not no. She just shakes her head no. Her and I can have an entire conversation. But none of it makes sense. LOL! Although she will randomly come out with words that are towards a certain object and it's the right word but I won't count it unless she does it frequently and clearly. IYKWIM. Like she has said bath when by the bathtub but only a few times so I don't count it. I don't know..I guess I'm really picky with what I count as real. I have a friend and her kid would say something and the friend would be like 'yeah..'light', good job!' But the kid didn't even say 'light' clearly. It was like a gibberish version. So I wouldn't count that. But she thinks her kid is saying a million words. It makes me laugh bc some of them are not even close and she's like 'ooo did you hear? she said ___'