MSE Parents Club Part 14

SugarSpun

tiamai_d wrote: »

On the walking thing. Amber can do a few steps (2-4) on her own but hasn't been making rogress. I am not bothered at all but the nursery has commented on it and asked if I'm worried. I can't remember when DS1 walked and obviously DS2 doesn't count. But I was under the impression that 14months is not that unusual for them not to be 'independant walkers'? Given that Miss Molly is just walking now and she is our bench mark (cos Amberusually follows her a few weeks after which works out right going by their due dates) I'm not worried at all.

I've been a bit because lovely Amber's been toddling about and Molly shows no sign of wanting to - yesterday's two steps were a one time thing and today she's been lifting her legs in the air so nobody can put her in standing position even *rolleyes* - they'll start independently walking when they're ready. There's a girl at Gymboree who walks really well and is three days older than Molly but she doesn't say anything more complex than AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA so I assume they've put their energies into other things.

*loves* all the cute photos

:T Mr3 and MDW's union guy

:grouphug: for everyone else

I had an epic journey this afternoon, long story follows:

It started out I had to go to the post office and catch a particular train to meet a friend a bit outside Munich for a trip to the only TK Maxx in Bavaria, apparently a new opening very cheap sort of outlet. 15 people ahead of me in the PO line with 35 minutes before my train, no bothers except that there was only one man serving and he was an officious gobsheen telling everyone their labels were crooked or they needed to tape the edges of their parcels better and generally being as slow as he could manage :mad: I made the train by the skin of my butt (shaved off as the doors closed on it) and realised I didn't have a ticket for the whole journey.

Whatever, says me, until one stop outside where my monthly pass covers and the ticket checkers get on :eek: Jumped out to avoid a big fine and to buy a ticket, and waited 20 minutes for the next one, arriving at Friend's car ten minutes late and then it was a really long drive (about an hour from the train; I hadn't realised) plus we had to detour to pick up both his kids, drop one at a music class and we arrived in a mad rush for that only to find that Friend's ex had told him 15 minutes earlier than it actually was and at the same time that his other son needed picking up from a kids' party ten minutes away. Eventually we stopped in at the party and waited till it was time to pick up the first kid then headed over to TKM and OMG it was amazing, loads of amazing bargains and designer stuff - the one I didn't buy was D&G suits €200 from €1600. I'm delighted with the stuff I found, could easily have spent 3-4x as much. But then the boys needed feeding and we had to stop and do that, then they needed to be dropped off elsewhere and eventually Friend dropped me at a further-out station instead of the closer one as planned, so I got home about 8:30. Not good, although the trip was great.

And now I am exhausted. Husband appears to still not be talking to me, but I am hopeful that this too shall pass and I am off to bed. Goodnight lovelies, :j and and :grouphug: as required.

3onitsway

3onitsway wrote: »

The crazy real-doll ladies are on Living channel now. (guess who got herself a shiney new, working, virgin box!)

OK - now i'm off to bed to have disturbing dreams! Those ladies were absolutely chuffing nuts!!!

jennynoo

Whispers: good night everyone x

Sneaks back out

BeenieCat

jennynoo wrote: »

Whispers: good night everyone x

Sneaks back out

Oi! Where have you been? How is Erin? When is her birthday? (hoping it hasn't been)

tiamai_d

Thanks dk a d Tara and everyone else. I'm not bothered at all it was just when the girls at nursery mentioned it. I'm dreading her walking properly.

Ss, I've noticed that Molly talks more than Amber. She just says mama dada etc but not in any context. They do all do things in different orders! Be warned Amber is very independent getting! Lol! Vid going on facebook of me giving her medicine.... I hope for your sake that Molly is bette behaved!

SugarSpun

tiamai_d wrote: »

Ss, I've noticed that Molly talks more than Amber. She just says mama dada etc but not in any context. They do all do things in different orders! Be warned Amber is very independent getting! Lol! Vid going on facebook of me giving her medicine.... I hope for your sake that Molly is bette behaved!

Molly's quite good at communicating. At the moment we have Mama, Dada, Hi being replaced by Hello (hewwow), Yes, Nice (give that to me, please), More (don't stop giving that to me, please), Dat (there is something interesting here, please look at it), Boob (grabgrabgrab) and Gone (I have finished with this and you may remove it). I can't think of any other words she needs :rotfl: And I think quite often younger children have their needs met/entertainment provided by older ones so don't need to talk as quick - someone was telling me that but I can't remember who.

She was very late crawling, too - I think they just do whatever interests them first, and for Molly she hears two very distinct sets of sounds and so they'd be more interesting to her than learning to crawl when she can shuffle or walk when she can crawl. I wonder if, now we have words to cover all her needs, she'll move on to focussing on walking.

I love the video of her - she really is independent and turning into such a big girl! It's interesting to see how the two of them are developing, not to compare them but because they're so close in age and each doing different stuff.

Sami, Krystal, fairies flew yesterday.

Back to work after my seven days of holiday must start by replying to emails, but there are 18 days of work left :j

bexta

Morning.

Sophie's such a charmer, I left her asleep with the monitors on. It started going off, so I went to check on her - she was fast asleep, trumping her little bum off which is what the monitor picked up.

Didn't see that about the dolls, was watching these crazy people who had a hippo as their child substitute. Weird. Those doggie prams are also strange.

aless02

Jenny! How's work? How's Erin? Any birthday plans?

SS, I wonder if Finn will be the same way. He seems quite interested in exploring sounds and language and so far has been quite "late" with all the major gross motor skills landmarks. He can sort of commando crawl, but has never pulled himself up nor cruised. All babies are different!

3, how weird you saw one of those freaky doll baby ladies. You should've asked if you could hold it! :rotfl:

*off to find Tia's FB video*

jillie1974

morning

how is everyone today

Krystaltips

SugarSpun wrote: »

Sami, Krystal, fairies flew yesterday.

Ah, my fairies will probably fly tomorrow... DH opened the roses last night and [STRIKE]we[/STRIKE] ate them... He's under strict instructions today to get more...

Yay for only 18 working days, hope you get everything completed in time

I have to go wash up last night's dinner things... They should have been done last night but we were catching up on Dexter, just started season 4... Seen more of John Lithgow's ar5e than I ever thought I needed to... But it's looking good so far...

And at least the new dishwasher will be here tomorrow!!!