Due Jan 2009!!!

That is so sad, but also nice for everyone to show their support. It must be a hard decision to stop fighting it and just give her her peace. I cant imagine ever being able to make that decision. HUGS to your friend!

Kel, I hate that when they do that slide to the floor thing. But like M said, mine are mostly due to tantrums but I do still get the hysterical screaming for no reason that nothing can console! I am blaming teeth.

We have all had colds (mines pretty bad so I cant imagine what the boys are like)...but when I took James to the doc after 2 nights of screaming, ears, chest, throat all fine so it must be bloody teeth. We have finally cut No 8!!!

Tom hasnt been sleeping well for ages. he is waking every night and wanting to come up to our bed and if we refuse he totally melts down. Its just not worth it! Everynow and again he spends the whole night in his bed but its not happening often enough for me. He is so upset when he wakes that ONLY I can go to him. If DH does he totally loses it. Its bloody annoying.

Right now they are sitting at their table looking very sorry for themsleves. I have work this afternoon and I think DH is going away today and wont be able to pick them up early or come home. I know I probably shouldnt send them to daycare but I really need to go to work. I will see how they go this morning. Hopefully I can get them both down for sleeps this morning...but they both woke up late so dont like my chances. Tom seems to be dropping his day sleeps and only wants them a few times a week.

Man my head is sore!!! I have such a pounding headache. Think its sinus! Have taken panadol and just waiting for it to kick in.

S's photos were cool M. Looks like he had a good time. I had totally forgotten that we have 9 weeks till our 3rd birhtday. I have NO idea what to get him. He already has the same mocka bike. He loves it and is getting good fast! James is like K and gets really pissed that he cant ride it! But he is just too little. He could ride the wishbone bike we borrowed from toy library so he thinks he should be able to ride them all.

I have a cold too but luckily I seem to be the only one with it. My voice has gone all weird. Hope you and the boys feel better soon Nikki.

aw poor Cooper. Wonder if you could make meals based on porridge? to slowly get him happier eating other foods.

yeah our tow rope was ridiculously short and we weren't sure it would hold up, luckily it did. The visibility yesterday was awful, everyone had lights on cos the rain was that bad and it was so dark, even though it was 10.30ish in the morning. Saw one guy very nearly hit the back of me and cut up someone else who he also nearly hit. Sure we were a hazard but we had lights going and those who weren't speeding in the rain were able to get around us ok, was just the nutters who don't slow down who were terrifying me.

Funny everyone talking about spoon feeding themselves cos we have never fed K, he point blank refused to be spoon fed. So he just use to eat everything with his hands, and I mean everything including, porridge, weetbix, yoghurt, spaghetti, whatever, everything was finger food(that's why I gave up with bibs Nikki, cos no bib saves that mess!), then we started giving him his own spoon/fork depending on what we were eating and slowly he started to mimic and has been feeding himself well for a while. Still uses his hands a bit and sometimes eats with his spoon in one hand and uses his other hand as well, he's a bit of piggy pants. S is more trouble at the dinner table, everything is hot and he wants me to blow on it and then he wants my food instead of his even though we have the same food, then he will want my fork/spoon or he will want a big one if he has a little one or a little one if he has a big one, then he will drink instead of eating. Good job K just sits there scoffing cos he would starve to death otherwise the amount of faffing about I have to do with S.

nah, the bibs would need legs too. He had weetbix on his foot this morning!

Yeah I was thinking maybe you could make porridge and cos you can make it quite thick have a dollop of it on a plate with then maybe some fruit or veges that he could dip in the porridge or something. Just thinking that having that familiar safe food there might make him more inclined to eat the other foods as well and then once he's more comfy just eating you could phase out the porridge. Is so hard when he reacts to so much though and I could imagine that if food caused you pain you really wouldn't want to eat it whether you were hungry or not :(

If it makes you feel better Kel, James (with no food problems) is just refusing dinner most nights. flatly refuses. Eats breakfast really well and it all goes down hill from there.

M, bibs are on their way out here too...and whats with weetbix or porridge getting EVERYWHERE!

I was also suprised reading about babies feeding themselves. I was lazy and just left James to it. He's been feeding himself since he was about 10 months old...he's pretty good at it. A combo of fork and hands. We had a fight one day so I just handed him the utensils and he did a good job and I had free time so I left him to it. I cant believe you are all still having to feed them...little toads!!! In saying that James AND Tom are going through a "i want to be fed" phase as we speak....again...little toads!!!

Well, I better go...off to Toy Library meeting.

Hey Nikki, I did a shift at the toy library on saturday, loved it! It was so busy & went so fast!

Ohh I'm a bit anal about food mess getting everywhere, so I taught them to eat nicely.

Cooper had porridge today for lunch LMAO made it with a scoop of neocate added in cause he's refusing that by bottle too!

Nah they won't Alex, as long as the part isn't missing then it's all good LOL

I've just faxed off (hope I put the page up the right direction ) for the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Elimination diet book. I really want to do some set down proper challenges, I'm hoping I can introduce something like acid free toms cause that would help with meals no end! It's got 7 day meal planners as well Then I'm going to find a dietitian that is accepting of their "extreme" (in my paed's words) diet & help us work though our food intolerances. I do have a fair clue of what we are reacting too but I want to know more for certain.

Ok Tuesdays is fight day around here!

Poor Gracie hope she is ok, hope she doesnt end up with too much of a bruise

We have lots of feeding of Grace's babies and teddies and cat (pretend and real ) and anything else she can get her hands on. It is very cute. She still struggles to feed herself but tries and then once it all falls off the spoon she uses her hands - so not going to badly.

Grace is really showing signs of being aware of her bowel motions, which has raised the question of TT which seems wrong as she is very young. A friend had her DD done at 17months so I know that it is possible. When I take Graces nappy off at night to put her in the bath she runs around the house and then will go to a corner of say "mummy wees" and if I am not quick enough, you can guess what happens. This does not happen every night (thank goodness) but it certainly has made me think. She also tells me when she has done poos and squeezes her nose and says "mummy poos smelly". Any thoughts or ideas anyone?

Holy crap....go for it girls!! Great speech about it too...I put Cooper on the potty & he thinks it's a great game!

Just found this pages if anyone is stuck for ideas interesting what you find when you employ google!linky

eta correct link LMAO

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with Bede he was nearly three and he took to it like a duck to water and even at night as well he went dry. Only had the odd accident. I suppose it is the fact that Grace is soooo young and can use her words but not to the extent that Bede did. I think I will bite the bulle and get on with it and give it a blast. I am sure that our caregiver will buy into the whole thing and help.

Poor James sounds like he has had a pretty rough day

Should go to bed but thought I should stay up and watch some of the World Cup, its our first game tonight, Go the All Whites

I'd go with the TT as well - DD was day trained by 20months and night by 2 so maybe its a girls thing? - she had great language skills too.