October ’06 Toddlers

1st Birthdays!

10: Charli - Vanessa
11: Toby - Angel
14: Sienna (7.45pm) - Emma
14: Mercedes (7.48pm) - Emma
17: Isla - Kellz
23: Olivier - Millie
24: Ethan - Natalie
26: James - Danni
27: Brenna -Anna

Im missing Oliver, Ella, Kaia and Lily,... and I still have baby brain,...except now its toddler brain,..LOL! So sorry to everyone else Ive missed,...please add! And my stupid comp wont let me see tickers, so if the date is written there, you will no Im not just being a blind dingbat!

Edited by Kellz

Lily goes down around 7.30-8pm and sleeps right through untill 8am.
Lily is the 24th also, cheers


Hope everyone is well

Edited by shelleybean

I was wondering the same thing about naps and bedtimes too. A few times Isla hasnt had a morning nap cos she has been fine and not seemed tired,..but most days she still needs 2. She wakes between 6-6.30am, nap about 9am for an hour, nap about 1.30-2pm for 1 1/2 hrs, bed at 6.30pm,..but of course thats all different since daylight savings. She went to bed 7pm last night, up at 7.15am, and down for nap at 10.30am. So pretty much the same,...the times just an hour foward! Im so confused!

What about eating? Im sure Isla doesnt eat enough, and has way too much formula for her age. She is still having 4 bottles,...and will drink upwards of 150 ml each time. She still wakes for a 9.30-10pm feed
She will eat 2 tbs of baby porridge made with 50 ml formula, and 1/4-1/2 peice of toast for breafast (sometimes a bit of fruit too),...lunch 1 piece of bread in a sandwhich with avacado or ham or vegemite, raisins or a bit of banana or pear of other fruit (not a very big peice), a slice or 2 of cumcumber of celery, and maybe a buiscuit or rice cracker,..dinner is hard. She HAS to feed herself and wont eat the "family" meals we have tried. She will eat about 1/2 a plain sasuage or about 4 aria farm meat strips,...and the other day had a chicken leg,...but cant get her to eat anything with it. Veges are a no no,....HELP! Suggestions greatly appreciated!

ETA- Isla has slept through the whole night (6.30pm- 6.30am) twice now! So gooo Lily! Lol!

Edited by Kellz

Oh and today they are snotty, grotty feral little toads, they have pretty much slept and screamed intermittently all day except when I took them to the GP to get Mercedes ears and chest checked when they put on a glorious show and were happy as larry. Typical!

Thanks Kellz... I'd been wondering about food today as well!  Ella will eat anything up to 10gms (dry) farex powder mixed to a super-sloppy consistency with a little fruit in there for brekkie, but she usually eats only about a 3rd of what I make her.  She must eat about 30gms of pureed food for brekkie.  Lunchtime she sometimes refuses solids all-together and dinnertime is hit and miss, she usually eats some but much less than her breakfast even.  She can eat meat if I've cubed it up for her in tiny pea-sized pieces, and has been known to eat about a quarter of the occasional mini muffin.  Won't eat fresh fruit, but will put bits of dried fruit in her mouth.  And brocolli... she'll eat that as a finger-food if I've got it in tiny pieces.  She drinks 4 feeds of her formula, anywhere from 150 - 200mls each time.  It's blimmin frustrating though trying to get her eating - I offer solids before the bottle but she just hates food.  It's infuriating! 

OK I'm just in a bad, bad mood about it today.  My child is throwing tantys a lot today, won't friggin eat at all today no matter what I offer her, and the house is a pigsty (which always makes me grumpy!). 

Awww, hugs Andie! The gremlins and Ella will just have to be the starving, underweight grubs of the October toddler bunch then. Coz of course we NEVER feed them, and they are so deprived!

If it helps, my house is a pig sty too and the cleaner didn't come coz she locked her keys in her car.

Isla wont let us feed her anything on a spoon, other than porridge for breakfast. Thats why I find it so hard to get dinner into her. She has to do it herself. We put a few veges on her tray, and she will just play until we give her meat, then she will pick through the veges to get the meat! Arghh!

I'm going to recruit Brenna as Ella's food-coach.  She can show her how it's done! 

Wow Anna Brenna is great with her food! I find it a bit hard with some things that I give Ollie because of not having any teeth yet. He does love bananas though and I give that to him in chunks and he seems to be able to eat it!

Go Brenna! Her gremlin friends are great floor-scavengers too, it must taste better covered in dirt