Ladies we have arrived...I know you are all here because I pm'ed you all on fb

A quick Wil update to start us off...

I have a fully fledged toddler who I would describe as walking and talking but actually he runs and shouts.

He is just lacking the getting up from sitting to standing without using something to pull up against but other than that he is fully mobile.

We have a number of words that he can say clearly and many more that are sort of understandable. So far we have:
ta, ball, boo, bird, yes, no, daddy, momma, happy, row

on the understandable list we have:
atsy (Patsy - our cat and for Wil any cat), ammy (Sammy - dog), osti (Frostie - dog), dat (that), dis (this)

how is everyone else?

Hey Gill, Im good ta! Hayden is running and shouting and climbing and generally being a nightmare........
He's getting there with words... mummy daddy owis (lewis) oweee (owen) stop, no, ta, hiya, bye, ball...
I have today taught him How Ruuuuudde

26th May 09

Ah great I only mentioned to Michelle about doing this on here, have to say tho I did find it by chance!

Great to hear how they are getting on, its a great stage they are all at now I am loving it.

Elleah is ever so cheeky, but very cute with it! She has started answering me back in baby babble its quite funny.

She is improving with new words almost daily, some not as clear as others but with a point at what it is, it then becomes understandable, her newest words are "poo" "appy" (nappy) "psss" (wee wees) these are because I have introduced the potty a bit more regularly now so of course comes the new found potty language!

Lets hope the rest of the girls update too x

hey ladies well i wud say evan is doing fab but we have jst spent the after noon in and and e after him falling and splitting his head open dont know what im gonna do with him he is forever climbing and falling or jumping and running about

other than the head injury he is doing fab still not so good iwht the talking he will speak in baby bable not he isnt really saying alot of words he is a cheeky wee monkey tho and very hyper

Hey all

Well C still isnt walking. If i stand her up shes starting to stand unaided and might take the odd step if i stand just out of reach but she just doesnt seem to wanna go, its sooooooooo frustrating as shes so bloody good at climbing im actually thinking of enrolling her in pre school gymnastics to channel it.

Shes talking like a baby of 2 though its frightening - i think we must be on 20 odd words in context now, plus another 5 she uses just cos she has heard us without knowing what they are. Shes also naming body parts now - hair, head, nose, hands, fingers, belly/bellybutton and feet. Shes getting good at her singing now and we get row row row (though she can only get that far with it) and Tinkle tinkle star star star lol.

Words so far she uses regularly as opposed to just the once are: Mummy, Daddy, I-ah (hiya), baw (ball), boon (balloon), bick (brick), ee-do (greebo), nana, ooma (oma - my mum), ham (sam my friends son), juice, shoes, fish, cat, num num (food), fwower (flower), dirdie (birdie), yook (look), Iggle Iggle (iggle piggle), dis, dat and der, ta and peass (interchangeably), uh oh, oh no (complete with clapping both hands to face), book, wow and boo and today she learned bug.

She seems to have given up on naming animals and refers to them by noise so we get miaow, woof woof, moo, baaaa, grunt for a pig, ooo oo ahah for a monkey, hee haw for a horse/donkey, ack ack for a waterbird, weet weet for a flying bird, eek eek for any small rodent, biziziz for flying insects and she started doing hissing for crawling bugs today after seeing a hissing cockroach, bit bit for a frog, beep beep for a car and nee naw for a ...nee naw. She also does open and shutting mouth for fish and rabbit nibbling noises for rabbits. If you tell her sleep time she also pretends to snore which is very funny.

Words she uses just cos she has heard them are Turd (third as in third and bird) Daster (distaster from zing zillas) Ninger (minger I have to stop using it) and blue - we are trying colours but she seems to have taken a shine to blue.

Shes at a childminder once a week now while i sleep off nights and seems to like it. We still dont have her swimming yet after her bath phobia settled but she likes going out looking at animal parks/ fruit picking/soft play and at home she loves drawing and painting and reading. Ive just enrolled her in baby boppers and am trying to decide if im wasting money on tumbletots and should just go straight to gymnastics for her. OUr local class does classes for under 3's with drop in payg sessions to try it out.

Shes still only 19lb though. She has quite a lot of bugs between 13 and 15lb and hardly gained weight so shes now dropped off the 9th line and has dropped to between 2nd and 9th. From no teeth at 9 months she now has 10 and is currently working on another 3. Its been a rough few months to be sure.

Erm yup i think thats about it. Hope some others turn up too though i think we are the regulars

Bloody hell

He has started copying us...time to watch what I think, say and do like a good Girl Guide

phone to the ear 'elwo'
putting shoes and hats on - had a pair of my knickers he was trying to put on this morning
sang back what was on the TV on his DVD (I put the clip on fb)

Unlike Caelyn he does not appreciate it when we go places. Wil is bird obsessed so we decided to take him to The Raptor Foundation (200+ birds of prey and owls with flying displays) was he interested, no chance. Got home first thing we get 'bird', 'bird' as he points at the bloody pidgeons on the roof! The kid prefers pidgeons to eagles!

Little miss C and her words!!! Loving Elleah and her potty talk too.

gill evan is the same he is so interested in things such as birds or certain toys wen we r out so we take him places or buy him them and he doesnt even acknowledge it but wud sit for hours watchin a seagull or pigeon in the garden

Time for an update...

I have a little talker. I have become 'mammy' and Wil's childminder is 'Wow' (really Noelle but we know what he means). My words are being copied and he seems to have new ones everyday. His understanding of language is amazing too. Yesterday I saw him pulling poo faces and said 'do you need a poo?' he replied 'yes' so I said 'quick go to the toilet then' and he ran to the bathroom and put his little seat on the toilet. I put him on and we had almost instant results.

The independence has gone to a whole other level too.

• If he is hungry he goes to the cupboard and finds something to eat,
  
• If he is thirsty he goes to the kitchen and points at the juice on the surface or tries to get the milk out of the fridge
  
• wants the TV on gets the remote and points it at the TV (also does this if he doesn't like what is on and wants it changed),
  
• gets a cloth and helps to wash the dogs' feet when they have been out for a walk (very messy cos he doesn't understand wringing the cloth out first),
  
• gets his shoes/ clothes and tries to put them on
  
• insists on no help with meals and gets annoyed if we try to help him
  

How is everyone else? Are we all walking/ running now?

Ah Gill thats a great update lots of progress in past few weeks then!

I can relate to most of it too, Elleah is extremely independent and boy I know about it if I try to interfere!

I had success with the toilet today too she made a sound like she needed a poo, so I asked her shall we go to the toilet and off she went. I just held her shes never been on the loo only potty, anyway she done a poo and pea I was so proud lol!

Annalisa will knows from my other post that Elleahs very stubborn and grumpy and cries constantly its very stressful, I have bought a book which she recommended "toddler whisperers" just waiting on it arriving I need some strategies on how to best handle certain situations as theres no reasoning with her its really hardwork. She frowns a lot, and pouts its a shame because shes very bright, talks loads, her vocab is brilliant and she parrots everything I ask her to say but I am clouded by this grumpiness that she has I just want her to be happy.

Her newest regular words are "UP PLEASE" when she wants to get on the sofa or get carried, I started ignoring her moan and asked her to say it now she doesn't even need prompting cos I respond as soon as she says it.
Says Jofis (Joseph) Carly, Amy, lots of other names of family and friends its very impressive, but her favourite is NO! And newest one is NO WAY! I posted a video on fb of this! "Hanon" (hang on), eergo (here you go)

Well she is definitely forming a strong personality so hopefully my new book will be a godsend!

And I finally bought her 1st pair of walking shoes, wanted to wait till summer was out cos shes been wearing sandals, I got £20 CLARKS voucher for her birthday which was so helpful cos they were £28 what an expense! But very cute on her I am very old fashioned I like her to look like a baby girl so got her patent black ones for the autumn and prob get some boots later on too.