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Life the univers and everything

Bubblegum
DoppleMe

My son just this very moment asked me, I was cuddling him and telling him how I loved him and he said, what is life daddy? how does it happen? so I went off on a deep philosophical explanation with him, about half a minuet in his eyes glaze over and he interrupts me to ask if we were having chocolate quasons for breakfast.

I love it when then ask questions that show they are thinking about stuff bigger then themselves : )

Posted on: November 23, 2009 - 9:36am
Anna
Parenting specialist DoppleMe

:lol: :lol:

Clever boy! Did he get what he wanted??

Posted on: November 23, 2009 - 11:41am
Bubblegum
DoppleMe

No, the coop baker wasn't in this morning, or she came in late as there wasn't anything interesting, so we got some of those French milk bread things cant remember the name, they aren't fresh they come in a packet.

Posted on: November 23, 2009 - 11:55am
sparklinglime
DoppleMe

Awwwww....

Shame about the chocolate quasons :)

Posted on: November 23, 2009 - 2:28pm
Louise
Parenting specialist DoppleMe

Well it is interesting to know how their grasshopper minds jump around. I was once telling my Mum a very long and involved story about how my son (then 2) had been backwards and forwards to the loo on the train (he liked pressing the button for the sliding door) so in the end I said if you want another wee you will have to use the potty (thinking he wouldnt squeeze one out) anyway, he said he needed the potty and lo and behold, he sat on it, did an enormous poo and I had to walk down a swaying train to the loo to empty and sanitize it.. :D

So, I am telling my Mum this story and she laughed and said "Oh J...., is that true?" and he said "Yes, AND I had a Polo!" The mint was obviously more significant to him than the long walk I had to do down that train :oops:

Posted on: November 24, 2009 - 8:32am
sparklinglime
DoppleMe

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Posted on: November 24, 2009 - 12:01pm
Claire-Louise

Louise
Good job the train did not suddenly jolt to a stop, otherwise someone could have found thenselves in a very messy situation!
C-L

Posted on: November 24, 2009 - 5:37pm
sparklinglime
DoppleMe

Claire-Louise wrote:
Louise
Good job the train did not suddenly jolt to a stop, otherwise someone could have found thenselves in a very messy situation!
C-L

eeeewwwwwwwwwwww

Posted on: November 24, 2009 - 7:47pm
Bubblegum
DoppleMe

I thought my vomit and pooh days were over, they are five and seven now.. but then I got a dog! and now I'm back to following someone round cleaning up pooh and sick. Our dog is at this very moment banished to the back garden (concrete space) due to it's recent inability to control its bladder and lower intestine, it is at this very moment clawing at the door which from the outside looks like the Hound of the Baskervils has been trying to get in.

Later.

Posted on: November 25, 2009 - 9:10am
Louise
Parenting specialist DoppleMe

:lol: :lol: :lol: at Claire-Louise!

Bubblegum, ah back to the poo duties, I suppose that you could say that even if it was more.....continent.... you would be taking little doggy bags out with you on walks, so the main thing is to keep it from happening in the house :)

Posted on: November 25, 2009 - 9:35am
lindsaygii

Louise - polo - :lol:

At only five months mine was making me laugh today. I left him in a creche for the first time, and after an hour and a half the lady came to get me 'cause he was crying. Sure enough, poor little mite is red faced, tears pouring down, choking with grief. As soon as he saw me he stopped (awwww), then when I took him from her, started smiling (huge beaming smiles) at the creche lady he'd just been bawling at, and straining to get back out of my arms to reach some brightly coloured toys on a shelf. I mean IMMEDIATELY.

He kept remembering he was meant to be upset at being abandoned and trying to cry again, but he'd already blown the gaff with the toys and smiling. What a con-artist! :)

Posted on: November 25, 2009 - 9:13pm
Louise
Parenting specialist DoppleMe

:D Bless him. I bet that felt strange leaving him a creche for the first time (though you will get used to it and the bit of freedom it gives you :) ) It sounds though as if it was one of those moments where you finally get some reward for all the love and care lavished, ie he was so delighted to see you

Posted on: November 26, 2009 - 8:28am
Bubblegum
DoppleMe

The first time I had both mine in either crèche or school at the same time, I remember walking out of the crèche and being really concious of the fact that I had two arms and not knowing what to do with them as they had spent the last two few years pushing a pram and holding hands or babies or something! and suddenly I didn't know where to put them, I was walking into town trying them in my various pockets, at my sides, folded, it was strange.

Posted on: November 26, 2009 - 8:54am
Anna
Parenting specialist DoppleMe

:lol: bubbegum, you are funny!

lindsaygii, that was great that the creche staff could come and get you, hopefully on his next visit, he knows that you are not far away and that you will come back, so can get on and enjoy himself!

Posted on: November 27, 2009 - 11:11am
Claire-Louise

Hi Bubblegum
I know exactly waht you mean. My children are 6 and 4 years now and I still have not relearned what to do with my arms! I used to walk and swing my arms and people said I had a very definite and particular walk. Now after 6 years of pushchairs etc, I just doon't know what to do with my arms when I walk and end up putting them in my pockets so I am teaching myself to swing my arms again!
Lindsaygii - it is amazing how clever young children are and how quickly they can learn to wind us round their little fingers with being all upset one moment and then happy as larry the next! I hope you got to enjoy some of your 'me' time while he was in the creche and will do it again. They soon learn you are coming back and how exciting the toys in these new places are that they are happy for us to go. My children now complain when I come to collect them!
Life is just full of ups and downs and awkward arms!
C-L

Posted on: November 27, 2009 - 9:02pm
lindsaygii

He went back in again and managed an hour before crying. But when I went to get him he'd decided that he might like some milk, as it goes, and was cuddled up with the creche lady having a bottle. aahh.

It is good, because they can come and get me he's learning that actually he's fine for a bit without me, but that if he really needs me, I WILL come back. I tell you, by January when he's actually in nursery all day he won't look back.

bubblegum & Claire-Louise, yes to the arms thing. It is quite strange to walk away, isn't it? :)

He's going a bit mad just now 'cause he REALLY wants to be able to crawl about, but he can't do it... Today he actually did manage to push himself forward about six inches, but instead of realising he'd had a major breakthrough he put his little head down on the floor and cried because the toy he wanted was still too far away. Doh. :o

Posted on: November 27, 2009 - 9:33pm
Bubblegum
DoppleMe

Wait till he wants to walk and YOU know it's going to end in him planting his face in the floor..

:)

and stairs!!! what a nightmare! I had two stair gates, on at top one at bottom and it was ME! who repeatedly nearly broke their neck trying to negotiate them.

Posted on: November 27, 2009 - 10:47pm
Claire-Louise

Hi Lindsaygii and Bubblegum
My son started off slithering along the floor rather than crawling (comando crawling is the porper term for it I think!) but when he first learned to do it, he managed to push himself backwards rather than forwards so imagine the disappointment when the toy was even further away when he look up - poor things!!!Try, try and try again heh?!
Youve been framed and tv burp is calling my family now thnaks to my son, so I am going to have to go - sorry!
Cheers C-L

Posted on: November 28, 2009 - 8:07pm