~Nov/Dec 02' babes Chat for January~ - Page 2

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My son was a relatively 'late' walker. He walked unassisted at almost 13 months old. heh heh. I knew people that had kids who were walking at 8 months old. It freaked me out. I was beginning to think there was something wrong with me or my ds! LOL.
I have found that it really does not matter how soon they do things as an infant/toddler because it doesn't seem to make a difference when they are older.
For example, my older brother was potty trained and oh so independant by age 1.... He ended up dropping out of school and is quite dyslexic. He still can't read well.
My sister potty trained by age 1, read at a young age...And never went to college. She did awful in school.
I learned to walk on my own at 18 months old (so my mother claims). I took classes but never went to proper college...BUT, I have a very analytical mind, a photographic memory and a high IQ. Well, the IQ part I highly question. rofl. I don't trust tests. And ever since I got pregnant, my brain is mush.

So, in the end....It's all crap. roflmbo! Yeah, we get proud of our kids...But they are all the same on the inside.

We are all spiritual Beings having a Human experience.
:LOL

Peace,
Liz

[MamaFern]

i think im goona throw this computer out the window soon!

[MamaFern]

okay..ive figured it out~! all is not lost. i wont throw it out the window just yet.

i guess i was just freaking out because there are a lot of special momories in the form of pictures on this computer.

rynna: thanks.

jazz, i put all of your pic's on the disc too and i'll mail you a copy if you want.. its got all the pic's from the entire computer on it, for safe keeping. i hope you dont mind that i put your pictures on it too but i didnt want you to loose your pictures either if the computer breaks for good..although it seems to be happier since we moved it to a different room s computers never fail to amaze and frustrate me.

ak. its 10:00 and elwynn still isn't asleep. i should go and " nurse..milk..okay?" as he calls it right now. what a funny bunny.

night all.

[tea olive]

hello. i'm catching up here.
the depression here ain't that bad. i'm too old to go psycho. i'm back on track with my rainbow light prenatals. i suppose i should be more diligent when i am recommending them to everyone as it is. ironically, it is that i feel comfortable enough in life to want some time and less responsibility for myself, and some of my control is different since dh started working less for the holidays. i also get the feeling that my body is trying to get pg and the iud is working. ruby is the oldest baby i have ever had only because i have working birth control and i have mixed feelings.
meanwhile, i'm in a whirlwind to get my house palatable for clay's birthday party on saturday. my house has been a big thorn for awhile. i've learned to ignore it for the sake of the kids and my sanity trying to do too much but my perfectionism lashes out. i know it really doesn't matter what shape the house is in but it is so grubby that other kids have commented and people are clearly uncomfortable with how disgusting it is. i know i am. ruby is learning more and more bad habits from the boys and it makes me frustrated. oh well. thanks for letting me dump a little.

good luck with the learning......my goals have nothing to do with letters.

[tea olive]

i find it amusing that my grumpy post was number 666. i'm surprised it is not eliminated like the thirteenth floor.

[saritasmile]

Hi mama's! i'm definetly on the he can learn to read, etc. later. my dp's mom was the first to tell me that idea. that's great to know of a book about it. i don't discourage any learning, i just don't focus on it. razi can count to 4, but his favorite things to count are mama's 2 dees. :LOL
it's snowing here right now and there's that beautiful orangy glow reflection in the sky. part of a big tree fell into our backyard too! tonight ds and dp made a snowman in the front but razi kept eating the things they were using as a face. it was very funny (i was watching from inside where it was warm )

okay time for bed!!!

[hotmamacita]

[Mona]

eilowny- in refernce to this:

" I won't even go into where BeanBean is developmentally, having learned my lesson when I mentioned that Miss BooBah can crawl on her b-day thread. Suffice it to say, I'm not concerned about his development."



I think we all pretty much know that our babes develop differently, and beginings do not determine outcomes. So feel free to tell us what BeanBean is up to. I remember from your earlier posts that he was way "ahead" of your typical 2 yr old. I for one find it interesting just how wide the spectrum.

[abranger]

i totally agree mona the spectrum is so wide for these things. GA didn't walk until she was 15 months yet she talks in complete sentences now and had more than 20 words at one year. She is just now starting to show interest in climbing and only leanred to jump from standing without holding on about a month ago. her best buddie has been walking since 10 months! GA learned to crawl at 10 months!

GA had a great first day back at daycare yesterday. I am so releaved. She even took a 2.5 hour nap! We had a great stress free evening just playing together and nursing a lot. And she was happy to go again today. I hope this continues.

Amy

[MamaFern]

i think its crazy that our world tries to squish everyone into these boxes of how we should look, be, act..of course every child and adult and human is going to be different and develop in different ways and times.

i get frustrated because elwynn is so small for his age. strangers thinks he is this brilliant 1 or 1 1/2 year old..but you know what else bothers me the most? i cant go out of the house without at least one person telling me how absolutely beactiful he is..and i know that he is and i agree!, but why is that the most important thing to people? if i had a baby who was average or even funny looking why shouldnt people tell them that they are beautiful too.. i would, because they would be beautiful to me. most of my life i have felt ugly..elwynn makes me feel beautiful because wow i created this amazing beautiful being, but i am beautiful..maybe not in the blonde, anorexic, waiflike model way but in my own way. i hope that he doesn't grow up thinking that that is why people like or dislike him.

i remember a friend in high school telling me that she wished that she wasn't so beautiful because everyone wanted to be her friend because she was, but no one cared who she was on the inside and it made me feel so sad for her and guilty too because i always though, if only i could be as lovely as her my life would be perfect. the boys always wanted to be her boyfriend, but always treated her like crap...so beaing beautiful sure isn't everything..

anyways, enuff of my ranting. you are all beautiful and so are your kids and dont ever let anyone tell you otherwise!

[DecemberSun]

Well, I will continue to post about Julianna's development from time to time in this thread because the "Jan/Feb '03" threads keep dying out so there's no other place to brag! If you don't want to read about it you can just scan through it. At 23 months, she hardly talks at all. She has some signs and words that she uses consistently, but mostly she still points and grunts. If I teach her something new and she can't say it, she'll sign it- and if she can't sign it she'll try to say it! This worked for cookie- she made a really good sign of it the other day. And she couldn't make the sign for down, so she said it! I was proud of her since she prefers signing over talking! Sometimes when she's frustrated and stomping both feet I'll ask her what she wants and she'll wave her hands around franctically like she's trying to sign something! Too cute! :LOL

Zachary knows his colors. For the longest time he called yellow "cheese" and we thought that was hilarious! :LOL He says it now and it sounds like "geelow". He likes to sing along with the alphabet song but he says "e-e-e-e-e" and then "ooh- r- s" over and over. He doesn't know the names of any shapes, but he loves playing with his shape sorter and holding them up for me to name before he drops them in. He likes to count "1, 2, 8, 10!!!", and ten is said with real excitement. I think he got that from Julianna being 1, him being 2, Crystal being 8, and the 10 is just put on the end for good measure. (?) If I ask him how old he is he'll say "two" and hold up one index finger on each hand since he doesn't yet have the dexterity to make a peace sign. If you ask Julianna how old she is she'll silently hold up one finger. They say a lot by saying nothing at all, don't they???

It's been raining her for three dyas, and I think I finally see a little sky through the clouds. The rain doesn't make me depressed- since we live in the desert we LOVE any rain we get and it actually lifts my spirits. But I went out and bought some new houseplants anyway! Plants make me so happy, I love them. They are my antidepressents. That and cooking. (I made some chicken chili and some apply crisp yesterday...) My mom and my best friend and I went to the casino on my birthday and I won $500, so I think I'm going to treat myself to a day of skiing this week. All this rain is snow in the mountains so I'm sure it will be beautiful!!! Happy (soon) birthday, Lisa!

Zachary is addicted to this one episode of Reading Rainbow about airplanes. He calls is "bainbow a-panes". We had in on the TiVo in the living room, but DH just transferred it to a VHS so the kids could watch it on the other TV so we could get a break from it. I swear to Goddess he watched it 10 times yesterday. He even fell asleep in my rocking chair watching it! :LOL

[DecemberSun]

For those of you who are interested
http://groups.msn.com/NovDec2002Fami...iends/homepage

Go to that page and apply to join and I will approve you. This will be a tightly moderated group, and non-posting lurkers will be deleted (for security purposes). This is a private group that is not listed in the group directory, and everyone has to be approved to join and view posts and pictures. We can continue to post here of course, and if there's no interest in this group or if it doesn't work out it's no big deal, we'll just stay at MDC!

[punkprincessmama]

geez ladies this has been a busy thread in the last twenty four hours!

I would just like to say I like to hear about all y'alls babes, i feel close enough to most of you that I love to hear about your other children and what they are doing So brag away mamas, and feel free to share your concerns too. Well, that's the way I feel anyway.

Leah, I really like the way you set the msn group up. Thank you.

[Bethkm]

I love hearing about all your babes! Tyson has an amazing vocab, talking in complete sentances for months now. He's getting some pretty complex concepts down as well like, "remember mom, remember we went to Grandma's house?" and stuff like that. He also understands the concept of tomorrow which I find huge. He counts to 13 and sometimes just names numbers all our of order. He doesn't know any letters and knows a few shapes.

I find it interesting that Tyson was at the late end of normal for walking (15 months) and has always been slow with his physical development. It's like his body chose verbal development over physical. Poeple often comment at how clearly he talks and how much he talks. We have very few tantrums here and I think his verbal skills are a big part of that. I often remind him to tell me what's wrong and he does and then his problem is solved one way or another.

Whoever said it is right though, it doesn't matter at what pace they learn all this stuff. I was so stressed about T not walking around a year, just being tired of carrying him mostly, but now he walks like everyone else and it doesn't matter when he first did it. I really haven't taught him anything, physcial or otherwise, he picks things up from being around us, our conversations, and from being read to a lot. They are such sponges!

[MamaFern]

Leah, thanks so much for setting that up! it was confusing enuff regestering..im not very computer literate.

[DecemberSun]

I'm sorry if it's confusing Fern! This is kind of a trial group, if it's too hard or it doesn't work out we'll bag the idea.

I'm (eventually) going to try to find the e-mail adddres for lilmiss'mama so I can invite her to the goup. Anyone notice if kerc still get's on here?

I will approve you ladies as soon as I can, Zachary is putting his Mac and Cheese into his water cup, and pouring it back into the bowl... I have dial-up and the internet is S-L-O-W right now...

[punkprincessmama]

Oh! I miss lilmissmama I think about her and her girls and hope they are doing well...

haven't seen kerc in ages, or xmas eve either

[Mona]

leah, dd loves to put food into her water. and then take it out. and then put it back.
gotta love repetition

[abranger]

click here http://www.mothering.com/discussions/member.php?u=2513 and you can choose to send a message via email to lilmissmomma. it doesn't give her email address though

Amy

[saritasmile]

Mama Fern- i thought of a great bonus to having a smaller babe that people think is under 2 yrs. we just shelled out $300 for a plane ticket just for razi since he doesn't qualify for free now. so if you flew somewhere, he could still be free :LOL ! i think about a month ago we could have done that but he suddenly got taller and is talking fairly clearly. his teeth also got bigger and i think that makes a difference. he's still pretty skinny tho, 24 lbs i think.

Leah, it is snowing like crazy here!!! we have to wait for the plow to even get our car out. tav is outside building a snow slide, he's been out there for over 2 hours 'perfecting' the slide we got in a minor fender bender yesterday cuz the roads are so slick and this dumb woman was going too fast and couldn't stop. razi was in the car and it really scared me! but i'm sure that snowbowl is going to be just lovely for skiiing.

well i'll try the new msn thing but i'm a computer retard as well and am a little 'nervous' hehehe.

i'm so frustrated mamas! razi has a little friend about his age that has got a pretty bad biting problem. it's hard cuz they've know eachother since they were just a few months old. now when they hang out razi cringes when the little boy comes near. and razi has developed a bit of biting that i think he learned from him. anyway just ranting, he just bit razi about an hour ago so i'm still feeling : i don't want to ostrisize this mama but i also want razi to feel safe and not learn that biting is something to do, yk?