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<div>Originally Posted by <strong>Kelly1101</strong> <a href="/community/forum/post/15369131"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/community/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border:0px solid;"></a></div>
<div style="font-style:italic;">It's made me realize I finally REALLY need to be careful of what I say and how I say it, things like that</div>
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Us too!!! My DH thinks profanity is really distasteful, so I've had lots of practice curbing my tongue around him anyway, thank heaven. But I'm realizing that we have to be much more aware of other things - like when we argue in front of her. It's <i>really</i> difficult not to do sometimes (I have a really problematic temper), but then when we're in the middle of an argument I catch sight of her worried little face watching us and it just breaks my heart. So we're really working hard to get better about that. We never argue about anything important, anyway.<br><br>
And TV, too - we don't have any actual TV (never got a converter box), but we'll occasionally watch part of a DVD in the evening while Olive is awake. (Usually it puts her right to sleep -- this is my Lazy Mommy bedtime ritual for when I'm really worn out.) We try not to let her actually watch the TV, but she does, sometimes. Now that she's learning so much, though, I'm worried about some of the films we're watching. We don't watch violent or scary movies, compared to most adults we know, but even Spiderman has some pretty scary music and sounds for a toddler just learning about her world. Time to retire the TV until after bedtime, I think.<br><br><br><div style="margin:20px;margin-top:5px;">
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<div>Originally Posted by <strong>j_p_i</strong> <a href="/community/forum/post/15369345"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/community/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border:0px solid;"></a></div>
<div style="font-style:italic;">Recently the dog chewed on something, and DH said something about him being a "bad *expletive*" and pointed... and Olivia points at the dog and says "ba!"</div>
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<img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.mothering.com/discussions/images/smilies/lol.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="lol"> Our Olive does the same thing! We're always yelling at the cat to get off the dinner table, so now, if the cat jumps up on the table, Olive will point at her, furrow her brow into this angry face, and command "Yah!" repeatedly until one of us removes the cat.<br><br>
This high-pitched, high-volume "yah" is her favorite word, it seems! She doesn't have any consistent words that I can tell (though "mama" and "dada" seem to be a bit more regular lately). But this "yah!" (accompanied by an emphatic pointing finger most of the time) is a constant. It's a bit embarrassing in restaurants, or in church, or anywhere that earsplitting noise is <i>not</i> exactly the Thing to Do. I'm hoping she outgrows it.<br><br>
Thankfully, the baby sign language classes at the library are starting to show some results: now, instead of standing up in her high chair and screaming when she's done eating, she calmly catches my eye and signs "all done." It's a marvelous improvement. A little sad, though, too, to realize how close she is to talking. We aren't in babyland anymore!!!<br><br>
She's been running a fever for the last couple of days, too, just like some of your LO's -- maybe it's just a weird 11-month sickness or something. I was up at 4 am with her in a lukewarm bath, trying to get her fever down. She didn't fuss at all, just sat there blinking sleepily at me, like she wanted to say, "Mama, are you crazy? Do you <i>realize</i> that it's the middle of the night?" Poor kid. And getting baby Tylenol into her is almost as bad as giving the cat a pill.<br><br>
Oh, BTW, speaking of Tylenol, did you all see the recall on infant medicines this weekend? It affects infant and children's Tylenol, Motrin, Zyrtec and Benadryl. More info <a href="http://mcneilproductrecall.com/" target="_blank">here</a>. We have to send ours back. Scary stuff. One more reason to avoid medicine for the baby if at all possible!<br><br>
We're at 35 people and counting at her birthday party. With 60 still not RSVPed yet. Pray for warm weather next Saturday!
