Me nappy wet mummy

After breakfast this morning, little man was playing with his trains and suddenly announced that his nappy was wet. This is true as he's still in his overnight one, we usually change it after Peppa Pig and Thomas and friends have finished! Do you want a new one I asked? Yes, upstairs, dessed (dressed) was the reply! shocked Mummy alert!

Little man has managed to spit out the entire English language since Christmas, comments like the above have become common place and he surprises me everyday. He can say so much and gets very very excited it. The big change with this has also been in the toilet training department.

We now do our number 2s on the toilet although they are still called beebies. He has even done them on the toilet in strange places like playgroup and pubs. Very shocking. He is still happy to wear a nappy although we are using pull up pants around the usual time he needs his beebies. He hasn't yet started to indicate he would like to do wee wee on the toilet although he does do sometimes. He's very young still and I don't want to rush him.

We haven't toilet trained our little man, he's been sitting on the toilet before his bath since 19 months and done a few wee wees on it. Recently he started coming up to us and telling us he'd done a dirty nappy and wanting it to be gone. Gradually this changed to him being able to tell us just before it happened. We gently suggested he tried sitting on the toilet to do them and it worked! I think he likes doing it there!!!

We tried no nappy the other night but he got upset about there being no nappy there so we substituted for a tiny pair of underpants. They have pictures of George pig on them so we told him not to get George wet. With the help of careful watching he did a wee on his potty and didn't wet the underpants. However the next day he wanted a nappy one so we've stuck to that for now. He's only 25 months and I don't want to rush him when he's not ready.

Maybe be this is baby led toilet training!?! Either way it's been very easy and stress free so far.

The Favourite Photo Meme

Okay - I wasn't tagged but I wanted to join in after seeing pictures from Sandy at Baby baby.

We have so many photos of the little man, thousands in fact. We recently had to break the "baby" folder down into 0-3 months, 3-6 months etc.. so it didn't take 20 mins just to open the folder of pictures!

I have many favourites from his baby days but I have chosen this one for my blog. Here is a picture of me and little man. He is just a day and a half old and we were waiting to be transferred back to Chorley hospital from Preston hospital. He looks so tiny and his legs are so small! Gorgeous! I think he had just had a feed.

bit upset

I don't see my good friends very often, my husband is my best friend and my best girly firend lives half an hour away so nipping round for a cup of tea isn't as easy as it could be. I have made many friends from playgroups but I don't see them outside of playgroup. I really need to make an effort to invite people round more.

I needed to say this to someone, so my blog it is! Our friends who had a baby on Tuesday, invited all the blokes to the pub last night for a "wetting the baby's head" drink. My husband wasn't invited and it's quite upset me, why did they leave him out? Maybe they just forgot? Either way I feel bad for him especially after they commented about it being a good night out on facebook several million times!! The baby's father was our best man at our wedding. I'm not one to make a big deal of something but it's just got to me a bit today. They probably didn't mean anything bad by it.

baby envy

A friend of mine has had a baby this morning - although I am very pleased for them for some daft reason I am also jealous. This has happened whenever someone I know has had a baby after I had my baby!

I have unfortunately inherited the tendency for jealously and possessiveness from some relative somewhere - not sure why but I know it got a lot worse when my little sister arrived on the scene. Incidentally she's the only one who can really wind me up, make me extremely angry and I can't let her borrow anything of mine as it eats away at me.

It made me wonder if my baby envy is me being broody, or is being broody making me jealous of other people having babies? Do I want another baby or is society just making me think that I should have more than one as stereotypically most people have more than 1. I don't want little man to experience the same emotions if I give him a brother or sister. I was wondering if timing was the key, I was 2 years 10 months when my sister arrived and if I was to get pregnant now it would be exactly the same for little man. Maybe we should have gone for a smaller gap?? People I know with smaller gaps don't seem to have the problem but then they are different to me.

I think part of it is missing the baby phase little man grew out of so quickly, he was sitting up at 4 months, crawling at 5 and 1/2 and walking at 9 months! By his first birthday the only thing he hadn't mastered was talking and jumping. He went a bit mad running off everywhere flinging open cupboards in peoples kitchens and just didn't stop! He's never been big on day time sleeps and was also down to only one nap a day by 9 months old. I never wanted to be one of those mums who boasted about what their child could do - yet I felt like it because other babies of similar ages did not develop as quickly, he also got teeth early and had most of them by 12 months. I loved the baby phase despite the lack of sleep and sometimes frustrating crying spells and not going to sleep problems.

I need to focus on what's so wonderful about my little 2 year old, he can now talk - he started over Xmas and can now say everything! He's talking all the time. He's also doing all his number 2s on the toilet! He's beautiful and I love him to bits. He's learning to sing the bing bong song and the wheels on the bus. Maybe I won't have another - just yet anyway!!