Vocabulary
I’ve been a terrible blogger. What’s even more terrible is that each blog post starts with an excuse about how long it has been since the last blog post. My colleague keeps complaining that my blog is standing still and she has nothing to read when she gets bored at work. Tsk.
I’m recovering from glandular fever/viral pharangitis at the moment. It started last week Monday and saw me staying at home on Wednesday and going to see the doctor. Because it was viral I managed to skip the antibiotics and was just given meds to treat my symptoms. I’m still not 100%. I just found that my throat still hurts when I eat, although it isn’t that obvious if I’m just swallowing or drinking something. Poo.
Just as I started feeling better (around Friday I saw improvement) and thought my troubles were over, Babyice spiked a temperature on Saturday night. He is barking again too. So we’re nebulizing and keeping an eye on his fever, which has stabilized since yesterday. We carted off the nebulizer to the day mother this morning so that she could neb him while we’re at work. We had a terrible night with him on Saturday night. Every time we put him down he would cry. We had to ask our guests to leave and it went on for hours after they left. What is up with that anyway? If you are at someone’s house for a braai, you’ve been there since the afternoon, you’ve already eaten and you see that their child is sick and that both parents are struggling….WHY don’t you leave?! Why do you have to be asked?! Surely that’s common sense. It was late…the sound of them talking wasn’t condusive to us putting Babyice back to sleep. This was after 23:00 and they had been there since 15:00. We’d already eaten and nothing much was happening. Some people need to learn courtesy. Or am I being oversensitive?
After the pull ups working at night for Babyice for a little while, they too have failed. He has managed to wee through those. I then tried to put him on a size 5 at night and that worked for about 2 nights before that failed too. I asked for some help on Twitter and was told by other boy mommies that some of them had resorted to doubling up on the nappies at night! DOUBLE! Might as well have another baby… 
More than one person actually suggested using a Dr. White’s sanitary towel along the top of his nappy. Looks like this problem is not uncommon amongst boys. For the last two nights we have had to change his clothes at 3:00 because the nappy has overflowed. Not fun! We are currently using Pampers. I don’t really want to try Huggies Gold after the problems we had with them before, so I’m really at a loss for what to do. Undressing/wiping him down at 3:00 in winter is not ideal for sick babas 
Other than that he has started babbling and repeating words. Rudi and I will have to be careful…we can easily be swinging some foul language around without even noticing.
I saw this on Christelle’s blog. I thought it was cute and that I would do the same. The first word is how he pronounces it, the second what he is actually saying:
Vocabulary at 16 months:
Ambah – Amber
Bobble – Bubble
Pweesh – Please
Mommeeee – Mommy
Daddeeeee – Daddy
Uh Oh – Eeyore
Moh – More
Ank ooh – Thank you
Bummm – Bum
Ummy – Dummy
Ehlo – Hello
Bye bye – bye
Ouma – Ouma
Claire – Claire
Bawl – Ball
Go – Go
Come – Come
Kla – Klaar (finished)
Jush – Juice
Baby – Baby
Puppyyyyy – Puppy
Foe – Throw
pee pee – pee pee
…and in case you missed this on Twitter and Facebook…
Little monkey
ooh so cute when they start to get vocal – ull be surprised how the kids big up on the words they not supposed to (those normally come out the loudest and clearest and in place u dont really want them too like @ church during a prayer or something). Yup your blogs have been a bit quiet lately put it down to u not feeling too good ans stuff so u forgiven for that. oh and thanks for the headsup on what to exdpect from little boys and nite time nappies (gynae confirmed last week its 100% a boy for me) so now my little family will be finished with my pigeon pair just to start thinking of boys names and stuff hee hee
Congratulations on your boy!!! Being a boy mommy is awesome
(except when they wee through their nappies every night 
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O how absolutely nunu! He is chatting! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
K, with regards to nappies – we had no luck with pampers. So we used Huggies Gold with Matti. Bear does well with Huggies Dry – so each child is different. Try to make sure his “winkle” points downwards, and perhaps change him as part of the putting him into bed routine? If you give him his milk earlier, and wait an hour before changing him, quite a bit of the leakage should lessen. [less liquid in body = less leak see?
] I think he might be a bit small for pull ups at night – those don’t really hold much, as they are mostly to encourage potty training [in my experience - it may not be VALID, just opinion].
Hope he is on the mend from his sickies!
I definitely don’t think that you are being oversensitive. I have done the same in the past. I don’t know why people can’t think because I have left parties before (without being asked) when I saw that the parents were struggling a bit and I had no issues doing it.
I hope you find the answer to night-time wetness. I have tried various nappies and it still seems to be happening. I do make sure that his winkie is pointing down as well and he doesn’t take any night-time bottles. He has a bit of tea after supper but this can hardly be enough liquid to cause that kind of nappy overflow. I haven’t tried the pull ups yet but am desperate enough to consider doing the Dr Whites thing.
I love that pic of your boy. He actually looks like you and his Daddy in that pic. I do hope that your health improves and that you will be back to your old self pretty soon.x
I don’t think you’re oversensitive at all. I feel the same sometimes and I don’t have a little one. OK you’ve eaten and drank and visited … time to move along now.
I LOVE the pic of your little monkey. He looks like he’s going to be full of fun mischief as he gets older
Ank ooh is too cute.
That photo is just soooo cute!
You should give Huggies Gold another go. I see that they now put the batch number on the tags/ears, so maybe they are aware of the problem. I found that with Pampers even Zani was leaking at night, so it might not just be a boy problem – maybe just worse with boys.
As to the guest……I would have flipped my lid!!
Oh he is adorable.
How cute are those words!