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[EsOrEnNa 0]

He's gorgeous Gabi

I hope he likes older women. Im wondering when I should break the news about the arranged marriage. But with your cute baby and my cute baby, we should have some stellar-looking grandkids!

i wanna see those grandkids too

[Eveline 9]

Mommies, is anyone of you signing with their baby?

I started out with the sign for eat and more and all done but ADam only signs back 'all done'. I'm gonna start the "potty" sign today as well as 'diaper change'...we'll see what happens. I know he's already a year old but still he's not even talking so I guess it won't harm him to teach him a sign here and there.

[yassmine2878 1]

Mommies, is anyone of you signing with their baby?

I started out with the sign for eat and more and all done but ADam only signs back 'all done'. I'm gonna start the "potty" sign today as well as 'diaper change'...we'll see what happens. I know he's already a year old but still he's not even talking so I guess it won't harm him to teach him a sign here and there.

I have a book about it I got as a gift and it looks pretty interesting. My sister seemed to have good success with her son learning to sign. Im going to try it when he spends a little more time awake, but doing something besides eating

[yassmine2878 1]

Does anyone else's baby have vivid dreams? My little one goes bananas in his sleep. He smiles, cooes, shrieks, flails, breathes fast, and sometimes even screams. Is this night terrors, or normal?

[sara535 15]

My babies both had a lot of wiggling and flailing and facial expressions, plus that startle reflex, but no shrieking or screaming. Might be a good question for the doc at your next appointment.

[chri'stina 190]

Gabi, Kavi breathes fast, smiles, sometimes flails, and sometimes makes a squeaky sound during certain sleep. I am guessing REM sleep. No shrieks or screams though.

[Eveline 9]

Mommies...look what Adam can do since yesterday http://s181.photobucket.com/albums/x244/Ev...nt=MOV03865.flv

Needless to say that I am one proud mom...

[Chrissy25 0]

Mommies...look what Adam can do since yesterday http://s181.photobucket.com/albums/x244/Ev...nt=MOV03865.flv

Needless to say that I am one proud mom...

wonderful video eveline, i can't wait for my little guy to do that

[EsOrEnNa 0]

@evi.. congrats!! D started that about 3 weeks ago too.. but he cant walk more than 7 steps.. but he is getting there..

Edited March 14, 2008 by Joel'sWife

[Nizzy 1]

Yaayy Adam and Damion! Too cute! Now they can get into even more trouble!

[churipu 4]

Congrats to Adam (priceless video Eveline, too cute!) and Damion! And good luck to moms...now the real trouble begins

[KJandSH 0]

We've got walkers too! Haneul takes about 5 steps tops and Iseul can do about 7 or 8.

I do some signing with the babies. Our babysitters sign with them quite a bit because they have two deaf sisters, so they are the real experts. The girls do signs for milk, bath, please, and mine. I also want to teach them them the signs for potty, etc.

Speaking of the potty, is anyone trying elimination communication? Haneul and Iseul are very interested in the potty and I try both of them on their potty chair when I do diaper changes. Both have peed on their little potty several times. Every time I say 'potty' they blow raspberries--it's pretty funny. I didn't teach them that, they just decided on it. I say pssss or shhhhh when they are on the potty to cue them to pee.

My Korean mother in law is the one who turned me on to elimination communication. In Korea in the days of cloth diapers, it was just the way things were done. She told us to start at 3 or 4 months, but we started at 10 months. I'll do more with it when I'm on summer vacation and I'm home and also I think it will be a lot easier with fewer layers of clothes.

Kristi

[Eveline 9]

I have heard of EC but for me it was just too much of a hassle. I did cloth diaper but could never really get myself into having my hand in baby's diaper to see when he peed. Anyway, Adam is not interested at all in his potty. I do put him on there whenever I go to the bathroom (and I don't forget about him) and he sits there and has a good time listening to me peeing but he never peed on it yet. I guess that will still take a while.

Congratulations on your potty training though. It's amazing how you handle the twins like it's no big deal at all. I guess you grow into it eventually.

[KJandSH 0]

I have heard of EC but for me it was just too much of a hassle. I did cloth diaper but could never really get myself into having my hand in baby's diaper to see when he peed. Anyway, Adam is not interested at all in his potty. I do put him on there whenever I go to the bathroom (and I don't forget about him) and he sits there and has a good time listening to me peeing but he never peed on it yet. I guess that will still take a while.

Congratulations on your potty training though. It's amazing how you handle the twins like it's no big deal at all. I guess you grow into it eventually.

I don't know that I handle twins like it is no big deal all the time. It was very hard in the beginning so I think everything since has seemed easier because of that. I have one baby that is what some would call an 'easy' baby and the other is pretty easygoing--maybe a medium need baby.

I wanted and still want to cloth diaper, but my husband is totally against it. I work full time and he's the stay at home dad now, so maybe I will try partial cloth diapering in the summer when I have my summer vacation.

Kristi

[Dr. Obvious 49]

My daughter is 26 months and is a pretty slow speaker. She understands tons in either English or German, but she just doesn't say a whole lot. I don't know if it is a confidence issue or what. I read that bilingual kids take longer to speak, but you know, I see kids much younger than her just gabbing away in words and sentences. My daughter is huge for her age, easily as tall and weighs as much as most three year olds, so people expect more out of her. So far we have only gotten out of her 'Wo is t'da kilk?' and 'Whaaz dat?' as sentences.

I guess I am just fishing for comments about it from other parents of bilingual kids. We don't know anyone here with kids, let alone bilingual ones.