What's in a name?

Millie has been awake for 15minutes and has said mummy 25 times so far. Hubby hasn't left for work yet so she's said daddy 64 times. We waited with baited breath for her first mummy and daddy words and now I hold my breath and count to 10 to stop my brain from exploding with them. 

Today her mummy's meant:-

I'm wearing a towel

I'm stuck on toilet

I dropped lavender oil over bannister

I want milk

I've done a poo

Put this top on me

I've emptied this sewing box

I want milk 

I want to come down with you

I want some of that chocolate

I've hurt my foot

I want this open

I want milk 

Look I'm climbing the bookcase

Look I'm emptying the bookcase

I've fallen off the bookcase

I want this, it appears attached 

I'm upstairs you're not

You're in the shower not beside me 

I want milk

I like this milk 

Open this plastic box and fill it 

Look I'm standing in the dishwasher

Oh why did you close it

Lift me up

I want milk

Stop making dinner

I'm so happy playing with my sisters 

I'm overwhelmed they're chasing me

I didn't mean to bite Maia 

I'm tired

I'm hungry

I want that

Ellie made my nose bleed

By the time hubby got home, ten hours later, there were about 226 of them. That's roughly one every three minutes. 

Normally, I just hear an endless stream of mummeeeeee mummeeeeee mummeeeeee and by the end of the day I am near plot losing. From today's experiment, I see that I am not taking the time to actually HEAR what my little 18m old is telling me. I am not paying enough attention to be able to decipher her communications. She is SO desperate to talk, it must be SO frustrating for her not to have all the words yet and even worse to feel I am not listening to her. 

Who knew my baby had SO much to say?!!

Why not try pay attention to your mummeeeee's tomorrow and let me know what your baby is telling you!

Meltdowns - massive one on a bike ride

Losing the plot -  not massively but too much shouting 

Breastfeeding - lots

Tell me about Mummy

My friend's blog had this post and I decided to do the same!

Tonight I asked Ellie (5yrs 8months) all about Mummy :-


1. What is something mummy always says to you? I love you
2. What makes mummy happy? Giving her a kiss
3. What makes mummy sad? Hitting her
4. How does your mummy make you laugh? By being very silly and doing stuff silly
5. What was your mummy like as a child? I don't know.  I don't even know a thing about it..oh I know..you were fighty cos your brother was always fighting with you
6. How old is your mummy? I can't remember can you tell me 67? 84?
7. How tall is your mummy? 10ft tall
8. What is her favorite thing to do? Is to love me
9. What does your mummy do when you're not around? Have a massage (that is what happened tonight)
10. If your mummy becomes famous, what will it be for? Because she's a very great singer of baby mine
11. What is your mummy really good at? finding stuff in the garage (?????)

12. What is your mummy not very good at? Tidying up (OMG!!! turn out she was talking about her clothes)
13. What does your mummy do for a job? Look after us
14.What is your mummy's favorite food? fried egg (??)
15.What makes your mummy proud of you? By me making you smile
16. If your mummy were a cartoon character, who would she be? Bananas in pyjamas
17. What do you and your mummy do together? We love each other
18. How are you and your mummy the same? You do stuff that I do
19. How are you and your mummy different? Cos we haven't got the same kind of hair
20. How do you know your mummy loves you? Because she always loves me
21. What does your mummy like most about your daddy? That he can fix broken things
22. Where is your mummy's favorite place to go? your actual favourite place to go is...guess!.....To the end of the runway to see the planes taking off lie in the grass and watch them go over her head


Lets hear your kids answers! Link to me below

Mummy by any other name

"She's got pony tails and big pants and slippers and long legs and that means she's mummy" Ellie 30th April 2010