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GeorgiaAnne
22-12-2008, 08:05
Well, not that we need a new thread but I thought it might be nice to have one that wasn't a month name YK?
I'm going to NZ for Christmas and mil only has dialup!! so I won't be online for a while so just wanted to say happy Christmas to you all and it has been lovely to share another year with you and your beautiful bubbas.
Bec - when I saw your post I thought it was going to be an announcement. All the best, i'll be thinking of you over Christmas :hugs::goodvibes:
Beck - Lots of good labour vibes to you as well, can't wait to hear about your lil man.
Michelle - How are you going? any MS yet or are you feeling good?
Sarah - How are you guys going? Your phots of Monet on FB are sooo cute!
Sal - Can you make this a sticky with your modish ways? How does it work - do you get a section to mod or is it just whatever you see? Looking forward to hearing about your pg as well :sunshine:
Sare - How's it all going with your lot? I think I cursed myself the other day about saying Sophia had settled down, she has been a total brute this weekend and Charlie has the bitemark on his head to prove it. I thought she was giving him a kiss but no :banghead:
Jac - Hope you and Ke have a fab Christmas, I guess he'll be right into it this year!
Sorry if I missed anyone!
Arrggg, i've gotta finish the Christmas shopping today. I get so upset with the way people are in the shops it's just awful, especially with a pram, they just push in and push the pram out of the way, it's vile!
Hi All
Have fun in NZ Georgia - good luck travelling with the kids and all the baby stuff!
Bec - how are you going? I am expecting news soon now you are over your due date!
Well as for me I had an ob appointment today and my fluid levels have dropped a lot (called oligohydramnios) and babys growth has slowed (but still a good size) so it looks like the effects of my thrombophilia is now kicking in - anyway as a result I will be going into hospital Friday night for a Saturday induction so we will be seeing the new baby very soon.
I have to go as Kayley is climbing up me.
Take care.
GeorgiaAnne
23-12-2008, 20:58
Wow Beck, I guess i'll get back to some exciting news - all the best hun and look forward to hearing about your beautiful boy :goodvibes:
diesal444
24-12-2008, 10:09
MERRY CHRISTMAS FOR TOMORROW TO ALL THE BEAUTIFUL LADIES IN THE OCTOBER 2006 GROUP
WE HOPE EVERYONE ENJOYS THIS SPECIAL DAY WITH THEIR FAMILIES
:reindeer::reindeer::reindeer:
:reindeer: MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES :reindeer:
Hope you all have a very special day.
:xmas::xmastree: :xmas:
Good luck for Saturday Beck (great date...our wedding anniversary, 10 yrs this Sat). I hope it all goes quickly and smoothly for you. Can't wait to hear all about your little boy.
I hope Bec is holding her little girl now...
:xmastree:Merry Christmas :xmastree:
to Everyone and have a great one!
Oh and I guess Bec is probably holing her bubba now too as she has dissappeared for a few days!
Best wishes to you all and I will probably catch back up when I am out of hospital!
Sorry guys, no (external) baby yet! Just sulking yesterday so didn't post. Actually I then went and spent a heap of money on "party" food just for Andrew & I, paying no attention to prices and getting whatever I fancied, which cheered me up no end!! We are all going to church tonight together which will be nice (usually it's just me and Ella so the help will be nice!)
My doula went away for Christmas today for 5 days so no doubt baby will be putting in an appearance any minute now:rolleyes:. Still feeling ok, bit tired and walking any distance is out of the question, I can practically hear my pelvis groaning..
Beck, good luck and good wishes etc for your induction, will be thinking of you on Sat!! ISn't it funny all the new words/terms we learn via being pregnant and having kids? (Rhesus factor is a fine example:))
OMG Sare, 10 years!! DP and I have only been together for 5! Quite an achievement. Will you be celebrating?
Probably too late but bon voyage Georgia, what a lovely way to spend Chrissy.
MoOaNdLiTtLePoPpEt
24-12-2008, 21:40
Hey!!!
SAL!!!!!!!!!! CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Merry Christmas everyone!!!
Hope you all have a fantastic day tomorrow and Santa brings you all lotsa pressies!!!
me thinks we are going HOME!!! think DP is keeping the news as a suprise for tomorrow - will keep you all posted...would be the best Chrissy present ever!!! ( i have an incling as i just read another email...about a confirmed date and him wanting to suprise me tomorrow - didn't want to read too much tho lol)
love to all. :xmastree:
xxxx
lol - Jack how naughty are you, sneaking peeks at emails??:p That's great news though!!!:yelclap:
Hope everyone had a lovely Christmas Day with their littlies etc. We had such a nice day, far from feeling like we missed out (with not being with our extended families) it felt quite special just being the three of us, in our own house! We had a hot turkey lunch and a big post lunch nap and everything, very nice. Ella had two swims in her new pool and was very excited, played with her new pressies all day so nice and relaxing for her parents!
Still no labour signs. Will wait til my doula returns on the 29th and then go into full on "bring on baby" mode again. DP and I are hoping there are some shops open in town today as I need to get out of the house (and retail therapy never hurts :D)
Have a good boxing day everyone.
MoOaNdLiTtLePoPpEt
26-12-2008, 13:24
Bec - hopefully your little bundle arrives soon!!!!
yeh he gets me to check them to see if there is any news lol...
well the news is that there is a position in brissy and it is hos if he wants it - they wont pay for the removalist (but meh) and we have to confirm a date as yet...me and ke will fly, amd DP and his dad will drive - a lot cheaper...we will save around $800 + doing it thos way! hoping to leave here around 31st Jan....i dont want to leave it too long...packing is going to be a pain already and i am 24 weeks...let alone waiting too much longer.
am very excited but not getting overly excited until a date is confirmed in the new year!
but will keep everyone posted as to when we are making the big move...and final move this time... :)
xxx
MoOaNdLiTtLePoPpEt
27-12-2008, 20:23
FINALLLYY!!!! :cloud9: we are engaged!!!! posted in the general section the story lol !!
Am on cloud :cloud9:
Congrats Jackie! Ill pop over to general and take a peeksie soon. And congrats about the impending move too, we'll have to catch up when you get settled. Or as Abbey says, "have a tea party".
Anyone heard from Beck yet?
Sal - how on earth did you stop yourself nodding off behind the wheel while you were doing all that travelling when pregnant? A 3 hour drive to mums had me stopping a few times and still exhausted when I arrived. Same on the way back. Abbey didn't mind, lots of parks and kids to play with.
We spent 4 nights at mums, had a nice Christmas. Mum cancelled Christmas years ago, but this year I told her she had little grandkids and an obligation to have a tree. So Dad went and bought a massive tree, lots of decorations and lights, even strung fairy lights throughout the house and outside. Claims he did it for Abbey, but sure...heard that before! Men and their 'projects'!
Came back home and charged my phone to hear a lovely voicemail from Owen saying he is getting engaged to a woman I only heard about last weekend, and that he is cutting all contact with us and I need to respect that. Wasn't that nice of him? He wasn't a great dad, only visited once a month on average, but to turn away completely is baffling to me. Always claimed he loved Abbey, I'm just glad he did it while she was young enough to forget him. :gloomy:
MoOaNdLiTtLePoPpEt
27-12-2008, 22:03
sounds like a plan for sure...we will want to meet some mums and friends for ke too!!! :)
Hey congratulations Jackie!!:valentine: how lovely for you guys.
Wow Michelle, what a selfish pig dog head fool (etc... I'm sure you have better adjectives yourself). What a horrible thing to do and what a way to go about it. :mad: I wonder if he's jumped into it as kind of a retaliation for your getting on so efficiently with your life without him?? (wild speculation of course, it's not like I really know the sitch). Isn't it funny how people like that feel so entitled to use the word "respect" like they know what it means??
Lucky Abbey has such a top mum and new sibling on the way, and sounds like your family think she's the bees knees too (although sounds like your Dad's been repressing his inner elf for too long:p) :hugs: anyway.
Oh yeah still no baby here, but my doula is back today so I'm back on the "bring on baby" mode...come on curries, acupressure, various aromatherapy oils... I know you all know the drill....send me some good labour vibes :D Beck must be holding her little chick by now!!
Question ladies
Abbey is always a bumhead when we've had kids overnight or we visit mums, I assumed it was because she was no longer the centre of attention. But I'm wondering if that's all it is. She's potty trained at home now, so long as she isn't wearing knickers or pants to confuse her, but when I walk away or she looks up and I'm not where she left me she will run around in panic mode screaming "mummyy!!!!" and if she can't find me soon enough or I won't immediately pick her up and soothe her she will continue her panic mode and wee, wherever she is. She just wee'd on her bed because I walked out to put some towels in the cupboard. I gave her a tap on the bum and told her sternly that wees go in the potty, which she knows, but its like she's a naughty dog who loses control when scared and I'm not sure if punishing her is the right thing or if its real separation anxiety and she needs something else. Its certainly not like I coddle her to extreme attachment, if she hurts herself I'm just as likely to laugh at her as to rescue her.
She will panic less as we spend more days at home without visitors, but unless she plans to be a hermit that's not going to work. Any ideas?
MoOaNdLiTtLePoPpEt
28-12-2008, 19:48
no, no advice sorry!!!! :hugs: maybe just a stage?
ke is no where near toilet trained...he has jocks that he got for xmas...about 16 pairs in total..i put a pair on him before bath time last night...he thut he was the ants pants and now points to DF's jocks...and he also has a facination with boobies...points at everyones and says boobies (typical male he he)
argh...ke is having tanties left, right and centre...and grandparents encourage it...ARGH!! he he there is my vent...
am still a little shocked with the engagement ha ha...and it has been 9.5 years!!! and moving back to brissy...oh, the best start to a new year!!
Nope sorry Michelle, no ideas here. It's hard though isn't it, when you're not sure if they're "just being naughty" or you should be more understanding! (ah the mummyguilt). Do you have a good CHN in your area? That's probably who I'd ask (without having to pay for advice:))
Am having either very strong braxton hicks or quite mild contractions about every half hour today.:fingerscrossed:
brodiebunch
30-12-2008, 06:30
Congrats Bec:hugs:
I hope your new baby Rachelle brings you as many wonderful moments as Ella has.We are Really happy to hear of her safe arrival.Love Brodie:baby::kiss:
GeorgiaAnne
30-12-2008, 07:15
Congrats Bec:hugs:
I hope your new baby Rachelle brings you as many wonderful moments as Ella has.We are Really happy to hear of her safe arrival.Love Brodie:baby::kiss:
did we miss something?
GeorgiaAnne
30-12-2008, 08:00
How are you going Michelle?
Where's Sare??
Hellooooo out there?!?!:)
brodiebunch
30-12-2008, 08:04
Sorry Guys.Bec had her bub in the wee hours of the morning.3am I think she was 4.2kg but that is all I know apart from her name.Rachelle Mary.I am Becs good friend from Uni by the way.
Well, that's all a bit exciting then!! Huge CONGRATS to Bec and family on the arrival of Rachelle Mary!! Hope all went well, and can't wait to hear all about it :yelclap:
Ahhhh, back in the land of bub hub! I've been popping in occasionally, but lately, I just haven't had the time, or the head space, to be online too much at all. Would you believe, there have even been days lately that I haven't even turned the computer on at all :eek:
So much I've missed!
Sal - OMG!! Massive congrats on the :bfp: Such awesome news!! I'm guessing that party you're having tomorrow night will be a little quieter for you now, lol! We have my sister here from Brisbane atm, so will be having a couple of bevvies here tomorrow night. Have a good one!
Michelle - Awesome!! Congrats to you on your :bfp: So many babies to look forward too!!
Jackie - Congrats to you and your DF once again, on your engagement! :smiliedance:
Well, I didn't get very far before the interruptions started, lol! Will be back a bit later on to continue my post.......
diesal444
30-12-2008, 09:08
:wave:Morning ladies
Firstly
CONGRATULATIONS BEC ON THE SAFE ARRIVAL OF "RACHELLE MARY" Looking forward to hearing all about your new bundle.
Jackie - Congrats on your engagement. You must be so happy. Cute toddler, new bubs on the way, getting married and possible moving back home. Does it get any better for you?
Michelle - Cant help you on the potty training, havent started here yet. Maybe an attention thing??? I really dont know because i am at a loss even when or how to start.....
Sarah - With 4 kids 5 and under I am surprised you even get dressed in the morning let alone turn a computer and type a post :laughing:
Anyone heard from Beck??
She was getting induced on Saturday??
Well I have delayed putting Darcy in a big bed up until now purely because it kinda scares me.
Cot = baby
Bed = Big girl :crying:
So I am a sook, but I am biting the bullet and from 1st January she will be getting to know her big bed.
I am going to wait about a month then will seriously start on the toilet training.
So i am officially the only non preg/non new mum.
All my bub-hub october mums either are preggers or have new bubs, and as of yesterday ALL my mothers group mums IRL have either just popped or told me they were pregnant.
I guess I am a late bloomer.
Well i am off to vacum and mop then off to work this arvo...
*mwah*
Congrats Bec! Love the name, and look forward to hearing the gory details.
Goodness I'm exhausted. 2 hours at the shops, then coming back to this sauna and shoving some lunch down my throat. Must be time for a nap. I bought one of those huge boxes of drumsticks while i was out though, and yes, i will eat all 24 cones. Watch me! (over the course of a couple weeks of course). Abbey can't have any cos I still havent given her any peanuts to test. Its not something I'm actively avoiding, its just that we aren't a very peanutty house and its rarely an issue. Note to self - do the peanut test at my next checkup before she turns 30 and runs from peanuts and the fear of unknown.
I picked up my glasses this week too and they are really weird. I cant actually see in the store when choosing them, so its a case of yeah, looks about right, then I get my prescription put in and its like "what was i thinking?!" They look alright, bit funky, but the arms cast a red shadow and make me look like a confused adam ant. That, and I have reduced peripheral vision cos of the red chunks. I'll wear them for a week and see how I go, if I have to ask for a swap for my sanity i will.
couch is calling me...
Congratulations to Bec on the safe arrival of Rachelle and Bec on the arrival of Jacob (found out from FB)...it's raining babies here :sunshine: Can't wait to hear all about your little cherubs.
Well, I'm still here reading, but not getting heaps of time to post. We've been super busy over the last week with Christmas (Chrissie day with my family, Boxing Day with dh's), our 10th anniversary on Sat, my sister's b'day on Sun and Mum's b'day yesterday. Christmas was great...the kids were spoilt rotten, but they had a ball. For our 10th anniversary, Michael booked a room at the Sebel Heritage in the Yarra Valley (which is only 5 or so minutes from our place, but it felt like miles away...very rural) The ILs looked after the girls and we took Ollie with us. Michael surprised me with a facial at the day spa and we went out for dinner at a Thai place (we didn't book in at the hotel's restaurant as we had to work around feeds and when we went for dinner, they were booked out). It was lovely. Tomorrow is our 15th anniversary of when we met...we don't celebrate that though, it's just easy to remember because it was on NYE.
Michelle - Sounds like the tiredness has well and truly hit you. How have you been feeling otherwise? I haven't given Lara peanuts either, but she's had forkfuls of my satay chicken on various occasions and has been fine, so I presume all is ok.
No idea on the discipline with tt-ing. It sounds like it could be attention seeking behaviour, but I have no idea what you do about it.
Speaking of tt-ing...I think Lara may be getting ready. She did a wee on the toilet last week (really tried, not just a fluke) and she keeps taking off her dirty nappies. She did it last night and woke up screaming in the middle of the night because she had wet the bed. I'm in no rush for full on tt-ing, we'll take it nice and slowly.
Mary-Anne - Good luck with moving Darcy to a big bed. I am sure she will be fine. How's the new house going?
Sarah - Great to hear from you. I've been meaning to ask you, did you manage to find a house that you like to build?
How's Mack going? All ready for school? I bet the countdown has started now that Christmas is over.
Georgia - How was NZ? Did you manage ok on the flights with your 2?
Jackie - Congrats on your engagement...wonderful news. When are you planning on getting married?
Great news about the move back home too...it sounds like everything is going perfectly for you at the moment.
Anyone doing anything exciting for NYE? I know Sal will be busy with her housewarming/NYE party. We were planning on going to a friend's place, but I am seriously knackered and just want a quiet one at home.
In case I don't get on here tomorrow...Happy New Year to you all. May 2009 be a prosperous year for you and your families.
GeorgiaAnne
30-12-2008, 20:06
CONGRATULATIONS BEC ON THE ARRIVAL OF RACHELLE :cloud9:
CONGRATULATIONS BECK ON THE ARRIVAL OF JACOB :smiliedance:
We're very happy for you!! xoxox
The flights were not as bad as expected, only a few meltdowns. She was well tired on the way back and had a sleep on Justin, Charlie was alseep in tha bassinette so I had a glass of wine and watched some in flight telly BLISS!!!!
Sounds like you've had a busy time Sare and congratulations on your 10 years, that's lovely :hugs:
Our ten year is in March and we just had our 5 year wedding anniversary on 27th Dec
OMG Georgia...we share the same wedding anniversary.
Glad the flights went well. A few glasses of wine is just what I need...perhaps not with this thumping headache.
GeorgiaAnne
30-12-2008, 21:18
OMG Georgia...we share the same wedding anniversary.
How bizarre!! I think it's so cool you and dh met when you were 18 - you have really grown up together :valentine: I had just turned 22 when I met dh, it seems like an age.
MoOaNdLiTtLePoPpEt
30-12-2008, 22:27
:wave: thanks everyone...yes everything is happening at the moment...the wedding will be put off for at least 2 years cos of the move...but im ok with that!
CONGRATULATIONS BEC ON THE ARRIVAL OF RACHELLE!
CONGRATULATIONS BECK ON THE ARRIVAL OF JACOB!
very exciting times ahead!!!
hope everyone has a great new year.
xxx
Hi Everyone, was all excited about getting on here to tell you all my news and didn't realise Brodie had stolen my thunder! :rolleyes: humph.
Anyway RACHAEL Mary was born at 3.01 on the 30th, a 5-and-a-bit hr natural labour (had her within half an hour of getting to the hospital!), 4.22kg, 52cm long, 37cm head circ. It was the birth we wanted, haven't got to my version of the birth story yet but soon. Very fast but very full on!
All is going well so far, good feeder for the moment and has spent most of her day today asleep. We checked out of hospital yesterday morning and it is great to be back home this time.
BBS for a chat I hope.
Happy New Year to you all!!!
I'm just quickly posting to pass on a message from Sal. Her modem is now broken and she will be without the net for another week, but she just wanted me to let you know that she is thinking of us and hopes we all had a merry Christmas and wishes us all a happy new year. I think that was the sum of the message.
All's good here. Oliver's gone through his 6 week growth spurt, and he's feeding a little faster, so things are slowly starting to get into some sort of routine. The big test will be in 4 weeks time when I have to start getting us all out and ready for Eloise's kinder by 8.15am twice a week.
Hope you all had a great start to 2009...mine started in bed...boring person that I am now, just too tired to do anything special.
Yay Bec:smiliedance:...great to hear that everything went so well for you. Looking forward to reading Rachael's birth story and of course see some gorgeous photos.
Mary ann - dont worry about not having another baby, we won't hold it against you. :p Unless you tell us all about the long uninterrupted nights and polite conversations you have with her!
Sare - sounds like a lovely anniversary. Surprise pampering is the best.
Georgia - glad the flights were good, its a bit dodgy when your idea of bliss is a glass of wine during an inflight movie though. You need some better bliss :laughing:
Bec - you'd think your good friend would have gotten the name right, lol. Rachael Mary is a lovely name, and we look forward to hearing the gory details.
xb
Beck - Yay for the arrival of Jacob! Come tell us more.
As for me, I woke in such a bad mood today. I blame it on nausea, hormones and heat - and Abbey's zombie hands.h433eeeeeeeedssssssssssszrewwrxxccc ccccccccccccccccccccccctrffffffddddffggghnbn nnnnm€$says Abbey, while I step out of the room.
No idea how she makes that euro symbol. She can change the ringtone on my phone too, and I can't.
Flower159
02-01-2009, 09:27
Girls, how are you all? Well, as I have a minute (as she says Iona is starting to shout) I thought I'd come in and see how you all are ...... it was actually seeing on Facebook that Michelle was preggers .... man, woman, the last time I heard from you, you were manless ..... so I decided it was far too long since I'd been in here and if I've time for some facebook every now and then, I have time for you girls.
So, massive apologies, I have no idea what you have all been up to, but I will try my best to be a worthy buddy. I've had a quick swatch and I see that Sal is preggers - congrats! and that Bec and Beck have had babies ...... where is the time going??! Anyway, congratulations to you all.
I'll give you a wee update on us, but not much is happening really ......
Well, Logan is a handful, my mum's over from Scotland just now (joy) and he seems to have started playing up since the day she arrived. It couldn't possibly be my boy that's naughty, it must be my mother tormenting the hell out of him, obviously!! He still smiles all the time and he really is a happy chappy, just a bit strong willed. (is that mother talk for wild??!) He loves his wee sister, so I'll let him away with his naughtiness!! He can't talk much, will be taking him along to speach therapy soon as although he's saying some things his vocab is nowhere near what it should be. Erm, I'm not sure what else to say!! I'm sure I'll get back to chatting no problem soon enough!!
Iona is great, she's now five and a half months and she is seriously the best baby ever. The pregnancy was that bad, but she's making up for it. She smiles constantly and she's always giggling and generally being very happy. It's great. She eats well and sleeps well, I've not had to worry about her at all. In fact, I was worrying last week as she was sleeping too much ...... should've made the most of it isntead of moaning!! Just now Logan's away in to see her and I can hear the two of them chatting away in their baby talk, how cute is that? (and it has allowed me on here for a minute longer!!)
My mother keeps pointing out that Iona is awake, so I think that's my cue to get going, she really is a nag. Are all mother's like this? I had forgotten, but she likes things done NOW, and I'm more of a later person ..... do you know what I mean??! The older girls are fine, just older girls, fight all the time and then get on great. Hormones fleeing and then all calm.
I'm good, could moan for Australia, but I wont as there's nothing major wrong, just everyday life ups and down ....... although the fact that the gear box is gone on the car and we've not had transport for 3 weeks now is slightly hacking me off, but anyway. Oh, and my mother has just sat down on the couch and is giving me evils while Iona is getting restless. Yes, I could moan.
I'll read back when I get time (probably take me three weeks!!) but I'll get myself up to date and make a point of coming in and saying hello.
I hope you are all well and happy in your lives. Take care everyone.xxx
Hi All
Sorry I haven’t been online to let you know about about our new arrival but things have been a little busy.
Baby Jacob William North was born at 5.45 am on Saturday 27th December after being induced due to low fluid levels. Mild contractions started after reciving gels at about 5pm and continued to get stronger during the night but were bearable in the bath and some pethadine in the middle of the night which was supposed to help me sleep but not successful!
The last part of the birth went very quickly (waters broke at about 5.15 followed by severe contractions. Was 4cm dilated at around 5.30am and he was out by 5.45 - very painful!!) which resulted in Jake being a bit shocked and not breathing so he was sent to the special care nursery for 5 – 6 hours but was fine after this.
So the details are:
Jacob William North
7 pounds 10
Length 50.5cm
Head circumference 36cm
Jake was being a great little baby, feeding well and very patient (not like Kayley!) but unfortunately things were not quite right and he was vomiting up most of his milk with the bile from his stomach. The doctors and midwives believed this was a bad case of reflux but as it continued we were able to get some further testing through an x-ray on New Years Eve. It appears he had a blockage in his upper bowel so was sent into Women’s and Children’s that afternoon. I was discharged and came in as well.
Some further ultrasounds suggested that he did not actually have a blockage in his bowel rather he had a condition called malrotation where his bowel was malformed and not sitting in the correct place. So he was put on fluids and antibiotics to rehydrate him to allow for surgery.
Yesterday Jake went into surgery and when open it appears he actually had a blockage and malrotation so he was in for some pretty extensive surgery involving cutting and reconnecting his upper bowel and moving all the remainder of his bowel/intestines around so it can function and removing his appendix (mainly to prevent not picking up appendicitis in the future as everything is sitting in a different place now).
The surgery was long but successful and hopefully things should now be fixed once he has recovered. There is a 1/3 chance of complications sometime thoughout his life which may involve further surgery but effectively his digestive system while it looks different should operate as well as anybody elses.
He is currently in a highly drugged and ventilated state to minimse his pain and will remain like this for a little while but is stable. Once he starts to improve the morphine will be reduced which will hopefully allow him to restore his own breathing then we work on recovery. We don’t have timeframes as recovery works on him reaching different stages rather than actual days or weeks but all going well he should be back on food (milk) and ready to come home in a few (long!) weeks.
So it has been a difficult week but we are confident that he is a strong little mite and we will be bringing him home as soon as possible. I will let you all know when we get him home!
I will try and update my photobucket page today to post a couple of photos.
Sorry no personals for now except congratualtions to Bec on the arrival of Rachael and congrats to Jackie for your engagement and moving. Hope you all had a better Christmas and New Years than us and take care!
Hooley dooley Beck, you're incredibly calm for such a traumatic time. Big hugs :hugs: for you and your family, including little Jacob.
:hugs: Beck.
I hope Jacob heals quickly and is soon home with you.
diesal444
02-01-2009, 19:23
Firstly congratulations Beck on the birth of Jacob.:baby:
:hugs: to you and DH. Hope little Jacob is home sweet home soon. You sound so incredibly calm and together.
I bet Kayely is smitten with her little brother!!
GeorgiaAnne
03-01-2009, 21:08
Crikey Beck, that must have been so scary. Thanks for letting us know what's happening, big hugs to you :hugs::hugs:
All is good here, just been planting in some pots and planning our outdoor area finally :o It was nice to be out there! We had a bbq for dinner as well, love summer!
Sophia is quite fascinated by genitals atm and likes to take off her nappy and inspect. She also calls vaginas "paula" and penises "woolly bums" She is quite an odd child lol- anyone elses children doing this?!? Not sure where the paula thing came from but now when she sees me in the nude she points and says paula and also points at my c-sec scar and says "ow mummy" Bless her little heart.
GeorgiaAnne
05-01-2009, 19:58
OK it's a bit quiet in here, did I freak you out with the genitals thing??!! :laughing:
Ah me head hurts but apparently a cure is for Abbey to sneak up to me with a cup of water and pour it on me. "Haha, I splashed mummy". Yes you did, now run away! :raspberry:
Honestly, if I knew who was teaching her these tricks. :o
I've had a bothersome couple of days. Feeling sick all day, today I went for a drive with Dad and had to stare right ahead, no looking sideways or down, its nasty. But calculations say I should be at the peak of blurgh now and starting to ease off. I really hope so. I called Dial-an-Angel today to claim a cleaning voucher I've had stashed for just this reason, hopefully they can come out this week or I will have to clean my scrud myself. And you know how I feel about that! I also bought a dishwasher on ebay for $22 and while its ugly, it seems to be working just fine. Love bargains!
And last night I decided to treat dad to chinese dinner for coming all the way here to collect the dishwasher and install it for me. There was a great place about 200m away, and I didn't realise they had moved, eventually found them in the local bowls club. Not as an add-on, but as a poxy little counter at the end of the bar! I'd sent Dad to get it but he came home empty handed and I went out in my jammies. Yep, locals got a beer and a show. Woo hoo.
Georgia - I'm guessing your DH has a woolly bum for her to call them that! As for Paula...that's just very imaginative and cute.
Ha, not freaked. Abbey calls hers a bum or a giney. Its become a common phrase around here "leave your giney alone". Even grandma has had to join in! Abbey likes to get her skin stroked and has asked a few times for me to stroke her 'bottom', but no dear, that's a special spot for you and you alone, just don't do it around me!
GeorgiaAnne
05-01-2009, 21:18
Georgia - I'm guessing your DH has a woolly bum for her to call them that! As for Paula...that's just very imaginative and cute.
haha, that's why it's odd bc he doesn't, then I worked out it's just her way of saying willy as she calls Charlie's woolly bum too :laughing::laughing:
$22 for a dishwasher, you've done well! Enjoy!! Hope the blurgh feeling goes soon, least you know it's a happy baby getting all nice and snug in there :thumbsup:
Getting a cleaner in is AWESOME. Why don't I do this regularly? Now if the mower guy would come today, my house would be picture perfect. It will be a mess again tomorrow!
Hi girls,
Thought I'd pop in and say hi while the girls are happily playing with play doh and Oliver is asleep.
Things are ok here, I am just exhausted and feeling a bit down. Our house looks terrible, so messy and it's not that I am not doing anything. It's really getting to me. The girls are terrible at packing up and we end up with toys strewn all over the house. I normally can't get anything done during the day because they just follow me making mess. So I end up doing some tidying at night after I put Oliver to bed. Last night it was the washing. I ended up folding and putting away 4 loads of washing and it was 11.30pm by the time that I had finished. So with the late nights, combined with the night feeds (generally up for an hour) and the girls waking around 7-7.30am at the moment, I am getting very little sleep. No chance of a day nap as Lara no longer has one and I just can't trust her yet, she gets into everything.
Oliver seems to be going really well. He's not a big smiler, in fact he has only just really started to smile a little. He'll be 8 weeks old tomorrow :eek: where has that time gone??? He sleeps well at night, just waking for the one feed. When he's a little older, I'll see if he'll take a dream feed to eliminate that night feed. He's growing so fast, in fact some of his 000s are already getting a little too small.
Me...well I am back on Sureslim and so far so good. I always love the first week's result because it's so big. I put on some pants today that were tight when I wore them at Christmas and today they were a lot more comfortable. Still a very long way to go, but hopefully this is the last time that I will be this heavy as there is no more pgs in my future. DH and I bandied around the idea of a 4th in the last couple of weeks, but neither of us really want to go there. I think it was more of a I-really-don't-want-to-go-for-the-snip-so-I'll-throw-caution-to-the-wind type of comment :p
As for the girls, I seem to have one angel and one devil at the moment (better than 2 devils, I guess). Lara is driving me bonkers with her attitude and her silliness. She is such a show pony and doesn't really worry about consequences at all...such a change from Eloise who really is a goodie two shoes. Plus she is really demanding, usually about me putting on a Fairies dvd for her and the tone is terrible, she emphasises each word. :hair:
Well enough from me...
Michelle - Yay on the bargain dishwasher. LOL on the Chinese shop at the RSL...what an odd place for it. Hope you are feeling ok and not too icky.
Georgia - I love it, Paula and woolly bums :laughing: Lara hasn't noticed the difference yet let alone made any comments about them.
Marion - Great to hear from you. :hugs: for having to deal with your mum. At least you'll be able to keep up with us now, we posting at a much slower rate.
Hi to everyone else...Beck, I hope Jacob is improving each day and Bec, I hope you enjoying being a mum of 2.
Better go and organise dinner. Take care...
GeorgiaAnne
07-01-2009, 20:11
:hugs: Sare, it must be so hard with all 3 of them home all the time. I guess it's easy for Lara to act up as she probably wants to be different to Eloise and sees Oliver getting lots of attention so that's her way. Is there any way you can have one day a week where both the girls go to pre-school and you can have a break, a sleep and get things back on track? I also hate mess so I can understand how you feel. Don't forget though, you only just had a baby a few weeks ago, just bc it's #3 doesn't mean that everything falls into place from day 1. I'm sure you're super organised and it'll get easier and you'll feel happier about it all soon.
:hugs:
Hi everyone!
Seems like every time I turn the computer on I manage to get bills paid etc and then called away (phone rings, Ella screeches, Rachael grizzles etc). It's funny, my lovely new baby is no trouble at all...it's the other two in my household that are driving me mad! Ella is just being revolting. God I hope it's just a bit of attention grabbing and she'll be over it soon, she is just being SO naughty and horrible. Then DP comes home tired & cranky and they spend all evening screaming at each other. Feel like I don't even know either of them any more, total personality change and it's very hard not to take their anger personally...sigh.
Lucky Rachael is such a cherub.. she's feeding about every 3-4hrs at night and going straight back to sleep, and is down about 8-8.30 every night (well for about a week now anyway). Seems far too good to last but after Ella being such a crappy sleeper/feeder in her early days I am suitably grateful! Will go post some photos on our Flickr page soon... you know, when I get around to it
Beck - :hugs: hope poor little Jacob is healing well. Love the name too! You sound so calm, what a strong woman. How are you feeling recovery wise?
Georgia - :laughing: at Sophia's nomenclature. How cute! Paula sounds like one of those classic family euphemisms (sp?) - eg my Mum calls periods "George" and has done since boarding school! Ella calls hers her "Gina" (as in Mummy saying at bath time "don't put things in your vagina Ella") She doesn't seem to have a name for penis yet, although she has done a lot of pointing in the shower at it which DP finds a bit disconcerting :laughing:
Hey Sare - :hugs:, mess can be a bit soul destroying, especially when you're exhausted because it feels like you've been cleaning up all day for nothing! Yesterday I cleaned the whole house twice between various lots of visitors, then DP came home in a foul temper and cleaned the house "at" me - as if I'd just sat around and did nothing all day! Humph. Sounds like Lara and Ella need to be shut in a "naughty room" somewhere for us! If it's age related - how long do you think it will take them to get over it?:crying:
Michelle - lol at the Chinese. That's where most Chinese restaurants are in the country - in the local RSL or bowlo! Good on you giving the locals a show. It's an act of charity to liven people's lives up like that:p Glad the cleaner was good to you!
Hey what is everyone feeding their kidlets for lunch? I'm running out of "instantly preparable" healthy options - but would like to be giving Ella something nutritious and seem to be increasingly feeding her on 2 min noodles and baked beans on toast...bad mummy!
Goodness me, more time at the computer... here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/becbabe/) are some photos. They include some of the lovely ones my doula took of "bump and family", plus a couple of the ones she took at the birth. Pity I can't post more but they all have my boobs in them (blush) and I'm just too shy to put those out there! Also we have a heap on the mobile...which DP has with him at work today of course!
GeorgiaAnne
10-01-2009, 13:27
They're beautiful photos Bec. Ella is very cute and Rachael looks divine, you're a lucky mumma. I'm sure she'll settle down soon for you, with the big change in her life and all :hugs: Great to hear from you and fab that Rachael is being such a little gem
Hi All
Sare I am glad that Oliver is a good baby and sleeping well. Can't offer too much advice for Lara as Kayley is definately tarred with the same brush!
Bec - glad you and your family are doing so well!
Michelle - claeners are GREAT! I really miss mine (so does the house at the moment)!
Georgia - I'm not freaked out about the genitals thing!! Kayley pulls arounds and has a look as far as she can down there in the shower!
A quick update on us, Jake is over the worst of it now and has recovered from his surgery it is just a really long process until his stomach and bowels start working again due to all the disruption. At least I can give him a cuddle now as he has a lot less tubes in. Still finding it pretty hard to deal with sometimes but getting there. He has just been introduced some milk (5ml every 4 hours which goes in about 5 seconds) and as he is fealing better he is getting really hungry and upset - but the surgeons warned me it was a slow recovery so hopefully we will be looking a lot better some time over the next week.
take care everyone.
Hi everyone,
So slack, once again, on my part :o
Sare: I'm so totally hearing you!! Not long ago, I was on such a downer all the time. I was way too tired to even describe, and everything around here just went un noticed. I seemed to be doing the same damn thing day in, day out, and just like you, I'd have to spend my nights catching up on the cleaning. I seriously felt like I was drowning.....So, I took myself off to the Dr, and I've been started on anti - depressants. Not something I had wanted to do, although I am feeling better for it. I have needed to have my dosage doubled since starting them 4 or so months ago, as I started to feel myself sinking under it all again. I'm slowly starting to feel better each day, and I'm actually being able to take control again, which makes me feel great!! The lack of sleep thing....well, I'm guessing that's just someting I'm going to have to deal with!! Take it easy...always here to chat!
Bec: Totally adorable photo's of you all!! Ella is such a beautiful little girl, and Rachael looks just devine :bee: The belly shots are really lovely, and I'm now wishing I'd done something like that, and not just taken a shot of my tum!
Beck: Great to hear that little Jake has started on the milk!! Here's hoping things keep improving for him and he's home really soon. You're really sounding like you have it all together....although, I'm sure at times you don't. Take it easy and look after yourself :hugs:
Georgia: Sooo funny about the Paula and Woolly bum, lol!! My boys all call their's a penis. They will sometimes call it a doodle, but usually it's a penis. I've always used the correct terms with them, as I don't want them growing up thinking it's a rude word or something, yk? They know that Monet and Mummy don't have a penis, and they are happy with calling it a bum. I'm happy with that for now, lol!! They are all very knowing about boobs though, lmao!!
Michelle: Hope you're keeping well my dear!! Good on you for getting a cleaner in. I had one in a few times, and it was very nice, but then it all just got too hard in my head as to when I could arrange to have her here in between all of our committments, so now, I'm back to doing it myself. Or, DH does it for me when he's here.
Well, Jarvis is starting to become a bit of a handful. If he sleeps during the day, I can't get him to sleep until after 9pm at night. Most days though, he's behaviour shows me that he needs a sleep, but I'm really torn as to what to do. Today, I allowed him to sleep for about 30 mins in the car, and as a result, he is already asleep for the night!! Finally, I might get a few hours to myself!! He is still keen on using the potty, but not as much as he was. I'm still taking the whatever's easier approach. I don't want to put too many pressures on myself.
Mack is really looking forward to starting school this year. Very excited indeed. He has a few little mates from his Kinder group in his class, so hopefully that will help make it all a little easier for him. I'm sure though, that he will have no problems with it at all, he's so ready for it.
Tallan is still being a little cheeky fellow....I don't think that will ever change! He's looking forward to starting at 4/5 year old Kinder, although I have a feeling we'll be dropping him back to 3/4 year old Kinder before too long. He's ok, I just think he needs a little more emotional/social maturity. Time will tell.
Monet is such a little darling! She's now rolling, but getting stuck on her tummy - which at times drives me insane as she cries to be rolled back! She's now started on solids, however, she's not that keen. I'm just about to try her on 2 meals a day, as she has been waking a couple of times each night for the past few weeks. I'm asleep while awake lately, lol! She's being a little devil in bed now too. She's still being wrapped, but is now wiggling her way out, and rolling all over her cot, playing, then crying cos she has gotten stuck in the cot bars. I am stuck as to what to do....
I promised the boys we would watch Mary Poppins in my befd tonight, so best be off and get them organised. Hope all is well, Sarah
Hi girls,
Just a quick one before Michael gets home from walking the dog and wants to do some work on the computer.
Sarah - Sorry to hear that you are going through all that. You are really a marvel to me with everything that you do :hugs: Things are better here at the moment. For the last 3 nights Oliver has slept through (after I introduced a rollover feed). :fingerscrossed: he keeps it up. The house is tidier, but no perfect...I've told dh we are getting a cleaner in, so we'll see. I think I will find things a bit better when E starts kinder, then I will get into a routine.
Beck - I'm so glad to hear that Jake is recovering. I saw the new photos that you put on facebook, he's adorable and looks so little. Great news about him starting to have milk.
Bec - Great photos. I think your family ones are lovely. Glad to hear Rachael is an easy baby, it really does make everything so much easier.
Georgia - How long until your holiday?
Gotta go. Take care...big kisses to all those bubbas and the little :devil: too.
Abbey has a new game. And it says a lot about mummy's domestic goddess status. What you do is go find the leftover food on the floor, toast or a rice cake etc (usually fresh that day, I swear!) and put it in the cupboard. Close the cupboard, say BEEEEEP, blow on it cos its hot, and then eat it. That's cooking.
She's quite surprised when we go to a friends house for lunch and they have floppy bread, cos our bread lives in the freezer and always turns into toast.
So Bec, I am not the person to ask about lunches. I rarely feed her 2min noodles, but she gets the same lunch every day really. A plate with whatever I can find. Toast with honey, sultanas, rice cake, a multivitamin, maybe some dry cereal, fruit if we have it and if I think she will eat it...gourmet menu here! I tend not to focus on actual fruit since grapes get squished or cannoned around the room, bananas get peeled and abandoned, strawberries get smushed into the carpet. I buy Quelch iceblocks instead, and give her those cut in half. They're just frozen juice really.
Ella looks SOOO big in those photos. And Rachael looks like an adorable lump, newborns are cute but hard to play with, I remember! Doesn't DP know yet that you can't win an argument with a toddler? Get him a copy of the toddler taming books, they really helped me when Abbey started being a monster. We still argue but mostly its me saying get off me and trying to get some space for a nap.
Sarah - You're human after all, its not suprising you feel overwhelmed. I took anti-depressents while in uni and they were great, doubt I'd go back onto the same ones again though, they removed almost ALL anxiety and I went floating around failing classes singing lalalala.
If Abbey sleeps during the day she is up late too, so even though she looks sleepy around 3-4pm and actually asks to go to bed, I don't let her. I'm so mean, I take her outside to play or do something interesting instead. Then we have dinner at 5, a wakeup shower, then bed at 6.30. Means I get my evenings back and she sleeps like a log.
Only times I encourage a nap is days we have visitors staying over, and that's usually when she refuses. Contrary bear!
SalTheGal
13-01-2009, 10:48
Hey Ladies, I am back...again :rolleyes: Please let me computer woes be over for now!!
So miffed cause I missed our birthday month, and xmas/new year...
So Merry christmas to everyone, and happy new year!!! Hope it all went well for everyone.
Ours was great- we had all of my family plus the inlaws here for christmas day, and it went brilliantly (was potential for MIL to cause issues, but she was very well behaved!) and New years was great too...I was very sneaky and filled up an empty vodka bottle with water so that no one got suss on my lack of drinking- I think they must have all just thought I was a tank with the way I could put it away and not get drunk!!! :D
Bec- Welcome Racheal!! So glad to hear everything went well- she is just beautiful. :cloud9:
Beck- Welcome Jacob!! It sounds like you went through the ringer a bit but glad to hear he is on the road to recovery, and you sound amazingly calm about it all....can't wait to hear about him going from strength to strength. :hugs:
Jac- Wow, what a start to the new year for you, a move 'home' and an engagement, thats wonderful news, you've got lots to look forward too....and a built in page boy!
Michelle- Boo to Owen, what a pig....Abbey sounds like she is better for it happeneing now whilst she can't remember much you are right. And woohoo on the $22 dishwasher- you don't even want to know what we piad for ours in the new house ($1800 :o DH has a pink fit, but it is meant to be the best of the best and last for 15-20yrs).
Sare- I'd be definitely looking into that cleaner if I were you- you sound buggered poor love! My SIL got a cleaner for the first year of their thirds life (similar ages to yours) and she swears it was the one thing that saved her from postnatal depression, cause you need some time for you!! Bless Eloise for being a goodie two shoes. :angel:
Bec- speaking of cleaning had to giggle about the comment of your DP cleaning "at" you! It is exaclty what I would describe what my DH does too....gets home and huffs around tidying up very loudly and pointedly as if its all left to him! If only they knew what we do when they aren't around!!
Maryanne- love you avater pic, I think the way it looks like Darc loves her mummy you've got enough there to last you a lifetime...so don't feel bad about not having another one yet, if and when all in good time!
Genitals- Nedd has a doodle, and is very very proud of it mind you! And calls mine a giney (mind you he sometimes insists he has a giney too and therefore is a girl- some gender confusion I think!!). He is also boob obsessed, often when sitting in the shopping trolley he will try to squeeze mine and loudly pronounce to the world that he's got mummies boobs. Dear child!
Daysleeps- Nedd is not asleep till after 9 either but he still needs his sleep, he goes down after lunch without a peep and will often sleep for over 2hrs if I let him. He has a strict bedtime of 8.30pm but we let him take a car and some teddies and he seems happy to lie there chatting away for a while. Its a catch 22 at this time.
I am feeling ok, ultrasound tomorrow- 12wks, yay, so I can tell the world then (the MIL who told everyone early last time and get into troulbe for it is nearly wetting her pants for tomorrow to be able to tell people). But I have been working heaps so that counts for the tiredness I think....can't remember if I mentioned but have been doing casual work for the Department Human Services in the houses where disabled clients work- last week I did 46hrs active plus 3 sleepovers a total of 73 house hours in 5days so was exhausted by Fri...but it is not usually like that and I can take or leave shifts as I want to, so will cut back to 25hrs next week onwards. Plus had some time off any coffee business work over christmas and back into that this week too- trying to work out how MYOB works today to keep my figures in order!
OK, thats enough ramble from me, good to be back.
MoOaNdLiTtLePoPpEt
13-01-2009, 14:36
hey sal -good to see you back! 12 week u/s YAY!!! how exciting.
oh how nice is it today - well here we have had a break of the heat...but back to it on thursday!!! ke hasn't been outside in like 2 + weeks cos it has been 35+ most days!! so this arvo after his nap i will make the most of it and take him out YAY!
all good here...hopefully we will have a date by tomorrow night! so very exciting.
have my brothers wedding on the 24th...and he has asked me to do a speech at the ceremony :o but i have found a lovely - true poem...so that is a bonus!
not much else happeening here. DF has had 7 days off...has been lovely....his dad has been visiting and leaves tomorrow....DF goes back to work this arvo! but will kinda be nice when its back to me and ke in a way...altho i do like the house not being so quiet and it has been that way for 4 weeks....so yes it will definitley be quiet...but with the move coming up i am sure i will be busy enuf!
my friend visited yesty which was nice as they moved 10 hrs away...prob wont see her til august now as they are coming over to the east coast for a holiday then! but will be good as she is due in march and me april.
yep im coming up to 27 weeks - so the last trimester...can't wait to move and find a rental in brissy - get it over and done with...i'll be about 30 weeks when we get there so not too bad - but dont want to leave it any later really!
have to do the 1hr glucose test on friday...fun fun!! :)
ke has been FANTASTIC - i can not remember the last time i got up to him thru the night...and he sleeping thru the day still....altho sunday we went out at noon and got home at 6pm...so he didnt get a day sleep and the effects were there yesty for him...poor lil man!!!
hmm not much else happening.
:laughing: sal have to laugh at the vokda trick. he he he that is hilarious!!! and yep i know the boobie thing in public!!
hope everyone else is well...and all the new bubbas are doing well...xxx
MoOaNdLiTtLePoPpEt
13-01-2009, 22:56
we are going home yay :yelclap:
BUT i have 2 options...advice/opinions/experiences. (DS boss needs him for at least another 6 weeks, i guess to train someone eklse in that period)
option 1 - we leave WA and fly home when i am 35/36 weeks...look for a rental when we get to QLD - stay with family until we find one....so pack up and clean this place in 8 weeks. We have no support here, so it would just be me and DS at home, and packing...DF would help pack on his days off (also i am at risk of developing preclampsia - i had it right at the end with ke....i was 40 weeks when i showed....and i went into hospy straight away, and had him 4 days later...he was 5 days over due). the further along i get the more tired i will get and i will have no help with any of the packing, organising etc.
option 2 - me and DS leave her when i am 30/31 weeks. DP stays for an extra 4 weeksso arrives when im around 35/36 weeks....i pack the house before i go and clean some rooms and close them off....DF does the rest of the cleaning/packing. We have heaps of family support back there, so we'd be staying with SIL and my MIL...i have no dramas or stresses about lack of support. but 4 weeks away from DF...me and him will cope, miss each other of course...but DS ? I feel like :crying: but that could be pregnancy hormones. I can look for a rental and have one organised for when DF arrives...but DP would be here alone for 4 weeks...
most realestate will not let you apply from interstate and if they do want someone to look thru the property for you...this would mean family driving 1 hr each way to do this - a bit of a hassle...
hmm i do not know what to do or what decision to make...either one has its stresses...i want as less stress as possible lol!! i know it will all be worth it in the end...to be home...but any advice appreciated LOTS!
xxx
night
GeorgiaAnne
14-01-2009, 08:06
Hey Jac - I would go for option 2 - the most important thing atm is to look after your unborn child and packing and moving interstate that late in pg has it's risks. That's jmho. Ke is old enough to chat to daddy on phone and will have al your family to keep him entertained.
Sal - Great to see you back, hope all goes well with your u/s today :goodvibes: Look forward to hearing all about it.
Me: all is good here. Still trying to lose some weight and not feel like a blimp on the beach. We love the beach but man, looking at all those amazing bodies is not good for self esteem :o
Sophia seems to be settling down a bit and her speech is getting way better which I think is helpin with her frustration. Charlie is still a delightful boy, very loving and happy. He's starting to roll now and tries for commando crawling but ends up inchworming around, very cute.
jackie - go for option 2, Ke can always chat via web cam and he will have plenty of hugs from family. Those 4 weeks will just fly by. I've gotten rentals without being in the same town, I think the key is to make sure you maintain communication with the agent. And your mum can do walk throughs for you.
MoOaNdLiTtLePoPpEt
14-01-2009, 09:28
thanks for the advice girls! appreciated...
am speaking with DP when he wakes!! he was on night shift.
yeh i think 4 weeks would go quick...and it means i can go see my doc - from when i had ke....and the hopsy etc...without rushing it all....
me and my MIL can look for a house too...have like 2 days where we go up to brissy and look thru...
it is really rare to get a realestate that will let you apply from interstate - if you can, it is great, and they can be very helpful and good....but the extra stress of applying from here...trying to send of applications, along with documents is just a pain learnt that one once. at least if i g with option 2, there isnt really that stress...
makes me sad tho that DP will be here without ke...he will miss him like crazy...ke shud be ok, he will have the fam fussing over him since it has been a year almost since some of them have seen him...BUT DP will be here alone...so will feel it more i think and thats where i get :crying:
but going earlier means less pressure on me and the pregnancy...and if im cranky and tired, ke will feel that and so will bubs - whereas going earlier that shudn't be as much of an issue! i can organise a rental for when DF gets there....and the cats will then also have somewhere to go straigh away...otherwise will have to have them at MIL in her shed (they are inside cats).....which for a week is fine but prolonged is a bit sad too lol. so yeh wow...sooooo much going thru my head hey!!!!!
thanks for listening.
xxx
MoOaNdLiTtLePoPpEt
14-01-2009, 20:29
It is now 5 weeks :crying: i am so sad....but a sacrifice we have to make...don't have much choice....
I wish DF had someone here....he will be all alone...so will have time to miss us...mind you he will be here in this house for 3 weeks and 2 weeks at my brothers....so that will be good for him! and he will do some overtime shifts for extra money!! and be busy in the first 3 weeks getting this place ready for inspection/end of lease...but still, my preg hormones are making me want to :crying:
Jackie - :hugs: I am sure that 5 weeks will fly. You'll be busy setting up your new house and getting ready for the baby and your df will be busy working. It's great news that you are getting to move closer to your family, especially as it's just in time for the new baby. So do you have an inkling to what you are having? How's the name selection going?
Georgia - Great news that Sophia is settling...maybe she can come and teach Lara how to behave sensibly? I hear you on the weighloss front...why does it go on so easily, but take so long to get off? I'm trying to get dh to agree to getting a wii fit...might get my of my big fat butt to do some exercise if I think of it as a game rather than exercise.
Sal - How did the ultrasound go? You sound like you are super busy at the moment. Are you up for a catch up still? I'd love to meet up with you Melb guys again, it's been far too long.
Michelle - Bed at 6.30pm?...That sounds like bliss. Lara skips a day sleep and still won't go to sleep before 9pm (often later). Tonight I lay down with her and she was asleep at 7.15pm, but has already woken.
Me - Things are going well here at the moment. Oliver's sleeping from after his dreamfeed until 6am, so I am getting a decent block of sleep which makes things seem a lot better. Eloise has been great since Christmas, although she's started having accidents again. I told her that I was going to put her back in nappies if she did it again, and this afternoon she did (pure laziness, she told me that she didn't want to stop what she was doing), so we popped her in one of Lara's and she hated it, she was in tears and begging to go back to undies. We made her stay in the nappy for about an hour and I swear she complained the whole time, so :fingerscrossed: that she hated it so much that she won't do it again.
How are the kids going getting their 2 y.o molars? Lara's are taking ages to come through (I am talking weeks per tooth). Her nappies are feral, her bahaviour is shocking and she gets a cold sore every time they seem to be giving her grief. Poor sausage.
Well I better go and feed the boy. Take care...
MoOaNdLiTtLePoPpEt
14-01-2009, 22:18
sare - thanks for the hugs...needed! we will stay with family for 4 weeks...and hopefully find a rental sometime after the 9th march! yes really looking forward to being around family again!
hmmm i think anutha boy...but who knows...names are picked and have been for some time.
Phoenix Jordan for a boy
and
Anastasia Rose for a girl.
Yeh 5 weeks will fly and it is a sacrifice we have to make...not to look for recommendations of a hopsital!!!
SalTheGal
15-01-2009, 09:23
Morning ladies, hope everyone is well!!
Ultrasound was great yesterday- everything looks perfect so far, which is good- I had been a bit apprehensive as I havent felt any major symptoms this time round which made it feel like a pregnancy....so now we can share the news and it might start being more real!!:yelclap:
We both reckon it 'looked' like a boy- but realistically there isn't much that very feminine about a 12wk bub is there?!?!
So glad the cool change has arrived here in vic- the last few days have been scorchers which I do not enjoy.
Jac- sounds like you've made the right hcoice to me in going back home earlier rather than later. And with Ke being able to chat on the phone to your DF it will make it much easier.
mmmn mbbgfcdxs,
mj k ;.nbbb
hcnnneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeddddddddddddd (asking me how to spell his name) nnnbvvvvvvxxxxxzzzzzzsssssaaaaaaaawfy-8nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
^^hello from nedd^^
Sare and the other melb girls I would LOVE a catch up- it has been way too long! Maybe we could try again for lunch out sometime. I'll send a PM and see if we can get something happening.
Nothing much else happening here, at home this morning then at work for a sleep over shift this arvo, which I hate cause seriously who would sleep soundly with 5 disabled people in a house who you wouldn't know what they would get up to during the night if they could!! But its good money.
Nedd is being a treasure as usual, he is obsessed with talking on the phone at the moment and will talk to whoever is on the other end for ages- he had the most gorgeous conversaTIon with his 3yr old cousin the other day, they were both telling there own stories but loved chatting all the same.
He is back to eating really well- interesting enough he got a cutlery set with knife for xmas and if he gets to 'cut' his vegies with the 'sharp' as he calls it then he eats them all up! Too easy. Still in his cot again- but will be till we pack it up in the next week or so, and can't even be bothered thinking bout TT. :o
OK well I have mountians of washing to do before work so best go get into it!
Have a great day all. :)
Sal - so you sleep on the couch at these houses? And your job is to make sure they don't burn the house down? I'm amazed you've managed such long hours and strange responsibilities during the first trimester, I've spent way too much time curled up exhausted lately.
Glad your scan went well. They say some sonographers can find doodles at 14 weeks, but surely they're just guessing and have a 50% of being right. Does that mean you'll be finding out the sex?
I kind of want to, but only for logistics. Its my last foreseeable baby and I should have at least one surprise. It will be interesting having a boy and owning only pink clothes though, some hurried shopping will be in order.
My energy is coming back now, I even cooked a real dinner last night instead of a one pot stew thingy, defrosting an old stew from the freezer, or declaring dinner to be a boiled egg and rice cracker.
Abbey didn't appreciate my efforts though. She came to the table, tippy toed to peer in the bowl, thought a second, and said "hmmmmm no..." and wandered away muttering about how she wanted rice instead.
abnbaaaaaazey l ov es you :party:
I admit, I dictated which letters to aim for, but she's pretty good at finding them. Has no concept of them making words though.
She plays with the phone but its only hello bye and then hand to me. Apparently my conversations are better.
Sare - I have a wii fit but no wii, I don't recommend that combination. It doesn't work very well at all. A wii is on my to-do list, and I've been trying to win one, but so has everyone else. Rotten sods.
Are Eloise's lazys wet or stinky? I can't imagine going back to stinky pants. Is she acting out due to the new baby? Hope the nappy did the trick, she might need another talk from a stern scary person again.
No 2yo molars here, no sign of them yet either. I checked the other night while cleaning her 'stinky teeth'. Its the only way she will open up. And to get her to wash her hands after potty I have to convince her there is wee or poo on them or she runs away and doesn't care.
Georgia - inchworming already? oh my, wont be long now. As for the beach goddesses, meh, either they are 16 yo and gravity hasn't found them or they eat only steamed brocolli and work out for hours each day. Boring! I'd rather be dimply and happy!
Hi everyone,
Sal - great to hear your ultrasound went well!! :yelclap: Bet you can't wait to shout out the happy news?
Jackie - The time will absolutely fly by, you'll be surprised. 27 weeks already? Seriously, these online pregnancies really seem to fly by, lol!!
Michelle - What's the worst thing that could happen...putting the baby boy into girl clothes for a couple of weeks?? I say go for a suprise!! :p I've got plenty of baby boy clothes here that I'd be happy to send your way if need be ;) I don't think I'll be needing them again!
Georgia - I'm so feeling the same way, although I know I'm not helping myself with all the cr@p I've been eating lately. Must get onto it though, as it's making me feel worse and worse about myself every day.
We're off for a weekend away this weekend. We have a friends 30th in Ballarat, so look out Sal, here we come, lol!! It's just going to be DH, me and the 2 little ones. DS1 and DS2 will stay with the MIL for the weekend :smiliedance: We're going to be checking out some display homes whilst we're there too, as we have our colour selection/electrical plan appointment on Tuesday, and need some more ideas!!
Oh, any ideas on a 30th b'day present for a female? Have no idea what so ever!!
We pick up our new mattress tomorrow. Can't wait as I've had such terrible back pain for the last couple of months. I had a CT scan which has revealed that I have disc de generation in the lower back. Not something I would say is a good thing at my age. So, I have some rehabilitation to do, and have to book myself into a pilates class - cos I have heaps of spare time to do this, lol! We have also ordered a new bed, but we're not going to get it until we move into our new house, as we don't need that yet.
I've probably babbled on for long enough. While I have the children quiet, I'd best go and do nothing to enjoy it!
MoOaNdLiTtLePoPpEt
15-01-2009, 19:49
thanks Sarah.....yeah DP will arrive when im coming up to 36 or 37 weeks..can't remember exactly! hope i don't go into early labor...he will be on the first flight home!!!!!!!!
Hi girls,
Just thought I'd pop in and say hi. Nothing much new happening here. Oliver's still wonderful, Eloise is good most of the time and Lara's my loveable villan. She's turning into a little liar to avoid getting into trouble.
Sarah - Have a great time in Ballarat. Are you catching up with Sal? I hope the new mattress helps with your bad back.
Michelle - I honestly don't think there's any difference between finding out and not finding out what you are having. We didn't find out with the girls, but did for Oliver and I still asked Michael what we had (heard a few stories about u/s being wrong).
Sal - Lara's obsessed with talking on pretend phones and she talks to The Fairies (what else with her???)
Jackie - Lovely names. I feel girl vibes, but I am usually wrong.
Not much planned for the weekend. Some shopping tomorrow and then catching up with some friends for a BBQ on Sunday.
Hope you all have a lovely weekend.
GeorgiaAnne
16-01-2009, 21:30
Hi girls,
Lara's my loveable villan. She's turning into a little liar to avoid getting into trouble.
:shame: nordy Lara!! I sometimes worry about Sophia and how much pleasure she takes in hurting me or Charlie, it's like she's a sociopath. She laughs when we flinch :rolleyes:
It was funny tonight though, she grabbed my tummy and was squeezing the roll say "Big big tummy" Oh, thanks so much. On the other hand though, she has started saying "Thank you" after cuddles and kisses, it is quite funny.
diesal444
17-01-2009, 07:21
Mornin ladies,
I have the weekend off, so its time to catch up on my october thread!!:yes:
Bec - The photos are beautiful. What a great thing to do and be able to look back on. Ella is just devine as is Rachael. Hope all is going well!
Beck - Glad to hear that your able to hold your little boy now, What a horrid experience for you and your husband. Your very strong indeed. So how is Jacob going now?
Sarah - Hope you have a great weekend away in Ballarat. Sorry to hear you have been in pain with disc problems. How exciting choosing colours for your new home. Thats the best part in my opinion!!:laughing:
Sare - Glad to hear Oliver is a dream bub, especially with his sleeping. That must make things a little easier. Hows Eloise going with TT, did the nappy trick work?? Have a great day on Sunday at the BBQ.
Michelle - I like Abbey's idea of cooking. Wish it really was that simple. There are days when lunch is similar to yours. Cheese, ham, crackers, olives, like a little antipasto plate really. At least I know she will eat all that. I hate cooking really and I hate it even more when Darcy turns her nose up at my food...:laughing:
Sal - Glad to have you back!!!!! Thanks for reassurance on having another one. Now if only I could get all the "europeans" at work to get off my case. Gald to hear the ultrasound went well and all looks good. Really brings being pregnant into reality. Hope we can organise a catch up soon...
Georgia - I know what you mean about showing off in a swimsuit. I was like a beached whale but at the local pool on thursday and it was highly embarassing!!! Cant belive how time flies and Charlie is already trying to commando crawl!!
Jackie - A bit late but option 2 would have been my choice too. As the other girls have said, at least you will have things to keep you occupied while your apart from DF. Finally your going home and you must be totally thrilled about it :smiliedance:
All is good here. Darcy was moved into a big bed about 2 weeks ago and its going ok. She does get out once after being put down but will go back to bed and sleep after this one time, which I am ptretty happy about. No getting up and coming to our room which is fantastic and she just appears next to my bed at about 7am the next day. Lets hope it lasts!!!
We have kinda got poos in the toilet mastered and it was pretty much Darcy's lead. one day she was pushing and then said " mummy poo toiley", we made a huge deal about it and she has gone for poo in the toilet since which was about 3 weeks ago. Wees are another issue, she had no pants on the other day and wee'd and it ran down her leg and didnt bother her at all....lol
Well I best be off as i have alot to catch up on today, cleaning etc and we are off to the Zoo and the queen vic market tomorrow...
Have a great weekend all xxx
Hi All
Just wanted to let you all know that Jake got home today finally! Don't have time to post any personals but will try to get on again over the next few days!
That's great news Beck. Looking forward to hearing all about Jake.
I've only just sat down for the night and it won't be for long. DH got a ticket to go to the tennis and sit in a corporate box (lucky him) so it was me with the 3 and between feeds, cleaning up after dinner, feeding the pets and doing some laundry, I've had no down time. I'm now off to spend 30mins on the wii fit before feeding Ollie again. Luckily it's my turn tomorrow night, out to dinner with the mums from my mother's group (but of course I'll be expected to cook dinner for dh and the kids before I go).
Mary-Anne - Great news about Darcy's smooth transition to the bed and potty training. Still no luck with that here. Maybe I should try her on the potty first rather than going straight to the toilet like I did with Eloise.
MoOaNdLiTtLePoPpEt
20-01-2009, 17:25
:wave:
had my 27 week check today...
all is well with the diabetes - it came back fine !
BP up a bit compared to usual...
Iron is low AGAIN!! had this with DS
and i feel like a heifa (like i have put on heaps quickly)...i have put on about 10kg all up...and 5 kg of those have been since 5th november - so cos of all these factors (minus the iron) she wants me to go for another check in 3 weeks, before i fly out....just to keep an eye on it!!! Had preclampsia with ke, so these signs are poitning towards it again - altho with ke my BP didn't rise til 40 weeks (along with lots of swelling)...so yeh all good otherwise...
hope everyone else is well..
AND Bec great that Jake is home:)
My internet connection appears to be posessed - wonder if the storms yesterday had anything to do with it? It's a total random occurence today whether the computer connects or not!
Jac - glad your results came back ok! How are you eating - is the weight/iron thing related to diet? Sounds like things are pretty full on for you at the moment!
Sare - I have been watching the tennis wondering if you were a fan or not! It's bloody hot weather to be sitting outside watching any sport in the middle of the day. Mind you a corporate box is another matter - wow. Hope you had a good night out with the girls. What has Lara been fibbing about?
Beck - Yay :smiliedance: that Jake is at home with you now!! Look forward to hearing more about how you guys are going.
Mary-ann: Ella certainly looks divine in the photos - pity the reality is a lot more feral these days!:rolleyes: Thank God I have more patience than DP or we'd be a houseful of screaming every day. Sigh. I'm so impressed with any of you that have progressed with TT'ing! Ella still runs away from me when I ask her "have you done a poo". You know, to make sure it's well and truly spread in the nappy. Yucko!
Georgia - lol at your description of Sophia laughing when you flinch! Oh boy.
Sarah - I loved pilates (was quite surprised that I was good at it, not something I thought would come naturally!) Hope it helps with your back. Might be too late, but for that birthday present: for almost any female I like indulgent things - nice choccies, pampery things from the chemist etc - good generic choices if something doesn't jump out at you.
Well I'd better go. Have to look at online clothes sales at which I can't afford to buy anything:D
MoOaNdLiTtLePoPpEt
21-01-2009, 19:40
iron - i had a deficiency when i was pregnant with keanu...and ate a lot better than what i am now, this time round...mind you i eat fine...i eat a healthy, balanced diet so don't think I'm over eating and putting the weight on cos of that (i prob aren't eating as much as i ate when pregnant with keanu...go figure lol). think everyone is different with the amount of weight they put on...BUT it could be a sign of preclampsia! as i had that with DS - things are pretty full on atm, with my brothers wedding and the move - but in saying that i have heaps of support, so am not stressing too much, which is good! and i will just take iron supplements to boost my iron back up....so all manageable :laughing:
had better run for now, chat soon!!
SalTheGal
21-01-2009, 21:00
Hey girls....was online to post a big catch up but have been sidetracked with mod stuff (god that takes up some time!) so just wanted to say Hi, and I will be back tomorrow with all my updates....
:wave: :wave: :wave:
Abbey doesn't understand the difference between stickers and magnets, its very annoying and makes a huge mess. I tell her they are stuck to the fridge now where she put them and not supposed to come off, but she gives me a look that says "shows what you know mummy" and yanks them off in pieces.:rolleyes:
We have good tt days and bad tt days. Today is good, she's told me when she needs to go and I help her get knickers down, yesterday was bad, she just flat refused to use the potty and peed wherever she wanted. Stubborn child, not my influence! She always does poos in the potty though, and we've even started using public toilets while out and despite saying she doesn't need to go she is quite obliging once in the parents room. Haven't worn a nappy while out and about for ages now, down to nighttime only.
Haven't tried a long drive yet though.
Jackie - hope your iron doesn't lead to pe, would be the last thing you need while moving. So long as the supplements work for you, that's what counts.
I haven't seen my gp again yet to tell him I stopped taking the iron supplements. He went on holiday so gets to wait before telling me off. They were making me sick, I know my body can't process too much iron, I told him why, but of course he needs to see for himself, sigh. I could try the liquid option but I don't think it will help, I just need to convince him that despite being classed as low, its normal for me. If he's concerned he can monitor it some more. Baby is fine, I'm fine, its just the number he doesn't like.
Bec - nothing wrong with virtual window shopping, unless you take it too far like my mum does with ebay. She had dad here yesterday driving all over the city collecting ebay stuff, and is making him come down again next week to buy an organ she got for 99c. An organ as in a church multi-level, zillion pedals and buttons organ. And she needs that why??
Sare - hope you had a good ladies night out and didn't get up to too much mischief. Abbey lets her potty and the big potty take turns. She will run to the little potty in the dining room then abruptly change course yelling "Big potty!" and go off down the hall.
Hang on, i have to go throw abbey out into the rain to prove it really is raining
Yes, yes it was raining, a light gentle rain that was very refreshing. She's used to big battering storms where mummy says come away from the window.
Sarah - pilates is great, and results are felt really fast. I used to do a nightly routine on the loungeroom floor, in my previous life of course. I tried them again recently and trying to feel control of my core was about as effective as the pelvic floor exercises I can do. A good book for home guidance is "body in motion" by Alyssa Ungaro. I tried classes but felt the reliance on gadgets was a bit weird. How's the mattress working out? Did it smell weird for a while? I bought a new mattress a couple months ago but its still in the spare room airing out. I don't like that rubbery chemical smell, even though dad says he can't smell it, I can. I can still smell it on my kitchen chairs after 2 years use! If it doesn't fade I will just give the thing away and start looking for organic mattresses.
MoOaNdLiTtLePoPpEt
22-01-2009, 18:02
m_jelly - how low is your iron...when i take the iron tablets, it makes me get belly aches and constantly go to the toilet (Not diarrhea tho lol) but i get really upset tummy...i am taking one every 2nd day and see how that goes...
i don't think the iron deficiency can lead to PE? at least i hope not...i think it is more to do with the rapid weight gain, and fluid!! and there are other signs as well...like dizziness, headaches etc
I've no idea what leads to PE, just that it sucks. I thought iron might be related from your post, but if not, that's even better.
My iron was around 8 I think when he checked it last. Its supposed to be 12-17 or some such. That's the hemoglobin count, they count it in lots of ways. I don't pay much attention anymore, just nod and say of course when I'm told its low.
Sounds like your iron supplements aren't nice either. The massive dose in the orange cap bottle? I'm on Blackmores Pregnancy, add a cup of milo here and there and that's quite enough I think.
The extra iron gave me nausea, dizzyness, chronic fatigue, trouble breathing, diarhooee that I can't spell and won't even try and was generally something my body was quite clearly saying "This is bad for you". I thought maybe my problems were pregnancy related so I let it clear from my system and felt so much better within a few days. My skinny blood cells carried as much as they could, converted as much as they could to stores and had no idea what to do with the rest!
If you're having a different reaction than the doc expected (which is usually only constipation), go back and have a chat. Doc might recommend the liquid option, a lower dose, or looking more closely at your blood results.
Hi girls,
Just a quick hello from me...been super busy this week.
I'll definitely pop on tomorrow and do a proper post.
MoOaNdLiTtLePoPpEt
23-01-2009, 15:02
m_jelly - yeh she suggested i take one every second day. see how that goes - so far so good...so :fingerscrossed:
Got to run have my brothers wedding tomorrow :)
Hellooooooooooo......anyone out there?.........
It's quiet in here again, I guess everyone is busy with their new bubbas or just too tired because of being UTD.
All is going well here...well, except for the heat. It makes me realise how much I love autumn and winter. Apart from a quick visit to the shops today and Eloise's kinder interview tomorrow, we'll be staying at home with the air con.
I'm starting to feel a lot more human now. Oliver's been sleeping through for 3 weeks now. We even moved him into his room on Sunday and he was fine with the move. He's not particularly liking the heat, but is ok if we stay somewhere cool. Lara's still being a PITA with her sleeping, she sleeps through once she falls asleep, but some nights it is as late as 11.30pm. The last 2 nights has been by 9.30pm though (thank goodness for small blessings).
As for me, I had my GTT last week, so I need to ring my OB to see if I have type 2 diabetes after having GD. I really don't think I will, but still better make the call. The weight is coming off...thank goodness. As of this morning 8.5kgs gone, but still so much more to go.
Bec - I don't mind the tennis, but I don't love it. I much prefer to watch the cricket. How are you finding being a mum of 2? Has Ella settled a little yet? I remember Eloise being riddled with jealousy. It's not so bad this time around, because the girls have each other.
Jackie - How was the wedding? What a pain about all your pg issues. I hope you don't develop PE.
Michelle - We've got stickers all over our wooden floorboards that are a PITA to get off. She know magnets go on the fridge, but thinks that stickers can be stuck anywhere.
Better go, Oliver is wanting a feed and I want to head out before it gets too hot. Take care.
SalTheGal
28-01-2009, 08:52
Hey Everyone, its so quiet in here- hello!!!!!
I am flat out...You know even though I hated my last job atleast I could be lazy and work form home and sit on the computer slacking all day if I really wanted too- now I just seem to be running round like a headless chook- and the thing with doing casual hours is that you never know when they re going to dry up (everyone says they will soon) so you just take what you can get- the problem is my hours don't seem to be drying up! So though I thougt Feb was going to be the start of my down time its not turning out that way!
Plus I am getting no time to put into my small business which I bought into- so the loan repayments for that are eating into our everyday money and I'm not getting anywhere!!
Not to mention everytime I think I have some *spare* time something comes up. eg-this morning my SIL is coming with her kids, she is down for a few days only so I can't brush her off, arghh...enough of my rant, I just feel like I am not keeping on top of things at the moment. :crying: :crying:
OK, breath Sally breath. :chillpill:
So apart from that little spat everything is ok here, feeling great, Nedd is a treasure as per usual. Celebrated our 2nd wedding anniversary on Aust day, even that turned pooey, my Mum is driving me nuts at the moment- booked in for her to have nedd for the night months ago, was going to take DH away for the night, last week she asks me if we can do something another night as she has my Bro's kids for the night and she doesn't see them often (sees them atleast once month), we still went out for tea (I was working every other night) and she had Nedd for a couple of hours- but its just typical of her- to toss Nedd aside when the other kids come along- like one extra is going to take away from her time the the others, Nedd is hardly demanding, and he and his cousins love to catch up anyway!
She is meant to have him this Fri so I can get some work done and I have heard 3rd hand that she is now going to Sale to help SIL take the kids home (3 under 5 for a 4hr trip is hard)- but she hasn't even had the courtesy to tell me!!!!
Um, Nedd has finally taken to sleeping in his big beg I think....he has been there for the last 5 nights with no problems, but this morning when I suggested he doesn't need his cot anymore and we dismantle it he was devastated!!!!
No where near TT, no drama there though.
OK, well best go and do some work whilst Nedd is quiet in front of the TV, hope everyone is well. :flowerz:
diesal444
28-01-2009, 18:43
:wave:
Phew! Its stinking hot, thank goodness for air con.
Well we had an awesome long weekend, on Sunday we went to the mornington peninsula and had lunch with friends at the bay and Darcy had a terrific time.
On Monday we headed off to Torquay where we spent the day on the beach with friends which was fantastic.
Darc was such a good girl on both days, she really is such a pleasure and so great to take places...( most of the time...lol)
Back to reality now and back to the daily grind of work.
Things are still going well with the big bed, its so funny coz in the morning around 7am she will come into our room, go to Daddy's side and yell " wake up daddy"!! :laughing:
Poos are still getting done on the toiley but we arent even attempting wees for the time being.
We finally got our blinds installed in our house yesterday and it really makes the house look more homely.:yes:
Work is cr@p. The job that I was hoping to start is probably going to fall through due to saving money for the company reasons, and I am very disappointed to say the least.
I am also thinking about going to Vietnam for 4-5 days in September which will be great. I have always wanted to visit there.
OK I must head off and check emails etc....
*mwah*
MoOaNdLiTtLePoPpEt
28-01-2009, 20:55
:wave:
yeh the wedding was LOVELY!!! Beautiful! had a great time!!!
Sal - ke isn't near TT yet either...he gots lots jocks for xmas and now n then puts them on for all of 5 mins then asks for a nap (nappy). tonight he did a poo and i suggested he put jocks on for 5 mins before bath time...his reply was "nut, nap nap nap" he he....me, im not fazed either...he will in his own time :)
coming up to 29 weeks OMG - 18 days and we will be back in QLD sooo scarey....i still can't get over how much we will miss DF but all will be good...a small sacrifice for long term happiness!! :)
all is well this end, busy packing...had family left right and centre for the past few months...mum and dad leave friday tho...and we might not see them for 8 or so months now cos of the move and the the cost of that...but all is good!
talk soon
xxx
Jackie - I thought your mum and dad were in Brisbane?
Maryanne - does Daddy appreciate his alarm clock? :D Does she do the leap around and bother game if he ignores her?
Sal - your mum has some issues doesn't she? Who could turn away from gorgeous Mr Neddy? I'll babysit, just courier him up. Maybe she will get involved when the baby comes.
I'm very lucky my family love Abbey and love to spoil her. I had to tell mum to stop buying her toys, she has too many, so she agreed to take a 6 month break, lol.
How many nudists do we have in this group? Abbey loves to be naked, no matter the weather, and really only agrees to get dressed for proper reasons like going out. The rest of the time we get out of the shower and I offer some knickers and she says no and continues playing. So fine, whatever, less washing for me! Half the time I forget to offer clothes while at home now - such a responsible mother! Fortunately she still doesn't pay too much attention to gineys.
I've got my ultrasound in a couple weeks, just have to get around to booking it first. I tried booking it way in advance but they laughed at me and said to call back closer to the date. I got the NT scan for free with Abbey, no idea why the rules have changed this time, its gone from a routine scan to optional, which is a tad crazy in my mind.
I'm taking abbey to a quasi-carnival on Saturday. Its a church garage sale but they've made it a mammoth affair and will have rides and a petting zoo and pony rides etc. I'm hoping Abbey will enjoy it immensely, an hour or 2 of insanity then home for a nap. I have no plans to purchase anything but entertainment, but you know I'm going to come home with something unnecessary just because it was a bargain.
GeorgiaAnne
31-01-2009, 19:54
Hello lovely ladies, i've been away for a few days and haven't kept up though it seems to have been fairly quiet in here. We had a lovely few days up the coast, it was great to get away all together and the kids had a fab time.
Sophia is going through a trying stage at the moment and is still very rough, especially with me and it is making me sad, not sure what to do. As i've mentioned before, she thinks it's hilarious. I tell you, i've wanted to smack her sometimes which is not something I like but she has really pushed my buttons :( Most of the time though she is a clever, happy little sausage. We are slowly tt'ing and she just trots off by herself for wees and poos. I have just decided to let her do it at her own pace as she got very upset when she didn't make it to the toilet which wasn't helping the cause. This arrangement seems to be working better.
Charlie is such a happy little treasure - 41/2 months is a very cute age, and he is super squishy :bee:
How's our little bubbas Monet, Rachael, Jake and Oliver going?
How's our duffed ladies going too?
How's Mary-anne? :D I actually love the name Darcie, def on the list for my next girl.
GeorgiaAnne
31-01-2009, 19:56
I don't mind the tennis, but I don't love it. I much prefer to watch the cricket.
You may have changed your mind after last night, what an embarrassment!!
SalTheGal
31-01-2009, 20:17
Hey everyone...well thank god a cool change has come through, its 9pm and I *think* Nedd is actually asleep- for the fisrt time in several nights before 10pm and without a major fight...it has just been too hot in our house to expect any different from him, I haven't wanted to go to sleep either!
So as you can gather the weather has been unbearable, and with no proper curtians, verandahs or any form of cooling other than a couple of fans we have been doing it tough. Been getting out of the house as much as possible.
Took Nedd to the movies for the first time Thurs- he loved it, didn't necessarily pay heaps of attention to the movie (madagascar2) but certianly enjoyed the whole experience and was well behaved enough for me to be keen to do it again.
Michelle- definite nudist in this house, Nedd loves no clothes, if he has any access to his nappy it is off in a flash, and he asks for his clothes to be taken off all the time. I love it though, I think it is so great not to have hang ups about kids being nudies in this day and age.
Georgia- sorry to hear bout Sophia being a ratbag! Nedd is not necessarily being rough but he has definitely gone off kisses and cuddles and it seems simply becuase he knows we love them and he is trying to spite us! It is saddening.
Maryanne- sorry to hear work is pooey, hope something sorts itself out soon....can you make it to our catch up?
Ah well the exciting life of me, home on a sat night and thinking about going to bed (since I will actually get some sleep tonight!) take care all. :flowerz:
Another one stuck at home on a Saturday, but come to think of it there's nowhere else I'd rather be...just want some sleep.
Well I ended up ringing up my OB to get my results, and they weren't what I expected. I'm not a diabetic, but the results were slightly elevated after the 2hrs. He wants me to see an endocrinologist. Not sure what happens from here. I'm really peeved because I have been eating so well and am losing weight. Hopefully the levels will eventually drop off.
We've been suffering in the heat too. A bit luckier than Sal, as we have air con, but only a split system and despite having the blinds shut/dow (internal and external) it was so hard to keep cool. We ended up just staying home though as it was too hot to even take the kids out.
Miss Lara is being a pain again, a bit like Sophia by the sounds of it. She thinks it hysterical to pinch people at the moment :hair: He favourite word is No and she says it with such attitude. I swear it's the effect of having a 4 yr old sister with attitude. On a positive note, she's doing really well at swimming and is such a water babe. It's almost a bit worrying how confident she is, because she is just as likely to do something silly like jump in by herself. Michael took the girls swimming this afternoon and commented about how difficult it was because Lara just kept on going under the water and doing things that she does in her swimming lessons, but he had to watch Eloise too (who is no where near as confident).
Oliver is still a dream baby. He seems to be the stereotypical 3rd baby...just goes with the flow. He is really starting to smile heaps now. Still sleeping really well. Nothing to complain about with him at all.
We're taking the kids to Phillip Island next weekend. I want to take them to the penguin parade, so we thought we'd see a few other things while we are down there and stay overnight. Lara is dying to see the fairy penguins (you know her obsession with anything fairy). She keeps saying I see fairy penguins? and when we agree, she says And Barnaby too? (Barnaby the busy buzzy bee from The Fairies). She's a little slower on the up take than her sister ever was. She makes us laugh though with some of the things that she comes out with. Yesterday I was showing her some pictures of animals and asking what they were and at the picture of a frog, she replied "frog one day" I asked again and she said the same thing. It turns out she was thinking of Der Galoomph, so started singing that. She's a bit of a nutter really.
Michelle - The girls like almost nudie time her too (they tend to leave their nappy/undies on). In fact Lara takes great pleasure running around the house yelling rudie nudie :laughing:. How did Abbey enjoy the petting farm?
Sal - That's great that Nedd was so good at the movies. We're definitely not in a rush to take Lara back, she thought it was great fun to loudly jump up and down the steps.
Georgia - I didn't even watch it last night. I've been downloading 24 and Damages, so watched those. Not sure that I'm looking forward to The Ashes series, my family are very vocal poms when it comes to Aust v England despite the fact that we've lived here for 28 years!
Where did you end up going for your holiday? I hope you had a nice and relaxing time.
re behaviour - We've found that Lara detests time out, so I now give her the option of changing her behaviour or time out and her attitude changes immediately. It's so not nice when they hurt you.
Jackie - Glad the wedding went well.
Mary-Anne - What a pain about the job. Did you manage to get back to your 3am starts? Are you taking Darcy to Vietnam too?
Well I think I have written enough for the night. Might head off to do some wii fit before the roll over feed. Night girls
diesal444
03-02-2009, 08:12
Morning ladies:wave:
Jackie - Glad to hear the wedding was great, I bet you must be getting so excited about going back home.
Michelle - Daddy actually loves his little alarm clock, even though he might not get home till 3-4am and when she arrives at 7am he still wants her to hop in and cuddle. Me on the other hand am not so lovey dovey on such little sleep....:laughing:. So how did Abbey enjoy the carnival?
Georgia - Sophia is a clever little sausage trooting herslef off to the potty. Glad to hear Charlie is a treasure. Thanks for including me seeing as though I dont fit into the new bubs or preggers category :laughing:
Sal - arrgghh... How on earth did you cope wth that heat last week with no from of cooling, We had no power for 2 hours one night from 6.30-8.30 and i was cursing coz it meant no air-con. Surely will be able to catch up. The 17th yes?
Sare - great work on the loosing weight already. You really get stuck into it. i havent lost any in ages and ages, but that just me being lazy! Hope you have a great time in Phillip Island this weekend.
Everything is going well here, Darcy had a great time playing with her friends at an indoor pool yesterday. One mum is having her baby next wednesday and another is 4 months preggers so really I am surrounded.
I also am going to see Pink in July, finally we got tickets and I am really looking forward to it.
I probably wont be taking Darc to Vietnam with me as I am probably only going for 4 days and DP is not coming. So its probably just me and the 2 girlfriends... woohoo!!!!
Have a great day everyone......:wave:
Hi girls,
Feel like I haven't been on here for ages but it's probably only a week or so!
Sare - yep Ella has settled down. She's gone back to being a bearably naughty toddler pushing the boundaries at times, rather than a total evil feral! And Rachael is amazing. I thought babies who slept through this early were a myth invented to torment those of us with a wakes-every-hour-or-two baby. But she is sleeping 5-7hrs straight, then back down for a couple more. Off to the clinic on Friday to check how much she's grown!
Can't seem to get into cricket. I've tried, as a bit of patriotism, but would rather have it on in the background while I do something more interesting. But hurrah the super 14 starts this month... love footy season! So glad Ollie is sleeping well for you. Makes em easier to love doesn't it?
Hey Sal - jeez sounds like things are full on for you! When might you know if things are going to ease off? Well done Nedd in his big bed! We moved Ella's cot out of her room and into ours when we put up the big bed, maybe that helped break the association? BTW you are not the only one with an exciting life. I go to bed directly after Rachael is down most nights, feel like I am just DP's flatmate for all the loveyness we're getting!
Mary-ann : lol after my little executive training course last year I actually know where one of those places is!:D Sounds like a wonderful long w/end. Mine was great just cos Andrew went away for a wedding and Mum came here - quality girl time, it was so nice! I laughed at Darcy's wakeups too, God bless the wiggles for so many reasons but inventing "wake up Jeff( and therefore Mummy/Daddy/Rachael)" was not so good! Sorry to hear work sucks. At least it will pay for you to go overseas!? (I find that a great motivator)
Jackie - glad you are sounding happy amongst all the chaos of moving! Glad the wedding was good too. I love weddings in general (might have something to do with planning my own ATM)
Michelle - minimal nudity here. In fact undies are the only thing that stops it being permanent fiddle time which I would rather not look at! In fact Ella doesn't get her post-potty congratulatory sticker until the undies are back on. Also they are good for containing poo accidents....
how was the carnival? I love those things. And Ella's nuts for a bouncy castle (aren't we all?)
Georgia - are you psyched for rugby season? Or am I alone in my fanaticism?:p Charlie sounds like Rachael. The little loves. Poor little mite though, her reward for being an angelic baby is a lot less attention than her sister got (but matched with a lot happier mummy)
Oh I almost forgot we are TTing! Started last Wed. hardly any wee accidents now, but poos are another matter - anyone got any suggestions on getting the poos in the potty? She will sit there, after doing a bit in her undies, nothing comes out, then after I've cleaned her up and put new undies on, out comes the rest! The joys of motherhood.:D
Damn Ella has gotten up with no nap. I was so sure she'd need one today! Bye girls.
Hi everyone,
I'm still around, but haven't been on much due to computer/internet issues....I've just been lucky enough today to 'plug in' in someones wireless :o Naughty, I know.
Well, Mack has started school!! :smiliedance: It was such an exciting day yesterday for us all. He seemed to enjoy himself, although he didn't tell us too much about the day. He was the same today. Much prefers to reflect on it in his own time I think. Last night, he said to me "I wonder what we'll do at school tomorrow Mum?" Just love it!!
Monet is being a little poo at the moment. I'm pretty sure she has a tooth on the way. Either that, or she's eaten the devil, lol!! She spends a lot of time screaming at the moment, and it's starting to do my head in. She's usually such a happy and content little girl, but these past few weeks have been very testing.
Jarvis has turned into a little terror too! He's putting everything into anything that will take it. Like this morning, he threaded pick up sticks into the air cooler that the boys in their games area. I'm going to have to screw it all apart now before they can use it again. He's refusing to sleep during the day, and is really getting frustrated when I ask him to do anything. He's getting a lot better with the TTing, and has been in jocks a little over the last week.
Our house is moving along VERY slowly! It seems this is what happens, yeah? We have picked colours, etc. and will be signing the building contract on Feb 26th. Not sure as to when they'll be on site, but if the past few months are anything to go by, I wouldn't say it would be soon :(
Little miss is screaming, yet again, so best be off. Hope all is well.
MoOaNdLiTtLePoPpEt
03-02-2009, 20:14
:wave: just a quik hi
all is well here...packing almost done..just the study for DF to do when we leave and a few kitchen things! :)
not feeling too bad pregnancy wise...ke is doing great...not much to report. hope everyone is well. xxx
Hi girls,
I have finally done Rachael's birth story, so if anyone has the time (and a computer under air conditioning!) it's here (http://www.bubhub.com.au/community/forums/showthread.php?p=3483146#post3483146)
I hope everyone is safe from the fires so far.
Bec.
SalTheGal
08-02-2009, 20:24
Hey ladies, I have been so slack with posting (but then so have we all!!:D :D), just so so tired atm.....it seemed to have skipped my in the 1st trimester, but is making up for it now.
Also have daily chronic headaches, and just lately feeling blurgh.
Absolutely emotionally drained today listening and watching to bushfire news unfold here in vic- these things seem to bl00dy well get to me so much nowadays, I was teary all day, and finally lost it earlier this evening and just :crying: & :crying: & then some!
Nedd was a poo head today, but generally is a poppet. Nedd and I were meant to travel to my nieces 4hrs away this morning for her birthday party, and then he was staying with the inlaws for a couple of days for a holiday- but alas we couldn't get through becuase of the fires, so had to cancel- poor thing was so devastated, he just asked all day to go to Emmy's party, but bless him when he got on the phone to MIL he told her all about (in massive sensible sentences mind you) how he couldn't stay with her cause of the fires on the road and it was too hot and we coudln't drive the car through!
Does anyone else have a chatterbox on the phone? Nedd talks to anyone and everyone, and I swear he sounds like an old gossipy woman when he gets on, tells the most wonderful stories, asks questions, listens intently etc etc, it is very cute, until the tantrum thats ensues when you want the phone back!
He is well and truly entrenched in his big bed which is great, even now refers to the cot as 'his, but the baby can sleep in it', generous kid!!
We tried a star chart for potty as he did a poo in it the other day, but he just has no incentive, couldn't care less really, and is quite happy to have a nappy on if need be, so still a while before that will be happening, shame though as I really wanted to do it in summer.
Am I the only one left who hasn't taken the little one off for a hair cut? Nedd seriously looks like a surfer boy with wild and ratty curls, but I just can't bring myself to get it cut!! And why oh why does all the detangling sprays have to smell like girly fruit?!?! Boys have knotty hair too!! :p
OK, thats enough from me, I am off to bed.
Hope everyone is well, take care. :flowerz:
MoOaNdLiTtLePoPpEt
09-02-2009, 19:23
i love his curls...they are gorgeous...i trim keanus hair myself...but his is very thin....not a lot of it lol.
Bushfires...so so so devastating....!!! :(
me and ke leave next Monday :( i am happy but sad to leave DF for 5/6 weeks.
and today Ke has been sick, has had temp up to 39.7...he is on antibiotics for an ear infection....so hopefully that is all it is. i managed to keep the temp under control but as soon as the nurofen wore off it was back up to 39.4 - he just fell asleep on the mattress in the spare room and he NEVER sleeps anywhere except his bed and his car seat...yet this morning i found him in our bed asleep at 11am...he put himself there...when he woke that's when i realized something wasn't right. :crying: my poor lil man. will keep an eye on him and maybe give him a warm bath to keep his temp down.
so sorry for the lack of personals, just been sooo busy!! and so busy for this next week!!!
hope everyone is well
xxx
Went and had my nuchal ultrasound yesterday, baby was waving and tumbling and being generally unhelpful but they got the measurement. Nice and low, just have to wait and see how it all boils down into a risk ratio.
Not feeling too wonderful this morning, woke up to find the room spinning so went back to sleep for an hour, but I'm still dizzy, just less so, with bouts of sweating and nausea. I've made a doc appt for this morning just to get my blood pressure and ears checked but I think its just a reaction to the blue m&ms I ate last night. Damn food colouring. And damn m&ms not being mixed colours anymore. Don't they know food should not be blue? Even smurfs knew that.
I haven't bonded with the baby at all yet, with Abbey I talked to her and said hello to my bump even before she could hear me, this one I was frankly quite surprised the sonographer found a baby in there after all, and I feel quite detached. I'm assuming I will feel better when I can feel the movements.
Sal - Nedd sounds like a treasure having real conversations on the phone! All Abbey does is 'huwwo, ok, bye' but she rarely sees me on the phone and people tend to msn me rather than call. She's very good at chatting online though, sometimes I turn on the webcam and she chats to grandma, telling her to 'buy a frog' etc when she wants the little cartoons to play. I'll often find her at the computer babbling away and go see what she is doing, and find she has pressed various combinations of buttons until people appear. I'll find she has made her own myspace page soon.
Nedd's fringe looks like it curls up and away from his face, that would be helpful. Abbey needs a fringe trim rather badly but I've just been tying it back for now. Her fringe doesn't really curl, bit special.
Bec - I read your birth story and had a little tear. Wish they all went as well! Your concentration tricks seemed to work well, very impressive.
Jackie - woo hoo on the move finally happening! Don't forget you can alternate nurofen and panadol if you need to, like panadol every 4 hours and nurofen every 6. For the bad fevers that's the only thing that works for us, recommended by our gp, the pharmacist and the ER docs, so it must be right.
Sarah - bl00dy posting things, it drives me batty. My oven has a little grill on the bottom, just at Abbey's eye height and lots of things fit in there :banghead: And behind the couch, down the side of the bed, in the printer, the fax machine, and yes we had crayons in the cooler too.
Bothersome bear is trying to drag me to the couch to read a book, what she doesn't realise is that I'm going to lie down and tell her to read it to me instead.
GeorgiaAnne
10-02-2009, 12:10
Poor Michelle, hope you're feeling better soon. I think the bonding is different with subsequent babies as you're just busier and not as obsessed with the whole pg thing.
Jac-Hope ke is feeling better today too poor man :hugs:
Sal - We haven't done a cut either and LOL about the detangling spray! So glad all is ok with you and yours in regards to the fires, it is just too sad.
Not much to report here, just hobbling around on my sore foot. Charlie is now 5 months and is still the sweetest man ever, he's properly up on all fours now so not long for proper crawling methinks:eek::eek:
Sophia is growing up quickly and has been going really well with tt'ing and is weeing in the toilet now in day care as well and is nappy free apart from sleep time - nice for the hip pocket as well!!
How are you going Sare? How's little Ollie an d the girls?
MoOaNdLiTtLePoPpEt
10-02-2009, 20:26
now i have got to thinking, i should probably pack a few things on the off chance something happens and i go early...i doubt i will...but i think ill pack some clothes for bubs...and write an 'emergency list' of things for MIL or SIL to get if i do happen to go into labor early.
OMG what is with the weather?? It's blowing a howling gale today here and is jumper weather. Ella has a green nose and Rachael has the snufflies to match.:no:
Sal we haven't cut Ella's hair yet either! I want her to grow out her fringe, so there'll be no cutting it, plus it curls at the back so you can't tell it's not all the one length! She was such a baldy baby it's taken her this long to grow it to any length (I think Rachael will be much the same!)
Jackie I think your packing a "just in case" bag is a very good idea...otherwise "Murphy's Law" will catch you out!:laughing:
Hey Georgia - hope your foot is better soon.
Well the firstborn is refusing to nap and has just woken up the second, so my nice long chat will have to wait...:rolleyes:
Just a quick hello from me girls.
Still been around, but just busy and with not much to say really.
Things are going really well at the moment. Eloise has really settled in at her new kinder and seems so much happier than where she was last year. The parents seem a lot more friendly too, so I have settled better too :laughing: Lara is really missing her when she goes off to kinder and is forever getting her backpack ready and saying "My go to kinder too Mummy" I wish there was a kinder for 2 year olds at times. Oliver is just a treasure. He's so wonderful. He sleeps so well and is happy most of the time (although he's not too fond of the pram or the car). Last night he slept from 5.30pm until I woke him at 10.30pm for a rollover feed. He went stright back to sleep and slept through until 7am. Normally it's down around 7, rollover feed around 11 and up anywhere between 7 and 8.
We've been really caught up in the last week in the bushfires. Areas all around us have had fires...we're only 5 or so minutes from Yarra Glen and Coldstream and only a 20 minute drive from Healesville. 2 families from our school community have lost their houses. It really has been shocking. Plus mum and dad are in Warburton and they have been on alert for the last week. Hopefully the fires will all soon be under control.
Bec - I hope your girls are feeling better soon. How's everything going with Rachael?
Georgia - What happened to your foot? I hope that you're ok.
Michelle - How did you go at the drs? Hope everything is ok. Don't stress to much about bonding with bub #2 yrt...like you say you'll probably feel pg when the baby starts moving. Plus you are preoccupied with an active 2 y.o. and don't have the chance to spend every moment thinking/worrying about the pregnancy.
Jackie - GL with the move. How's Ke feeling now?
Sal - Hope you feel better soon. Are we still on for Tues? If it makes you feel any better, Lara's no where near tt-ed. She's done a few wees on the toilet, but no real incentive to do it here either. It will come when she's ready.
Hi to Sarah and Mary-anne. Hope you and your families are well too.
I'm off to bed now that Ollie has finished his feed. I'll try to be a better poster...but I need people to talk to :laughing:
diesal444
17-02-2009, 06:49
Mornin ladies :wave:
Slack a$$ poster here!!!
All is going good here, nothing really exciting to report.
Darc has been good/naughty and all within minutes. I now know what Sare and Georgia are talking about when you describe your little girls changinh into devils in the blink of an eye. Darc just been a little slow to get to that great development stage :laughing:
So I have THE biggest Daddy's girl EVER!!!
This is no exageration, they are like 2 little best friends who do everything together. When dad is around, mummy doesnt get a look in. Its actuallu quite lovely to watch :goodvibes:
My friend had a baby last Sunday and I have seen her twice now and its amazing how teeny weeny they are, I really cant remember Darcy being that small......No clucky feelings though:no:
Ok I am off to give bubbaloo brekkie, looking forward to catching up with the Melb girls today..............:wave:
Why do children insist on ruining furniture? Don't they know how much it costs? Sure, I bought cheap furniture in anticipation of destruction, but a cheap couch is still $700 :banghead: And now my cheap couch reeks of pee. My kitchen chairs are covered in paint, pee and milk, and I need to get the carpet guy in next month. What fun!
So today I will yet again be stripping the couch covers off and washing them, sunning the cushion inserts, sunning the kitchen chairs, and sitting on the floor.
Abbey is fully day TT except when she wants attention or to bother me or is feeling sleepy lazy. Sleepy lazy I can understand, getting mad at me for leaving the room and then yelling out wees as she soils my furniture is another matter. I make her clean it up and discuss how unpleasant it is, but she's 2, and all she knows is that I came back to where she wanted me and got the attention she was after. As if 24/7 attention wasn't enough :hair: She only does it once a week on average, but its just SUCH a hassle each time.
Anyway...rant over, and everybody is making mental notes never to visit me without byo chairs.
maryanne - I don't have clucky feelings over newborns either. They aren't particularly attractive or interesting. They do smell good though. While holding one lately I'm usually looking at their teeny tiny mouths and wondering how on earth Abbey got so much boob in such a small space.
Sare - they have to be 3yo to go to kinder don't they? I'm looking forward to it, no idea how to find one that isn't a day care centre though. I will check it out closer to the time.
I didn't know you were so close to the bushfire area, how scary! Have you got a nice wide firebreak around your house?
Jackie - hope your flight went okay and you've got some good looking houses lined up as possibilities.
GeorgiaAnne
17-02-2009, 19:56
Crikey Sare, I didn't realise how close you are to the fires hon, how scary.
Michelle - Oh naughty Abbey weeing on the couch :shame: Hope your PG is going well - are you going to find out the gender at next scan?
Mary-anne - Hope the tanties aren't too often like my willful child :rolleyes: I am trying to take the attitude of don't sweat the small stuff, it mostly works but I am not cool with mess.
Bec - Sophia's hair sounds the same as Ella's but it actually looks quite long when it's wet and brushed out down her back.
Sal - Hope you're well luv. I've been meaning to ask how Nedd is going with his headbanging - has that stopped now he's in the big boys bed?
We haven't been game to try Sophia in he big bed as she is pretty ood in the cot and I figure i'l just put it off 'til I have to. Must be one of the oldest kids around still in a cot!:D
Charlie is still about as cute as it gets. He is chatting lots now saying bla bla and mamama, and bababa which is very cute and Sophia loves chatting with him. He has stopped commando crawling now and instead just lies on his tummy and waves his hands and arms around wondering why he isn't moving! He is also sitting up fairly well and is trying to raise his head lying on his back. I have also started him on some rice cereal and he is really enjoying it
My foot is still really sore and i'm still limping slowly around which is very annoying as i'm normally a really fast walker :( Hard for exercise as well.
Okey enough waffle from me
xox
Georgia - I know what you mean about not sweating the small stuff...I try, but it's so hard when I'm tired and grumpy.
Just thought I'd let you know that Sophia is not the oldest kid in a cot...one of my g/f niece is 4 and a 1/2 and she's still in a cot :eek: (because they've got no where else to put her)
What have you done to your foot?
Michelle - What a PITA about Abbey's newly acquired habit. No advice here except for electrical taping a nappy to her when you have a nap...perhaps not.
re 3 y.o. kinder - I think it depends on your council. In my shire you apply directly to the kinder and can do from birth. Lara is already on a waiting list for next year as the kinder group is already full. I applied for Ollie when he was 5 days old (only because I was at the kinder AGM and it looked like Lara may miss out on a spot).
re the fires - We are close, but still a distance away. We're in Lilydale which is on the fringe of suburbia. It's a fairly big suburb and Yarra Glen and Coldstream neighbour it, but are more rural. It's horrible to hear of all the stories of people who have lost their homes or family and friends.
Had a lovely day today catching up with Sal, Mary-Anne and Sarah and their gorgeous kids (I still can't get over how much they've grown up since we last caught up). We will definitely have to do it again soon.
I have an osteo appointment tomorrow night, which will hopefully sort out what's going on with my stupid back. Not fun when I am picking up my big boofa of a boy.
GeorgiaAnne
17-02-2009, 20:36
Had a lovely day today catching up with Sal, Mary-Anne and Sarah and their gorgeous kids (I still can't get over how much they've grown up since we last caught up). We will definitely have to do it again soon.
JEALOUS!! I'd love to meet you all :goodvibes:
~Kristin~
17-02-2009, 20:56
Hello Hello Hello my old friends - its been a long time! I have kept up with the goings-on with a few of you via Facebook, but I thought it was well past overdue for me to get organised and get back into my old stomping ground on BubHub!
Isabella is your typical 2year old, struggling with temper tantrums when she can't express herself, but generally she is just a really sweet and ridiculously kid! Fully TT during the day, but struggling with nights, but I'm not fussed. She actually TT herself at 16mths with poo's, flat out refusing to use a nappy, then about a month or 2 later refused to wee in one - so we had a really easy transition - LUCKILY! Also, Bella has been in glasses now since Dec, he vision is slowly deteriorating in the left eye sue to the TVL she was born with on her pupil, but she really loves her glasses and she looks so cute!
Isla is 1 next month - SCARY! Its just flown by sooooo fast. She worships Bella, and Bella dotes on her, it is a really sweet thing to see!
I go back to work in 6 weeks, this last Mat KLeave stint has flown by even faster than it ever did with Bella, I guess 2 kids take up so much more time - I don't know how you gals who have more manange.
Righto, going to go and scroll back through a few of your posts and try and get up-to-date a bit, but I'd say I'll be blundering around for a while so please excuse my ignorance!
Its good to be back!:yelclap:
Kristin - Bella - Isla xo
SalTheGal
17-02-2009, 21:09
Hey Kristin, lovely to hear from you!! So nice to hear your girls are going well, imagine the friendship they will have (and the headaches you will have lol) when they are teenagers!
It was lovely to see everyone today, and yes it had been too long....we have such grown up little 'kids' now, not babies anymore :no:....Sare Nedd was very taken with Eloise- he kept asking after her when we left, I think it was cause she was so sweet holding his hand looking for the 'beetle'...he was totally besotted!! She is such a treasure (not that Lara isn't!!)
Georgia, sorry to hear your foot is still giving you grief, poor thing, it must be driving you nuts- but take it easy hey!!! Was telling Sare today that two of our fave boys names at the moment are Charlie and Oliver, with Charlie topping the list right now (could change!) so hope you won't mind if we end up with another Charlie to talk about...
Mind you my bro and sil had their 2nd last week- a boy Lucas, so out of 6 kids we now have 5 boys and 1 girl, which kinda puts everyones money on us having a girl- there's gotta be another one sooner or later!! If its a girl our names so far are Annie (fave), Piper, Gracie or Lily, these are pretty set so will just narrow it down.
Michelle- Grrr at the wee on the couch- we get thet here too, but just from un-awareness....luckily when we got our new couch for new house (very expensive) I paid some exhorbatant extra fee to get an amazingly clever fabric finish on it (better than scotch guard lol) that means everything just wipes clean, including wee, so we don't have too much of a smell. But yep it is frustrating.
Well I have to work at 6.30 in the morning, so it is waaaayy past my bedtime. :flowerz:
Hi All
It has been ages since I have posted on here - sorry!
Things are going well here now.
Kayley is starting to TT but only when she feels like it and I don't have the time to push it at the moment! I have had her hair cut about a month ago into a little bob as it was just getting too scruffy at the back. I didn't cut much off her fring though as I wanted to keep it long - it is finally starting to stay out of her eyes without hair bands most of the time. SHe has a lot of tantrums and can be very rough with Jake sometimes (he has had a few hard hits) but in between she is very good. she does get pretty tired and naughty in the afternoons but refuses to sleep most days.
Jake is good. He is a beautiful little baby (but I am biased)! He sleeps so much more than Kayley ever did but feeds a lot as well which is really tiring me out. He is sooo strong for a little one. He could lift his head up on day one but he can pretty much hold it now for a little while. He can even roll over from his tummy to back as he doesn't like being on his tummy - he has done this about 7 or so times now so I guess it is more than a fluke - mind you he gets very angry when he can't get in the right position to do it!
I am jealous of the Melbourne girls meet up too - I would love to see how much they have all grown now.
Georgia - Kayley has been in her big bed since we have been in the new house basically on her 1st birthday but she has got into a habit lately t come into our bed in the middle of the night which I am not overly fond with. Anyone else having this problem?
Well as Kayley is in child care today I might try and get onto photobucket and update some shots if you are interested.
Take care everyone!
GeorgiaAnne
18-02-2009, 10:07
Well yayayay aren't we a chatty little bunch now! :yelclap:
Kristin - Lovely to see you back and hear about your lil angels, they sound so sweet. What's your back to work plan - day care? how many days?
Sal - Of course I wouldn't mind if your boy is called Charlie - it's a damn fine name :D:yes: My other fave was Jasper but one of IRL friends already has one! I love your girls names - Gracie was very much on my list, gorgeous. How many weeks are you now, or should I check for a ticker?
Sare - I fell down a few steps and %%$$#@ some ligaments. It was quite awful as Charlie was in the ergo
Nice quiet day today - it's raining softly, Sophia is in day care and Charlie is asleep in bed next to me - all I need is some choc bikkies and a cuppa and i'm sorted!
Owww Georgia. That sounds painful. Was Charlie ok?
Can you send some of that rain down south. It is so dry around here.
Beck - Glad to hear that Jake is doing so well. Ollie has managed to roll front tummy to back a few times too, for the same reason as Jake...he hates tummy time. I'm so glad that he's sleeping well for you, I remember what a tough time you had with Kayley.
We'll have to arrange a Melb meet for next time that you come and visit. Would be great to see you and Kayley again...and meet Jake too!
Sal - Awww that is so cute about Nedd. She was telling Michael about helping Nedd last night, she just loves having a bit of responsibility.
Kristin - Great to hear from you. Glad to hear Bella and Isla are doing so well.
We're off to the drs this afternoon. I think Ollie has conjunctivitis (and a bit of a cold) so I thought we'd get it checked out before it gets any nastier. I remember Lara suffered with it terribly. Then later I have my osteo appointment...wouldn't you know it though after being in excruciating pain for the last 2 days, it has been much better today.
SalTheGal
18-02-2009, 16:41
Hey Ladies,
Just a quickie to say I hope everyone has a lovely wkend...
We are off to Robe in SA for a mini break in the morning, get back Sun eve, haven't had a 'holiday' this summer so this will be it for us.
Nice to take a break and do some beachy stuff- though when I told Nedd we were going to the beach for a holiday earlier today he told me we would see a big shark at the beach!! Where do they get this stuff?!?! I didn't even know he knew what a shark was- let alone where they might be found! :p
So I will see you all next week!! :wave: :flowerz:
Have you taken Nedd to an aquarium? Abbey & her cousin love Underwater World here, it has a shark tunnel you can walk through and see the rays and sharkies, but they need to be carried through or they can't look up and walk without falling over :)
Hey look, its me again!
Just thought I'd pop in and let you know 2yo children do not make very good guard dogs. I had some overnight guests arrive last night after Abbey was asleep. Just my out of town bro and his wife, but Abbey wouldn't know them if she fell over them. She got up this morning, saw them, and introduced herself - "my name's Abbey, mummy's asleep. Let's play house?"
Very cute Abbey you dill!
Sare - is ollie's eye clearing up?
Georgia - how long is your foot out of commission for?
Beck - I am jealous of the melbourne girls too :hissy:
Kristin - how did Bella go when she first got her glasses? With my genetically bad vision I'm sure Abbey will need her own by the time she starts school, hopefully not sooner as she just destroys the fake sunnies I buy her. What's TVL and the long term prognosis if you don't mind me asking?
Haven't even considered night TT. Technically I guess she does wake up with a dry nappy, but since she won't go to the potty without me and I'm not getting up to take her at 6am, she can stay in a nappy!
I say I won't find out the gender but I kinda sorta do want to, it will be a supreme test of my will to say no when asked. Its like putting chocolate on the table in front of me.
GeorgiaAnne
21-02-2009, 11:29
Its like putting chocolate on the table in front of me.
:laughing: That's exactly what it is like and I will always fail miserably!
Do you have any feeling of boy or girl?
MoOaNdLiTtLePoPpEt
21-02-2009, 15:52
ROBE!! thats where we are orginally from, me and DF...we met there too he he...lovely spot....haven't been back in ages....
small town - when you live there it is a bit different to holidaying there lol...it is lovely tho...enjoy!!
well we looked at one rental today and put in an application...it was a pretty good rental!!! finegrs crossed...but ebing at least 5 other applicants i doubt we will get it!! but is close to DF work etc...so would be perfect! a great size!
doing well pregnancy wise...32 weeks...so 8 to go...OMG!! crazy!! how time fly's! very exciting...just need to secure a rental and the stress will be lifted!
but we are settling at MIL and keanu has been GREAT!!! :)
sorry for lack of personals...got to fly
hope everyone is well and safe!
xxx
SalTheGal
23-02-2009, 11:01
Morning Ladies, we had a lovely weekend away- pity the weather wasn't better, and Nedd woke with a cold Thurs, so we couldn't do heaps of the beachy stuff, but it was nice anyway. I think Nedd was in heaven having mummy and daddy to himself 24/7 for three days!!
Did get to swim in the ocean sat arvo when the sun finally came out, and Nedd was quite a bit dubious- it was so funny watching him lose his balance every time the waves went out as he was watching the water move and got giddy! He loved building sand castles and all that jazz. Actually cried when we left yesterday as he didn't want leave his 'holiday' just yet and go home.
Mind you when we did get home he was an absolute little brat (well as much as you can expect form Nedd!), I was nearly wishing we had left him there!
Jac- Wow, I can't beleive you are from Robe- what a small world!!! The reason we chose to go there is that its where we spent pretty much every summer from the time I was about 10 till 18, on our annual family holiday- I love the place!! Though its amazing how much smaller it is now visiting as an adult than I remembered it!! But I have such happy memories from there- we always stayed at longbeach caravan park, and I loved the freedom- we could walk into town without any of the parents, and no one would worry about us, it seems to be still very much the same, which is what we want to find for our 'family' holidys! The saddest thing about this trip is that the little cafe that used to do 'sticky' buns in the main street is only a gallery now- I used to be addicted to that place (if you know the one?!?)!! Oh I could reminisce about that place for ages with you!
Glad to hear you are settled and feeling well, good luck with the rental.
And Michelle- No we haven't taken Nedd to the aquarium, but definitely on my list- I think he would love it! He seems fascinated by fish for some reason! :confused:
OK, well I am meant to be here doing bookkeeping stuff so best be off to actually get some done!! :o
MoOaNdLiTtLePoPpEt
23-02-2009, 12:53
glad you had a great time Sal....pity about nedd! big hugs! yeh it is beautiful! yep i know the cafe! and yeh it is amazing how small it is....but like you say a good thing type thing! and it is a lovely spot!
we are doing good...keanu is doing great...missing DF of course, but one week has passed, so a week closer to having him here with us!!! can not wait!
well we applied for a rental over the weekend... please everyone keep your fingers crossed for us...and send some good vibes our way...
at this stage, the one we applied for is 340, but it is 3 bdrm plus a study and 10 mins to DF work...it is a nice place, has an awesum yard!! but we are looking up to the $400 mark....we want to be close to DF work and also we really do need a 3 bdrm with study/4bdrm...but fingers crossed we get this one. Mind you there were at least 4 other people who viewed the property at the same time as us...and god knows how many others, so chances aren't great i guess! would just make things easier if we got it!
have been feeling a bit tired, have caught up with our best mate, was awesum to see him and hopefully we are doing dinner at our other 2 best friends this week....will be weird without DF tho as it is usually the 5 of us!! but can't wait to catch up with everyone. i am just taking it slow tho, since we are back for good.
we were looking at living on the gold coast and DF travelling up to brissy for work but with traffic on the M1 not the best idea...so we will settle for brissy!
anyway hope that everyone is well and sorry for lack of personals - at 32 weeks i am feeling a bit tired!!!
Hey All
Jac/Sal - it is a small world. My Mum was born in Robe and my grandparents used to run the garage there years ago before moving to Penola (about an hour inland) where I grew up!
All is good here except I think I am getting a cold. Jake had his first shots today and has been a bit sleepy which would be good except he wants to be cuddled most of the time!
Well I just put him down and better do some cleaning up before he wakes again - take care everyone!
MoOaNdLiTtLePoPpEt
24-02-2009, 20:20
ha ha how funny Beck...i actually grew up on a farm....near Lucindale...
small, small world!
your mum/grandparents prob know mine and DF's lol!! hilarious!!!
SalTheGal
27-02-2009, 09:01
After a few grumpy nights anda cold Nedd woke up this morning and told me he has sore ears...So I have made a Drs appointment for him this morning- when I told him I was taking him to the Drs, he went straight to the toy cupboard and got out his Drs set and told me "we don't need go drs mummy, Nedd Dr", and proceeded to check me all over, and let me check his ears!!!! It was too cute! :goodvibes:
His latest little idiosyncracy is "actually"- "actually mummy we will watch Shrek", "I did poos actually"...it goes before or after everything- like it makes it so much more serious!!
And he has this sweet little "cmon mummy" in the most angelic voice you could imagine down pat- "cmon mummy- you want to play cars with me" grabs at my hand "cmon mummy, cmon" (like the voice you'd use trying to coax a cat down from a tree or the like. not demanding- very patient as if waiting for me to realise I really do want to do it!) It is so hard to say no!!!
We are off to a wedding this arvo, who has a wedding on a fri in the country? Its not like you need to compete for locations like in the city....staying O/n its 2hrs away, so Nedd of to my parents for the night. I am so perpetually tired though I am wondering how I will stay up later than the speeches!!!
Anyway- Mum has taken Nedd for a walk so I can get some stuff done so I really should be doing stuff!! :D Have a great wkend all. :flowerz:
Sal - was Dr Nedd's diagnosis right? All I can get from Dr dAbbey is that I am "helfee, yay!"
Oh, and everything goes "boomp boomp". The stethescope listens and hears that, all good, but apparently my ears say the same thing, and the syringe is for sucking medicine from, not getting poked with :p
Hope the wedding was good and not too draining
jackie - didya get the house? didya didya didya?
I got my downs results today, finally, and no wonder the doc didn't bother calling, 1:11000 risk. Also got to hear the heartbeat for the first time, nice and beaty. Abbey was a bit concerned about why the doctor was making my tummy make noises though. She likes to stand on the step and peer at me while I get poked.
haha, sorry, I just asked Mum if we had ever been to Robe, expecting her to say we lived there when I was a baby or something, since we apparently lived everywhere else in SA, but she said no and that Robe was boring.
SalTheGal
02-03-2009, 16:30
Michelle, why did I think you were due in June?!? Its the month I have had in my head all along, that you were a month ahead of me, not behind- stoopid pregnancy brain!!
Yep Dr Nedd was spot on- yucky (quite bad- naughty mummy) ear infection. So on the antib's and pretty much back to normal.
Cept he has become a really sooky boy lately, still not a tantrummy one- but if things don't go his way he is getting so good at dropping the bottom lip, its quite amusing, but becomes a bit tiring after a while!
Our wedding was good- cept I got so patronised by a couple of our friends who don't have kids- you know the whole 'doesn't it suck you can't drink cause your pregnant, must be so boring' 'we are going for a dance, don't worry Sal we know you probably don't want to cause you don't want to be on your feet' or 'we are going out, sorry Sal that you can't come cause your preggers' um what the?!? Since when does being pregnant stop you from going out (specially now they don't smoke in pubs and clubs), it was so frustrating!!
But it was a great night- the last from that set of friends, so a bit sad too!
Hi too everyone else! :wave: :wave:
SalTheGal
04-03-2009, 19:20
Hello.....Me!! :laughing: :laughing: If there is anyone else still out there, feel free to pop in and say hi!! :D :p
I am having a guilty mummy time at the moment...Nedd has fallen asleep on the floor beside his bed 4 times within the last week, it is so heatbreaking to walk in there to tuck him in when I go to bed and he is on the floor! He knows he can't leave his bedroom (he will now yell from the door if he is stalling), and has a couple of cars to play with when he goes to bed, so he gets down on the floor and drives them around, until he must exhaust himself and flake it. I tuck him in and give him a kiss and cuddle when I put him down, but hate that he ends up falling asleep all alone and not tucked in bed snuggly- is that totally irrational? I feel silly, but its really really getting to me!!! :(
Apart from that not much happening here...ok, well I can't really tell myself much more so hope everyone is well!! :wave:
Hi Sal...
I promise I am reading, it's just that I'm normally feeding while reading.
I wish Lara would fall asleep on the floor she is up and down for ages after I put her to bed. I put her to bed at 7.30pm tonight and she's still awake.
I've got to go and get things organised for kinder tomorrow (early start, plus as I have kinder duty, the ILs are taking Lara for the day, so need to get her things organised too).
I'll pop back on tomorrow.
diesal444
05-03-2009, 07:29
Morning ladies :wave:
Hope everyone is doing well.....
Things are same old here, so nothing exciting to report.
Darcy is a little heart stealer at the moment. She is winning people over all the time. We have lots of tradesmen here over the last few weeks from concretors, electricians, plumbers and ALL of them have fallen in love with her and want to take her home.
Its so sweet to watch her "help" them as they work and they just chat away like old friends. She really is becoming a social butterfly, which is great as not that long ago she would be afraid of men in general.
The attitude is the not so cute part, everything is "NO!!" Or "NOT YET!!" Even daddy is getting frustrated with it which generally never happens.
She did something very cliche the other afternoon whilst I was at work. Daddy was outside the door talking to a tradesman, so Darcy went to the fridge and got some water and poured it all over the kitchen table and floor, the proceded to get the dishwashing liquid and squirt it on the floor. Daddy comes from inside in a hurry late for work and slips straight on his a$$. I could not stop laughing :laughing::laughing:
Ok I am being told its "Toastie" time, so I best be making brekkie.
Take care all....xxx
mary-anne - was Darcy 'cleaning' up her water with the detergent? Or being devious? Funny result though, even if your DH didn't think so!
Sal - I don't think Nedd views it the same way you do. He was super happy playing with his toys right until the moment he could play no more, then he got a kiss and a snuggle in his cosy bed - his world is wonderful!
Your friends sound almost as if they are trying to convince themselves they don't want children. :rolleyes:
Abbey goes to sleep by herself, clutching her little night light and surrounded by her toy of the week. This week its little rubber sharks, 7 of them. Nice and pointy. Try convincing her that pointy sharks are not good for snuggles! When I go to bed I just remove them from under her, one by one, she doesn't even stir.
Day sleeps she will go to sleep by herself too, but only on the couch, and only around 4pm while I'm not looking. Then she sleeps for at least 2 hours no matter how much I dance her around like a puppet, and stays up really late. She usually only flakes out on hot days, so I just have to start a water fight if I catch her getting snuggly.
We had an interesting morning. At 5.15am someone tried to open my front screen door, quite loudly and forcefully, found it locked, and then kicked it. Of course the sun was up and people are stirring, so Abbey and I woke straight up. My instinct says be quiet and look out the window. Her instinct says yell "Whats that noise! Who's here! Is it kids!". Whoever it was scarpered and I didn't catch a glimpse. It was either a sh!t-stirrer passing by or a really stupid burglar hoping to find the door unlocked. But I live in a neighbourhood of old people, and we all know oldies get up at 4am and lock all their doors, so really, what was the idiot thinking?
Abbey is now convinced the kids arrived early this morning and have just popped out to the shops and will be back any minute. Sorry babe, not this time.
Mum was quite surprised I could get up, check the doors and windows and then go back to bed. But I live in a security screened fortress, doors are all key locked and big doors are deadbolted - there's no 'sneaking' in here, I actually give overnight guests the fire evacuation speech about keys by each door, which one goes where, which windows I would prefer broken if they have to, just because I do feel my house is secure.
SalTheGal
05-03-2009, 12:35
Your friends sound almost as if they are trying to convince themselves they don't want children. :rolleyes:
Interestingly enough I think you may be onto something there! Hadn't thought bout it before, but the main culprit was a friend who was married first of all of us to her highschool sweetheart, but has spent the last 4yrs f@rting about and is about to go overseas for a year to work with her hubby....we can never quite work them out, as to when they will start there family etc, she is surrounded by family who has kids, and is always making a point of how she isn't ready....hmmm!
Just spent the morning with a GF and her twin girls at a new playcentre that has just opened up- its fantastic, specially designed for preschoolers, so the whole centre is safe for play without direct supervision...Nedd had a ball!
At loggerheads with DH atm, I have gotten onto a cleaner via a friend who can come do my floors and bathrooms for 1.5hrs=$30 a week....I am so buggered this pregnancy, not keeping up at all with the housework, and about to start a 10wk contract which is fulltime hours, plus still fitting in my franchise business too- which all in all = unhappy me!! DH has put his foot down and said no we don't need a cleaner, he thinks since I quit my last job we are struggling (we aren't as well off- but NO where near struggling!!)
I find this house quite overwhelming to keep clean as it is quite big! And there are so many little jobs (windows, finshing cleaning grout off tiles, etc etc) that haven't been done since we shifted in cause I am just keeping up with the necessary cleaning. He doesn't help with the housework at all, which is fine- he is flat out with all the stuff that needs to be done outside, and he also says he doesn't care if it gets behind...but for $30 a week when we really are not badly off I just think it is money worth being spent.... :banghead: :banghead: Any suggestions on how I can talk him round most appreciated!!
Michelle- How can you sound so calm after your early morning visitor?!?! I would be
sh!tting myself just quietly.
Sare- Hope you have a fun at kinder duty- is that a good chore or a drag to do?
Maryanne- :laughing: at your DH, sorry thats probably mean and I hope he didn't hurt himself, but don't you kinda wish it had been caught on video- could have been a funniest home vids winner!!!
Michelle- How can you sound so calm after your early morning visitor?!?!
I have no choice? Police can't investigate a non-breakin, all they can do is drive around the area tonight but I think they should do whatever it is they do normally instead. I have Mr Hammer tucked under my mattress, and Mr Moby next to the bed for calling 000. I know most women would feel better having a man around, but I've never lived with one who does the bump in the night investigations, its always been me.
I think $30 for 1.5 hours is reasonable, and if your budget can do it without hurting, then why not? You're only going to get bigger and more exhausted. Its all very well for DH to say let the floors/bathrooms slide, but there's a bare minimum standard that needs to be maintained before people get sick or majorly grossed out, and leaving it until you start b!tching at each other about who should do it is a bad idea. Its not like you lie around napping all day! I'd say just tell him flat out how serious you are, why you want it, and that's the price you've put on your sanity.
MoOaNdLiTtLePoPpEt
07-03-2009, 19:07
:wave:
we got a house...YAY! not the one we first applied for, but the second one we applied for...am very happy...less stressed thats for sure..missing DF - only 20 more days YAY!!! can not wait tho...he is amazing!!!
been a bit stressful...am now at SIL and less stressful, a bigger place for ke...and he has settled a lot better. DF's mum is wonderful but her unit was a bit small...so yeh we decided to give this a go...only 13 more days and we will be in our house - we get the kleys friday and the follwoing friday our stuff arrives...i am sooo happy :) just now waiting for DF to get here...
sorry for lack of personals - feeling tired...am 34 weeks...6 to go...scarey! exciting tho! cant wait to set up bubs room and keanus room too...and the whole house...think i will be in nesting mode when our stuff arrives hehe...
hope everyone is well and safe
xxx
Ah these kids are funny creatures. Abbey has a new favourite phrase - 'where's my x'. It used to be where is the x, but now its definitely hers, and she uses her most imperial commanding tone. If I ask her where she thinks it is, she will often respond 'Mummy lost it!' and give me a dirty look. The other day it was where's my crown. I don't know, you don't have a crown. Mummy lost it *glare*. I can't lose something she never had!
Jackie - congrats on the house! Fitzgibbon is a lovely area too, nice and close to some great shopping and entertainment, and really only a short commute to the city. I'm about 20 minutes further down the highway so if you need anything just let me know.
Baby was doing his/its first movements strong enough to be felt from the outside last night, not just vague tickles, he was rehearsing a graceful ballet.
SalTheGal
10-03-2009, 07:30
Morning everyone, well today is our 20wk scan...and I still haven't decided if I want to find out for sure, thought I dare say I will!! We figure we will find out first even if the baby is going to be co-operative before we get ahead of ourselves!
We are taking Nedd along, largely as I don't have anyone to watch him today, but thought he might be interested to have a look too- we will see how he goes cooped up in a dark room for however long, could be a bad move!!!
Jackie- So glad you have a place, good luck with the moving- make sure you sit back and give directions all day!! Not long now till your DP gets there, the next few weeks will fly by!
Michelle- Dont' you love it when the little munchkins come up with the most irrational ideas that you jsut can't refute no matter how hard you try?!?! Nedd often loses it when he wants something that we don't actually own- yet he is convinced we can magic it out of thin air!! Ah bless the little poppets!
Well Michelle, out of the last ten replies- 3 are mine, and 4 are yours!! :o
Where is everyone, are we slowly but surely losing our little oct 06 chat group? :crying: :crying:
Have the cleaner coming this morning, thought I'd get her in once atleast just to see what she does and how it goes, then maybe I can talk DH round when he sees a lovely sparkling house when he gets home....so on that note I best go have a shower so I am actaully half decent when she gets here!!
Take care everyone! :goodvibes:
Sigh, do you ever wish your child wasn't quite so smart? Abbey has worked out if she says 'wees in the big potty', at 6am I will ignore her since she is wearing a nappy and I'm asleep. But if she adds 'please?' I'm more likely to cave, and if she says 'poos in the big potty, big girl potty, please' then its guaranteed I will get up, BUT ITS A LIE! She has no wees or poos, she just wants me to get out of bed!
SalTheGal
10-03-2009, 07:34
Michelle, we posted at the same time....Nedd is the same, if he adds please to something how can you refuse as its precisely what we are trying to teach them....mind you if nedd even thought about the potty somewhere on his radar I'd be happy!
Yesterday he had no nappy on and I asked him (very nicely) not to wee on the carpet or the couch....so he wee'd on his playmat- and very happily told me he had done it there and not the carpet, yeah Nedd thats great- but WHAT ABOUT THE POTTY?!?!? Argh, I can't punish him as weeing where ever has just been a part of his growing up- so how do I change that....
GeorgiaAnne
10-03-2009, 08:03
Hello, still here, just reading not posting :o My children are conspiring against me in the sleep department and I am always tired and crabby at the moment.
Charlie used to be very easy to settle and is now a nightmare, I didn't mind his waking too much but now he is impossible to get down it is just too much. Not sure why it all changed :confused: Despite that, he is still the most darling little man and is going really well, loving his food, crawling around and thinks Sophia is hilarious and scary all at once.
Sophia had her first major bump on the head last night, a major doink into the corner of the kitchen counter and a massive egg bruise on her forehead, poor bubba! She is also into the manners at the moment and says thank you when I giver her a cuddle and excuse me as she walks past, it is hilarious. re: tt, she is great at weeing in the toilet but hasn't done a poo for ages. She will ask for a nappy then trot off to a quiet room to do her business.
Sal - Hope your scan goes well today, can't wait to hear what you're having :smiliedance:
GeorgiaAnne
10-03-2009, 19:05
So Sal, anything to tell us?:D:D
Hi everyone!! LOOK, it's me!! Lol!!
I always say I won't be away as long each time I post, and then I am, lol!!
Guess what?? My little Jarv had his 6th day in jocks today :smiliedance: And, we've only had 2 accidents!! Only wee accidents too, poo is always in the toilet!! He's so stoked with himself. He made me laugh over the weekend.....we were out at a party at Hungry Jacks, and Jarv obviously needed a wee, so he just pulled down his pants and did it. In the outdoor dining area, lmao!!!!
My little man Mack is doing wonderfully at school. He loves it. We have readers and homework to do every night, so it sure keeps us busy.
Tallan is really enjoying his time at Kinder, and loves learning what Mack teaches him, lol. He's always asking me what letter each word starts with. It's good preparation!
My darling little girl is now 8 months old, and not a day goes by without me wondering where the hell that time went. She is so totally devine :bee: We have 2 teeth, we're standing up, crawling everywhere, and even saying Mum!! It melts my heart everytime I hear it. I'm so totally in love in her.
We have finally signed our building contracts, and are just waiting to sign finance docs. Things should get started with the house in the next fortnight. Can't wait. It seems to have been such a long time since we started discussions with them.
DH has been stuffed around alot lately with his work. He's shifts have been changed twice in the past month, and he's had a pay cut, now he's had a pay rise - more than what he was on before his pay cut (go figure??). We're just hoping now that now things will settle down, and his job will be secure. There have been many people lose their jobs within the company, so we're just keeping our fingers crossed that all works out.
We've had a bit of a stressful day today - DH's step-dad has had surgery to remove a cancerous tumour in his bowel today. The Dr said he would call, and of course, left the MIL waiting hours after the time he said. But, all was good news. Looks like he won't need chemo or radiation, but test results with confirm this. I'm not sure how long it will take to come through :confused:
SAL - So?? How did you go today???????
Jackie - Great news on finding a house!! Bet you can't wait to get settled and be a little family again? Your DF will certainly notice a difference in your belly when he sees you, lol!!
Hi to everyone else!! I've got to go and get my cookies and cream ice cream ready before Packed to the rafters starts!!
Take care,
Sarah
Hi girls,
Sorry I haven't gotten back to post any earlier, as usual I've been super busy..not really doing anything very exciting, just boring day to day stuff, but it's been chaotic.
Michael has had to go to WA for work this week. So far, Eloise has been super-good and Lara has been her normal boisterous self. We were at mum and dad's last night for dinner and dad told me that I needed to start smacking her to calm her down :eek: I will admit I have smacked her in the past (just taps on the hand and on the bottom), but it just doesn't seem to work for her. I am at a bit of a loss as to what to do to stop the pinching, spitting, biting etc that she has been doing. Timeout is effective sometimes, but it hasn't helped to modify her behaviour. Her chiro recommended a book, "Children are People Too", I just need to get some time to sit down quietly and read it. It sounds like she is an absolute horror, but she really isn't and I absolutely adore her and her cheeky personality. Perhaps I just need to remind myself that she is only 2 and while her behaviour is not desirable, it won't last forever.
re tt-ing - We've had a bit of success on the potty, but she is still not showing heaps of interest. If she doesn't want to train any earlier, I'll aim to tt her in the july school holidays when we can have a decent stint of time at home without running off to appointments etc.
How are all your kids going with learning concepts? Lara can count to 12 with no problems, but she's really struggling with colours, shapes and concepts such as weight, touch. We've had a little success with colours in the last week or so, when I ask her what colour things are, she'll respond with the name of a character from The Fairies that is the same colour. Her drink bottle is green and I'll ask her what colour it is and she'll say Elf and I ask her what colour Elf is and on most occasions she'll say green. :laughing: Whatever works for her I say.
Speaking of The Fairies, I've finally decided that it's time to give the dummy up. She only has it when she's in bed (or manages to find a stray one around the house). So we have told her that the Fairies need her dummies for the new fairy babies and fairy tots and then the Fairies will give her a Fairies doll to cuddle in bed at night. I managed to order one that is getting it sent express post, so once it arrives, Lara will be dummy free.
Eloise is still doing well at kinder. I think she will do so well at school, she is doing a lot more than my preps were at the same stage last year. She has even started sounding out words to read them. I think she'll be a bit like me and love school.
Ollie is just the best. He is so good, still self settling and sleeping about 12hrs at night (with a dreamfeed in there). He is getting very close to rolling from his back to his belly, he's been able to roll the other way for about a month now. He is getting Baptised this weekend, so we are looking forward to that. I think I am all organised, I just have to put the Baptism symbol on his stole. We've decided not to have the after party at our place this time, it's too much of a pain to clean our house, so we are having a function at a small restaurant near our house with just our family and close friends.
Sarah - :yelclap: to Jarvis. That's great news and even better for you...now that you only have one in nappies.
Fantastic news about your house too. Hopefully it won't be too long before you are in.
Sal - Another one here eagerly awaiting your news ;) I hope everything went well at you u/s.
I had a little giggle at Nedd weeing on his playmat, the joys of tt-ing.
Michelle - Sounds like Abbey has well and truly sussed you out :p
How's your pg going? How far along are you now?
Georgia - Poor little Sophia bumping her head like that. Good on you for getting Sophia to use her manners...as a teacher, I was amazed by how many poor mannered children there are out there.
Sorry to hear that Charlie is giving you a rough time. Hopefully things will settle with him soon.
Jackie - Congratulations on getting a house. Have fun nesting.
Mary-Anne - How could the tradesmen not love Darcy? She is gorgeous.
Well I better go. I have a morning tea to go to at kinder to get to know the other mums. I swear this kinder is so much nicer than where we sent her last year. I think her teacher already knows Eloise better after 5 weeks than her last teacher did after the whole year.
I promise that I will try and be a better poster...I don't want our Oct group to disappear. Anyway...take care xxx
Hi All
Yes Sare I need to be a better poster as well - all the days just seemt o blend into one a bit at the moment!
Kayley is pretty good with her learning she is a smart little cookie. She can count to 20 (although 15 and 16 often get combined into fixteen) and has been able to for a while. She is good with all her colours, can sign the alphabet and other songs and has started "reading" stories by herself which either means memorising them or reading the pictures. She is starting to recognise letters and properly count things (instead of just saying the numbers) but that is all a bit everywhere and is often wrong. I think one of the hardest things is I have a lot less time to spend with her now. SHe does get abit jealous and has given Jake several hard hits on his head which is a bit unsettling.
Jake is great. He gets a sore belly a bit and is fairly spewy and he feeds every 2 hours usually but apart from that he is a good happy baby. He can self settle most of the time and has started doing a 6 hour sleep stint which I am quite happy with.
As for toitlet training, Kayley was doing wuite well as long as she had nothing on her bum (knickers or a nappy) but has turned against it this week and doesn't want to use the toilet at all. She does know when she needs to go but just doesn't want to so am not going to push it at this stage and we will revisit later.
Sare - Kayley can also be a little moster and gets me so mad sometimes and I am the same I often have to pull myself back and remind myself she is 2. The 'naughy chair' has some success and so does bribery but all with limited success - sigh!
Sarah - sounds like everything is going great in your end of the woods - that is fantastic!
Jackie - congraulations on the house.
Michelle - yes I do think these kids are too smart for their own good sometimes - scares me thinking about when they are going to be 13 and coming up with all sorts of lies to cover their actions!
Georgia - hope things settle soon and Charlie is just going through a stage and will settle himself better again soon.
Well I better run as I have a lot of things to do while Jake is aslepp - take care everyone!
So Sal - any news yet????
SalTheGal
11-03-2009, 10:41
Hi everyone....well scan went really well, bubs looks healthy and is measuring perfectly to my dates....and yep we found out what we were having, I am not going to type it out on black and white here incase I get any snoops from the 'outside' trying to find out (though I highly doubt it!), suffice to say it was VERY obvious what we are having, interestingly it was the first thing we saw when she put the thingy on my stomach, so even if we didn't want to know I would have had a very clear idea anyway!!
I really didn't mind either way- so all is good!!
Went down to melb yesterday to catch up with SIL and her kids for Nedd to have a play with his cousin, lovely to have a day out and not have to do anything! They have a little 4wk old bub lucas, and he is going really well- but it really brought home to me how much you forget about what to do with a newborn- trying to read their signs etc....so daunting!!!
Georgia- Sorry to hear you are a bit sleep deprived lovey :hugs: Hope you are getting some time during the day to recoop some of it. Too cute with Georgia's manners- that is really sweet!
Sarah- Yay on Jarvis being so good with his JOcks!!! Thats great...andsounds like things are travelling along pretty well for you atm, glad to hear your house is starting soon.
Sare- Go Lara on the counting!! We have just gotten Nedd out of his 2-4-8 routine, and he is finally mostly getting 1,2,3,4 right, but has no idea beyond that. But he has his colours, shapes, and lots of little things sussed so not too stressed.
And Eloise just sounds so clever!! It must be lovely as a teacher to have her so interested in lerning etc, I hope Nedd is like that too.
Mind you thought I saw somewhere (I think here somewhere) that it is helpful for kids to be able to count, recite alphabet and write their name by prep :eek:...Lloyd and I were talking the other day about how daunting it is to think we need to be able to teach him that!!!
OK, well I am between shifts and meant to be getting bills paid etc so really should go do something!! Hope everyone is well.
And it is lovely to hear from everyone again!!! :goodvibes: :p
GeorgiaAnne
11-03-2009, 12:03
suffice to say it was VERY obvious what we are having, interestingly it was the first thing we saw when she put the thingy on my stomach, so even if we didn't want to know I would have had a very clear idea anyway!!
hehe, we had the same experience! Too bad if you don't want to find out!:D
Congratulations though hun :hugs:
I'll bbl - just trying to get some "real"work done while Charlie-boy is asleep
How good are your little people at following directions to something? Abbey will ask me where something is, and I will tell her, and then point to it. She's good at following my finger, but darned if she finds what she's looking for at the end of it. Yesterday she asked where her B1's stripey jammies were. On top of the green toy box. Easy to spot. So thats where I told her. She went to the green toy box and started pulling toys out. No, its on top, I can see it right there. She peers, and then looks up (special child). No, now you've put a duck on it. Pick up the duck puppet, its underneath. So she picks up the duck, and looks in it instead. It just goes on and on until I get up and pick up the 'missing' item and wave it front of her face, of course then she cries triumphantly "I found it!". Meanwhile, I go off in search of panadol.
Heaven forbid I say something is behind her, she turns around walks right past it. Drives me bonkers.
Not sure if she's got an extreme case of man-vision, generally bad vision, or can't focus on what's there because there's too much there around it.
How on earth do they test a 2yo's eyes accurately?
Sal - how can you keep the gender a secret from everyone? You must have a will of steel, I can't keep secrets all all.
Beck - abbey was the same with knickers vs nakeds for ages, so much so that she's only just learning how to take her knickers down now, because she's been naked most of the summer.
Of course, now its time to buy seasonal clothes and I don't want to because I know she has no idea how to take them off for potty, and wants to be naked anyway.
Kayley sounds like she is embracing her education really well!
Sare - sorry, no suggestions on the undesirable behaviour. Only thing that works for me is telling Abbey that what she is doing is not polite, and I won't stay near her while she does it, and walk away. I also give her the old "Do I look impressed?" and she always looks shamefaced and says "no". Much easier with Abbey not having anyone else to torment though.
Sarah - woo on the jocks! Can't believe Monet is 8 months already, I saw the photos on facebook and she's soo cute!
Georgia - lol at thinking Sophia is scary, I can see how that would be so!
Re learning - Abbey will read to herself sometimes, the other day it was B is for lion, B is for Hippo...sure, why not. She's forgotten most of what I taught her ages ago, slack mummy means slack memory apparently. She has memorised certain books and when we read them together I let her tell me the story and just provide prompts, but she's going from the pictures. I'm only just starting to show her the words and how they relate to the story now, and what sounds they make. She can count when she wants to, but likes to change them around to amuse herself. It was 1,3,7, now its 2,4. But when pressed she will count out her toys up to 10. Colours are good, except purple and blue, she seems to find them very similar sometimes, and I can see her point. Shapes are good, she does argue with Play School though. "Not round window, CIRCLE!"
Its very rare that she will sing a song, she knows the words, but insists I sing it while she does actions or looks at me grinning. Poor misguided child wanting me to sing :p
MoOaNdLiTtLePoPpEt
15-03-2009, 10:28
Hi...i am still around...will be on more once we settle and DF arrives and sets up computer...we move into the house on thurs/fri...have the keys etc and its ours but removialist doesn't arrive til friday! very excited...and 12 days and DF will be here.
sal - awesum...i loved the 20 week scan!
to everyone else, hi and thanks for the congrats. 35 weeks and really feeling it...can't wait to nest!!!
will talk more soon
xxx
SalTheGal
17-03-2009, 08:55
How good are your little people at following directions to something? Abbey will ask me where something is, and I will tell her, and then point to it. She's good at following my finger, but darned if she finds what she's looking for at the end of it.
Oh yes!!!! Nedd is hopeless at this too....and it is so annoying when I am having my precious mummy time veging out on the couch that I should actually have to get up and show him. :rolleyes:
Have a lovely day off today, and apart from ducking out to the shop for some milk I am planning to do NOTHING!!!! Have the cleaner here this morning (not that DH actually knows that yet :p) so I don't even have to do much housework....but is it a bit rude to be sitting on the couch here browsing bubhub while she is doing the vacuuming around me?!?! I mean thats why I got a cleaner, but somehow I feel that I should be compelled to be doing stuff too!!
Mind you starting tomorrow I have a massive amount of shifts- apart from a few hours break both days I start 7am in the morning and don't finish till 9pm thurs night. So I am relishing this relaxing day!
Nedd is being a treasure...he has his moments but we have started using time 'alone' as a deterent and he responds immediatly- wonder how long it will last....he also responds to the threat of a smack too, but I found I was using that threat more and more and really hated it!!
Michelle- re keeping the sex a secret, there is no way I can keep it a secret that I actually know the sex- but I have asked everyone to respect our wish to keep it a secret and not push us for clues...everyone has been great (except my mother :banghead:)...but I am finding already I can't really partake in conversations bout the way the pregnancy is travelling, comparisons to last pregnancy, even names- cause I am sure my face will give it away, so it has become a double edged sword really- no doubt several people will no by the time bub is born....Lloyd said the other night to his sister and my dad that the sex was 'pretty obvious' :rolleyes: way to keep it a secret Lloyd!!!!! I don't think either of them had enough of a clue to figure it out from that- but I know both my SIL's would jump on that in a second!!
Jackie- Wow 35 wks, you are really on the home straight now!!! Good luck with the move...and yay its not long now till your DF will be home and you can be together again. :goodvibes:
Have a lovely day everyone!
Echo Echo Echo
We should recruit for more October 06 members!
I just thought I'd share the fun of being forced to make a play-doh buddha. Its a bizarre thing for her to request, I have one little jade Buddha she has stolen and likes to carry around in her 'packpack', but it seems a bit sacrilegious to make one out of playdoh and then smush him laughing evilly.
Hi girls,
Still here...still a bad poster. I promise that I am reading (usually while I am feeding Ollie), but I really don't have anything interesting to share.
We had Ollie's Baptism last weekend...you've probably seen the pictures on facebook anyway. The day went well. The weather was cr@ppy, but we were inside all day, so it didn't matter. We had issues with the ILs, mainly a number of my friends complaining about our neice's behaviour and BIL and SIL doing nothing to address it and the fact that they totally monopolised Ollie (then the MIL had the cheek to ask my mum for a hold when mum only had just got to have a cuddle because "You get to see him more"), but I just need get over the fact that that is how they are and they're not going to change. I think I need to learn from dh and develop selective deafness.
The girls have been pretty good lately. They have their moments, but they are manageable. Lara surprised me last week. She has always presented as such an outgoing and confident little girl and loves copying Eloise practising her dancing (esp loves her tap shoes), so we asked her if she'd like to start dancing too, and she was super keen, so I took her on Wednesday and she flat out refused to give it a go, even though I was in the room with her. She's started saying I can't when we ask her to try out new things too. Just when I think that I have her sussed out.
Ollie's still a dream baby. I was supposed to take him for his 4mth check up on Thursday, but it totally slipped my mind, so I made another appointment for tomorrow. He's such a big boy, he seems so much bigger than the girls were at the same age.
I don't even know where to start with personals. Hope the pg ladies are all doing well. How far along are you all now?
How's the house building going Sarah?
How are your places coming along Beck and Mary-Anne?
Bec and Beck how are Rachael and Jake going?
Georgia how's everything with you? Has Charlie started sleeping a little better yet?
Again...I promise to try and be a better poster, I just need more hours in the day.
Lol Sare - you're a busy girl I know, I was just teasing about recruiting.
Introduced Abbey to the democratic process yesterday. I said she had to get dressed so we could go vote. "go bote?" Yes, we had to go vote. She built it up to something REALLY EXCITING in her head. I asked her who she would like to vote for - "orange!" Sure why not. I suggested maybe stripes would do a better job, but she was adamant. So off we went. Got to the queue controller who asked me why I was so cheerful - apparently singing 'one grey elephant' on voting day isn't quite right :confused:, and when I announced we had come to vote for orange he started looking for someone to help me vote because I was obviously special.
So anyway, I got my slip, with Abbey trying to hand my how to vote slips to anyone and everyone, I wrote a number on it, and she posted it in the box. Hurrah we voted. Got in the car, and drove home.
HUGE TANTRUM. She swore she was promised a vote and didn't get to. Went on for AGES. Want to go vohhhhhte:crying::crying: Orange vohhhhhttttte:crying: I explained we did, she posted it for me, but nup. Traumatised by our overly simple process :rolleyes:
Last night on the news she saw people voting, recognised it and it all started again.
Maybe Orange missed out by one vote, you never know :laughing:
PMSL Michelle, Abbey is a funny little poppet! :laughing:
:wave: Hello Strangers!
Wow it's been so long since I came onto the Hub. I didn't expect to see anyone still posting here - you guys are so good to keep it going.
Sorry I've been MIA for so long. Had to take a bit of a 'sabbatical' for a while - but things are starting to settle down a bit in my life so I might actually have some more time to get on here and post again.
How's everyone doing? I do occasionally stalk your photos on facebook, so I have a bit of an idea - but I've missed keeping up with all your chat & goss :)
Jet is doing great, he sings constantly! to us, to himself while he's playing, to music/ tv - it's so cute. But I'm not allowed to join in - he's a soloist it seems.
We've (finally!!!) started TTC #2, very exciting, but no luck yet, which is a bit of a bummer, I was hoping to have a bub by the end of the year, and this month I had myself half-convinced I was pg, but nope, BFN...oh well. Now I'm not really sure if I want to try in April because I'd be due around 25 Dec and the thought of a Christmas babe is a bit daunting!? (Is that lame of me? hehe.)
Anyway I know I'll have to do a bit of catching up but hopefully I'll be able to pop in more often and get up to date with you guys! Hope you're all well :)
:wave: Kimba, good to see you back and great news that Jet is doing so well.
GL with ttc. I say go for it for Dec bub...if it's meant to be it will be (that's how we got Ollie ;))
I don't think I told you guys...Lara is finally dummy free. A couple of weeks ago we told her the Harmony and Rhapsody needed her dummies for the fairy babies and fairy tots. So one night she put them out for Harmony and Rhapsody and I magically whipped up a letter from The Fairies and a Rhapsody doll that she can cuddle in bed. She hasn't asked for them once. Much easier than we anticipated.
Not much else going on. I got a bit of a sleep in this morning. DH took Eloise to kinder this morning, so instead of getting up around 6.30am to get us all up, fed and dressed and out the door by 8.15am...I got a lie in until about 8.30am...bliss!!!
GeorgiaAnne
25-03-2009, 20:09
Ooh Sare, nice work on the lie in! Well done on the dummy thing too. Sophia still has hers for sleep which i'm fine with as it makes her excited to go to bed.
:yelclap: Kimba on the TTC, that's exciting babe. I bet Jet'll be a great big brother.
Mary-Anne - You are officially now the only one. It's funny you seem to have the cruisiest bubba in Darcy too, surely that would make you want another :D:p
Michelle -That sounds like Sophia with the voting. Once she wants something there is no distracting her!
All is well here, finally got Sophia in the big girl bed and she doesn't get up as I threatened that I would put her back in the cot, works a treat and she is finally sleeping through the night again. Charlie is still up 2-4 times so I am always tired but man, he is just so so cute and always a laughing, happy chap - very much in love :valentine:
SalTheGal
25-03-2009, 20:37
Hey ladies, nice to hear from everyone- specially you Kimba- don't be a stranger you hear!!!! :D Nice work on the TTC- goodluck, hope it happens soon for you.
Things a bit pooey here (hmmm literally as it happens!), I'm not very well atm- haven't kept anything solid down since sun arvo, was upchucking, now its both ends (sorry- like you all wanted to know that! :p) Feels like severe MS all over again....I am not sure whats the cause, Lloyd and Nedd are both fine, and we ate the same things all weekend, so hmmm! But I am just feeling like a misery guts- sitting here so blo0dy hungry, but don't want to eat anything, cause I know it will be coming back up again in an hour or so....
Now just thinking at what point do I go to the dr, I am drinking fluids ok, and grapes seem to be ok! Just everything else!
Add to that a busted neck/back since last fri- I finally took myself to the phsyio Mon to get that sorted, and I have been well and truly out of sorts.
Nedd is being his usual treasure...I have a photographer coming tomorrow to take some pics of him and my belly- she is doing the sitting for free and throwing in a couple of free photos to use the pics to build up her portfolio, the work I've seen already is great, and she is into all the natural candid shots, so I am really looking forward to seeing what she does- I bet I spend a fortune!!!
Going into a massive run of shifts/social gatherings starting with a work sleepover tomorrow night, and I won't get a chance to stop till mon- though I will see how I go tomorrow as I can't work with a bug...but not looking forward to the next few days!
OK, enough about me!!!
Sare- Yay for Lara of the dummy, I am very impressed she has given it up so easily. And double yay on the sleep in- take them when you can hey!!! Wonder what the go is with her turning into the shy girl at dancing? I bet she gets over it super quick, had she actually been to watch Eloise before? Or was it all totally new?
Georgia- Glad to hear it is all going well with Sophia in her big bed....fingers crossed it stays that way. Don't you love it when you find the threat that really works?!? Ours for Nedd to stay in his bed is that we will close the door- he hates the thought of being shut in (mind you so do I, so if it happens it lasts for about 10secs!!!!).
Lol Michelle- maybe you need to set up a pretend voting booth at home, and Abbey can play voting games all day long!! Perhaps she is destined to be Australia's 1st female PM!!! :yelclap:
Hi to everyone else- pop in and say gday- even if you have nothing to say, I still love to hear from everyone!!!
Besides it gives me a reason to post all my woes, without replying to myself :laughing:
Sal - You poor thing. I copped gastro when I was about half way with Lara (and I was the only one to get it too). 'twas not much fun at all. I ended up going to the drs who prescribed some anti-diarrhoea medication and something to stop the vomitting. I don't think that I would have coped without it...It lasted for about a week.
Have fun at the photoshoot...you will have to pop the photos on facebook for us all to have a squiz.
Not sure why she was so funny at dancing, she has seen have a lesson before and always copies her practising at home. No stress really, it will save us $$$. I was just really surprised by her shyness and clingyness.
Georgia - :yelclap: to Sophia on moving into her big bed. Great news that you have found a form of bribery to get her to stay in bed...that's something that we are still struggling with here.
I'm knackered...spent the afternoon cleaning our house. I had to put the girls in our room with a dvd so that I could vac and mop without them making mess behind me and stupid me gave them popcorn, which ended up all over my bedroom floor. Luckily I was able to vac it up pretty quickly. Wonder how long it will stay clean for??? Not long me thinks.
Anyone else excited about the start of the footy season? We're going to go on Saturday, but we're leaving Lara with family, she just won't sit still for 3.5+hrs. I'd take her, but Michael is adament that she's not going. Eloise is so excited to be going and Oliver has to come because of me breastfeeding.
Well I am off to make some kinder lunch and get everyone's clothes ready...another 8.30am start to kinder tomorrow.
Take care x
SalTheGal
26-03-2009, 06:57
Sare quick q's re footy- do you have to pay for a seat for the girls if you don't want to? We want to take Nedd this yr, Dh's work have tix available to staff every wk, but its only ever 2- so we aren't sure if we can take Nedd or not?
Lloyd is going tonight to Carlton v Richmond showdown- lucky bugger!!!! Our friends are MCC members so he is taking Lloyd as a thankyou for some work he did.....I am SO jealous!!!!
Sare quick q's re footy- do you have to pay for a seat for the girls if you don't want to? We want to take Nedd this yr, Dh's work have tix available to staff every wk, but its only ever 2- so we aren't sure if we can take Nedd or not?
Lloyd is going tonight to Carlton v Richmond showdown- lucky bugger!!!! Our friends are MCC members so he is taking Lloyd as a thankyou for some work he did.....I am SO jealous!!!!
Under 5s are free, but if you have a reserved seat then Nedd would have to sit on your lap. That being said, you could always go in on your reserved seating ticket and sit in a general admission area and all have a seat.
Hi all :wave:
Just sneaking in quickly.
Feeling very confused today because AF stopped as suddenly as it started - lasted less than 2 days, haven't had any bleeding since early yesterday evening - and now I just feel that funny 'pressure' and poking in my uterus like I did when I was pg with Jet. Have been driving myself nuts today googling breakthrough bleeding etc, and trying not to get my hopes up! :laughing: Will have to POAS tomorrow just to put myself out of my misery :p
Sal - you poor bugger I hope you feel much better soon! Photo shoot sounds great, would love to see the pics when done.
Sare - Yay on the dummy! If your place is anything like mine then there's hardly any point cleaning, the floor gets grotty again within minutes! Drives me crazy! I never thought I'd see the day where my idea of 'relaxation' was DH taking jet out for a couple of hours so I could get the cleaning done properly. What's happened to me!?!?
Interesting about Lara's clinginess at dance. Jet was the same when we went to get Santa photos last Xmas. He was super excited and impatient - even tried to jump the queue by running straight up to leap on Santa while some other kid was on his lap :laughing: - but when it was his turn, he REFUSED to go anywhere near Santa. So unlike him!
Georgia - nice work on Sophia staying in her bed :yelclap:. No amount of threats or bribery work on Jet, he still ends up in our bed in the middle of the night. Secretly I don't really mind (apart from being woken, and the kicking!), I do like snuggling with him, coz I miss him during the day...not sure how we will go once I'm pg though! don't fancy being kicked in the belly all night :eek:
diesal444
27-03-2009, 07:22
Mornin ladies :)
Its been forever since I posted, but have just caught up on the posts and thought i would add my bit.
All is going nicely here, although this 2 year old caper is really trying me out. It doesnt help that I have zero patience, so I really have to control myself and remember that its "normal" behaviour.....:laughing:
Kimba - So great to hear from you. Good luck with TTC. Never mind my idea of bliss is cleaning and it "staying" clean too. How is work going? Looking forward to hearing all about what Jet is up to.
Sare - YES YES YES!!! I am excited that footy season has started. Even though i come from NSW I have really gotten into the AFL..GO BOMBERS!!!!!!
Sal - Sorry to hear your not well. Hope your feeling better by now. I would be green with envy if DP went to the footy and I didnt too....:p
Georgia - See thats the thing.....I have this theory, that I couldnt possibly have another baby like Darcy was/is. So I not ready to tempt fate IYKWIM. No in all seriousness, there are bigger issues as to why I not having another one yet...:yes:
Well I am a little excited because we are off to Echuca/Moama today for 3 days with another couple(childless). This should be fun/interesting. Have a great weekend all!!!
mary-anne - if only 'normal' behaviour didn't coincidentally push all our buttons :rolleyes: I'm just over the sooking, the fake sooking is bad enough but the real sooking is like a red flag to me, especially if she's been at it a while.
Kimba - you can't pop in and tell us you plan POAS and then not update, that's cruel and unusual punishment!
With the belly kicking, its a bit tricky, especially when they refuse to believe there is a baby in there to be careful of. I tend to sleep facing away from Abbey now, or on my back with my elbow out to shove her away. Once she's awake and trying to get me out of bed I lie half on my belly, leg up to ease the pressure, that way whatever painful things she is doing to me don't affect baby.
She keeps waking up when I'm fidgeting or trying to roll over though, and then asking me questions like whats that noise or where's my ball. She caught me burping the other night and woke up to call me a piggy :laughing:
Sal - hope you're over gastro now and it wasn't too horrible. Does Nedd pose nicely for the camera? Abbey is such a tricky toddler to photograph, either she makes a stupid face or lunges for the camera to show her biggest smile from 3cm away. Doesn't help that she takes off all her clothes either.
I had my ultrasound last week, and for those that didn't see on my facebook, I didn't find out the sex. Some people are really annoyed about that, especially my SIL. Says I'm crazy. But when thinking about Abbey's birth I realised I missed out on the 'huzzah' moment, even more so because she was whipped into the incubator and everyone was very silent, I had to actually ask mum to check it was a girl! So this time I'm guaranteeing myself the announcement. I've declared it a boy, I say he, but if no doodle appears I'll just ask her if she left something behind.
SalTheGal
30-03-2009, 10:27
Morning ladies....I have had a full on weekend, so nice to sit here for 30mins with Nedd at daycare and relax! Though I have a stack of stuff to do today for the business, so the quiet time won't last long!
How'd you go at the footy Sare? Tough luck bout the Pies- but GO BLUES!!! :smiliedance: We are so the team to watch this year!!! :D
Yep Kimba, I'm with Michelle on the update- let us know!!!
Maryanne- I so hear you on the zero patience, Nedd is learning how to turn on the sooky tantrum lately, and I have NO patience what soever, I call him a 'sooky boy' and he will often now forgo the massive tears just to tell me instead 'mummy I being a sookyboy'...like I am going to react to that!!!! But I am not a fan of fake tears AT ALL!! So he gets put in his place very quickly.
We are also realising rapidly that we need to watch what we say to each other- Nedd told me to 'shut up' yesterday :eek:- I had to ask him twice what he said cause I was so shocked!! And he has taken to saying in a very cross voice 'don't speak to me like that'- which I do to DH often as he can be really patronising when we argue....so we are all 3 of us on a speak nicely campaign, and Nedd is allowed to tell us if we say either of the above things too, which he did yesterday!! I solemnly had to say sorry to Nedd and DH for saying "don't speak to me like that" to DH :laughing: It was quite embarrassing!!
So we need to make a concerted effort to keep or niggles behind closed doors- don't know how thats going to go!!
Sat was an exciting day- Nedd asked to go in his jocks, and spent all day in them- we managed two wee's in the potty (very very impressive as he has neve come close to the awareness needed for this) and a poo, and two wee accidents.... He did so well!! We are giving him a lolly for a poo and a sticker for a wee, and he wanted a lolly in the arvo- so he was sitting there for ages trying to squeeze out a non existent poo for the sake of a lolly, it was quite amusing!
But we have fri, sat, sun at home this weekend, so we are going to put him in jocks for the three days and make a real effort at getting it all happening, yay!!!
I went to the Drs thurs arvo and it turns out I had gastro, all better now which is good, but it really took it out of me for the week!
Apart from that (mega post I know!) all good here....hope everyone else is well, take care!
Oh, and Beck if you are around- happybirthday for yesterday, hope you had a fantastic day!!!
:wave:
Sorry, nothing to report here - all :bfn: for me this month. Although I'm baffled as to why AF was so weird (lasted less than 48 hours) and even more concerned that a week later I'm still getting pain down low on the left side, which I've never had before. The only info I can find to explain THAT is ectopic preg - scary! - but the pain isn't getting any worse, and I'd still get a positive HPT if that's what it was...right?!?
Anyway hopefully it's nothing and :fingerscrossed: for a BFP in April, and maybe a NYE babe.
Sal - well done on the jocks! Lol at Nedd - Jet's been saying 'shut up' too, and since neither DH and I say that, we think he's picked it up from his FDC carer. Which is a bit of a worry!!!
On that note, Jet was pretending to drive a car the other day and said 'beep beep, come on b1tch!' and I was like :eek: 'where did you hear THAT from' and DH looked sheepish...
Michelle - good on you for not finding out. If I get preg with #2 I don't think I'll find out either - although I bet I cave in when it's time for the 20wk scan...
Mary Anne - I understand about bigger issues...that's why we waited so long, but I'm getting too impatient now. I hear you on the 2 year old drama! What I can't stand is when Jet screeches and whines unintelligibly - I know he can talk, so I wish he'd just spit out what's wrong/ what he wants :hair:
Hey All
Sorry have been a bit quiet lately. Thanks for the birthday wishes Sal - I better update the signature for a year older for myself and DH!
All going well here albeit a bit tiring - would love a full nights sleep!
MIL & FIL are over at the moment which has been good but Jake is getting used to cuddles so it could be tough when there are less pairs of hands around - especially as DH is going to Sydney for work next week.
Kimba - GL on the BFP for next month. I didn't want a xmas baby but it is all OK!
Michelle - I found out with both and am not upset about it. I had enough surprises with Jake anyway with the surgery and problems for my liking!
Sal - Kayley is a parrot and esepciallly with bad words - they are repeated so clearly! She even used the F*&K word the other day herself which is a bit scary.......And we really dont swear that much (DH a bit more than me though).
Kayley was anti toilet training recently but yesterday we went bare bum for the day with no accidents and lots of wees. Unfortunatley the poo was stored up for the bath last night though.......She was fascinated with it floating around while I was trying to get Jake dressed.
Mary-Anne - I am with you with the 2 y/o tolerence! Especially being sleep deprived and looking after another one! I have to pull myself back quite often and remind myself that she is only 2 (and doesn't think or reason like an adult) and her whole world has been put upside down with the intrusion of a baby into her world which was previously centered around her.
Sare - sorry about the pies! But go the dogs!
I have to run - take care everyone.
Don't want to ask you all on facebook, but what about Rowan for a name?
Rowen Kate for a girl, Rowan Finn for a boy.
Michelle, I love Rowan. I tend to think of it more as a boys name, because I knew a few at school, but isn't one of Brooke Shield's daughters called Rowan?
All is good here. Ollie is getting over his close call with bronchitis, so I am glad that I took him to the drs before it became nastier. He is sooooo good, that he still slept through despite being sick. So Michelle, Sal and Jackie, when you put your order in for what type of baby that you want , just ask for an Ollie ;)...he's so calm and placid and sleeps and eats well. That's all a mum can ask for from a 4 month old.
The girls are doing ok. Eloise is on holidays from today, so no early starts for the next 2 weeks :smiliedance:
I got an email yesterday from our local shopping centre (think reasonably small with a kmart, target, coles, safeway and maybe 50 - 70 more smaller shops) saying that Hi5 are going to be there in the school holidays. Now call me crazy but isn't it a big step down appearing at Rod Laver Arena (the girls went to see them there in Nov) to Chirnside Park shopping centre??? I'm guessing that it's because they're all new Hi-5ers, but still would 2 years old really notice??? Eloise still can't always tell the difference between Kathleen and Sun :o Well at least it gives me something to do with the kids on the holidays.
Nothing much else happening. Hope you are all well.
SalTheGal
03-04-2009, 07:40
Morning all, phew well my big 2day work bender is over for another fortnight, I can relax for a few days now!!!
All is well here, nothing exciting happening, I am feeling pretty good atm, which is a nice change! I getting heaps of movements over the last week- this bubba is an active one, I am enjoying it so much! Isn't funny how you never tire of feeling those movements.
Nedd is good, he got bitten by something wed morning (I presume a spider) on his foot and it is still red and swollen- it is not bothering him in the slightest, and there is no other sign except for the swelling- but thats not going down- when would you get it checked out???? I sometimes worry that I am to blase about taking him to the Dr!!
Well since last Sat Nedd has taken to toilet training like a dream! Everytime we are home he is on jocks, and hasn't had an accident all week....I am so proud of him, and also amazed how true it is that when they are ready you really know bout it! It all seems to have just 'clicked' for him...he takes himself off to the potty with no drama! We are home for the next 4 days solid so I am really going to work hard to get him full time in jocks all day.
Sare- glad to hear Ollie is getting better, and SO lovely to hear he is so cruisy- I am definitely putting in my order for one of them with the next one- I honestly don't think I would know what to do if I got a good sleeper...(probably be up every night to check out of paranioa!!!!). And yep that kinda sounds a bit wierd re Hi5...but then I can't stand them anyway, so it doesn't surprise me! :D
Michelle- Rowan I love for a girl, but not so much for a boy (Lloyds feral cousin is a Rowan and he is such a loser so its the connection that I can't get past)...throw any other ideas you have my way, we are struggling BIGTIME with boys names...
Our 'list' so far is:
Archie/Archer (best friends fave so she'd kill me if we used it)
Charlie
Clancy
Eli
Felix
Hamish
Harrison (Harry)
Jasper
Jonah
Oke
Oliver
Oscar
Sebastian
Tom
Arrghhh but none of them really grab us!! I am jsut waiting for that elusive name that comes along that I just think- wow I love it!!! And the ones I am more partial to Lloyd is not and vice versa.
I actually only thought of Harrison the other day- and I am liking it the most at the moment, but I just don't know!!!! :dizzy:
Any help is most appreciated...especially since we can't talk to anyone irl about it as most know we had our girl names picked and boy names not- so if we start asking about boy names it'll kinda give away what we are having!!!
Outside is our project this weekend, we are marking out play area for Nedd, vegie patches, garden beds etc, and will then start getting in all the soil to prepare for planting, I so hate hard work outside!!!!
Beck- Lovely to hear from you, how is Jake going, is he all on the mend now?
Sorry to hear BFN Kimba, its frustrating isn't it!!!
Have a good day all! :goodvibes:
Hi girls,
Just wanted to pop in and say I'm still alive - DP has been off work with a broken hand so I've been (just) keeping us afloat by selling stuff on Ebay...which chews up all my net allowance! He's back at work next week (thank GOD!!) so in the near future I should have the Net time to be back on here a lot more :fingerscrossed:
Hope everyone is well and I look forward to catching up on the news :)
GeorgiaAnne
03-04-2009, 20:05
Hey
Bec - :) Hi lovely - been wondering how you are. Looking forward to hearing about your beautiful girls and maybe some updated piccies!
Sal - I LOVE all of those names, we have very similar taste. My BF's son is Jasper - he's a cutie! Don't take your friends name though - i'd kill someone if they did that!
Michelle - I like Rowen/Rowan too. Have you had your 20w scan - did I miss that? do you know the sex?
Sare - LOL re Hi5 - I think their songs are very lame so wont put it on for Sophia. She has finally started liking some TV now, just the Wiggles and the Backyardigans.
me: Charlie started day care 2 days a week on Wednesday which was OK - I thik I was more sad than him. I can't believe he is 7 months next week :eek:
Sophia is going OK with TT as well. Still wont poo in the toilet though - saves it up until the nappy goes on or asks for a nappy. Does anyone elses kid have very strong ideas about what they want to wear? Sophia always wants to choose and goes bonkers if I veto her choice ie: no skivvy on a 30c day :rolleyes::hissy:
Hi all
Georgia - I can't believe Charlie's 7 months either - time flies doesn't it! Jet doesn't really care about what he wears most of the time, although sometimes he'll demand a particular t-shirt. He is picky about his shoes though!
Bec - hope DH's hand mends fast!
Sal - great names - some of those are still on our boys list - IMO don't take your friends name - my SIL did that to us and it caused a huge stink and DH still isn't talking to her. Harrison is cute! that's my friend's son's name.
Michelle - I like Rowan for either boy or girl, although more for a girl...
Sare - If I end up preg I am definitely ordering an Ollie. One (still) bad sleeper is enough! LOL at Hi-5 dropping their 'standards' and doing smaller centres - maybe their popularity is waning?
Beck - happy belated birthday - LOL at Kayley with the F word, I heard Jet saying it the other day too and thought 'whoops' (I have a bit of a potty mouth :o)
Jet is coming down with a cold - was very snotty today and started to cough. It's been at least 4-5 months since the last time he was sick, I hope he gets over it fast...
Toilet training is going OK for us, Jet uses the potty most of the time when he's naked (@ home) or in pullups (@ home, @ carers place, and @ childcare centre), and he always poos in the potty, no probs there. But we just don't seem to be able to progress to undies, he loves wearing them but always forgets and wees in them! I'm not pushing it though, he's pretty stubborn (and starts weeing on the floor in retaliation if I try to get too involved :rolleyes:) so I figure he'll progress to jocks when he's ready...
GeorgiaAnne
03-04-2009, 21:13
he's pretty stubborn (and starts weeing on the floor in retaliation if I try to get too involved :rolleyes:)
lol cheeky bugger!!!
Is my little miss the only one not tt-ing??? She's done a few wees on the potty, but she's going through an "I can't" phase at the moment. :hair: Seeing that the school hols are now on, we should be home a bit over the next few weeks, so I might let her run around in the nudie and see how she goes, but in all honesty, I am happy to wait until the next holidays before we properly train her. If she wants to do it before, that's fine, but I'm not going to stress over it like I did with Eloise.
Kimba - I hope Jet is better soon...poor little boy.
Georgia - Lara sometimes tells me what she wants to wear. It's normally a skirt or dress because she wants to be a ballerina. :laughing: She chucks a wobbly if she doesn't get her own way too.
7 months already. That has gone fast. Time to start thinking about #3 :p
Bec - Good to hear from you. Sorry to hear about your dp's hand...hope he's all better now.
Looking forward to hearing all about your beautiful girls.
Sal -:yelclap: for Nedd on tt-ing. Love your taste in names. It's a bit hard when one doesn't come out and hit you, but I really do believe that they grow into their names. I wasn't as keen on Oliver as dh was, but it just suits him to a tee and Eloise was going to be Eliza until mum and my aunty both said that when you say it with our surname it sounds like here-lies-a-grave, so we settled on Eloise thinking that we'd call her Ellie, but she is well and truly an Eloise and I love it to bits. I really like your list of names. I probably like Hamish, Jonah and Sebastian the best (besides Oliver, of course). Have you tried www(dot)nymbler(dot)com? You type in names that you like or siblings names and it gives you some name suggestions.
Beck - How is Jake now? LOL at Kayley swearing. I am surprised that Lara doesn't have a potty mouth with the amount dh and I swear. She hasn't dropped the f-bomb yet, but I was mortified the other week when she said "Jes*s Ch***t, Eloise turned tv off". Let me tell you dh copped it from me after that one...I swear, but I don't blaspheme :o.
Mary-Anne - How was Echuca?
Not much going on here...a super busy weekend. Tomorrow we have swimming lessons, we've got to buy Eloise a new car seat, Eloise has a b'day party and I have to drive to Rye tomorrow night for a Hen's night. I'll be knackered come Sunday, so I guess that I'm lucky that daylight savings ends...maybe not the kids body clocks will take a while to alter.
Hope you all have a great weekend. x
GeorgiaAnne
03-04-2009, 21:58
Beck - How is Jake now. LOL at Kayley swearing. I am surprised that Lara doesn't have a potty mouth with the amount dh and I swear. She hasn't dropped the f-bomb yet, but I was mortified the other week when she said "Jes*s Ch***t, Eloise turned tv off". Let me tell you dh copped it from me after that one...I swear, but I don't blaspheme.
Uh oh - busted.
Sophia sounds like she says the f-bomb when she says truck. A bit off-putting when she says "I wanna truck, I wanna truck" :laughing:
LOL about #3! DH was home for a quick dinner b/w shifts today and both kids were feral screechers at the same time, Sophia having a nudie tantrum. So I said to him "and you want 3 or 4 kids!" It always seems like a better idea when they're asleep!
LOL about #3! DH was home for a quick dinner b/w shifts today and both kids were feral screechers at the same time, Sophia having a nudie tantrum. So I said to him "and you want 3 or 4 kids!" It always seems like a better idea when they're asleep!
LOL ...when I read the first bit, I read quickie b/w shifts :o
Your place sounds like mine...complete madness at dinner time. What's one or two more to add to the madness (says she, whose #3 is yet to really have an impact on our family's dynamic)
GeorgiaAnne
04-04-2009, 08:23
LOL ...when I read the first bit, I read quickie b/w shifts :o
:laughing::laughing::laughing::laughing:
SalTheGal
04-04-2009, 08:37
morning everyone, gosh its so nice to see some chatter in here!!!! I get excited when I log on and see new posts (yes I know I reeeeaaaallly need to get a life!!!)
We are having a big weekend of doing house stuff....I have been told I am going to be helping to stack firewood this morning, hmmm, wonder how long is reasonable before I pull the pregnant lady card!! :p
He is already out there, I have claimed the need for coffee before anything happens to buy a bit of time, I am sooo lazy!!!!
Lol at the swear words, is it really sad that the worst thing I have from Nedd is trying to get him out of the habit of saying bum instead of bottom!! I know its not a big deal, but I really dislike kids saying bum- yet Lloyd and his mother :banghead: say lets go change your 'bum' all the time- it is a pet peeve, I am constantly correcting them all- LLoyd doesn't get what the big deal is!
Nedd did a poo in his nappy this morning before we had a chance to change him into jocks, and he was soooo upset poor poppet!! He is definitely over the nappies!
Sare- I honestly thought as of only last week that I'd be waiting till next spring now to TT nedd as I wasn't going to do it when I had a newborn- it has surprised me more than anyone how well he has gone....it really rings true that they will do it when they are ready- so I wouldn't stress bout Lara, I still think they are all so young, I often forget Nedd is only 2.5yrs, and expect too much from him.
Georgia- have you guys thought bout how many? Or is this it for you? Lloyd really only wants 2, I actaully want to start ttc#3 as soon as possible after this one is born, we haven't really discussed it but I know we will hit loggerheads over it, atleast knowing the sex of this one I know I will have a stronger argument for no#3 fullstop as I know Lloyd would love a little 'princess' to spoil too.
OK, coffee is finished so best go look like I am ready for some hard labour!
Have a lovely weekend- Sare hope you get a chance to recoup tomorrow after your busy day today!!
Hi girls,
I decided sleep was more important than anything this morning (and Ollie obliged), so dh has taken Lara swimming and he is going to look at carseats while I take Eloise to the birthday party. So a much more reasonable quota of things to do today now...so much so that I get some bubhub time.
Eloise has her 1st b'day party of her new kinder friends today, and I am unsure of what is expected about drop off/stay at the party. I am not sure that I would feel comfortable dropping her off because I don't know these people that well, but you've got to cut the cord at some point right??? I think I will just go, expecting to stay and see what the go is, knowing that Eloise will be fine either way.
Sal - You haven't pulled the pg lady card yet? I have used mine the second that the 2nd blue line appears :laughing: Take it easy and don't let Lloyd work you too hard.
You're brave planning #3 already (I know you'll win out...us ladies normally do ;))
I agree, it's nice to see some more chatter in here.
Better go and get ready and let my little chickadee decide what she wants to wear to this party today. Did you know that you must wear a dress/skirt to a party? ...heaven forbid that mummy suggests that you wear jeans because it's a little chilly :rolleyes:
Hope you all have a great weekend.
Did you know that you must wear a dress/skirt to a party? ...heaven forbid that mummy suggests that you wear jeans because it's a little chilly :rolleyes:
:laughing: the joys of girls!
My upstairs (bipolar) neighbour was having an 'episode' in the wee hours (about 3am onward) and yelling at his wife and dragging furniture around for a few hours. Finally went quiet and I'd just got back to sleep, and Jet decided it was time to get up - at 5.50am :rolleyes: DH of course rolled over and slept in till 9.30...ba$tard. Then I left the boys and went and battled it out at the local shopping centre to get the groceries etc - it was manic in there today! must be a pre-easter frenzy...? So I'm knackered...
Anyway DH has just taken Jet out to a soccer game, so at least I have an hour or so to potter around on my own (I'll probably spend it cleaning though, once I get off here!). Poor Jet wanted me to go with them, he was crying and trying to drag me out the door, but I'm just too buggered...
Sal - I'd definitely be pulling the preg card now that you're past 20 weeks. And you're so good trying to stop Nedd from saying bum - I'm afraid I'm the opposite and let Jet say bum and fart purely for amusement value, because it sounds so funny coming from his little voice :o. I also taught him to say Packing Peanuts (like that youtube video) - now he says it every time he poses for a camera - it cracks me up - I'm such a (childish) Bad Mother!
Georgia - LOL at Sophia saying truck. I swear I heard Jet say the C word the other day - then realised he said 'can't' :o
OK off to make the most of my 'alone time' before the boys come back again. Have a great weekend!
Kimba - I don't know what a peanut youtube thing is, but what's the point of having kids if we can't train them to entertain us? I've got Abbey calling anyone and everyone who she catches (or thinks she catches) farting a "FART WEASEL"! Always loudly of course.
Sare - did you let Eloise stay alone? I had to extend my apron strings yesterday to let Abbey play in the Hungry Jacks playground without me in there with her. It was so very hard, and of course I wasn't interested in my lunch, just trying to keep an eye on her. She couldn't care less, appeared from the tunnels to wave at me every now and then. :rolleyes:
With the "I can't"s Abbey needs to be proven wrong before she gives it up. Stupid things like getting her knickers off required me to get them started for her, taking off her shoes, putting the lid back on her water bottle...basically everything she couldn't be bothered doing and thought I should do for her.
Sal - can't believe you haven't pulled the pg card yet. I'll help dad empty the trailer of bricks a couple at a time, but that's about the extent of it. I got the carpets cleaned recently and moved furniture too much and got a tummy twinge so left it all where it was until someone visited to move it back for me.
I like those names, I also like how well you kept it a secret :laughing:
We have a house full of Fs. Big Fs, little Fs, Fs on the road, toy Fs in the shop...there's no T-ruck, there's no R either. "Look, a F%^&&%!"
Fortunately I don't have a potty mouth for her to learn from, but she does get told to shut up a lot. Lumpy needs cereal. Yes okay, its coming. Lumpy needs cereal. Lumpy needs cereal. Lumpy needs cereal. Lumpy needs cereal. Does Lumpy need some shut up? Lumpy needs cereal. Shut up, I'm not magical.
Georgia - yep, had the scan, didn't find out the sex. I'll find out eventually!
I'm sure Sophia will decide poo in the potty isn't too bad soon enough, good work with the wees as it is.
Abbey can be the same with clothing, and heaven forbid I try on something for a fit and decide it needs exchanging, I have to bribe her out of some things! She's all about the tutus (any skirt or dress), but only if we are going out, otherwise she will just undress and do her naked dance. Bring on winter! :devil:
SalTheGal
04-04-2009, 21:04
I should clarify to everyone that the preggo card has been pulled often... I am a total slacker when it comes to outdoorsy work atm!! :D So no letting down of the female perogatives just yet, it was just today that Lloyd had a particularly long list of to-do's that he was wanting me to help with....
As it turned out I did my bit by carting several barrow loads of firewood around, then came in to get lunch ready/put Nedd down for a sleep- and proceeded to fall asleep on the couch myself where DH left me for 3hrs! :o He was very kind about it...saying I was snoring so loudly I clearly needed it!! :p
I like those names, I also like how well you kept it a secret
:D Its good isn't it- though I have been sussing out various family members and the ones who know I come here I am suitably satisfied haven't/won't be coming here to snoop....In fact everyone IRL says they wouldn't want to know what we are having anyway....Plus I do have girls names picked- we had that down pat ages ago, so there is no need to try figure that one out- if we do happen to have a girl she will be Annie Ethel, as was Nedd if he was a girl, as I have no doubt will be the next one if she is a girl!!!
The end of Daylight Savings is no fun when your 2.5 year old still demands you get up at the same time - making it effectively 4.45am! :hair:
At least we were ready and out the door nice and early today...
Michelle - search for 'Packing Peanuts' on youtube and you'll see what I mean. A father training his son for entertainment - sounds like the kid is saying 'f*ckin pen1s'. Jet thinks it's hilarious (as do I) and says it randomly or whenever I pull out the camera.
Re: naked dancing, yes, we have that too. LOTS of that. Thankfully soon it will be cold enough to force Jet into wearing clothes. I hope.
Sal - there's no way I'd be carting barrow loads of firewood around. Pull out the labour/ birth agony card and let him suck it up. It's not often we have a valid excuse to relax! I also like how subtle you're being about the gender.
As for me, well Jet has a cold, he's all snotty and coughed and kicked all night, so I got no sleep. He's chirpy and well rested this morning though, unlike me. I'm also sh1tty at DH for something he did yesterday, but have to pretend not to be, because today's OPK is showing a surge and we 'have to' DTD tonight. I'll just close my eyes and pretend he's Johnny Depp :D
GeorgiaAnne
06-04-2009, 19:08
LOL Kimba, maybe you could have a fight then have angry sex - then make up sex! I'd be happy to get any ATM lol :laughing:
ROFL me too Georgia!!:laughing:
Had a bit of a snitch at DP tonight re money. (that's why I'm hiding out here at the computer!) Constantly worried about it but don't usually let it get me down to this degree. Oh well can't be Perfect Mummy every day!!
Kimba - which version does Jet say? :laughing: It's great to see you've reappeared on here too!
Michelle - that's so funny about the weasel words! (90's pop culture Pauly Shore reference - anyone get it?) We try not to laugh when Ella blames random smells on Rachael... didn't take her long to start doing that!
re TT'ing - Ella has been really good actually, she rarely has accidents of any kind these days. It seemed to take forever to get her to poo on the toilet, but one day she just did it and that was that! There was NO way I was letting her go around undieless though. I can handle cleaning poo off undies but off the couch/floor/chair etc is another matter!
Sare - actually re skirts and partes - I got Ella all frocked up for her first big birthday party on the weekend.. and she was the only girl among 7 boys... you can imagine what the pretty outfit looked like
whoops gotta go
SalTheGal
09-04-2009, 08:50
Morning Ladies, hope everyone is well!!
All is good here- I have to have a wee bit of a brag!!
Nedd my super little champion is doing sooo amazingly well at his toilet training....Since basically putting him full time into Jocks last Fri he hasn't had a single accident- and to add to that he is waking up dry from both day sleeps and NIGHT sleeps!!!! And wants to rip his nappy of asap to do a wee in the potty upon waking! :smiliedance: i am sooo stoked for him! And rapt that it has been this easy!
So- question: He has woken up in the morning completely dry 4 nights running- so when do I take the plunge and send him to bed in jocks?
But flipside is that it makes me kinda sad- I don't have my little baby anymore!! :crying: I have had a couple of teary moments this week when I think about my munchkin growing up- and TBH honest I am sh!t scared that the next bub won't be as awesome as Nedd- I mean we have had a pretty amazing time with Nedd- he has the most lovely nature and personality, and it is just impossible not to adore him- what if the next one is a little horror?!?! It is quite daunting!
I have also been having stress over the fact that I still call Nedd 'Bubby' as a nickname, like all the time....whats going to happen when he isn't my bubby anymore??? :no:
Argh sorry- I sound like such a sook- I have just been having major stresses this week that I just don't want things to change as everything is just so perfect the way it is with my wonderful little man!! :o (grr getting teary as I write this!!!!)
OK deep breath and moving right along!! :dizzy:
Kimba- hope Jet has gotten over his cold quickly and is giving you some much needed sleep. :hugs:
And hope everyone else is well- all prepared for Easter! I am off to the shops this arvo to tackle the crowds...I work all weekend so need to leave the pantry all stocked up so DH and Nedd survive without me there to cook!
BBL for a longer post but just wanted to say :yelclap: to Nedd. Bite the bullet, I say Sal. If he is ready to wear jocks to bed, then do it. They say that kids do it when they are ready. My friend has trained both of her dd's for day and nights at the same time.
I remember feeling all those worries that you are having about Nedd and #2 when I was pg with Lara. Nedd sounds a lot like Eloise at the same age, just easy going, placid and just loveable...then I got Lara, who is stubborn and headstrong and difficult, but I love them both to bits. Having Lara 2nd has made me appreciate how good Oliver is. Still, I hope you get a nice eay going baby, because it just makes life easier. Anyway better go. BBL
Sare - I think Lara and Jet are from the same mold :yes: 'Headstrong and Willful' - but I wouldn't have him any other way. (Ok, maybe a bit more sleep, heh)
Sal - :yelclap: well done Nedd!!! Jet sometimes gets up in the morning and rips his nappy off to go and wee in the potty - but it's still a bit hit and miss. He's nowhere NEAR dry nights yet, and since he still insists on a cup of milk before bed, and still wakes and demands a drink in the middle of the night, I suspect he won't be for years to come :o
Bec - Hello!!! Rachael is so cute...I bet Ella looked gorgeous at the party. I hear you on the money stress, it's a big bone of contention in our house. Oh and Jet says 'Phacking Pheanus' which is pretty funny :laughing:
I just don't want things to change as everything is just so perfect the way it is with my wonderful little man!!
I have the exact same feeling about TTC and how bringing a new baby into the family is going to affect us, especially Jet. He's so much closer to me than he is to DH. I feel almost guilty that if/ when I do have another bub, I'll be so focused on the baby (and so worn out) that Jet won't get all my attention any more. Poor little guy!
As for us, well I'm not UTD yet, but I'm about 3DPO and (above worries aside) hoping that this is the month!
Jet is still coughing at night, but not as bad, so I think the worst is over. He woke at 4am this morning though, and had a huge screaming tantrum because he wanted some biscuits and to turn the lights on, which would've meant he wouldn't go back to sleep - and no way was I getting up for the day at 4am! Lucky I eventually got him back to sleep...and then he was all smiles and giggles at 7am as though nothing had happened...Typical!
Hope Everyone has a great Easter with their loved ones. We're going away for the long weekend, so I'll talk to you next week!
Hello!!!!!!
I'm still alive!! Seriously, can you believe we are almost mid april?? Just crazy!
Thimgs are going well here. Jarv has been in jocks for over a month now, and doesn't have accidents. It's been so easy with him, it's not funny. Mack was almost 3 before he started toiletting, then Tallan was TT'ed around his 2nd birthday. Jarv has just done so well, it makes me wonder what all the fuss is about, lol!!
Yay for NEDD and his toiletting success too!!
Our house is moving along really quickly it seems. I've been there today, and we have the frame, and most of the roof trusses up now. DH will be amazed when he gets home this week, as there was just a slab when he left last week! The boys love going to visit our new house....I think it's the space they have to kick the footy around, and the big dirt mounds that attracts them, lol!! Can't wait to see the bricks started...
My little darling girl is still totally amazing! Just love her to bits :bee: She has 4 teeth - which she loves biting the side of her brand new cot with - and looks as though there's another on the way. She has been a little fussy with the boob over the past few days, and I thought she may have been starting to self wean. A little upsetting at first, but then....the reason unfolded. Would seem AF has made her return!! Either that, or I'm experiencing implantation spotting (which I am not ruling out :o) Soooooooo, I shall just wait and see. If it is AF, DH will not be a happy boy, as he is home tomorrow night. Oh well, not my problem, lmao!! :laughing:
Sal - When I pg with DS2, I had the same feelings too. I would always worry about if I would love DS2 as much as I loved DS1. It's just something us Mothers get to deal with, yk? Like we don't have enough already, lol! All will be ok :hugs: Oh, Archer is what Monet would've been called had she been a boy. It was either Jarvis or Archer for Jarv, so I told DH we would use Archer for the next boy. I love it! Do you like Hugo? Angus?
Kimba - Nice to see you back! Jet sounds like the darling little boy he always has been :) How exciting, TTC # 2. All that talk has now turned into pratice....good luck!
Beck - Oops, missed your birthday :o HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! My cousin recently had a baby girl, and named her Kayley - her eldest child, a boy, is named Jacob! Bit of useless information, but interesting all the same!
Bec - You must do well with selling on Ebay to be able to 'make a living' from it. Do you just sell stuff you don't want/need anymore, or do you have a store?
Georgia - Hi! How's Charlie's feeding going now? Has he decided to stick with the booby?
Sare - Lol at Hi 5 coming 'to a shopping centre near you'!! Maybe they are going to become a thing of the past now they are all just add ons? Are you going to go and give them your support?
Michelle - Yes, Rowan is nice, and I too like it for a girl. I've been helping my friends with girl names too. Do you like Sachi? Tylah? Meisha?
Mary-Anne - Hope all is good with you!
Hi to anyone else I have forgotten. Well, I've done my Easter Bunny duties for yet another year - and once again, I said I wasn't getting too much and ended up spending over $200 on the kids!! Just don't tell DH!! - , so I'm off to bed. I've had all the boys crawl into my bed at some stage over the last few nights, and I'm really starting to suffer from it!
Have a great Easter Sunday all!
GeorgiaAnne
11-04-2009, 20:36
Either that, or I'm experiencing implantation spotting (which I am not ruling out )
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:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
I know, I know!! I'm taking it as if AF is returning, and if it's anything other than that, you'll soon hear my reaction to that from here, lol!!
GeorgiaAnne
11-04-2009, 20:46
Are you guys TTC or a bit lax in the contraception department?? We are at the moment (slack, that is not TTC lol) Well yes, make sure you keep us updated :)
Are you guys TTC or a bit lax in the contraception department?? We are at the moment (slack, that is not TTC lol) Well yes, make sure you keep us updated :)
No way are we TTC!! We have just been a little slack in the contraception dept lately :o DH was off to get the snip, but of course, he hasn't yet. I haven't had any further bleeding, but I have had cramps on and off during each day since the spotting. I've also had restless legs for the past few nights.....all symptoms I have experienced with the other pregnancies. I've had a chat to DH about it today, and it's not looking good re: if we are. :crying: I'll keep my fingers crossed that it's just my body preparing for AF, as if I stat to think too much of another pregnancy, it will only upset me a heap if I find out I am. DH has made his opinion VERY clear to me, which has upset me quite a bit, but we'll just wait for a few weeks and I'll test.
SalTheGal
14-04-2009, 07:47
Hey everyone- Happy Easter!! :flowerz:
Hope you all had a great weekend, and the kiddliwinks didn't get toooo much chocolate!!
I was on sleepover shifts all weekend, which actually worked out perfectly as it means I am home all day to enjoy spending time with Lloyd and Nedd, and at work on public holidays getting paid double time and half to chill and sleep!!!
Had the FIL with us over the weekend- he found the most amazing cubby for Nedd which he delivered, its massive lovely wooden one with a cute verandah out the front and all- Nedd just loves it!! Considering he has nothing outside to play with I am so glad he now has something to call his own.
He totally enjoyed Easter, but as a child who doesn't really eat much chocolate by lunch time on Sun he was rather subdued and looking a little green!! So further eggs are being rationed out to one or two a day till they are gone!
We went to the Zoo yesterday- Nedd just loved it! His fave was the Giraffes.
But poor thing struggles so much with 'big' toilets that he held onto his poo all day resulting in a sore bottom now :(....I am worried that this is going to become a habit that he will hold his poo till he is at home all the time, and I know that will cause problems with constipation etc....any suggestions?
Re TT- we did take the plunge and he is 100% nappy free now- no nappies for nights either, and hasn't had an accident once, in fact he will happily come into our bed for 1/2hr and chat before he even needs to go potty in the morning!! So great...he is has just done so well.
Sarah :hugs: for the next few weeks, fingers crossed it is AF....tell DH this should be the incentive he needs to go get snipped!!!! Re the names- I love Hugo and Angus too but Lloyd has vetoed both of them- doesn't like Hugo, and he has a family friend with a down syndrome boy named Angus so thats out.
Georgia- Is Charlie back on the boob again? Hope it was just a phase for him. :hugs:
Hi to everyone else, hope you and kids are all well! :flowerz:
Morning ladies,
Hope you and your families all had a lovely Easter. We had lots on, but it was also quiet and almost relaxing, so that was good. The girls got chocolate galore and had heaps of fun doing their Easter Egg hunt inside...although it was a bit funny watching the 2yr old find the eggs before the 4yr old (Lara really is her mother's daughter...has the ability to sniff out choccies )
I had a great day today. I caught up with 3 of my closest friends and we had a lovely time just catching up with each other about what's going on in our lives. I left the girls with dh and Ollie was just the perfect angel. Dh took the girls up to the sky high lookout and maze in the Dandenongs, which they loved and then a new park at the bottom of the Dandenongs, but didn't feed them lunch until 4pm. :eek: He says that he forgot, but he'd given them fruit and snacks.
I'm feeling a bit exhausted today, we went out last night for my Grandma's 94th b'day and didn't get home until 11pm. By the time we got the kids in to bed and I had fed Ollie, it was midnight. Then I woke up at 2.30am with Eloise who was vomiting. We cleaned her up and took her to bed with us, where she was sick again. Then Lara started crying, and I thought she might be starting with it too, so went down to her and spent an unsettled night sleeping in her bed. Luckily she was ok. To top it off, poor Oliver woke up with conjunctivitis. I tell you that it never ends here.
Still no luck with the tt-ing. I've been reading about the success of a few people on here with the 3-day tt program, so unless Lara indicates that she wants to train earlier, then I will probably start that in the June/July school holidays.
Sarah - :eek: I hope that you get the results that you want. No doubt that this is a scary time for you at the moment. :fingerscrossed: for you.
Sal - It sounds like you have the perfect job, being paid to sleep. No doubt there's a lot more to it than that.
I was only thinking yesterday that it is about time that we had another family trip to the zoo, last time that we went, Lara was too little to enjoy it.
Kimba - I hope this is your month. How was your trip?
Michelle - Are you still getting those early wake up calls?
I ended up staying at the party with Eloise. Some of the mums did drop the kids off. It was funny because none of the kinder kids talked to each other, it was like mass stage fright :laughing:
I think Lara's been taking secret lessons from Abbey...over the last week or so, she just strips off (but leaves the nappy on) clothes are strewn everywhere. I'm hoping that it's just a phase that she's quickly over.
Bec - Saw the new photo of Rachael on FB. She is absolutely gorgeous. I loved her big smile. How's she going now? Hoe's Ella with her?
lol on the party dress. I can imagine that's how Lara will be, she so desperately wants to dress all girly, but deep down, she is a bit of a tomboy wanting to climb, jump, dig, make mess.
Georgia - Did Charlie end up self-weaning? I hope you are ok about it all. :hugs:
Oh well it's 11am and us girls are still in PJs so I better make a move. Take care x
Hi all...
Trip was good but the drive back was horrendous. Usually takes 3.5 hours but it took 7.5!!! I've never seen it that bad. We always leave mid-morning to beat the traffic (which usually doesn't start to get heavy till mid afternoon) but it seems everyone else did the same. Never again!!!
Easter was fun though. We had a big family picnic near the beach on Sunday and the weather was divine. Jet decided to go swimming, despite us not having any gear with us - he relishes any chance to get naked and frolic! You should have seen the sand coming out of all his crevices later :laughing:
Nobody went overboard with chocolate thank goodness - Jet rarely has it and certainly can do without being hyped up even more than usual! He only ate a couple of small eggs and I confiscated the rest for later (which he's forgotten about).
And I didn't want to go near any chocolate - which is totally unlike me - which makes me think "hmmm maybe I am UTD?" LOL. I've started peeing in the middle of the night too, so with that and the food aversion, I'm feeling hopeful that maybe it will be my month...It's still too early to test though and the wait is killing me!
Sare - hope everyone in your place is better soon :fingerscrossed: My hat goes off to anyone who copes with more than 1 sick child at at time!
Sarah - :eek: That must be scary - I hope it works out the way you want!
Sal - you get paid to sleep!? that's my dream job! :yelclap: to Nedd for doing so well with TTing.
Georgia - lax with contraception - are you secretly trying for an 'accidental' #3? :p
Hi girls,
Has anyone got their $900 workers payment thing yet? We are going to be in a bit of a pickle if it doesn't arrive soon. DP is still owed for his last job but the farmer is in Sydney with his sister, whose little son is having surgery, so it's not like we'll be chasing that money (just thanking God that our girls are well). He starts regular work again in May but there are a couple of big bills approaching before then... sigh. I am getting so boring talking about money all the time:o
Other than the finance sector, all other areas of our life are terrific! Moved Rachael into the cot this week, and felt very sad - she's grown out of it so fast! But DP is delighted to have "our" room back. Although I haven't seen any action yet :laughing: We have regular playdates with my mum's group from Ella, most of which I walk a couple of kms to, so I'm 1kg lighter than I was pre-Rachael!! Mind you my old pants still don't fit. I think the Mummytummy might be there to stay:rolleyes:
Kimba - sand in crevices is scary! I won't let Ella do anything nude anymore. She had a nude afternoon at a friends place recently, where they all stripped off for a swim in the clamshell then a jump on the tramp and a run round. Anyway (this will make you wince) she was complaining about having a sore geena - and when I checked there were sticks and rocks in there:eek: no wonder it was sore!! So no more nature child!:fingerscrossed: for you with the test.. when can you do it?
Hey Sare - was Eloise tummy bug sick or just overdid it? Ella is often sick after parties. She has no "stop" switch with the party food! You really have to watch her. Thanks for the comment on the FB pic. I love her smiles too. She is such a love, I am totally smitten with her (and so is everyone else!) I love my first-thing-in-the-morning smiles especially.. she's just always so happy to see me! She's asleep in her playgym ATM. Bless. Ella is lovely with her, just have to watch as she likes to share ALL her toys and some just aren't right for a baby!
Sal - poor Nedd with the poos. Cubby house sounds great!! Glad your job is going well.
Sarah - how are you going? I really hope you get the BFN you want! Thinking of you. Re Ebay - embarrassingly enough, I was just selling a massive bag of clothes that don't fit/don't suit/I'm sick of etc. There were over 60 things in that bag!
Well better go get ready for this morning's playdate. I love going to this friend's house - it's out of town on her FIL's farm, and her DP is building their bluestone house by hand (!!), I love the quiet, you can't hear the highway/town noise like you can here. Lots of gum trees and open spaces...ahhh.
Bec - OMG rocks in her giney! No wonder she was complaining. One of my relatives has a toddler girl obsessed with her natural pocket and likes to put things in there, her mum is continually having to check - I think if that were the case I'd be buying iron knickers for the kid!
Abbey hasn't managed to get more than sand & glitter in her crevices yet, thank goodness. But she does tend to keep her clothes on outside, mummy won't let her play in the sun otherwise. Its just inside nudity that's rampant around here.
I don't get the latest $900 payment, but I can tell you nobody else I know has got it yet either. Its a very arbitrary method they are using. I can't believe the ATO was given over $10million to facilitate the distribution. For that money I would go door to door across Australia.
Kimba - hope your test comes up +, and that you can do it soon. That 2ww is a real biarch. I actually chose to stay at mums an extra night rather than drive back on the Monday, and the roads were wet, storms forecast - glad I stayed, the drive the next day was long enough, and the roads luckily hadn't flooded, but not by much!
Sare - well done on keeping your sanity with 3 sick kids!
Sal - how do you put Nedd on the big toilets? They can be pretty scary, I remember that from when I was little. Abbey has a padded seat thingy for at home, but when we are out I put her on and she leans forward onto me holding my shoulders and does her business. She seems to feel safer that way, even on the little kid toilets in parents rooms. But sure, at home I just leave her there and ask when she's done.
You can also get travel padded seats that fold up, but I know I would forget it.
Super well done on the TT, especially night training! I haven't even attempted it, but then she sleeps in my bed, so you can be sure I'm going to wait until she's dry as a bone before taking that nappy away! She has asked to go to bed in just knickers, but no thanks. Not yet.
Sarah - hope it is just AF gearing up again, but if not, well DH will come around, how could he not?
I just spent $450 on a new car seat for baby and now I feel poor. I also feel rather wasteful as I have the baby car seat Abbey used, but its really cheap and nasty and she outgrew the rear weight limit at 4 months and the height limit by 11 months, so I'm doing the right thing, it just seems extravagant. But its the safest available and that's what you do!
:eek: Bec - sticks and rocks in her vajayjay! hearing things like that makes me glad that I have a boy. There's not much he can fit in there (although his finger seems to be poking at it an awful lot :laughing:). I hope that your financial probs sort themselves out soon, it's the worst kind of stress I think.
Michelle - I hear you on the new car seat. If I get UTD I'll be wanting to get a better one than we used with Jet but I know DH will kick off about spending more money...Jet doesn't normally get to do the outside nude thing either, but we didn't have beach gear with us, and he won't wear 'wet' clothing at the moment! so he ripped off his tshirt and swim nappy. It wasn't a glaringly hot day so I just lathered him up with sunscreen and let him go for it. Hopefully by next summer he'll have forgotten the precedent!
Re: big toilets, Jet won't do it, even at home with his little seat. I think it's cause he's got short legs and he doesn't like not being able to touch the ground (even with a step stool) :laughing:. I'm on the hunt for one of those little ladder/ seat combos...sick of emptying the potty! :vomit:
Re: $900 payment - DH and I both got 'economically stimulated' yesterday, thank goodness. We never qualify for any of the other family payments or allowances (we always seem to be just over the threshold) so it was nice to get some back for a change. Of course it's going on boring stuff like car rego and insurance :sleeping:
Sarah I hope AF shows up for you...and Sare I hope the kids are all better!
As for me, now 11DPO and Fertility Friend is getting me all excited with its silly Early Pregnancy Signs Estimator, but I don't want to get my hopes up. I am feeling hot, a bit queasy, and as of today a teeny bit crampy - :fingerscrossed: it's not just AF looming.
AF is officially due on Monday so I could probably do an early test tomorrow, but I'm sure it will just be a BFN, so I'm putting it off as long as I can. And let's face it, if it's + then it will still be + in a few more days, won't it...
GeorgiaAnne
17-04-2009, 12:12
AF is officially due on Monday so I could probably do an early test tomorrow, but I'm sure it will just be a BFN, so I'm putting it off as long as I can. And let's face it, if it's + then it will still be + in a few more days, won't it...
Yikes! Exciting! FX for you hun xx
No way on the TTC, I have far too many balls in the air atm as it is!
What's the plan for # 2? Back to R P A B C ?
GeorgiaAnne
17-04-2009, 12:13
Oh yeah and I winced about the sticks etc up giny :eek: I'd never thought about that?!!
Yikes! Exciting! FX for you hun xx
No way on the TTC, I have far too many balls in the air atm as it is!
What's the plan for # 2? Back to R P A B C ?
Thanks hun. This afternoon I'm not feeling that hopeful, maybe I'm just anxious about being disappointed again. So it will be a pleasant surprise if it is +ve...
Probably back to RPA BC, maybe as a private patient so I can get my own room (remember I had the roommate from hell last time :eek:)...the other option is St George Private because RPA is just so damn busy and such a hassle with waiting times and being 'shortstaffed' and cranky staff etc...plus the parking is a nightmare! But if I went private hospy then I'd 'have' to have an Ob, and unless the preg is high risk I can't really justify that expense....would rather spend that on more time at home with bub!
Anyway, I have to get UTD first! :laughing:
Good luck Kimba.
I'm officially exhausted. Gastro has run rife through our house, the only one to escape it has been Oliver and :fingerscrossed: that he will avoid getting it. Last night it was Lara, who vomited in her bed, but didn't tell us that she had been sick until we were walking her and Eloise back to bed (they had come to our room asking for a drink of water). So after stripping her bed and soaking the sheets and changing Lara, we took her back to bed with us. We started to nod off and she vomited all over our bed, so take 2 on the cleaning. She seems ok today though, it just seems to be lingering with me :hissy:
Anyway gtg, feeding Ollie as I type and he's getting fussy.
GeorgiaAnne
17-04-2009, 16:12
uggghhh, gastro! We all had it coupla weeks ago, it was awful. Hope you get better soon hun :hugs::hugs:
Urgh Sare, gastro is the pits. It's the cleaning up in the middle of the night that's the worst. I hope that Ollie doesn't get it and that everyone else is over it soon :hugs:
I have some news, I caved in and tested early today and got a :bfp: :eek:. I was going to dye my hair today too - guess that's out now :laughing:
It's really just a Little Skinny Positive, the line is faint, but clear, even DH can see it. Now I'm trying to get my head around being UTD again - and the fact that if it sticks, I'm due between Xmas and New Year which will be interesting!
Hope everyone has a good weekend :goodvibes:
GeorgiaAnne
18-04-2009, 09:39
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh how exciting! I had a feeling you would be utd. Yipee!!!!!!
That's such lovely news Kimba - any line is a positive! Were you shaking or what?
Great news Kimba, congratulations. I had a feeling that this might have been your month too.
Thanks guys :goodvibes:
Georgia - not shaking this time! Oddly calm. But I'm freaking a bit now...
BTW I'm not telling anyone in 'real world' for a while yet so hush-hush on facebook pls :p
:smiliedance: KIMBA!! How exciting!! Congratulations!!
I saw your status on facebook, and had to rush in here to check the news!
I was due with DS2 on Xmas Day, but asked to be induced early. You never know, it may not happen till next year :p
Hope you're feeling ok!! Oh, and dye your hair anyway - it's fine :thumbsup:
I haven't dyed my hair since just before Abbey was born. I've only had a trim once too. As a result its quite long, and when not in a ponytail you can see the dye division, including some awesome foil effects starting halfway down my head. I'm dead stylish I tell ya.
Abbey is a very strange child. Sitting in traffic the other day I muttered "I don't know what's going on here" and she pipes up "yeah, its craaaaaazy!".
And last night she told me her garlic bread was very yummy, thanks mummy, but it needs vegemite. :rolleyes:
Baby is going well. Abbey knows there is a baby in there, talks to it through my belly button, but I don't think she realises it will come live with us. Going to have some interesting times when she learns the universe doesn't revolve around her.
Question - how do I keep my potatohead warm at night when she refuses to have a blanket on her? She wakes up if I put one on her while sleeping, and she takes off the extra warm clothes I put on her, like socks, and then wakes up at 3am because she's cold but still refuses to get warm and snuggly! She will often burrow into me to keep warm which isn't comfy for a round wimmin, and I don't really want to be woken up by her chatting at 3am. She will go back to sleep for a couple hours but only after being as annoying to me as possible.
Hi All
I have been pretty slack trying to read all your posts but not actually getting on to post anythign myself!
Congratulations Kimba!!! Hope it is sticky for you! Jake was born 27th December which I wouldn't have chosen but I think it will be fine!
Sare - I hope your household is feeling better soon - I HATE gastro. I asldo hate washing sheets int he middle of the night!
Michelle - Have you thought about getting some of those all in one sleepsuits? Snugtime make them but I have also seen them in target or Big W. They are basically polar fleece blankets which have legs in them so they can still walk. Kayley was in them last year but not so far this year but she did come into or room in the middle of the night last night because she was cold as she doesn't like going to sleep with her blanket on either.....
Sarah - I hope you get a BFN if that is definately what you want!! You do well as we have no chance of getting pg at the moment if you know what I mean!! I guess it will get easier when Jake starts to sleep through!
Well I have to run and deal with miss 'what's the big idea' - take care everyone.
GeorgiaAnne
19-04-2009, 12:31
You do well as we have no chance of getting pg at the moment if you know what I mean!! I guess it will get easier when Jake starts to sleep through!
Oh yes, I know EXACTLY what you mean :rolleyes::rolleyes:
Well a nice quiet Sunday here, just made some yummy pita bread pizzas and now i'm at work and everyone else is asleep...I would much rather be having a snuggle with Charlie!
I LOL y'day, I asked Sophia if she had done a poo and she said "Yes mummy, I farted it out" :laughing: Where on earth do they learn these things from??
Yay Kimba!!:smiliedance: And there's nothing wrong with a baby born betw. Chrissy and NY. Gives you an excuse to not go anywhere :D
BTW to clarify - the debris was "in" but not "UP" thank GOD. Bit less scary but still gross!!
SalTheGal
20-04-2009, 08:49
Morning all....
Wow Kimba!! :yelclap: That great news, congrats, and hope everything goes wonderfully for the next 9mnths!!
We have had a super busy weekend here, but good all the same. Footy started on Sat, so off to watch Lloyd play, then guests sat nights, then my parents 40th :eek: :yelclap: wedding celebration lunch yesterday.
Nedd barely had day sleeps all weekend, so he slept in till 8.45 this morning, and didn't wake up all night so I had a much needed gret sleep last night, I was exhausted!
Michelle- we have another ratbag here who doesn't like the blankets on, and strips off socks etc at first chance- and in the victorian winters it is not going to be fun!!! I used the polar fleece all-in-ones last year and they were great for Nedd, I have bought one for this year- but not sure how they will go with being TT- unzipping them and stripping him off completely might be a bit more of a nuisance than just whipping the pants down....I am also just trying to talk heaps about getting cold during the night and how the blankets keep us snuggly etc...The good thing is that Nedd is generally such a goody two shoes that common sense usually kicks in if he is preached at enough! :laughing:
Sare- hope everyone is on the mend in your house, and you've got a chance to rest up this week, poor thing, nothing worse than a house full of sickies.
Well I probably best get a wriggle on- we are both sitting here still in our jammies and I am meant to have Nedd off to daycare today so I can get some paperwork done....the coffee stuff is finally starting to take off which means I have to keep on top of all the 'businessy' stuff :rolleyes: which is the unfun part!!
Oh and I got the photo gallery back of Nedd from the shoot we got done a while ago here at our house- they are fantastic- if anyone wants to check out our ratbag go to this link (http://lindakitsonphotography.com/photocart/) and click on 'access gallery' with the code 'sally' I am soooo happy with the results!! :goodvibes:
Sal, they are beautiful. How will you decide which photos to buy. Linda was the photographer who took the photos of Oliver as a newborn. There's some shots of him up on her website. We're planning on getting her to take some photos of our family when Oliver's a bit older and I lose weight (if I ever decide to start eating healthily again)
We're all back to normal here, thank goodness after a week of gastro, I had well and truly had enough of it. Oliver managed to avoid getting it luckily.
Kinder and dancing are back today too, which I am glad about. Not because Eloise is driving me insane (it's more Lara), just because I find they are all better when we have routines.
Other than that, I am tired and cranky. Ollie is still a great sleeper, but I just can't seem to settle until late and then I end up with an early wake up call. Add into that the Lara factor and all I seem to be doing is yelling.
Michelle - I use the footed blanket sleepers too. Lara is pretty good at pulling up the blankets though.
Georgia - :laughing: Sophia sounds like a real laugh. My kids call farts pop offs...Lara still likes announcing to the world...Mummy I done pop offs.
Hi to everyone else...better go and organise my tribe for the kinder drop off...then off to the shops to get Lara's hair cut.
toyswillkillyou
20-04-2009, 14:17
Hello! I used to be known as Jeffy. :wave:
I have been keeping tabs on you all but never was terribly good at posting.
Well, since I last checked in we have moved into a larger house across the other side of town, we have both been promoted into less stressful jobs and I am expecting version 2.0 sometime in November.
Not much else to say. I'm around but tend to hang around in the background!
Re: the name change - DH used to read my whinging posts about him, so I am going incognito!
:wave:
Thanks for the congrats! It's still sinking in. Have my first appt today with doc to confirm preg, check bloods and book scans etc. It will all feel a lot more real after that, I think!
Apart from that I'm sick with a wicked flu at the moment so feeling like utter crap!
Jen - great to see you back again, I was just thinking about you the other day and wondering how you were doing. Congrats on your pregnancy! and on the promotion and house, too.
Sare - tired and cranky, yep sounds familiar! glad everyone is over their gastro and that Ollie didn't get it. I swear Lara and Jet sound like kindred spirits. Imagine the damage they could do if they ever had a playdate :eek:
Sal - wow those photos are all amazing! Are you going to cave in and buy most of them? (like we did with ours, LOL). I love the ones of Nedd playing with his truck with you sitting with him. And the one where you're hugging him and he's grinning. So cute!!! his hair is gorgeous.
Bec - in and not up is still scary enough, I agree! Not going anywhere between Christmas and NY is precisely our problem, my whole family lives down the coast and we always spend Christmas down there with them but I won't be wanting to be too far from the Birth Centre this year! It will be an interesting time, that's for sure...
Michelle and Beck - I have a blanket kicker and sock remover too! we tried those sleeper suits with Jet last year and he HATED them, tried to pull them off all night because he was too hot. So now I just have to deal with him wanting to snuggle up against me all night but NOT wanting blankets on him (Mummy is apparently warm enough). Which means they're half off me too so I end up freezing and clinging to the edge of the bed LOL.
And Michelle I feel your pain with the 3am chatting, Jet does it too. He also thinks it's appropriate to turn the light on at 5am and get UP for the day. Argh.
Sarah - hope you got a BFN if that's what you really want!
Hi girls,
Wow it is wintery here today! It's actually snowing in the mountains, and blowing a gale with icy rain here. Needless to say it's an inside day for our family. Although I'm a firm believer that kids (like dogs:D) need to have at least 10 mins outside every day. So I'll rug Ella up this afternoon and she can go be magnetically drawn to every icy puddle for a little while. I sowed lots of winter veg last week so I'm chuffed about the rain!
Rachael got her vaccinations on Friday and she's been quite grumbly this weekend. Yesterday she had a couple of runny poos and today she is really chucky - no scary projectile vomits but enough to have lots of clothes changes! Our washing line will be full tomorrow.
We went to another couple's place for dinner on Fri night. It was lovely, I really enjoyed it but DP did his nut saying how naughty Ella was being.... but I told him she's been naughtier during daytime playdates! It's just the age the kids are at I think... lots of turf wars about who owns what toy. We had a picnic the other day and the three 2-3yo's were all blueing over the climbing tree (which was huge!). "It's MY tree. Get off MY tree!" with accompanying pushes. :rolleyes:
Kimba how did your appt go? Hope you're feeling better. Flu always sucks but even more so when you're preggers and can't take anything for relief! We go visit the families every Christmas, which I love, but it was actually really special having our first Christmas with just our own little family at home, IYKWIM? I actually sulked more on Christmas Eve, but it was quickly cured by spending lots of money on party food :laughing: Didn't feel I was missing out so much then.
Aww, DP is singing to Rachael (he may also be dancing!) and she is laughing at him! I love those baby chuckles.
Hi Jeffy!:wave: So does that mean you're "Northside" now? Congrats on No. 2 baby! Where will you have this one?
Sare, so glad you are all better. Pity about the tiredness - sometimes I think motherhood is all about learning how to deal with fatigue! We have periods of nothing but yelling too - I wonder if Rachael will remember her early years of her family shouting at each other (guess they don't call them the terrible twos for nothing)
Hey Sal, it's funny how they seem to store up tiredness then have a "big sleep"... Ella does that too! She rarely naps any more but I still make her stay in her room for an hour after lunch. Benefits everyone :) Glad your business is taking off even if it does mean more paperwork!
Georgia I was rolling around laughing at Sophia's poo comment! Nothing like a good fart joke :p Always a cause for comedy in our house.
I've been waiting for Jackie to come tell us all about her new baby but she's hiding. Hasn't posted an announcement on facebook yet either, but from what I can tell she had a baby girl, sometime, somehow. So if you see this Jackie, congrats and come tell us more!
I have to go visit my nanna today for 30 minutes. Such an onerous task - she's mean! I avoid her for a reason. Last time I saw her she was telling me about how uni graduates earn $X by the time they are 30. She looked at me and said "you're over 30, what happened to you?" Well nanna, bite me!
I might take Abbey to the beach afterwards, mebbe. I know she will enjoy it immensely, but I don't enjoy the whinging and tantrums when its time to go home, so tend to avoid taking her to enjoyable places. That sounds terrible doesn't it?
Sarah - did you do the test?
Afternoon ladies,
Congrats Jackie if you're reading :yelclap: look forward to hearing all about your little girl!
Michelle - Nans can be grumpy old cows can't they. I guess they think they've earned the right to be cranky after getting to their ripe old age. And we also hate the drama after taking Jet somewhere fun, and him refusing to leave - so we learned to bribe him with the promise of something on the way home/ when we get home (icecream usually works) :rolleyes:
Bec - snow, wow! My DH and Jet still haven't seen snow...one day I'll drag them to see some! Poor Rachel I hope she's over her vacc reactions now.
As for me, I've finally gotten over a chest infection and tonsillitis - turns out it was a bit more than flu last week! Doc gave me a few days off last week, which was luffly. Horrible not being able to take anything though.
Still pregnant AFAIK, just looking forward to my dating scan which will be on 13 May, and hoping to see a heartbeat and know that everything is OK.
I asked Jet if the baby in my tummy is a boy or girl and he said 'GIRL!', I said 'what's the baby's name going to be?' and he said 'SANTA!' :laughing::laughing:
I've just ordered a book called "Theres a house in mummy's tummy" or something such, to help Abbey understand. She is convinced all babies are her cousin Lucas, and if there's a baby in mummy's tummy it must be a boy and it must be Lucas. No matter than Lucas is 8 months old and nearly as heavy as her. Still, gotta be smaller than Santa!
GeorgiaAnne
29-04-2009, 20:39
:laughing::laughing: you ladies are funny!
Kimba - Santa is a lovely name! pmsl!
Michelle - Sounds like Sophia, she thinks every baby is Charlie, even doll babies are Charlie and all the kids at day care are obsessed with him as well and start screeching excitedly when we arrive like he's a celebrity and they call him "Charlie-Cookie-Donut" :confused:
Not too much to say today, I have the sh1ts so probably better to say nothing!
Hope you're all well xx
Hmmmm - Santa hey - at least there will not be too many kids with the same name (I played in a netball team once with 3 Becks which was hard)!!!
Just coming on quickly to say I am still arouns and things are going OK!
Kayley is doing well with her TT (finally) but just during the day - we haven't tried at nights yet. She has gone up a class in her swimming so I no longer need to get in - yay!
Jake had his 4 months shots on Tuesday and has been only napping during the day occassionally since ( think it might be the teeth). He is growing like a mushroom and is now up to 90th percentiles.
I have been a bit sick with a fluey thing but getting through.
Sorry no time for personals - DD is 'stuck' somewhere upstairs I better go and sort it out!
Take care.
Phew...........:bfn:
I think I can now happily say that 4 is my number :yes: I thought I wanted a number 5, but after the scare of there maybe being a number 5, I'll probably stick with 4!!
Jackie - Congrats on the birth of your little girl - Anastasia Rose (hope I spelt it right)! How exciting! Little girls are wonderful :cloud9: Well, ours is anyway :p
Sal - I'm off to check out the pics in a minute!
Kimba/Sal/Michelle - Hope you're all feeling well and that your bubs are treating you nicely!!
Old Jeffy, lol - Hi! Congrats on number 2!
Beck - Such wonderful news to hear that Jacob is doing so well. Good luck with the TT! I wouldn't worry too much with the overnight training....My DS2 is almost 4.5 years, and still wears nappy pants over night and he's been totally day trained for a little over 2.5 years!! It all happens in their own time.
Best be off - I'm buggered. Was a very late night last night and I would rather be a little less grumpy tomorrow if I can help it, lol!
Sarah
Oops, I forgot - MICHELLE - I bought that book when I was expecting DS2. I read it to DS1 every night at bed time during my pregnancy.....I read it to DS1 and DS2 every night during my pregnancy with DS3......I read it to DS1, DS2 and DS3 most days when pregnant with DD. It really is a great book. I think my children would still enjoy it now if I was to read it to them!
MoOaNdLiTtLePoPpEt
05-05-2009, 10:52
thanks :)
i am back...ha ha...it has been ages...and now i have even less time. i put my birth story in the when are you due? April area!
we had a little girl
22/04/09 at 11.37am
Anastasia Rose
Weight - 3810g
Length - 52cm
HC - 34cm
She is beautiful and we are so blessed to have a little girl join the family - we have one of each, so are very happy...and it is the first grandaughter on either side wooohooo...
we are doing well, getting used to looking after 2 cherubs tho..each day gets easier! DF went back to work today...he has been AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! a godsend!!! miss him heaps! we are settling in brisbane...just plodding along at the moment settling in to the new place, to having a new born etc etc...but we are HAPPY! very happy to be home :)
will post when i have more time.
hugs and kisses to all
xxx
PS following is our birth story! thut it might be easier for you rather than trying to locate it!
MoOaNdLiTtLePoPpEt
05-05-2009, 10:56
Ok….here is my birth story…kinda what I wanted and kinda not!! (as quickly as I can)
I went for a hospy check on the Wednesday – I had very swollen feet, slightly raised blood pressure, I was very uncomfy with epigastric pain…so, the midwife decided to do an internal to see if I was favourable for induction, 2 midwifes and internals later and a 3rd by the professor, they decided to book me in for an induction on Sunday 19th April, my due date. Might I add I wasn’t what they called favourable, and god the internals killed due to my cervix being posterior.
Well in we go Sunday, I am monitored and the gel inserted, off to maternity ward where I wait it out! By Sunday night nothing had changed so a 2nd dose was inserted at 10pm…I awaited all day Monday, and believe I was having a few tightenings. By Tuesday evening nothing had happened, so I went for another check to find I was only 2cm, but enough for the doc to break my waters, so away he went.
This was at midnight mind you – so I called my fiancé in, I had a shower, the contractions weren’t really progressing on there own, so around 2pm I was given the hormone drip, contractions were bad. A bit too full on, and I wasn’t dilating much at all – so they turned it down a bit. I was using the birthing ball, I tried the bean bag…
Probably around 5am I felt as tho I needed to push…my body just wanted too, but I wasn’t dilated enough so I had to hold off…from this point forward I couldn’t take much more so had some morphine…holding off pushing was the hardest thing in my life…my body wanted to do it, and I had to hold off until at 11.30am I could finally push – I dilate so slowly!!!
By 6.30am I was exhausted and couldn’t take much more, and asked for an epidural (I had, had some morphine but that did nothing). By this stage I had a new midwife, and a student midwife, they were lovely, and said they would check to see how far along I was…if I was 8cm there was no point in an epidural, but I was only about 6-7cm, so I got an epidural. This helped with the contractions, but I still felt as tho I needed to push, I had to hold off tho…
At around 11.30am I was finally dilated enough, and within about 10 minutes of pushing, Anastasia was finally here. I felt everything, the epidural wasn’t topped up – it killed…but at least I didn’t have forceps this time round.
The hardest part was holding off pushing, as it is what my body wanted to do.
Anastasia weighed 3.8kg…a whole kg more than her big brother, so I was very proud that I had her naturally without any intervention!
However….my uterus contracted before my placenta was expelled…so the surgeon came in to attempt to get it to come out but it wouldn’t budge…so into theatre I went, to have it manually removed…this was the scary part…I lost 1300mls of blood this time (last time it was only 500mls). I could barely keep my eyes open as they wheeled me to the theatre, and afterwards as well…I think it was a combination of exhaustion from the labour, and mostly the blood I lost!
Removal of the placenta went well tho, and they were happy with everything…and thankgod everything went smoothly! My milk took 5 days to come in again, so I was topping her up, things are starting to fall into place though now and I am starting to feel less tired – they said it would take a few weeks…
So that’s basically it from me, I have 2 cherubs now to take care of – so even less time to do things…but it is all worth it. We are getting used to looking after 2 of them, and having more patience and teaching Keanu to have more patience as well!! He is a great big brother tho, very gentle and loving!
But one thing I do have to say is that people think childbirth is just about giving birth to a little human being – and it is – it is amazing, but it is also very very scary, and things can go wrong…it is a major thing for the body to go through!
Ah, there's nothing like a trip to the playground and then supermarket to suck the life out of a mummy is there?
I was very proud though that Abbey wanted to go on the swings and even came back for a couple more turns, climbing and playing on the slide by herself. Its the first time she's let me put her on a swing, normally she runs away and does something she can control herself.
But of course, after a while its time to move on to the supermarket. I gave her a warning, then a 5 minute, then a 2 minute warning, each time she argued with me. Too bad. At least she's learned if she doesn't walk to the car while she's screaming that I WILL manhandle her, so its half the battle won. She even climbs in her seat while screaming. Sadly, she doesn't stop arguing and screaming though. To the supermarket where she refuses to get out of the car unless she can ride in the pram like a baby. Sure, whatever. Sucked in, kiddo, we are going to walk right past the rides you adore so much and you won't be able to 'shop', GREAT decision you made there! Mean old mummy flat refused to let her out.
Another battle at home, she wants to stay in the car. No. Another battle over whether twisties are an appropriate lunch. No.
I've tried bribing her, she is immune. I've tried reasoning, she is a butthead. :hair: Darn toddlers.
Okay, finished venting. Now I love her again.
Baby is making me very round and tumbly, I'm a lot bigger this time around, and more broken too. Did I tell you pushing Abbey for so long gave me a bladder/pelvic floor prolapse? It got better shortly after she was born, but of course will never be the same, and baby's weight is causing a recurrence. I'm seeing a physio but there's not really much that can be done besides get baby out, and I'm still very low grade, so squeeze squeeze squeeze, and try not to sneeze too much. I'm a little concerned about birthing this one and doing worse damage, but I'm already broken so no point taking the c-sec route. Just have to see how it all goes.
Jackie - Anastasia is lovely, little girls are great fun for dressing up.
Sarah - send DH off to the snippy?
MoOaNdLiTtLePoPpEt
05-05-2009, 12:28
has anyone had much experience with jaundice????
Ah, there's nothing like a trip to the playground and then supermarket to suck the life out of a mummy is there?
I was very proud though that Abbey wanted to go on the swings and even came back for a couple more turns, climbing and playing on the slide by herself. Its the first time she's let me put her on a swing, normally she runs away and does something she can control herself.
But of course, after a while its time to move on to the supermarket. I gave her a warning, then a 5 minute, then a 2 minute warning, each time she argued with me. Too bad. At least she's learned if she doesn't walk to the car while she's screaming that I WILL manhandle her, so its half the battle won. She even climbs in her seat while screaming. Sadly, she doesn't stop arguing and screaming though. To the supermarket where she refuses to get out of the car unless she can ride in the pram like a baby. Sure, whatever. Sucked in, kiddo, we are going to walk right past the rides you adore so much and you won't be able to 'shop', GREAT decision you made there! Mean old mummy flat refused to let her out.
Another battle at home, she wants to stay in the car. No. Another battle over whether twisties are an appropriate lunch. No.
I've tried bribing her, she is immune. I've tried reasoning, she is a butthead. :hair: Darn toddlers.
Okay, finished venting. Now I love her again.
Baby is making me very round and tumbly, I'm a lot bigger this time around, and more broken too. Did I tell you pushing Abbey for so long gave me a bladder/pelvic floor prolapse? It got better shortly after she was born, but of course will never be the same, and baby's weight is causing a recurrence. I'm seeing a physio but there's not really much that can be done besides get baby out, and I'm still very low grade, so squeeze squeeze squeeze, and try not to sneeze too much. I'm a little concerned about birthing this one and doing worse damage, but I'm already broken so no point taking the c-sec route. Just have to see how it all goes.
Jackie - Anastasia is lovely, little girls are great fun for dressing up.
Sarah - send DH off to the snippy?
Re: Snip - Um......YEP!! :yes:
Re: Prolapse - My friend had quite a severe prolapse after the birth of her 1st child. She opted for a c - section second time round, then gave birth naturally third time round. She's pregnant again, and is hoping to go natural again, as she wants a 5th! It was quite severe, and I have no idea how she can even hold in any more babies, lol!! She doesn't seem too concerned though, and says she'll just have it all fixed up after she's finished having babies!
has anyone had much experience with jaundice????
Yep! DS1 had to be under lights for 48 hours! He was locked away in his little crib thingy with nothing on but a blindfold. It broke me heart to see him like that, and I cried and cried afterwards. My poor little baby!
Also, DD had to be tested before leaving hospital, but all was ok. She was a little jaundice, but not enough for treatment. It worked itself out within a week or so. Are you having some jaundice issues?
SalTheGal
06-05-2009, 20:30
Hey everyone- just a quickie to say hi! I have been reading, just too slack to post atm....but have a day home with Nedd tomorrow so hopefully will get time to pop in to say a proper Hi and catch up with everyone properly!!!
Oh and Jackie- I said it already on FB, but congrats on Anastasia!!!!
MoOaNdLiTtLePoPpEt
07-05-2009, 08:16
Sarah - the doc said she had mild jaundice when i took her for her 5-10 day check...he wasn't too concerned, said to put her in the light by a window...however she at times is very sleepy at the boob...i think it has rectified now...but i am wondering if i am producing enuf milk? she is feeding 3-4 hrly day and night...thru the night is a bit unsettled, thru the day she seems fine...maybe she hasn't yet deciphered day/night ... my boobs do not feel half as full as they did with keanu...maybe it is cos it is my second...they didn't get very engorged when my milk came in...and she has taken to feeding for all of 15 minutes (one feed last night was for 10 mins) over the last 2 or so days...usually it would be 20-30 mins...... oh the guessing games hey!!!
can't believe she was 2 weeks yesty...scary!! we are doing OK, getting used to not much night sleep lol...i LOVE my sleep...glad that keanu sleeps thru tho so I'm not getting up to 2 cherubs!! lucky!
going shopping tomorrow for some winter items/breastfeeding friendly tops lol - and hopefully a few things for Anastasia! Just me and her are going and the boys are staying home - keanu gets too bored especially if we go past his sleep time!! then it is cranky pants! he is sleeping 2-3hrs in the day atm, so is giving me a nap too YAY!! he is an awesum big brother!!
How are all the pregnancies going?
love to all xxx
AND thanks Again Sal!!
Sorry girls, I have been neglecting you again. We've been pretty busy here, dh has been in Karratha fot the last week and a half, so I've been struggling alone here (said it once, but I'll say it again...I don't know how you manage Sarah). He's home tonight, so that is a big relief.
Things are going ok otherwise. The girls have had their moments and Lara drives me insane, but I just love her to bits. She is so good when Eloise is at kinder, but her competitive streak shines whenever Eloise is around, so fighting and screaming ensues. And the tantrums...the other day she wouldn't let some older boys play with the equipment in the parent at the shops, so I put her in the pram, so took of her shoes threw them on the ground and screamed for about 20mins. The looks that I got...but tough. She makes us laugh though. Mum and dad came for dinner on Sunday and we were sitting and talking while Eloise was on the toilet. Eloise came out so I could check that she'd wiped her bum properly (I know gross enough in itself), then Lara is chasing after her calling "Come here weezy woo, I wipe your bum for you" :laughing: Her language is thriving at the moment, but she is still not getting colours. I know that she can differentiate between the colours because she classifies them according to the name of fairy characters, she just can't get the colour names assigned to objects. It will come eventually.
Eloise has been wonderful while dh has been away. She's so responsible and genuinely wants to help, but I still manage to grumble at her because I'm tired and irritable. She's doing really well at kinder too.
Oliver is still THE perfect baby. He just smiles and coos all day, hardly ever grumbles or grizzles. He sleeps wonderfully at night. I'm about to start him on solids, so once he is getting a bit of food, I will drop the dream feed. He's starting to commando crawl too. I can't believe that my baby will be 6 months old next Wednesday...where has that time gone.
We've got a busy family weekend planned. Saturday we're going to go and visit Grandma and then head up to Mt Donna Buang and do the tree tops walk, we'll stop and see mum and dad as we pass through Warby too. Then on Sunday, we're heading up your way Sal (if the weather is ok) , I got a free family pass to Sovereign Hill, so we're going searching for gold :D.
Jackie - Ollie was slightly jaundiced, but it fixed itself up. The best advice I found for day/night confusion in newborns I found on here...day sleeps in the daylight and night sleeps in complete darkness. Oliver had it sussed out after a few weeks. I wish I knew about that for Lara...may of saved us a lot of sleepless nights.
Congratulations again and have fun shopping. It's lots of fun shopping for little girls.
Sarah - Glad you got your :bfn: Dh has just decided that he thinks he wants to get the snip done now, have you looked into it. Dh was reading the paper that there is a huge waiting list, so he wants to look into but I think he is scared of the pain. You'll have to let us know how your dh goes with it. So 3 is it for us. I love having babies, but Ollie's pregnancy really took it out of me and I am tired enough with my 3, I'd hate to see how grumpy I could get if a 4th was introduced. I have told dh that some time down the track, I'd seriously like us to consider fostering, but he wasn't so keen. We'll see what happens.
Your house looks great. How much longer do they think it will be before you get to move in?
Michelle - I've read your last post 2-3 times and each time I've read it, I've done my pelvic floor exercise. :laughing:
Oh and I definitely hear you on the stubborn toddler. They like to try it on when they have an audience, don't they?
Beck - I hope you are feeling a little better. Ollie's around the 80-85 percentile for his stats. He has the biggest head. :eek:
Georgia - I hope you are feeling better too hun and whatever was giving you the sh1ts has gone and taken a flying jump. How are your gorgeous kidlets going?
Kimba - How are things going? Not long now until your scan. How are you going with ms?
Bec - I love your comment about getting kids outside and letting them run. I wish mine could do the same, but our backgraden is so unsafe with Michael building the deck (that he started over 12 months ago). Plus the redback spiders in all the building materials, I won't let them go out unless dh or I am with them (usually dh)
Jen - Congratulations on #2, new job and house. You've been very busy :laughing:
Sal - Enjoy your day with Nedd.
Mary-Anne - How are you going?
I think that's everyone...a huge mega post from me. I'm off, I've got to pick up Eloise from kinder and I really must do some cleaning befor dh gets home tonight.
MoOaNdLiTtLePoPpEt
07-05-2009, 11:52
thanks for the tip with the sleeps...will give it a go...she just seems restless at night...whereas thru the day will go down without a peep basically!!
im not feeling too good - have really bad cramps so will keep this short.
xxx
Hi All
Sorry don't have time for abig post but wanted to come on and say hope you all have a happy mothers day tomorrow.
Jacqui - congratulations and I hope you start to feel better soon. Birth is hard and scary I totally agree. I am quite glad we have decided to only have 2 so I Don't have to go there again! Jake was slightly jaundced - it has to do with their liver being a bit immature but a bit of vitamin D helps and they usually get past it if mild but go see your doc if you are concerned.
Sarah - Congrats on BFN!
Sare - Hope you are enjoying hubby being home. We have started food this week (a little Farex) as recommended by paed for his reflux - it is interesting going through the first meals again!
Michelle - seems my life is a total battle with Kayley - she is soo stubborn and it really does take it out of me - sometimes I get so angry with her and just have to remind myself she is only 2......
Anyway sorry but I have to run - take care everyone.
Happy mother's day everyone!
Mine started out lovely. Spent the night fighting for my own pillow with Abbey, shoving her off and having her flump herself right back on it, then getting leg craps and having to get up and walk around, at which point she would roll back onto my pillow of course, and then got woken up by her handing me a potty of poo at 6.30am which she spilled onto the bed too. Woo hoo! Talk about being spoiled :cloud9:
I don't know why she is obsessed with being on my pillow. She claims its hers, and my pillow is the poncy toddler one with a giraffe case, but wants to sleep lying across both of them. I can't sleep with anything in my face, be it her hair, breath, arm or bum. So I'm going to Target today and treating myself to some bamboo sheets and a new pillow. I did have spare pillows but someone spilled milk on them and after washing they were never the same.
Hmm, a common theme going on here. :hair:
Speaking of hair, I'm afraid to get her hair cut. I know her curls tend to straighten out in dry weather, then sproing back when damp or humid, but its getting very long and I'm afraid if I get it cut short to lighten the load and stop it getting stuck in her armpits, then the curls will get cut off and what if they don't come back? I will feel bad forever.
My little sis Didi has moved in, which Abbey loves. Its a bit strange having someone else in the house after all this time though. I'm still set to bump-in-the-night radar, as well as bump-in-whatever-room-I'm-not-in radar, I need to get used to it so I can ignore her. She also takes ages to get ready to leave the house, even longer than it takes me to convince Abbey to have a shower, get dressed and brush her teeth and hair.
I've put a bunch of stuff on ebay from what was my spare room though, figure if I haven't touched it in 2 years I'm hardly likely to now. But people are asking such stupid questions. I don't iron clothes I'm selling for for 99c because I have a life. I don't measure clothes for that same reason. When you're buying a $200 coat for $5 and you're told its a size 16, accept that as fact and move on. :hair: If only I could block idiots.
Sare - I know what you mean about the language thriving. I got fired the other day from singing badly, it was very embarrassing. Who teaches her these words??
Jackie - have you gone overboard yet with the girl shopping?
SalTheGal
10-05-2009, 08:37
Morning all and Happy Mothers Day!! :flowerz:
Hope everyone is enjoying sleepins and breakkie in bed....I got woken up at 7.30 cause Nedd wanted to give me his card, and I hate breakfast in bed...so the next best thing for me is sitting with a coffee and 30mins relaxing on BH!! (Such a sad existence!)
I was meant to be on sleepover last night, am on sleepover shift tonight, and DH is playing footy today an hour away so basically mothers day is pretty non existant for me! But thats ok, I really can't be bothered with it this year anyway.
Gosh I've been slack at posting, have been reading....
Michelle- how are you going to cope when you have two in the bed?!?! Nedd fights me for my pillow when he comes in for a snuggle in the mornings, gosh they have serious ownership issues don't they- but atleast I only have to put up with it for a short time, not all night long. I don't know how you are coping sharing your bed with a pregnany belly and a toddler- most nights I end up kicking DH to the spare...and atleast he knows to stay on his side...but atm I am really needing to stretch out.
Re the curls, I sooo need to get Nedd a hair cut, he fights getting it brushed every morning, which just isn't fair on a boy! I am putting it off- cause I am sure once I chop the curls off they won't come back.
Sleep has been atrocious for me the last few nights, my mind has been racing, and not with anything pressing or urgent (I write all that stuff down or else it'd be ten times worse) like last night I was awake for an hour at one stage with the recipe for patty cakes running in my head and trying to work out if I'd have enough time to bake them this morning before we leave for footy- like really pressing issues yeah! :rolleyes:
Nedd is a gem (still) but is getting so bossy!!! He is currently in the kitchen yelling (and I mean yelling!) at DH that he should be having peanut butter on his toast not vegemite....DH is telling him he doesn't like it- but Nedd will NOT beleive him!
He is also becoming the king of singing....sings all day long and makes up the most inventive odd :confused: songs...no twinkle twinkle in this house...he is very creative, and also insists that we make up songs too- we aren't allowed to sing nursery ryhmes as that doesn't appear to be inventive enough.
Apart from that all cruisy here....had my 28wk check up and all is good...I honestly just can't wait for it to be over though, rather just have the baby here already!
Again hope everyone has a lovely day and gets suitably spoilt! Take care. :flowerz:
SalTheGal
10-05-2009, 08:40
Oh phew, I thought I just lost my whole post! Yay its there....
got woken up by her handing me a potty of poo at 6.30am which she spilled onto the bed too. Woo hoo! Talk about being spoiled.
That's what I got for Mother's Day too - dealing with a big potty of poo, while DH slept in. No sleepins or brekkie in bed for me - actually Mother's Day was pretty depressing - got nothing, went nowhere, did nothing, didn't even have a cuppa made for me. DH's excuse? "No money to buy you anything". Well, a 'thank you' and a home made card and a sleep in and brekkie in bed wouldn't have cost you a thing. I know, it's just another Hallmark Day, but it doesn't take much to show a wee bit of appreciation to the mother of your children, does it? :thumbsdown:
re: eBay. I have a couple of bags of stuff to sell too, and I just can't be bothered. We could do with the money, but I figured by the time I take photos and list them and sell them for $5 and deal with the idiots and non-payers and queue up at the post office to send them all via damn registered post (because PayPal now demands proof of postage), it's cost me many hours of my own time, which is worth a lot more per hour than the $50 or so I might actually make, once you take out all the fees...So this time I dumped them all in the charity bin with a huge lightness of heart :)
Beck - I have the same battles with Jet. He's just so stubborn and oppositional! mind you, he's twice as bad with DH as he is with me, so that gives me some satisfaction I'm at least doing something right :laughing:
Congrats to Sarah on your BFN - I'd be sending DH off for the snippy-snippy soon too!
Jacqui - congratulations again on your little girl! and I hope you start to feel better soon. Jet had a bit of jaundice when he was born but he didn't need the bili bed, just stuck him in the window to get some sunlight while he slept.
Sare - I hope my next bub is as good as Oliver! I think it's the least I deserve after Cyclone Jet.
As for me, morning sickness kicked in around a week ago, right on schedule, although it's a bit erratic, much worse some days than others. I haven't yet:barf: though, and I'm hoping it stays that way! I have my first scan on Wednesday and feeling a lot more anxious about everything than last time ...maybe because my girlfriend who got preg 3 weeks before me lost her babe last week :(
Jet was shining his torch in my belly button yesterday, trying to see the baby, bless. If he wasn't such a holy terror we'd think about taking him along to the 20 week scan so he could see. But after his performance in Woolies yesterday, running up and down the aisles barefoot, screeching and yelling 'MACK!!!!' (pretending to be Lightning McQueen from Cars, looking for his truck) there's no way I'm taking him anywhere near a hospital LOL.
Kimba - I have 2 separate huge bags of 'I can't be bothered listing' stuff that has to go to charity bins, it was a very full room! Boo to your DH, he could have written dear mummy on a drawing Jet had done, not hard!
Sal - I know what you mean about wanting it over and a baby already. Its just not fun the second time around. Why can't we just order a baby on the net and be done with it.
I just came back from physio, my prolapse isn't getting better with the exercises, she's referring me to a gyno and wants me to accept that I might need a sunroof this time around. Very sad. I don't mind the fact that baby will take a different exit, could come out my ear for all I care, I just don't want the hospital time, pain or recuperation period. Hopefully it will all work itself out and start behaving.
Having dramas with the CSA again. Apparently they have no record of making a collection from Owen's employer, the money appeared from an unknown source, and after 12 months of working with them towards deductions they are going to start again from scratch and he doesn't even have any frowny faces next to his name. Gotta love government departments! :hair:
Yeah, I thought my DH could have done that too, sometimes I really wonder if he's lacking a couple of vital genes :P
Michelle - Pooh about your dramas with CSA, I hate having to deal with any Govt depts, Family Assistance and Medicare are bad enough! And sorry to hear about your prolapse, my legs are crossing just thinking about it. If it comes down to it, a sunroof isn't 'that' bad, you can do early discharge and get midwife visits at home if you want to cut down on the hospital time, but yeah the recovery hurts and does make life difficult for a while...even more so with a toddler to care for as well.
Speaking of sunroofs, I was talking to DH today about VBAC and he said 'Actually I don't mind, c-section is fine by me' and I stared at him utterly gobsmacked. Of course it's fine by you, d1ckhead! It's not your body, and you don't have to spend 6 weeks recovering from major abdominal surgery, and explaining to your 15kg son why you can't pick him up! Bah.
As for me, I had my dating scan today and saw my little Blob on the screen for the first time. Heartrate is good, measuring perfect for dates, and it's NOT twins, HUZZAH! EDD is confirmed as end of December...DH is hoping for a New Years Day baby. Who knows why?
toyswillkillyou
14-05-2009, 11:23
Hello again! I've been stuck in bed sick since Saturday afternoon. Today is the first day I've been able to sit up this long. Now I'm hungry and there's no food left in the house.
Thanks, Kimba. Congrats to you too! I guess we're both going to have and 'interesting' Christmas this year.
Yep - I'm literally 5 minutes from where we met for coffee that time! I'm off to Calvary this time. Not too fussed as I'm hoping to discharge after one night again.
mum2cheekymoo - Congrats!
I think I'm going to brave the cold and drive up to Subway for a pizza sub - I must be getting better!
MoOaNdLiTtLePoPpEt
15-05-2009, 19:22
thanks for the congrats...i am reading just not posting much!!
i think ke is getting sick (a reaction from the flu shot i am hoping - he got one last year...so fingers crossed it is just that)...he can't breathe thru his nose and is still awake...let's hope we are not in for a bad night...
things are good otherwise :)
sorry for lack of personals.
xoxoxo to all!
Its amazing how annoying this age can be, especially when going through developmental leaps.
One of Abbey's latest things is to close all doors in the house. Fine, whatever, but you'd think she could wait until I was through it first. Lights have to be on too.
She's also been explaining quite clearly why she can or can't do something, and making requests according to her desires, such as "mummy I need some chocolate" or "mummy, can we go see a horse?"
Its like having a real person around, just a really demanding and belligerent one!
Didi hasn't been quite as big a help as I hoped. She has to do school work during the day which I try and distract Abbey away from, but after her work is done she doesn't jump up to the washing, dishes, floors etc as I foolishly hoped she would. :rolleyes: Still, it is good to have her here, she will do #1 potty trips if I'm pretending to nap, and she will dress Abbey if I lay out the clothes first, leaving me to dress in peace. Baby steps!
Its funny, she likes to cook dinner a couple nights a week and asks for the most bizarre things - like whisks and can openers. Yes, I have a fork, and what do you mean it isn't a ring pull?
It seems I am in the final trimester. I'm ready to have the baby appear, just not ready to give birth or house it, if that makes sense.
Kimba - lol at DH and his okay feelings toward a c-sec! My little brother actually admitted he wants his wife to have elective c-sec so her parts don't get messed up - he got a smack in the head.
MoOaNdLiTtLePoPpEt
21-05-2009, 18:27
Kimba - that's awesum...what a wonderful xmas/new year you will have :)
all is ok here, still getting used to a toddler and newborn, we have our days, but all in all, going well.
who is toilet training?
keanu has 'willingly' done wees and also he did a poo a week ago, on the potty....i am not pushing him/making him...letting him do it at his pace...he knows where the potty is, and he knows he gets a m n m if he does a wee, or poo or at least attempts...i have brought some pull ups to try as he isn' keen on undies...what is others doing...like i said I'm not pushing him...i don't think it works, and can take forever, once they are ready and know the feel of a wee/poo they shud be trained in 2 weeks...that's what my friend who is a group leader said (with my nephew he has basically done this, he has done AWESUM)
i think ke knows the feel of needing to do a poo as he gets all antsy and runs around frantically, saying "Ke doned a poo" holding his bum LOL...exactly like that, it is quite funny...BUT he hasn't actually done a poo...
Anastasia is getting more gorgeous every day!! she is beautiful...amazing!!
ETA - yes this age is a bit draining, ke is constantly as us to do things with him...he doesn't stop til he gets what he wants...he is really wingey of late when he asks or requests something...
We're still here...
All's ok here. The kids have all been sick, but they're ok.
Michelle & Jackie, how have you been with the flooding around Brisbane? Hope you are both ok.
Lara is finally making some progress with tt-ing, but I am still not forcing it. She will often take her nappy off during the day and sit on the loo, but only does something occasionally.
I am a bit worried about Lara's behaviour, she's still quite rough and will lash out when she doesn't get her own way. I think it's a bit more than normal 2 yr old behaviour, like a few weeks ago we dropped Eloise at kinder and Lara wanted to ride on one of the trikes that the kinder kids were on, so she went up to one boy, tried to get him to get off and when he wouldn't, she threw a bike helmet at him. She is not like this all of the time, but enough of the time to concern me. So I spoke to my MCHN and asked about getting her into a social skills program and she is looking it to it for me. She's off to 3 yr old kinder next year and I don't want her to be known as a bit of a bully, because it's so hard to get rid of those labels once they've been given.
Who else is sending their cherub off to kinder next year?
Sal and Michelle - How long to go now? How are you going with names?
Abbey woke up just before dawn telling me her pants were wet. Appparently I had been a bit inattentive putting her nappy on so it was my own fault. I got her new pants, new nappy and a towel on the bed, but then she wanted to talk :ecomcity:. Just as she was drifting off the stupid neighbourhood cat/possum/elephant came and climbed the screen and woke her up again, so :ecomcity:. Eventually she fell asleep again and slept until 8am, but mummy told her to go away and by stroke of luck there's this other person living here now who was dragged out of bed and I got to snooze until 10am. Not quite sure what to do now, the day is weird. I haven't slept that late since before Abbey was born.
I'm wondering how she and baby will go in the same room since she has no drowsy mode, she's just awake or asleep.
She has Didi wrapped around her little finger. Wanted her to go play with toys just now, so climbed into her lap and refused to let her type, closed the puter and shoved books in her face until she gave in. What does Abbey say then? "I win, yay, let's play toys!"
Fortunately she knows mummy doesn't fall for it and just gets annoyed when she tries it with me.
Sare - that is a bit rough of Lara. What kind of social skills classes are on offer?
Abbey will start kindy next year, just a half day a week or something, haven't really looked into it yet. Doubt I would have to put her name down around here, its not upmarket enough. Do they have to be fully tt before they can start kindy? Abbey is during the day, but she can't wipe her bum yet.
We had a lot of rain that made the road into a river and the yard into a swamp, but that was all. Normal heavy rain stuff, especially as my gutters are blocked. I heard all the schools were being closed and roads closed and I was like :confused:, because I honestly didn't think it was that bad. Then I watched the news and suburbs less than 5km from me were under water, so go figure!
I have enough contents and car insurance that we would be fine if we flooded, just very inconvenienced.
I still only have a name for a girl (Rowen Kate). WHY did I want a surprise? Its a pain in the bum right now. I can't sort clothes or do any nesting, can't buy anything that isn't boring. I know I will enjoy the surprise, but for now its just stressful. Will I have to buy an entire new range of clothing or not. Will I be able to use Abbey's old girly nappies. Will I have to find out how doodles work...
MoOaNdLiTtLePoPpEt
24-05-2009, 13:40
:wave: we are all good here...but yeh there are parts of the south east qld that copped it in brissy and gold coast etc...we have contents and car insurance also...so if any flooding would have been covered!
TTing - i am the same sare, not pushing and he does something occassionally...generally when grandma is here...
i bought anastasia some fairy wall stickers from ebay, and then i got some new sheets for her cot, a cushion in the shape ofa butterfly...and i was to get some curtains with butterflies, fairies or something of that sorts, and her great aunt is apparently making a cot quilt for her...so her room will be girls in no time. he he...i will have to get some more sheets tho soon enuf, she is still in our room in the basinet so i have time...at the moment, she has winnie the pooh wall stick ons that keanu had...but i want to make it girly he he...the fun!!!
we are well..settling in great...we have our days but all is going well.
keanu is growing soooo much it's not funny...and yep i will be sending him a day a week to daycare next year...maybe 2 days...depends on coast, i think he will love it!!!
m_jelly - a suprise is worth it honestkly, altho i did think the same as you, if id known i was having a girl i wud have done her room in pink, but i just used what i used for keanu...winnie the pooh...but is isn't really themed. i don't go overbaord lol...but i def want it girly!!!
must run
xxx
SalTheGal
25-05-2009, 08:22
Morning everyone!
I have sooo been MIA the last few weeks....have a serious case of the pregnancy blues lately- things have been pooey with DH, and amongst other things just been a bit down in the dumps, thus done the typical hide myself away from talking to anyone much....but things are getting better so hopefully I am moving into a better frame of mind.
Alas I have one of those DH's who finds absolutely nothing attractive about pregnancy, thus without even meaning to makes me feel even more like a fat frumpy cow than I already do...he's just been a fairly big bit of an insensitive pig lately, and I've been finding it sooo hard to cope with. After several MAJOR meltdowns I *think* he is getting the point, so :fingerscrossed: he behaves from now on.
Add to that I have been having massive stresses over my best freind- who happens to be one of my few friends without kids, which is one hing I've always loved about our friendship- she keeps me grounded and stops me from being "just a mum", has basically dumped me this pregnancy, and I've been so upset about it...anyway finally had it out with her last week and she didn't realise she had even been doing it (apparently) so after big group tears and deep convo hopefully she understands how much she has upset me too....but suffice to say add in a few other dramas with family etc and I've been on a bit of an emotional rollercoaster, losing sleep (like you get that much of it during pregnancy anyway!) then came down with a massive cold which is still hanging around...its been the pits!
But as I said I think I am draggin myself out the other side and ready to face the world again! Everyone whos upset me knows bout it- so the ball is in their court now, My mind is clear!!!
I also finished my contract last week- so work hours are back to casual pick and choose hours which is good, I can start to wind things down, just focus on my business and getting ready for the baby.
Baby travelling along nicely....though *rant* I am getting soooo sick of everyone asking me if I know how big it is...cause Nedd was 10lb everyone is so hung up on the size of this one- and TBH I really don't want to know- I don't want it to be all about how big it is, as I know that will hinder my preperation for labour...my MIL is the worst- I actually told her last night that I didn't want her to ask again- she honestly asks EVERYTIME I have a check if they said anything about the size....:hair:
Nedd has been great, we had the inlaws down on the weekend, and after the left monday he was a horror- tues. OMG I was in tears at the end of the day, he was just so defiant and nasty, he didn't have a sleep, he was difficult and backchatty all day, and generally a yucky kid!!!! I think it was the adjustment from having the inlaws there for him every minute if the day and they do NOT say No to him- if he wants it he gets it, which is ok as they only see him maybe once a month if that- but it makes it so hard once they leave. Anyway by thurs he was back to being his usual self and I must say we have had the most wonderful relaxing time together at home the last few days. He has been blissful to be around.
Michelle- even though we know what we are having we are finding it just as frustrating with keeping it from everyone- it means I can't decorate the room or put anything away without people being nosy....I have washed all the baby clothes, but have had to put all the blue stuff away again cause I have too many snoops. My mum keeps telling me she can't buy anything cause she 'isn't being told what we are having' well HELLO if we didn't know either would that stop you from buying nuetrals?!?! Nope!!! Its getting very annoying!
Re names- still no luck here....9wks to go and I am starting to get stressed, I've nothing that I *love* and everything I throw at DH he is just meh about...not giving me any help at all. If anything atm I am leaning towards Harrison (Harry)- people tell me its quite common these days yet I don't know any irl?!?! Charlie, Eli, Tom, still love Clancy and Oke but DH doesn't. :confused: Too hard!!!!
Sare :hugs: re Lara...I have no suggestions there!! After nearly having a breakdown after one day on Nedd naughtiness I honestly don't know how I'd cope with a feisty poppet! I was so cross at myself by the end of the day for not being able to keep my temper in check...I think if the next one is like that for me I will be checking me into parenting classes!!!
I will be sending Nedd to kinder next year- I don't think he needs it after being in daycare so long, and if we were in town I wouldn't bother- but we have a little kinder and primary school out here so i will be sending him more for the socialisation aspect and to get to know some of the local mums more than anything! Its like 2hrs once a week- more of a nuisance to me than anything, but I guess its good to get into the 'local' scene!!! :rolleyes:
OK- that is a mammoth post!!! So I will stop boring you all now, and maybe go have a shower...have a friend calling over later this morning, so probably should make myself respectable! Take care everyone. :flowerz:
diesal444
26-05-2009, 07:05
Morning ladies :wave:
Sorry been a little MIA for the last few months. I have now caught up but forgive me for the lasck of personals....
Made a big decision last month and the repercussions are taking up alot of my time. I wont bore anyone with the details but I will try to be a better oct mum!!!
Re: TT, we are going pretty good here. We dont wear nappies during the day but definitly have them on for day sleep and nighttime. We have a couple of accidents a week but all in all Darcy has really picked up on it well. Although I do seem to be reminding her to use the toilet which I am not sure if I am doing the right thing there......????
Re: Kinder, We have registered for 3 year old kinder but like you Sal its like 2 hours a day once a week, but I guess its good for them to be around other kids that they dont normally play with.
I am really very impressed with Darcy's speech too, she really comes out with such insightful sentences that take me aback sometimes....Although she does have a bad habit of yelling "NO!!!" ALOT. This for some reason makes my blood boil.
I will try to keep up better now that I am finally able to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Kisses to all toddlers, bubbas and pregnant bellies!!!!!! xxxxxxx
Mary-anne - those details aren't boring, but not surprising you don't want them on the net. Big hugs! Being single is great, once you get over the messy stuff.
I still remind Abbey to use the potty occasionally, but only if we are out and its a good opportunity or she hasn't been in a while. Otherwise she just gets up and goes by herself, but refuses to leave it until I'm ready to empty it, even for the time it takes me to lever myself off the floor.
Sal - I know all about the defiant horrible behaviour after the spoilers leave :hair: I know visitors like to dote on the kids but the disaster they leave behind...
I'm slowly getting Didi used to living with a 2yo. She finally cleared her treasure table and put away her trinkets, makeup and jewelry. Either she got sick of Abbey stealing them or the fact I told her off for leaving her prescription meds, hair dye and razors down got to her. She still just smiles when Abbey steals a glass of water and runs down the hallway though, or like yesterday she let her take my glass snowglobe :banghead:
So very very slowly its becoming less of a doting visitor and more of a mild enforcer of mummy's rules, but still getting lots of tantrums.
It doesn't take a toddler long to work out a soft target does it?
Hey Girls
I too have been a slack one on here! I have been keeping up reading the posts but never get the chance to post!
Kayley is doing great (albeit sometimes she brings the worst out of me)! She is being quite disobedient at times........today I was putting Jake down for a sleep and she woke him up then kept coming in the room making noise so I couldn't get him back to sleep. I asked her if she wanted a smack and she said yes so I said bend over - she stuck her bum out and I gave her a flick on the bum and then she said 'good smack mummy' - grrrrr. The naughty chair is usually the best result but sometimes hard to get her on there when I am feeding or doing something with Jake.
As for TT she is really good now. She still has a nappy for nights and probably will for some time but she is in knickers all day. She did have an accident at childcare the other day but before that I think she was about 20 days without an accident. She also tells us when she needs to go (but I do remind her if it has been a while) and does poos on the big toilet while wees are usually in the potty and sometimes in the toilet.
She is growing up! They have a sleepover at childcare tonight and it will be the first night she has slept away from me....
I would like to send her to 3yo kinder but there are none close to here and it will probably be a bit hard with work to travel too far.
Jake is good – he is over 9kg now and doing well. Have started solids and they are going down a treat but hasn’t fixed his reflux unfortunately. He still eats every 2 hours (3 – 4 at night) which is tiring but it is really only such a short time. I think when I know Kayley did the same thing and got through it it is not as daunting knowing there is a light at the end of the tunnel (she sleeps in now)!
Well I have to run (going to watch Masterchef) – take care everyone.
MoOaNdLiTtLePoPpEt
29-05-2009, 19:18
Re TT'ing...
Keanu isn't too fussed with it as yet..Not keen i mean...he will sit on it and attempt but only for an m and m...if he does something he gets 2 m and m's LOL
any TIPS????
BECK - any tips on the reflx thing? i think anastasia has silent reflux...we are off to the doc next week..at our 6 week check up!! i thut it was cos i had low milk supply...but i spoke ?
with ABA and it seems more likely silent reflux, and have been taking more notice, and to me it definitley seems reflux?!
what symptoms is Jake having...any advice appreciated!
We've finally had some success with tt-ing...still no where near ready for days out in undies, but a lot better. Lara seems to be able to tell that she is going to do a poo better than a wee, as we had a few wee accidents, but lots of poos in the toilet today. Early days still, but so far, it's been a lot easier than with Eloise.
We didn't have any luck with the social skills program, the child has to be at pre-school. So I'll leave it until next year and work in conjunction with the kinder teacher to try and get Lara out of these habits.
We don't find out if Lara has gotten into kinder until July. It is such a good kinder (it's just a regular community run kinder and it seriously puts the private school kinder that Eloise went to last year to shame). I have asked that she has 2x2hr sessions a week. I haven't looked anywhere else, so hopefully she will get in.
Sal - I hear you on the ILs. In fact the only person who says no to my kids is my mum...they run rings around everyone else in our families. dh's dad had a whinge to dh that they had only seen Ollie 4 times in the last 6 months (complete and utter cr@p) and complained that he didn't recognise them when they called around the other week. dh is that busy with work, that when weekends come, we like to spend some quality time together as a family or I take the kids out for a while to give him a break. I think they'd like it if we saw them every weekend, but that is never going to happen.
Beck - PMSL at Kayley and her smack. It sounds like something that Lara would do. I actually read your post to dh (tend to keep him in the dark about bh generally). He thought it was pretty funny too. Jake is a bit heavier than Ollie. He was almost 8.8kg at his 6 week check last week. He has been a bit off his food this week, so is not likely to have put on much since then.
Mary-Anne - :hugs: Darcy's a little treasure. Lara's a big fan of screaming NO too. It drives me nuts.
Jackie - GL at the drs. I hope you get some answers as to whether Anastasia has silent reflux. I can't believe that she is 6 weeks already. I should because my little cherub is 6.5 months old.
Michelle - What names have you got in mind for a boy? Have you tried www(dot)nymbler(dot)com for some ideas. You type in names that you like and it gives you more suggestions.
Georgia - Where are you? I've missed you and your funny comments. Hope you are doing well.
As for us...Eloise is still whinging about her sore ankle, but it seems to happen more when I ask her to do something that she's not too keen on doing. She is still limping (it will be a week tomorrow since the fall), so I think that if it doesn't improve over the weekend, I may have to take her to the drs.
Lara has been an absolute treasure today, so good. She even went straight to sleep without any issues.
Ollie is still a dream. He's had a bit of a cold, but is getting better. He is commando crawling now oh and he has started to play peekaboo. It's absolutely adorable.
Me? Well I am about to indulge in some orange flavour m&ms...they are seriously yummy!!!
Have a great weekend girls. x
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