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Wow what a night I've had.
Well the night was fine - it was the lead up to it.
Got dinner ready and was about to serve it up when Nicola, who'd been a bit grizzly for the past 1/2 hour, said her tummy was sore and she didn't want dinner so I let her sit on the couch with her pillow and fluffles for a bit until she got up and started crying. I rushed her to the toilet where she promptly threw up. :( I settled her back on the couch while I tried to feed Immy - she was being a right goose and wouldn't eat much so I was getting FAR beyond my tether for the day as Shane still wasn't home.
Gave up on Immy and ate some of my (cold) dinner then Nicola cracked up again and was sick again in the toilet.
That's when Shane decided to make an appearance at about 8:15 and started asking stupid questions (like, what's going on?!) Fair enough question but I wasn't in the mood to stop and chat so I just snapped at him and said - just don't talk to me or I'll yell and it's not your fault. Just help me get them into bed.
So we dosed them all up - Immy another nurofen, Nicola some brauers stomach calm that I found in the medicine box & some panadol (just in case). Chelsea is fine for now :fingerscrossed: .
They all slept through the night fine and this morning Immy woke with NO TEMP! :smiliedance: And Nicola, although still doesn't have all the rosy colour back in her cheeks, is all chirpy again and isn't feeling sick. Here's hoping today stays like this!
However, there goes my lunch plans with our good friends - they were meant to come for lunch but I decided it'd be better if they didn't so we cancelled - ends up that my friend isn't feeling the best either and didn't want to pass it to the kids so I'm catching up with her for coffee down the road at about 12.15 to discuss baby shower stuff etc.
Suppose that means I should get off my bum and get some stuff done while I can - Shane's doing the weekly run to the supermarket soon, Immy's having her bottle in bed at the moment and the girls are playing quietly for now.
I think nesting is starting to creep up - yesterday I did 3 loads of washing & put it all away, tidied Immy's room, completely washed, scrubbed then boiled every part of my breast pump/accessories that I bought of ebay (and they came up a treat!) as well as sorting all the boy clothes into separate boxes for sizes. I'm re-thinking some of the size 0000's that I've bought and might have to return them. According to my dr's chart (and they're sneaking people those Dr's) the baby was measuring 2kg on Friday which is about 0.5kg larger than the AVERAGE! HOLY COW I hope I've read it wrong! (I think that's what it means because the last visit said 1300 which is what he said the baby was in grams so :eek: ) OH man! What am I going to do?!!
Ok, I'll leave you all for now with this:
Immy a little happier today (http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o236/chenicimo/May07005.jpg)
Sorry for all my babble - just have a lot going on in my head today I think!
Have a good day all!
ETA: Also, does anyone know what 5/5 means on the Dr chart? I know it has something to do with presentation or how far baby is engaged but I can't remember?
hayleylea
06-05-2007, 08:55
Hey guys
Well last nights party was excellent! We had a blast!!!! My friend wore the wedding dress she got married in (they eloped) she looked beautiful! I was asked to be MC and say a speech which was a pretty big honour. I did pretty good too - luckily by the time speeches come along I had a few drinks under my belt. :yelclap: I must have done alright though because everyone had a big laugh and even the old men and ladies said how good i was :smiliedance: LOL YAY ME!
Harry jnr has reared his head today....im hoping snr doesnt come up later. I only really have a headache. Cooper was a good boy for mum as always. Trents still in bed :rolleyes:
Just reading back the last page or so of posts and geez I've been such a sook! BIG SORRY'S ALL AROUND! Someone just TELL me next time! :laughing:
MrsMiggins
06-05-2007, 13:58
Anna, you're not a sook!
5/5 means the baby's head is not engaged. There are "stations" from 5 down to -5 (I think it is...) where 0 is somewhere in the middle of your pelvis & -5 is (I think) where the bub's head is nearly out. I could be way wrong about the location of the positions, but that's basically what it's about.
They told me Claire was going to be 9lb 7oz the day before she was born, so don't stress too much! She was only 8lb 7oz (3930g)!
Sorry for brief post! Trying to type while Owen is wriggling & squwaking on my lap! He seems to hate it when I'm on the computer!
Afternoon ladies,
Anna - I think we have all had our sooky weeks here and there so don't worry. You are only sharing the reality of being a Mum! Sometimes I find reading that someone else has days where they struggle really helpful as it makes me feel so much more normal! Glad to hear that your girls are on the mend though.
Hayley - great to hear you had a good night. I am sure you did a great speech - those little drinkies would have helped the nerves I am sure! Good to hear that Cooper was well behaved for your Mum. But of course!
Will is still waking a little earlier than he does when he is healthy, but otherwise seems to be on the mend. His daysleep probably needs to be a bit longer and he tends to be pretty ratty by the end of the day but he is going ok. I have been giving him a bit more nurofen this time though (like one dose in the day as well) so I guess that is probably helping. I just find it hard to know - last time we stopped the nurofen and then a few days later we went back to the doctor for the post antibiotics checkup and she said he still wasn't better and I felt really mean because he still had a sore throat. This time I think I am going to wait until we get the all clear. I find when to give medicine a really difficult decision to make now. It is all so unclear about what is just toddler behaviour and what is not well or pain!
Anyway - I had better be off, it's that time of night when a certain little guy is putting his grumpy pants on!
hayleylea
06-05-2007, 17:25
Hey guys
Cooper is in bed already - he has only had about 20 minutes sleep in the car today so he was pretty tired. We went to my sisters for dinner tonight aswell so he has been playing with his cousins all afternoon...so into bed early for him! :smiliedance: Which im happy about because Trent and I didnt get home till after 3 and im buggered!
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e53/hayleylea/photocomp.jpg check out my new entry for the photocomp. They are only accepting 10 photos this time...im not quite sure why but i just made it :D
Anna I agree with Tan, we all have our sooky days so i wouldnt worry too much about it. Certainly dont need to apologise.
Night All :)
Oh thanks girls, I just feel totally out of control when all these things pile up and I don't like you guys seeing me like that coz I have this warped idea that you'll all be put off having more kids and I sure as hell don't want to be responsible for that!! LMAO!:laughing:
Well you wouldn't BELIEVE the sort of day I had yesterday. :crying: Lets just say it involved over 5 hours in emergency with Immy. . .
Got to fix Nicola so I'll post again soon.
P.S. Scrap my last post about my children being on the mend, it's made a liar out of me.
hayleylea
07-05-2007, 09:58
Hope Immy is OK Anna! :hugs: Poor little girl!
hayleylea
07-05-2007, 12:03
WOW its quiet in here today....
Anna - hows the kids now? What was wrong with Immy?
Cooper has a cold and so do I, nothing major. Mind you Cooper has developed a little cough today so its off to the doc this week no doubt. He seems happy enough so im not really that worried but I want to go to the doc anyway and get his hernia checked out because it seems to be getting bigger if anything! I know they say they are no big deal but the CHN did say that if they dont go away sometimes they need a small operation to get rid of it. Id rather get it checked out anyway.
I put up the play gym that my nephew gave me today. Cooper loves it! Mind you he has no fear so you really have to watch him! Little monkey! I just fixed one of his other toys - I had to screw a bit of plastic back on - im so proud of myself! :smiliedance: rofl!
Anyway thats my boy awake. He went to bed pretty early, and the stupid builders are being so noisey and they just woke him up! :banghead:
Hi everyone,
Anna hope everything is okay. Sounds like a crazy weekend you have had. Good to hear all is well with Bubba Blue and that he is growing nicely!! Not what you want to hear when you have to push him out is it- "this baby is bigger than average". Like Fi said I wouldn't put my money on it - it really is guess work and it is highly likely to be wrong. I had an ultrasound the week before I had Paddy to see if there was any reason he wasn't engaging and I was told I would be having a 7lb and a bit baby -Paddy was 9lb1oz -way off 7 pounds. I have rarely heard that an estimate of how big a baby is is accurate - usually it is wrong (not that I am trying to tell you that your 9lb baby will be a 10lb baby - probably more like Claire being 8lb rather than 9lb).
Hayley good to hear you had a nice night out - well done with the speech -I hate having to make speeches. Love the new photo.
Tan hope Will is on the mend for you. I'm with you about never quite knowing whether they should have medicine or not. Paddy is teething at the moment (2 molars breaking through poor little man) and I wasn't sure about giving him Nurofen before bed last night so we didn't give it to him but he ended up crying soon after being put down so we gave him some and then he was happy to go to sleep -I am just never sure if I am drugging him for the sake of it.
Fi hope all is going well with the 2 little ones.
How's Maddi going Lou? Hope she is sleeping okay for you.
Dean and I have conceded that our lovely days of 8am wake ups are over . It has been over a week now of Paddy waking up just a bit before 7 and we now think this is his new pattern -damn it!! Not that it is that early I guess but 8am was just so much nicer. Oh well -I guess we'll get more done in the day.
Anyway better go and get some stuff done while the little man is asleep. Hope everyone is well and things are okay in the Moore house Anna.
Cath
Ange&Seth
07-05-2007, 12:39
You guys keep running away trying to lose me :shame: it won't work!!! I find you every time !!!!!
What's up with Immy? Is she ok? Hope all's well in your house Anna.
Hayles - sorry to hear Coops now has a cough. Poor little mite.
Tan - how is Will doing with that nasty tonsillitis?
Seth has a cold now too. He's been a bit sooky lately, but I just put that down to being a bit sick. We've been giving him nurofen and putting vicks on his singlet to try and help chase away the cold, we'll see if it works.
Now to shock you all - I was in bed at 9pm last night and asleep by 9.30pm :eek: You ready for another shock? Seth and I got up at 7.30am :eek: HeHe - I love mornings, I just used to hate having to get out of bed to enjoy them, but not anymore!! It helps when you go to bed early enough so you get enough sleep.
Today, Seth and I pulled out all bar 4 plants from the vegie garden and planted more stuff. We've got beans, brocolli, carrots, coriander and spinach to watch grow!! Although, Seth was 'helping' so I'm not entirely sure WHERE the spinach and coriander are going to surface haha.
Hope everyone's well!!
hayleylea
07-05-2007, 13:48
Hey Cath - I have a habit of making speeches at special occasion - usually after i have had a few too many drinks! :o Its all good though. Sorry to hear Paddy is waking up at 7 rather then 8 - Cooper goes through phases like this too so who knows what next week will bring! lol
Ange - Ive already apologised ot you because it was probably Cooper that gave Seth the cold! I hope he gets over it soon! :yelclap: for you and new sleeping routine! lol.. sounds like you had a good day in the garden.
I have just got back from the hospital. Trent came home from work with a sore shoulder and he could barely move. Couldnt get into a doctor in ANY surgery so i took him up there. They have given him some pain stuff and told him to rest. The doctor could hardley talk english so god knows what he said! :rolleyes:
OK we are heading outside to play now its such a nice day!
talk soon
Hi, I'm back :wave:
Sorry, didn't mean to panic everyone.
Have had a chat with Tan, girls are both back in bed and I've been trying to chill a bit.
Basically in a nut shell, this is what happened.
You know that Immy has had a temp since Thursday night and I've been unable to break it. Sunday she woke without a temp but by 12noon she woke from her nap and just wanted to go back to bed. She lay in my arms totally listless, drifting in and out of sleep for over 2 hours until I panicked and took her to hospital (Shane was out with the girls.) Her temp soared to 40.8 when we got to hospital and I just cried - I couldn't believe my thermometer was so inaccurate. Temp was still 39 an hour after more panadol. She slept on and off in my arms again, managed a chest xray (I wasn't able to hold her because of being pregnant, so I'd help to hold her in position and another lady held her while I ran out of the way). Tried to get a wee sample but she did a poo as well so although it was technically contaminated, it was ok enough to test that something wasn't right - also chest xray wasn't completely clear either. Finally went home some time after 8pm - her temp STILL a crazy 40 degrees - the nurse wasn't happy and spoke to the Dr and they gave her more nurofen. This morning I've had another wee sample tested to confirm that it's most likely a UTI - which is what I could have told them to begin with. She's now on a REALLY strong course of antibiotics and so far no temp today.
Add to all this - Nicola was hurling her guts up on Saturday night and is cold & fluey today, and Chelsea looks like she won't be far behind.
It doesn't just rain, it pours here - my kids are rarely sick so I'm just trying to do my best to keep afloat. THANKFULLY the little sleep I've been getting has been quality sleep and I'm very thankful for that.
Oh to make me feel worse (and it's ok, I'm over beating myself up now) - oh Tan I forgot to tell you this - Because Shane had our car, the only way I could get to town was with the spare car and I had no seat. I put Immy in the BABY capsule and straped her in it for all it was worth. I'd adjusted the straps correctly but her poor little legs were hanging out and her head was right up to the top. That was probably my lowest moment as I KNEW it was wrong to put her in it, but it was either do that or wait for an ambulance or friend etc. I thought to myself that even if I caught a taxi - she'd be sitting on my knee so the capsule she was in was much safer than that.
She really gave me quite a scare and still now looks so ill - no colour, really sad looking, listless etc - it's really knocking her around. Thankfully the nurses at the hospital said I brought her in at just the right time - I didn't panic for the first few days and waited to see what happened, but picked up on it as soon as she went backwards and that the after hours Dr would have just sent her here anyway. The only reason they didn't admit her was because she had 2 times where she perked up between sleeps. 2 times - that's it - otherwise she slept 4 out of the 5 hours we were there. :no:
My belly aches today because she was lying directly across it in my arms, my left arm aches because of holding her dead weight head and my back aches because I ended up putting the hospital bed down, carefully laying her on it but had her still resting in my arms so I was in a twisted position for hours. She's already slept 4 hours today so far and I'd expect her to go until at least 5pm if she's not interrupted.
Sorry for all this - I'm so glad I can just blurt it all out here. I haven't even really had the chance to talk to DH about it all because when I got home we put her to bed, told him the basics and I just flaked upstairs myself. Then he was already gone this morning when I got up.
Ok, better go rest - Chelsea will be home soon, a friend is bringing her home so she'll need a nap too because she's been out on another excursion all day and will be exhausted! Might go chill on the couch - stuff the bloody house work.
Will be more cheery later. Promise.
Hugs to you all - I'd never wish this on ANYONE.
Praying for a quick and healthy winter for us all. :hugs:
MrsMiggins
07-05-2007, 14:06
Anna! I hope Immy's OK! :hugs:
Hayles, you sound sooooooooooo much like me after a few bevvies!! :laughing: Speeches....karaoke..... Vanuatu is going to be fun!!
Ange! OMG! You were in bed before Claire last night!! Hee! Hee!
Cath, I hear you about the whole "drugging" thing! I always only try to give Claire medicine when she needs it, but I find it practically impossible to know! Although she's been having a rough trot with these eye teeth since they all started to break through.
Claire chucked a massive tanty today because I got sick of telling her to lie down on her Dora couch & have a sleep, so when she started hucking toys around, I picked her up & lay her on the bed in the spare bedroom. She went ballistic! I was sitting in the lounge room with Owen, just listening to her go on. I wasn't overly concerned though, because I know if she'd have wanted to, she could easily have climbed down off the bed! Funny things these toddlers, aren't they?! She eventually went off to sleep about half an hour later and is still there now, 2.5 hours later!
Owen's off to have his needles tomorrow! :crying:
MrsMiggins
07-05-2007, 14:11
Anna, we posted at the same time!
BIG :hugs: mate!! You poor thing!! You must be a superwoman to be dealing with all of that & being PG at the same time!!
That must be one helluva UTI for her to be so sick! Poor thing!! Here's to the antibiotics working quickly.
Ange&Seth
07-05-2007, 14:16
Anna - hope Immy gets better soon :hugs:
hayleylea
07-05-2007, 14:18
:hugs: to you Anna and to Poor little Immy!!! (and chealsea and nicola too) You are having a rough trot!!!! I hope that the infection clears up fast.
Fi, yep I think we are pretty much the same after a few bevs...think we can do ANYTHING - and not only that do it! lol. Vanuatu will be a blast! :laughing:
OK Gotta go...talk soon...
Ange&Seth
07-05-2007, 15:13
Fi, yep I think we are pretty much the same after a few bevs...think we can do ANYTHING - and not only that do it! lol. :laughing:
Will you two stop talking about me? I know I make a fool of myself when I drink too much :D I think EVERYONE wants to hear what I have to say!
hayleylea
07-05-2007, 15:20
Will you two stop talking about me? I know I make a fool of myself when I drink too much :D I think EVERYONE wants to hear what I have to say!
:laughing: :laughing: Ange, Everyone does want to hear what you want to say they just dont know it! :laughing:
Ok better go get dinner organised. This little boy is getting tired and has barely had anything to eat all day!
Oh Anna what a hell of a day. Poor little Immy and poor you -sounds very stressful. Hope you are both recovering today and Immy gets better quickly.
Fi that's hilarious that Claire threw her tantrum but still stayed on the bed and finally went to sleep -that's unreal. Hope you get through Owen's needles okay (it's horrible for the poor Mum as well as the little one).
Good work with the early night Ange. I keep trying to do that but always manage to get distracted. Now I've just started a good book so even if I go to bed early I read for ages -oh well -at least that's restful.
Hayley hope Trent is okay -doesn't sound good.
Okay better go and get Paddy some dinner.
Yay I found you. I've just come back from my buisness trip in Melbourne and I thought hey there is no new posts? Thats unusual. Then I finally figured out we had a new thread. Bit tired and s-l-o-w tonight.
Anna, you poor thing. How scary!!!! Poor little Immy :crying: . I read your post and had tears in my eyes thinking of her lying there all limp and sad. Damn UTI beast visiting Immy like that. How rude. Its a good thing that you picked it up when you did and took her to the hospital. Did they tell you how long until the antibiotics would start working for her? Maybe you could make her some cranberry/rasberry jelly? You must be exhausted with all those sick kids. Maybe Shane will have to take a day off tommorow for carers leave while you sleep all day. Anna, I don't know if your into the naturopath stuff but my naturopath gave Maddi this stuff called lactobac powder that I put into her milk when she's on antibiotics. Its contains lactobacillus which helps to rebalance your gut flora. I found that helped a bit. What I didn't do when she was on strong antibiotics was coat her bum with zinc cream so she got some pretty bad nappy rash. So maybe start doing that now as a preventative thing. I'll be checking up on here tommorow if you have a update on how Immy is. Poor thing and :hugs: for you.
Well I'm off to bed. Am tired after staying in Melbourne overnight and having to sit in a small room and listen to the same person talk all day and drive back to bendigo. Maddi was really good for her dad and slept all night. She was in bed by the time I got home at 6.50pm so I was disappointed that I didn't get a cuddle but happy that she was so good.
Talk soon to do more personals.
Ange&Seth
08-05-2007, 07:20
Hi again :wave:
Cath - you sound like me with the reading thing. I usually have to read myself to sleep but lately I haven't had a problem.
I played pool comp last night which was fun. I haven't played in 3 weeks or so. We lost, but it was a fun night. Got home before 10 and in bed and asleep before 11. I have to say that I am LOVING this going to bed and getting up early caper!!
Seth and I got up at 7.15am this morning and I had a coffee with Adam before he left for work. Not really sure what we're going to get up to today. We do need to go and get some more nurofen though, so maybe we'll just have a wander around down town.
Anna - is Immy a little better today? :hugs:
Fi - I hope Owen's needles go ok. I hate that part.
Hope you all have a great day!
hayleylea
08-05-2007, 07:34
Hey guys
Lou - good to hear from you as always. I am sure you will enjoy a cuddle or two with Maddi today :D
Anna hope Immy and the girls are feeling much better today. Its horrible when the kids are sleep isnt it?! Especially the little ones because you they cant tell you whats wrong!
Ange - Glad your loving your new routine! How is Seth today? Im like you and not sure what we are gonig to do today. Its overcast here today and cold so i dont think we will be doing alot!
I got a doctors appointment for Cooper tommorrow to have a look at his hernia. So that will be good. Ill know whether they are going to leave it or send me to a specialist. It doesnt bother him but it is getting bigger.
OH just got a text from Jobaby - remember her - She has little Tahlia? Anyway she just had her 2nd bub!!!
ITS A GIRL!!! MOLLY ROSE BORN 5pd 8oz 27 days early.
CONGRATS JO!
Ok better go do something...talk soon!
Well it's very nice to see Ange & Seth in here a bit more regularly again! It sounds as though you are getting yourself into a great little routine too Ange.
Hayley - I hope Trent's shoulder is ok. Shoulder injuries can be nasty and very painful so I hope it is just a strain or something.
Fi - I hope Owen went alright with his needles (and you too). I'm betting he slept all afternoon after them!
Cath - I love a good book too. In fact I'm a member of a bookclub and I always have one "on the go". I wouldn't survive without my books. Before I decided to be an OT I thought long and hard about being a journalist and sometimes I still think about doing post grad study in that area. The only thing that has ever stopped me is knowing how many people want to be journos compared to how many actually make it! The stats are completely the reverse in OT - they desperately need more!
Anan - I hope Immy had a good night for you and that those antibiotics have kicked in now. :fingerscrossed: she is her chirpy little self soon. Maybe you should see if you can squeeze another massage in this week - it sounds like you really need it.
Does anyone else have a kid who struggles if their "routine" changes? This is going to sound so silly but every morning Will eats his breakfast (2 weetbix and a piece of toast) and then sits on the kitchen bench to "help" Troy make his omelette. For some reason this morning Will was still eating his weetbix when Troy started making the omelette. Well - there was no more Weetbix eaten was there! And a very grumpy boy to boot. Troy tried to coerce him into eating his weetbix but Will wasn't having a bar of it. I ended up intervening and telling Troy to stop trying to make Will eat it because we don't want food to be unpleasant. I am getting a bit concerned that Will's a bit inflexible. I mean that was such a little thing!
Anyway -I'm going off to make myself a cup of T. I think I need it this morning. Will's gone to daycare so I can have peace and quiet for a couple of hours!
Morning :wave:
Well how the hell parents co-sleep is freakin' beyond me! LOL!
Immy was restless last night and woke several times - as did I. 6am and Shane was huffing and puffing from the spare room so I just called out to bring her here to me. She snuggled in and just stroked my face, pat my shoulder and squeezed me for an hour before finally she drifted off for 1/2 hour. I think it may have had to do with the amount of sleep she had yesterday but she needed it so far be it from me to deny her. So this morning there's one tired mummy, one cranky daddy (I'm assuming anyway!) and one baby girl who was ready for bed again at 8:45am. At least my right arm/elbow now matches my left - it aches because she lay on it for 1.5 hours. :rolleyes:
Oh and like I don't need anything else - I was changing her nappy this morning and I've discovered a rash that's all over her front down to her nappy, all over her back and a little across her forehead. I'm totally lost as to what to do - I tried pressing on it and I don't think it disappeared completely, but have no clue to what that means? Might call the CHN or something?
Nicola has a cold - she's chirpy but snotty (lovely shade of green) but missing Chelsea terribly while she's at school.
Ange - great to see you on here more - keep it up! Glad you enjoyed your pool last night - even if you didn't win. It's great just to get out and feel human again isn't it? OMG Seth's photos are so cute! He has such wispy baby hair still which is so adorable!
Tan - journalism?! Wow! Something new that we didn't know about you! I used to be into books in such a big way but since having kids I totally lack all concentration for novels etc and tend to focus more on magazines etc! I really need a good 15-20 mins to concentrate on the book and then I'm right but I just don't get that sort of quiet time at this stage in my life!
Fi - how'd Owens needles go? I hope he hasn't had any reaction and has slept peacefully. My kids all had the same sort of thing - a whopping big lump that was a bit red and tended for a week or so but nothing more really. Yep looks like Immy's UTI (if it's what it is) has really taken hold and is seriously rattling her - she still looks so ill.
I nearly wet myself laughing at Claire's tanty! So funny how she didn't figure out that she could actually get OFF the bed! LMAO! Awesome that she slept though!
Hayles - did I say before? Great photo for the comp - beautifully composed, wonderfully balanced and very interesting to look at! Good job! You're up against some more tough competition again! That surfer one is great too! Sorry to hear about Trent - I hope it hasn't set him back too much. I also hope you get some advice for Coopers hernia too - is that common in kids? I've only ever heard of it in adults?
Cath - I'm like you with reading at bed time -even if it is just a magazine or my "Up the Duff" book (Ah she's so funny!) or "Kid Wrangling" or I've just started "On becoming baby wise" again(my secret weapon in my kids sleeping routine!) I find it really helps me to wind down by reading for a bit - and you're right - it's still rest and it's all good for you!
Lou - thanks for the info on the natropath stuff - I've no opinion really! I'll try anything once and I'm more happy with things that arn't hard core drugs for kids. I'll make a decision tonight as to what to do but I'll take your tip and start treating her bum a little better - powder to dry it completely then some barrier cream to protect from rash.
Ok so I just called the CHN who said the rash could be a reaction to the antibiotics (it's only amoxil) & to get off the phone and call the Dr and demand to get in today (hehe! She's lovely my Jan!) So I did. I explained what was happening (our surgery is so **** that you have to plan at least a week in advance to be sick to get an appointment). I was going to be put thru to the sister but she was busy so I have an appointment with a new Dr at 3.45pm - crappy timing but I have to take what I can. :fingerscrossed: I can pick Shane up early so he can watch the other two kids while I take Immy - otherwise I'll be begging my lovely friend (who picked Chelsea up again this morning) to take Chelsea after school for me as she's the only one not unwell yet. It'll work out - but now I'll let Immy sleep right through lunch time and as long as she likes because 3.45 is right in the middle of her nap time and she'll be crabby-as otherwise.
Nesting is REALLY starting to grab hold. Last night when I went to bed, I contemplated again getting the (massive) cradle down from the top of our walk in robe all by myself just so I could make it up with linen :rolleyes: (don't worry I didn't). Then I thought to myself that I'm going to have to make a start on my hospital bag but my clothes are literally scattered EVERYWHERE so I'd better go through the lot - sort stuff for the salvo's, save a pile for my bag, write a list of things to buy and fold & put away the rest. I will do that in the next couple of days - maybe while I'm in bed I can do some sorting! DH won't be impressed but - meh. .
I'm also keen to wash all the baby clothes so I can pack them but I can't decide what to take or what sizes I'll need - looks like I won't be needing the size 0000 bonds suits! LOL!
Suppose I'd better go do something - Nicola's vegging on the couch with ABC kids and is wanting apple so the Mother must oblige. . !
Hope everyone has a good day!
hayleylea
08-05-2007, 09:46
Hey guys
I have the crankiest boy in the world today!! So just a quick one from me. I will be getting the doctor to check Cooper throat tommorrow aswell because he is acting the same as what he did when he had tonsillitis and is refusing to eat anything!
Anna - thanks for the compliments on the photo comp. I agree the surfer one is great aswell. ill see how i go. I was happy with my photo...to be honest i had no idea what i was doing and fluked it! :laughing: Hernias are VERY common in kids....especially boys apparently. They are painfull in adults but they dont seem to hurt the kids for some reason.
Gotta go guys. I think this boy can go back to bed!
hayleylea
08-05-2007, 09:56
Ok just put the cranky little monster in bed. Lets hope he wakes up happier! Poor little man isnt feeling very well..
Anna - sorry to hear how unwell Immy is. I really dont know how people co-sleep every night either. Ive had Cooper in my bed a couple of times but its only for a few hours and once he is asleep i put him in his own bed. I just dont get no sleep with him in my bed.
OK im off to do absolutley nothing!!! Im hoping this boy has a big sleep...not liking my chances considering he hasnt eaten but i just feel like vegin on the lounge watching TV :laughing: Oh ive gotta cook dinner too...im cooking it early and just going to heat it up later because when trent gets home we have to go out to our house and dont know when we will be back. So instead of rushing around tonight i thought id cook it early. Much easier!
OK well i hope all these sick kiddies get well again really soon and I hope little Owens needles dont knock him around too much. I held a 8 week old on the weekend his name was Bowen! Different! he was so cute though and an absolute pleasure! "CLUCK CLUCK!!" HAHA.
talk soon!
Ange&Seth
08-05-2007, 10:11
Well, I've just put Seth to bed cos he was so tired and cranky and naughty!!!! :fingerscrossed: he stays down for a few hours.
We went down town and did what I needed to, then grabbed some yummy bread and went to this great play park near our house but Seth wasn't interested in playing, came home and he went straight out the back and put one leg into the dogs water bowl before I could stop him, shoe and all!!! Then went and climbed into the vegie garden that I'd just watered so you can imagine how dirty and muddy he was!!
Ahhh - peace and quiet. I've boiled the jug and am looking forward to some BH time or maybe read a bit of my book. It's a gorgeous day outside but when we left this morning it looked like rain, so I put the washing in the dryer. I could have put it on the line GRRRRR!!!
Tan - Seth is a creature of habit too. He gets a bit funny if his routine is thrown out too much. I mean, he's flexible but some times, he needs to know whats coming next KWIM? I don't have any tips to help though, sorry.
Anna - that's pretty scary about the rash!!! I hope you get some answers this afternoon.
well, I'm off to pick up toys and straighten up before I settle in with my cuppa :D hope you all are having a great day!
Oh and thankyou for the warm welcome back guys :hugs: I missed you all too!!!
MrsMiggins
08-05-2007, 13:37
Hmmm... have we all had to put our children down for a nap today because they were cranky & naughty?! :laughing: I had to do that as well. I was getting a bit sick of Claire being deliberately naughty & I needed a rest so I thought what the hell, and went & lay her down on the big bed again. I told her it was time to go lie down & asked her which books/toys she wanted to take, so she grabbed a book, her bunny rabbit & a roll-around and followed me into the spare room (crying all the way, but she still followed!!) I picked her up & put her into bed & she screamed & cried for about 15/20 mins before going to sleep. This is great! I'm going to do it every day we're home now. I mean, it's not great that she's screaming & crying of course, but it is great that she eventually goes to sleep! Hopefully very soon we'll be down to no crying. We're going to move her into her own bed shortly, so that'll be good too I think. When we start putting her into bed for night sleeps, I'm going to be changing the routine there too. No more rocking to sleep!
Owen's needles were OK. Not great, but not too bad. He screamed such a heart-breaking scream when he got each needle and I was almost in tears myself! (And I think Dave was too!) Apparently (well, according to the RN who does them) my kids are hyper-sensitive to needles! She has told us each time we've had to take one of them that they seem unusually distressed about them & cry a lot more than kids normally do. GREAT!!
Luckily though, Owen eventually calmed down. He cried this high-pitched, painful sounding cry for about 10 mins before finally accepting a feed, then he dropped off to sleep almost immediately, only waking up when we got home & by that time he seemed much happier. He's having another sleep now, which is good.
Anna, I hope Immy is feeling a bit better today. So cute that she stroked your face & cuddled up to you!
Oh bugger! Gotta go. Owen's awake!
hayleylea
08-05-2007, 13:41
Fi thats so good about Claire. Sounds like your getting her into a nice routine. yes the crying isnt fun but eventually that will fizzle off and she will be happy to go to bed. You wont know yourself!! hehe.
Glad to hear little Owen went OK with his needles too...its heartbreaking isnt it! And especially when they get 2! because they know what is coming.
Anyway better go. Trent just got home and we have to scaddadle..which means waking up Cooper :banghead: :rolleyes: Ah well he should be happy because daddy is home!
MrsMiggins
08-05-2007, 13:50
OK. I'm back - typing one-handed & standing up! :laughing:
Tan, we sometimes have problems with routine changes, but it depends on what exactly it is. I think the bedtime one is a major one & when we change that we may have issues, but generally Claire is the one who initiates the changes, so it's not normally a big problem for us. The fact that Will gets upset though may be a good sign that your routines are working & that he's comfortable with them.
Hayles, good luck tomorrow at the drs. I hope everything turns out to be fine.
Ange, you sound like a new woman with all these early nights! :D
ETA: Oh Hayley! I just saw your post! It was 3 needles :(
Well it must be something in the air today because Will has been a proper little monster. Apparently he was good at daycare but I swear that's where it ended. He came home and had a sleep but when he woke up absolutely nothing would please him. We have to go back to the doctor's tomorrow about his tonsillitis and I suspect there will be more antibiotics on the horizon. He has already had one lot but I am pretty sure the problem is still lingering. In the end I stuck him in the pram and walked 20 minutes to a friends house and he played with her baby for the next hour or so. Of course he was quite charming there and my friend said her bub had been a little horror all day too and she was fine when we were there as well.:rolleyes: Go figure. Little monsters.
So we are home now - he has eaten dinner with his Daddy (cause I am on strike) and is now in the bath. I can't wait for him to go to bed tonight and I know that sounds awful but seriously my head was going to explode this afternoon. He wanted me to cuddle him and carry him around! That has absolutely NEVER EVER happened in his whole life - not even as a newborn. He always wanted to sit in his rocker as a newborn and watch everything - not be held at all.
OK - sorry about that whinge. Wow Fi - Claire is doing well with the sleep thing. Hayley is right, she'll be all sorted in no time. She must like the whole big bed thing. I suspect that is when Will is going to turn into a monkey - when we do the move to a bed instead of the cot. Thankfully there is no rush on that one.
LOL Ange. Little boys can be so naughty can't they? There is no other way to describe it. They know full well what they are doing now too.
Anna - I hope you got the rash sorted. Poor little Immy - she is having a really rough time. Ah - and now I know your secret, the Babywise thing. One of my close friend's used their strategies and it worked for her too.
Right - have to go I think. Sorry if I missed anyone, will try again tomorrow.
hayleylea
08-05-2007, 17:32
lol all our little monsters have had a bad day! I woke Cooper up so he could come with us - he was very cranky that I woke him but he did come good. Mind you he has a serious attitude at the moment. If i tell him No he chucks whatever he is holding or bangs or smacks whatever is near him - Even me! :eek: Everytime he is naughty i send him to his lounge and he isnt allowed to move. I leave him there for a few minutes (or more if he is being cheeky). It works really well. When i think he is ready to get off i tell him to give me a cuddle and apologise and he races over and cuddles me. After that he is much better.
I have been doing a bit of reasearch on the hernia thing. Apparently the doctors dont touch it till they are 5 - most cases they go away before the age of 4 or 5 and if they havent then they perform a little operation. So i dont know if the doc will say much but atleast then its noted that he has it at the docs aswell as the clinic. Plus his nose is still really runny so best get that throate checked out just incase.
Tan - I think i might go on strike tonight too! Sounds like a great idea! :laughing:
Fi - poor owen with the 3 needles! :eek: Poor little guy!
OK better go get this boy out of the shower. We are running way behind schedule tonight. Mind you i didnt end up waking Cooper till 4 so god knows what time ill get him to bed tonight!
Hey :wave:
Fi - sounds like Claire is doing a Paddy and very very soon she may be on a great routine just like him! I wouldn't stress too much about the crying at the moment - she's obviously not to distraught because she falls asleep. If she was being traumatised by the whole experience then she'd be bashing the place down and hollering until she pukes lol! Sorry bad image but you know what I mean! I think that the new bedtime routine might be just the thing to change any bad past habits.
Oh and HUGE congrats on you typing one handed AND standing up! Quite the achievement! :yes:
Ange - I hope you enjoyed your quiet time today and managed that quiet cuppa to yourself. Good on you for trying a new early-to-bed routine, will probably do you the world of good!
Hayles - how'd Cooper end up? Hope he wasn't too grumpy after being woken up today. Good luck tomorrow at the Dr's.
Tan - you sound like you've had a really hard day today. I certainly hope you're sitting back with a nice drink and relaxing - I had to laugh about you being on strike though, I feel like that every day! LOL! I am a bit curious as to why Will was being such a devil at home but an angel at creche & at your friend house. I do have a theory but I don't think you're going to like it! Maybe he's actually craving a bit more attention? Not that you're not giving him enough! I just mean from other little people. Sounds like he's really interacting quiet well at creche and with your friend's child. Have you thought about taking him to a kindergym program or a story time at the library? I don't know what you've got in your area - probably a lot more than we do - but certainly that may help him settle down a bit when he's home with you. Also, from about this age onwards, all our little bubs will start demanding extra stimulation so activities such as drawings with textas/crayons etc, reading books, heck even playing on the computer (I kid you not!) will make their little minds buzz!
As for the computer - I do vaguely remember a program you can download where you can sit their with your child and they can bash away at the keyboard and the screen does certain things and they can make certain sounds. I'll try my best to find it.
Hope I haven't missed anyone.
Been another trying day for us here too. Chelsea has also had an off day and Nicola was asking every 10 mins if school was finished yet. In the end I picked Shane up from work at 2pm and came home - Chelsea was brought home my my friend Lou. We bathed Immy and her rash just flared up so much. Took her to the Dr at 3:45 and SURPRISINGLY didn't have to wait for hours to get in. Dr took one look at her and said immediately that she has an allergic reaction to Amoxil - bloody great. Hopefully later down the track they'll try her on it again in a smaller dose to see if it's going to be a permanent thing or not. The pathology tests came back saying that there's definate signs of a UTI - apparently the tests grew ecoli which scared the you-know-what out of me because I though that I'd caused it by not wiping her carefully enough. Dr said no, that it was common especially in little girls in nappies 1. because the urethra is so close to the bottom & 2. because she's still in nappies and things get all mixed around in there. She's now on another type of antibiotics but thankfully when we got to the pharmacy, I asked them to dispose of the old medication and the pharmacist only charged me cost price for the new prescription because we had to change it over. I swear I nearly cried.
Since Sunday I've been out of pocket:
$125 for hospital emergency admittance (no rebates)
$79 Dr fee at the hospital (coz $125 just wasn't enough)
$20 for 1st course of anitbiotics
$58 Dr appointment today
$10 2nd course of antibiotics
Then there's 2 lots of pathology bills on their way (my guess will be about $40 x2.
Also the x-ray bill from the hospital which is charged separately and I read some fine print somewhere that extra charges may be applied on weekends/after hours/public holidays etc
SO. What a joke. I'd sure as hell better reach my medicare safety net after all of this (INC the 3 ob bills, 2 pathology bills & 1 interstate medical bill that I'm still yet to claim). Wow I'm officially broke. :crying:
Ok better go - I've been promising Chelsea & Nicola I'd read them a story each before bed time. I've drugged them to the eyeballs tonight (hehe not really!) but Chelsea's had some Brauers stomach calm and both have had some cold/flu liquid which apparently can make them drowsy - PERFECT! :devil6:
I'll leave you with some pics of how Immy broke out - mainly so you can all keep it in your minds should any of your kids have anything similar when on antibiotics (touch wood they won't).
Immy rash 1 (http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o236/chenicimo/ImmyrashMay07003.jpg)
Immy rash 2 (http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o236/chenicimo/ImmyrashMay07004.jpg)
Immy rash 3 (http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o236/chenicimo/ImmyrashMay07005.jpg)
OMG Anna, that rash is just everywhere! Poor thing. Remember when Maddi had a rash from her antibiotics that I posted? Well hers was from Amoxil syrup as well but she only got the rash on her face. And the weird thing was that it only appeared 2 days after she finished the antibiotics??? Anyways from memory it took Maddi 5 days for the rash to fade out.
Maddi woke this morning and was so happy to see me. Off to creche today where she had her first bully episode. Some kid apparently pulled her pigtail until she hit the ground :thumbsdown: and Maddi was really upset. But her carers managed to get her happy again and gave her special attention after that and the bully got in big trouble. Poor Maddi. She seemed fine and all over it by this afternoon when I picked her up as she was playing with a group of kids. So tonight she got special cuddles. Then I found in her creche bag my mothers day present which is a bookmark with her footprint and handprint. Its so adorable!
OK I'm just going to shovel some dinner into my mouth and I'll come back later. I'm sooooo hungry.
hayleylea
08-05-2007, 18:27
:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: - Anna your bills for the doctors etc have left me gobsmacked!!!! If we go to the hospital here its free...even if we get admited. Why was it so much? Also when Cooper had his head injury and we had Xrays done we didnt have to pay anything either - because it was done at the hospital...Her rash looks pretty nasty! i would have freaked if Cooper come out like that! Poor little Immy. Lets hope these new antibiotics work fast.
Cooper is in bed now...just put him down. He wasnt looking very tired but he has been pretty quiet though so ill see how he goes.
OK im off...talk soon
ETA: Lou we posted at the same time. Poor maddi and that bully episode!! And what a nice pressie!!
Hey Lou - yep I do vaguely remember Maddi having a rash - I knew one of the kids here did but I wasn't 100%. Did you take pics of her for the record? That's why I took pics - so I can have a reference for the future just in case. Looks shocking isn't it? It really pains me to see it so hopefully it's a lot clearer in the morning. Immy only had 2 doses (am & pm yesterday) and she had the rash this morning when she woke - so hers is a strong reaction apparently.
How strange about Maddi's coming AFTER she'd finished - possibly a build up to the antibiotic and it finally had to let it out on her body? Geez, I'm no doctor! I'm a bit like Tan - I like to make sense - or find reason for everything.
I had to have a chuckle at the bully episode - as nasty as it must have been. Gee I'd have loved to have seen Maddi get up and whollop the kid one fair in the gob! :D (Well, typical behaviour expected of the age - no?!) I certainly hope he gets his comeuppance somewhere along the way! Lots of hugs to Maddi from Immy :hugs: .
Hey wonderful present by the way - DEFINATELY something you should keep - how special!
Hayles - the reason the hospital bill was so much was because we went private. If I'd gone to the public it would have been free but we'd have been waiting for HOURS to be seen, our public hospital isn't very good and Immy had already been "down" for so long I wasn't taking the chances. The money doesn't really worry me - it's definately not worth risking life (extreme I know) for a couple of hundred dollars, it just hit me how much it all was after I'd added it all up.
Like I said before, I'm no dr, but I'm pretty familiar with UTI's and so I could see the symptoms. If I'd taken her to the Dr any other day of the week then I'd have gotten away with just pathology costs, dr fee & antibiotics. From now on I'm allowed to say "history of UTI's" and insist that the Dr's test for that first. (That's what the Dr said today considering I had them for over 10 years when young, Nicola's had 2 documented & now Immy's got one.)
Sounds like it could be urinary reflux in the kids which will need to be monitored for a few years should they get repeated UTI's - reflux can later cause renal problems after the age of 30-40 etc. Scary stuff considering I'm approaching 3-0 in the next couple of years. :gloomy:
On another note - bubba blue has dropped today! Nothing major, but definately dropped (a friend commented too) and it's given my ribs a lovely break! I'm expecting him to move up and down for a while yet so we'll see how he is tomorrow but BOY I'm a lot more comfortable in the interim!
hayleylea
08-05-2007, 19:37
Anna I thought that might be the case. We use the public here. Its actually pretty good...they see kids etc first - especially if its serious. If im in doubt i always go to the hospital especally because its so damn hard to get into our doctor sometimes!
Ok well im off to get ready for CSI..and maybe have some icecream
Ange&Seth
08-05-2007, 19:44
Fi - that's excellent about Claire with her sleeping. Yes the crying does break your heart but eventually it will pay off and you know if she's really distressed or just protesting. Also good that Owen settled relatively quickly for you after his needles. Thankyou for commenting on my early nights!! I do feel fantastic. It's been a LONG time since I felt tired at night. I'm planning on being in bed at 9.30pm tonight. Straight after NCIS HAHA
Tan - I think you're right and it must have been in the air today. I hope Will settled for you. I'm on strike too - sort of - actually just finishing a bottle of wine :eek:
Anna - I'm SO sorry, I should have realised when you said that Immy had a rash and you described it, that it was an allergic reaction. Poor bubba!!! Why did you have to pay for the hospital? When you filled out the forms did you tell them you had Private Health Insurance? We don't pay anything here at the public hospital unless they know you've got Private Health Insurance. :hugs: I hope the princess is better soon.
Lou - the idea of Seth having to deal with bullies makes me want to cry!!! His first time at a playground with other kids, he got pushed off a ledge by a brat of a little girl who was old enough to know better!! I saw red and I told her that she wasn't very nice for pushing him cos he was only a baby!!! Glad Maddi was ok though :thumbsup:
Ok, I haven't go long to post - just taking the opportunity during an ad in NCIS!!! Can't miss that show !!!!!
I've had a good day. Had to give Seth 2 time out's, which he's never has before and the 2nd one did the trick! I think I'm on to a good thing!!!
Hope all's well!!!
Hayles - I'll save you a glass of wine next time :D Actually, thats a promise I probably can't keep !!!!
Hayles - the private hospital has an "out of pocket" fee which is up in lights as soon as you enter the hospital - I think it's to stop every Tom, D!ck & Harry using it as a public hospital iykwim? Otherwise everyone would go there. In your case with Cooper, his was an emergency and in our public hospital he would have been seen to immediately too. However, a child with a fever etc still isn't guaranteed priority over someone who's bleeding, not breathing or has a limb hanging off them! It's all a matter of priority in all hospitals as far as I know.
And I know what you mean about getting into the Drs too - like pulling hens teeth here - however our surgery is actually pretty good at squeezing kids in - even though you have to give them some details of what's going on most times. The Dr we had today was excellent, never met him before but had a good manner with Immy.
Ange - hun don't feel bad! You're not to know at all! I did the right thing, had it checked out and now Immy should be on the mend. The rash isn't bothering her at all as far as I can tell, it just looks hellish.
I should be off to bed but can't drag myself away - I'm really getting caught up in my July 07 mums thread! :laughing: Don't you worry girls! I'll never leave you all!
MrsMiggins
08-05-2007, 21:24
Oh dear! Just got Owen down. I hope the poor little mite has a decent night's sleep. Just after I posted that he was doing OK, we turned the corner. :( I remember Claire was exactly the same after her 2m & 4m needles.
He just wanted so much to have a sleep, but he kept waking up only moments after I put him down, crying this awful, desperate, high-pitched cry like he was in pain. Breaks my heart!! So I gave him a dose of Dymadon at 4pm and he calmed down a bit, but still couldn't get more than a few minutes sleep without waking up crying. Each time he woke up, I'd just pop him up on my shoulder and walk around & he'd be sound asleep again in a second, but I'd lay him down & it'd start all over again.
I gave him a second dose of the Dymadon at about 9.15 and he's been asleep for about half an hour or so now, so hopefully he can get some decent sleep.
I'm actually OK with Claire crying & carrying on during the day when I put her down for her day sleep. It isn't a real cry - it's one of her attention-seeking ones. So I am fine ignoring that. Whenever I tried something similar in the past, it was real crying. The hysterical, make-herself-sick kind of crying that Anna described, where there is no chance of her going to sleep. The attention-seeking cry I am happy to take! ;)
It looks like Claire was being a ratbag for Dave tonight though. I heard her carrying on while I was getting Owen to sleep & when I came out, I could hear her chatting away in the spare room. I'm a bit cranky actually. 18 months of me getting her into a good bedtime routine & Dave manages to stuff it all up in the space of a few weeks. No matter how I try, I cannot seem to get it into his thick skull that letting her get out of her routine might seem like the easy way out now, but he's only making it worse in the long run and I AM THE ONE WHO'S GOING TO HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT!!!! :mad: He's still sleeping in the spare bedroom for now, but he's going to have to move back in with me soon when we set up Claire's bed in there. If he thinks I'm going to go through this every night & also the night wakings (he's been giving in there too - as soon as she wakes up, he doesn't even try to put her back to sleep, just pops her into bed with him - so she's gotten into the habit of doing it every night!!) he's got another think coming!!
Sorry, I'm just really cranky about it!
I'd better go get some sleep. We might be in for a long night!
(Sorry about the selfish post everyone!)
Hmm Fi - wonder if you're having the sort of night that I'm having - I sure as hell hope not. Silly old Dave - gee I'd sure have a few grumbly words for him tonight about sleep and routine given half the chance. :mad: :D
Immy's been unsettled for hours and hours and hours. She just sits at the end of her cot and calls out. Shane and I have been tag-teaming but the last time when I went in she started carrying on and it was all my fault. I just completely lost it with her and was desperately asking her what was wrong, what do you want?!!!!! etc etc. I picked her up - gave her the once over - no temp, not overly hot/cold, even the rash has settled a little, she didn't want her dummy, she didn't want her poppy, she didn't want to sit up or lay down. We just can't win - I'm trying to keep it in my mind that it's the first dose of the new antibiotics so really I've lost 1 day of potential improvement and should really treat it as day 1 all over again.
I took her to the kitchen with her looking over my shoulder still crying - I think I was more upset that she was going to wake the other two. I said did she want a bottle? She just continued crying. She had a sip of water but kept on crying, I just got so mad that I hit the fridge 3 times then opened it to get the milk and realised that an egg had come crashing out and split and had gone all through the fridge and down into all the seals and the floor. Oh didn't that just top it all off. Immy refused the bottle so I gave her a few cuddles and put her back to bed. I've been cleaning the fridge seals for 1/2 an hour coz I'm so wide away but incredibly tired at the same time. I tried to lift the fridge to clean under the foot but obviously I'm not wearing my wonderwoman pants tonight (apart from the fact that it's incredibly stupid of me to even try in the first place. Yes, don't worry I know. . .:rolleyes:)
Come to think of it - this is how I felt right before I went into labour - don't worry - I promise I won't tonight! But I am still thinking a lot about all the jobs I need to prioritise over the next week or so, so things are definately moving along a bit. I feel like I just have a fat belly at the moment, not a pregnant one, I've even slept in the recovery position the last 2 nights because there's been no baby in the way! What's up with that?
It's been really really windy here the last few nights and it's up again - I'm wondering if that's why Immy is waking too - who the hell knows. I just don't know if I can get through tomorrow with 3 unwell little girls - never had to do this before - esp this far pregnant. I'm sure I'll manage - isn't that what I'm suppose to say? I'm secretly hoping that Shane will take the day off but after leaving early yesterday and watching his reaction to the budget last night it looks like today is THE day he couldn't possibly miss. Damn it, he could of in his old job.
Ok, suppose I'd better go TRY and lay down, even if it's only to rest for a couple of hours before I get up again. If I don't catch you all today, you know why. Don't stress, we'll all be ok. I have a friend to call on if things get desperate but I swear that even if we all spend the whole day in our pj's I'm going to make today work. Have a good one today everyone - hope your bubs are extra good for you all to make up for little Immy being so out of sorts. xoxox :hugs:
ETA: I haven't heard Immy since I finished cleaning up so hopefully that means she's settled down and is actually sleeping. Here's hoping I can sneak past her room and upstairs without waking her. . .
hayleylea
09-05-2007, 07:07
Fi - sorry to hear about little Owen. I hope he slept good for you after your post. As for Dave..i know he thinks he is probably helping but he needs his but kicked to get Claires routine back under wraps!
Anna - POOR Immy...thats all i can say. she must not be feeling well at all. Time at home in pjs sounds good. I hope you all manage to get some sleep, I know how frustrating it can be with your little ones are sick....its hard to really know whats going on in their little heads. I guess we just have to realise how sh!t we feel when we are sick....Poor bubbas. Sending get well vibes to everyone.
OK time to get this boy some breakkie...talk soon.
Ange&Seth
09-05-2007, 07:52
Anna - sounds like you've had a hellish night. If I was home (Tassie) I'd drive the 3 hours to give you a break :hugs: Hope Immy starts improving again today.
Fi - I agree with Hayles chic, Dave needs to get him bum into gear with Claire's sleep routine. I just don't think guys get it sometimes. I finally got through to Adam only about a month or 2 ago. Hope Owen settled ok for you in the end.
Seth woke up better this morning. Well, SO FAR he's better anyway. Still being a pain in the bum and getting into everything. I'm about to take us off outside to play - just gotta try and keep him away from the vegie garden :rolleyes:
Lou & Tan - hope all's good with you guys!!
hayleylea
09-05-2007, 08:36
Ange glad to hear Seth is better. My little man still has his cold. I have just had him crying for 40 minutes NON-STOP!!!! He saw a spider on the floor (a mighty big one i might add!!!) They are obviously coming in because its been raining. Anyway he got really scared and started screaming and pointing at it so i got my shoe and I killed it. He didnt stop crying though. He kept pointing at where it was and screaming. I said its gone but he didnt believe me. So i have vacuumed and everything to try and show him it has gone but he is still really upset! it was heartbreaking. I felt so sorry for him...he was sobbing!! He is now lying next to me cuddling me and keeps looking at the spot where it was and then cuddles me tighter! Hope he gets over this soon....poor little bugger. I guess i should be thankfull he doesnt like them and isnt picking them up lol.
Now the challange of getting ready to go to the doctors...he wont let me get up so this is going to be one hell of a morning! Poor little bugger!
Thanks Ange - that's very sweet of you! :kiss:
Morning, won't bore you all again - did manage about 1 hour of sleep after that episode but a bit of a zombie today. Girls are in their jammies and happy watching ABC kids - mainly in good spirits.
Immy fought her morning nap tooth and nail but I'd just had enough and walked out. 5 mins later and no sound - she is just so utterly buggered the poor thing.
Today I'm going to do nothing - unless I really feel like it. But the state of my floor is starting to sh!t me but I just can't find the time between naps to vacuum.
Might just sort some clothes for ebay or something.
Good news though, baby is still down and out of my rib space - day 3 now, so maybe, just maybe, he'll decide to stay there. Still a bit early though so won't be disappointed if he heads north again.
Hope you're all well and had lots of magic sleep dust last night - I think I passed all of mine on to Niki in my July thread - I asked her to give it back but she won't! :( Feel free to share your lot! I have a feeling that Shane will be home early today (he missed the bus and took the spare car) and it'll be fish and chips or something for dinner! :D
Talk soon
xoxo
Ange&Seth
09-05-2007, 10:05
My boy's just gone to bed!! I can't believe it! He's been there almost half an hour now. He cuddled up to me after having a bottle and when I asked if he wanted to go to bed he said yes :eek: so that's where he is!
hayleylea
09-05-2007, 11:32
Hey guys
just a quick update on the doc appointment. Seems it was what i suspected a umbilical hernia
**Does your baby's bellybutton protrude when he or she cries? Don't be alarmed. This is a classic sign of an umbilical hernia — a common and typically harmless condition.
An umbilical hernia occurs when part of the intestine protrudes through a weak spot in the abdominal muscles. Umbilical hernias are most common in infants, but they can affect adults as well.
Most umbilical hernias close on their own by age 2. To prevent complications, umbilical hernias that don't disappear by age 4 or 5 or those that appear during adulthood may need to be repaired surgically. **
Anna wanted to know more info so that little bit of info is for her.
Anyway its nothing to be concerned about. I have to go get it checked in december - and just keep it monitored. He said most go away before the age of 2 - 4. So im happy about that. Bad news is that his tonsills are inflamed again! :banghead: But he said its only mild so no need for anti biotics yet just to keep an eye on him.
I not along put him in bed but he is in there singing and carrying on.....this house desperatley needs to be cleaned so i should get onto that!
bye guys
Well hello again everyone.
Goodness our little ones are having a rough week aren't they?
Poor Immy - she sounds like she is really struggling. I hope her new antibiotics kick in soon and give her some relief. I guess though that nasty UTI has probably really taken hold by now and will take some breaking. Somehow Anna I hope you get some rest too. You all sound like you need nice hot chicken soup and hot rolls before a nice rest on the lounge!
As for Seth and Cooper - here's hoping they have this one yucky cold and then get through winter unscathed. It sounds like a nasty cold - and I hope Cooper can get past it without antibiotics.
Poor little Owen and those needles! I hope you are holding up ok Fi. I used to find it was helpful to remember that it really is like giving them a little dose of all those virusesand that put it in perspective for me - and allowed me to give Will lots of sympathy!
As for Will, we took him back to the doctor today as his antibiotics were almost finished. I was a bit disappointed to hear that the doctor thought there was not much improvement in terms of his throat but also somewhat relieved as this meant he hadn't turned into a :devil6: in the past few days. So another 5 days of antibiotics and then review again. I also talked to the pharmacist who suggested I stick with the nurofen as for some reason it is better than panadol for tonsillitis. I think I am going to ask for a referral to an ENT regardless when I take him back for his next review. I don't think I want to go through winter with repeated bouts of this - there must be something they can recommend even if it isn't taking his tonsils out yet. I also think the antibiotics muck up his system - he was crying at 5:30 this morning but lied down again but by 6:30 he was awake with a pooey nappy, not the usual time for one of those at all. Stuff like that has been happening a lot. I feel very sorry for him. I must admit I am also a bit annoyed with DH - he came to the doctor with us today (mostly to hold Will as he hates the doctor looking in his mouth!) and heard all that she said but still wanted to take Will swimming tomorrow. :banghead: Then he said I should ring up and ask her specifically - I told him I didn't want to look stupid and of course Will is not going swimming! Honestly I was so annoyed - he just doesn't get it.
OK had better go, I have been typing this post in bits and pieces for ages. Hope everyone is having an ok day.
hayleylea
09-05-2007, 13:52
Tan ive already spoken to you on MSN..sorry to hear about Will tonsills! Hope you get some answers soon. I think nurofen is better for tonsillitis as its an anti-inflamatory as well?? thats just my guess anway. My doctor also said to just keep up with the nurofen when i see fit and lots of fluids etc. He isnt too bad today really...just a bit of a snotty nose and a tiny cough but nothing major. He had a 2.5 hour sleep so he has woke up happy. I am minding my sisters kids for an hour or so (should be here any minute) So that should keep him occupied.
Actually better go...I have no idea why i cleaned up - it will take these 3 kids about 5 minutes to destroy all my hard work :laughing:
Oh Tan!!! What a nightmare *passes the chicken soup and hot rolls to Tan*. I was really hoping the review today would result in better news.
I read you post and I was just nodding the whole way through. Antibiotics really mucks with their system - just ask Lou the sorts of things it did to Maddi. It kills both the good and the bad bacteria in their systems so the natural balance is out of whack so it's safe to say that the extra pooey nappies etc at odd times could be because of the medicine.
From my understanding Hayles is right about the nurofen - it's an anti-inflamatory which would help to calm the throat down a little - just in the way we'd take a strepsil or similar to help us. If you're worried about giving Will nurofen for too long, then just break it up with some panadol here and there to give his system a break, but I think it should be fine.
Silly boy Troy for thinking that Will can go swimming tomorrow :shame: the LAST thing you need is for Will to get an ear infection too - as the whole ear/nose/throat passage is all connected so swimming is a definate no-no. Let him call the Dr to hear it for himself! Then sit back and laugh at the idea!
I hope you get some answers from the ENT specialists, however if I were you and they're suggesting removing his tonsils, I personally would consider it. It's far better while they're young and can bounce back quicker than waiting til they understand the process more and can get more upset and distressed about it. :fingerscrossed: it doesn't come to that at all, but we're here if you need to get things off your chest.
Hayles I hope you're coping ok with the extra kids in the house. Thanks for the extra info too - glad Cooper's ok but you're doing the right thing by keeping it documented.
Fi - How's Owen today? I really hope things have improved. I'm not looking forward to all that again at all - Shane's the biggest wuss and has never taken the kids to get their needles :rolleyes: can't see why he'd start now, so ball's in my court again I guess.
Ange - great that Seth is having a nap - remember (EVERYONE!!) sleep is the body's natural healer so you know it's doing them good!
Better go. I'm sitting here having terrible sharp pains that feel like a really bad stitch but I can't get it to go away. OMG it's so painful, think I might try to walk it off outside.
Talk soon
xoxo
MrsMiggins
09-05-2007, 14:40
Umm..... you're not in labour, Anna are you?! :eek:
Tan I'm so sorry the news from the Dr wasn't better. Try not to worry about Troy & the swimming thing. You're totally right - guys really don't get it sometimes!!
I too always think about the little viruses making their way through my little baby's system after their needles. I feel so bad for the poor little things! You really know you're a parent when you realise that if you could, you'd take a thousand needles yourself to save them having just one! :(
Hayles, that was good info you posted about the hernia. Both my kids' belly buttons protrude a bit when they cry though! :eek: I'm pretty sure they don't have hernias though.
Ange, that's great Seth went to bed like that! Isn't it great?!!
OMG guys! I got the best surprise this morning! I was getting the kids ready to go to the library when I had to go answer a knock at the front door. It was a delivery guy with a massive big box! I was a bit excited, but trying to rein it in a bit, as I just assumed it was something work-related for Dave.
But when I had a look, there was a USA sticker on it! It was a massive baby parcel from my best mate in the States! We've been friends since my family moved there when I was 5. We moved back to Aust when I was 8 in 1984, and Cindy & I have kept in touch ever since then. I stayed with her for 3 weeks when I visitied in '98. She is such a lovely person & we both really value the special friendship we have.
Even so, I wasn't expecting anything like what she sent!!
There was a big box inside, beautifully wrapped, with a lovely card. In the box were 3 complete designer outfits (one outfit has 3 shirts, a pair of shorts & matching hat, another is overalls with a matching shirt and the other is this gorgeous body suit) and some toys (all baby einstein!) There was also a big Disney Princess gift bag for Claire! When you open the bag, it has this sound chip like in musical birthday cards. So when you open it, Cinderella talks & sings! In that bag was a big pink Gund teddy bear & a Ty unicorn with a pink, sparkly mane! OMG didn't Claire just love her gift?!! She hasn't put the 2 toys down all day, even taking them with her to the library, and she has been playing with the gift bag all afternoon!
What a lovely person my friend is! She is waaaaaaay too generous! It even cost her $31.35 to post!!! :eek:
I'm going to have to give her a call tonight - once I work out the time difference! I was so blown away!
Oh dear! Claire is trying her best to wake Owen up! I'd better go! (Was she this loud before he was born??? I can't remember!!)
No-no! Not in labour. Nasty pain though. I walked it off after a while do all is good. Little boy is playing silly buggers me thinks. :rolleyes:
Have to go finish dinner - Taco's! Surprise, surprise! Shane's choice this time though - not mine but DAMN I could eat a few! :D
hayleylea
09-05-2007, 16:47
Hey guys
Fi - your friends gifts sound so nice! what a nice friend! . Its not only there when he cries..its there all the time. Just worse when he cries...HERES (http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e53/hayleylea/hernia.jpg) a pic of Coopers hernia. Not the best photo but you can see how it protrudes abit? And there is no sign of the knot etc in his belly button at all...not the best way of describing it lol. Poor little bubba! As i said though some days its really big sometimes you dont even notice it.
Had my neice and nephew here and Cooper had a ball...my head hurts though - who knew 3 kids could make so much noise lol. They get so excited when they see each other they just go mad! Its all good though. They danced around to New Mcdonalds farm, then just played and played.
Cooper is tired now....he is fed and bathed and now waiting at the door for daddy to come home - So cute!
OK i gotta go. talk soon!
hayleylea
09-05-2007, 18:01
WHOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO!!! I won the photo comp! :smiliedance: Now ive gotta think of a theme....Any ideas???
Congrats Hayles!
Um I'd suggest something very creative that will make people use their photography skills - I think the mods are trying to steer people away from just taking kiddie photos, and trying to get people to focus on a broader range of themes if that makes sense!
Fi - Oh your friend sounds wonderful! What a WONDEFUL gift to receive! I sent my friends in the USA a MASSIVE box "care package" full of stuff from PP clothes for the kids (my friend misses it SOO much), to vegemite, peanut butter and good old cadbury's chocolate and every thing in between! I think I even managed a couple of bottles of a great Moorilla red! It was to make up for all the birthdays, new births, celebrations etc we'd missed and I had fun and spent a fortune - postage alone was $100AUD! LMAO! (Shhh! Shane still doesn't know to this day!) Those were the days of disposable income! :rolleyes:
Hayles - is the hernia just on the belly button and that's what's poking out? Also what's the tummy thing you mentioned as well?
hayleylea
09-05-2007, 18:32
Hey Anna - yeah the mods pm'ed me and said to try and think of a theme that doesnt involve children on animals. Im at a loss at the moment but ill think of something soon. I was going to have the theme "emotions" but i thought that might bring too many people posting photos of their kiddies crying so back to the drawing board!!
Yep Anna the hernia is just on the belly button (they can also get hernias down below near their privates - them one are more serious!) The other tummy thing i mentioned?? is that when i was talking to you on MSN? Its not so correct name is "pidgeon chest" I cant think of the "real" term for it. Its nothing to worry about either..just something a few kids are born with - mostly boys and its suppose to be hereditary...its just a little dint in their chest....
OK back to rack my brain about a suitable photo comp theme!
hayleylea
09-05-2007, 19:13
:eek: My MIL just got home from a holiday to cairns! Gosh she spoils Cooper!!! She got him 4 DVDS (all New Mcdonalds farm (his favourite!) aswell as a tshirt. A huge cockatoo teddy (he loves her cockatoo) and a few of these whale things that are tiny and you put into water and they grow really big! :eek: I didnt even mention what she brought back for him a week ago!! Cooper hasnt seen anything yet because he is obviously asleep but he will be wrapped. I thought she was bringing back 1 dvd not 4!!
Still racking my head about the photo comp!! Geez it sucks winning lol I have no idea what theme to choose!!
hayleylea
10-05-2007, 07:01
Hey guys just put up the new round in the photo comp
its a bit of a tough one - but the mods were after something to demonstrate peoples photo skills rather then taking photos of their kids etc.
Macro/closeup - The ability of a lens to focus just inches away from an object or subject so as to produce big close-ups, sometimes even larger-than-life size
OK gotta go get some breakkie ready
Wow Fi - that was a lovely surprise from your friend. What a great present! I meant to say yesterday that maybe when it comes time for Claire to go in that big bed of hers you can tell Dave to deal with that too. I know what you mean though - DH and I still have arguments about Will and bed even though he's usually very good at going to bed!
Congrats on winning the photo comp Hayles. Macro is something I used to like doing a bit of so maybe I'll do something for this one.
:mad: News about Will this morning is not great. Now the poor little mite has bad nappy rash too, no doubt as a result of all the poos he has been doing lately. I think I really am going to ask about the referral to the specialist now - this is driving me crazy. I might call someone I know who manufactures probiotics as well. Maybe something like that would be useful given the antibiotics are probably killing all the good bugs in Will's system as well. Oh I am sooo frustrated!
Will has also suddenly discovered it is fun to be LOUD. I know you are all laughing right now wondering what took him so long but seriously in the last couple of days he has started yelling words rather than just saying them. Now that can't be good for his throat. After a while I say "shoosh" to him and then he says "oh". They have to be cute about it don't they just to make it hard for you to put on your cranky face.
Last night I tried the naughty corner again and Will actually stayed there! Only problem was/is that he still thinks it is some weird game and goes and sits there by himself sometimes without being told. I hope he gets bored of that soon because it looks awful - he sits in this darkish corner of the hallway!
Oh well - had better get a wriggle on this morning. I actually have work appointments today so I should get organised.
Oh - I hope Immy is a lot better today too!
Ange&Seth
10-05-2007, 07:49
Morning Gals!!!
Fi - Your friend is so thoughtful!! Was she surprised when you called her ?
Anna - Glad to hear those pains went away. I used to get stitches in my ribs from Seth sittng hard up against them.
Hayles - Congrats on winning the comp Chic :thumbsup: Can't wait to see the new entries.
Tan - that nappy rash doesn't sound good! A probiotic would probably help. How cute of Will being loud haha. Seth's not quite there yet, he's still in the stage of ignoring me and trashing the house.
Well, you should see my kitchen - it's a mess!!! Adam cooked last night and didn't clean up as he went, or afterwards and OMG what a mess. I usually clean the kitchen before I go to bed so I don't have to get up to the mess. Trying to find the motivation to get it all cleaned up :laughing:
Morning. . .
Oh Tan - while I did have a chuckle about Will finally finding his LOUD voice, it's not good news about his poor little bum! Lots of warm baths to keep him clean and you could also try a little salt in the bath if his bottom is red raw (to help heal) and then air dry his bum & some good healing/barrier cream smoothered on his bum after.
You're right about the probiotic stuff too - that stuff replaces all the good bacteria lost when it's killed off by the antibiotics - we've used that Inner Health Plus stuff before - but I'm sure there's other brands out there. Let us know how you go with it.
Ange - I won't say anything - except for if I were you and I didn't have to use my kitchen today, tonight, tomorrow etc, I wouldn't touch a bloody thing in it and leave it all there until Adam cleaned it all up. What are you his slave?! Shane's good with cleaning as he goes when he's in the kitchen. Oooh I could so say more. . .:mad: I hope you treat yourself today, even if it's a nice rest on the couch with a hot chocolate!
Oh my pains did go away thank goodness, probably just some major reshuffling going on inside! Baby is still lower and hasn't come back up! Yay! That's 4 days now!
Hayles - good choice in theme for the photo comp - nice and easy for everyone to enter a great photo. Hopefully this time they'll include 20 photos - I think it depends on how fast it fills.
Well it was bound to happen I guess. . . I'm well on the way to my customary pregnancy cold :crying: . I woke this morning with a headache, stuffy head, sore neck, body ache, stuff on my chest and the sorest throat I've had in ages - none of which was helped by going to sleep at 1am. Last night nesting got the better of me and I tipped my 2 shelves & 2 baskets of tops onto my bed and spent 1.5 hours sorting and folding them so my shelves look lovely now and I can actually see what I own. Next is to go through everything on my hangers and sort what to keep and what to put in the salvo's bag. I've no idea what's going to fit me in 3 months time so I'm reluctant to get rid of everything, but there are definately things in the cupboard that I really need to un-pry my fingers from :D ! Next job after that is to KEEP it all like that!
IMMY SLEPT THROUGH THE NIGHT! :yelclap:
She didn't even wake when I came downstairs at 8:30 after my shower. I was so paranoid that I opened her door just a teeny tiny bit to see if I could hear her breathing or moving etc - talk about paranoid! I threw a load of washing in the dryer and she woke up - but she's happy and chirpy for the meantime, although she'll be going to bed again very soon.
I'm simply SO desperate to get out of the house today - but it's just going to be impossible and irresponsible for me to drag 3 kids around the shops to buy undies, some winter clothes & some hospital bag things. But I'm developing some serious cabin fever here - having not been out anywhere in 3 weeks (inc weekends) apart from the school runs, library and grasshoppers.
Ok been typing this for too long so should go get Immy sorted so she's not too crabby by the time she needs her morning nap.
xoxo
hayleylea
10-05-2007, 08:33
Oh Tan so sorry to hear about Will!! poor little bugger!! Hopefully you get some answers soon...probiotics sound good. No harm in trying anyway!!! As for being loud...Cooper certainly has his moments in that area too lol. He is pretty good today. Has a snotty nose still but he slept again till after 8 so i cant complain!
Ange - goodluck cleaning the kitchen. It was nice that Adam cooked you dinner... as for him not cleaning up - you you guys sounded like you were having a blast when i was chatting to you on MSN so who cares about the cleaning!! Having fun is much better lol In saying that goodluck cleaning it today - just take your time - it will get done eventually :D I turned off the computer this morning in an attempt to get this house clean and it worked!! :smiliedance: Ive done absolutley everything...vacuuming, mopping, washing, scrubbing the shower etc etc etc...might make it my morning ritual lol.
Ok im off again to go see my MIL, Cooper hasnt seen her for a week so he will be very excited!
Ange&Seth
10-05-2007, 08:37
No Anna I'm not his slave but I'm not going to crack it with him because one out of the last 14 days he's left a mess in the kitchen. At least he cooked dinner for me and we had a wonderful night together curled up on the couch watching a movie :hugs:
Hayles - I turned just the computer monitor off the other day and got SO much done!!! Just cos I wasn't hitting 'new posts' every time I walked past!!!
Ange - oh that's great that Adam's cooking dinner for you! What'd he make? Sounds like what Shane does on our "date" nights - he chooses a recipe (inc dessert!), buys the ingredients, pops open some wine and cooks away! Then we curl up on the couch and watch a movie together. Good on Adam for making an effort - sounds like a new leaf has turned!
But I'm with you - I can't stand waking up to a messy kitchen! :D
So great - I just sold another $100 worth of clothes yesterday! A bubhubber wrote to me to say that she'd received the 000/00 clothing I'd sent in the mail and that they were just beautiful and she loved them. She casually mentioned to pm her one day when I was selling size 0's too so I sent her the pics and she went to town! Honestly, I practically gave away half of it, but I don't really care, nice to know that someone out there has the same taste in clothes as me and really appreciates some nice, quality second hand clothing for their baby - now if only I could find stuff like that for my boy??? :rolleyes:
What's for lunch girls?
I still have no desire to cook but I want to get a head start today.
Also dinner ideas would be appreciated, my head it too fuzzy to think.
hayleylea
10-05-2007, 10:51
Nothing Fancy for lunch here Anna - Crumbed fish and chips here! We just finished it actually. Cooper didnt eat much...its a real hassle getting this boy to eat Breakfast and lunch latley. Dinner we have no probs!
Just got back from the MILs...She got Cooper these fish things that you put in water and leave them there and over 72 hours they grow REALLY big (600x their original size) All good in theory right? Yeah of course only Cooper was scared sh!tless of the slimy little buggers that he just sat there going "OOOOOOOHHHHHHHH" and covering his ears!!! :laughing: (he covers his ears when something scares him) It was very funny!
Anywho better go calm this boy down because i want him to have a big sleep today!
ETA: yep Tan i think you should enter the photo comp by the way! would love to see an entry from you!
MrsMiggins
10-05-2007, 11:49
:ecomcity: You gasbagging bunch of old ladies!!! lol
Anna, that's great about the clothes! I wish I could make some $$ and sell some of the stuff my kids have grown out of, but I know when we eventually had #3, I'd be kicking myself! So I'll just hang onto them for now.
Ange, I haven't managed to call my friend yet. It'll probably take me weeks! :laughing:
Hayley, congrats on the photo comp! That new one sounds tricky! But then again, I'm basically a "point-and-click" kinda gal! I see what you mean now about the hernia. No, neither of my kids' stick out that much. It just kind of "pops" out when they cry or stick their tummies out, IYKWIM?
Hey, Owen has started to suck his thumb. It's very cute!!
And Claire's latest is to cover her eyes (grinning her head off!) when we tell her off! I guess she thinks she's hiding!! :laughing: The other day, I was telling her for about the millionth time to do something (or to stop doing something, I forget!) and she stood up and put her fingers in her ears!! :laughing: So hard not to laugh!!
Tan, poor Will!! And no, I don't imagine the screaming would be good for the throat! Claire has gotten markedly louder since Owen arrived (yeah, GREAT timing, I know!!) She just runs around yelling & screaming at the top of her voice sometimes. She gets sent to her room for doing it, but I'm not sure how effective that is. I mean, it stops her from doing it that time, but she seems to forget half an hour later! Ugh! It's all too hard some days!
Ange&Seth
10-05-2007, 12:03
Seth and I had macca's for lunch cos we have no eggs, no bread, no nuggets or anything in the freezer. Yep, you guessed it! It's shopping day :rolleyes:
hayleylea
10-05-2007, 12:43
Fi- not really that tricky. Mind you i dont have a chance at winning this one...which i really dont mind. The entries so far are fantastic. I did just enter. This is as good as it gets for me on the whole Macro thing...im hoping Tan will take a great pic and blow everyone away (no pressure Tan! :hugs: lol) http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e53/hayleylea/macro3.jpg heres my entry. Its as close up as i could get - i think the photo has character :) hmmm after re-looking at this photo im thinking maybe its not macro enough!! Oh well!!
Its shopping day here too Ange once the little monster wakes up.
Oh Fi - Cooper also covers his ears when he is in trouble! cheeky little buggers!
hayleylea
10-05-2007, 13:54
as much as i love the photo of roxy i thought i better change the photo to suit the topic a bit more...
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e53/hayleylea/macrophotocomp.jpg hers my new entry lol
Man it has been busy in here!! I'm sure I'm going to forget to acknowledge stuff so apologies in advance.
Congratulations on the photo comp. Hayley and I hope Cooper is going okay with his cold. Cooper's presents from you MIL sound excellent - I like the sound of the growing fish (even though they freak him out -funny!!)
Poor Will - he is going through a rough time and I wouldn't even think about taking him swimming - what is wrong with men sometimes? Paddy is just recovering from bad nappy rash and the thing that fixed it up the best was pawpaw ointment if you have any of that. Poor little fellow. How funny about him going and sitting in the "naughty spot" just for the hell of it.
Anna good to hear Immy slept through for you after your chaos (I can't believe you posted at 4am you crazy woman - you must be so tired). Hope you get to have a good sleep tonight and Immy is on the mend. Hey have you got a name chosen for Bubba Blue yet?
Fi how exciting to get such great presents from your friend -how nice. Hope Owen has recovered from his needles and I love that he is sucking his thumb. Paddy only sucked his for a little bit and I wish he did it longer - it is the cutest thing. I am so impressed that Claire will go to sleep on a bed -I'm sure Paddy would be off in a second. That's great that she finally gives up with the carry on and goes to sleep - good girl!!
Ange how nice that Adam cooked dinner (even if he left a big mess). Hope Seth is feeling okay. I checked out his photos -love them - what a cute little face he has. Good work with your new nightly routine (well getting yourself to bed before 3am anyway) - hope it is still working for you.
Lou I have gone blank about what's happening with you and Maddi but hope you are both well and your Mum is still around having fun with you all.
I've been busy doing all sorts of stuff but can't remember what it is. I am feeling quite vague and tired these days. I swear I could sleep for a solid week. I had a friend come over on Tuesday with her 2 boys who are the same age gap apart that I will have with my 2. The little 10 week old was just so cute and his older brother seemed to be coping very well and I looked at her and thought "if she can do it I can do it" and it really did look like a good age gap. Sometimes I think it will be too close but seeing her I don't think it will be. I am getting a bit sad though that Paddy and I only have 2 months left with just the 2 of us having fun during the day -I love spending the day just with him -he is such a happy, funny little boy. My mind has started whirling with the things I need to organise before baby 2 arrives but my body hasn't quite caught up yet. Good work sorting out your cupboards Anna -that's on my list too. Anyway I can hear Paddy waking up - better go for now. Hope everyone is well.
Cath
Ange&Seth
10-05-2007, 15:33
OMG Cath!! I can't believe that you've only got 2 months to go!! It all goes SO quickly! You and Anna must be due around the same time.
Well today, Seth has only had about an hours sleep and I still can't find the vicks!!! No doubt he'll appear at some point with it in his hands. But who knows?? I'll have another search tonight for it.
Ok, better go get something organised for dinner. Hope you've all had a good day.
hayleylea
10-05-2007, 15:34
Lou just checked out the photo comp and I love your entry!!! :thumbsup: Well done!!!
Cath - great to hear from you! How exciting that its only 2 months away before Paddy has a brother!!! I agree with you - Paddy looks like such a happy little chap!! Enjoy the days while you can!! But when number 2 comes along I guess then its double the fun?? (thats my theory anyway - please no one ruin it for me HAHA).
My little man has grew horns these last few days!! :devil6: TANTRUM city!!!!!! not all is bad but the tantrums seem to be happening alot more. I shouldnt say that he is all that bad because most of the time he is a pleasure to be around. I dont like these tantrums one bit though :no: - He is very good at knowing Time out means naughty now so fingers crossed that helps! hehe. I do get HUGE cuddles after a bout in time out - and they are just beautiful! His way of saying sorry i guess lol.
Anyway i should go and get tea started. Talk soon.
Hi guys,
Hayley I had heaps of fun in the garden today trying to get a macro photo. What a great topic! Congrats on winning the last comp too! I was lying in the grass taking that photo and had Maddi jumping on my back, so I'm amazed it was in focus. Oh to have a macro lens.
Cath, 2 months to go :eek: Oh lordy that time has flown. Before we know it Paddy and Immy's little brothers will be here. It was so lovely to read how much you are treasuring your time alone with Paddy.
Looks like Maddi has yet another cold. She has been coughing all day today. Last night I had to pop into work to set up a experiment thingy so I was gone from 7-8pm. And when I came home all hell had broken loose. Maddi was up out of bed and on the couch. DH sitting on the couch too but with no clothes on and the bedroom floor covered in vomit. Apparantly about 5 minutes after I had left Maddi woke up coughing and DH picked her up and subsequently got covered in vomit. He did ok and managed to get her changed and settled on the couch. She seems ok today but has been coughing flat out. Ah this winter is a nightmare already and its not even winter yet!
Ange its so good to see you on here more lately. I've missed you! How great that you and Adam got some time out to snuggle on the couch and you got tea cooked for you. Nothing like a bit of housework for foreplay ;) :laughing: .
Anna and Tan, I hope Immy and Will are better today. Its sooooo tiring when they are sick. And then more often than not we end up run down and sick too. Hope your cold is a quick 24 hour one Anna.
Fi I laughed out loud and hard when I read about Claire covering her eyes up with her hands when she is in trouble. That girl is too smart. I mean how can you stay mad at her when she does that? You must have laughed so hard when she did it the first time. I would have.
I've just given Maddi a photo of herself and she is currently walking around kissing it. Talk about love yerself!
OK I better go, its that crazy time of day for tea, bath, bottle and bed.
Do you guys still give your kiddies bottles?
Hi again,
yep Ange, Anna and I will be having our babies at about the same time because I am having an elective caesarean which will probably be when I am around 38 weeks so we are likely to have our babies in the same week. This time has definitely gone so much faster than when I was pregnant with Paddy. Hope Seth fossicks out the Vicks for you.
Hayley that's great that Cooper is starting to understand time out -clever little man. We haven't got to that point with Paddy yet but I'm sure we will be trying it out soon enough.
Lou poor Tony getting covered in vomit -not nice. Poor little Maddi - so sad she has a nasty cough. How cute she is kissing her own photo -that's beautiful. We stopped giving Paddy bottles about 6 weeks ago because the teats had worn out and I thought we would just stop the bottles rather than buying new teats. We are giving him a drink of milk in the same non-spill sippy cup type of thing that he has his water in during the day (which is actually sort of bottle shaped anyway). He was taking it and drinking the milk happily initially but over the last fortnight will only have a couple of sips of milk before pushing it away and then wanting water instead before he goes to bed. I'm a bit worried he's not getting enough milk but if I make an effort I can get it into him (he will drink most of a cup of banana smoothie any day). He has his 18mth appt. next Tuesday so will check with the nurse if she thinks he gets enough calcium with milk on his Weetbix and the yoghurt he has -it's probably not quite enough.
We are going to a wedding tomorrow night and I tried on the dress I was going to wear (the one maternity dress I own) this morning and Dean told me I looked like a turtle and couldn't wear it. I tried it on when my Mum came over and she said it was fine and not to listen to Dean and that men have no idea but now I am scared to wear it. I don't want to go to a wedding looking like a turtle!! If I wasn't pregnant I could have a few stiff drinks to get brave enough to wear it. I will decide tomorrow I guess - my only other option is black pants and the same top that I wore out last weekend that alot of people who will be at this wedding saw me wearing. Oh to be a man and just wear a suit every time.
Cath - what the hell? Gee Dean has a way with words for pregnant women! :laughing: I'm SURE you don't look like a turtle in the dress and if you really want an honest opinion, take a photo tonight and post it here and we'll tell you. Otherwise if you'd told me yesterday then I'd have express posted you the perfect dress to wear!
As for calcium - you'd be surprised how much kids get during the day. Sure there's milk & yoghurt, but there's cheese (even if it's just a slice), vegetables and some dried fruits like figs & apricots. Kids aged 1-7 need 500-800mg of calcuim each day (google australia told me so!) and from memory - there use to be an ad on telly that advertised the daily recommended amount of calcium for Aussie kids could be received from a glass of milk, a tub of yoghurt and a piece of cheese. (Someone correct me if I'm wrong).
Hope that helps.
Lou - yes Immy is still having a 250ml bottle at each nap time as well as bed time and drinks most of it - along with milk in her brekki most mornings. And yes we practically have to hire a cow for our weekly supply. :D (We go through about 10-12 litres a week but thankfully we have Mr Milk who delivers twice a week to our doorstep! :thumbsup:)
Poor Maddi, I hope she's ok today. That's how Nicola started off remember? One night she just threw up a couple of times in the toilet then the next day was fine but sniffly - now she has a runny nose and is a bit stuffy but that's about it. She has her colour back and she's chirpy. Hopefully Maddi has only got a light cold and it will be gone soon. What's on your bedroom floor - carpet? How'd you clean the vomit by the way? Poor Tony - although I've been up to my armpits and diarrhoea (sp?) so many times that I'd actually really appreciate it if the kids could kindly do it over DH for a change! :devil6:
Love your photo comp entry by the way!
And PMSL over Maddi kissing her own photo! Oh my word Lou, what are you raising?! Do you think she'll have her own dressing room, a house full of clothes and her name up in lights by the age of 12? Sure looks that way!
Oops - gotta cut it short for now, DH just went and got some fish & chips (yep I'm feeling too cr@ppy to cook) so better go sort it out so we can get these kids to bed early. Seems like all this sleep is doing them well - each day they're getting a little better although Nicola was pretty upset that she couldn't go to grasshoppers today - next week she starts full days so I've promised her that surprise!
Damn -I should have tried on the dress for Dean last week so he could call me a turtle then and I would have had time to look for other options -that would have been great Anna!! Thanks anyway.
Good to hear the girls are on the mend and Fish and Chips sounds like a great plan to me - you need a break for at least 3 nights in a row I would say. Hope you sleep well tonight. I will be in bed at 8:30.
A break for 3 nights in a row???!! What's that?!! :laughing:
I've been crying to Shane that I've just been on call to these kids nearly every minute of the day, mum can I have a snack? Mum can I have fruit? Mum I want an easter egg. Mum can I have a drink. Mum is it lunch time yet? Mum can I watch a movie? Mum when is daddy coming home? Mum, mum, mum!!!!
Hmm.... yes, maybe you're right Cath! :rolleyes: :laughing:
An early night sounds just perfect - I think I might just go watch LOST from the comfort of my warm cosy bed with lots of pillows! Now if only I had a vat of jelly . . . I feel like jelly. Do I have time to make some???! Hmm I wonder? Stoopid cravings. . . :mad:
Hi everyone,
This will just be a quick post as I have had a busy day and there is still some stuff I want to do before I go to bed tonight.
Lou - poor Maddi throwing up! I'd say poor Tony as well except that I know how much you have had to cope with on your own at times!
Will still has a bottle at night before bed, but that's the only one. I haven't tried lately with getting him to drink milk out of a cup - the last few times there was no change, he still just flat out refused to drink it and I haven't been bothered to try again lately. Will doesn't seem to like cheese much either but I know the nurse told me that he probably gets enough calcium through fruit and veg.
Actually I have to admit that once he is better I am so tempted to go cold turkey with both the bottle and the dummy. Will has been annoying me about his dummy lately, he only has it for bed but in the past week or so he has taken up asking for it. This really annoys me and I keep telling him no and dragging it out until just before bed. Maybe he wants it more because he is not well - I don't know. His bottom doesn't seem to be as red tonight so hopefully that is clearing up too.
Cath - how rude of Dean! Men can be so insensitive! I don't know if you are an accessory person but maybe you can run down to the shops tomorrow and get a really nice new scarf or something to brighten up those pants. I vaguely remember that when I was PG I suddenly got into scarves and things because it helped my wardrobe feel bigger than it was!
I haven't had any time today to take a macro shot - maybe tomorrow, we'll have to see what the day brings. I think tomorrow might be fairly busy though.
Fi - that Claire of yours is just too smart! Mind you - Cooper is not far behind. Will has no idea of ways to avoid getting into trouble except to pull cute faces. I can't believe Claire put her fingers in her ears! What a classic.
Yes - Will is still exploring his own version of the tantrum. He is pretty funny though because he just lacks stamina with that one. He doesn't take long at all to move onto something else!
Ange - I hope you found the Vicks! Apparently Will disappeared with 2 pencils while I was out today and reappeared a little bit later with no pencils asking Troy "Where is it?". Goodness knows where they'll turn up. Will's favourite game is hiding things at the moment. Problem is that he hides them sometimes and then gets distracted and we find all sorts of things in strange places later!
Well - I did say this was going to be sshort - I don't think it is! Hope you all have a good night!
hayleylea
10-05-2007, 19:31
Lou, Cooper still has 2 bottles. One for his arvo sleep and on for before bed. I did have success with getting him drinking from a cup for a little while - but only during the day (for his milk) but then he got sick with tonsillitis so i gave him back the bottle. Im not too worried about him having a bottle though - i figure he will give it up when he is ready (thats usually the way he goes about thing! lol) If he is sick he will have more then his 2 bottles.
My laptops charger lead has got a tear in it so i cant use it :crying: So i only have the old computer on standby till i get my new charger sent...So i wont be around on MSN as much for the next few days. I dont have messenger on this computer ...YET ...Might look into that tommorrow arvo. Im off to mums tommorrow for the day to visit my friend who is down from perth.
Take care. Night all
Oh thank god someone else is still on the bottle. I was thinking that I was a bad mother for still giving Maddi one. I have tried to get her to have cups but she flat out refuses. And because she is not able to have dairy I want her to have as much milk as possible. So thanks for making me feel better. I was talking to another mother yesterday and she was bagging out this other mum because she was still giving her 18month old a bottle. I just kept my mouth shut and changed the topic. Secretly I was thinking "how rude".
Guess who is still awake???? Yep, Maddi has gone to bed a total of 3 times and she keeps waking up coughing. I gave her some tyxilix (can't spell) and its made her go sillly. She has been running around and its like its the middle of the day. Oh boy am I in for a great night (NOT). I wonder how long that stuff takes to wear off? She had it at 6pm and its now 10.30pm. My BEDTIME :sleeping:
Tan, your so spot on with me having to cope with a lot. I have to be honest and say I didn't feel bad for DH getting spewed on. I forget the number of times its happened to me while I've been alone and I've had to clean us both up and the house.
DH is currently sitting with Maddi in the lounge while I have a good vent. Time Out for me.
Ange&Seth
11-05-2007, 00:30
Bedtime? BEDTIME?? Oh yeah! Point me in the direction of BEDTIME!!! I'm gonna be royally screwed come 7.30am!!! Damn SIL!!! We have this issue where if we don't see eachother for a few days(ie 5+ days) then we have a few glasses of wine and catch up. Problem there is that I keep drinking LONG after I should have gone to bed and then she leaves and I've got CAFFEINE FOR DAYS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok going to bed now :sleeping: oh Sorry !!!! Did I wake you guys?????????????? STIFFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!!! :laughing:
hayleylea
11-05-2007, 06:40
:laughing: :laughing: Ange - you had a good night then? Now if i had messenger working on this computer i could have joined you. It was Coopers turn to have a shocker last night.
Now the doctor said it was a mild case of Tonsillitis but i think it has flared out - stupid doctors im sure they just send you home knowing you will come back! :banghead: He cried and cried when i put him to bed last night so i got him up and gave him a cuddle...put him back to bed - cried again. sat in his room for awhile and he just sobbed and sobbed and coughed. Wouldnt touch his bed time bottle last night either. And he kept making a yucky sound when he swallowed like it was hurting him! Anyway i think i got him to bed around 9 and at 11 he woke up screaming. I couldnt calm him down, wouldnt take a bottle - put him in to bed with us and that still didnt work. I then got up and sat on the lounge with him until he calmed down. Put him back in bed and sat with him till dozed off....half hour later WAAAAAA WAAAAA! Anyway this all happened for about 3.5 hours. Poor little fella! he is now in bed I have to go meet a friend today but i really dont want to wake him.
I got up early and got myself organised but i have a feeling this is going to be a looooooooooonnnnng day - Ange maybe you could throw a few of your caffine hits over here! lol
Talk soon guys.
Oh dear, sounds like we're all having a go at being out of routine - both kids and mummies (ANGE!!:laughing: ) Don't worry - I do that to when I catch up with my bestie - we go out for dinner or a movie etc and end up sitting in some coffee place or maccas til all hours chatting away!
Ok won't hang around this morning, we're off to such a slow start. Nicola still has a cold and now is coughing - just great. Chelsea's still the same as she was. Immy is definately on the mend thank goodness!
However - now I have a cold - sore sore sore throat, nose is all blocked and yuck and I feel off. Shane took last Friday off coz Immy was unwell and didn't want to do it again today (wouldn't look good 2nd week in a new job!) so he's taken the spare car to work (see? still a godsend that we haven't sold it!!) and he's going to flex off at lunch time and come home. Then if I feel up to it (or even if I don't) I'm outta here. I'm going to head down the road and buy some mothers day presents and then buy some things to pack in my hospital bag - mainly new toiletries, pads and all that lovely stuff.
Just quick though - Cath, I really think you should wear tonight what you feel comfortable in and not worry about what Dean or anyone else thinks about your outfit - if you choose the dress then tell Dean to shut up about it unless he's going to give you $100 and permission to go buy a new one today -and if you choose the pants & shirt, I agree with Tan and go spoil yourself with some new accessories and don't give a 2nd thought to what other people say - let them think what they like about your pregnancy wardrobe - and they can only have an opinion if THEY give you $100 to go and buy a new outfit! :D
Oh Cath, I just read about your dress debate. I had to go to a couple of weddings when I was pregnant and I was really unhappy at both of them because I felt like............. well a elephant! I was pretty big at those weddings and I had nothing to wear because I had no maternity dress and was making do with my maternity clothes (black pants and top). So if you do feel uncomfortable now then go out there and splurge on a dress or accessory to glam it up so you can enjoy yourself on the day. I liked Tan's idea of adding scarves and things like that to dress up. And in the morning when Dean gets dressed for the wedding come out with the "your not going to wear that are you? It makes your bum look huge!". And see how he feels.
Oh dear - poor Maddi and Cooper! I hope that tixylix wore off and you all got some sleep Lou! As for Cooper I think I would be heading straight back to that doctor to give him a piece of my mind!
I think I read somewhere or someone told me that kids get sick most often between the ages of 1 and 2. I think our little group is certainly proving that to be true.
Ange you naughty girl. How's your head today? I think we all need to do stuff like that sometimes. Tonight is our Friday night with a babysitter and we are heading off for dinner with some friends. I think there will be a bit of wine drunk as the guy and his wife that we are having dinner with found out he was made redundant yesterday with no notice. Drowning our sorrows I think!
Anyway - have to dash, have a super busy weekend ahead and have to clean and do all sorts of things today.
Hope Cath found something suitable for the wedding.
As for Cooper I think I would be heading straight back to that doctor to give him a piece of my mind!
And demand to be bulk billed.
2 visits in the one thing for the same illness . . . not good enough. :no:
Ange&Seth
11-05-2007, 11:23
Hayles - I hope Cooper is feeling better today. I would be going back to the doctor again and refusing to pay for it.
Cath - I agree with everyone, wear what YOU feel comfortable in. Something I've learned is that no matter what you're wearing, if you feel uncomfortable in it, you won't look good in it. I reckon you should comment on Dean's bum too, see how he likes being spoken to like that :laughing:
Tan - Have fun tonight!! I'd love to go out for dinner one night, Adam and I haven't been for awhile.
Anna - hope you got to have some 'ME' time and are feeling better soon. You're having a real run of bad luck aren't you!
Lou - What's happening in your world? How's Maddi doing now?
I swear, my SIL and I are bad influences on eachother :rolleyes: We just egg eachother on and on and on. Adam said to me this morning 'how's the weather?' (his way of asking how my head is) and I said 'fine' - but then I moved :eek: The weather changed from 'fine' to 'fine and slightly cloudy' to 'thunderstorms' HAHA. Nah, it was ok, once I got in the shower and washed my hair etc I felt really good. I DID lay on the floor in the loungeroom though and doze for a few mins with Seth trashing the place around me. I just let him go. I needed to talk myself out of a hangover.
We got organised and went to a Wagga BH meet that we had organised here. I feel so stupid, I've lived in this town for 5.5 years and I always thought the Botanic Gardens were dumb and no where near as good as the ones in Albury :rolleyes: Yeah, maybe I should have actually had a proper LOOK at it before I made that assumption!!!! It's excellent!! There's a 'zoo' there and this great playground and a cafe so you could go there for lunch or just coffee. I'm just blown away, it was a REALLY fun morning!
We were there for an hour and then headed home via the chemist to get something to try and dry Seth out a bit. By this stage it's almost 11.30am and Seth is over tired and cranky and entirely deserving of his new nickname 'Snotface'. Get the Dimetapp home and see that the box says 'Do not give to children under 2 years of age except under medica guidance'. GREAT!!! I told the chemist how old he is, why did he give me this stuff?? So I rang my gf at the clinic and then she has to get back to me about whether or not I can give it to Seth - blah blah blah blah blah!!! In the end, yes I could give it to him, he had a bottle and has now been in bed for about half an hour. Poor little bugger could barely keep his eyes open.
Now I've got so much stuff to do while he's asleep cos we're going away this weekend and I want everything done before we leave. Some sleep would be nice too HAHA.
My Kidneys Hurt
MrsMiggins
11-05-2007, 11:41
Oh Geez!!! And I thought you lot were a bunch of old gasbags last time I posted!!! :laughing:
Lou, Claire still has a bottle every morning & every night too. She probably could go without, but ....meh! It suits our routine & she gets her calcium. Who cares!
Poor Maddi & Tony!!! I hope Tony wasn't too traumatised & that Maddi is feeling better.
Cath, wow! 2 months! You will be fine once #2 comes along. I won't kid you, it's hard when your older one is still very reliant on you, but I can already see that Claire & Owen adore eachother. It's going to be very worth all the effort when they get a bit older. I'm really looking forward to Christmas time this year, actually! They'll both be a good age by then!
Sorry guys, I'm going to have to cut this short, but I just wanted to pop in & catch up (glad I did!!) I made myself a Dr's appt this afternoon, as the bleeding still hasn't completely stopped. Hopefully it's all OK, but for my own peace of mind, I thought I should go.
Anyway, gotta run! Don't chat too much tonight, will you?! :laughing:
Hi again,
I still haven't decided what to wear tonight -will try the dress on again soon and see what I feel like - I think I want to wear it because I paid money for it and this is the only time I will wear it. There is no way I am going shopping this afternoon so it will have to be something I have. Good thinking about the scarf Tan -maybe I will pull out all my accessories and see what I can come up with.
Lou hope Maddi came down off her tyxlix high for you last night. Don't feel like a bad Mum about the bottle - realistically I think most kids this age still have a bottle. What was that woman you were talking to carrying on about !! She has no idea what really goes on obviously. I was happy to let Paddy keep having them but couldn't be bothered buying new teats so they came to an end out of laziness really.
Hayley what a rough old night for you and Cooper. How is he today? Poor little fellow. These kids are certainly having a bad run. Paddy seems to have escaped the list so far - I probably shouldn't say that because now he will get sick. Hope you are both okay today.
Good work with having a bit of fun last night Ange - you can't go to bed early every night. Balancing it out with a few crazy nights sounds good to me. That's great that you have found a good local place to go. Hope Seth is on the mend soon.
Anna hope you are out there shopping with no little ones in tow -it is always so much nicer shopping on your own. Hope your cold is a short lived one -not what you need.
Hope you have a nice dinner tonight Tan - you are doing really well with going out. We really need to make an effort to do that more.
Fi I love that you can already see that Claire and Owen are going to have fun together. It really will be so nice to have 2 little ones. Hope you get your bleeding sorted out - how annoying.
Anyway I'm off to make a couple of phone calls and then try on the turtle dress another time. Thanks for all the support everyone. I am sort of still laughing about the turlte comment - Dean never says things in a nasty way and we were laughing but still not what I wanted to hear. I am looking forward to the wedding anyway - it is at the Melbourne Aquarium which will be cool as I have never been and the couple getting married are wine buffs and I have a big craving for a nice glass of red which I think I will satisfy tonight.
Cath
MrsMiggins
11-05-2007, 20:26
I hope you're out having a ball tonight Cath! I had a chuckle when I read this afternoon about the turtle dress!! I'll be interested to hear what you ended up coming up with.
Cath, I was thinking today about the whole two kids & a small age-gap thing & I have to say that having more than one child does add a whole new dimension to the pleasures of being a parent. I was driving over to my mum & dad's to drop Claire off and she & Owen were sitting in the back having a great old conversation! Owen would goooo-ga at her and she'd goooo-ga back at him! It was so gorgeous!! Both of them thought it was hilarious! It just totally made my day! It made me realise that one of the best things about having more than one child is watching them interact together. It really is amazing!
Well, the upshot of my Drs appt is that I have to go have an ultrasound. Thing is, she didn't want to give me a referral to the place that bulk bills because it may take a few weeks to get in there, so she gave me one for the place where you have to pay some ridiculous amount up front & then get all but $40-something back from Medicare. So I'm going to have to find some cash! It's been a good long while since I had an u/s at this place, but from memory it was something like $120. :rolleyes:
I hope everyone is having visits from the sleep fairy tonight & that all your bubs are well-behaved!
hayleylea
12-05-2007, 06:06
Morning guys,
Ill apologise in advance if i dont get to all the personals because Im not feeling the best. Cooper decided to give me an early mothers day present - HIS COLD!!! - I mean c'mon I know we try and teach them to share but this is going TOO far :laughing:
Nah seriously I feel like **** - nothing i cant handle though. Cooper slept through last night...but did get up at 7 on the dot which im just not use too! I have to admit though its better then getting up all through the night so im not too worried by it all.
FUNNY new trait of Cooper - You know how we were talking about Tantrums? Well Cooper has topped the funny list this time. Now when he gets cranky he runs into his room and slams the door!!! Its sooo funny!!! Of course i dont laugh at him but its very very funny. He then goes quiet or has a bang around in his room for a second and then yells out "MAAAAAA" and i open it and he comes out smiling!!! :laughing:
Fi i hope all goes well with the ultrasound.
Cath - im sure you didnt look like a turtle!! Hope you had a great night!
Ange have a great weekend away! Ill miss ya!!!
Tan and Anna - hows Will and Immy going?
OK im off talk soon! Have a great weekend guys!
Hi again,
well I wore the dress and felt very pregnant but I am I guess. Had a great time and am pretty tired today. Poor old Dean is hungover and back having a nap but he better get up soon - he has lots to do for Mothers Day tomorrow (he has to make a lasagne for his family lunch and I have bought half the stuff to make it but he has to go to the supermarket and get the rest and I refuse to do it).
Fi I love to hear your thoughts about having the two little ones -it gets me more and more excited about baby 2 arriving when I hear them. That's so nice that you can see that they enjoy having each other around. How annoying about the ultrasound. I hear you about the cost of having to pay for it. I hate to tell you but the last ultrasound I had cost $185 and I only got back about $50 -so much money!!! I don't get the option of a bulk billing place and we spend a fortune every time. I am going to make sure I get to check out baby 2 very thoroughly at my scan in 3 weeks to make sure I get my money's worth. Hope everything turns out well for you and there are no dramas.
Hayley that's not good at all that you will have a cold for Mothers Day -so wrong. Hope it doesn't hit you too hard. That's hilarious about Cooper going and slamming the door - sounds like he is 8 years old.
Anyway better go and get this man out of bed so he can get some stuff done. Happy Mothers Day for tomorrow everyone.
Cath
hayleylea
12-05-2007, 13:32
Hey guys
Cath - glad you had a good night! - i am pleased to say my cold is only minor so thats all good. Trent and I have a bday party to go to tonight - the MIL is minding Cooper for a few hours.
Whats everyones plans for tommorrow? My mum is coming up and we are all going out for lunch, our family, my sisters family, brothers family, trents mum and my mum to this nice pub for lunch. They have a huge beer garden which is great for the kids and they have awesome food so that should be good.
OK i better go..im suppose to be cleaning while Coopers sleeping but i havent even started and he has been asleep for nearly 2 hours :laughing:
hayleylea
12-05-2007, 15:37
hmm very quiet in here today! Could it be that everyone is out enjoying the gorgeous weather!? Well i dont know about anywhere else but its soooo nice here today!
Im sitting here having a beer waiting for Trent and Cooper to get back. They just popped out to our out of town house to grab a few things. Cooper and I have been busily making his grandma's mothers day presents. Both my mum and my MIL have everything...So we just made them a little something to hang on their walls. I saw it on a thread here actually... a little poem that says
Sometimes you get discouraged
Because I am so small
And always leave my handprint
On furniture and wall
But everyday I'm growing
(I'll be all grown someday)
And all those tiny hand prints
Will surely fade away.
So here's a final handprint
Just so you can recall
Exactly how my fingers looked
When they were very small.
And above it i put his hand prints and then put it in a frame. It looks really good and its something they can keep for ages. It was a very messy process i might add!! :laughing:
Oh that time by myself didnt last long...the boys are back! Better go get Cooper ready to go to the MILs...
:wave:
Ange&Seth
12-05-2007, 20:05
Hi :wave:
At mum and dad's again tonight. Sooo tired!! Adam and I left here just before 7am to drive to Melbourne to pick up the motorbike we bought off eBay :smiliedance: We got a bargain!!!! The guy thought there was something major wrong with it, and just wanted to get rid of it. Turns out, the problem is tiny and VERY easily fixed so we probably should have paid at least double for it!!! Aren't we lucky the seller doesn't know much about motorbikes :laughing: I'm so excited for Adam and I can't wait to see it all finished!
Cath - glad you had fun at the wedding. How was the weather this morning for Dean??? Low lying cloud cover gradually clearing throughout the day? LOL
Hayles - sorry to hear that you've got Coops' cold. Hope you have a fun night tonight at the party!
Fi - It's so great to hear your stories about Claire and Owen together. Makes me want another bub now.................... almost :D
Hope I haven't missed anyone and that you all have a fantastic day tomorrow. Not sure what we're getting up to as yet, but I'd love to go back to the Botanic Gardens in Wagga for lunch with Seth and Adam. That'd be just lovely.
Talk to you soon.
hayleylea
13-05-2007, 07:38
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY EVERYONE! HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A GREAT DAY AND GET A WELL DESERVED REST! :D
Last night was pretty good...mind you there were some people at the party that were just idiots! But it was a pretty good night we got home about midnight - Cooper was awake :eek: He had been asleep but had woken up crying. So i took him home and popped him into bed and he didnt last too long there. Trent fell asleep on the lounge so I took Coops to bed with me. He stayed there all night - it was so cute this morning. He woke up at 7.40 and gave me the biggest cuddles - definatley made my mothers day thats for sure! He then gave me his presents. I got a book called "why i love my mummy" its sooooooo nice. Its got all different things written in it. I love it! I also got some hugg boots and some socks and a car organiser thing.
Anyway i hope you all have a wonderfull day!!
Ange - thats great about the motor bike! :smiliedance:
Ange&Seth
13-05-2007, 08:18
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!!!
Well, I think Adam's trying to make up for the non-event that was mothers day last year Valentine So far today he's gone out and gotten breakfast for us and is keeping Seth occupied, he has made me 2 coffees already. I haven't had any presents as yet but I know he hasn't had a chance to go shopping.
I forgot to tell you what we did yesterday after we picked up the bike! 2.5 years ago, Adam and I went on a weeks camping holiday and we started from Queenscliff on one side of the heads near Melbourne. Well, we picked the bike up from Geelong and were only half an hour from Queenscliff - so we went back there and sat in the same spot on the beach and ate lunch and it was just beautiful! We sat there talking for probably half an hour and then went for a walk along the beach. Oh, it was just heaven :D
Hayley - all your presents sound fantastic!! I'm glad Coopers a bit happier today.
hayleylea
13-05-2007, 09:44
:yelclap: for Adam! Sounds like he is making up for last year - and doing a might fine job of it!!! Enjoy the rest of your day!
your day yesterday sounded just great Ange! Very sweet!!!
Ive just put Cooper down for a sleep. Im hoping he goes to sleep for me...because we are going out for lunch at 1 and dont want him to be too cranky. :devil6: So far so good he is very quiet so ill see how we go!
OK talk soon...
MrsMiggins
13-05-2007, 12:07
Happy Mother's Day everyone!!
I got a sleep-in this morning! Dave & Claire woke me at 9.15, and Owen slept til about 10.30! I got a card & some flowers. The card was very funny! It said "Mum, no wonder you have so much understanding & patience....... Look at all the practice we give you!" :laughing: Very appropriate for Little Miss of late!! hee! hee!
Dave also got pancakes for brekkie (from Maccas, but it was still nice!) before I even got up!
Once Claire wakes up, we'll head around to mum & dad's to give my mum her gift. A card made by Claire, some flowers & a T-shirt.
We had a major tantrum today for her nap :rolleyes: Much more so than in the past week, but that's because I can't put her on the big bed any more - she now climbs out (dammit!!). So I had to put her in her cot. It was almost half an hour of full-on tanty before she eventually managed to fall asleep.
Yesterday, I put her in the big bed in the spare bedroom and then took Owen into my room & shut the door. I could hear her carrying on for about 5 mins, then I could hear her chatting away to her bunny rabbit (stuffed toy that I put in bed with her) and a few minutes later, there was silence. Of course I just assumed she was asleep, so I lay down with Owen in my bed & we both had a nap (I was really tired). About an hour or so later, I woke up & decided I should probably have some lunch while I could, so I went to go close the spare bedroom door so as not to wake Claire up. I got the fright of my life when I stuck my head in only to find the bed empty!! I totally panicked thinking that the silence I had assumed meant she'd gone to sleep, could have meant she had been in trouble! I ran down to her bedroom and she wasn't in there either. I could feel the panic rising, as I'd been asleep for an hour! She could have been anywhere!! I ran into the lounge room to find her sound asleep on a pile of pillows that she'd dragged out of the spare bedroom! Little ratbag!! I was so relieved I almost cried!!
Her other ratbag act yesterday was to hide the cordless telephone! All day I could hear it beeping, because its battery was running low, but because it only lets out 2 short beeps every minute or so, I had trouble tracking it down. I eventually found it - in a container in the plastics cupboard!!
Hayley, I love your new av pic!!! That poem is lovely! I'm sure the grandmothers will just love their special gifts! I hope your cold improves! :(
Cath, I bet you looked so beautiful last night! Those u/s are very expensive!!
Ange, great news about Adam making a big mother's day effort for you!! YAY!!!!! Your bike trip sounded so lovely too!!
hayleylea
13-05-2007, 16:51
Fi- sounds like you have had a nice mothers day, nothing wrong with pancakes from maccas i love them!!!!
We have had a great day!!! we went to the pub for lunch and we ended up staying for a good couple of hours!!! :eek: it was lots of fun though and the kids had a blast! The pub we went to had a huge beer garden with lots of leaves and stuff and the kids had a blast!!! it wasnt that busy either so we just let them run wild It was excellent! Mind you Ive had a few drinks but it is mothers day so what the hell lol...
The grandmothers both shed tears with their present from Cooper they were both totally overwhelmed and both said how much the present ment to them. They said it was definatley something no money can die. So i was pretty chuffed with that! Anyway i better get going. Im using my MILs computer. We are waiting for a pizza to come
talk soon! :fingerscrossed: harry doesnt appear tommorrow.:laughing:
hayleylea
13-05-2007, 19:12
OMFG!!! i am absolutley fuming!!!!! my sister just rang in tears...her FIL just pushed her on the ground and hit her!!!!!!!! :eek: Im shaking im that fired up about it all. Its all about my sisters husband not leaving to go to newcastle today (he works for his father). Im so cranky. How dare that so and so hurt my sister!!!!!!! I rang a cab ( cause ive had couple of drinks) but Trent refused to let me go. Probably a good thing because im so cranky god knows what i would have done! Luckily my sister has GREAT neighbours - they are older. So i rang them and asked them to go get the kids. The police are there now interviewing them but OMG i just cant believe it!!! I am ropeable!!!!! THEN the stupid MIL of my sister turns up while the police were there and tells them that my sister is on drugs and doesnt deserve to have her children!!! my sister has NEVER touch drugs in her life!!!!!!! Oh if i was there i would have got myself into so much trouble!!
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Sorry for the vent guys im just so cranky at it all....i feel so sorry for my sister - they are such great people and for HIM to hurt her! Well lets just say that I hope dont see her FIL in the near future!! :devil6:
Thanks for listening guys! Sorry for the vent!!!
Ange&Seth
13-05-2007, 21:01
Oh no! Hayles - that sounds terrible!! I hope everything gets sorted out! I mean, what could possibly have been so bad for FIL to have pushed her and hit her!! Ok, just spoke to Trent but hope I can catch you tomorrow sometime :hugs:
Fi - that's funny about Claire dragging the pillows into the loungeroom and going to sleep. I would have freaked out too!! Seth wouldn't have done what Claire did though, he'd have taken the opportunity to trash the place unhindered!!
I'm SO tired. We came home, got Seth organised (dinner, bath etc) and then went around the corner to BIL & SILs place to see the MIL for a bit. Came home, had dinner, Adam's now asleep on the couch and I'm about to drag us both to bed :sleeping:
Hope everyone had a great day!
Ange&Seth
14-05-2007, 08:20
Where is everyone??
Seth and I had a bit of a sleep in this morning and now I'm trying to get him to eat some breakfast. He's decied that he doesn't like weetbix anymore, won't eat porridge or muesli, I don't know what else to do. He's eating vegemite toast at the moment, but what do I do when he gets sick of that :rolleyes: I've bought some rice bubbles which I thought I might mix in with the porridge or the muesli but he won't eat them.
:banghead: Where did my Angel go who would eat ANYTHING?? Including raw brocolli!!!!
Ah well, what's everyone else up to today? I want to go and buy myself some trackies and tops (cause Adam didn't actually end up going shopping at all, so I'll go buy my own presents :D ) but other than that I don't know what we'll be doing.
Hi guys,
well I'm at home today with Maddi as she has such a chesty cough, so no paid work for me. Instead its a day at home doing my Mummy job. :smiliedance: If it was any other week I would be taking Maddi to creche because she doesn't have a temp and is otherwise fine. But she's due for her operation this friday and I want her as well as she can be for the anaesthetic. Our washing machine is broken :banghead: and there is a huge pile of washing and do you think I can get hold of a technician? Ahhhh!
Mothers Day was a sad one for me as my Mum left for Melbourne and then she will be flying out on Wednesday to malaysia to see out the last of my grandma's days. Because we don't know how long she has left we dont know how long mum is going for so I was crying, she was crying and so was Maddi. DH was in Melbourne for most of the day with bl**dy hockey training so so much for my mothers day sleep in. He left at 6.30am which I was none too happy about. But anyways, I had a great day with my parents and Maddi. When DH got home he and Maddi gave me a card which Maddi had help make, a magazine and a box of chocolates.
Hayley - I cannot believe your poor sister got knocked to the ground and hit by her FIL. Any man that hits a woman has serious issues. After that incident her FIL won't be seeing that family again. I hope the kids didn't witness it. Was her hubby home? Before all of that happened it sounded like you had a great Mothers Day at the pub. How is Coopers tonsilitis? Is he on antibiotics now?
Fi, your mothers day sounded like what I wanted. A good sleep in and pancakes. I'm a fan of McDonalds pancakes too :D . Claire is like a 3 year old isn't she! Fancy getting out of bed and setting up a pillow bed in the lounge and putting herself to sleep. I would have had a heartattack too. I'm constantly trying to find our cordless phone too. But I'm often the culprit for leaving it in the most stupidest places. How ridiculous is the ultrasound costs these days? I'm waiting to get an ultrasound and the wait in bendigo is 3 weeks. I should have studied radiology because there is a desperate need for it in bendigo thats for sure.
Cath, great to hear that you had a good time at the aquarium wedding. I never knew you could get married there. That would be an excellent wedding, imagine the great background shots you could get in the photo's. How was the wine? Did you get a nice glass of red? How did Deans lasagne go? did he manage to get all the ingredients and make it for the big day?
Ange, that motorbike bargain was a steal. How fantastic. Its not often you hear about bargains like that these days. And your day in Queenscliff so romantic. Wish I was having a picnic on the coast today and having a ride on the back of a motorbike. Did you go to the botanic gardens yesterday?
Tan, I've got dummy issues in this house too. We had the rule of no dummies out of the cot and only for sleeping. But Maddi just goes to her cot and helps herself. She seems to be using them more often these days which is the opposite of what I want.
Anna, how's your cold? Haven't seen a post from you for a while so I'm hoping your ok. Did you get to finish packing your hospital bag? Make sure you pack some yummy fudge, and a bottle of Baileys in there! OMG its not long to go is it.
Well I better get on the phone and keep trying for a washing machine technician. This is ridiculous.
Hey Ange, we posted at the same time. Maybe try Seth on Cheerios or scrambled eggs? Mads loves Cheerios.
Hi girls :wave:
I'm still here. Just been really busy, nesting lots and trying to take a break from bubhub a bit too. But also trying to rest (yeah, right . . .).
Anyway, I've been keeping up with you all and I'll post again soon.
Kids are all doing much better, Immy's nearly finished her medicine, my cold is easing during the day but flaring up at night/morning so I still have a way to go yet.
Been consumed with nesting, thoughts of labour and trying to sell some clothes on ebay - which is what I'm doing today - listing, listing, listing.
Other news, the boy has dropped again! All of last night my ribs ached and ached which is when I thought - yup - there he goes back up again, but no, he's still down and even a bit further the last couple of days and again this morning. My girlfriend has put bets on 3 weeks early and during the day - which is fine by me so long as she know's she's on call if that happens! :laughing: (Which she is by the way!)
I spoke to Shane last night about the boy's size etc and I have another appointment with the OB on Friday. I'll be talking to him about being induced on the 7th of July if the baby hasn't come by then. I'm not prepared for the baby to get any bigger and by my due date I'm going to be total RS and I'm sure my Dr will be happy to let me go then, seeing as though both mum & bub are healthy and I have other kids to run after, he's not the type to let a girl suffer!
On the other hand, don't worry, I'm not obsessing or stressing too much about the baby's weight - I know Dr's get it wrong all the time. I'm just keeping myself informed. At 31 weeks the baby measured 2kg and on my 32 week info email (plus my book "Up the duff") both quoted that the baby would be around 1.7kg so he's definately measuring a little bigger.
I've packed the baby bag but I wasn't happy with it. I think it's because I didn't have a "going home" outfit for him!:D Silly I know, but I solved that problem today and went and bought a GORGEOUS velour jumpsuit & hat that I'd been eyeing off for a week or so (and another fluffy soft toy :rolleyes: ) to pack. I think I'm happy now! LOL!
I've also completely packed my toiletries bag for hospital - scored a WONDERFUL bag from Myer for $15 when I bought mums mothers day pressie - it's quite large and there's still room for a hairdryer or straightener if I feel like it!
Anyway, sorry I've just been babbling on - I can type pretty much as fast as I can talk - and you only need to watch "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" to get an idea as to what I'd be like in real life! LOL!
Didn't mean to rabbit on - I'll be back here again soon. Love to you all xoxo
P.S. I'll be around the computer for a while if anyone feels like saying hello and a chat!
Hi everyone!
Well it sounds as though you all had pretty good mother's days (even Lou without Tony!) and mine wasn't too bad either. It was very busy and not very relaxing but fun all the same. DH just got me a new CD and that was fine seeing as I was very spoilt for my birthday! He did do most of the work around the place yesterday and that was really appreciated.
I'm really tired today though, I went to a conference in the city all day on Saturday and then on Saturday night my brother was staying here and so were my parents. Yesterday we were rostered on to the creche at church where we minded 7 babies and toddlers (oh boy - so full on!) and then I had to race off and take my brother to the airport. When I got back we had lunch and then we all went out for the afternoon to a friend's place so my Mum and Dad could meet my friend's baby (they are like the extra grandparents). So Mum and Dad left about half an hour ago. I am always tired after people stay here, I think it is because I panic that every little squeak Will makes in the night is going to wake everyone up so I don't sleep very well.
Speaking of Will - he has been pretty good although we had to resettle him a couple of times on Friday and Saturday night. He didn't muck up a lot but I did end up putting him in our bed at 5am yesterday morning where he happily went back to sleep. I have a feeling he was having dreams after being way too excited about our visitors (seems to always happen). I could be wrong though because I noticed today that those eye teeth are actually cutting through now. He has almost finished his antibiotics and we will take him back to the doctor on Wednesday. Mr brother thinks they will not give me my referral yet but tells me that it won't be long before Will has episode 4 of the tonsillitis and I'll get my referral then. I have to admit I find that annoying - my brother thinks he knows everything about little kids after his 4!
Ange - you sound as though you have had a lovely weekend and I am so glad for you!
Fi - Claire just makes me laugh and laugh. She is such a character. I am so fascinated to find out what career she has as an adult!
Hayles - I have chatted to you on MSN about your sister but I was so horrified for her. I don't even know her and I wanted to whisk her and her kids away to a secret hiding place and look after them. Noone should have to deal with stuff like that but I think the police look pretty harshly on men who hit women. I do really feel for your sister's husband though, he must be feeling terrible right now and will need a lot of support himself.
Anna - you are such a forward planner! So organised about Bubba Blue already. I am really glad that Immy is doing heaps better too, she had a really rough trot there. I too hope your cold is ok, colds when you are preggers are not fun!
Cath - that wedding sounds so interesting. Wow - at the aquarium! I hope Dean's lasagne turned out great for you as well.
Oh - lots of thoughts and cuddles for Maddi and her operation. She'll be a new girl without that nasty fluid in her ears!
oh well - better go, I am sure my angel will be awake soon and terrorising me wondering where everyone else went!
MrsMiggins
14-05-2007, 12:53
Firstly, let me apologise for my truncated post yesterday! As per usual, I got interrupted by one or the other of my two, screaming for mummy! So I just typed a few things really quickly, then had to dash off.
Hayley, your pub lunch sounded great! I'd have loved a nice relaxing lunch out yesterday. Unforunately Dave works every Sunday, so there wasn't much chance of that happening! But yes, brekky was nice!
I was so shocked to read about your sister! I had to re-read the start of your post twice! What a ***** her FIL must be!! Has she had any issues with her IL's in the past? What did her DH say about it? I hope her kids are OK. Man, that's terrible!
Ange, Claire loves Cheerios too. I fill up her Snack Trap with them and she munches away on them all day. Other than that, she isn't a very big breakfast girl. Sometimes she'll have toast, or if I have cornflakes, she'll eat some of mine. Have you tried just giving him dry cereal to munch on? Claire will only eat hers dry (unless she's sharing mine or Dave's).
Lou, wow! I can't believe Maddi's op is this Friday! I hope she's feeling better by then. I was so sad reading about your mum leaving! You must miss her so much! I bet Maddi misses her too (and I bet your mum misses all of you!) Did you manage to get your washing machine fixed? I need to do washing too..... instead I'm sitting here, on the computer! :rolleyes: Actually, I'm waiting for Dave to get home. He's gone to play golf down in Brissie, and I'm hoping he'll be home in plenty of time for me to get to my u/s appt, which is at 3pm. I really don't want to have to wake both the kids & take them down there with me, plus I don't have $150 on me! I need to get some cash off him!
Anna, good to hear the kids are getting better! That sort of drama is not what you need right now. Hopefully it'll all be smooth sailing now til well after bubba blue arrives! That would be OK if he was measuring approx 2kgs at your 32 week scan. Apparently they're meant to double their size from 32 weeks, so 4kgs is not too bad. Claire was just shy of 4kgs and she wasn't all that big, I don't think.
Tan, sounds like you had a busy weekend! Especially looking after all those kiddies in Mother's Day! Make sure you get a bit of a rest now all your guests have gone. And you're right - I'm always thinking about what sort of career Claire will end up with when she's older! It's bound to be something like "actor" or perhaps "bungee jumping instructor" (or something equally as energetic!! :laughing:)
OK, well I'd better go & fill myself up yet another big glass of water, ready for this afternoon! (Possibly the most annoying thing about pelvic u/s!!)
Hi everyone.
Hayley I can't believe your sister's FIL would hit her!!! What the hell is wrong with him -that is so wrong. How is she? How is the rest of her family -I so hope her kids didn't see it. Not good at all!!
Fi how did the ultrasound go? That is so cute that you found Claire asleep on some pillows (after almost giving you a heart attack by not being where you thought she was) - she sounds like a 3 year old. She is doing so well with going to sleep on her own.
Lou you poor thing having your baby going for an operation -hope you are okay about it. Where is she having it done? Best of luck. How sad your Mum had to go. Hope you got your washing machine sorted.
Ange good work with the bargain motorbike. Your Queenscliff trip sounded great - I love Queenscliff - I had lots of holidays in that area when I was younger. Nice job with Mothers Day Adam (just being able to relax and having your partner look after the little ones is the best present). My breakfast suggestion would be eggs and toast too. I can't believe Seth used to eat raw broccoli -good boy!! Paddy has never been a broccoli (or most vegies actually) fan -vegies tend to be hidden in his meals.
Tan that sounds like a very busy weekend. Sounds like you need your own Mothers Day next weekend to relax. Good luck with Will's appt on Wednesday -hope he is on the mend.
Anna you organised woman -that is very impressive. Hope you were spoilt yesterday and got to put your feet up a bit -you sounds very busy. Good to hear the kids are on the mend and I hope your cold completely disappears soon.
I had a lovely Mothers Day except for the fact that I felt really sick last night and couldn't sleep until 3am because I was so uncomfortable. There is just no room for my stomach and even though I tried to eat small amounts having both a special lunch and dinner was all too much. I feel like I am full of baby and there is no room for anything else. We went to Dean's parents for lunch (which he and his siblings prepared -his lasagne was great) and then my family came over here for take away Indian last night. I was spoilt with a one hour massage voucher which I am very much looking forward to. My Mum also spoilt me and bought me some really nice PJ pants and bed socks for hospital and some stuff from the body shop.
I was uploading the photos from yesterday onto the computer today and thought I would have a look at last year's Mothers Day photos -check out how much bigger Paddy is now -he looks so long in this year's photo -so not a baby anymore:
http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t122/cathbroadbent/IMG_3703.jpg
http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t122/cathbroadbent/IMG_1310.jpg
Anyway hope everyone is well (especially you and your sister Hayley). Chat soon
Cath
hayleylea
14-05-2007, 17:47
Hey guys. Ill apologise in advance because im going to be a bit slack on personals. Im sooooooo tired!!! im looking forward to a very relaxing week this week.
After the episode last night we had to go to sydney today and im just physically drained!! Didnt help that i had a couple of drinks for the last 3 days lol. I tell you guys what im looking forward to a good detox session...and i dont care if i dont see a beer or a big meal again! i feel like all we have done lately is eat huge flash meals and drink beer - so draining!!! Lots of fun i might add but im looking forward to a much quiter couple of weeks.
Quick update on my sister - Her husband was there..he was inside getting the keys to his work car because thats what his Dad had come to get (his dad owns his own business and my BIL works for him - well WORKed for him..he quit today). His dad is a real so and so at the best of times but has NEVER ever done anything this extreme! My sister is OK...she is upset as you would imagine..my BIL is very upset too because his whole family stopped talking to him...but he has always been out the outer and used by his dad...never been paid overtime etc etc..long long stories! They give their other 2 sons everything for example at christmas the other 2 sons got all these clothes and a whole heap of money and they gave BIL a huge pack of shortbread and thats all - i kid you not! So yeah anyway he quit today and my sisters FIL has pleaded guilty and now has an AVO out on him.
The kids didnt see any of it...My sister knew he was coming around (he had rang and abused them on the phone) So she had packed them up and sent them to the next door neighbours house. It all sounds extremely bad - my sister and BIL are such nice people - my sister never goes out or anything like that and looks after her kids so well and the MIL told the police that my sister is on drugs! :mad: Anyway things can only get better there.
Cath - i had a quick squiz at your pics and you look awesome!!! You dont look like your having a baby in 2 months thats for sure! paddy is cute as always!!
Thats great maddis op is so soon lets hope it fixes her little ears up for good!!!
Ange my boy has gone fussy again at the moment too and refuses to eat hardley anything!!! Drives me nuts.
Sorry for the lack of personals but this boy is ready for bed!
Hey there!
Cath you sound like you had a lovely mother's day even if you did feel ill afterwards! I know what you mean about how different our bubs are 12 months on! I suspect Will slept most of mother's day away last year!
I have a horrible suspicion that Will is going to have a rough night tonight. I know it's those teeth too - tonight he started biting things which he never does and he even had a bit of a grizzle when I put him in bed. I was determined not to give him any Nurofen as he has been going to bed with a dose for 2 weeks straight because of his tonsillitis and I had made a conscious decision that it had to stop. :fingerscrossed: He's ok as he hasn't had his follow up appt but he seems alright generally.
I hope Hayley is ok today - unusual not to hear from her!
MrsMiggins
14-05-2007, 22:27
Cath, those photos were so great to see! I am such an idiot! I never thought about taking a photo with myself & my kids on Mother's Day! You do look fantastic & you're right - Paddy has grown soooooo much!!
Hayles, I'm glad to hear your sister is OK & that her DH has decided that enough's enough. Her FIL really does sound like a piece of work!
Claire was doing the funniest thing today!! Remember I told you that she can "count"? Well, she still, for some strange reason, starts counting at 2. She never, ever says "one". Tonight at dinner, we were trying to get her to say "one" on its own, without counting, just to see if we could get her to say it. But every time we said to her "Can you say one?" She'd say "Twooooooo!" So to try & trick her, I started saying "Can you say....." followed by a whole bunch of words. "Can you say stop? Can you say go?" etc. Some of them were words I already knew she could say & some of them were words I hadn't heard her use yet. Every word, she repeated after me, so after a while I threw in "Can you say one?" And she came straight out with it: "Twooooooo!" Little smart-@rse!!!! :laughing:
OK, I'd better go to bed - just look at the time!!! :eek: I've been up making chocolate crackles for a bubhub meet tomorrow - YUMMMMMMMM!!!
So sorry I'm only here in snippets girls.
Hayles I hope that your BIL & sister are ok & that your FIL gets charged. That's a shocking shocking thing to happen. He must be a total @ss for your sister to have sent the kids next door when she knew he was coming over. Hope Cooper slept well for you last night.
Cath - girl you look WONDERFUL! Where's your belly? That's a gorgeous top you're wearing in the photo - it must be hiding your bump well! Even though Paddy has grown up so much you can still tell he's the same little munchkin from the other pic! I'm not getting any decent sleep either at the moment - every time I need to roll over I completely wake up as it's such a hard job to do!
Tan - I hope Will's follow up appointment goes well - do you think you'll still take him? How'd he sleep for you last night? Don't worry too much about the nurofen - it doesn't sound like you're overdosing him or anything - and teething is such a bugger that sometimes we all need all the help we can get!
Fi - Oh I laughed so loud when I read about Claire and her "twooooo"! Cheeky devil she is! I can see how you have your hands full with a monkey like that! Oh and by the way, I completely know that feeling of total dread you felt when you couldn't find Claire. You just have to collect your thoughts REALLY fast and think - right, all the doors are shut, she can't reach the sinks, there's nothing poisonous within reach then just breathe and go hunting! What a good girl for putting herself to sleep though!
Lou - we had a good chat the other day & I really enjoyed the catch up. I'm sorry to hear that your mum has to go back earlier than expected and it's sort of bitter sweet knowing that although your nan is not going well at all, your mum might be back sooner. Oh gosh, so hard what your family is going through right now. I hope your mum has had a good break back home and has gathered some strength to get through the next battle. Good luck for Maddi on Friday - I'll be thinking of you lots and I wish we could be there to hold YOUR hand while you hold Maddi's. Has the Dr told you about the anesthetic process and what Maddi will have to go to sleep? What do they do for kids? We're here if you need us. :hugs:
Ange - your mothers day sounded completely divine! What a lovely moment to remember. Shane and I often visit some "favourite" spots when we can and have started taking the kids - even if it's just to the beach where he proposed to me for a walk or to gather shells. Happy memories!
Gee, I hope I haven't missed anyone - my memory is so shocking lately.
Sorry if I double up on information.
Mothers day was good. I slept in til 9:30am and I was getting up when I heard the troops tramping up the stairs and they arrived with their arms full of pressies and Shane trailing with a tray of brekkie - nothing flash - he'd made me a milo but the kids wanted to give me a bowl of cocoa pops! :laughing: Very cute! I got totally spoilt rotten - Shane boasted that he did well with the shopping this year because he knows I like bargains! LMAO! They bought me 2 cds - Lily Allen & Missy Higgins (yes Fi - I can see those eyes rolling! LMAO!) a new veggie peeler & ice cream scoop (that great brand starting with "z"), a microwave mat (he must have been in Habitat kitchen shop!), a cardigan, a HUGE amount of my favourite Darrell Lea chocolates (the cherry liqueur ones in dark chocolate!) and Chelsea had made me a gorgeous little note pad at school & Nicola had "made" me some yummy treats to eat at grasshoppers (I say "made" because she missed last week so the ladies dropped it at the house for me!)
We finally got ourselves ready for the day and went out to Target because I'd completely forgotten a layby and they were about to close it! Shopped for some undies (with no luck) and I exchanged the cardi that Shane bought me (I'm terrible like that but it was a tie up one and didn't fit around my belly and I wanted one to wear now - so I got one that has 1 button up on the chest so the cardi just drapes over my belly! I can wear it later too - it's cute as!
We then went for lunch at the hogsbreath cafe (Shane's choice!!!) then went home and relaxed for the afternoon. We did the family thing the day before on the Saturday - visiting Shane's mum for lunch and I saw my mum on the Friday but didn't get to see her on the Sat as she was busy - but she's coming down tomorrow night too so seen a bit of her lately!
Well, anyway I think that's my news. I still have 1 whole box of clothes to list on ebay - it's SO expensive! Each listing is $1.09 - I can't get it any cheaper! I've bundled what I could and put some things buy it now & some auction. I just want it all to go! I need my lounge room back! I'm sick of my house being so messy - there's cr@p everywhere and I'm completely refusing to clean up the girls mess. Shane and I are on the verge of putting everything on the floor in a garbage bag and taking it away - maybe that will shock them into cleaning up their own mess. It's not like there's lack of storage in their rooms - I've made sure of that!
Better go get Immy to bed. I did the school run today with Chelsea's friend Isabelle - her little sister puked all over the ground outside the kinder rooms yesterday so Louise (her mum) decided it'd be best to keep her warm at home. I'll pick her up again this arvo and take her home so I have to be organised with Immy's naps today or she'll be a mess.
She's doing much better even today. Finished the antibiotics now and is running around saying puppy puppy but I can't see one anywhere! Nicola's bored without Chelsea so I'd better get some activities for her so she doesn't spend another day watching ABC kids - bad mummy. :mad: :laughing:
Talk soon
xoxo
LOL! Silly mummy!
Immy wasn't saying puppy puppy!
She's saying HAPPY HAPPY!
OMG I'm going to cry!
Hi,
I really, really shouldn't be on here right now as I am madly typing reports - but I'm giving myself a morning tea break! :laughing:
Cath - now I really can't believe that Dean thought you looked like a turtle - you look great in the photo! I know it was more about the dress than you but I think you are looking really good.
LOL Anna - I got the Missy Higgins CD too! So glad Immy is going so well too, those antibiotics sound as though they did the job.
Well, Will actually slept right through til 5am but he was a right monkey after that. I think I am going to have to start turning his heater on. When I think back, this was when the doctor told me last year to get a heater because he was doing to same thing. It's not that it really is all that cold, it has to do with the change in the air at that time of the morning and it affects his breathing. I forget though and left him to grizzle on and off til 6:30 and then stuck him in our bed between us (where the air is warmer) and he promptly fell asleep again. It was after that that I started thinking about the air thing. Apparently I was the same when I was little and so was one of my brothers. We got croup quite badly too so I am doing everything I can to avoid that.
I have to have a little vent here - I get really frustrated with my Mum. I was speaking to her this morning and mentioned that Will wanted to get up at 5 and I wouldn't let him. So she tells me that as he gets older he will sleep less at night as well as in the day. I think I did well not to bite her head off because I know they sleep less in the day but he is not getting up at 5am and that's the end of it. As far as I know little people's night time sleeps shouldn't get much less for quite a long time yet! It's different with those kids who have never seemed to need a lot of sleep, but Will is not one of those. Mum and I just disagree on a few things, mostly about bedtime - I don't know why, but she is always telling me that Will isn't tired enough at 7pm to go to bed for the night. :mad: I get so annoyed. But if I question her about when we were little then I find that we were in bed at roughly the same time! Oh - I had better stop here or it'll all come out and you guys don't want to read all this. I do love my Mum, she just annoys me sometimes!
Oh Fi - LOl at Claire but I've got one for you! Will starts counting at 4!!!! Except when you ask him how old he is - then he holds his pointer finger up and says One!
Oh - Will's follow up appt is tomorrow. I really don't know if it is worth going but I guess I should. If he is all healthy he can get that chickenpox vax while we are there.
:laughing: Anna, thats so cute that Immy is running around saying happy happy. She must be feeling so good!
I am home again today with Maddi. Took her to the doctor and he said if she' like this at the end of the week she won't be having her op. So I'm giving her every opportunity to get better as I don't want to postpone it. Its likely if we do that she won't get in for another 3 weeks and by then she'll probably have yet another cold or ear infection. So we're going to take her down on Thursday night and see what the anaethetist says. He has to do a series of pre-checls before they put her under. The info sheet they gave me said that they put a gas mask over her face and she will fall asleep that way. One of my friends little boys has had 3 operations and she gave me some tips about it all. We've been practicing our twinkle twinkle little star song so that we can sing that while she goes to sleep. I'll tell you all about it after the weekend I guess. I'm not looking forward to putting her on that operating table!
Cath, your top is gorgeous in that photo as are you and Paddy of course. Where did you get that top? You could have worn that one to the wedding (is it the one you wore?). I agree with Anna that Paddy has grown heaps but he still looks like Paddy in his baby photo's. He's adorable! You don't have much of a bump at all. Sounds like you had a great mothers day. Eating small amounts often is going to do wonders for your metabolism. Not long to go until your little boy comes into the world. How is the name process coming along? Have you guys decided on a name or do you have a list?
Hayley, I feel so bad for your BIL. Fancy having a father like that! Poor bloke must be beside himself. His family don't sound very nice at all. And your poor sister, she must be so exhausted emotionally after having to deal with all that cr*p. I hope he finds a really good job soon and that they can put all of that behind them. The good thing is that they have a whole other family with your side of the family to rely on for stability and decent company. You sound really tired too. Make sure you have a good rest today Hayley.
Well our washing machine.....it looks like its fixed. After a $72 call out fee to unblock the drain pipe, that took all of 5 minutes, it looks like its working. I know I shouldn't complain but I'm just annoyed that I didn't (or more to the point that DH didn't) think to check that pipe. I spent ages yesterday checking the drain at the front of the machine that you are supposed to clear out every month. Did I mention that I found about $10 worth of change in there and a bra wire! I told the technician that today and he said he once pulled out $50 worth of change. I think he was trying to make me feel better.
OK gotta go and check on the washing machine and unload the dishwasher, then reload it, then pick up all the toys ect.
Oh Fi, I meant to ask you about the snack trap. Is it really good? I have been meaning to get one but keep putting it off. Maddi is constantly tossing her sultana's and stuff around from the bowl so maybe one of those is the go?
Ange&Seth
15-05-2007, 09:46
Oh Fi, I meant to ask you about the snack trap. Is it really good? I have been meaning to get one but keep putting it off. Maddi is constantly tossing her sultana's and stuff around from the bowl so maybe one of those is the go?
Yes - Snack Trap - what is it? Where do I get it from? What brand? How much? I need to stop Seth eating the dog and cat food :barf: My son's breath smells like cat food!!!
Oh Ange! EWWWW!!! LMAO! :laughing:
I've never heard of a snack trap before - I actually thought Fi might have just misspelt tray! LMAO! :rolleyes: :laughing:
Tell me more!
Quick change the subject - OOOOOOHH look at the new target catalogue out this week! Time for another layby by the looks of it!
Gross TMI alert!
I've had a little "blood spot" on the left of my chest (sort of right over my heart) for over a year now. It looks like a little burst capillary or something just under the skin and I've been thinking about going to get it checked lately. Anyway, I was just sitting here fiddling with it (just rubbing it, it's completely smooth) and all of a sudden I feel something warm all over my fingers. I look down and there's blood literally pouring out of this tiny spot :eek: What have I done?! I'm soaking the tissue and the blood is pumping - I'm assuming because there's a lot more blood pumping through my preggy body at the moment. Has anyone else ever had a capillary looking thing before? What the hell is going on?!! :confused: Hopefully this means the ugly red dot goes away after this! :laughing:
Anna, I've had those spots before and they seem to come and go. I can't remember what they are called but I had mine checked out and the Dr just said its a such and such and not to worry ect. In saying that I don't think your supposed to go and pick it Anna!!!! :laughing:
Ange, I can't believe Seth gets into the cat food. He must love either the taste or the texture? :laughing:
I've been looking at those snack trap things. Check out the bambini pronto website, I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post it on here..........but if you google it you should be about to find it.
hayleylea
15-05-2007, 10:35
Hi guys, thanks for all your kind thoughts about my sister. Its much appreciated! My BIL is upset but ithink he is also glad to be out of the situation. He has been offered jobs left, right and centre so he is going to see how he goes. Some of them are temporary jobs but atleast its money. He is taking a couple of weeks to go away up to his cousins to do some work for him. Will do him good to get away. Ive offered him my car (because they now only have one car between them) and he said he will see. i dont live far from the shops so i can walk down there and Trents work isnt far if i ever needed the car...he could drop it off to me on his lunch break. As for me still being tired. Im still there. Ive cleaned all the house today so im going to do nothing for the rest of the day!
Fi i laughed when i read Claire and the whole "one" thing - very cute!! Cooper doesnt talk much at all...although he has started to say names now which is really cute. Id like to know about the snack trap too!?
Tan - No good about your mum and you not agreeing with Wills sleep times! My MIL can be like that but i just grin and bear it and just do what i want to do lol...you did very well not to bite too!!
Ange - :laughing: cant believe that Seth eats the dog and cat food!!!! Rofl and you have been telling me his fussy lately - not to fussy to eat pet food! LMAO very funny stuff. Cooper has ate dog food before so i know all about it. It wasnt the tin stuff though its these little chicken and vegie balls - i found them in his mouth at mums house and he turned around and said YUM!!! He knows his not allowed to touch them now though lol
Lou - I hope Maddi gets better real soon. Sorry to hear that your mum had to go back early! :hugs: \
Anna - that blood vessel thing sounds scary! Dunno what it could be. Probably just one of them minor skin conditions that happen every now and again.:fingerscrossed: it stays away
OK better go....GOOD NEWS is that Cooper actually ate lunch today!!! and alot of it!!! :smiliedance: Very excited because it has been impossible to get him to eat lunch these days latley lol
talk soon
LMAO! I didn't pick it Lou! Mine is smooth and I was subconsciously rubbing it - it's sort of just down from my collar bone area and POP! Mess everywhere! Did yours ever come back in the same spot? So weird but it was so gross!
Looking for that site now Lou . . .
Ooooo! Snack traps look good!
Ok so Fi where'd you get it from? Here's hoping from a shop that I have in Tassie coz I don't feel like ordering online for just 1 thing! :laughing:
Gosh I really have to get off my @ss and do something.
Actually, I've not been too bad, done 3 loads of washing, folded one, drying 1 and the other is still going (the rest of the baby clothes). Nicola's had a snack, Immy's still napping, dishwasher is empty & restacked but need to clean the kitchen before lunch. Ok that's my next job. What a bloody boring day.
Hey if anyone has any cool pressie ideas for their DH's let me know - Shane's birthday is on Monday and for some reason he's really unenthusiastic about it this year so I really need some great ideas! So far it's a new cordless drill which I'm hoping his dad will get him as it's sort of a tradition - plus I can't be bothered going all the way to the hardware store to pick and choose from the 100's available. We bought one for his dad for Christmas & he loved it SOO much that he went back and bought a 2nd one as a "spare". :confused: Yes, his parents are weird, his dad has doubles of most tools and his mum always has a "spare" new iron, kettle & toaster just in case one gives up the ghost. Geez, I'd like to be able to afford that! :rolleyes: :laughing:
Ange&Seth
15-05-2007, 11:09
Wow - you guys can talk!!! LMFAO - I just had to read through the posts and take notes!!!
Lou - I hope Maddi's better for her op. I'm completely clueless about this though - why does she have fluid in her ears? As much as I would have loved a bike ride to Queenscliff, unfortunately the bike isn't running. We bought it as a spare parts bike so that Adam can get his 'project' bike on the road. We've carted his project bike from house to house for the past 5 years and it's still not on the road :rolleyes: but at least it's something for him to tinker with. The idea is that he gets the project bike on the road, sells it, buys a half decent bike for himself to ride and then he's still got the spare parts bike as a 'project' bike. Did that make sense? I'm gonna try Seth on cheerios I think, cos he's gone off eggs too - fuss pot that he is! Okay, now I"m worried - what trap in the front of the machine that you're meant to check every month?? OMG panic!!!
Tan - grrr I know exactly what you mean about the whole bedtime debate! Only my problem is my FIL :mad: When I say Seth's going to bed (it's 7pm) he'll say 'I don't think so - you're not tired are ya mate?' GGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!! Like YOU have any say in it you stupid bloody fool!!?? But that's just ONE of the gripes I have with my FIL. I hope your walk calmed you down and that Will's follow up goes well. I can't believe Will says how old he is!!!
Cath - that's such a fantastic idea of taking a photo each Mothers Day! Paddy has grown so much, but I agree with the others, you can still tell it's him!! Oh, and I don't know how Dean could have said you look turtle-ish - you look excellent!!!
Hayles - I'm glad your sister is ok and that BIL is sticking up for himself finally. Hope you enjoy your detox too!!! OOhhh can't wait for you to get the new laptop charger :smiliedance:
Fi - How funny with Claire's counting!! Seth says 'one, two' and sometimes we'll get 'three' as well!! Tan gave me a link to the snack trap thing at babies galore - will have to see if I can get one around here otherwise I might need to prevail on someone who lives near a babies galore store to get one for me and post it down :D
Anna - glad to hear Immy is better - how funny and adorable of her walking around saying 'happy happy' LOL!! Hope you've stopped bleeding! That's something I would have done too, I just can't leave things alone!
Well, sounds like we all had a nice Mothers day this year!!! I don't have anything exciting to tell you cos Seth and I didn't really do anything yesterday. We did take a box of books to the second hand bookstore and I've now got a $40 store credit there for when I run out of books again WOOHOO!!!
Seth had a piece of toast for breakfast this morning, a few sultanas for a snack (was too full from the dog and cat food) and then some chicken nuggets for lunch. Fingerscrossed he eats well at dinner as well!
I hate that he eats the dog and cat food. It's the dry food that he munches on, and it's not only when he's hungry and we haven't given him anything. I mean, we give him a biscuit and he'll munch on that, heading straight for the pet bowls. I pick them up and put them out of his reach as often and as quicky as I can, but most of the time I'm not quick enough!
Ange&Seth
15-05-2007, 11:19
See what I mean :laughing: In the space of me typing that post Anna and Hayley had posted again ROFL!!
Hayles - that's good of you to offer your BIL your car. Will probably do him good to get away for a bit. Excellent that Coops ate lunch for you too!
Anna - sounds like you've had a productive day!
I know what you mean Ange - that's what happens when you write longer posts - happens to me all the time!
I probably wouldn't say my day has been really all that productive - esp in comparison to what you or Hayles or anyone else for that matter could get done - much harder trying to clean around 2-3 kids. I only get about 10 mins before I have to get a snack, pour a drink, stop an argument, clean up a mess, give a cuddle etc etc etc. But actually come to think of it, I'm slowly getting things done. I've just taken a nappy box and gone around the whole lounge/dining/kitchen area and picked up all the loose papers, drawings, catalogues, general cr@p etc and thrown it in the trash pack. Now I'm just sooking over the pathology & xray bill that just arrived for Immy. That combined with the hospital out of pocket emergency fee & Dr's fee plus the GP fee and anitbiotics cost has put our little ventures at just under $400. No I'm not kidding. I'm so incredibly p!ssed off and next time ANY of my kids displays any of these symptoms I'll be heading for the after hours Drs and saying "there's a history of UTI's and this is most likely another one".
Anyway must go - Nicola is demanding lunch and come to think of it - the cup-a-soup didn't do much for me for brekkie either!
MrsMiggins
15-05-2007, 12:53
Oh Fi, I meant to ask you about the snack trap. Is it really good? I have been meaning to get one but keep putting it off. Maddi is constantly tossing her sultana's and stuff around from the bowl so maybe one of those is the go?
:yes: They are nothing short of BRILLIANT!!!
I mean, you still get spillage here & there (Claire went through a stage of standing there shaking the thing to see how much she could make fall out :rolleyes:) but there is definitely far less spillage than with say a bowl or a little container. I'd seen them & was wanting one for a while, but I finally went & bought one when I got sick & tired of handing snacks one-by-one over the back seat! Definitely worth it.
ETA: Typing with hungry baby in my arms, but I just caught up on the rest of the posts & I got my snack trap from a baby store up here (Bubs baby stores, I don't think they have them outside of qld) but you can get them at other baby stores & also on ebay.
That snack trap looks great -I am so over picking up sultanas from the floor that Paddy has flung all over the place even though I have given them to him in a bowl -thanks Fi!! Had never heard of it or seen it but will be on the lookout now. Love Claire's counting story -she really is a clever little girl. Paddy is way off counting I think. He has only just finally started calling me "Mumma" after calling Dean "Dadda" for ages. I was "that" for a while there but finally I am "Mumma" which I could just hear him say all day (I filmed him saying it yesterday so I can hear it whenever I need to).
It has been so busy in here!!
That photo of me with Paddy is quite deceptive -the top is a maternity one and for some reason the patterned bit seems to disguise the bump in photos but not in real life (don't worry Anna there is a significant bump disguised there -just looked at the photo of me in the "turtle dress" and I think Dean was right - bad choice - I looked huge).
Ange that's hilarious that Seth eats the pet food -crazy kids!! That's a great idea about the second hand book store -we have one near us but I never thought to try and sell anything - good thinking!!
Anna how annoying about the medical bills. We are right there with you after Dean's operation and his numerous check ups (plus he is also seeing a stomach specialist at the same time - had a gastroscopy the other week - whole other story). The bills just won't stop and we are about to get the $1000 Ob. bill that we get nothing back for (and still trying to sort out the $2000 Ob. bill with Medicare) -it is not cheap having a baby privately!! It gets so hard thinking of presents for men - I'm a bit useless with presents but if I think of anything I will let you know.
Hayley good to hear your sister is okay (well as okay as you can be after being hit by a man - so horrible). Your poor BIL - hope he finds a good job and he is lucky to have you guys as his second family.
Lou hope Maddi gets the all clear for her operation -I'm sure you don't need to think about it for another couple of weeks. I will be thinking of you. We have our name sorted for baby 2 (as long as he is still a boy that is - so good that we get to double check again in a couple of weeks -we never did come up with a girl's name).
Tan 5am is way too early and how annoying that your Mum is trying to tell you that he might just be getting up at that time from now on -I don't think so!! My Mum drives me mad sometimes too -feel free to vent away.
We are off to Paddy's appt with the MCHN at 3:30 which includes his chicken pox vaccination -I am dreading it!! Thank goodness it is only one (well bloody hope it is anyway). Poor little man -they are so aware of what is going on now.
Anyway better get some other stuff done. Chat soon.
Cath
hayleylea
15-05-2007, 18:50
hi guys...
fi them snack traps do look good! i might have to get me a few of those i think! lol
Cath how did Paddy go today??
Im sorry for my lousy posts lately guys..im slowly catching up on my sleep lol.
Im heading to bed for an early one tonight again so its all good! Tommorrow we are off to play group..we have missed the last couple of weeks because Cooper hasnt been well so im looking forward to getting out and about.
Anyway im off to watch telly and then hit the sack!
Night guys
Hello,
I am seriously considering putting Will up for sale. I don't know what is going on with him. He kept us up crying last night for about an hour and a half and then was crying again at 5 this morning. By not long after 6 this morning he was almost hysterical so I got him up and attempted to put him in bed with DH as I was trying to do some work. Nope - he wasn't having that either. I know those eye teeth are cutting through but surely that's not causing all this disruptioon? We are off to the doctor this morning for his post antibiotic checkup so I guess that'll rule anything medical out. I am so tired and I have had enough. This past month has been an absolute nightmare I swear.
Enough of my whinging. I forgot to say yesterday that I really hope Maddi's chest clears up before Friday so that she can have her op. Hopefully that little operation will help things heaps and Maddi's health will really improve.
Going to head off now - am such a grizzle bum today (and yes - that's me not Will although he isn't any better!).
hayleylea
16-05-2007, 06:57
Oh Tan - sorry to hear about Will!!! did you try the heater in his room last night??? Im thinking about putting on in Coopers and turning it on in the early hours of the morning. He has been waking at around 6.30 too - he stays into bed till after 7 though but its cold in his room when i go to get him out! And Tan I remember Coopers Eye teeth giving him a bit of grief and early mornings aswell...i hope things improve for you soon and them eye teeth of his just pop on through! FAST!!! Let us know how you go at the doctors.
Cooper woke up cranky today and his mood is only just starting to improve now. He was upset because Daddy has been getting him up the last few days and he wasnt here this morning - he kept going to our bed and saying "gone" and then crying. God love him!! He wont eat breakfast for me this morning. ive just got some toast sitting out for him now and he had one bite so ill see how he goes.
Lou how is Maddi going? i hope her chest improves too! Get well vibes heading your way!
OK i better get going.
Oh Tan, sorry to hear you've had a rough trot again. Like you said there must be something up with Will for him to act out like that.
Maddi's cough is still chesty and her nose is running like a tap. I just rang the hospital where she will be having the op and they said it looked doubtful it would happen but I have to ring the surgeon. He doesn't open shop until 9am I think? So I'm waiting to find out. If the op is cancelled then I'm off to work and Maddi to creche. She is actually super keen to go. I asked her if she wanted to go to play with Fraser, Ollie and Jack and the gang and she was nodding her head furiously and saying yes. She loves Fraser, the girls all giggle that look after her because she tends to mother him. :laughing:
So Maddi and I are both dressed, had brekkie waiting to hear from the surgeon. If she can't have it I'll be really annoyed, but at the same time I don't want to put her at risk by putting her under general anaesthetic with this chesty cough.
When we went to the GP on Monday he said to keep an eye on her for asthma! If she tended to wake in the early morning (like 3am when the air turns cold) with a cough then it could be an indication she has asthma. He said to try her on ventolin then and if it helps the cough then its a pretty big indication. I hope not! If it not one thing its another. But I don't think she does, as when she's not sick she sleeps right through. :fingerscrossed: he's wrong.
As for putting a heater in the kids rooms I'm with you guys. It has definitely turned cold these past couple of weeks. We have a reverse cycle heater but it tends to make a bit of noise as it turns off and on so was thinking of buying a oil column heater? Is this the type of heater you guys use in the bedroom?
Cath that great that Paddy has started calling you Mumma. I bet it melts your heart. I hope that Paddy's chicken pox needle went well yesterday. When Maddi had hers she didn't get a temp and it didn't seem to bother her. She actually sat there and watched the Dr put it in, it wasn't until after he'd finished that it must have started to sting and she cried, but it all stopped when the balloon came out.
Fi, you've sold me on the snack trap. If Claire has tested the product out and there is minimal spillage thats a great QA test for me and I'm getting one for Maddi. I'll have to ring the baby stores and see if they sell them here. I don't want to have to pay postage for just one cup, although I was after one of those backpack things like Claire has. Does Claire still use hers?
Ok now I have to put up Maddi's hair and pack her bag in readiness for creche. Have a great day girls!
hayleylea
16-05-2007, 07:39
Yep a oil colum heater is what we use Lou!! Sorry to hear Maddi is still sick!! This stupid weather sure knocks them around!
Hi girls, just a quick one - off to visit nan today who's practically dying at her place because she's been back from the mainland since Sunday and she hasn't seen the girls yet :rolleyes:
Lou - how goes it today? I really hope Maddi still gets her operation - like you said yesterday, by the time another 2-3 weeks rolls around who knows what else she might have that gets in the way? I'll be checking up here until we leave to see if you've heard from the surgeon. :fingerscrossed:
Cath - how'd Paddy's needle go? I'm still yet to book in for Immy's 18mth clinic & medical check & needle. I'll probably call the clinic today and I have to take Immy back to the Dr for a follow up on a wee test in a week or so anyway, so I might get the medical & the needle all at one - after all, I'm paying for the time, may as well use the lot! :D
Tan, Hayles, Lou - how is it that it's so cold up there overnight? We're not nearly at the stage of heaters overnight and we're in Tassie! Immy woke a few times Sunday/Monday nights but last night after waking while we were both watching a movie, she slept through completely. I'd also be investing in some of those fleece sleep suits from target/best & less etc - I had one for Immy in the layby I got off the other day, as well as a couple passed on from the girls so as soon as the weather hits cold on they'll go! Column heaters are expensive to run, for those of you who can, I'd recommend installing a panel heater or something that's more efficient for long term. Otherwise, depending on the type of panel heater - if it doesn't have a timer system, but a timer for your power point so it switches on at 2am (for example) and slowly heats up. I hope the heater thing works for you all!
Hey I'd better go. I need to get out of this house so have kids to get ready.
I think when the kids flushed the downstairs toilet the water hasn't come back properly so the smell from the spetic has seeped back through the toilet and the house just REEKS - I've fixed it (just have to flush again) but I swear I'm going to be sick and I'm grabbing breakfast on the run. No way I could eat right now :barf: .
hayleylea
16-05-2007, 08:15
Cooper is already in them fleecy jump suits...has been for quite awhile now. He doesnt stay under his blankets so that was my only option. As for the column heater I only put it on a couple of hours of the morning (well i did last year havent as yet) so it doesnt cost that much to run. Im not sure how cold it is but Coopers room is a cold room - so the heater just takes the chill of the air. It worked well last year so ill definatley be trying it againt his year. Cooper wears a short sleeve body suit under his fleecy sleep suit aswell...like i said he doesnt stay under the blankets and this is the only way to keep him warm. :D
Well I rang the surgery and got the receptionist. Why is it that most medical receptionists have the compassion of a freakin rock. This woman was a total cow. Anyways, I could go on about it for ages and bore you all. In short they can't tell me over the phone so I'll just have to wait until Friday and see what the anaethetist says. Having said that you can imagine how the phone conversation went. Think I'll be mentioning to the surgeon his receptionist needs a personality implant. So Maddi and I are home again today.
We do have a panel heater in our ensuite, so maybe I'll take a look at it and see how much power it consumes compared to the oil heater. It has a timer mechanism on it so that might be good to use. Only thing is its bolted to the wall. But I think you can buy a stand for it? Hmmm. I had a look on ebay and there are a lot of different types of column heaters.
Your nan sounds lovely Anna. I'm sure she is going to squeeze the girls to death and give your belly a good pat. Oh just imagine how much she is going to spoil bubba blue!
My mum flew out last night at midnight and should be at her mums bedside by 10am today. I hope she makes it in time to say goodbye to my grandma. She took a turn for the worse on Monday.
Well since I'm at home today I should make the most of it and get this house into some sort of order. I just cannot be bothered. Maddi is happily watching playschool and is currently lining up her dolls in front of the tv. My Dad is meant to be building her a dollhouse, he better hurry up coz I think she would use it now. At the moment she is using my display cabinet to store her dolls things.
Oh Lou I know what you mean!
I mean, you'd think the two receptionists at my OB's office would just be super clucky seeing so many preggy ladies & bubba's coming in on a daily basis but they barely make eye contact with you when you walk in, mumble something to the effect of "take a seat" and it's just easier to take the first appointment offered for the next fortnight because heaven forbid she should have to turn the page in the book to see of there's a 4pm the day after . . . :rolleyes:
So TOTALLY know where you're coming from the my dear!
I can't believe it - so you can't get Maddi in to even be assessed today or anything? What utter CR@P! She could be going to creche and you could be going to work to earn money to pay for the bloody op but you have to sit home playing a waiting game?! That's stupid. I'm SO hoping Maddi will be well enough to have her operation on Friday - what is the risk of a rattley chest and anesthetic? Does it have to be completely clear or just better than it is? I've got all my fingers and toes crossed for you. :fingerscrossed:
Do you mean 10am Aussie time? That means your mum will (hopefully) be at your nans bedside right now! Oh I hope she makes it and she can make your nan as comfortable as possible. Do you know how much longer it could be or is she likely just to hold on? My nan would be likely to do that - I swear if she went into a coma today she'd hold on until all my girls are married off! :D
Lou my nan is great - she's 75 and takes either Nicola or Chelsea for a few nights every couple of weeks, even Immy if the situation calls for it. She's taken one of the kids every time I've been in hospital having a baby - this time she'll most likely take Immy and the girls will go with mum. She's had the girls basically from the minute they came off the boob and onto a bottle (Immy I was the most protective with funnily enough, Shane still jokes about it.)
She knits like crazy - and she's simply the BEST knitter in the whole world! She's made each girl a blanket for the pram and one for the cot, booties and bonnets, and COUNTLESS cardigans! However, the weird thing is, apparently she's finished knitting all the things for bubba blue but this time she hasn't shown me any of it! She's being strangely secretive and I think it's lovely - she's very excited about it all!
Anyway, there'll never ever be anything I could do for my nan that would ever repay what she does for us - we can never just "pop in" for a visit, and if we do, she's bound to have a 3 course meal in the freezer that she can easily just "whip up"! And for as long as I can remember, we never leave her house without a box full of food. Greeks. Fortunately/Unfortunately (:confused: ) I think I take after her a LOT more than I do my mother - but that's another story!
Ooops! Look at my rambling! Better head out so nan can make the most of the time with the girls!
Talk soon!
xoxo
Ange&Seth
16-05-2007, 09:35
Why is it that most medical receptionists have the compassion of a freakin rock.
Not all of us are this bad, though some are close! Definitely mention to the surgeon about his receptionist. The doctors see a different side of us to what the patients do. I say 'us' cos I still think I'm a medical receptionist :rolleyes: It's all I've done except be a mummy LOL!
Hope Will and Maddi are better soon :fingerscrossed:
I haven't read all the posts yet, will be back later.
:laughing: Sorry Ange! Wasn't calling you a rock! This particular one is so sour and bitter and made me feel like a real inconvenience and has everytime we've been there.
I'm sure your a lovely one!
I will be sure to tell the surgeon what I've experienced. Might leave it until after the op ;)
Ange&Seth
16-05-2007, 13:18
:laughing: Sorry Ange! Wasn't calling you a rock! This particular one is so sour and bitter and made me feel like a real inconvenience and has everytime we've been there.
I'm sure your a lovely one!
I will be sure to tell the surgeon what I've experienced. Might leave it until after the op ;)
Nah don't worry about it chic! I was actually just thinking what 'nothing' post that was :( and was coming to apologise for it!!
I think you should say something, cos I believe that you wouldn't be going/calling there unless you were sick or worried about a family member who was sick. You should be greeted with understanding. A receptionist is the first point of contact anyone has with a clinic and it's up to her to make sure that person feels comfortable, otherwise they'll go somewhere else and then the doctor looses money.
Wow, that was long winded.................
Well hello again,
We went back to the doctor with Will and he doesn't have to have any more antibiotics but she did decide to give us a referral to an ENT as Will just seems to have permanently enlarged and inflamed tonsils. The doctor seems to think he is just being a monkey at night at the moment but I can't say I am convinced and I looked in Will's mouth today and he is actually getting 3 teeth all at once. So I think there are probably lots of things contributing to his unsettled sleep.
While we were at the doctor she also gave Troy a referral to the ENT for his snoring which I am very happy about. So we have a double appointment with the ENT on 20 June. At least we will know all our options after that and I might actually start getting some sleep.
Sorry to hear about Maddi - and the rudeness of the receptionist too! I'm not totally sure of the reasoning behind putting off surgery when she has a rattley chest but I suspect there would be concerns over germs and I know that chest infections etc are one of the risk factors of surgical procedures anyway so maybe that is why.
Anna - I think it depends on your definition of cold! I suspect you may not think it is cold here at all. Possibly houses in Tassie are better insulated than our little old house too. It's been getting down to about 8 or 9 here at night and Will's room is quite cold in the morning as it doesn't get morning sun. We use a very small column heater in his room and it is on a thermostat so doesn't cost us a lot to use at all. As he gets older I fully intend to use it a lot less depending on how the whole breathing/chest thing goes.
I hope Cooper lost his cranky pants somewhere today Hayles and that he found his hungry ones! Will does seem to have quite a good appetite again at the moment so that's a plus.
I think Will is demolishing the room behind me so I had better go and supervise!
Tan - LOL at the temps! You've got colder nights than Tassie at the moment! We've been ranging from 9-13 overnight so no wonder I'm not feeling as cold yet! Mind you, you could be right about the whole insulation thing. I know our place is insulated, plus we get all day sun so we close our curtains (in winter) at about 4pm to keep the heat in and barely have to use the heater until mid winter.
Lou - how's Maddi doing this afternoon? Does she sound any better?
Ange - I'm sure you're a lovely medical receptionist especially with an attitude like that :yes: . At my other OB (the one I went to with Immy) the girls there were really nice, but I just didn't gel with the OB so I went back to my old one!
Well on the way home today I picked up Shane (he had a cr@p night's sleep and Immy didn't even wake up!) I stopped into Harvey Norman because a friend has been raving about her George Forman Steamer so I thought I'd buy one. She bought it a week ago for $49 but they're back up to $79 - but when I told the guy there what I was looking for he said have it for $49 because once the pile was gone they weren't getting them again! BONUS!! :smiliedance:
Ok better go steam something.
Talk soon!
xoxo
MrsMiggins
16-05-2007, 16:45
Must be the time of teeth, tantrums & tears! Claire's been playing up heaps too. Her top eye teeth are coming in & her nose has been running like a tap. So I've been giving her a bit of leeway, but my patience is rapidly vanishing! I had to feed Owen in the parent's room today & she was sitting in the trolley screaming & yelling at the top of her lungs because she thought me telling her off was just hilarious. I was livid at her because there were two other mums in there with tiny little newborns and I know Owen was getting startled by her carrying on, so I can only imagine how the other two bubs were feeling & what exactly the other two mums were thinking!
I took her out the front yard before with some sidewalk chalk & we played with that for a while & then I let her run around & scream her head off for a good 45 mins or so. You'd think that'd wear her out a bit huh? Well, not really! She's still being a right ratbag!
I went & picked up my u/s results today & they found some signs of retained products in my cervix (what the...?! How do you end up with them in your cervix??) but not in the uterus. So I've no idea what that means. I have a Dr's appt on Friday afternoon.
Lou, I hope your nan & your mum get to see each other. And I hope things turn out for the best with Maddi's op - whichever way it turns out. What a bummer that they can't give you a definite answer, although I guess if you're getting the opinion straight from the horse's mouth - so to speak - and especially after he's examined Maddi himself, that's all for the best. At least you know you're all doing the best thing for Maddi. Receptionist sounded like a right royal...... though! Is it really that much more effort to be polite?! That is one thing guaranteed to give me the irrits!
Tan, I hope poor little Will is on the up & up. Claire has been doing the night waking more often than not for the past few weeks & I'm sure it's her teeth. It's not getting all that cold here, although I guess it's getting a little chilly for us! I've no idea what it gets down to - I never see the weather - but it's down to about 22 inside. That's cool for us!! lol Claire is either in an all in one fluffy suit thing, or in flannie PJ's. But she has no blanket. It's far too warm for what we're dressing her in at the time she goes to bed, but it's much cooler in the mornings, so we have to dress her warmer. That's good you were able to get a double referral. Kill two birds with the one stone as they say! Hopefully it'll all go well. You guys will be back to your blissful full nights sleeps before you know it!
Hey Anna, bargain on the steamer! I hear they're quite good. Have fun with it!! Did the girls have fun at your nan's? I can't believe she's only 75!! She's a spring chicken! My grandma will be 90 this year. I love her to bits, she's wonderful! I only wish we lived closer (she's the one we visited in Sydney last year). She's not in the best of health at the moment, but she's such a stubborn woman! She'll keep going forever, I think!
Lou, I mean to ask - that backpack thing, did you mean the buddy harness? I got mine from Kmart, although I think most of the baby stores & major dept stores stock them. You can also get them on eBay. Claire does use hers, although most of the time if I can have her in the pram or trolley I do, because when she walks, she's forever stopping to look at things & it takes a million years to walk 50 metres!
Cath, I hope Paddy's needles went well. I found with the 18m one, it was the easiest because it was only one needle. Much easier to deal with!
OK, I have to go now because Claire's just hopped up on my lap & it's difficult to type when I have to keep moving her hand away from the keyboard!!
Did the girls have fun at your nan's? I can't believe she's only 75!! She's a spring chicken! My grandma will be 90 this year. I love her to bits, she's wonderful! I only wish we lived closer (she's the one we visited in Sydney last year). She's not in the best of health at the moment, but she's such a stubborn woman! She'll keep going forever, I think!
Yep the girls had a ball! Nan just kept feeding them all day long and getting cuddles so she was in heaven too!
LOL! 75 doesn't sound too young to most people but if you saw my nan and how she lives you'd probably think she's younger. Plus HER mum is still alive and kicking over in Greece at the ripe age of 96! So we have 5 generations of females on that side of the family which is pretty cool!
Nan already took a trip a few years ago to see her and say her "goodbyes" but she's been convinced to go again and she's leaving on the 19th of July for 12 weeks and she's not happy about it at all! So here's hoping this baby doesn't come late!!
Dammit - gotta go find "fluffles" the duck for Nicola. AMAZING how often that thing goes missing in this house. . . :banghead:
hayleylea
17-05-2007, 06:10
Morning guys!
How are we all this morning? Pretty good here apart from a sore throat!!
Ange is always giving me advice about my medical centre because they are downright rude!! Wish Ange worked at mine because it would make it alot more pleasant to go there!
Bingo im so sorry that your grandma has taken a turn for the worse. I hope your mum made it in time. :hugs:
Anna - your Nan sounds like a lovely lady! Cant wait to here what she has made for bubba blue!
Fi - we have had a few tantrums here of late. And there are still huge lumps where his 2 year old molars are coming through which could be why the little bugger wont eat for me?! Who knows! I just wish he could tell me whats wrong with him it would make things so much easier lol. Goodluck with your doctors appointment.
Cooper woke up at 6.15 today, grizzled for about 10 minutes and then went back to sleep till 7 - he woke up crying again though which he has for the last couple of days. He has also been pretty whingy. Snotty nose is almost gone but still there..
Tan - last but not least. ive spoke to you on MSN about Will tonsills! Poor little thing. I was also talking to Ange yesterday arvo and poor little Seth has tonsillitis too! What is it with October boys and their tonsills!!!
Anyway better go and get some breakfast ready...dont know why im bothering because he wont eat it :rolleyes: :laughing: Off to get some pancakes today - he has yet to say no to them lol.
Oh No! Poor Seth! Ange knows what to do though so hopefully Seth will be on the mend too.
We had a much better night last night. I confess to giving Will some nurofen before bed as his gums where those eye teeth are breaking through (top ones too Fi) look very sore. Troy tucked him back in at 6:15 this morning and he went back to sleep til a bit after 7 and I think that's pretty good. We discovered last night that Troy actually forgot to turn Will's heater on the night before and we put it on last night and that may have helped. I also put him in a warm sleep sack for a change with less blankets so who knows. It could have been that he was just too tired from the night before as well!
We have the odd tanty here too I am afraid. About the strangest things too. Usually when something is ending that Will likes. He gets 2 eggs out of the carton each morning for Troy but he always wants to keep getting more out so we have a fight about that. Stupid stuff like that!
I need to go and get in the shower. Will is goiong to his swimming class this morning - and it is ok. He just has big tonsils now not infected ones!
nkenward
17-05-2007, 07:48
Well a big hello to everyone. I think its been a good 3 months since I last posted. I am still alive and kicking!!! Just been so god damn tired and re-down. Not sure what I have gotten myself into - but its a little too late for that I am sure.
Um...I have tried to read over the last few pages - but so much has happened - um..2 & 1/2 threads - that unfortunately I might have to say I can't read them all.
I hope all is well. I know its a bit late - congrats Fi on your baby boy. I hope all is going well. How is Claire handling the new arrival.
Anna - not long now for you. I seriously don't know how you do it - especially 4th time around. Does it get easier?
Connor is going well, still the little active boy. He is now skating around the house and loves to play guitar with his dad every night. But we have hit a big snag and I am total stuck as to what to do. I love him to bits, but is giving me a run for my money - big time.
About a month & 1/2 ago, Connor started to really settle - put himself to bed, ate well and slept ok. And also started to telling us he was doing no. 1 & 2s. Occassionally still waking at about 5-5:30. We to date have been bringing him in with us and he was going back to sleep.
Then about 2 weeks ago it changed. He decided that he would only have 1 sleep a day, would refuse to eat dinner and now wakes around 3 - 4:30 in the morning because he is hungry. We thought that maybe because it is getting darker & colder - maybe he was wanting to go to bed earlier. I have bought back the time of dinner, limited the snack intake, but to no avail. He still won't eat dinner. But is now going to bed at 6.30 because he is warn out. I have now just been letting him cry it out early in the morning till about 5:30 (I can handle that). Hoping it would make him aware that he needs to eat dinner. But after a week - still no luck. I am not sure what the hell is going on. Of course Connor will let me know when he is hungry and what he would like - but he can't let me know why he won't eat the dinner.
Not sure whether anyone else is going through this - or has had similar issues. I would really like him to start resettling again cause I am going to be a complete mess if it continues.
Anyway enough of that. Hope everyone else is still going strong!!!
Catch you later.
Hi Nat,
wow its great to hear from you! Sorry to hear you've been feeling so off and that Connor is unsettled. I think a lot of us have been having similar issues in having our sleep disturbed of late. A lot of the boys have been subjected to tonsilitis, and I think nearly all of us (except Hayley who went through it earlier) have been suffering from the arrival of eye teeth and molars. Maybe Connors gums are sore and thats why he won't eat at night? Maybe try him on some softer foods, like risotto? Apart from that I can't think of anything. Hopefully he'll come good shortly.
Maddi is booked in for her an operation to get grommets put in her ears tommorow. She's been having ear problems so hopefully that will fix things up. But she is coughing quite badly today so who knows. We're only going to find out tommorow when the anaethetist checks her out.
Cath is also due around the same time as Anna with a boy. Its baby season on this October thread!! :smiliedance:
Hopefully we will see more of you Nat, we've missed you heaps :hugs:
hayleylea
17-05-2007, 08:05
Nat GREAT to hear from you again!! Dont worry if you cant catch up on all the posts its still good to hear from you, we know were a bunch of gass bags so we dont mind if you cant get through it all.
Sorry to hear the hurdle you have hit with Connor! He sounds like he is definatley testing you out. As for the dinner thing..Cooper is the same..only he hardley eats breakfast or lunch!! Most of the time he will eat a fair bit of dinner but ive pretty much just come to the decision i cant force him to eat. Now during the day i still dish him up his breakkie and lunch and if he doesnt eat it i just pop it in the fridge and offer it to him again later. (if its something i can put in the fridge) or i just leave out alot of "Snacks" on his little table and he will help himself throughout the day . As for the sleep thing - you poor thing! no wonder your worn out! just keep doing what your doing. I hope the sleep fairies come to him soon and he starts sleeping longer!!
Anyway it was great to hear from you Nat feel free to pop in more often or have a chat on MSN if your around :hugs:
Ange&Seth
17-05-2007, 10:36
Hi Nat!! Good to hear from you again. Sorry to hear the troubles you're having with Connor. We have issues with Seth not eating dinner as well. At the moment he will only eat Heinz macaroni cheese or Spaghetti Bolognaise in the tin. I've tried him with vegies and gravy for dinner as well, cos he used to love it, and he just refuses. Won't even try it :no: It's so frustrating. He's not waking at 3-4am though, maybe the problem could be Connor's teeth like the girls said?
Anna - I can't believe your grandmother is going to Greece at 75 years of age??? Honestly, what is the secret to living such healthy lives? Must be all that YUMMY food!!
Lou - :fingerscrossed: Maddi comes good and the anaethetist gives the go-ahead for the op.
Hayles - hope Coops has settled a bit for you today. Did he eat his pancakes?
Tan - We have little tanties here too when things are ending. Sometimes when he wants something he knows he can't have too.
Fi - It's good that they found something on the u/s. The doctor should be able to give you some answers on Friday afternoon and work out a solution to the problem. Let us know how you go.
Well, don't I feel like the biggest b!tch of a mother right now? Took Seth to the doctor last night because he just wasn't himself at all, still wasn't eating properly, was drinking less, being naughtier and pulling on his ears. So the dr (who I used to work with) checks his ears and goes 'they're fine' but takes one look at his throat and goes 'whoa, tonsillitis! Bad tonsillitis!' :banghead: Why did I let it go so long before taking him to the doctor? And I put him in timeout as well because he was being naughty and left him to cry for 1-2 mins to 'think about his actions' :banghead: Poor little bugger was trying to tell me he had a sore throat and I didn't listen! Phillip (dr) assured me that I had done the right thing up until then and had brought him in at the right time, but I feel terrible! I have to take him back on Saturday morning to be checked out again.
Oh and this morning when he woke up, I noticed a few red spots on the back of his neck (only 3), which COULD be a reaction to the anti-biotic. I'm going to check him again when he wakes up and see if there are any more spots. If there are then I'll stop the meds and take him back to see Phillip.
Have any of you guys used Pain-Stop before? It's like nurofen (for pain and fever) but it's got a bit of codeine in it as well so it works a little better. It's nearly $20 a bottle and I'm not going to use it all the time (because of the codeine) but it seems to be doing the trick for Seth at the moment. He woke up this morning chirpy and chatty!!
Ok, had better go and do something while he's asleep! Talk soon!
hayleylea
17-05-2007, 16:52
Hey guys...
My poor bubba isnt well! his poos have been like water 3 times today. The last time...i got him undressed for the bath and it was everywhere! i had only changed him 30minutes before that and his bum was fine but this one burnt his little tooshie so much! :crying: I ran down to the chemist straight away and asked them what is the best cream...I had the sudocream but its more a preventative - so i got some Daktozin. Hopefully that will work fast! Poor little guy. He has seemed a little off every now and again today but the majority of the day he has been fine..we have had a great time out in the yard and he even ate breakfast, lunch and he just has the biggest serving of lasange (honestly he ate as much as I did! LOL) So i dont know. It could be his last two teeth who knows? Ill keep an eye on him and see how he goes if his poo hasnt improved by tommorrow i will take him to the doc and have a check up.
Ange how did Seths rash go? Did it get bigger or anything?
OK better go. Talk soon...
Hi Nat! :wave: Long time no hear! Sorry to hear that you are having sleep and feeding issues with Connor lately. You need all the rest you can get.
Will is one of the tonsillitis culprits and we have just been through round 3 of it. We are hoping a specialist appointment next month should help a bit.
Now - Will is pretty good with eating (unless he is sick) but he is not very good with lunch for some reason. I over heard a mum talking to the CHN one day about her son one day and it sounded like the exact problem that you are having with Connor. What she suggested was that you give Connor veges and meat at lunch because lots of toddlers are too tired at dinner time for food. Then dinner can just be something like fruit and yoghurt (or something light). She made it sound like it is a common problem. Once I asked her about Will not eating much for lunch and she laughed and told me not to worry because he eats such a good dinner and breakfast.
Ange- I chatted to you on MSN but I just wanted to say I have missed the tonsillitis 3 times in a row now and Will still loves me! It's easy to miss cause there really isn't any way for them to say "my throat is sore!".
Well I have Mr Very Cranky Pants tonight. He has been so irritable all afternoon and we have had tantrum city. About everything - and I mean everything. :fingerscrossed: It is just those pesky teeth and not another sore throat!
HI NAT!!!!!!:wave:
Good to see you back on here!!
I hope you get a great 2nd trimester happening and you get back a lot of the energy that's been sapped away lately. I was the same for the first 4 months of this pregnancy. The girls would go for a nap (all of them) and I'd crash on the couch then wake to find the older two playing around me! Shane'd often come home to find me asleep on the couch too!
So sorry to hear about Connor - little monkey is DEFINATELY part of this group for sure! Most of our munchkins have pulled their share of tricks but I could only think of what's been suggested - temperature dropping during the night, pesky teething (eye teeth especially) and maybe the lack of dinner thing. However, having said that - my CHN always said to me that so long as a child eats an amount of food equivilant to what fits in his/her hand, then they won't starve. I'd try and stay consistant at meal times with your routine and what you serve - always offer dinner - lots of finger food etc or let him use a fork etc and hopefully it's just a phase that he'll grow out of soon. If I think of anything else I'll let you know!
Ange - I don't know how my nan does it either - but she's not looking forward to the trip to Greece, however I think she'll be happy to see her mum again (for the last time) and all her relatives in Crete.
Honestly, what is it with our kids and the "bad mothers" syndrome? I swear each of us has had a dose of it lately in relation to not knowing our kids were sick etc. OK - from now on, there's to be NO talk of being bad mummies in this section at all - they are a fictional character created by our minds to kick us when we're down! I hope Seth is ok and he doesn't have a reaction to the antibiotics. I'd say 3 dots isn't a reaction - Immy's rash came on thick and fast - within 18 hours of her first dose but keep an eye to see if it spreads or not.
Tan - tantrums all around here! Immy has developed quite a bit of attitude lately - I'm confident to say she'd rival Maddi & Claire at the moment! :D Today she got mad because I wasn't giving her something while in the shopping centre so she bashed on the pram and had the most pouty look on her face! I laughed so she bashed again! (Just made me laugh harder!) :laughing:
Hayles - pancakes sound so good right now! Shane's gone out for pizza with the girls - should be home very soon. Do you just go to maccas or do you have a pancake place near you?
Lou - cr@p - I was hoping to hear that Maddi's chest had cleared a little today. Maybe tonight you can paddle her back a little and loosen it all up so it comes off her chest tonight? I don't know if that will help clear her up a little? I hope she sleeps well tonight.
Did you mum make it back to Malaysia ok? How's you nan? I hope she's happy to see her daughter again.
Well today has been busy-as! Nicola spent the WHOLE day at grasshoppers (for the first time) and just LOVED it! The ladies who run it are going to take her home next time - they just love her to pieces! (I said they can borrow her from time to time but I'll need her back!) Chelsea, Immy and I spent the whole day out shopping completing another "job" I had to get done before the baby arrives - shopping for their winter tops. So much CR@P out there today! I was really counting on Target to come up with the goods but they disappointed me greatly. The few long sleeve tops I bought there were a size 6 for Chelsea because they were such a skinny fit and so I have to roll the sleeves up. Most other places she was a 6 as well, but she's really tiny, they're just making clothes so small now. Bought FAR too much - some things might have to go back! Bought Nicola 5 tops as well which she probably doesn't need but a couple didn't fit so they have to go back - she'll inherit some of Chelsea's anyway. Even Immy got a couple of her own new tops. Job done. On to the next one!
Oh by the way, last night I lugged a small thin bookshelf my friend loaned me upstairs to our room. I'm going to use it for storing the baby clothes while he's in our room. I also put the cradle together, moved furniture (only a couple of inches or so!) cleared space on our dresser for the change mat & set up the "change station". Still have to pull out the cotton balls, creams, rubbish bin & a container for warm water - but I'll do that tonight no doubt.
Ok, better go sort some of these clothes while I still have the house to myself!
Talk soon!
xoxo
hayleylea
17-05-2007, 18:05
Anna - I usually get a pancake mix and make them (lazy I know) or sometimes i but the ones from the bread isle in coles and woolies - they are like the ones from Maccas that you just heat up in the microwave or the toaster. But some maple syrup on them and there ya go! YUMMM as Cooper would say.
Well I think Cooper is fine...like i said he ate well and he has been happy a larry after his bath so god knows what was wrong with him. He is in bed now..
So :fingerscrossed: he stays happy, sleeps all night and wakes up with a nice solid poo! :laughing: :laughing:
Oh Lou - I am so sorry for not commenting about your Nan and your Mum. I've been really slack I know.
I hope that your Mum made it back there in time to say goodbye and I really feel for you that you are not able to be there with them. I hope that when your Nan passes that it happens peacefully.
Maybe I should tell you guys that I am a bit vague with the whole grandparent thing. You see I never really had any grandparents, both my Mum's parents died when she was quite young as did my Dad's father and my grandmother died before I turned 4. So the grandparent thing is all a bit new to me. When I met Troy he still had all of his grandparents and I couldn't get over it at all. So I know that sometimes I am probably a bit thoughtless with our parents but seriously I have very little experience about how much grandparents are involved with the little ones. The fact that we don't live near either of our parents contributes to this vagueness as well!
Anyway I have to get going. I hope the sleep fairy finds everyone tonight (although I think I may have convinced Troy to get up to Will if he wakes - Troy's parents are staying and I think that's a very good reason for me not getting up!).
Hi everyone,
once again it has been busy in here so apologies if I forget to mention stuff (I've read it all over the last couple of days but my mind is like mush right now).
Welcome back Nat!! You poor thing with the very early wake-ups. Not what you need at all. I will be 31 weeks pregnant tomorrow and I hate to tell you but my tiredness never left -hopefully at least you will stop feeling sick. No answers on the eating thing from me -it is still hit and miss here (stir fried chicken and vegies was flat out refused here tonight but at least I got some scrambled eggs into him after much persuasion). It must be driving you mad.
Lou good luck for Maddi's operation tomorrow!!! I am thinking of you. Poor little Maddi with the nasty cough -what horrible timing. Hope she has improved over the day and has a good night tonight. Hope your Mum got to your Grandma on time to spend some quality time with her.
Ange so sorry to hear about Seth now having tonsilitis too -not good -poor little man. Hope he is going okay. It's so hard to know what is going on with them sometimes. Thanks for the tip about Pain-Stop -I hadn't heard of it and will keep it in mind.
How's Will going Tan? Did he cope okay with swimming? Paddy knows how to throw a good tantrum too and the only way I know how to stop it (or ease it at least) is distraction. He has this bizarre current obsession with rubbing his face on my pregnant belly which is fine for a bit but he would do it for hours and it all gets a bit much being poked at from both the inside and outside. If I stand up so he can't do it anymore he cracks it and I have to quickly find a game to play or a book to read or something to distract him -crazy kid.
Hayley Paddy had the runny poo thing for a few days a couple of weeks ago and we never worked out what it was unless it was teeth related. As long as they seem happy that is good but their poor little bums get a bit battered.
Fi how bizarre about the "retained product" (oh the terms they have) in your cervix -that's a new one to me. Hope it is easily fixed - not what you need really is it. Hope your two little ones are both doing well. How many times are you up a night to feed Owen at this stage? I have completely forgotten what it was like and think I better start getting my head around the whole feeding thing again. I tried on my maternity bras today and decided they were all the wrong size (except one very worn one) so have been out and bought 2 new ones in preparation - these weeks are disappearing on me -time to start getting organised I think.
Anna I was out hitting the shops today too - so tiring isn't it? I had plans to cook dinner which went out the window after getting home from 3 hours shopping and Dean will be home soon with our take away Vietnamese soup.Your Nan sounds excellent - that's so cool you have 5 generations on her side -what good genes!! Hey have you decided on Bubba Blue's name?
Anyway Dean has just got back - better go. Chat soon.
Cath
Ange&Seth
17-05-2007, 21:28
Well, I'm happy to report that Seth woke up with no more dots on his neck. The only reason I thought it might have been a reaction to the meds is because I personally came out in a hive-like rash which started as a few itchy spots on my neck.
He's due for another dose at around midnight but I doubt he'll be geting it :no: not unless I'm still awake, which I highly doubt.
I had a call from our local Coles tonight. I have an interview with them tomorrow at 10am for a nightfill position. I'm not sure how I feel about it yet. At the moment, it's not an urgent thing that I get a job, but at the same time it'd be nice to have a bit of extra cash as a back up, or to put towards reno's. Will see how I go. :fingerscrossed: I can find some 'interview' clothes that still fit.
Lou - I hope Maddi is ok for tomorrow to get this op ove and done with. :hugs: for you both. Will be thinking of you both!
I'm off to bed! SOOOO tired!
hayleylea
18-05-2007, 05:59
Morning guys....
It was a 6.30am start for us this morning. Not Coopers fault though. It absolutley poured rain all night here from about 10pm last night! Anyway at 6.30 this morning it was just pounding and pounding on the roof. It woke me up and then i heard Cooper crying...must have scared him - not use to hearing rain these days :laughing: i did try and pop him back into bed with me but it didnt work he just gave me a cuddle and started pulling my nose so we got up. He is cranky though! So i have him lying on the lounge watching ABC kids with a blankie and Ted. We have lost all TV stations but ABC....dunno how this boy is going to go locked inside all day! we have been outside most days the last week! :eek:
Happy to report that Nappy rash is Alot better today and the poos werent as runny as yesterday either! I really think its his teeth its exactly how he was when he was teething. I have checked in his mouth - and it feels lumpy - mind you you have to be quick putting your fingers all the way back there because if your not quick he bites! And it hurts! lol
Anyway better get breakfast ready.....
Morning :wave:
Lou please give us good news! I've been thinking about you all night and I really hope Maddi is well enough today to go ahead with her operation.
Good luck with everything today if it goes ahead and we can't wait to hear that it's all gone well.
Another busy day for us here.
Mums group at 10am, followed by meeting up at the kids fun factory at 12 with a friend & her kids. Then fill in some time at the shopping centre until my OB appointment this afternoon (I have lots of tops to return anyway! :rolleyes: Half just didn't fit well enough and just looked stupid).
Last night I sorted through 3 jumbo space bags full of clothes and just as I suspected, about 1/2 the size 1's I had put away were too cr@p for Immy to wear - tops were all stretched or faded, and there were NO JEANS!! Dammit! Now I have to go buy Little Miss a couple of pairs of jeans/pants. Pumpkin Patch here we come!!! (LOVE Patch jeans!)
:eek: 50 days to go!!!:eek:
That's got to be another milestone! Is now the time I should really start packing it? LOL! 50 days will go so fast!
Better get some kids dressed - funny old sort of day here - looks overcast and miserable but it's going to be at least 17 so I think short sleeve tops, jeans & cardi's are in order.
hayleylea
18-05-2007, 08:16
I love pumpkin patch jeans too Anna - I have a pair Cooper still fits into from last year (6-9 months the size - lucky for Cooper he has short legs lol) But they are so cute!!! Well done only 50 days to go! not long now!
Lou - :fingerscrossed: Maddi is getting her op done today. Hope all goes well! :hugs: for Maddi from Cooper. Lets hope it fixes all the problems poor little Maddi has been having with her ears!
We are doing nothing today! Well nto much anyway. We are lounging around in trackies and jumpers...might head down the street later to get some groceries.
Looks like were not pregnant again! Well still have one day till my period comes but im pretty AF is on its way! Its a little bit disheartning but hey its really our first month of trying - just means we get to try even harder next month! lol. Im really OK about it i think that if it gets to the 6 month mark ill start crying!! It will all happen when its meant to happen :D
Ange&Seth
18-05-2007, 10:04
Well, the interview went well I think. Before I went for it I was a bit blase about it, but now I'm excited and thinking about what we can do with the extra money :smiliedance: Apparently there are 10 positions to be filled and only 17 applicants - so :fingerscrossed: I'm one of the 10!
Sorry girls, I'm having a mental blank about what I wanted to say for my personals :confused: I'll have to come back.
hayleylea
18-05-2007, 10:39
:yelclap: :yelclap: YAY ange :fingerscrossed: for you!
Hi everyone,
Will had the best sleep he has had for about a month last night. I think I mentioned he was a cranky little person yesterday. Well I put him in bed at 6:45 last night because I had had enough of him and he stayed there til about 7:20 this morning! :smiliedance: DH did go in once at about 5:30 to tuck him back in but that was it. I feel very relieved. I think DH is frustrated with my worrying about whether Will is going to wake up at night so you guys are probably so over me as well! Sorry for all my grumbling.
I hope Maddi was ok today for her op. So much nicer to get it out of the way now.
LOL at Cooper being scared of the rain! I hope his little bottom settles down, it is just awful when their bottoms get sore. Last week Will wouldn't even sit down in the bath his was so sore!
Ooh - Ange! I hope you get that job. Even if you don't really want it - it's always nice to know that they want you.
Anna- happy Patch shopping! You'll soon find that there are a lot fewer options with boys, I get bored buying Will's clothes.
It's wet here too today - so hard to keep Will occupied on rainy days.
I should go - Will has just woken up from his sleep, time to play!
:banghead: yep you guessed it - NO OPERATION!. We drove to Melbourne last night, slept in a hotel and got up at 6am this morning. Got lost getting to the hospital, was 20 minutes late. The anaethetist checked her out and said No not today. So in the car and back home again. Although I'm annoyed that we went through all of that and to end up with no operation, I'm happy that the anaethetist wanted to be cautious and not proceed. So Maddi's back on the list and the next available date is in the middle of June. So in the meantime its multivitamins and no sick kids for Maddi.
OK now I have to unpack the car and figure out whats for tea. Sorry for no personal posts girls but I just stepped in the door and wanted to let you know how we went. After I unpack the car I'll make a cup of tea and sit here and have a good read about what you've all been up to the past 2 days.
I had absolutely no sleep last night. I was so anxious about Maddi's op and her getting put under. We decided last night that DH would go in with her to the operating room as I would have cried seeing her on that huge table.
OK gotta go, stop my blabbing!
Cheers girls
hayleylea
18-05-2007, 12:43
OH NO Lou!!!! Sorry to hear the bad news. I guess its for the best though at the moment. Sending NO SICKNESS vibes Maddis way!! :fingerscrossed: she stays healthy so she can have her op! :hugs: :hugs:
OK now I'm sitting down with my cup of tea and Maddi is happily playing with her dolls. I've had a read of the posts now its just up to my memory to do these personals.
Fi - retained items in your cervix? Like you I'm thinking WTH??? So what exactly gets retained in your cervix with a ceaser? do you have to get the stuff removed or is it a matter of waiting for it to come out naturally?
Ange, thats exciting about the night fill job. Imagine all that extra $$ and what you can do with it! Ah I have it spent already :laughing: Keep us updated with how you go. I'm sure you'll get it and be on here at all hours of the early mornings.
Anna, you sound way too organised. Although 50 days to go, whats that in weeks..........oh 7 and a bit! Thats not long at all.
Cath your not far behind Anna either with 9 weeks to go. Oh its so exciting. I can't wait to hear what the names are.
Tan, great to hear that Will had a night of good sleep. Thats a LONG sleep! I bet you felt like a new woman in the morning.
My mum made it back to Malaysia with one of her sisters from Melbourne. My grandma is on the mend and is able to have short conversations and have liquid foods. So they are all spending as much time as they can with my grandma. My Grandma, we call her Mama as per the Malaysian custom, well Mama is my only surviving grandparent. So I'm pretty close to her. She had 8 kids and I think she was 15 or something ridiculous like that when she had her first. Can you imagine!
Yesterday I was all cool calm and collected about maddi's op until I had to ring the hospital to confirm her booking. They were giving me the rundown of the day, that I needed to dress her in a shirt that opened in the front to attach the monitoring devices ect. Then I started to get really nervous. Then one of my friends tells me that when they put her under, once she's asleep to not look back coz if I saw her laying there on the table with all these people around her I'd get upset. That freaked me out. I know she was telling me that to keep me informed but geez, I don't think it helped those butterflies much. So last night in a strange hotel room, and Maddi sharing our bed I didn't sleep much at all. And when I did wake I'd give her a squeeze. And now I have to do it all again in a month.
Hayley, how is Coopers bottom today? Did it clear up and his poops get better?
Oh Lou what a mammoth effort for nothing. As you say though it is nice in a way that he was being so careful and not risking putting her under when she was sick. I can't even imagine how I would feel if Paddy had to go through that - I really feel for you. It will be so nice when it is over for you.
Good luck with the job Ange. What time would you have to work? I have sort of started thinking about what I could do in terms of earning some money some time in the future (obviously not in the next few months) -our budget could do with some extra dollars coming in and we didn't win the $30 million in Powerball last night like I thought we would. How's Seth today?
Good to hear Cooper's system is back to normal Hayley. Good luck for TTC next month. I still remember so clearly how I felt when we were trying to conceive the first 2 times (Paddy and the miscarried baby) and how disheartening it was every time that dreaded period would appear. I would be straight onto the beers those nights (not that I am particularly recommending you should be drowning your sorrows -I was a bit nuts really). It's been pouring here today too but we managed to get out to the library and the shops in a break this morning.
Tan that's great that Will had a nice big sleep for you. I know what you mean about keeping them entertained in the house all day -can be a long day.
Anna that's so scary to think in days. You must be stuffed by the time you get the kids to bed with your busy days (I am so impressed you are still working away sorting out stuff at night).
Paddy has the worst cold he has had in his little life so far. It hit him just before dinner last night then the poor little man had a bad night and we had to go in to him several times overnight and cuddle him in the chair for quite a while (still nowhere near as long as we used to) until he was happy to go to bed. Poor little man was swallowing all this stuff that must have been running down the back of his throat and when we went in when he was crying about 11pm he was so hot and covered in sweat (his hair was wet) so we pulled him out of his furry sleeping suit and cooled him down then he seemed okay after a while. He was waking up crying every couple of hours and I was back in there at 1am but at the 4am cry out by the time I got to the hallway he had gone back to sleep (he never would have done that in the past - I am still so impressed that he will mostly put himself to sleep). I got some Demazin from the chemist this morning and he has just woken up from a 2.5 hour sleep and seems happy enough. So sad when they are sick.
Anyway I'm off to find a caramel slice recipe -have this craving for caramel slice all of a sudden.
Cath
Hey there everyone. Just thought I'd quickly pop in and let you know that I'm still around and haven't got lost in cyberspace. I just haven't had any time lately to check out bub hub. Katelyn's growing up now, as I guess all our bubs are. She's going to sleep by herself in the cot now & not falling asleep on James anymore. James will be going back to work early, in lasee than a month actually, so Katelyn's been going to daycare once a week for the past month to get her used to it. She seems to be going OK there. Had my work trip away to Adelaide a few weeks back. That was pretty good, except I missed Katelyn at night times......but we all survived! We're all going on holidays next Friday. Off to Adelaide again to catch up with my family and friends, see some footy, go to a wedding. Looking forward to it.
My studies are going well, but it's heaps of work. It just seems that I'm stressing over getting an assignment in, then when it's finally in there's another one due in a few weeks!. Oh well, just got the 1 assignment to do that's due in 4 weeks, then the semester will be over & I'll have a little break till it all starts again next semester!
Anyway, that's all for now......
hayleylea
18-05-2007, 14:39
Hey guys.
Lou - Glad your mum made it to see your grandma. She sounds like she is a fighter!!! Yep Coopers bum cleared up. Still a bit of a rash but that cream did wonders!!
Cath - Sorry to hear little Paddy has a cold!!! Stupid weather. Its so sad when they have colds isnt it! Hopefully it passes quickly for the little man!! As for hitting the beer - it sounds like a good idea. I should point out that im not sure im NOT pregnant i just dont think i am. Im getting all the signs of my periods coming (which should hit tommorrow). So ill keep you guys posted for sure but im pretty sure im not.
Renee..So good to hear from you and sounds like Katelyn is growing up fast too. Glad to hear your studies are going well. Hope to hear more from you soon. Enjoy your holiday!
Well Cooper got up this arvo and the rain had stopped and the sun was shinning and he was itching to go outside so we put on his snow boots (waterproof boots) and his little hat and went and splashed in puddles! As a result he was very muddy so came in and had a shower. He had a ball though..there are some pics on his website.
OK better go get this boy a snack all that splashing has made him hungry lol.
Talk soon
:laughing: Hayley, those photo's are exactly like the one's I took of Maddi yesterday in the puddles. She sat down in one and it was right into the bath for her. I so have to update her website. I haven't updated the photos in there for yonkers.
Love that photoshopped shot of Cooper in the hat. Gorgeous! I also forgot to say I hope you are pregga's Hayley, and if your not then :fingerscrossed: for the next 6 months.
Oh Cath! I can't believe Paddy has a cold too. Its the season for it isn't it and these October bubs are certainly giving it a go. Thank God for Demazin, although this time around I haven't been giving it to Maddi. Don't know why, I should give her a go tonight. Cath I had no idea you had a miscarriage, was that before or after Paddy? I can't imagine how difficult that was for you and Dean.
Katelyns mum its great to hear from you. Good to hear the work trip went well and the study is going well. I'm doing a three day short course through Swinburne and just doing that is killing me. Lucky for me a lot of the assignments are work based.
Anyways better go. Maddi has the crayons and I'm in another room! :cool:
hayleylea
18-05-2007, 14:58
lou cant wait to see the photos of Maddi!! I dont actually own photo shop but i did it in my photo program so i was quite pleased with myself lol
Gotta go keep this boy entertained!!
That photo of Cooper is gorgeous Hayley. Looks like he was having fun outside. Maybe that period won't appear after all.
Good to hear from you Renee. I can only imagine how busy you are with trying to fit in study as well as everthing else.
Lou I miscarried at 8 weeks with my first pregnancy (before Paddy). I thought I was alright about it at the time (a few of my friends had gone through the same thing and I half thought it was to be expected or something) but then I collapsed about a week later when I went back to work and had to case manage a girl who was pregnant with a healthy baby boy and not at all happy about it. I was a bit of a mess for a while and quit my job and everything to have a break and had a lovely month where I concentrated on looking after myself. I took the dogs out for big walks every morning and pottered around and cooked and finally stopped thinking about it so much and then just as I was about to go on a fertility drug to fix up my crazy cycles I discovered I was pregnant with Paddy. I often like to think that Paddy was meant to be my first baby and I never would have had him if the first pregnancy had continued - there is just something about my little man that he is meant to be my first child. Anyway enough deep and meaningful stuff. Better go and entertain the sick little man who is playing with my mobile.
Oh Cath, you know I'm such a teary soul these days that I read your post and shed tears. Its good that you took time out in the end to look after yourself and to reflect on your loss. It makes Paddy that much more special for you and Dean.
Well I've entered into the photo comp again. The spots are filling very fast so come on girls - get into it! Its heaps of fun. Hayley I can see how you get addicted to it. I had heaps of fun stalking around the yard and house for a photo that was appropriate. That photo program you used is good. My stupid DH (thats dear husband! not the other acronym) deleted photoshop off my computer and put on a different version which I'm not so keen on. I'm only not keen on it because I havent learnt to use it.
hayleylea
18-05-2007, 20:46
Lou id love to have photoshop!! the program i had is just one that come with my computer!!!
I had an idea for the photo comp but havent got around to taking the photo. Off to check yours out now!!
hayleylea
18-05-2007, 20:50
Lou your photo is AMAZING!!!! :yelclap:
MrsMiggins
18-05-2007, 21:17
:wave: Hi guys!! Man! I feel like I haven't been on bubhub for a year & it's only been 2 days!! :laughing:
We've just had an absolute nightmarish few days, so I've had zero chance of getting onto the computer. And actually (for the first time in probably years!!) no inclination either!
Claire has pretty much screamed non-stop since I was last on. Poor kid is in some serious pain & nothing we give her seems to be working. She is actually starting to lose her voice from screaming so much. At the smallest thing (in fact, quite often at literally nothing) she will just fly into an hysterical screaming tantrum, which can last on & off for hours. It's exhausting us all & Dave & I are at our wits ends! Then just to rub some salt into the wound, I have picked up a little bit of a cold, which I think I may have passed onto poor Owen! So he's not been sleeping the best, and then Claire also has a runny nose, but I'm not sure if that's teething or if she has the cold as well. Honestly, I feel I could lie down in a room with no children & sleep for a year right now!!
I went to see the Dr today about my scan results & she was even more perplexed than I was! She said she'd never, ever seen retained products in the cervix either. And she was even more baffled, as she'd given me a pap smear since I'd had Owen. So she's given me a letter to give to the Gyno at the hospital & I have to go up there to the ER at some point over the weekend & see them. She said they may suggest a repeat u/s or just tell me to wait & see if it flushes itself out (which it looks like it's trying to) or I may need a D & C. Hopefully it won't come to that! The only problem is that I can only go up there on Sunday morning. I need Dave to go with me so he can look after Owen (Claire can be looked after by my mum) but he needs to be at work usually around 11.30 and he can't miss it. There's no-one else who can do it (and besides, if we don't get the money from that, we won't be able to pay our rent this week). So he can't be stuck up at the hospital all day. I'm so stressed about it!
Sorry, I obviously needed to get all that off my chest!
I'm so sorry to hear about all the sick & teething kids! And all the sleep disturbances, tantrums & general crankiness! Gee it's great to know we're all going through it at the same time though, isn't it? There's no better support than others who know exactly what you're going through!
Nat & Renee! So great to hear from you both again! Nat, congrats on your pregnancy! I can't believe it's been 3 months simce you last posted!! Claire is great with Owen now, although she was a little jealous at first. They just adore each other now though, which is really lovely!
Lou, I'm sorry you went through so much only to be told to come back in June! I hope that Maddi is hale & hearty for her next date with the anaesthetist! I'm sure she will be. At least you don't have the worry about her dealing with the anaesthetic with her chesty cough. You don't need that.
Ange, I'm sure you'll get that job! I couldn't believe when I read that was the job you were going for! Dave was talking about doing that very same thing, only a couple of guys he knows that do it said the hours were 8-12 3 nights per week. So he decided against it because that would mean I would have to do dinner, bath & bed for Claire & I just can't do it on my own at the moment, as Owen is awake that whole time. All the best with it anyway, I'm sure you'll get it!
Tan, I will never begrudge anyone a vent here about sleeping babies!! So if you want to come on here & worry away about Will waking during the night, then you go right ahead! You are more than entitled to! I just hope Will gives you a few (well, more than a few!) solid night's sleep. Poor kid needs his rest right now! As, I'm sure, do you!
Cath, Anna & Hayles, there was stuff I was thinking I wanted to respond to about your posts, but I'll be buggered if I can think of it all now! Suffice to say I luv ya's all!
OK, I need to go to bed!! I'll get on again when I can but it mightn't be til Monday or so. I hope everyone has a lovely weekend!
hayleylea
18-05-2007, 22:07
Fi - sorry to hear about your ups and downs. Poor Claire, Wonder whats bothering her? i think they are going through a very frustrating time atm.
Im with you though im buggered so im off to bed...talk soon!!!
hope all the sick kiddies get well soon and hope all the teething kiddies get their teeth quickly and hope all the tantrums STOP! lol.
night guys!
Morning . . .:wave:
Soooo tired. . . :sleeping:
I feel so bad that I haven't been focussing too hard on personals lately. I'm so over nesting but it has such a hold on me and I have SUCH a long way to go yet in the next 7 weeks (YES! 49 days!!) Last night Shane and I bought a tall skinny dark wood bookshelf from the discount store (it was $50) and put it together upstairs. I couldn't stand the smell of the little one my friend loaned me because I'd scrubbed it clean and it was raw pine and didn't have a finish on it so it's going to smell for ages. Plus it really wasn't big enough and this new one is.
Anyway, I'll start piling clothes onto it a little closer to d-day but last night I went through and emptied my entire ensuite cupboards, shelves & (limited) make up and started sorting. OMG I was shocked - I ended up with 3 garbage bags full of stuff plus 1 bag of products & stuff that I'll hand down to my niece to go through. I also discovered 2 bags with tonnes of LUSH bath bombs, bath crumbles and more! Might have to treat myself to a nice bath or two before this baby comes!
Fi - Cr@p I'm so tired that my brain won't even function to try and process what could be happening with Claire. All I can think of at the moment (and sorry if this is general) is that at this age they are really coming into toddler-hood and the emotional aspect is HUGE - they're learning every day new emotions, feelings etc & the frustrations that come with all of that are really HUGE. As for the idea of her being in pain all the time, maybe a trip to the CHN to get her checked over might help ease your mind? Such things as growing pains arn't a myth but unfortunately can't really be treated either. Oh I'll be thinking about Claire all day long and I'll have a read in my book and see if I can offer any other suggestions.
As for you my dear, I especially, completely understand how hard it must be to juggle your little family, Dave's work & bubhub! I didn't have hub when I had 2 kids and I can't imagine how much/little I'll be on here when bubba blue arrives. I'll make an effort for the first weeks while Shane is home then I fear that I'll fall off the face of the earth!
What a puzzle about the retained product thing - I mean in the uterus sure, but the cervix? I hope it all works out this weekend and you get to the hospital to get yourself checked out. BIG HUGS to you right now :hugs:
Cath - I also had no idea about your miscarriage before Paddy - oh hun I'm sorry! But like Lou, emotional suitcase over here got all choked up reading but could see what an amazing attitude you have about it now - and like you said, you wouldn't have Paddy if your first pregnancy had gone to term. Life has a way of dealing things out then almost "making up" for them later - and you have a gorgeous, happy, healthy boy who fills your world every day. Another girl here on hub had a miscarriage which really affected her too and then she fell pregnant with twins and is now over 20 weeks with them! Double blessing! Oh also, I think you asked me ages ago about a name for bubba blue - we don't have a definate name but 3 that we're working out combinations over - I'm really finding it hard for this boy - any advice?!
Lou - BUGGER about Maddi's operation - and the expense of the travel, accommodation etc just to be told no. But I'm with everyone else in that I'm glad that the anethetist didn't want to take chances and risk anything. Even though it's for the best it's still got to be frustrating. Lots of thoughts, prayers & hugs to you & Maddi for the next month that everyone stays fit and healthy. Does that mean that you'll be staying home from work a bit more to care for Maddi or is she still going to go to creche as much as she was?
Hayles - which teeth does Cooper have coming? I thought he'd finished ages ago? The only ones I can think of would be the "2yo" molars which can really (in my experience) come at any time. I have a friend with a 4yo who still doesn't have them, yet one of my kids got them smack-bang on 2 years old! Ah for the "rules" of teething to be finite!
Tan - GREAT to hear about Will's wonderful sleep! I'm hoping and praying that it will continue. Immy's been such a little monkey of late but a lot of her night time interruptions I've placed on her not being well. The night that she started sleeping through again I'd put her in a fleece sleep suit and also put some vicks on a handy and place it inside her singlet - as I'd noticed when she fell asleep in the car that her breathing sounded shocking and she couldn't breath through her nose very well! No wonder she wasn't sleeping well!
About the whole clothes thing - I guess I'm still excited about buying boys clothes at the moment because it's still a novelty but I can see what you mean - even though there's HEAPS more boys stuff around since I had Chelsea, I've still noticed that there's not as much boys clothing etc. However I also figure this - boys don't need 1/2 as much as girls! Couple of jeans, few tops, a hoodie, jumper and about 2 changes of shoes for when they're a toddler. Whereas girls need countless pairs of sandles to go with the multitudes of dresses, a variety of sunhats in case 3 of them don't match and don't get me started on the rest of the wardrobe! LOL!
Ange - goodluck with the job - apart from having very good odds I'm sure you'll get it! When do you find out? Oh it must be nice to get out and have some company with some adults for a change! I'm sort of craving that lately! It's still going to be years for me til I'm back in the workplace - so my adult contact revolves around mums at school waiting to pick up their kids! LOL!
Well today Shane and I are going to argue all morning about whether or not he goes to play soccer. I had planned on taking Chelsea & Nicola shopping for Shane's birthday gifts but Shane has told the boys he'll play soccer without asking me. We got into a fight a few weeks ago too but I won't go into that - lets just say it wasn't nice and we still haven't resolved the issue. And we are still "sorting it out" as I've been writing this post.
Well the OB last night didn't do a scan - for the first appointment ever!! Kids were a little disappointed but he promised one next time for them and we had a listen to the heart beat instead which they were amazed over! Dr still said the baby was growing mightly well :rolleyes: and head was still quite mobile so not much chance of being engaged until labour. However, my fundal hight measurement was actually 1cm less than 2 weeks ago (after increasing 3cm each fortnight for the last 3 fortnights!) which to me confirms that he's definately settled into a good "downwards" position.
I've been typing this post for ages so I'd better go - kids to dress, showers to have, jobs to do. Tonight our baby sitter is coming down and we're heading up the road to our friends 30th birthday - it's actually a double - the husband and wife were both born on the same day of the same year - pretty cool huh?! Anyway, it's casual so can't wait to just chill with a glass of wine and catch up with some friends we haven't seen in ages. Probably won't be a late night but it should be a good one - if I can get all of Shane's pressie shopping done today! (otherwise, just one more thing to stress about!)
Talk soon
xoxo
hayleylea
19-05-2007, 10:01
Just a quick one..Anna had a quick squiz over your post will reply when i have more time
Yep the 2 year old molars. They are the only ones left. He has really huge lumps there. Im not totally sure they are coming. I have heard they can take ages. But his poos are runny and he has really rosey cheeks..both tell tale signs that he is teething. Who knows.
Gotta go get lunch organised.
Hi everyone,
I am very pleased to report that Will had another lovely long sleep last night and now seems much more his usual happy self. He even played outside in the sandpit by himself for quite some time this morning. Lately he has been quite clingy and not wanting to play by himself but he had a great time this morning!
Fi - sorry to hear about your rough days with Claire. I felt drained reading it! It is so hard at the moment - I think what makes it worse is that in their own way they do try to tell you what is wrong but we just do not speak their language yet! I don't have any helpful suggestions at all except to say that it never hurts to get them checked out - that's what I have resorted to with Will when he is out of sorts!
Lou - what a bugger to go all that way and stay in a motel and everything only to have Maddi's op cancelled! I know it was for the best but I would have been very frustrated. :fingerscrossed: that all goes well for next time.
Cath - I think I had noticed before that you said something about a miscarriage but I didn't want to pry. Thank you for sharing your story -I have often wondered how I would feel if that happened to us. I think you have a great outlook on what must have been a difficult time for you both.
Anna- you must have a lot of cupboards in that ensuite of yours! Sounds more like my pantry than a bathroom cupboard. I hope you sort out the soccer argument with Shane. You didn't go into details but I suspect it is a very familiar one! I think men just don't get the whole "no notice" thing and how annoying it is. And I bet you get the "I don't do anything for myself" argument from Shane too! Sounds like your Ob appt went well, although I don't know what the connotations for not being engaged before labour are. Are there any or does it mean nothing at all?
Hayles - was Cooper an early bird today or did he have one of his famous sleep ins?
Oh and Ange - did you get the job?
hayleylea
19-05-2007, 13:02
Tan - no famous sleep ins...he did sleep till 7.45 though so that wasnt too bad!!! :D he has been having good day sleeps agian though so im happy with that! Im glad to hear Will is back to his normal happy sleepy self!
its absolutley FREEZING here today!!!!
Ummm Hayley - 7:45 IS a sleep-in!!!!! :laughing:
hayleylea
19-05-2007, 13:29
:laughing: yeah your right Tan but the 8.30 get ups were alot better :laughing: :laughing: Nah i actually prefer him getting up around 7.30!
7.45am is a sleep in - I agree Tan. UP early for us is 5.30am. Maddi's normal wake up time is 6.30am. I can only dream of the day she starts to sleep in. Hayley, hand over the sleep dust!!!
While its lovely to have all this rain its so hard to find entertaining things for these kids to do. We've done crayon drawings, blocks, dolly play and video watching. Anyone got any suggestions for things these kiddies can do on their own without destroying the house?
Today was my sleep in day, I didn't get up until 9.30am which was sooooo nice. DH got up with Maddi and kept her busy and fed. Tommorow is his day to sleep on the w/end, although I like to argue that he gets to sleep in every other day.
Anna, the sports argument happens here all the time. Sometimes I jsut want to dong DH over the head with his hockey stick and tell him to go and sleep with it. I won't go on about that here because i could go on and on for pages.
We might be having friends over for dinner. They are going to bring takeaway. I'm sort of looking forward to it in that it would be nice to catch up. But on the other hand Maddi's cold/cough is keeping her up until all hours and she is so hard to settle at night. They have 2 little boys, one is 3 the other is 10 months. I'll tell her that Maddi is sick and let her decide what she wants to do. If I was her I'd stay away from our sicky house. I've got a sore throat today and feel oh so lazy.
OK I'm going to go and bake a cake or something. Maybe casserole for dinner? I'm just so BORED! And I imagine so is Maddi. I don't want to take her outside as its pretty darn cold and with her cough and cold its probably not a wise move.
Where is everyone today?
hayleylea
20-05-2007, 07:00
*Passess Lou some sleeping dust for Maddi* let me know if it works! lol
I got another sleep in today...We just got out of bed then I went to bed at 8 last night :eek: I was so tired i was falling asleep on the lounge so i went to bed. Trent said he could hear me snoring from the lounge room!! :laughing: :laughing: :o
My mums coming up today! We were going to go down there but she has decided to come up here so we are all going out for lunch (her, my sister and I) So should be good. Although it seems Winter has well and truly hit!!
Anyway better get going and get some breakkie ready!
LOL! I think Hayles is finally disproving the myth that Tassie is a really cold state! We're still quite mild weather wise down here at the moment and even this morning is sunny with only a couple of friendly fluffy looking clouds in the sky!
Oh Hayles I used to enjoy the 8:30am sleep ins too when I only had Chelsea, but after a while I got bored and wanted her to wake earlier because by the time we started the day it was nearly nap time again! Just enjoy anything you can at the moment because once you have another 1 or 2 kids then you NEED your day to start at 6:30! Having said that - 7-7:30 is the norm in this household for the kids while we still laze about in bed for a while longer!
Tan - no need for details about Shane's & my argument - I'd bore you all to death and it's SUCH an ongoing argument that neither is going to win any time soon. Just annoys me that Shane thinks he deserves a medal for not committing to a soccer team this year, where as my argument is - what about me? The only thing I've committed to for the last 5 years is mothers group! Some how I don't see how that counts. . :rolleyes:
As for the baby engaging - Dr said it's not likely to happen until just before labour - that's the norm with 2nd/3rd/4th etc babies. Only the first baby generally engages early. I've read this too so I'm happy with that.
My ensuite vanity actually isn't huge - but the amount of junk that came out of the two doors, 3 draws and the little box sitting on top was! Now it's all nicely organised back in little storage creates with one for body stuff, one for hair stuff etc etc blah blah, nest, nest! LOL!
Lou - did you end up having visitors last night?
I really shouldn't be complaining about Shane & soccer when Tony actually goes away to MELB to play hockey! Don't you worry - it's only taken me 7 years to wear Shane out of his bachelor ways! ;)
Yesterday worked out ok but I was quite stressed. In the end Shane & I took separate cars - Shane went to play soccer while the girls and I "tried" to shop for his pressie - so hard as I still just had NO IDEA what to get him. In the end I gave up, took the kids to Maccas and met up in town at 2:30 - swapped cars & Shane took the kids home while I raced around like a mad woman. I ended up getting him some really nice colorado casual shoes, some jammie pants (coz the night before while he was setting up the tall bookcase we bought he "lunged" and split in a very unfortunate place! :laughing: ), a cd & I filled 2 x 2lt glass jars with his FAVOURITE Allens lollies (pineapples & spearmint leaves!) There's a HUGE story to go with that. We haven't been able to buy those lollies here separately for ages - unless it's by a teeny tiny bag. But we have a wholesale place that sold to businesses that just recently became open to the public. I used to shop there for the youth group & church so I know they stocked MASSIVE bags of these things among others. So I rocked up, applied for a public card & bought a 1.3kg bag of each lolly! He's going to be one very happy chappy tomorrow! (Yes, that's how much he loves those lollies!)
Last night we had our babysitter over while we went up the road to 2 x friends 30th birthday. It's a husband & wife both born on the same day, same month, same year, same HOSPITAL, only 2 hours apart! How crazy is that! Even their mothers remembered each other from screaming in labour! LOL! Nice casual night, few wines, finger food, a big bomb fire & a hot tub (no I didn't endulge!!) Got home about midnight and had a really nice night out.
Today is cleaning day!:smiliedance: (NOT!) We've decided to make a move to clear up this place but so far we're still in our jammies, Immy's back in bed & Shane's on the couch! LOL! Hopefully we can get motivated soon otherwise I'll just go sort some more clothes etc!
So sorry - it's been another epic post. Just so much to catch up on in our chatty group!
Talk soon! Enjoy your Sunday!
xoxo
** Lou snatches sleep dust and stashes it away for future use!!!*** Hayley, you must have sprinkled a bit our way last night as Maddi had a great sleep for the first time in ages. She didn't wake up coughing so that was a big plus. Her cough seems to be finally fading out which is good. I had a quick chat to you on MSN this morning which was great, I was sitting in my PJ's sipping coffee. Do you know I was talking to my Dad at the same time (don't know if you noticed my vagueness) but I got confused and started our conversation with him which confused him and me. Dad was asking who Hayley was, and I was thinking OMG how did he know I was talking to you :laughing: .
I'm getting ready today to go away again tonight. Another trip to Melbourne for uni tommorow. Only one more trip to go and I'm done for that short course. I think maybe the next time I'm going down I might go early and do some shopping all by myself!!!
Maddi is having a little nap. She's tuckered out already. I went to start up the ride on mower and the battery is dead flat. And being a Sunday it will have to wait until tommorow.
Anna, you have inspired me with your re-organisation. I might just have to start cleaning out my cupboards. I actually sold 2 pairs of DH's shoes on ebay. One pair of his hiking boots sold for $82. Woo Hoo. I had to laugh at Shane splitting his pants. Thats so funny. Great choice of presents. Wish I was that creative. He's going to lurve tommorow. I love birthdays.
LMAO! I just couldn't help it but I was looking at everyone's profiles and we're all "sitting" on our thread! Are we waiting for something to happen??:confused: :laughing:
Oh Lou - look! We scared Hayles & Tan away! PMSL! :laughing:
Hello everyone!
LOL at Anna and Lou. I confess I have been popping in here to see what has been happening and just haven't left any messages. There's nothing exciting happening here to report.
I love pineapple lollies too Anna! Great pressies. You have done well for someone who didn't have any ideas as to what to get their hubby.
Great news on Maddi's sleep last night Lou! Even better about her cough as well. Hopefully the nasty little thing stays away now.
Well - we are having a weird one here. Will didn't get up til 7:30 this morning and for some reason is now being a monkey with his nap. I've been wondering when to start putting him down a bit later than midday and I think I might have my answer. NOW. He has been in his room since midday and I swear he has not been asleep. He's not crying - but I've had to go in there twice when he yelled out and give him his teddy and his dummy back. I suspect he is just not that tired for some reason. It might just be a funny day I guess as yesterday he had a two hour nap starting at the normal time. It's particularly odd because we went to church today and he is normally absolutely stuffed after that! I guess we will just have to wait and see. Oh for a peep hole into his room! I'd love to know what he is doing in there but I am too scared to have a look.
One thing I do know is that Troy is snoring his little head off right now. He went to a bucks party last night and I have no idea when he got in but I think it was close to 3am. Of course Will has picked the right day to be a little bugger!
Anyway I hope you are all having a lovely Sunday.
Chat soon
Alright - I was brave and went and checked and he is asleep now. Around the wrong way and no covers but he is asleep. Little monkey!
Ange&Seth
20-05-2007, 12:48
Hello Hello!
Anna - I love pineapples too! Can't get them except in those tiny little bags though!! Might need to get you to take me to this shop if and when I ever get my act together and come home for a visit! Oh and as for disproving Tassie to be a cold state - well, we've been up here for nearly 14 years and let me tell you, it's COLD. Everyone used to say to us 'but you're from Tassie, you shouldn't feel the cold!' It's a different kind of cold. Same as Summer is a different kind of heat. A 25 degree day in Tassie is like a 35 degree day here.
Tan - Sounds like Will is being a right little monkey for you today. Seth's changed his sleeps around the past 2 weeks. To start with, he was putting himself to bed for his day sleep at 10.30am and the past 2 days he's changed it AGAIN to 1.30pm. Admittedly that's cos there's been stuff going on to keep him distracted but he seemed so much happier when he was sleeping at 10.30am. Oh well, he'll sort himself out. Hope Troy's head isn't too sore today HAHA.
Lou - That's excellent that Maddi's cough is better. Bugger about the op though. When do you think you'll find out the date for the next one? I think I'm lucky that Adam doesn't play sport. I don't think he was ever encouraged to play as a kid so he doesn't now. :laughing: he says 'Pool's a sport isn't it? We walk around the pool table - that's exercise!'
Hayles - you must have needed that sleep! Isn't it funny how when the guys snore and we mention it, they just shrug, yet when WE snore it's a BIG DEAL!! ROFL. Maybe we need to lobby for snoring equality :laughing:
Well, we've had a big weekend so far. Yesterday, Seth and I got up (Adam's away working) at about 9am, went and got breakfast (macca's on Saturday morning) and then got a txt msg from one of my very good friends that I went to school with. We haven't seen eachother for about 6 years and she was in Wagga for her brothers wedding ( I introduced him to his bride but Adam and I weren't invited :rolleyes: ). So, we caught up for coffee at about 10.15. Then had to take Seth to the doctor for his checkup at 11.15am, and as we were leaving there about 11.45am, I get a phone call from gf's mum (who I call Mum) saying that they were at the RSL club (2 streets away from doctors) if I wanted to say hi. So off we go to meet them, and discover that her eldest son and his pregnant wife are there too!! YAY!! Haven't seen him for about 3 years. THEN her other son rocks up with his wife and 3 week old baby :smiliedance: OMG it was like a little mini family reunion!
So it was 1pm by the time we got home, Seth went to bed and when he woke up, I packed him into the car and came to mum and dad's. Seth's in bed again now and I'm waiting on a call from Adam to let me know when he'll be heading home so I can try and be home when he gets there.
Gosh I can ramble!!! Ok, I'm gonna go now. Hope I didn't miss anyone!! Talk to you all soon.
Oh and Anna - what did you mean about everyone 'sitting' on their profile? I'm confused........
hayleylea
20-05-2007, 13:38
hey guys..
lol lou about you messing up your convo with your dad!
This is only going to be a small one from me, I ve been at my sisters all day and Cooper has yet to have a sleep - he has been good as gold but im not sure whether i should try and put him down or wait it out till tonight!! Dont know if im game enough lol! Ah well ill see how i go.
Better go..talk soon.
hayleylea
20-05-2007, 15:29
Im happy to report the little man is still awake and still happy! lol. We are just about to sit down and play cars until daddy comes home..Then we will have an early dinner. Bath and id say by that time he will be ready to crash...
Ok gotta go he is pulling on my leg with a car in his hand :laughing:
HAHA! Got bugger all done today! Oh well, there's always tomorrow.
I drew the short straw for the groceries today (for the last time I swear!) and it took me hours. Although that also included a trip to Sussans which I was happy to discover that I still fit size XL jammie pants so I bought 2 pairs and have another pair on hold in town to get tomorrow! :D They even (just) fit over my belly so they'll be just SO ultra comfy this winter after I have bubs! (And also makes me confident to think that I'll still be a sz 16 after the baby which is what I was before). Also organised a pressie for Chelsea & Nicola from the baby (a little bag with a gorgeous chunky colourful necklace, some stick on earrings & a lip smacker each - they're so into lippy at the moment), now I just have to figure something out for Immy - have no clue, no-one in this household needs any toys!
Ange - I meant I looked at everyone's profile who was online and everyones last activity was listed as THIS thread! So we've all been sitting here most of the day and I though we must have all been waiting for something really exciting to happen! LMAO! I could have been really nasty and jumped on and surprised you saying:
:eek: MY WATERS BROKE!!! :devil6:
(OMG how much am I looking forward to saying that!!!)
... then just sit back and watch you all flock the thread with posts! Believe me I thought about it! But then I remembered the little boy who cried wolf! PMSL! :D
Tan - LOL good on you for 'fessing up!
Oh and probably worth a go trying Will with a later arvo nap - even if it's just 1/2 - 1 hour later than normal, and see how he goes?
Oh Tan & Ange - duely noted about the pineapple lollies! If you ever want some, they were $9 a 1.3kg bag so I could buy you 2 and get away with posting them in a 3kg satchel! LOL! Seriously, I wonder how long these two ginormous glass jars of lollies are going to last on Shane's desk at work! PMSL! He's sure as hell not likely to leave them at home because he know's he'll have to mark the level on the jar each morning before he leaves! LOL!
Hayles - poor Trent - those sort of nights sure do take it out of a bloke don't they?! I don't know how your guy does it working such long, funny hours, then spending family time, as well as making an effort to go to a bucks party! Good on him I say!
Well the other thing I got today was some cute Hallmark cards that I'll use as my announcement cards - you put a photo in the front and write inside the card. Bloody expensive but very cute. Also I'm going into spotlight tomorrow to pick up some beautiful thank you cards I saw yesterday to use for my baby shower etc. LOL! Can you tell that I'm getting all excited now?!
Oh by the way - I'm pretty sure that somewhere along the way I've received most of your details but to save me going through my emails (coz I'm slack!) can you all email me your full names/addresses so I can send you a pic of bubby when he's born? (Also we can trade mobile numbers if you want a text!) It's something that I can do in hospital to keep myself busy during the quiet times! Shane will get a cute photo printed for me to put in the cards and I can't wait to show you all my bundle! OMG do you think I might go into labour soon?! It's like my mind is WILLING my body to hurry up! PMSL!
Ok gotta go - 3 little girls to get ready for bed and I have Chelsea's lunch to pack for school tomorrow too.
Talk soon!
xoxo
hayleylea
20-05-2007, 19:05
Hayles - poor Trent - those sort of nights sure do take it out of a bloke don't they?! I don't know how your guy does it working such long, funny hours, then spending family time, as well as making an effort to go to a bucks party! Good on him I say!
hmmm think you might have got Trent mixed up with Troy Anna - Trent didnt go to a buckst party. As for Trents work hours he actually loves it...as do we!! lol. We get to spend much more time together more so then what we did if he worked "normal" hours if you know what i mean. His shifts are now 6-3 (thats day shift) Arvo shift is 3-11 and night is 11-6 so we get heaps of family time...time to work on the house etc. Trent is one of those people who survives on little sleep - As long as he has aroudn 5 hours he is fine. But :no: he didnt go on a bucks party unless i slept through the whole thing because i was in bed at 8! lol
Ill give you my addy and stuff tommorrow. Oh and you almost had me with the whole water breaking thing too! :laughing:
Oh by the way i managed to get my finger in Cooper mouth again (very brave girl that I am! lol) and them lumps are HUGE!!! I even got my sister to put her finger in and she said the same thing. So yep looks like them molars are coming....he screamed too when i touched them. :crying: He crashed at 6.30 tonight but woke up at 8 screaming so i went in and gave him a cuddle and he kept crying like he was in pain. So i brought him out and layed him on the lounge and he went straight to sleep. Trent put him in bed and havent heard him again but i have a feeling it might be one of them nights!! Hope not though! Lou maybe i gave you too much sleeping dust! :laughing:
Anyway im off...im tired..night all
OOps! My bad! Preggy brain trying to reply to too many people! :D
Sorry Tan & Hayles!
I'm not going to change my post or I'll confuse everyone - so make sure you all have a little giggle at my expense! :laughing:
Ok, I've got Fi, Hayles, Cath & Lou's details from emails etc. so far. . . :thumbsup:
Writing my list to take to hospital!
hayleylea
21-05-2007, 06:29
Morning Ladies
Well i thought i was going to have a bad night but i didnt hear a peep out of Cooper till 7.30 - He is happy as larry today too! I think its because Daddy got him up.
No real plans for today. The 3 of us are going out to our house to have a peek what Trent did over the weekend - Then just lazing around at home. Trents on arvo shift tonight. I am contemplating whether to go down to my mums this afternoon or not...We have to take her to the air port tommorrow which means we have to leave here at around 6am. But if I go down to mums this arvo means that Cooper will get another half hour or so......hmmmmm decisions decisions!! :laughing:
Ok Better go get breakkie ready for my boys. Talk soon.
Hi there everyone!
LOL at Anna's mix up. You are forgiven but Troy definitely doesn't work long hours either! Well - he does sort of, but that's by choice because he mucks around a lot in the day and then leaves his work til night time! Oh - and he didn't have a sore head either, not that he mentioned anyway.
I have Mr Oh So Very Cranky today! I am actually feeling a bit disappointed as I woke up this morning and thought wow - Will has had a great sleep (didn't hear him til 7:30) and then Troy told me that he went in to Will every 10 minutes between 11 and 12 last night! I didn't hear a thing as my door and Will's door was shut and Troy is such a night owl that he just dealt with it and let me know later. Having had a peek in Will's mouth this morning I think he is cutting another tooth down the bottom so I am guessing that might be the issue. (just wait til later in the week when I tell you yet again that I am wrong!).
I wonder how Fi got on yesterday about her "retained product"? Don't you love medical terms. It sounds like she pinched something from the hospital and hid it in there.
I had better get going. Our house looks so dirty right now. All you ladies with floor boards - don't you hate how they show all the hair and fluff??
As per usual it is VERY quiet in here today! Just when I felt like a chat too. LOL
Well - I checked in Will's mouth and he really did cut another tooth last night - the other "missing" one down the bottom. Now he won't have any funny gaps anymore. So that's three teeth in a week. I think that is a fair reason for the odd upset night. That's a lot happening in one little person's mouth at once!
I've decided I'll still try Will with the midday sleep today. Yesterday might have been a one off so I'll give it a try. If he continues to take ages to fall asleep then I'll start pushing it back to 1 or something.
I feel like I am posting to myself because there isn't anyone around today.
I feel very silly!
hayleylea
21-05-2007, 10:56
:laughing: Tan dont feel silly! I often have a good old chat to myself on here!
WOW 3 teeth in a week...yep thats definatley a reason to be a bit upset I think!!!
Cooper fell asleep in the car on the way home from our block of land...of course it had to be 5 minutes before we got home an he is refusing to have a sleep. And is being very naughty i might add.
Anyway i better go and try him with some more lunch. Just didnt want Tan to feel like she is being left out! lol
Ange&Seth
21-05-2007, 11:19
Don't feel silly at all Tan!! I often have a chat to myself :D
Nothing much to report from this side of the world. Had BIL and SIL around last night for dinner and a few 'quiet drinks' - have had an email from SIL today saying she feels very hungover, sick and tired. After we finished the wine, she and BIL went onto the scotch. I refrained from the scotch though and woke up feeling fine. Might have to drop a latte in to her at work.
Anna - you almost got me with that water breaking thing. How could you not?!! In big red letters ROFLMAO! I will PM you my details as well so you can txt me :D
Tan - poor Will cutting 3 teeth in one week! That's not very fair at all! Hope he settles down now for you.
Hayles - Is Coops a bit happier today? Seth manages to fall asleep in the car at the worst times too. Usually within 30mins of us getting to where we're going and then he won't sleep for the rest of the day.
Seth's much better now. I stopped giving him the pain-stop on the weekend cos he didn't seem in as much pain. So now I'm giving him nurofen, well I have been, but I think I'll stop that today as well. See how he goes.
hayleylea
21-05-2007, 14:22
Ange good to hear that Seth is feeling better :D
Cooper was an outright devil this afternoon. It took almost 2 hours to get him to go to sleep...i had just about given up on him and he fell asleep! he only just got up then. Im pleased to report he is in a much better mood though - and so am I for that matter lol! i had a nice hot shower while he was asleep and cleaned the house so now we are both happy. He is having a snack and then we are going to go through his draws and put away all his summer clothes. No need for shorts anymore down here thats for sure!!!
Then i gotta get everything ready for our trip to sydney tommorrow...First time with Cooper so to get some stuff to keep him occupied. He usually stays at my mums but this time we are taking my mum to the air port so thats out of the question. lol.
OK better get to it. Hope everyones having a nice start to the week!
hayleylea
21-05-2007, 14:32
By the way Anna a big happybirthday to shane! (i read your msn message lol)
Hi there,
Thanks for letting me know that you all talk to yourselves as well!
So glad that Seth is feeling a lot better. I have to admit I was getting worried this morning that Will was getting sick again but he has been pretty good this afternoon. Of course as soon as I typed that he started yelling at me!
Well done on your persistence with Cooper's sleep today Hayley! I think I probably would have given up but you did really well. Will went straight to sleep at midday today so I think yesterday was just a weird one.
Hm - I had better go, Will is now yelling at me from his playpen and being a right bugger!
hayleylea
21-05-2007, 15:33
Hey Tan, i did pretty good persisting aswell i thought. I was going to give up but he was soooo tired and after not having a sleep yesterday i didnt want him getting any ideas that his day sleeps were over lol. He has woke up happy though so thats the main thing. And we have made up so now...we were both pretty cranky during the sleeping episode but since have kissed and made up. We are just about to sit down and play cars again. He has a car play mat with all roads and he just loves playing with it at the moment....But he loves it even more when mummy plays with him :D
Anyway speaking of which i better go his sitting at his mat right now patting the floor next to him where he wants me to sit :laughing: Very cute!!!
Talk soon
OMG what's happening with the weather up that way?!!:confused: I saw this morning that Bendigo was going to be 13 degrees and raining and that around Melb wasn't much more with rain and thunder forcast! We had about 17 with a shower but I still haven't got the heaters going here yet! HAHA! I think Hobart is in for a very mild winter! :thumbsup:
Tan - I laughed so hard at your "retained product" comment! That's what I though it sounded like too! :laughing: Hmm. . . what's our Fi been up to?!
Poor ol' Will and his teeth - Immy has just finished her teeth - getting the 4 eye teeth then the 4 molars all at once about 2-3 weeks later. FINALLY the gaps are filling in and she doesn't have a gappy smile! I hope they come through quickly for him so he's not so out of sorts, at least he'll get a break after this until the 2yo molars come.
Hayles - bugger that Cooper was being a little devil today but good to hear that you've both kissed and made up! I'll have to start thinking of some good winter "indoors" activities for you all if you weather is going to continue being so crappy! Thanks Hayles - I passed that on to Shane.
Ange - Sorry I had to rush off MSN today, Immy was picking apart her cheese sandwich and rubbing the butter side into the plastic on the table - gets me so mad coz then I had to scrub it with warm soapy water to clean it, rather than just wipe it over! Glad to hear that Seth is on the mend now and LOL at your SIL! I can't wait to get stuck into a good bottle or two on a Friday night with Shane & some friends! Ah... not long now!
Oh Hayles - HEAPS of little individual snacks for Cooper for the car - even if you get together 5 separate containers with some tiny teddys, sultanas, rice crackers, etc in each so you can chop and change and it's like a whole new snack! Depending on what time you head off, you may be surprised that Cooper might nap for you too. Otherwise, make sure you've got a REALLY good kids cd that you don't mind singing along too!
Fi, Lou, Cath etc - how's everyone going today?
Better head off - later dinner tonight as the in-laws only just left so I'm just about to pull out my LUSH marinated roast leg of lamb & scrummy roast veggies. I haven't baked anything for dessert but I bought Shane some of his favourite chocolate choc-chip ice cream so I'm looking forward to sitting back with a HUGE bowl of that after! :D
Oh I was out today and I just couldn't resist - I bought Shane a really nice jumper top from Just Jeans - just because he deserves it! He got so spoilt this year, and his parents also bought him a new makita cordless drill, jammie pants, a book a t-shirt so he's sitting back now with a glass of wine feeling like a really lucky boy! LOL!
xoxo
hayleylea
21-05-2007, 17:56
Anna..Thanks for the ideas about the car trip tommorrow. I already had the snacks covered. We are actually leaving here around 6am...So he might sleep on the way up but i doubt it! Mum will be in the back with him on the way up to Keep him occupied anyway. Then He should have a fairly decent nap on the way home :fingerscrossed: Im sure it will be fine either way! Toys, books, portable DVD player and Nanna in the back - Cooper should think thats wonderfull! :D
Anywho i just put the boy to bed. He didnt look like he was ready but im sooo hoping he goes to sleep because we are going to have to wake him early. Oh and i really feel like some "me" time tonight...Trents at work so im just going to lounge around watching TV. (wish i had some chocolate! :laughing: )
Night guys
MrsMiggins
21-05-2007, 19:33
I'll apologise straight up for the quick & selfish post, but I need to go sort Claire out! She's been miserable all day today - poor thing with her teeth!
Just a quick update on my hospy visit today. We were 4 hours in the ER (which wasn't as bad as I'd feared) and thankfully they concluded that it wasn't likely to be retained placenta (or any stolen hospital items, Tan!! :laughing:) but rather a small blood clot that was trying to work its way out. And if it was retained products, it wasn't enough to be concerned about at this stage. So I just have to keep an eye on it & let my GP know if it gets any worse, or doesn't get better within a couple of weeks or so. I must be a medical oddity though, as none of the Drs there had ever come across a case like it! Same with my GP.
So anyway, the whole trip was a huge relief, and even better for the fact that I didn't have to be admitted for any intrusive procedures!
Hope you're all well! I'll catch up properly when I can! :kiss:
hayleylea
21-05-2007, 19:44
Fi - glad to here that nothing to serious was wrong with you and :fingerscrossed: it sorts itself out soon!! I hope you manage to sort Claire out too. Poor little girl. She was doing so well with her toothy pegs too till now!!!
BL00DY Teeth :banghead: Hope they all come through quickly so she can get back to the happy little Claire!! :hugs:
My boy went to sleep for me... I was worried for a bit because he was yelling out to me and carrying on (not crying just being a cheeky little bugger!) And i got up to go in there and he was sound asleep! :smiliedance: I should get going to bed because its an early start tommorrow....
Night guys.
Hi everyone,
Hayley good luck with the big car trip tomorrow. How cute that Cooper was patting the mat for you to sit next to him. I hate when you are craving chocolate and don't have any -surely there must be something - chocolate topping to have on icecream or something.
Anna you did very well with Shane's birthday shopping -I'm sure he is feeling very spoilt. My Mum got me a pair of PJ pants and then I went and bought a top from Sussans as well (and some beautiful soft bedsocks) -I am already looking forward to slopping around in them in hospital -Sussans has some good stuff. Your red highlighted "my waters broke" certainly caught my eye too and I was freaking out for a second there -don't scare me. Good luck with working out the final name for Bubba Blue - it is never easy. I am still not 100% sure about our name but there is no alternative that I am 100% sure abouit and Dean really wants this name so we are going with it.
Tan that's a lot of teeth in one week for Will - poor little man. I so know where you are coming from with the dirt on the floorboards. Especially because ours are a dark polish it shows up so badly (and we have a dog with half white hair who leaves those stupid white hairs everywhere -thank goodness they're short and he is only in here at night now so less time to make a mess but there is still pretty much constantly dirt floating around).
Ange any news on the job? Good to hear Seth is on the mend.
Lou that's great to hear that Madd is slowly getting better and had a good sleep for you. You sure are doing alot of travelling these days -must be pretty tiring. What short course are you doing?
How's everything going Fi? I hope you managed to get everything sorted to be checked out at the hospital on Sunday -sounded tricky. How's Claire going? Poor little thing- hope things are settling down for you and you and Owen havne't been hit too badly with that cold.
Everyone here now has Paddy's cold and we are all feeling pretty miserable (well Dean and I are -Paddy is amazingly still happy). Actually I should say he is not totally happy -something is going on with him and he is refusing to lie down to have his nappy changed and is screaming blue murder when we try and do it. I was thinking maybe he has sore ears but he is lying down to sleep okay and happily rolls around on the floor etc. so maybe it is just a tantrum. I have changed alot of nappies while he stands up in the last few days that's for sure (really can't be done for number 2's though).He is also being a total bugger at dinner time and has not eaten the dinner I have prepared for him for a good week or so. I have maybe got a teaspoon of vegetables into him in the last week -it is really not good and so frustrating. He refuses to even try it most nights but will happily eat yoghurt and fruit instead. It is so annoying - all these good, nutritious meals keep going to the dogs. I so hope once his cold has gone he will eat normally again.
Anyway I'm off to get some caramel slice - will have to start a diet sometime after baby 2 arrives - keep having crazy sugar cravings which I am blaming on pregnancy but it is probably just an excuse.
Cath
hayleylea
21-05-2007, 19:53
Cath - Sorry to hear you guys have the dreaded Cold... I hear ya with the whole food thing though. I find it sooo frustrating when i cook up a nice meal especiallyl for Cooper and he doesnt eat it. Hopefully paddy gets back to eating normal after his cold...Cooper is a shocker one week he will eat everything the next he wont touch a thing. His absolute favourtie is lasange so i just dish that up to him if he is having a real fussy day lol. Cooper is also a shocker with Vegies..Anyone got any ideas in getting him to eat them!? Oh and Cath i wouldnt worry about it too much as long as he is getting fruit and yoghurt into him he will be fine..
Anyway Get well vibes heading your way! :hugs:
Ok now seriously i need to go to bed lol
ETA: Anna tommorrow here its meant to only get up to 15 too! Winter has hit well and truly. Enjoy your mild weather while it lasts i say!
Spoke too soon I'm afraid. Today is going to be 13 in Hobart, however the sun is shining here! Won't for a SECOND believe it has any heat to it though so all the kids are rugged up and ready to walk out the door to take Chelsea to school.
I'm going to pop up the road this morning to weight watchers to see what I'm up to now, not to stress, but just to have it noted - so I know that anything put on now will primarily be baby and will *hopefully* come off straight away!
Then I'll duck into suzanne gray to see if they have any of their lovely soft t-shirts to take to hospital.
CATH - I love those sussan tops too but I'll just roast with long sleeves in hospital so I'll go back for some later. Sorry to hear that you've all got colds. I woke this morning at about 4:30 and had the biggest sneezing fit (allergies I think) and thankfully I'd just been to the bathroom! :D Had so much trouble getting back to sleep, I've had heaps of back ache all night and meant to jump in the shower before bed to let some water run over my back but instead I sat up & wrapped the kids pressies from the baby & cut out 20 bits of transparent paper to attach to the thank you/announcement cards! LOL! Tis ok - I wasn't up too late!
Ok gotta get moving!
Talk soon xoxo
Uh oh! Is it going to be another quiet one in here today?!
Just got back and absolutely no luck with any t-shirts for hospital. Wrong time of the year that's for sure! We have a "Cotton On" opening in our centre soon but not soon enough. :(
Oh but good news on the other hand! I went to weight watchers to get a check and I've only put on 7kg since 31st Oct (I was about 4 weeks pregnant then)! So I'm very stoked about that! The ladies were all congratulating me like I'd LOST that amount of weight and they were really happy! They all couldn't wait to see me back soon and couldn't wait to see the baby etc etc, lovely ladies! I'm still not sure if I'll go to that meeting - we'll see, it's 10am on a Tues which might work next year if 2 girls are at school, but on the other hand it's so hard to focus on the meetings if you've got kids too. So might float between that meeting and the one on my street here at 7pm on Tuesdays.
Well, we're having an early lunch coz we're all starving - even me. Might even treat myself to a bowl of ice cream today coz I can! :D
ETA: Oh and the weather her today is fresh but actually really nice!
Hope that doesn't rub it in!
Anna good work with the low weight gain!! You can definitely have that bowl of icecream. I haven't weighed myself for ages but I feel like it is just baby weight I have put on so far (hope so anyway - clothes still fit etc.). I hear you about being hot in hospital. I was trying to find a t-shirt in Sussans too with no luck so bought a fairly thin, long sleeve cotton top that matches the PJ pants instead. I found myself some nightwear tshirts in the clearance section of Myer and they also had 30% off the clearance price -maybe check out Myer if you can for tshirts. Sounds like we have similar weather to you here today -it is freezing (going to be all of 16 degrees) but nice and sunny.
Fi that's good to hear you don't have to undergo any nasty procedure. Four hours in emergency sounds like a bloody long time to me - you are a patient woman.
Hayley that's nice to hear that Cooper has good weeks and bad weeks too. I am now thinking Paddy might have a sore throat (because Dean and I do) and can't handle risotto etc. so I will try him with scrambled eggs which are soft (and try and get some vegies hidden in there) tonight and see how we go. He often won't even try one mouthful though which makes it tricky. Oh well -poor little man really does sound quite sick so I can't be too annoyed.
Anyway just a quick check in. Hope everyone is having a good day.
Cath
Ange&Seth
22-05-2007, 12:56
My poor Billy goat is missing part of his ear :crying: I went to get some lunch and came home and he had blood on him and part of his ear missing! One of the dogs I suspect GRRRRRR! Lucky I can't tell which one of them did it! I rang Adam straight away hoping he was in town, and he came home and had a look. I think he thought I was over reacting on the phone, but got home and thought differently. I'm really upset about it!!! Adam's going to call his dad and see if he can bring some stuff around for him. He'll probably have to have an injection to make sure the ear doesn't get infected and maybe have to bathe it so the flies stay away. I just want to cuddle him! Poor Billy.
Oh Ange - that's so sad! Was it one of your dogs that did it? Can you keep them separated for a while? Poor old billy, hope he's ok and doesn't get an infection.
Cath - how'd you carry with Paddy & with this one? I've had heaps of people tell me that I'm DEFINATELY having a boy because of the way I'm carrying. They've seen me pregnant with the girls and I'm definately much more out front with this one. Also they said I'm not puffy around the face, hands etc like I was with the girls. I keep thinking that I feel really good during the day, and very light whereas with the girls I felt like a whale the whole time!
Good tip about Myer too - I might call them tomorrow and find out if they have anything because I'm not going all the way into town to find nothing - I'm all shopped out! I've exhausted all stores apart from sport stores but I just want some inexpensive t-shirts that I don't care if I don't wear again. I think if I actually started sorting stuff then I'll have enough to take to hospital so I'll see how I go first.
Girls are all having naps - I'm so so so so tired - like drowsy tired today. Getting back to the same feelings in the first trimester but thankfully not long to go. I still can't believe how incredibly fast this pregnancy has gone. I wonder if I'll just be in shock for months to come?!! :laughing:
hayleylea
22-05-2007, 14:10
Hi guys just a quick one from me because we just got home from our LOOOOOOONNNNNGGGG trip to sydney.
Cooper was good as gold on the way back...and had a ball at the air port watching all the planes. Got in the car to come home and he fell straight asleep half an hour later some idiot pulled out infront of us and we had to slam on the breaks and it woke him up and he didnt go back to sleep. So i sat in the back with him entertaining him...playing DVDs etc etc. He is so very tired but happy to be home. Will be an early one for both us tonight!
Anna - BRRRR you better start rugging up. I think winter has definatley hit everywhere just about now!
Cath - going from all the boys in this little october group - i hope Paddy doesnt have tonsillitis!!! Poor little thing hope he gets better soon and that its just a cold and sore throat!!:fingerscrossed: :hugs:
Ange - im sooooooooo sorry to hear about Billy!!!! :crying: Hope his ear gets better soon. It should be right just keep it clean and maybe ring the vet and get some stuff for it? oh yeah and like you said watch them annoying flies. Sorry to hear it chic! Make sure you give them dogs a good talking to and give Billy a cuddle!
OK gotta go try and keep this boy awake to bed time lol
I'm bored just sitting here eating my 2nd (small) bowl of ice cream. :D
Someone come talk to me!
Thanks for the chat Tan! :D
Well it's taco night again tonight (at Nicola's request! :D ) and it's nearly done so here's hoping bub allows me enough room to have a few!:laughing:
Oh I think someone asked me a while back if Immy eats it too. Yep! She does! I do up a little bowl with mince (that has carrot in it), tomato, salsa, sour cream & cheese and she eats it herself and I have a fork. Also, we get the hard/soft taco kit so we give her a piece of the soft taco to eat later.
Oops better go - taco's might burn!:chef:
LOL Anna - I know what it is like to sit here talking to yourself!
Cath - I hope Paddy is ok and that his cold clears up soon. I know they all have to get sick sometimes but I always feel terrible when Will is sick. I hope you are going alright too.
We have been eating dinner together as a family the past couple of nights and I have to say I have been loving it. Will seems to eat a lot more too and feeds himself pretty much all of it. For some odd reason (and I am not complaining one bit) he really likes vegetables and has never turned his head away from anything. In fact the only thing I know that he won't have a bar of is bananas. If he is sick then that is a whole different story but I guess everyone is like that.
I did get a bit worried today as it has been really quite chilly with a cold wind and I had to walk Will home from daycare in the pram. He was dressed quite warmly but I kept thinking about the doctor telling me to keep him warm and wishing I had a beanie for him. I feel so silly as this time last year I wouldn't have worried at all - but now the doctor has me thinking he is going to get sick even if he is the slightest bit cold. Paranoid I know!
Ange - so sorry to hear about Billy! You have quite the menagerie at your place don't you?
Fi - that's great that everything seems to be ok and no procedures required. I hope little Claire cheers up soon - Will has had one very red cheek this afternoon and I suspect he will go to bed with some Nurofen tonight as well. I don't think those eye teeth are finished with him yet. These are only the top ones too!
OK better go, I can hear Troy getting Will out of the bath. Hope you all have lovely sleeps tonight.
Oh Hayley - glad Cooper enjoyed his trip to the airport, Will loves the airport. If we lived closer I'd take him there a lot I think!
Eating dinner together is great isn't it?!
Apart from the fact that it's easy to feed multiple kids when they're all at the table together, it's something Shane's family rarely did - although they'd eat at the same time, they used to sit on the couch or the floor in the lounge room or one kid would eat in their room etc. When we first got married I must admit we sat in the lounge with our stable tables occassionally but I told Shane that as soon as we had kids, that would have to stop. And it did. :thumbsup:
Dinner was yummy - Immy did well but for some reason took a liking to chopped tomato and soon forgot about dinner and just ate tomato!:D Ah well, she was happy!
Even the girls were hungry tonight - both ate 2 soft tacos and Nicola was going for another one but we were running out of stuff - wow, soon we're going to average 750g of mince per meal! I've convinced them that they could have jelly and fruit instead and they're wrapped! Speaking of which, I'd better go help clean up so we can serve it!
Gotta love jelly! :thumbsup:
hayleylea
22-05-2007, 17:46
Yep Eating as a family makes it alot easier. Tan, like Will, Cooper also eats loads more if we eat together. We do it every night (most nights anyway) Even if it is early we will have some with him because Cooper just loves it!
He is sound asleep now. Poor bubba was sooo over tired. And to top things off I had a bad mummy moment. I cut his finger nails and sat the nail clippers down for a second while i was picking up some buscuits Cooper spilt and i turned around he Cooper had nipped his lip with the nail clippers!!! :crying: He was so upset. It cut him a tiny bit but i think it was more a shock then anything. Anyway I tried to put him to bed but he was too upset i went and picked him up and before i made it to the lounge room he was snoring on my shoulder. Poor little guy!!!
I will be in bed early tonight too.. Im looking forward to crashing and sprawling out in the bed till Trent gets home in the wee hours of the morning lol
Night all
Well I survived yet another trip to Melbourne and a night away from my family. Its strange but each time I go away in the days leading up to it I think how great it will be to have a solid sleep and to only have to look after myself for 24 hours. But then when I am away I can't sleep coz its all too strange and I'm thinking about what their up to at home and if Tony is coping. I need to get out more!
My day at training was terrible as I had severe stomach cramps/spasms from 9am - 5pm. I felt like I was dying. I was doubled over in pain the whole time and barely took in anything the presenter said. I don't know if it was a virus or if it was something I ate but geez I felt terrible. I would have left and come home but I was doing the course with another colleague and it would have meant we both had to leave, so I toughed it out.
The course I'm doing is called Validation Principles and it is Sooooo boring. But something I really need to do for work. I've got one more day/night in Melbourne and thats it.
I got back last night at 7.30pm to find Maddi and DH on the couch. She had just had dinner, no bath and was tired as. DH had kept her up so I could see her, but in all honesty I would have liked to have seen her in her PJ's. So since she was too tired for a bath it was straight into the PJ's and bed. Ah men! But otherwise he seemed to cope ok.
Funny thing is I think it gave him some perspective as to what happens when he goes away. Only difference being he doesn't make all the meals in advance for me! :rolleyes: Today he said maybe I should join a gym so that I can have some time to myself away from Maddi and him. I'll see what I can come up with. I'd love to go horseriding every weekend but I don't think the bank balance would look too good.
Fi, thank God you didn't have to have anything invasive done. I wonder if from now on when they have patients with retained product in their cervix they will refer to it as Fiona syndrome as you are the first??? I hope that the blood clot passes soon so everything returns back to normal for you.
It is damn freezing here! I am sure its going to start snowing in my backyard. and its not even winter yet. I'm hoping for a good snow season this year so I can get out there for a board on the weekends.
Ah, tonight DH rushed making dinner before he went out to hockey. He attempted to make a beef casserole and girls...........it looks and tastes disgusting. Truly is! It is pale and looks like meat in a white sauce. I have no idea what he did or didn't do to it, but it did concern me that it only took him 10 minutes to make. I tried one mouthful and just couldn't swallow it. So I made up some garlic bread and ate that instead. Now I'm thinking some chocolate might be in order.
Poor DH meant well......
OK I'm off to raid the chocolate stash ladies. Wish me luck when DH gets home and I tell him I couldn't eat his masterpiece.
hayleylea
23-05-2007, 05:56
Lou- How did DH accept the news of his failed master peice? lol. Oh well atleast he tried thats the main thing! :thumbsup: Oh and Lou a BIG congratulations for making the photo comp final!!! :yelclap: :smiliedance: I think your going to win it for sure!!! great photo!
OK Well im off. Today we are making an attempt to get back into our normal routine after a a good couple of days of being very out of whack!! We were going to go to play group but ive decided not too. A nice day at home sounds too good to refuse! I have loads of washing to do but not sure its warm enough to get them dry! Should be OK as long as it doesnt rain!
OK better go start the days work and get this boy some breakkie :D Have a nice day guys. Give me a buzz if your around MSN because i should be around most of the day.
hayleylea
23-05-2007, 06:53
:laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:
My boy Cracks me up. He was playing out in the lounge room and got cranky so threw one of his toys and I said thats not very nice go to your room. So he ran to his room and slammed the door. I left him there for a couple of minutes and opened the door and he is sitting with his back against the door playing with some building blocks. I said you can come back out now...and he pushed the door closed again! LOL So i opened it again and said are you coming? and he said Nah and pushed it shut again!! TOO FUNNY!!
Morning :wave:
Ahhh gotta just love home days!
We're all dressed in trackies, tops and ugg boots and feeling mighty cosy right now! Sun's out, washing is on and I just burnt the toast! LOL! Stoopid toaster.
Lou - you poor thing - are you any better today? What's with your tummy? Do you think it was something you ate that made you feel so crappy yesterday in Melbourne? Jeepers, how'd you get through the day?! I hope you're better today - I can never remember if you work Mon/Tues or Wed as well!. If you're around give me a buzz and we'll chat, but I hope you're resting and don't have gastro or anything :hugs: Had to laugh about Tony & Maddi though - must have been a cute picutre to come home to, but unfortunately our mummy hats are always on and our thoughts drift to "how come she's not in her jammies?" "Where's dinner?" etc!
Hayles - very funny about Cooper! Immy has many monkey qualities like that too!
I'm pleased to announce that the last couple of days has seen her COMPLETELY back to normal, including being all lovely and affectionate again, cheeky but funny and saying some new words too!
Not much to report - I'll be around today as well, in between a few loads of washing, drying & folding!
Hmmm.... might have a think about dinner so I'm organised!
Oh BTW Lou - remember our conversation on food the other day? ;) I've been craving chicken kiev! :laughing:
Ange&Seth
23-05-2007, 09:39
Morning girls :wave:
Anna - I love Chicken Kievs too. I'd actually have to say that they are my absolute favourite!! We quite often have them with home made garlic and herb potato chips and salad or vegies. I WAS going to make chicken strofanoff for tea tonight but I might have to go and buy some kievs now!
Hayles - that's funny about Cooper running to his room. I think Seth understands what we say but just chooses to make us think he doesn't :rolleyes: He goes into his room sometimes and closes the door then realises that he can't open it again and screams!! Hmmm, might put some more toys in there for him to play with.
Lou - Adam would probably do what Tony did too. Well, he either would have fed, bathed Seth and had him in his pj's with no dinner ready for US, or nothing at all. Cute that Tony wanted to keep her up for you though! Oh and good on him for suggesting you find something to do for some 'you' time!! Top marks for Tony :yelclap:
Fi - I'm not sure if I've already posted about your results but it's good to hear that you won't have to have any invasive procedures done. Has the bleeding settle down any yet?
Tan - Seth won't touch Bananas either. I've been having issues, and I mean REAL issues, getting him to eat anything except Heinz Spaghetti Bolognaise or Macaroni Cheese tins. BUT, yesterday I sat down outside to give Billy some vegies (he's a very spoiled goat) and Seth took some raw pumpkin out of my hand and walked away chomping on it!! AND he ate raw carrot! I cut some up and popped them into a little plastic mug and he just wandered around all day carrying it and munching away! So that was a bonus!
Yes, I do have a menagerie at my house. I have a goat, 2 cats, 3 dogs and 2 monkeys..................... oh I mean, Adam and Seth :laughing: Billy seems to be ok now. I think I was more bothered by it than he was. Apparently the ear is a high blood flow area, so it dries and heals quickly????????? I would have thought a low blood flow area would heal quickly, hmmmm maybe Adam got mixed up there?? Oh well, Billy's on the mend, and I have some special insecticide I have to put on his ear to try and keep the flies and bugs away.
Have had some rough nights with Seth the last 2 nights. Monday night, I went in to check on him at about 10.30pm and he woke up, so had to cuddle and resettle, then woke at 1am, 2am and again at 4am - at which point Adam got an elbow in the ribs to get up to him. Then he wouldn't go to sleep last night, and we ended up getting him up after about an hour and he ate some vegies off our plates (definitely a good thing) and went back to bed, but woke at 5.30am really upset. I don't know what to do differently with him. All I can put it down to is that he's just not eating enough during the day.
Have decided though that we're going to start having dinner MUCH earlier and eating with Seth, all of us at the table. Might make him eat more. We've always eaten in the loungeroom, but I want that to change. I like to think of dinner time as family time where you all talk to eachother. I think when the kids get older there will be a rule of no tv during dinner too.
Not sure what we're going to get up to today. Have got some washing on, but not sure whether to hang it out. I've got sheets and towels that have been sitting there since Friday waiting for a half decent day. Might get out and go for a walk too. Aahhhh - the possibilites are endless!
Hope you all have a wonderful day!
Morning - well I guess it'll be afternoon by the time I post this.
Lou - I hope your tummy is ok. You did well to stick it out yesterday especially with a boring course to sit through! LOL at Tony. Troy forgets all sorts of funny things when I leave Will with him. As he says though" Will is still going to grow into a little boy even if he missed his bath today!"
:laughing: at Cooper. Will's door is usually shut so he can't actually do that one but I don't think it is in his personality either. He's a bit funny like that. Oh well - they are all different.
Anna - glad to hear that Immy is back to her usual self. It takes them a little while doesn't it?
Ange - sorry to hear about your rough nights. Will goes all funny with food when he has tonsillitis - maybe Seth's isn't quite better yet? Glad to hear that Billy is on the mend though.
We always ate dinner as a family at the table when I was growing up, mostly the news was on and I think that is ok. We are all definitely enjoying dinner more eating it together now and it was something we always planned on doing but Will just couldn't manage to hang on long enough til now!
Oh Ange - high blood flow areas do heal quickly because they can get all the good stuff in the blood to the hurt part quicker. Does that make sense? So while they bleed more, they also get lots of good antibodies etc.
We are trying the little bit later slepe today so Will is eating his lunch right now.
I had better go - I suspect there is tuna and toast on the loungeroom floor right now!
hayleylea
23-05-2007, 13:02
Hey guys
Cooper has been hillarious today with his tantys. I dont mind actually because he only throws whatever he has in his hand and then gets upset because he has "hurt" whatever he has thrown..runs to his room and closes the door and then bangs on it when he is ready to come out :laughing: He has split personalities this boy...So sweet and innoncent and then next minute a little devil :devil6: Gotta love him though! lol.
Ange - sorry to hear your having a rough couple of nights with Seth! It could be something to do with him not eating enough during the day or maybe even the change in weather. Oh and the tonsillitis definatley changes sleeping habits. When i was really desperate with Cooper when he wasnt eating anything at all...I would give him them Up and Gos for breakfast - so they filled him up a bit...And after meeting Seth i know how much he loves to hold onto Juice box's so that might be something he might take hold of? I dont know if its the best alternative but atleast he would be getting something in his tummy?! And as for only eating the tinned heinz stuff - Whatever works Chic! I know Coopers had a fair share of lasange on the weeks that he isnt eating much!
Tan - nice chatting to you again today! After our discussion about heaters i went out and got one when Cooper woke up. Im going to give it a whirl tonight and see how it goes. Coopers room is absoultley freezing. We did have a big column heater but it put out way to much heat if you left it on all night with the door open.
Anyway its nearly time for Trent to go to work...i know one little boy is going to be very upset! he doesnt like when its time for Daddy to go to work! :crying:
Okey dokey better get going.
Talk soon.
Hi all,
I have been feeling like **** for the last 2 days with this stupid cold and Dean has taken today off to help out which is great. He just got back from getting Paddy's haircut and my baby has a crew cut!! He looks like he is going to join the army. He does look quite cute but it sure is a radical haircut and he will have to be in beanies when he heads out now (especially as he still has a cold too) and I don't know if he is over the refusing to wear hats stage.
Anna I don't really know how I am carrying this baby -I guess it is just a big belly without changing much anywhere else (luckily -certainly can't afford to be getting any fatter). That's interesting people have noticed a difference between this pregnancy and your ones with the girls. As of last night I think I am having bloody Braxton Hicks contractions which I can do without. I also think the little man has decided to turn head down as the kicks and shoves feel different and I am feeling a bit of yucky pressure now and then in the nether regions which I can also do without. I really should start doing some pelvic floor exercises.
Hayley Cooper sounds hilarious -it must be so hard not to laugh.
Tan good work with eating dinner together. We are still a long way off that I think unfortunately because Dean gets home so late but I would love to do that too. Paddy is still being a right bugger with eating dinner and the dogs got another nutritious meal last night while the little man once again had yoghurt and fruit/jelly. We have just put the pram snug thing back on Paddy's pram today to keep him warm when we are out walking - do you have one of those for Will (I think it is an Outlook brand -it is a really good zip-up fleecy thing)? That might help with keeping him warm - I totally understand about being worried about him getting sick. My little skinhead will probably be wearing fleecy tops with hoods every time we head out now.
Lou you poor thing with your stomach cramps -how horrible. Hope you are feeling better today. It's so hard not to notice the things that have been missed in terms of partners doing the household/child raising stuff. I would have had the "why isn't she already in her PJ's thought" too. Dean has made a good effort today but there are still a number of things that need to be done that I would have done already -I am trying my hardest to bite my tongue and not become the nagging wife.
Anyway I'm off to get some icecream -surely that's medicinal (you got me thinking about icecream Anna and Dean bought me some great chocolate/honeycomb stuff at the shops this morning). Chat soon.
Cath
Oh Ange I meant to say it sounds like Seth has a preference for animal food -wasn't he eating the cat food recently. Funny boy!! You are not alone with your food issues. The only thing Paddy has eaten except the fruit and yoghurt for dinner in the last week or so is some tinned baked beans (and not alot of them) -what's with the tinned stuff?
hayleylea
23-05-2007, 17:39
Oh Cath it is extremely hard not to laugh at Cooper...its good that he does go into another room so I can atleast crack a smile and he cant see! :laughing:
Cooper wont eat today either :banghead: Wouldnt even eat Dinner which is unusual for him!
Ah well...he has a runny nose (didnt really shake that last cold) oh well ill see how he will go tonight. I guess he would eat if he was hungry!!
Better go get him settled for bed.
Well I think I know why all the kiddies arn't eating much - coz IMMY is eating their share too! Either that or my little piggy girl has worms! :D Honestly - she eats about as much as Chelsea & Nicola at dinner time, brekkie she had 2 whole pieces of toast & heaps of brekkie juice and lunch she had a massive bowl of spaghetti & a piece of toast! Not to mention all the little snacks throughout the day! Must be growing or something. . . :rolleyes:
I'm just about off to bed - getting so tired nowdays but still not turning the tv off early enough - naughty Anna. :shame: I'm debating doing a small basket of Immy's ironing - only because I forgot about it in the dryer and now it needs pressing. Might get as much as possible done then go upstairs. Was going to start packing my hospital bag tonight but don't think I can be bothered.
I'll catch up with everyone tomorrow :sleeping:
xoxo
:laughing: Hayley, Tony agreed that the dinner he cooked was terrible and he ate a bowl of cornflakes. Thats how bad it was, even the chef wouldn't eat it. It was surprising though because usually when Tony cooks he's cooks some yum stuff and Maddi gobbles it down. She loves her Dads cooking. I was a shocker last night, even DH ate better than me, I ate chocolate pudding with icecream for tea. Ah, once in a blue moon it won't kill me to indulge..........will it????
How funny is Cooper and his door slamming antics. Hope you don't have any glass panels in your doors at your new place Hayley. Its good that Cooper is able to go to his room and "chillout" by himself. Maddi has to give me the sideways look first, then its the killer look that burns into your skull like freakin' laser beams. Talk about if looks could kill. The ladies at creche were having a giggle about it with me with me this week saying how you can definitely tell if you've done the wrong thing by Maddi 'coz she gives you "that look".
Anna, I'm still working Monday to Wednesdays so not on here much during that time. Today I had yet another day sitting on my bottom listening to people talk all day. Some leadership program stuff. It went over-time as everyone's presentations went too long and at 5.30pm I was racing out the door to pick up Maddi. Poor Maddi was so tired when we got there and starving. Usually I pick her up at 5pm so when we got there at 5.45pm she was pretty peeved and fair enough too. Its such a long day for such a little girl. Work is really peeving me off lately.
Ange, your Kiev sounds delicious. When Anna comes over to the mainland we'll have to go on the great hunt for the best kiev. When we go out for counter meals at the pubs DH gives me heaps of stick about the fact I always order kiev. But I just love them to bits. mmmmmmm
Tan, Troys comment about the fact they will still grow up if he misses his bath made me giggle too. Yes he's right but nobody likes a smelly baby :laughing: . I guess I'm very concious about Maddi developing bad habits with her Dad. I just don't want her to see him as a pushover and the softie and me as the big bad mummy who makes her do stuff. I want to be the good cop!!! :laughing:
Cath I hope your cold is getting better you poor thing. And being pregnant you can't take anything to help with the stuffed up nose can you? When you feel better a photo of Paddy's crew cut would be great to look at. He would look so grown up.
My tummy pains had no lasting effects today so I guess maybe it might have been something I ate or a really mild virus. I did eat some takeaway chinese on Sunday night, but they tasted so good. So good in fact that maybe they had a tonne of MSG in them and thats what made me sick??? Who knows. I'm just glad it didn't develop into :barf: .
Fi, how are the adventures of Claire and Owen. How is his weight gain going? I bet he's grown so much since you posted his last photo.
Well DH is in bed already. He went to sleep at the same time as Maddi tonight he was so tired. So I'm up alone and just strutting around in my PJ's. I have some emails to catch up on though so thats ok.
Tommorow I'm taking Maddi to get her weigh in and I think we are due for mothers group which we haven't been too in a very very long time.
Hmm Anna - I think Will is right up there in the piggy stakes. I think the reason Will doesn't eat a whole lot at lunch is simply because he eats soo much for breakfast and dinner. A normal day would be 2 weetbix and a piece of toast followed by some of Troy's omelette with toast, Troy eats quite late so that usually means Will's morning tea is the omelette. Today for lunch he ate some toast with tuna and a mandarin, after his nap he ate a biscuit and some sultanas and then dinner was a small adult sized bowl of veal goulash with mashed potato and a bowl of jelly. When we have meat and vege or fish and vege he almost eats as much as me and that's a fair bit!
Lol at Maddi and "the look". I don't think Will has one - right now he is perfecting the "I don't want to" whinge. I've discovered that if I clap my hands twice really loud he stops - I think that's funny. It'll probably only last for a day or so.
Cath - I don't know what you mean about the warm pram thing. Will's pram came with a cover that encloses him but I think he would be too long for me to use it now. Can you give me some more information cause that thing sounds handy!
Hayley -I hope Cooper has a really big sleep for you tonight. He sounds as though he was a tired boy today - all those busy days catching up with him. I also hope that he decides that he likes his new heater.
Anna - you had better start packing that bag or you'll be like me and go into labour without having packed it! I can tell you that packing in between contractions doesn't work very well or your hubby yelling at you to just get in the car when you are still trying to find your shampoo!
hayleylea
23-05-2007, 20:12
Hey guys
HAHA! About Maddis "look" Cooper also has a few of them too. I think its so funny watching them grow and do this sort of stuff. Its amazing what they come out with. I mean I dont slam doors so where on earth does he get it from? :laughing: Funny to watch though.
Tan...Cooper decided his heater wasnt too bad. He did wake up crying not long ago though but i didnt have to go in there. So not sure what was up with him. He has barely eaten anything all day.
Oh i must say your kids amaze me with the stuff they eat! :eek: Id be happy if Cooper ate what your kids eat just for breakfast all day lol. He does have days where he will eat and eat. But Breakfast is a real struggle for us these days! But you guys have seen his pics. His obviously not starving lol. He was in bed by 7 tonight - his choice too i didnt even ask he grabbed Ted and started wandering off to bed so thats a sure sign he is ready.
Im sitting her watching the state of origin (Cmon the blues!! :D ) Then im going to hit the sack. (oops spoke too soon! HAHAHA! queenslanders just scored!)
Night guys
Ange&Seth
23-05-2007, 20:57
Hi again guys :D
Just thought I'd update you on dinner this evening - chicken stroganoff went over a TREAT with Seth!!! Not at first mind you, he wouldn't eat until we'd all finished (BIL&SIL dropped in too) and then he ate from a big normal sized splade AND his spoon :eek: We made such a big deal about it - I mean he must have eaten at least twice the amount he has been lately :smiliedance: I know the trick now! We all eat together and eat the same stuff !!!
Ok, BIL & SIL just left (SIL had a great work-based announcement but can't reveal YET) after a few glasses of wine. I'm SO tired! Adam went to bed about 5 mins ago and I'm about to crawl there myself!!
Hope you all have a wonderful night.
MrsMiggins
23-05-2007, 21:00
OK Hayles, I am officially blaming you for jinxing the Blues & causing them to lose!! Oh well, we'll smash 'em in the next two games! And I think I'm pretty safe saying that on here because I do believe I am the only QLDer (and I am a native New South Welshman, so to even think about going for the Maroons is pure sacriliage!)
I just popped on quickly to say that I'm reading all your posts, but things are so full-on here right now I just don't have the time to sit & compose a decent reply to you all. Hopefully it won't be much longer & I can take the time I need to catch up with you all properly.
:hugs: for now though! Better head off to bed.
Ange&Seth
23-05-2007, 21:03
DAMMIT! The Blues LOST! They started out so strong!! And I don't even like rugby :mad:
:hugs: Fi - missing you !
hayleylea
24-05-2007, 06:23
I know Im sorry everyone. I jinxed the blues!!!!! :banghead: Actually my theory is that they are just giving qld home and making it more interesting and going to smash them in the next one and then the decider :p Here's hoping anyway!!!
The heater worked well last night. His room was soooo much warmer then previous nights and he slept till 7.30 aswell. He would have slept longer but stupid Roxy managed to get out of her yard (she gets locked up off a night). Then she managed to get through the doggy door and then decided to push open Coopers room (it must have been a tiny bit adjar). :banghead: So i was a cranky mummy this morning. Im just glad that it was at 7.30 and not 5.30 this all decided to happen! lol Roxy has now been banished for the day and has gone with Trent to work on our house. Which will make my day alot easier and alot quieter. We are stuck home today too because I have lent my siter my car. Its funny I wouldnt even think about going out today if i had my car but now its not here i want to! :laughing: Coopers nose is runny AGAIN! and his chest sounds a little rattly. He never fully got over his last cold - hopefully its just the morning air causing his nose to be runny. (can only hope)!
Fi, good to hear from you. Hope all is well with you guys. Claires teeth still giving her grief?
Anyway better go get something organised for Breakkie. fingers crossed he actually eats some today!!
Have a nice day guys. Ill be around if anyone feels like a chat
hayleylea
24-05-2007, 07:25
:yelclap: Success! Cooper actually ate Breakkie today!!! Well ALOT more then he usually does. I got some weetbix for him. But its the little ones with saltanas and apple through them or something? Anyway I made some of that up for him and he wouldnt have it at first, Then he pointed to the box so i put 2 dry ones on his plate and he ate them then a couple of mouth fulls of the ones made up with milk. Then instead of giving him toast i gave made him up some vegie finger rolls (you know how you cut the bread into strips and roll it up). Well he ate 2 pecies of bread like that! WHOOO HOOOO!!
The Blues - who are they? Sorry girls I'm an imbicile when it comes to games with round or oval balls. I had images of you guys sitting over your keyboards with one eye on the tv yelling obsenities :laughing: .
I just got yet another parcel of stuff I bought off ebay. This time it was some long sleeved tops for Maddi and they are in practically brand new condition. I got 3 for $8 and one of them is an Espirit top and one is a swiss brand which I'm stoked about.
I'm going to attempt to clean up this desk today you should see it. Hah I'll show you so you can see what I'm contending with desk (http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e97/lucinda3550/desk.jpg)
Now don't you feel sorry for me! Most of it is DH's coaching stuff. He is a hoarder and keeps every scrap of paper and it drives me insane.
I think this should take up most of my day.
Fi - its so good to hear from you. Even if its just to pop on and give us a quick update on how you and the family are going. I think you do pretty well getting on here when you can with 2 kids under 2!
Well got to make a start on this desk area. Its been bugging me for years and today is the day.
hayleylea
24-05-2007, 09:19
Lou
The blues are a NSW Football team. Every year there is a 3 game series between NSW and QLD with the best players from each state. Very competitive competion..and your images are probably pretty correct around alot of houses in NSW and QLD last night :laughing: (more so NSW because we lost BOO HOO!! oh well we will get them next time!)
Goodluck with the desk Lou...i dont envy your position today lol
My sister came over for a visit. She has the day by herself because Emilee has gone to preschool and Braiden is at kindy. And even though she has the day to herself she wanted to take Cooper back to her house! lol. So Cooper gave me a kiss and waved good bye and has gone with her out to bradys school for morning tea. Jo is going to see how he goes but she said if he will sleep for her she will keep him till this arvo. So im home alone in a clean house with nothing to do...Actually im going to go have a nice hot shower and then just sit here watch Telly and do nufin! HAHA
OK gotta go talk soon!
Hi again,
just a quick one for now -will try and get on again later.
Tan this is a picture of the Outlook pram snug thing (the navy one on the left). Paddy was only about 6 months then but it still fits and he is 88cm tall now:
http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t122/cathbroadbent/IMG_1174.jpg
Here is a before shot from Tuesday and 2 after shots from yesterday and this morning of my little crew-cut boy:
http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t122/cathbroadbent/IMG_3737.jpg
http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t122/cathbroadbent/IMG_3756.jpg
http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t122/cathbroadbent/IMG_3765.jpg
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