Babies Born May 16th-31st 2008 #6

[NaNa]

Sassy, r u a thread killer?? lol
Hope you're all having a wonderful mothers day! The first for some of us...

Well, Aadi is sick still. We ended up taking him to the hospital early Thursday morning as he was screaming all night (yeh, more than usual!) and writhing around in apparent pain and distress. And he's all stuffed up and snotty. After waiting hours and hours we were finally seen and after a thorough examination told it's probably "just a viral infection" and there's nothing much we can do. We're keeping an eye on his temperature, but he's just so snotty and cranky. He's unable to sleep, doesn't want to eat, and throws a tantrum whenever we try to do something we need to do, like eat or even leave the room for a second. He sounds terrible because his voice is all husky.
DP took me out for lunch today, but it was a very quick one because Aadi was yelling and complaining and being quite embarrassing. As soon as we get outside, tho, he's happy and laughing and waving his shoes at everyone! Cheeky monkey... he wont eat, BF or sleep now, so DP is carrying him around out in the yard. I should be vacuuming...
So we had three nights of good sleep but now things are back to "normal". I can only hope that when he's over this horrible bug that he'll sleep again. We were supposed to go back to the chiro on Friday, but DP kindly lost my wallet on Thursday, and went to work, leaving me stranded without even enough money for a bus ticket! I ran to the train station where DP had parked the car (about 2kms) to check if my wallet was there, but it wasn't. Had to cancel the appointment and walk home again, where I found my wallet in the front garden!! Thankfully Aadi slept in the pram on the way home, because then we had to race out again in time to make our other appointment at the sleep disorder clinic on the other side of town. I gave him lunch on the train, which is a novel experience...
I'm fed up with the stupid doctors at the clinic stuffing us around and being really unhelpful, and for this reason alone I really hope Aadi's sleep sorts itself out because I can't be bothered wasting our time going back there for them to tell me "keep doing what you're doing".

oooh well... that's a fraction of my chaotic week's story. Hope things are better for all of you!
Abb - is Hamish better now? How did the birthday party go?
Sassy - Tassie is going to be freezing! Do you have enough winter clothes?

[Abb34]

Nana - i hope Aadi gets better quickly for you and back sleeping again, they gave Hamish anti biotics and within 24 hours he was a different child.
Bec - didnt get tattoed hamish was sick so had to cancel, i am getting an M for maddi on my foot and Hamish name on lower leg above my other one. I had some abnormal cells so my op was ok, just burnt a bit and was uncomfortable but i guess that is to be expected.
Girl - yay Yasmeena
Sass - omg i have a sister who is like that and it frustrates me so much, but my dp always says she isnt happy and we are so she will never win. lol
Jess - have fun at the baby expo
Nikki - how are things with you and Abbie?
Mis tree - how is stanks sleep going?
Happy Mothers day for yesterday to everyone.

AFM-Wednesday was Dp's birthday and his present was not ready grrr, i have an artist friend who is doing a painting of Hamish for him, she has not been able to finish due to her father being sick so poor Dp still has no present but he will love it when its done i am sure. Later that day Hamish had high temp and was very sooky, i gave him pain relief but temp never came down so when Dp came home we went to dr and he had a look at Hamish and said he had a throat infection, poor bubba it was awful seeing him so upset and getting his temp down took ages, so our kid free dinner plans for dp's birthday did not happen. I felt so bad no present, no dinner. Thursday we recieved a call from Dp's parents to say hi Grandfather was very sick and been taken to hospital again and more than likely will not go home, he has been ill for a long time but still not nice to hear. Then the weekend It was Maddi's 13th birthday on saturday, we had a party at home with 15 teenagers wow i know. I can't complain really they were very well behave and after the 3 hours a few of them said they didn't want to go home as they were having so much fun. Maddi thanked me this morning for her party and presents and said she had the est birthday ever so i felt very proud of her. So thats the happy part of the weekend. Saturday night we had some terrible news about Dp's SIL, she was on holiday in Darwin and had a horrific fall and is so very very hurt, she has severed her spinal cord and will never be able to walk again. I just cant imagine how she must be feeling and Dp's brother whom was not with her. Anyhoo when they can stabilise her they will be flying her back to Melbourne and we will visit, Dp is so upset as she has been with his brother for 15 years and she is a very active person normally. Sorry to right about this in here, probably shouldn't have but i just needed to get it out.
Mothers day was pretty good considering and Dp put on a happy face for me even though i new he was still sad. I got a lay in and some beautiful flowers and a card, also something is arriving this week that Dp ordered so i cant wait to see what it will be. We had a fun morning looking at baby photo's of Maddi and Hamish. Then we went and watched my nephews play football. In the afternoon i went out for coffee and cake with my mum and two of my sisters (no kids), it was so relaxing and we had a great time. For dinner it was my nephews 10th birthday so we had a small family party for him. SO a very busy weekend and i am so glad it is Monday and hopefully the start of a better week. Sorry its long

[*LovemyKids*]

hi ladies

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO EVERYONE!!!

Abb OMG your poor sil thats horrible, sorry to hear that, i hope she returns home safe♥
I am glad that DD party went well.

Nana sorry to hear about aadi i hope that he is better soon for you, its really hard when there is nothing you can do for them.

Sassy yeah on plannng the baby shower how exciting!!! Tassie is going to be freezing but hey atleast its a holiday.

Abbie is nearly walking, she walked 11 steps from one end of the lounge room to the other on saturday!!!! She is taking 4 or 5 steps all the time and she can stand up all by herself now without holding on to anything. She has teeth coming up everywhere!!!! her birthday is on Sunday i can't wait, although i don't really feel like being around DH family. LOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNG story but i had a really **** mothers day because of them and him. I would be happy to to have my family here but i know its not going to happen. Oh well sorry about that . I hope everyone is well
Hi to everyone else i have missed sorry

Nikki

[mum1984]

Oh Abb, im so sorry

Everything is happening at once for you guys huh

Im glad that Maddi's party went off well though, sounds like she really enjoyed it

Nana sorry to hear Aadi is sick again I really hope his sleep goes to something normal once he is better. Good luck

Nikki - yay on Abbie walking! Just in time for her birthday! That sucks about DH's family and your mothers day though. I hope her birthday goes a lot better than your expecting.

Sassy - Good luck with the packing. I loved the way you got your DH to buy you something. Great thinking.

Girl - how'd you go with the assignment. I love it when Stanks waves to me. Its just so cute!

Bec - oh my what a great list of words, nice.

AFM: Mothers day was better than expected. Aunty got stanks to give me some new ear rings which was just lovely of her. So I was extrememly happy.

Jess - how you doin'?

[sassy123]

nana: i think i am heyhere are a few threads i have posted in and then nothing lol.
I dunno if i have enough warm clothes i have stocked up for DH and DD but yeah it hink i might have to get a few more things or atleast get stuff out from last yr to see if it fits (thats not gonna be fun lol)

abb: thats wat i keep thinkin to myself she must just be jealous and aslong as DH and i are happy its all that matters.

LMK: I think ur the first one for the birthdays. we are having jaydas party on sat even though her bday isnt till tues. dont let them ge to u hun hopefully the day will go great.

hope everyone had a good mothers day. i ended up cranky most of the day i was so tired from the wedding the day b4 and everyone seemed to want us to visit and all that crap that goes on.

jayda is walkin heaps now but only when we rnt looking or if we try to get her to walk she wont lol.

I cant beleive they r nearly 1.
wat has everyone bought?
i feel like i need to buy somethign else lol. but i think i have a thing with buying things at the mo lol.

i have kept the cows milk going and she is gettin better during the night. i think she just needed to get used to it. i am slowly adding more cows milk and decreasing the formula.

[Girl-23]

Hi ladies, a quick note from me. I don't have time for personals but will definitely get back to everyone. At the moment I am at the library completing an assignment due this week. Thankful its not hard but time consuming. After that one more assignment to go and thats a group one. Last week I started Yasmeenia on cows milk. So far nothing more than 50mls is consumed. She is a cheeky little one, I love her to bits. Last night for the first time in months, she slept in her own bed. Finally, DH and me had our own spare. He slept well. He didn't notice her waking up at around 2am or 5am for a quick feed. I think she also enjoyed having her own spare the poor darling. She has a runny nose again - no thanks to daycare. I can't wait for this year to end. So far I have been offered for stage two of the recruitment process for two organisations. I hope I get more offers. I am still waiting. I am thinking about going to Melbourne in August so the family can see DD. Plus I could use a break from everything; cooking, cleaning, studying and just enjoy my time with my family. Anyways back to this assignment. Bye guys. I'll be back on the weekend to do personals and read what everyone has written.

[sassy123]

omg yesterday when i finished work and we went upstairs jayda walked around nearly the whole time. she crawled about 7times the whole night.

She has been sleeping pretty good last night DH got up cause she was hittin her head against the wall lol. i didnt even hear it i was having a good sleep for once.

I was lookin in the chemist the other day and there is this stuff called something like "daycare defense". it says if ur kids get snotty nose or sick that u put this in their bottles and it helps them get over it faster.

[Bec7]

Hi All,

Going to attempt another quick post.....though not sure if that's possible for me. So won't do personals except to say to Abbie - sorry to hear about DP's SIL and grandfather, i hope this is the end of the run of bad luck you's seem to be having.

Well nothing new really here. I think Cameron may have caught that gastro thing (DH seems to have it again). Cameron's had really runny poos and last night he threw up everywhere in his cot - but only did little stirs so I didn't know about it til he officially woke at 7am. He seems ok though - not grumpy - just looks tired - even with his good sleeps he has.

He has also been really sooky and cuddly - especially tonight before bed, he kept crawling over to either me or DH and wrapping his arms around us and giving us a big hug, with a little pat pat with his hand.

He did the cutest thing tonight as well - DH and I were both laying on the ground and Cameron comes over and grabs my hand, then picks up DH's and puts our hands together - he was still holding onto both for a moment. He then let go of our hands and looked at our hands holding each others - looking a little proud of what he did - so cute.

Question - of those who have started to introduce cows milk - how did you do it? Did you alternate formula with cows? Did you do half/half bottles? What do you give the cows milk in - sippy cups or bottles?

We are up to our last tin of formula (of ones I stocked up on a few weeks ago when it was on special) so was thinking of going into the cows milk. 2 weeks short of his 1st birthday shouldn't make much of difference should it?

Well that's all from me.

Bye for now,

[sassy123]

bec: jayda was having 210 water then her 7 scoops of formulas so for a few days i did 180 with 6 scoops then filled the rest with cows milk. now we r down to 150 and the rest cows milk. she doesnt seem to like the taste of milk. i tried her with soy milk cause she seems to be sooking a lot of a night when i gave her cows milk but she woudlnt even go near the bottle if it had soy in it. i have stuck with the cows milk and the sooking has stopped now. maybe have another tin on hand just incase he doesnt take to the milk straight away. i have been doing the milk for 3 weeks now i think.

well yesterday arvo jayda was really weird. she was laying around all sleepy and kept tryin to get up on me and sleep. when Dh got home and we started tea she laid next to her toy box adn didnt move for so long which i dont htink she has ever done wihtout being alseep then when we finished tea she was asleep.
now this is coming from a kid that doesnt go to bed b4 830 and has the biggest sook b4 bedtime, so yeah i dont knwo wat was wrong. then she cried in her sleep all night. DH was gettin cranky every half hr when he happened to wake and hear her. i was awake all night. He kept yelling at me to shut her up and put her tosleep but it is hard to put her to sleep when she is ASLEEP lol.

[*LovemyKids*]

Sassy poor jayda maybe she was having a growth spurt and having some growing pains in her sleep. Poor little thing.

Ican't wait for Abbie's birthday day, i bought a princess cup cake stand and i am making her cup cakes and decorating them with little tiara's on each one, it looks soooooo cute. Everything i have bought for the day is PINK!!!! Cups, plates,balloons,knifes,forks,spoons,bowls,serving plates LOL a bit over the top i know but she might HATE pink when she gets a few years older so i need to make the most of it now!!!!!!!

Bec i have not really started introducing cows milk yet i am a bit slack i know but i will just like sassy is how i did it with the boys but they never really liked it so hopfully she is a bit different

How is everyone else it is a bit quiet in here I WONDER WHY AND WHERE IS EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Take care talk soon
Nikki

[sassy123]

lmk: lol you sound like me. i have bought everything in pink or princess. even the boys r gettin girly party bags lol. I am so excited. im tryin to think of pink party food. i am tryin to make mini food aswell so it is all bite size so hopefully less waste.

wat do u do if they just dont like milk? jayda loves yogurt so she is still gettin dairy but she just doesnt seem to like milk.

LMK: does ur ticker seem to be out by a day. i think mind should say 6 days not a week

[NaNa]

I'm here... just too tired to think. Aadi's screaming all night again. Wish he would get better quickly.

[*LovemyKids*]

Nana so sorry to hear that hope he sleeps better for you♥♥

Sassy i either gave them a little bit of flavouring with it, or my kids LOVE yoghurt as well, and cheese. So i was never overly worried about it. They have milk on their cereal and in their meals as well.

Pink food i never thought of that, any ideas????????????
Watermelon
Pink cordial
Red Jelly
Fairy Bread
Strawberries
red Lollies
Anymore???

Nikki

And yeah my ticker is out by a day bugger i will try and fix it hang on !!!

[sassy123]

Nana: hope tonight is better for you

lmk; i am doign these tea cup things. you get a tic toc biscuit a mashmellow and a life saver, make up some icing to a thick paste and stick the mashmellow to the biscuit then break the life saver in half and stick it on as the handle. you can also put a freckle ontop of the marshmellow too.

musk sticks ( i coudlnt find any coles only had the multi colour ones they call fruit sticks)
pink lemingtons
pink marangs (sp?)
creaming soda
iced vo vo's or wat every they are called the biscuits with the marshmellow and the jam up the middle.
mini up cakes with pink icing.
choc spiders but using white choc and colouring it pink
pink toffee
instead of fairy bread you could get the pink sprinkle stuff or there is one that has pink butterfly shape sprinkles and cut bread into star and heart shapes

lol is that enough?

on the site for the magicalkingdom where the tickers are from it has a section for disneyland weddings they look so kool.

[*LovemyKids*]

Wow sassy you have heaps of ideas don't you !!! I can't wait to go shopping now for all the food, even though i still don't feel like having DH family here. Oh well as long as abbie has a good time i don't care. The weddings do look cool don't they, they don't have somewhere where you can change the time zone in which you live in so i just put abbie's birthday to one day sooner so now the ticker is right:-)

Take care
Nikki

[sassy123]

well a quick one for me at the mo i am tryin to work and help DH with DD. she has a middle ear infection. we spent all night at the hosp last ngiht so DH took the day off to look after her. they forced the medicine into her now she is scared of it and keep throwing it up.

[*LovemyKids*]

OH NO Jayda poor little darling, I hope that she feels better soon:-(

Nikki

[sassy123]

well we got through today alright. she slept for 4 hrs straight today at sleep time. oh i wish that was a regular thing lol.
she seems fine for a bit then bam she is all dopy and sooky.

LMK: i love ur pic in ur ticker she looks so much older in it.