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fluffy mail! booroi order number 3, I am so baaaaad. But all good stuff, most of it way too big, putting it away for when she gets bigger :)
amber neclaces - anyone order from amber bebe . com? I want matching! DD wants one too
WOHB - HH Sherpa/hempbabies booster/maz cover
i ordered and amber teething necklace last night (beautyincrystal) it is on its way already, got an email this morning :D am thinking i should have gotten one for me (bad headaches)
Kitt3n ~ your naughty!!!!! what time does your posty come?
MELBEL - you are an absolute legend in your own lunchbox! thank you so much for that info!
Do you take your OWN babyseat, as luggage on a plane flight, or do hirecar companies have baby seats (and more importantly - car with anchor points)? so bilby will be safe in a hire car? Suse? anyone else travelled interstate with a bub to know?
wotbb: swaddlebees pocket
Heatwave note: lots of sunscreen and other things in tubes, say "store under 30 degrees", so i've put ours in the fridge for the heatwave before it goes all lumpy etc.
dh said last night - so what will we do, buy disposables for the weekend? i quickly dislodged that notion in his head. he's looking at accom that has washing machine of some sort, worst scenario, we bring back a wetbag in suitcase with two days of used nappies in it. and i will have to live WITHOUT little squirt for two days, LOL. Go the flushable liners ha ha. but i think i WILL pack cloth wipes, if bilbs can't have a bath for two days, cleaning the bottom will be even more important (have no idea if motel has bath and she hates water on her head).
so finally, my super enormous big wetbag comes into use.
i think my carry on luggage will JUST be the nappy bag. dh can carry her snacks and some books.
Gigi... i have travelled OS and taken our carseat with us (was only to NZ but that is OS) and had no probs with taking it...it got wrapped at the airport and was put through as 'fragile' another time (i had to pay for seat for DD she was 2) car seat sat in the chair and she sat on the carseat.
hmmm nappies..they need washing BUT i don't wanna!!!!
gigi - you usually ask hire company if they have a car seat available and they'll give you a car with seat for your hire (small extra charge) - might be worth ringing, mentionin you're flying in from interstate and need to know if you have to bring car seat.
well, anythough i had of doing an initial pre-wash of nappies while heat wave about to dry them has fallen flat on it's ass. fire nasty. ended up leaving last night, but had to come back home to sleep - no way was i sleeping away from home when it was deemed safe enough for me to be here. expecting wind change in a couple of hours, so i'll see what is happening and probably leave again. my bro is going to a community meeting in his town (about 20k's away - HOW that helps us i don't know!) at 10 to see what they have to say. he was out here til midnight-ish last night and apparently there was limited ember attack but it was pretty hairy watching the fire hit the peak of the hills about a km away - wind turned as it hit and turned it back on itself...
should have some fluffy and/or moogoo mail today. think i'll pick them up on my way to mum's =- maybe stuff my car a little fuller. waiting to find out what is happening with DH - fires within 2k's of here, and the IDIOT who was driving his truck for him has just dropped it out the front - yup, that's the way - put another quarter million dollars worth of stuff outside for him to be responsible for! will get him to call his boss and find out where he wants it left - it's not living here in these conditions - not at all! if it goes up, LOTS of diesel to burn it - makes the house more at risk - and ooh yeah, puts DH out of work while we're trying to get things fixed up through insurance
hugs BG!!!!! sending good vibes your way....
save your nappies first (well yourself first then napppies :p)
BRIGSY - i have everything that you can cross, crossed for you, that the fire is put out ASAP and leaves you and your home alone.
thanks for car seat tips BG adn KATONES, i told dh something similar (just my guess) but he wouldn't take my word for it, and i was just making a guess, so it's good to hear from you, that have done it for real.
what a pain that it takes a health scare to get dh to take bilby to meet her gran. before she was two, would have been cheaper, but i coudl't persuade him to make the trip with her (flying). Now her gran is in ICU at hospy in box hill (again), i have no clue whether two year olds are even allowed to visit in ICU, but we're going to try.
Some of the motels that dh rang this morning, asked him if he was a local, whose air con had broken down, apparently that's alot of their current bookings.
i'm really hoping bilby doesn't decide the flight is a good poo time, cos i have heard stories of how impossibly tiny, the nappy changing facs are, on a plane (even for a tiny baby, let alone a two year old who is super wiggly). I've been thinking of putting her in her koala harness backpack, and taking her for walks up and down the aisles (when allowed) cos i can't imagine her in a seat for a very long.
wotbb: swaddlebees PUL pocket with organic velour inner
jst a quick one, i think we going to get an aircond
gigi- citylink has weekend passes, but check the website. re carseat check with the airline. as bilbs is still little they some let u bring the carseat on flight so she sits in that (jetstar), other say u have to check it in.
amber necklace- cant remember who asked. sunshine&lollipop will hav new shipment soon. they're cheaper than amberbebe
hate this heat, supposed to have cool change tonight...BUT it's still 30+ next week!!!
gigi - scope out wotif for cheaper accommodation hun. we've picked up some bargain nights there!
Gigi, we travelled to Sydney for a wedding when Tyler was 5mths old. We took our car seat as well as our pram and a huge suitcase and travel on bags. You should be fine.
If not, I have a spare car seat I could lend you - meet you at the airport if it helps but you should be fine to bring your own. I have a pram you can borrow if you want that, I also have a big sized baby bath if Bilby wont have a shower. You can fill it up and she can splash in that. Sure a tight squeeze but it would work.
I live not far from Box Hill - both Blake and Tyler were born at Box Hill Hossy :)
Let me know if I can do anything else to help.
xx
WOHB: sposie still, but he might go into cloth today based on this mornings #2s. Hopefully Ty's tummy's on the mend.
BG sending good vibes your way. Hope things stay well and the fire stays away.
Gigi, we've hired a car in Melbourne before and it came fitted with the electronic tag for the toll so we didn't have to worry about having to pay for it ourselves. It should come with the car automatically but it might be worth mentioning it when you make the booking. They hire company is also able to supply the car seat for a small extra charge. When we travelled to Tas with Sophia we paid an extra $30 for the seat for the whole of the time we had the car, but that was a little way back so it's probably a little bit more expensive now. If you should choose to take your own I'm not sure how it works for children over 2 but when you're travelling with a baby all extras like prams and car seats can be checked in as part of your luggage without extra charge. Again, ask the airline as this is something that happens all the time so they have standard procedures in place.
Nappy related, I got fluffy mail! (Yesterday) 6 Cute Tushies bamboo fitteds. Hooray!
no fluffy mail for me today :(
so much for fluffy mail to cheer me up!
wow, thanks so much for all your experiences and tips!
off to check WOTIF for accom.
Just paid $12 to insure the luggage for $1,000 (e.g insuring the nappies!!!!) :LMAO:
cheap flights land at Avalon, hope hire cars are there too, not just at Tullarmarine.
you should be able to get a car from most airports hun - avalon is still fairly large. my aunt and uncle hire when they visit, and half the time they fly into avalon....
woot on insuring the nappies - that's why DH got the nappies in the car last night (yes, that was priority one!) - so hard to replace them all at same price
:lol: GiGi, it was one of the things I asked our contents insurer before we got our policy "Will my cloth nappies be included in the $$$ for clothing etc?" The lady was like, uh I guess? I told her no they werent the old school terry flats they were actual nappy-looking and all pretty and stuff. I dont care about our clothes, just dont want to have to replace thousands worth of nappies ;)
ETA - weeeeeeeeee I got fluffy mail even though its monsoon rains outside. Way to go Mr Postman haha My Sandman NN and a freebie as well. Can I just say I think B4B is fabulous, every single time Ive bought off there its been easy and quick, even had a few lovely ladies throw in extra's etc. Thankgod for sites like that, I can feed my addiction without going totally broke :)
Hi guys
:think: maybe I should review our insurance policy.. LOL
I'm at work - so just wanted to say g'day.
nvr thought abt insurance. even if i do theres not much i can do, house belongs to in-laws
gigi- most airport have hire car counters, u planning to book 1st or on the spot?
i got a parcel card today, pity cant pick it up til tomorrow :(
i would be fine booking a car as soon as we arrived at Avalon, but because of the baby seat issue, i thought i should book ahead, to make 100% sure there is a car with a baby seat for us, or second choice, a car with anchor points there for us.
does that make sense?
i don't want to risk having NOTHING for bilby's safety in the car. (apparently Box Hill is a long drive from Avalon.)
and don't want to cart her baby seat if it's not needed.
dh doen't want to take baby stroller.
but we ARE taking the mcn! (my win!). and MCN washing stuff - not sure if i'll use it, but will have it if i do. so i hope it's ok to transport washing powder adn not be accused of terrorism at the airport. i nearly packed bilby's tiny nail clippers, then i thought "airport security - better not".
1.30pm and so far
we have booked airflights twice at webjet
they have taken our money twice, and we still have no flights!!
so hard to get anyone on the phone to sort it out
argh!!!!!
nappies sure do dry fast when it's 44 degrees!