Parenting after Long Term TTC #7

[barney]

hi janie hun good to hear from you and oh yeh the bum is very red and sore and im useing all the stuff ? and pooy is not nice its gotta be teeth yeh ?

annnd where are you marcellus im stalking you but seem to have lost you

[BOC]

Ooooh maybe something's happening???

[TaRhLi.]

mmm I think she might have been having an S & S yesterday if the baby hadn't decided to arrive, so maybe as well speak (or type) that baby is getting pushed out. I've been stalking the BA's for days....

[barney]

stalking here to kel lol..i hope shes having a beautiful birth if not holding her beautiful bub ..anyways either way we are all thinking of you here hun.

[TaRhLi.]

Hey girls

Look what I found this morning.

https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...d.php?t=151183

Big congrats Marcellus....

[BOC]

Woohoo! Awesome news!

[barney]

haha what wonderful news congrats sweety...

[saph204]

Yay Marcellus,

Well ladies we are off in the morning on holidays. So just thought I would drop a quick line and say Merry Christmas and enjoy your day with all your special bubbas.

[barney]

MERRY CHRISTMAS GIRLS

hope you all have a wonderful wonderul christmas,this is our first one with charlie girl and you couldnt wipe the smile off my face if you tried dh is putting her swing set up as we speak and we are all ready woop woop happy xmas everyone.love the smiths xox

[barney]

luv to you all girls xox

[TaRhLi.]

Hi girls

I hope you all had a very happy Xmas with your beautiful little bubba's (especially our first time Xmas babies ie: Charlie, Jagger, Finn and anyone else I missed). Tara got very spoilt and now we have no room left for anymore toys but she absolutely loves her new toys and is playing with all of them.

DH has the next couple of days off work to recover from our busy few days but he is having some time off after Australia Day so we can go away for a few days as a family of 3 before we will become housebound for quite some time...

Anyway, here is the latest pic of my tummy @ 18 weeks if you are interested... I have grown so much in the past 2 weeks that I now look almost full term (I am measuring about 6 weeks ahead so far).. http://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...1&l=b1a3325213

[onthefly]

Hi, just checking in
Hope you all had a lovely christmas

[barney]

thanks for thinking of charlie kelly thats lovely hun ,and you tummy pics are beautiful i cant believe how big you are already its beautiful hun thanks for sharing and glad tara had a wonderful xmas.
marcellus,great to see you hun ,i hope life with your 2 miracles is wonderful.
everyone else a huge hello and boc you are just the sweetest thing ever ,thank you so much for sending us a msg xmas day,you truely made my day i felt so special.

[lise]

Hello ladies!

Hope everyone had a lovely Christmas with their bubs! We had such an amazing Christmas, it was so special to have Finn with us and at lunch 3 of my cousins had their little boys there so we had 5 boys aged 2 and under, it was great!

Have to confess to being a serious stalker/lurker of late After we got back from Canada Finn was going really well and had even started sleeping right through the night (!!!) and then he had his 4 month needles and we went away again and then we moved and it all went downhill again. So although I had plenty of time to keep up with news via my iPhone (because Finn was back to sleeping in my arms all the time), it was too hard to post.

So a very belated congrats to Kel on finding out about your two boys, how very exciting! Do you have any gut feelings on if they are identical or not?!

And Grub, woo hoo hon, so happy for you! You're much braver than I am, i'm not sure when i'll be ready to consider number two...

Murph, so glad things are going well with Jazzy, how amazing that must be for you and your family.

Marcellus, a big congrats on your little girl! And the 22nd of December is a wonderful date, that's my birthday too!

And a big hello to barney, BOC, Saph and everyone else, hope you're all going along swimmingly.

Well as I said Finn was going well for a bit but then went downhill with all the changes in routine. And again after we moved he seemed to be going okay and then he started teething (he now has his bottom two teeth!) and was really miserable and now his sleeping is worse than ever! He's in our bed more than his own bed and although his day sleeps were in his cot they're often in my arms again. And although sometimes i'm quite happy for him to just sleep in my arms and think he'll move to his bed when he's ready, other times I think it's just not practical for me to sit on the couch for 3-4 hours every day doing nothing while he sleeps. I just spent 40 mins getting him to sleep in his cot so we'll see how long he stays down for...

[Murph01]

Hi everyone,

I haven't go much time before Jazzy wakes up so just a few special hellos and a catch-up.

Huge Congrats to you marcellus...how beautiful a little girl. I'm quite partial and not a bit biased!!! Enjoy these early melting moments of non-stop baby gazing while DS vies for attention

Hiya Kel, whoa you look like you are cooking up another couple of beauties! What a clever baker you are. I feel for you though with such a long way to go you must be sick of the comments about your size. I just hope you are rolling with it and looking after yourself.

Hello to everyone i have to miss today in order to get a few things out.

Wellllllll, guess who has had that magic moment that we have all been dreaming of I took Jazzy back to Melbourne on the 23rd of Dec and we had a FANTASTIC appointment. Not sure if I came back whingeing after my last visit but I was completely bummed at that one. This time, had our wonderful audiologist who we love and just one other person in the room, Jazz was in a great mood, well slept, well fed and performed well in all the tests so they switched her up louder anddddddd, she heard her voice for the first time. Get out the tissues girls, it was one of those moments REALLY. I didn't cry but I do now talking about it. She had one of those reactions, eyes widened, smiled a huge cheeky grin and laughed, then made strange loud unrecognisable voices. Now that was the "switch-on moment" we've all seen before but with one so little you have to be really careful not to upset them or make it a bad experience so they have been so conservative. We said our teary farewells to our wonderful audiologist (who was there for jazzy's first switch-on) and he's happy to hand us over to Adelaide provided I can get an appointment there this week or we may have to go back one more time. Andrew wasn't there so I shook his hand for him as thanks. I think we will do better than that and arrange to send him a VERY nice bottle of something. He is actually the man responsible for stitiching up the whole deal between the states to allow her to have the surgery and be seen in Melbourne. we are welcome back any time as patients so it's the best of both worlds.

xoxo

[barney]

i am thrilled to bits for you little jazzy,im ever so proud and happy for you all,but you little girl to be able to hear your own voice is absolutly amazing and so are you princess,for such a wee little girl gee your an insperation jazz and i hope you have a wonderful life,you have an amazing mummy and daddy too .
oh and a big woop woop to all your wonderful very clever doctors.

[barney]

happy new years eve girls i just wanted to say a big thanks to each and all of you for a wonderful year,i love you all and truely mean that.we may not know each other in real life but to me it feels like i know you all and to share such amazing wonderful things with you is awsom.we have all had our ups and downs through the year,some of us had new bubs,some of us fell upd again some are still trying so i hope in 2011 we see a lot more of our old friends in here.
girls thanks for a wonderful year xoxo terrarne,coop,sophie,jessie,jaymee,courtney charlie and chayse xoxoxox

[BOC]

Hope everyone had a lovely night. DH & DS were sound asleep and I was reading forum posts to kill time & completely missed the countdown LOL Oh well never mind.

Hope everyone's wishes come true in 2011!

Now for the main reason I popped in today, just wanted to say a big

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

to my favourite P.I.G., the wonderful Barney! Here's hoping you have a lovely day and get totally spoiled rotten by Coops, Charlie and the rest of the family!

I'm sure I'm speaking for many of us here when I say you are such an inspiration to so many of us. You are always there with encouragement, kind words, advice and a shoulder when any of us are down. Your posts always manage to make us smile! We appreciate it so very much and we luff you to bits!!!

(PS Jagger sends big dribble kisses and says "Hoppy Birdy Aunty Barney!")