Oh the irony! DS is asleep, the house is spick and span, and DH dropped my laptop this morning and broke it so I still can't do a long post!!
Grub and BOC, very much looking forward to the time when Finn can push the vacuum cleaner around When I worked in childcare the babies loved to help wash windows, vacuum etc. I'm all for child labour
Hope everyone is well. Kel, your belly is seriously impressive. Hope you're taking it as easy as you can!
You girls are a scream. It must be that age as Tara loves being a huge help...NOT... Her favourites are the laundry basket although preferable with no washing in it so she can climb in and play with all the pegs. She also loves going to nanna & grandad's house where they have a long handles sweeper and scoop, yesterday she was walking around the house with both of them saying "shweep". We also do the pick up toys thing as well although I try to make it educational for her as well as being helpful for mummy, I will say "go and pick up the RED ball and put it away" and so on to try and teach her colours at the same time..
lise: Thanks for the kind words about my belly, but I think I've gone past the 'wow I'm big stage' to 'freak where are these boys going to fit' stage. At yesterdays Ob appt I'm measuring to 36 weeks and the boys are weighing in at 1lb 11oz & 1lb 10oz at the scan last Thursday...
OMG Kelly! Where on earth are all your organs going to end up?? I know you've got a date for your c-section already but does your OB think you'll make it that far?
Well kids the Traveling Wilberries are movin again, lets try the round window this time! We are moving to Orange at the end of March. there's no funding for DHs position here after June and we are just hanging around waiting to see if funding gets approved cos of the floods redirecting money and cutting government funded projects. The whole natural resource feral management project is under threat here so we will farewell our lovely home on Kangaroo Island and all the fantastic research opportunities and head to patures new. He's been offered a pretty tasty carrot in Orange. I won't talk too much about it til its official but for now that's where things are with us. Of course now we have to find all the resources for Jasmine's Cochlears and therapy but I have no doubt that we will find whatever we need and not be isolated like we are here. I've loved it here but DH really needs something a bit more secure and it was more like a holiday like living in the Daintree was.
As for that first word I told you about last week, well it quickly turned to MUM mum mumumumumumum by the next day...ohhhhhh it melts our hearts. I thought for a little while that it might be that kind of babble that babies do regardless of whether they can hear (not that Jazzy was ever a babbler), but I have been assured that this is the kind of babble (canonical babble) that your hearing babies do when they are saying their first word at 8 months or whenever it happens. All of which means that all of our therapists are super-excited and this is proof that she is hearing the words the way they sound to us!!!!!!!! Yep, that's super-exciting that her brain is wiring and neurons are firing the way they need to be to learn to speak. Her speech can now be put at a level to compare how far behind she is to her peer group and at 15 months she is like a 6 - 8 month old iykwim? It always makes me so much more excited when I actually put it into words. She is also recognising objects from the sounds I make to represent them, so Ahh for aeroplane, Ooh for train, Shh for fish and so on and she is starting to be able to distinguish when I make the sounds she will hand me the object. We use certain sounds called Ling sounds or learning to listen sounds that are easier to pick up and I've been doing this since she was three months old with no success at all....until now, where I say Mmm and she hands me an icecream, or Ssss and she purses her lips and tries to say it back. She is starting to recognise her name (or names) because more often than not, we call her Possum.
anyway, kindergym this morning, better get the sleeping possum out of bed. Fantastic night sleep and still sleeping, but just starting calling out Mumumumumum. Goosebumps anyone??
murph! wondering where the heck you'd gotten to. stalking your child I see!! lol. that is so great about jazzy's speech coming along! she'll be talking better than Ash!!! he says mum-mum, da-da, nan-nan, beebee (for my belly) and something that soulds like monster for the dog (cookie monster). He can say 'allo and ga for ta but that's it! he's 14 months. He does babble a lot (he doesn't shut up!) but apart from those few words, i can't distinguish many words. He also uses mum-mum and ga for things other than mummy and ta and repeats a lot.
It's so cute, when he sings he sings 'da, da, da' in this really soft little voice and when he's concentrating he goes "ssshhhhhsssshhhssssss-zzzzzzhhhhhzz".
mind you this kid ain't no genius, he's currently sucking the window sill while he and the dog eyeball each other from either side of the dining room window.
Isn't it the best noise in the world, listening to them. HE often chats in the car, so we leave the radio off and just giggle amongst ourselves at the little self-chats he has. One thing is for sure tho, I know when i'm in trouble! lol
But he has started doing high fives
Murph - orange ain't that far from Sydney, so i'd imagine all you need is only a 3 hr car trip away!
well our little cyclone peed off with really very little impact on us. so all good, except DH thought he'd scammed the rest of the week off work... talk about having the grumps when the boss called this morning and said work's on! lol.
Ash finally got a clean bill of health from the doc!!! yiipppeee. it's been a long three or so weeks of him being sick So we finally get to go to our first swimming lesson tomorrow morning.... already missed the first 2.
I have been under a rock it seems and nearly missed even hearing about your little cyclone Grub, then as you were writing yesterday the news was showing the cyclone "bearing down" on Darwin and there's Grub banging on about baby antics and malingering husbands and not exactly battoning hatches and all those cliches Kidding.
Hey, that must be great all that babbling from Ash. Yep I'd be turning off the radio to listen to it too, and hearing Kelly's little Jabber Jaws talking in 3 word phrases, I can't imagine Jasmine ever getting to that stage but it's so funny to think of. Her phase at the moment is the everything goes up the leg of my trousers phase, so currently she is at my feet putting as many pens and pencils up the leg of her tracky dacks as possible. she hates me getting on the computer, so I do it so little these days unless I can sneak a peak at my phone or when she is asleep.
It's official, we are leaving in one month! DH got the job at DPI in Orange and now it's action stations getting started on the packing and removal quotes. the best thing about all this moving (as corny as it sounds) is taking all you mob with me. How did you al enjoy Kangaroo Island? Well I hope we're not too cold in Borange, one of DHs uni mates was saying she was freezing her proverbials off and not looking forward to winter. DH thought he was going to get in big trouble with me but damn I missed my chance to milk it, I'm just making sure we get a rental with excellent heating, insulation and cooling (unlike this place where we all froze all winter and couldn't afford firewood....and had to walk around on our hands so we wouldn't wear out the leather in our boots...you know the story Woe is me Yep I'm a dribbler, gotta go rescue my pen filled possum.xoxox
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When I worked in childcare the babies loved to help wash windows, vacuum etc. I'm all for child labour
and when he's concentrating he goes "ssshhhhhsssshhhssssss-zzzzzzhhhhhzz".
So we finally get to go to our first swimming lesson tomorrow morning.... already missed the first 2.
Kidding.
Woe is me
Yep I'm a dribbler, gotta go rescue my pen filled possum.xoxox
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