Oh Saph, sounds horrendous the black gum...yeeouch. You were brave facing Campbell's surgery, hope he is on the mend quickly. that was tooth related too wasnt it? Or was it his kidney? Sorry, I'm flat our getting on the comp[uter to catch up lately.
Grub, in answer to your question re the terrible twos...exactly 14 months is what I discovered too. I reckon Ash is pretty damn close to that and his behaviours all resemble what she went through too. On e bit of good news is, that as bad as it was to feel like the day time naps had gone and lovely sleep pattern was shot to pieces and I was really not prepared for that tired, cranky woman to take over for good, it came back for us, sleeps are again lovely and I am again very happy at least for most of the time. Maybe not two long sleeps a day or even a sleep every day and the behaviour is still frustrating, but welcome to the terrible twos!! Get him outside lots and exhaust him. Jazzy wants outside from the minute she wakes up, not sure how we'll be in Orange in Winter
thanks murph. yeah we do outside in the arovs... when it's not raining! thankfully he's still managing a day sleep had just over 2 hours... i got in just over an hour... but oh the pain of wretching my eyes open when he woke. talk about feel dopey. but i'm glad jazzy was the same, i was beginning to think there might be some issue ie brat disease! argh. doesn't help that mummy is very tired and generally in a pretty cranky mood, poor kid.
lenny those boys sound delightful, in a full-on boy sort of way lol. I hope none of the family were in the quake and yes, your kids are extremely lucky to now their GGs!! Ash gets three, still pretty good me thinks travel safe.
OMG it's onlly a small thing but we found the orange missing from the toy library "fruit basket" we hired a few weeks ago! they were going to charge me if i didn't find it in the next week or so... I happened to sit down in the right spot on the lounge to see the stupid thing under hte tv unit. little things eh!
Hi there Lenny,
I just saw that you posted at the same time as I was writing so I missed you. That's not actually weighing that heavily on my mind that I'm awake and typing at quarter to one I'm feeling a bit shaky on the thought of having no accommodation sorted out so while the wee one and her dad are sleeping and my tummy is churning, I have been googling up a storm looking at rentals. I wish we could just buy but we will have to wait and suss things out from the safety of a rental for a while (if we can get one).
Lenny, you sound like you've got the right attitude with your boys. Hope mister helpful (DS 1) makes life a bit easier for you and doesn't wear your nerves out "helping you" Very cute.
Oh Murph, I am with you with the churning stomach. We went and saw a finacial advisor this week and they have recomended we buy an investment property. we are going to see them again today and they will be recomending some places to buy. Will let you know if any are in orange. lol
Why is money the route of all evil. The thought of getting into more debt scares the hell out of me but they assure me we can afford it. Would love to know how. And they assure me it will make us rich in the long run, yeah right that or bankrupt.
Yes Murph it was Campbells teeth. He is so proud of his robot tooth and was such a brave boy. Xavier is next we are seeing the surgeon again next friday about his hernia and I think we have decided to get it fixed now whilst he is still very little.
Just wanted to share Tara's new statement that she says... When we say to her "Love you" she now replies with "Wuff U" and then gives us a big kiss. I don't think she knows what it means at all but I know she loves the reaction that she gets from DH & I when she says it.
I also hear all day long, when she is looking for me..."mummy, mummy, mummy" over and over again...
Hi girls we are back! Had a great time in London and will catch you all up on it in the coming days. As you can see by the time I am still a little jet lagged! Jazzy was awesome on the flight, slept most of the way and when awake was quiet and easy to entertain. We had heaps of people coming up to us after the flights commenting on how good she was. My advise to anyone traveling with a toddler, invest in an IPad. Best thing we ever did. You can purchase movies and tv shows so she sat watching the Wiggles most of the time she was awake. We also invested in a good pair of child specific earphones so they would stay on her head and they are also noise restricted so they can't turn up the sound too loud. Jazzy knows how to operate the IPad on her own which is very cute and rather scary to watch!
Glad to be home in Melbourne. I am originally from christchurch and still have a lot of family and friends there including my mum, sister and nephews, dad, step mum and half brother and sister. I am happy to report that they are all well. Although my sister did give us a fright as she was working in the city and the building she was in had all the stair wells collapse in. So she was stuck on the 15th floor with no way out. Luckily she was rescued with no injuries, but we were unable to contact her for 4 hours so didn't know how she was during that time, it was just horrible. And I felt so useless being on the other side of the world. But we are some of the lucky ones. There are so many people who has suffered so much in this tragedy. Buildings can be replaced, but people can't.
Hope you are all well, I will try and get up to speed in the next few days.
no way janie! are you sure you came back on the right date??? not too early??/ I can't believe how quick that time went!!! that's so good that she travelled well for you! OMG pretty scary about your sister, but i'm glad she's well. I hope she's not too traumatised by it all.
My aunt's MIL lives over there, in her 80s and apparently wasn't doing well after the last quake in sept. the poor old thing was so frightened she'd sleep in an arm chair. So i can't imagine the physiological trauma that so many people now have because of the quakes.
I saw your sig Janie and Jazzy is like an old woman! she's nearly 2 FFS! when did that happen!! lol.
kelly - i WUFF that lol we say it to ash but nuddin yet! he's stuck on saying "mon-ner" as in monster the dog (cookie monster) for everything. birds, planes, cars are all "mon-ner". OMG JUST TAKE THAT BACK HE JUST, like right now said car to a red car I was talking to him about.
saph- that's exciting about an investment place. i'm not sure orange is the best investment centre tho lol.
murph - find anything? is it cos of the cost/condition etc that there isn't anything for you or is it a tight market?? good luck love.
afu - not much to report. I think, *think*, we've successfully weaned ash of his night time feeds including his dreamfeed! We just dropped them all cold turkey and if he woke, gave him water. Last night we went down about 7pm and didn't hear him til 7.30am! But you know what they are like, it was probably a one off!! but i really hope he does this from now on, with the new baby due soon it would be great to only have to get up to one child iykwim!
Funny little thing, DH and I were in bed and bub was just wandering around being generally cheeky .. we heard a bit of a noise, he wheeled his toy box into our room and pulled it up next to DH's side of the bed so he could play lol. very cute, he was giggling as he was wheeling it!
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I'm feeling a bit shaky on the thought of having no accommodation sorted out so while the wee one and her dad are sleeping and my tummy is churning, I have been googling up a storm looking at rentals. I wish we could just buy but we will have to wait and suss things out from the safety of a rental for a while (if we can get one).
Very cute.
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