Parenting After LT TTC ~ January - April 2008

[secochook]

Before I go.... Happy Father's Day to Jason. Hope you get your share of sloppy baby kisses on sunday![/QUOTE]

Firstly Sazz, thank you for your good Father's Day wishes. I'm always looking for the sloppy kisses...from Luisa! I am still trying to take in this Father's Day concept because of the obvious, for a long time I didn't think I was ever going to be one but also I never did Mother's or Father's day with my parents other than a call. The main reason was nothing more than my father's birthday was just before Father's Day and my Mum's birthday was just before Mother's Day. I am hoping that Gia doesn't go as silly as I did with helping Luisa get a pressie!

So what is everyone doing to assist their kids for Father's Day?

Now on another matter Sazz, I know Celeste is older than Luisa but is my girl not keeping up, not Aussie! She has not had Vegimite yet. I am worried...not a good show for a 9th generation Aussie!

Anyway, I must away. I hope to check in more than I have been but please forgive me if I don't.

All the best for the continual adjustment to parenthood.

Cheers

Jason

[Lenny]

Yay, it was great logging on here and reading all these great stories!

Sazz - thanks for catching us up with your news, and i loved the story about the kisses!
Jason - Happy Father's Day for tomorrow. We aren't really into celebrating those days - more just a cuppa and a homemade card! (Funny - my mum's birthday is the second week of May - the same time as mother's day, and my Dad's birthday is 2 weeks after father's Day - so the same as you pretty much). DH forgot Mother's Day, and when i told him that maybe he should get me some flowers to mark the special occasion, he said hmmm, yes, maybe. And...I'm still waiting!
Nic - What about sleeping DS on his side and alternating sides each time. That's what we did with DS and it actually worked for us. It helped him not to thrash about so much and not to have that falling reflex which always woke him. I love that your DD loves being a sister - she sounds like a fantastic big sister to have.
Oh, and Liam never slept for either lot of needles! Just got diahorrea - yay for me!
Marcellus - We stopped wrapping ages ago - pretty much after the first few weeks! Thank goodness for sleeping bags, or he'd freeze. Liam isn't fussed about rolling, but he does the funniest little sit-ups, and has done for about a month now - he is going to have abs of steel!

[onthefly]

Hi all
Did you get anything special for father's day Jason? My DH missed out as the thing I was trying to make him kinda fell through... he did get a special gluten-free muffin though.

Lol at the situps Lenny. Aric tries to do that - guess he's attempting to sit himself up, but barely a tummy crunch really We've gone back to wrapping cause he was sleeping so terribly for a while there... might just be a coincidence. Anyway, he's not interested in rolling now...

Celeste sounds so cute. Aric kinda gets silly tired too... giggling and 'singing'... and then he crashes. Guess it's normal. Glad to hear that the feeding is better.

Hope the sleep is still going well Nic - soon it'll be 4 hours, then 5, then....

Hi everyone else

[nic]

Lenny, hope Liam's next round of needles don't give him the runs.

Sleep around here has changed again. DS now has a big sleep when he first goes down of a night, usually 3 hours, last night was 4 hours! but the trade off for a big block of sleep is that he has decided to start waking up every hour after his first block of sleep. We can get him down for a day nap now, well most days we can, and he has been sleeping for a couple of hours or more for them as well.

So, DH and I have been having a few little chats about having more children. We always wanted 2, but I'm finding that I am seriously considering #3. I think it is because we have 8 snowbubs in storage. If we didn't have them, I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't even be entertaining the idea. I think I'm still in the babymoon phase? DS is smiling so much more often now, especially when DD laughs for some reason? He is so close to giving a little giggle it's not funny.

Jason, hope your father's day was fantastic and you got loads of sloppy kisses.
How did everyone celebrate father's day? My DD loves father's day, she made a card for DH, along with buying one from the shop that she picked out all by herself. She didn't want one of those funny cards, because it's father's day and it's serious, apparently. We got DH a set of kitchen knives that he picked out, and a chopping board as well. Got them both on sale, so picked up a huge bargain

Hope everyone is well

Nic

[onthefly]

Hey nic - DS is the same with sleep. He has a long stretch first - these days 5-6 hours, or at least 4 - and then multiple wakeups after that. But it's soooo much better now cause he usually only wakes up once more and goes back to sleep quickly (not taking 2+ hours like it used to...). Hope this is a sign things are really getting better for you
And yeah, why not 3?!

[secochook]

Jason, hope your father's day was fantastic and you got loads of sloppy kisses.
How did everyone celebrate father's day? My DD loves father's day, she made a card for DH, along with buying one from the shop that she picked out all by herself. She didn't want one of those funny cards, because it's father's day and it's serious, apparently. We got DH a set of kitchen knives that he picked out, and a chopping board as well. Got them both on sale, so picked up a huge bargain

Nic

Hi Nic,

Father's Day did go well, except could have done with a few more sloppy kisses. I was spoilt this year, as a result of DW having been spoilt on Mothers' Day. It is a one off to celebrate our first year as parent's after LTTTC. Next year I will be happy with a home made card!

Cheers

Jason

[onthefly]

Hi everybody!
Hope you're all doing well.
Today is DS' half-birthday!
Sleep has gone to poops in the past week.... otherwise nothing to report.
Keep well everyone

[lismith25]

Hi everyone.....im back after a long awol, hope I can still pop in.
The last couple of weeks have been manic, we have moved house, failed to sell our previous which is now rented and after much deliberation dh has gone to work at the mines during the week as I wasnt ready to go back to work yet...feel guilty but not ready to leave Emma...im being positive all will work out as planned

Anyway I digress, so glad to see some familiar names, you all sound so fantastically happy and the bubba's are coming along in leaps and bounds aren't we all so lucky

Emma is now 4months and 1 week, we had a slight mishap with feeding while we were moving but were back on track now. She had her jabs last week and has been a rat bag waking everyhour from 1, which has taken its toll on me...i have a mouthful of ulcers but the last 2 nights she has only woken once at 3...i hope it continues...i have also started giving her baby rice 3 times a day only a spoonful but she is so active rolling everywhere I think she needed it. I found her this avo on her side with all the sleep lines down her face she looked so cute.

I have also started to think about number 2 Nic though I have to admit only just....dh thinks im crazy, but I'll have to see how easy it will be. After the ttc we are just now getting back to our old relationship ways, it would be nice not having to clock watch and pop pills for a while.

Anyway I hope you are all feeling fabulous
Oh and congrats on number 2 Kimnastics

Lis xx