3 Years - 5 Years, May '05

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3 Years to 5 Years List - May '05

Forum Name:
State:
Baby's DOB:
Gender of Baby: Boy / Girl
Baby Name(s):
Baby's Website:
Health Concerns:
Attending Kinder / Pre-School?:
Notes:

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Forum Name: mumof4under4
State: NSW
Baby's DOB: 11th July 2000
Gender of Baby: Girl
Baby Name(s): Micaela Lee
Baby's Website: n/a
Health Concerns:speech delay
Notes: She came 4 days late was induced, came out 56 cms long 9 pound 13 ounces was in labour for 12 hours
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Forum Name: MistyFying
State: Q
Baby's DOB: 26 March 2001
Gender of Baby: Boy / Girl Girl
Baby Name(s): Gabrielle Elita
Baby's Website:
Health Concerns: speech/language delay
Notes:
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Forum Name: mumof4under4
Baby's DOB: 13th October 2001
Gender of Baby: Girl
Baby Name(s): Jacynta Marie
Baby's Website: n/a
Health Concerns: nil
Notes: She came 4 days late as well (two more days she would of been born on my birthday) she was also 56 cms long but my smallest 9 pound 4 ounces.
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Forum Name: Dee
State: VIC
Baby's DOB: 19 October 2001
Gender of Baby: Girl
Baby Name(s): Ashlea Skye
Baby's Website:
Health Concerns:
Attending Kinder / Pre-School?: Yes, 3 year old kinder
Notes:
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Forum Name: Astrolady
State: South Australia
Baby's DOB: 27th October 2001
Gender of Baby Boy
Baby's Name Kameron Andrew
Baby's Website: http://www.theastroweb.com/kameron
Health Concerns: None
Attending Kinder / Pre-School?: Preschool Twice a Week. Kindy once a week from August 19, 2005
Notes: Born 15 days early
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Forum Name: mum2boys
State: Qld
Baby's DOB: 7 November 2001
Gender of Baby: Male
Baby Name(s): Lachlan Daniel
Baby's Website: http://www.babiesonline.com/babies/l/lochie/
Health Concerns: Renal reflux - grade 2 left ureter - suseptible to UTI's
Notes: Born 8lb 4oz - 1 day early - SVD
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Forum Name: Cailin
State: Vic
Baby's DOB: 23 November, 2001
Gender of Baby: Girl
Baby Name(s): Paris Antoinette
Baby's Website: http://groups.msn.com/pariswebsite
Health Concerns: Eczema
Notes: Born 3 days overdue via Emerg C/S - Weighing 9lb 11oz - Measuring 55 cm
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Forum Name: Barbie-up
State: Vic
Baby's DOB: 3rd December, 2001
Gender of Baby: Girl
Baby Name(s): Caitlin Jane
Baby's Website: mother not computer literate
Playgroup/Kindy pre kinder/3yr old kinder once a week
Health Concerns: none
Notes: induced 13 days over
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Forum Name: Mouse_9_2001
State: S.A
Baby's DOB: 28th Janurary 2002
Gender of Baby: Boy / Girl Boy
Baby Name(s): Joshua Thomas
Baby's Website: http://www.babiesonline.com/babies/j/joshuapollard/
Health Concerns: has Asthma and Excema
Attending Kinder / Pre-School?: starts kindy later this year, I think
Notes: born 3 days before due date at 7lbs 15oz
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Forum Name: KelliD
State: WA
Baby's DOB: 18 March 2002
Gender of Baby: Girl
Baby Name(s): Cairenn Jayne
Baby's Website: www.babiesonline.com/babies/d/dawsonkids
Health Concerns: eczema
Notes: 2w early (induced pre-eclampsia and gestational diabetes)
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Forum Name: lulusmum25
State: ACT
Baby's DOB: 4th May 2002
Gender of Baby: Boy / Girl - Girl
Baby Name(s): Olivia
Baby's Website:
Health Concerns:
Notes:
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Hi Girls

Welcome to a brand spanking new month. How is everyone going !! I just said to Kameron "hey Kameron playgroup tomorrow" and anyone would have thought all his christmases had come at once. He has been a bit bored this last week cause we haven't gone anywhere, where as the week prior we spent 3 days visiting his playgroup friends. What is he going to be like come Christmas holiday LMAO.

Does anyone have educational games for the PC for their kids ?? We are getting Elmo's Reader ages preschool - 6 and some Maths one for ages preschool - 7. He is loving using the computer at the moment and is getting really good with the mouse, so if he can learn at the same time it will be a bonus ;)

Love

My ILs got Gabrielle a toy laptop for Christmas, which has spelling, counting and phonetic games on it.

I think it's supposed to be for 5+ age, but she just plays with the programs she's familiar with... like where's the letter "U" etc

That is cool !! I was looking at them for Kam's 3rd birthday but got him a Fisher Price power touch instead. Which he loves, but only has 2 books with it so he has just about worn them out and they aren't exactly cheap to buy more and also not a great range like the leap pad version. My parents are going to get him another book or two for his b/day this year, since we already have his b/day present from us and lachlan wrapped in the wardrobe LOL

Love

OMG at what Kameron just did. He shut himself in his room playing blocks and about 30 mins later he has come walking out with a tower. He has mega blocks so you get single block or doubles etc

The bottom of the tower is a double green block, he has then put 1 single purple and 1 single yellow on top of that. he then put another double green block on top of them then another purple and yellow in the same order. He kept doing it for quite a few rows.

I was amazed. He has never done anything like that before creating a pattern. I was so amazed I took a photo or 5 8-[

Love

=D> =D> =D> Woo hoo for kameron!

Isn't it great when they surprise us with their abilities! (And also when they manage to play quietly by themselves for 30 mins without there being makeup and/or other beauty products, textas or toothpaste involved).

awww @ a b****et honk. We have one of those here as well though ;) Kameron doesn't know how to lie straight I don't think it has to be diagonal or sideways. Not good in a double bed, but at least now if he does get in our bed I can put him straight back into his bed and he doesn't complain.

He is sharing the computer chair with me atm, and has his arm around my waist and leaning his head against me aww. He is waiting to play his new Elmo PC game ;)

Love

okay I am saying this really quietly, cause I don't want to jinx myself but no doubt I will lmao...... Kameron has had 4 dry nights in a row \:D/

Love

That's great Kathryn! DD has just turned 4 and she hasn't had any dry nights yet....

Oh No Jillian !!!! I hope you are all over your colds etc soon. I couldn't stomach eggs to well either when I was pregnant :( and well those dirty nappies, i get one every once in a while that i have to struggle to not be sick myself LMAO.

Speaking of dirty nappies........ lachlan needs me :D

Love

Morning girls

I hope everyone is going well. Apart from slight colds we are all fine. Kameron didn't want to goto playgroup yesterday, which was really weird for him cause he is normally the first one out of the door. At 9am I said to him are you coming to playgroup and he just laid there and kept playing cars, so at 9.05 I said it again and still he laid there, so I said "Okay I am going then cya later" and he was "No mummy wait, Kameron come" hehehe. He was okay once he was there, was probably just tired.

Doh Lachlan screaming ](*,) have a good day !!

Love

Hi - ug, nappies all over again - how many newborn ones a day - something like 8-10 ??? I look at those huggies ones in the boxes and its often cheaper to buy two smaller packs. I'll start stocking up again as soon as I do something with the spare room, which is as soon as I find out what we're having, which is still a few months away.

Caitlin has a potty in her room for the midnight wee - our toilet is at the other end of the house and through the laundry where the dog sleeps at night, so not very practical.

About the eggs for breaky before work - what time do you get up for that ??

Barb.

Welcome to Lulusmum25 to the forum. I hope Olivia had a great 3rd birthday!!

Love

Welcome Lulusmum!

Well Paris is a bit sick today, she's had the makings of a cold since the weekend, but its hit with avengence today. We were up from 2-5 on and off coz she kept coming into our room. Poor little chook she's currently watching Peter Pan and hasn't moved, she even slept in till 10 am and I had to wake her up to make sure she was still alive LOL! No Kinder for her today, hopefully she'll be feeling better soon.

*hugs*
Cailin

Awww poor Paris! Hope she recovers soon! LOL @ checking if she was still alive, Cailin. Goes to show that fear never really goes away - even when they are no longer babies!

LOL Deb nope it certainly doesn't. I just treated her to some Grape Fanta (Norti mummy LOL). She's all rugged up in her blanket with baby bear watching monsters inc and drinking her medicine (we use chinese pediatric cold & flu stuff that you mix with juice) mixed with grap fanta and she's loving it. You gotta spoil them when they are sick ;)

*hugs*
Cailin

hey Cailin - we've had the cold and the 2am - 3am - 4am visits too ! But sleeps in till 10 also. she gets in with me after nick goes to work and its tempting to stay in there with her.

" i've got boogers on my jammies, i need new jammie top ... i dont want to sleep in my bed anymore .... the birds are keeping me awake ... etc "

even though we have a king size bed, she cant sleep with us, we've tried it before, but shes a bit of a tosser and shes the only one who ends up getting any sleep.

Barb.

But on the plus side (or weird side) the other night (wed I think) she put herself to bed at 6 pm, brushed her teeth, I said want dinner she said no I just want to go to bed. She didn't even want a story! :shock:

But she didn't want to go to kinder today, told me she was too sick and had to stay on the bed on the couch (her blanket & pillows) I said ok, and then she said and I can stay in my jammies too (not like her I get lecture if she's not dressed). But she won't get away with it next week ;)

I hope Caitlin is feeling better soon!

*hugs*
Cailin

We still have the colds happening here too. Kam didn't want to goto playgroup today either, but ended up going anyway. Everyone there has it as well I reckon, I know his best friend also has it.

Both he and Lachlan started the coughing up from it today, so I got Kam some cough medicine but Lach is too little for it, so if he isn't over it soon we will goto a doc cause he has had it for a good week now.

Not much else going on here. Went to a friends place tonight and Kameron was mimicing the little girls voice exactly. Kam said "Yes Mum" and my friend and I both thought it was her little girl but she was no where to be seen lmao. After seeing those 2 together I am glad I don't have twins ;)

Love

Hey - caitlin goes to creche on a monday and the last two times she has had colds, she's come down with them on the thursday after creche. I've always had this 'thing' that you come down with a cold three days after being exposed to it.

I'm not sure whether to send her tomorrow to creche - she's al ot better, but prone to the odd double barrelled snot attack. Half of me thinks I should send her cos other parents obviously leave their kids there with colds and the other half of me wants to keep her home.

Cheers,
Barb.

I'd send her. My way of thinking is you will be sending them to school with the odd sniffle so why does playgroup/creche make any difference. We have a playgroup free day tomorrow cause it is a public holiday here in Adelaide :)

Just got home from the doctors actually. Nothing much they can do with mine and Kam's cold we can't shake just let it run it's course.

Does anyone have any soloutions of getting cough medicine into a 3yr old lmao. He refuses to take it plainly and I can't say I blame him ROFL

Love

Hi Kathryn

If you really want to get that medicine into him, try an industrial-sized syringe or something like that. We have one that takes 6mls at a time, and it's much easier to get them to swallow it if you put it towards the back of their mouth.

Just watch out for the "gag" button :-#

Yeah we use a syringe he only needs 2.5ml at a time and yep had the gagging happen so most comes out again. Even did the bribe trick lmao.

Love

Mix it into softdrink :) I know it sounds gross, but thats what we do with Paris' herbal medicine coz its BLERK by itself. Otherwise strawberry milk or something similar to the flavour of what it is, even red cordial ;)

I know its not really ideal but it works!

*hugs*
Cailin

Thanks for that heads up Cailin. He knew something wasn't right with the drink when I gave it to him but drank it anyway ;)

He still has a croaky voice but this weather is so bloody stupid at the moment. I am taking jumper off then putting it on and taking if off ARGH.

Love

Hi - never had a problem with cait taking medicine - I'm not big on cough medicine and she's only had antibiotics twice in her life and the odd kiddy panadol.

We've got over most of the cold here, but something new and exciting has cropped up in the middle of the night - nightmares. Last night/this morning she wakes up crying that there are insects in her bed. wha ? she was 3/4 asleep still so I brushed the 'insects' away and she went back to bed ... for about 10 minutes when she came into our room and said there were bugs on her legs.

we talked about the insects today and about dreams and nightmares and i told her to try and have nice dreams about puppies and pussy cats !!

Nick has just started feeding his lizards (going through second childhood) live crickets, so I think thats where the insect thing comes from.

Oh well - what next ??

Barb.

Yeah just wanna stress that it was the first time ever Kam has had cough medicine. Just in case there is people thinking I give him medicine all the time LOL

Antibiodics is never a hassle cause he likes the taste of that but only has that too if something is majorly wrong like a huge ear infection with 40c temps which he has got a few times :(

:( @ the nightmares. Have had to deal with that yet so can't help you out there.

Love