Babies Born February 2006 #6

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We have a new thread! Woohoo!

Nai - thanks for your encouraging words! I'm not sure I will get time every day - especially when kindy has 8 weeks holiday in July and August :doh: but am hoping for at least 3 days a week, one for each subject a week... we'll see. What did you do your masters in?

Just a quick post...

CONGRATS SNOWY! What great news!

Me - I have had a sad day...my grandfather passed away this morning on his 88th birthday.

I hope everyone is well...i will be back soon

Take care

Narelle, sorry to hear about your grandfather. I hope you and your family can support each other through this time.

Snowy, I did my Masters in Business with a HR specialisation.

Narelle - I'm so sorry about your grandfather! :hug:

Snowy - Congrats on your Pink news, thank you for letting us know! and very best of luck with your studies. Wonder Woman!

Nai - thank you for letting me know you received my email. I really very much appreciate any help you are able to give us :D
I hope you're feeling better now.
You also sound like a wonder woman! I dont think i would trust my mind to be able to juggle children/babies/pregnancy etc... with study.

Today we celebrated Ben's birthday at playgroup (yes, almost 2 months later!). We went away for Ben's birthday, then i was sick, then we had holidays... Dh had the day off so he came along. It was a really nice morning. We make cookies for all the kids and decorated them with smarties. I thought i made too many and we would have some left over, but they were a huge hit and the kids kept sneaking more (parents too i think!).

So sorry to hear about your grandfather Narelle - its never easy to deal with a loss and especially on a day you would normally be celebrating.

Snowy - pink! YAY. See you Friday!

I'm starting to show which is fun!! I'm 16 weeks now, gosh it goes quickly.

I'll update more tommorrow. I'm at the office at the moment!

T x

I thought I had posted the other day... hmmmz..

Narelle - so sorry to hear about your grandfather - and on his birthday! Sending you a big hug.

Nai - oh so similar area. I have 3 subjects at the moment: investment theory & company valuation, strategic marketing & international marketing and last but oh so not least: time series analysis and application to empirical captital markets. It kinda assumes you have just done a statistics course and my statistics course is 10 years ago when I did my BA so lots to catch up on. The thing is that I can freely chose my subject and I stupidly picked 2 rather hard ones (the first and the last) ... doh! But they do interest me... so... out come the books with formulas... I will have to see what text books I have at home. I have a few here in Oz on Investments, so I can look up stuff there but have nothing here on Statistics so when they throw all these formulas at you, I have nowhere to read up on what it all means (and I seem to have forgotten all of it) .. anyway.. enough about uni... I did have a good study session yesterday when our old nanny came, so am feeling confident for 2 of the 3 subjects now and have already started the first two out of 5 assignments.

Katie - post some pics of Ben's party! I don't think he cares it was 2 months late.. not at that age at least. hope you had a fabulous day

Teena - see you in 50 mins :D - well, I am definitely showing, so...
yes it goes quickly, doesn't it. I have passed the half way mark!!

Zara is saying so much lately - it's so cute. I love this whole speech explosion that's going on. Curious to see how Allegra and Zara will get along today!

Snowy

Snowy, I've made an entry on my blog (see "visit kaydee's homepage"). I was able to take a couple of videos with my camera too.
Funny thing is that in our Spielgruppe is a little girl who was born 3 hours before Ben at the same hospital. I remember hearing her mum giving birth - because when my contractions started i tried to get a midwife from the labour ward, but they were all busy. I remember them coming out of the delivery ward when i went in. They dont remember us though, but i suppose she was in happy land from just giving birth.

I hope you and Teena had fun catching up! Let us know how the 2 girls got on.

Nothing much to report here. I took Ben to a park near a huge lake yesterday. It was a beautiful day but he wasn't in the mood. Then going shopping afterwards wasnt the best choice either. I might just take him for a ride down the canal on the back of the bike today.

Hi everyone!
Thought i might bring this thread back to life!
I'm feeling really guilty at the moment. Reason being, we applied for a place in Kindergarten for Ben (starting August) and we got word back a couple of weeks ago that he got a place. We enrolled him and plan to send him 2 mornings per week. This morning at playgroup the mums were talking about who got a place and who didnt. I felt really bad because we really didnt mind if Ben got a place or not, I dont plan to go to work in Germany - plus chances are we will be moving back to Australia in Jan 09. There are 2 kindergartens in our (very) small town and not many places for 2 year olds. One of the mums said they were devistated her son didnt get a place because she planned to go back to work after Summer.

We took Ben to the Zoo yesterday. His new favourite animals are monkeys. The weather is warming up nicely so we are able to get out and about more often. Dh and I went to a concert on Friday night... So we had a lovely weekend.

Nai - Thank you so much for the help :-) I will be sure to let you know how we get on.

Ah don't feel guilty Kaydee, its not your fault and Ben will probably love it so think of the positives :) So you are planning on coming back to Aus next year? What are the plans, how exciting for you if you do.

Not much happening here, Milla is 5 months now and going great, just started rolling and is generally a happy little thing, the second baby for us has been sooooooo much easier, although she is pretty laid back so i guess that helps :)

Harry is good, has started role playing and has a baby dinosaur that hatched in an egg and now it gets nappied and washed and put to bed and dummied lol its pretty cute actually, can't believe how grown up and how much they get at this age, he understands so much now its so fun to watch them grow hey

We really don't have much news, i'm okay, getting there health wise, have my first period since having milla and its never bloody ending, i hope it goes soon, i have the tendency to worry A LOT if things don't go normally hehe so having a long period stresses me i'm sure its just settling back into a cycle and will take time but man it sucks!!!

Anyways how is everyone? Come chat :)

No problems Kaydee, as I said happy to help. I hope the information is useful for you. Don't feel guilty about Ben as Jan 09 is still a long way off and he will benefit from the kinder experience. Genevieve just LOVES childcare and has really developed in the environment. Her ability to assert herself and communicate what she want to other children is really strong now.

Wilson, I hope your body settles down soon. It's trying when things are all over the place cycle-wise. We will be TTC #2 shortly so I came off the pill and it took 6 weeks for AF to make an appearance so of course I was stressing (which doesn't help).

Hello Ladies,

Narelle- I am so sorry about your grandfather :( Take Care :hug:

Snowy- Congratulations on the pink news :D

Teena- How are thing with you? 17 weeks already. That has gone quick!

Wilson- I hope the bleeding settles soon. If you are worried then maybe go and see the dr or give them a call. But I am sure it is just your body trying to get back into the swing of things :)

Katie- I wouldn't feel guilty. You deserve to put Ben into kindergarten as much as anyone else and he deserves to go as much as any child does. I am sure he will love it :)

Teena and Snowy- BOOHOO I missed out on a meet :( Serves me right for not checking in here enough! I hope you ladies had fun though :)

Us- Kayla was sick 2 weeks ago. Started out as croup then turned into a cold and cough. She has finally recovered and me too (I caught the cold off her). She is going well. She is a little miss catterbox these days. And she has taken to saying mum to me instead of mummy :( Makes her sound so old LOL. She doesn't go to daycare or kindy yet, but we will be putting her into kindergarten next year once she is 3. Not much else happening. We are STILL TTC, so I am very patiently waiting, although the patience is wearing thin LOL.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all of you. I hope you have a wonderful day on Sunday!

We are going to a breakfast with DH's family then my family is coming here for lunch. Should be a nice day.

Great to hear from you all!!!!

I know Ben deserves the place as much as any other child. I know it will be really good for him :D

Been a bit stressful at home, we have been going though a bit of a worry about Dh's work. VERY long story short, Dh isnt going to sign a new contract that starts in October (it would have locked him in for another 3 years!!!) - so looks like moving to Australia is getting more real every day. Our plan is for me to move back to Oz with Ben in Dec/Jan and Dh will follow as soon as his last exam is over (Feb/March). Getting everything organised for the Visa will be time-consuming, but it will be well worth it in the end. Dh is telling his work today that he will be leaving as soon as his current contract runs out. Scary stuff, but exciting at the same time :clap:

Nadine - I keep thinking about you, wondering if you have been sucessfull at TTC. I (still) wish you all the luck in the world. I have my fingers crossed for you!

Wilson - i hope everything is fine. I'm sure it is, perhaps just see your GP for reassurance?

Nai - The info is VERY useful, there are so many companies that i would have never thought of. As soon as we start the ball rolling, I'm sure we will be contacting you for some more advice.
Very best of luck to you too with TTC! Exciting!

Take care!
Katie.

Thanks Katie, but unfortunately we still haven't been successful. I just have to TRY and be patient. Kayla only took 4 cycles to conceive, so I have no idea why it's taking so long this time. Oh well. I guess it will happen when it is meant to. Atleast I am young hey ;)

Nadine, fingers crossed that it will happen for you soon! We will be joining you next month TTC'ing - you do have a bit more time up your sleeve than I do though :lol:

Thanks Nai and Good Luck to you. We may end up in the same belly buddies :)

How is everyone?

Thankyou all for your messages of sympathy on the lose of my "Pa".
It wasn't unexpected as he had been battling cancer for nearly 2 years yet it was sudden. My dad was in with him the night before and he look so well and was so alert. But he did say to my dad "your home now"...my dad and mum had gone away for the weekend...we think he might have been saying he's ready to go?

My poor dad and mum have been really affected by this a lot more than i think they realised. My Pa lived over the road from us for 50 years and would pop it everyday at least once...even when you were on the loo he would knock at the door saying he was in the kitchen waiting for his cuppa!
It's been a little over six weeks now and poor Zara still cries for him...some nights she just lies in my arms asking why did my great pa have to die? she's so switched on. at the gravesite she didn't want to say goodbye as the coffin was being lowered because she would come back and visit, she would only say "see'ya later great pa".
Even as i type this i can't stop the tears from flowing...he was one pretty special guy.

On a brighter note: my kids are wonderful. all growing fast. Zara is 5 in 5 weeks, aiden is 2.5 and cale is 6 mnths were has the time gone. Our house reno's are nearly finished, kids finally have there rooms with carpet! we have our room, just got to get the bathroom finished and living and dining areas done inside. A bit more work to do outside but i don't care bout that, just want inside done!

I hope everyone is well

Take care
Narelle

Hi Girls!

How is everyone?

Zara is toilet training right now. We have days where we stay dry all day and then days (like yesterday... arrrrg) where it goes wrong half the time... so hopefully we'll be totally there soon.

She is still her very stubborn little self. So funny, so sneaky and sometimes so fragile. She is getting more and more independent and every day I get the "No, I do it on my lone" several times from her (putting on shoes, putting on clothes, getting in the car seat, etc.). She wants to do everything on her own (which hey, is fine by me.. Wolf still can't put on his own shoes or pants.. little pasha... maybe it's a boy thing? or maybe a lazy first born thing?)

The pregnancy is going well. My belly is getting bigger and bigger (was greeted with "Hey Fattie!" on the weekend and got the "u sure it;s not twins this week as well :rolleyes:)

Zara likes looking at the belly and wants me to pull up my top to see the naked belly in the most inappropriate places and if I don't, chucks a tanty.. so I've been flashing my naked belly all around town in order to keep the peace, lol. She gives it a cuddle and says "Hello Leni" and claims she has a baby Leni in her belly too. :D
I am so curious to see what she will be like as a big sister.

Tomorrow in 2 months will be the caesarean! Scary thought! Not that long to go (which is fine, things are starting to hurt).

I am also looking at furniture for Zara's room (it's just Wolf's old toddler bed in there right now, a mirror and an old chest of drawers which will go into the guest room soon). I was thinking Leni and Zara could share for a while... but who knows. Zara seems to be happy in Wolf's room and all her clothes still fit in his wardrobe and chest of drawers so maybe the room I had allocated to Zara will become Leni's room.. who knows... But I better hurry since every where seems to have 4-6 weeks delivery time so I better make up my mind soon.

Snowy

Hi Everyone,

Zara sounds like she is very switched on Snowy - I hope she TT's for you before the new arrival. Genevieve is resisting TTing with her usual stubborness so I am trying really hard not to push her and let her do it at her own pace....

Well as you can see from my ticker, Genevieve is going to be a big sister around the time of her 3rd birthday. We have had an early bleeding scare but things have settled down so fingers crossed that they continue to go well. We started TTC on the 1st June and I think that we hit the jackpot first try (again) so it was a little bit of a surprise as I was sure it would take a bit longer....

Hope you are all well and coping with your little (almost) 2.5 year olds!

Been a long time!!

Nai! That's fantastic news, congratulations!

Snowy, We are trying to train Ben at the moment, he loves sitting on the potty, but even half an hour later he is still sitting there, reading his book. Then as soon as i put his nappy back on, he does something.

My family are all doing well. A little while back Dh was asked to sign a new contract at work, LONG STORY SHORT, he didnt sign the contract, so is now looking for a position at a different company. The good news is that he only posted his resume on a job site a few weeks ago, and already he has been picked up by Hays and has had a few interviews. they all look good, so fingers crossed it works out. Of course that means we have to put off our moving back to Australia plans. I suppose we will just have to wait and see. who knows where we will be.

We are off to England for a week in August. Ben starts going to Kinder early August - I'm kind of regretting signing him up though, we went a couple a weeks ago and he seems much too young!

I hope you are all happy and healthy!

Hello girls!

Well I am happy to report that Zara is fully toilet trained. Sure we have accidents still but not very many. Once every 3-4 days or so, which is no biggie. I still have no idea how long she can hold it for... sometimes she is like she's sprung a leak and wants to go every 5 mins :doh:.. but that's usually when she has to poo I think and she can't figure out what the sensation is. Funny little monkey. But we are out of nappies... so that is great! Just at night time we use a nappy.

Furniture is ordered though the more I think about it, the more I think it will be for this baby and not for Zara.. she seems too content sharing with Wolf and has no inclination to sleep in her room... oh well.. fine by me.

Less than 5 weeks until the caesarean.. I can't believe it's just around the corner! The pregnancy has certainly flown!
Which brings me to Nai: CONGRATULATIONS!! Very happy to hear you are due with no.2!

Hope everyone else is well.. better run, someone doesn't want to sleep just yet!

Snowy

HELLO!!!!!!!!!! anybody out there??
Just wondering how everyone is going?
Alot of things have changed for us. We have now moved, Dh is now working at a company in Karlsruhe (near the black forest, VERY nice area). It was too good of an offer to say no, so we made a HUGE leap and moved 450kms away. No plans about number 2 at the moment. I'm having a bit of a stressful time with Ben. For the past 2 weeks he has been acting up and is really hard to handle. Please tell me its just a phase???
We moved here just over a week ago and the in-laws are visiting (AGHHHHHHHHH!). They are finding it hard being so far away now... honestly, I'm very happy to finally have my distance. But I'm having a terrible time trying to cope with having them stay with us. I thought they were only going to stay for 2 days and it ended up being 5 or 6. SLOWLY GOING MAD.

Well, I really hope you are all happy and healthy!!

Kaydee, I know what you mean about being a handful!! Apparently it's something that 2 year old go through *sigh*. Everything at the moment is a negotiation - I can't believe I spend hours every day negotiating with a 2.5 year old!

We aren't having any luck at all on TT front. Genevieve is still resisting although this morning she suggested that she sit on the potty while I was on the toilet and she did a wee so that was a massive breakthrough.

Good news on the move Kaydee...bad news on the in-laws! Bite your tongue and hopefully they will have loooooong gaps between visits!
We are having a similar thing with Aiden. Just once every 2/3 days but he goes quiet and rangs to his room crying...and then won't speak...he's so stubburn!
I believe it's because they are at a crossroad in ages...not a baby but not a big kid either. And i think they are getting frustrated buy this...Aiden decided he wanted to get toilet trained a week ago, just a couple of accidents which is great.

Snowy - i hope Leni is well. How's life with 3?

Nadine - How are you going? :hug:

Congrats Nai on #2...i hope you are well.

Take care

narelle - if i bite my tongue any harder it will fall off. It's getting to the stage where i even cracked at FIL because he told me to put my toast back because he is going to get bread rolls from the bakers (like EVERY morning). I just told him that i dont want to eat rolls everyday and that it's just too much (it's a special Sunday thing for us). Everything has to be perfect and so proper all the time... I just want to live the way that we live. Not have to run to the bakers at 5am and set the table like a 5 star restaurant 3 times a day - and not have to serve them like a waitress.

We are having no luck with the TT either. I think i need to gather more information about how to do it properly. I bought "the contented toddler years" the other day in desperation for the tantrums, it should arrive in the post tomorrow. I hope there is a section on TT.

Hey everyone, does anyone read here anymore? Just thought i'd see how everyone is going?

We are good, after a few weeks of trying to TT we have finally cracked it and he poos and wees on the toilet. We have a sticker chart and to begin with when he got 5 stickers he got a little toy now he is doing so well i've made it 10 stickers, he is going so great its such a relief to have him finally get it! I'm keeping him in nappies for naps and night time not sure when i'll wean off them prob not for a while...Other than that he is great, loves playgroup now and playing with the other kids!

Milla is crawling now and standing up on furniture, its so different with your second to your first, hubby has said he would like another so in 6 months or so we will prob be TTC again...scary thought!

We are going to the inlaws for Christmas in Townsville, should be nice, my dad shouted the airfares which was super nice!

Kaydee, how is it going in the new place? So you won't be coming home now for a while? Hope its all going well?

Hope everyone else is going well, Can you believe the kids are going to be 3 in a few months!!

Hi everyone,

We are going well. Kayla is growing up too fast and yes is a little bit stubborn at times. I think it is the age? I am hoping it doesn't last long. Does my head in some days, lol. But other then that we are good. We are still TTC too. I had my tubes flushed a few months back and fell pregnant the cycle after that, but sadly had a miscarriage at 5 weeks, so we are back to TTC this month and I am hoping it won't be too far away. I don't want Kayla to be a single child so I am really determined that we conceive again. All in good time I guess. Atleast i know the tube flushing worked.

TT- Kayla does her poo's on the toilet and we are working on wees. I am a bit slack and forget to put her in undies but I am starting to remember more now. it definately helps her alot being in undies rather then a nappy.

Otherwise there isn't much to report.

I can't believe the kids will be 3 soon! We have also been on the TT mission and Genevieve has been fantastic. She had a couple of accidents at the start but is now only wearing nappies at night and IF she decides to have a nap during the day. Her nappy can be dry after her nap but not always so I'm keeping it on for the time being.

I'm sorry to hear about your loss Nadine and I hope you get a BFP again soon. I know what you mean about not wanting your DD to be an only child (even though I am one myself and it has never really bothered me).

Oh Nadine i'm so sorry to read that, i have everything crossed for you guys! Take care!

Sorry to hear your very sad news Nadine. I had also read it on another thread and my heart sank for you and your DH as I knew you wanted bubs #2 so badly. My only advice is keep trying and keep positive thoughts. we were in the same boat after #1 and now we have 3...go figure. I'm sending thoughts of sticky vibes your way!

aiden is tt also...we have only had 1 or 2 accidents. He's dry if he falls asleep during the day (he doesn't had a set nap everyday anymore) and he wakes dry 6 out of 7 mornings but i don't want to risk it just yet so i will leave him in nappies at night for a bit longer.

cale is nearly 1, not crawling but bum shuffles across the floor. he's talks flat out though...i thought zara was talkative but im sure this kid could talk under water, ha ha!

zara is getting ready to head of to school next year. she's had some orietation days and has 1 left in december for the whole day...god im going to miss her when she's at school.

i hope everyone is well.

take care narelle

It is so great to see so many replies!

Nadine, I'm also sorry really for your loss. it sounds like you are still really positive though and that is very important. I really hope it happens for you soon and i'll keep my eyes open for your announcement :-)

Wilson - the new place is great. It's so different to where we used to live. I've met a nice American lady who has a little boy who was born on the 23rd Feb 06.. So only 2 days older than Ben. So Ben has a little friend. Dh loves his new job and things are going well.
I am planning to visit home for a couple of months (alone with ben) early next year. We have started talking about TTC number 2. Most likely we will start as soon as the Australia trip is over. I had a huge shock when i realised there will be (if all goes to plan) a whopping 4 years age gap :o. I really didnt want that but time goes by soooooooo fast doesnt it? Originally we wanted a maximum 2 year gap:rolleyes:.

It's great to hear about the kids being TTed. I keep planning to start Ben but things keep getting in the way!! AGHH! note to self: START THIS WEEK!

**** I just read in the pregnancy announcements that Mbear is expecting #4!!!! **** Congratulations again Mbear (not sure if you still read this thread....)

Started TTing Ben yesterday. I'm so frustrated. Not one pee in the potty in 2 days. I'm starting to think he isn't ready yet...

OMG kaydee...i will check it out...congrats mbear

We have had a terrible week. My SIL nana died on monday (we were close to her too), and then my nana died on wednesday...pretty sad but a real blessing my nana has been in a facility for alzelmers and dementia for nearly 10 years. Im really sad for my dad, as we lost pa his father in april.

I hope everyone is well, take care

Wow MBear 4 kids, congrats to you :)

Sorry to hear of your losses Narelle!

WE have sick kids at the moment, harry had a viral infection and was vomitting/runs for a day there its only the second time he has been really sick other than normal colds etc and its so horrible, breaks your heart, now Mims is sick as well.

Kaydee it took us a bit till Harry got it, keep trying and see how he goes, i honestly thought we'd never be out of nappies but it does just click eventually :) it sucks waiting though lol

Are your kids looking forward to Christmas this year? I'm so excited this year cos Harry gets it a little bit and keeps talking about Santa and coming to all the good boys and girls...we might even be able to get a photo this year, last year he freaked out :)

Hope all is good with everyone?

Narelle - I'm also so sorry to read about your recent losses. I hope you are doing okay.

Wilson - I hate it when little ones are sick. I hope Harry and Mims are feeling much better real soon!
Thanks for your words, it does help. I hope it does click soon. I just dont think he completely understands yet:doh:

As for Christmas, I am so excited. Ben doesn't understand Christmas just yet, but I'm sure after this year he will get it.

I hope you are all doing great!
Take Care x

Anyone out there?

Hello! HAPPY NEW YEAR to all mums and kids. I hope 2009 is a wonderful year for you all!

How is everyone?
Not much going on here. I have booked my flights to Australia, I'm taking Ben to visit family and friends for a couple of months in April. I'm really looking forward to it. I hope Ben is better on the flight this time. Last time was really difficult, i will be alone again this time. I'm sure everything will be fine.

Ben starts pre-school on Monday. I'm really excited for him because i know how much he loves interacting with other kids and he has really missed it since we moved towns and had to take him out of his pre-school there.

Hope to hear from you soon :-)