Babies Born April 16th-30th 2009 #1

[berrme]

Jas, Thanks, I got excited when there was a picture of me with Edward... normally I am taking the photos so am never in them.
I feel silly calling myself Mel so introduce myself as Melanie, but pretty much everyone calls me Mel. Mel is good. I love knowing that once we get Byron to sleep (Edward is no trouble to get down) we have the rest of the night to ourselves. Adult time is so important!

[Ozziehoffy]

Jas, WOW! That's awesome. Elijah goes between sometimes sleeping 5/6 hours at night to 2/3 hours...lol..... aaarrrghh.

Mel, I'm not sure if he cared too much to start with, but I think he's starting to get it a bit now. We had a setback and I took 2 back the other day lol.... so it's taken him 5 days now to get back to 3 stickers... 2 to go for pressie.

Tomorrow we're going to see New MacDonalds Farm show (Max and Milly), should be fun.

SO TODAY'S BIG NEWS IS................................................ .......... Elijah rolled on his own today from back to tummy! Just once, but he did it!

Mel, there's a Playtime playgroup at Bridgeman Downs apparently. Sneakysparkle goes to it... it's on 3 days a week but I'm thinking of going maybe Wed week if you want?? Closer than North Lakes for you too. What do you think?

[Megan]

Jas, what a great little sleeper Spencer is! Looking forward to the day Noah has a big sleep...just one! lol
I can't believe my little man is 6 months old now. Where has the time gone?
He started swimming on Saturday with DH. He looked like he loved it. Was a bit uncertain at first, but about half way through the session when DH was spinning him around in the water he saw me watching from the side, let out a squeal and lots of smiles after that. He's always loved his bath or the shower, so we were hoping he would love the pool just as much.

We have just started solids as well, about 1.5 weeks ago. As much as he looked like he wanted food, when it came to having his own he wasn't interested so I left it for a couple of days and when we started again he was all for it. We've had apples, sweet potato, pumpkin and pears and so far seems to like all of those. He was weighed during the week and is now 7.8kgs and 70cm. So he's dropped to 50th percentile for weight but up to 90th percentile in length and head circ.

No sitting or rolling here yet. When he's playing on his back on the floor he scoots around and can do a full 360 degree turn, but has no interest in rolling at all! Yesterday MIL told me he was 'slow' because he hasn't rolled yet. Needless to say we left soon after that because my tongue was about to drop off from biting it too hard!

[Ozziehoffy]

No sitting or rolling here yet. When he's playing on his back on the floor he scoots around and can do a full 360 degree turn, but has no interest in rolling at all! Yesterday MIL told me he was 'slow' because he hasn't rolled yet. Needless to say we left soon after that because my tongue was about to drop off from biting it too hard!

Oskar never rolled. He didn't crawl either (even though my mother insisted that it would "hurt" him as he HAD to crawl for his brain to work correctly) until after he could walk which was after 15 months. He bum shuffled at around 8 months and rolling came much later... so I don't class that he rolled cos it was so "late" that I wasn't even looking for it anymore lol. He sat by about 5 1/2 months but Elijah isn't anywhere near that either. They're all different! I don't expect Elijah to start rolling around just yet either, it just happened that he worked out getting his arm out today and tried a bit later but got stuck and cried.

[berrme]

Geez parents/ in laws can be frustrating sometimes! Ignore them, Megan! A friend of mine had her MIL call her 5 week old son a blob because he was always asleep when she visited. That is what little babies do, duh.
And don't you worry either Cass, if Oskar can crawl now then his brain works just fine.

Megan, it is great that Noah likes the water! I have seen some kids at swim classes that just scream the whole time. The parents just look stressed. Both my boys like it as long as it is still water... they really aren't so keen on waves. it makes trips to the beach a bit painful when neither child wants to go in any further than where the waves just splash your feet.

Cass, I was reading the northside playgroup thread yesterday. Wednesday is one of my days off so it sounds like a plan.

We had a shocker of a night last night. Edward woke me up every 1.5 hours until I finally gave him some panadol. He is still asleep now... it has been 5 hours. Why didn't I give him the drugs earlier???? I really hope there is a tooth to show for it, or he is a couple of cm longer. lol. I wouldn't want to be woken up for nothing!
We are off to see Thomas and friends the stageshow at the entertainment centre this afternoon. I hope 90 minutes isn't too long for Byron! He can watch thomas videos for hours at home so we should be ok.

[berrme]

Quiet in here again.

Cass, are you heading to that playgroup tomorrow?

We are off to Cairns on Saturday for a week. DH and I might get some child free time since both sets of grandparents are up there. I am really looking forward to the break... not the heat though. lol.
We are going in for Edward's shots this afternoon. He is already cranky, I assume due to teething, so I am bracing myself for no sleep tonight.

[Ozziehoffy]

Mel, sorry I did read your post the other day but forgot to come back....

Tomorrow, no we won't be going.... we've had an interesting week here! Wednesday night found head lice in Oskar's hair! Not really sure where he got them from but could only trace back to our normal playgroup the week before, yes a WHOLE week! He had all these little nits starting to grow UGH!! Bet now you're all scratching hahaha. Anyway, got them all I think.... we've found the odd tiny one and Andy found an egg last night but not sure if it was old or not cos we've just been combing through his hair each night in the bath. Then on Friday morn he was being feral and I felt his head and took his temp which was 38. Great... I think oh I'll see how he goes then thought oh hang on it's Friday I'll see if I can get into doc instead. Good thing too cos he had a REALLY bad throat infection. The thing is with him, you don't know until he gets the temp as he still eats. Anyway, by 3 that arvo he had a fever of 39.4 and he's been running a temp still of average 37ish.

Now onto Elijah... poor little fella has been getting a bit gunky in the eyes on and off since that damn dust storm.... so I thought, I'm over this let's take you to the doc and also he can check your throat whilst we're there seeing as you just can't successfully stop a 2 year old from being in the face of the baby lol. His temp 37.5...Verdict... conjunctivitis and yep, start of the throat infection!

I swear I own the local pharmacy now lol. Both boys on ab's. Oskar has been on nurofen and panadol since Friday and now cough med cos he's got a chesty cough to go with it all. Elijah has a little too so his must be breaking up which is good. I think I need to buy shares in Yakult too seeing as they're both having that also. Easier than Inner Health Plus and doc said does same thing...yay cos Oskar loves it.

Hmmmm did I mention the 16 yr old in there who is driving me insane?? NO respect except when he wants something. So I reckon that I NEED holiday lol. Any takers????

Long story short Mel... we won't be there lol... bugger though cos it's a really good one. Will definitely be going back though.