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Ack, just screeched cause the thread was closed while I hit "reply"!!!
DG - DH hasn't yet installed the LS which I'm rather grumpy about. Once we hit the 6mth mark I started having a glass of wine a week with Pip ... also had a few shandies when I was in first trimester cause I was keeping it secret!!!!
Kris - hope the boys slept nicely for you!!!
Wasn't it warm!
Kel - mmmm, massage
Von - yeah, prolly shouldn't have bought so many, but I was excited!!!!
Jen - ooooh good luck
Us - well, Pip's annoying as always. Very active & climbing. Going through a "cling-on" period!!!! Today the CC had a visit from an animal farm, Pip apparently loved it, at one stage he was surrounded by all the animals! (and was a little worried, but coped!)
AND! we start 5/days childcare on Monday week!!!! WOOHOOOO!!!!
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Kaz youre going f/t and you sound very excited!!! I dont think i'll ever be excited about working again!!!! Dh has just started paying me out of the business, so I have no incentive!!!
Kel- hope you get some rest tomorrow. Sounds like a good thing for you to go back to work at 3 hrs a shift...i could do that. And its good you have your mum to help with looking after the kids.
OOps- i cant remember any of the other posts!!! Oh Kel- Olivia had a cold with high temps. She had come in contact with her cousin the week before who had croup. It didnt develop into that, but the dr said it was a bad cold with red ears and throat and she was abs for 5 days. Seamed to have cleared it up. Oh and she hasnt had her needle yet coz shes been sick. I might get it done this Friday or the next one.....not too sure how long to wait after her being sick.
Me- I had a crap night last night. Couldnt get comfy and I have been getting bad crampy feelings deep in my groin, like the baby is pushing down...even grinding. I actually have to breath through it coz it hurts so much...reminds me of labour!!!! But has only been at night. I was so unsettled and by the time i dozed off, Olivia woke up and dh brought her to bed...gggrrrr, so she bear hugged me all night and kept waking up crying, or hitting me. Ah the joys. Mum had her today, but she didnt have a sleep for her. Instead she fell asleep at the table at 5pm for an hour. I only just got her off to bed at 9pm. Hopefully she will sleep.
Ok, better go, I am tired and should be sleeping....I wonder where kris is....shes not had the baby yet?
Just a quick one from me - will try and post properly later...
Mel - Don't know if you remembered (and I haven't reminded you!) that I'm having my enjo party today at 10.30am if you still wanted to come!! Would love to see you and Olivia if you feel up to it!
My address is 1 Bartolo Crt Cranbourne North and my number is 0438539435 if you need to call!
Otherwise just been super busy - No baby yet luckily! - 2 weeks to go - I don't think he'll be coming early or at least I've had no signs that he will!
Will catch up with you all later and fill you in on whats been happening!
I'm super-mega-grumpy lady today Didn't sleep well again last night. Ben woke up throughout the night because I'd overdressed him. Once my exhausted brain worked out that he was wearing about 3x as many clothes as me and was sweating, he had a whole glass of milk and went back to sleep. Took my poor, foggy brain ages to figure that out though so I dragged it out far longer than necessary....making me even more tired! Der!!!
So, I woke up tired, ran late all morning and didn't have time to stop for the hot choccy that I felt like, thought "no worries, I'll make one at work" and after battling the trains and buses in the rain got to work to find out that we were out of chocolate! Not happy! At least I got special treatment on the bus this morning. I found a Syd buses worker and told him I didn't want to battle the students to get on because they'd probably trample me and bub to death so he made a bus stop before the bus-stop, put me on it and then let it go to the bus stop. I felt very special!
Now I'm here at work feeling sorry for myself and I've decided to take all of Friday off. I was only taking the morning off because of my mw appt but I just can't be bothered spending 4 hrs travelling for three hours work! I still have four days annual leave and 12 days sick leave!!!! Don't know how I managed that, but with less than five weeks left, I'm running out of time to use them up!!!
Kris, have fun at your party I can't believe Ethan is due in only two weeks?!?!
Mel, I had one of those shocking nights last week where you just doze off and then....a visit from a little person who wants to play, cuddle, kiss - whatever, as long as it's not sleep. Little buggers.
Kaz, how cool that cc had an animal nursery come out! Ben loves animals - a little too much at times. Wants to make friends with madly barking German Shepherds and Rotties. A bit of a concern!
Let me know what you think of the Little Squirt when your DF installs it. At least you got around to buying one, I've been talking about it for a couple of months now and still haven't done it!
Hey all
Kristie- youre such a busy chick!!! hope you get some rest before Ethans arrival. Glad your date went well.
Had another bad night last night- getting those pains again, deep down in my pelvis and having to breath through it. Also getting loads of leg cramps. Not fun. One of the girls in the due date group had her baby on Sunday. Have decided I am happy with this one being born from the 8th onward!!!!lol.
Still snotty here, probably another reason I cant sleep well. Olivia is watch tv again....standing on her trampoline. That has been fantastic for her. She can jump with both feet these days and shes very confidant with it. I am getting her needle today, hope I dont cry!!!!
Aww Melissa - Sorry to hear your feeling so uncomfortable! Yeah - you'd hope bubs stays in for a bit longer to be nice and healthy...I had Louis at 38w and he was fine other than we had to watch his temp a bit...
The trampoline sounds fantastic! Good luck with Olivia's needles today!
Can I just say that I am the biggest sook out. Olivia had her needle, cried for a minute and I cried for nearly an hour!!!! Then I went shopping and several hundred dollars later...I am happy to say I have all my xmas and b'day presents done!!!! Except my mums and a wedding.....
Good morning....very quiet in here. Although its my daily routine to pop on the laptop while making breakfast. This networking stuff makes it so much easier to surf the net in my house. I even go out on the deck to do it too!!!!
Well I went out for a hens night last night and we did belly dancing. I was having a great time, giggled a bit to hard though and had a bladder bouncing ooppssie and then cramped up for the rest of the night. Oh well I still had fun!!! Bubs has swapped sides and is now laying on my right, I can feel her little bum poking up! Still getting those stupid pains. Not long to my midwife appointment which is on Wednesday, so hoping to find out how far engaged she is....I probably shook her out of position last night!!!! Poor little girl.
I get my fix today, dh's cousins wife is coming to introduce us to her new edition...the first boy of the Howell clan this generation. He was only 5lb10 when born just under 2 weeks ago and she had him in 3 hours.... I just want to see how Olivia will go with me holding a baby and if she'll try and poke his eyes out like she does with her dolls!!!!
Talking of dolls, I must go and quietly get her rag doll and soak it in bleach...she has the blackest face from being dragged everywhere. Even bleach doesnt get rid of most of it. Hope its not too cold for drying today!!! Otherwise I will have to stick her in the dryer and Olivia is mortified by that!!!!!
Ok enough of my rambling, I need to go make breakfast have a great day
Babies Born April 2007 #17
Jen - ooooh good luck 
Didn't sleep well again last night. Ben woke up throughout the night because I'd overdressed him. Once my exhausted brain worked out that he was wearing about 3x as many clothes as me and was sweating, he had a whole glass of milk and went back to sleep. Took my poor, foggy brain ages to figure that out though so I dragged it out far longer than necessary....making me even more tired! Der!!! 
I can't believe Ethan is due in only two weeks?!?! 
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