Babies Born August 1st - 15th 2008 #4

[mountain mummy]

OMG Rach, I just read it too I hope that her family have loads of support around them right now, my thoughts are with them I can't even imagine what they have gone through and to be so strong and coherent enough to journal it all!

[Indadhanu]

That would be one of my worst nightmares Rach, my thoughts are with them ...


Mel, wish I had seen your message earlier! Would have invited you round My sis is coming up to stay Mon-Thurs next week, but we could get together the week after? What is the week after... December? Holy crap!

Vic, our pram has a 3 part recline, and Jazz has been sitting at halfway for a fw weeks now... not many, but since she has been able to lift her head up herself. She likes to see whats happening. She still lays a lot of the time though, we only sit her up if she's lifting her head trying to look.

mm, thanks so much for that, makes me feel a bit better, yeah we are only feeding veges (potato, sweet potato, pumpkin, carrot) for now, will start rice cereal in the new year at 5-6 months. I'm still not sure if its right, I guess I feel tied to the 'guidelines', but she's almost 4 months so I figure if she loves it might as well encourage her love for veges now while she still wants to eat them LOL

Her eating-sleeping has actually been better today (of course, the day after I make the CHN appointment, and the day I start journalling it again ), I feel great, and just hoping come Monday I don't have anything to talk about. Doubt it will happen, I'm sure this is just a one off day but I can dream right...

Can I have a vent...
I told my sis and SIL and PIL and parents NO TOYS for Jazz. Not because we don't want toys but because thats something WE want to get her, we want to decide what we think is crap and not crap IYKWIM (especially my parents, and PIL, who have no problems with shotty Silly Sollys toys), but I have just heard that they have ALL been shopping for toys. ANNOYING! Its nice, but i wish they'd stuck to what we agreed on, books, DVDs, clothes or money (for us to choose her toys). GRRRRRRRRRRRR! At least my sister has mostly books, clothes and DVDs... she just couldn't help herself I think with the toys, but SIL apparently has apparently bought upwards of $300 worth of toys (most of which will probably be crap like the stuff she's given us now. Useless lumps of dust collectors...).

Geez i'm a cranky bum... Mel, I have no idea why you keep wanting to visit me

[Arimeh]

leash - cos I live with a cranky bum - so your cranky bumness doesn't require me picking you up and carting you all around the house. Thats why

We told the IL's no xmas presents for DS - first year of his life - all these presents - all toys... People are just gonna get you whatever the hell they want, not what you have asked them to do.

Do a good deed - donate them to the salvos or something

[Indadhanu]

Do a good deed - donate them to the salvos or something

Ah Mel, I'm cracking up at the image of me handing back the toys to MIL (who works at the Red Cross shop).

[mountain mummy]

Leash, hun, I so understand your vent! We told IL's that we were getting DD & DS2 bikes for christmas, so what do they do??? Go and get them bikes! Stupid f***ing idiots! Plus they brought them up TWO MONTHS AGO!!!!! Funny thing is, we don't have a flat yard so the kids don't ride them anyway

They've also told us that they've gone crazy buying stuff for the two little ones, but we have the same prob - they just buy ***** that breaks in 5 minutes and they buy crappy clothes too!! MIL even tried buying me clothes once - rocked up to our house with a couple hundred $$$ worth of clothes IN HER STYLE!!! Come on, guys, I'm not in my 50's!!!

Truth be told, I'm very pedantic in what I wear, and also what my kids wear and play with! So much stuff has been either chucked or donated!