Thanks for the birthday wishes girls. Abbey had a great day. I got lots of pictures and we are having a little party for her on Sunday. Feel bas cos I had a huge one for Tehya, heaps of people and a fairy too, but we just don't have the money this close to Christmas. Going to have to make sure I put it away for her next birthday a few months beforehand.
Nic, hugs huni if it makes you feel better your surely not alone with these crappy nights. I know, not much comfort hey. How do you remember all the birthdays ? I'm flat out remembering my kids and families.
Yay Abbey! Another 1 year old! Man... time is just going too quick
Well, trying to think what our latest news is. I took Kayla to the GP and we decided that we didn't need to see the paed anymore. The GP did her 12 mth check and was happy with her progress. The paed was only really keeping an eye on her weight and was costing us a fortune LOL. And the thing that really motivated me to not go anymore is that I had to get a new referral from the GP and the paed would then charge a 'new referral fee' which would have been over $200!! pfft. But having got out of seeing that doctor, I now have to take DS to a specialist to check out his knock knees The GP wasn't concerned but wants a specialist to check him over to make sure it's not his hips or anything doing it. Otherwise they pretty much grow out of it. So we may or may not need physio etc for it.
Kayla now takes 1 step on her own. She has done a little shuffle of 3, but it was with the same leg and going around in a circle LOL, so I don't count it, coz she was rebalancing more than walking!
oh, and I discovered two molars in Kayla's mouth yesterday LOL - could explain the BAD nights a few weeks ago! LMAO. I was hanging her upside down off my lap and she was laughing, and there they were!
OK, better go, Tallon is bugging me for some breakfast. Hi to everyone, sorry no personals.. I never seem to do personals.. sorry
I always feel bad when we can't do a party for each child..Next year we are doing Isaac and Jacob and Ethan will have just a family one..
It is a slight comfort I am not the only one not getting enough sleep because then I know I am not completely mucking everything up kwim?
as for Birthdays I dunno. I remember phone numbers too so it must be a numbers a thing. Names and faces I am terrible with
Olivia is so foul this morning. She not long had breakfast so I hope she stays happy for a bit longer. Debating what to do about sleeps today. Do I start a strict routine or just plod along as normal?
Nic - think it depends if your a routine person yourself. There's no way I can do routine myself, so I don't think implementing a strict routine would ever work in this house, even if bub needed it :/ We can't even seem to stick to a 7.30 bedtime for Tallon, even tho he really needs it. Our lives just don't seem to work that way!
Could it be anything she's eating? I know sugar affects Tallon badly, he's bouncing off the walls and then can wake up crying etc at night. So I have to watch what he eats.. just one choc biscuit does it. Kayla hasn't had much sweet stuff, so I can't blame her sleeping on that yet. heh.
We had a wakeful night last night too.. well I did anyway *rolleyes* at DH. Nothing but a feed worked, and she's started fussing if I give her the wrong side too. Altho I shouldn't really roll my eyes at DH, he had to get up and walk to the train station at 4.30 this morning.. something big going on at work today.
I really thought Olivia would have been exhausted after swimming at the beach yesterday afternoon maybe she was too exhausted...... I like the idea of a semi routine.. not set in stone but I guess we do that already.. The kids all have a set bed time. Olivia naps around the same time each day.
Yeah, we have a semi-routine too if we're at home. mainly with Tallon though.. Kayla still just sleeps when she's tired. But Tallon I can put to bed at 11/11.30 for his nap, and 7.30/8.00 for his night sleep. Providing we're home and DH is home from work at night etc. It does change around if we go out & stuff.
Kayla definitely suffers from being overtired. Tallon never did, I could pretty much always feed him to sleep whenever/wherever, and he never fussed if he got overtired.. just meant that he'd sleep within seconds of feeding. But if Kayla is overtired.. OMG.. she just can't sleep, and she gets really upset about it, tosses & turns etc. I still have to initially wrap her so she stays still to fall asleep, then I unwrap her for the rest of the night.
Hi all,
Nic- Huge for you. Umm.. with the daysleeps, it helped with Ty to keep him up a bit longer... I was trying to put him down when he looked tired (which seemed logical to me) but I've found timing him works a bit better. I put him down three hours after he wakes for his first nap, then three and a half till the next one, then three hours till bed time. So if he gets up at 6, I put him down at nine. He goes to sleep much quicker and sleeps for longer. But Olivia's that bit older, maybe go three and a half or four hours?
Liz- We have big overtired problems here.. I don't enjoy myself much of we go out anymore, I'm too worried about getting Ty to bed so he won't be overtired!!
Trish- We're doing a small party here too. Two weeks before Xmas, a big just seemed like too much drama. And luckily they don't realise at this age.
Ty was pretty good last night- did a 6 hour stretch (wwwooooooootttttt!!) then came into our bed at midnight. He was a big grizzly from then, but I just kept feeding him to sleep Teeth are really bugging him, poor baby.
I think Olivia is the next birthday, she is the 4th Dec ( OMG only a week away!), good memory Nic!
We actually got a good nights sleep here (sorry everyone), but it doesn't seem to happen that often...
Our main issue at the moment is dinner. Olivia seems to have decided that she likes food she can eat herself and not food off a spoon from mummy or daddy. I can try to feed her meat and veg on a spoon and she totally refuses it, but put it on toast so she can feed herself and she is chompiong into it A big part of me thinks what does it matter as long as she is eating it, but it is also getting frustrating... And stuff she doesn't want she throws forward as far as she can (to the end of the highchair tray) The other night I jsut gave her steamed vegies as finger food ans she seemed quiet happy with that. Can mums with more than one tell me if this 'independance' is a phase?
We are going a bit birthday mad here this year (it will be the only year it is this big), Dh is actually calling it 'operation mega party' We have got a party at the park this Saturday for our friends and babies and kids, then next Sunday is a party for close family. Seemed like a good idea a few months ago.... I spent yesterday cleaning the backyard (it was horrendous), so today I am all sore and knackered but at least it looks much better and Olivia had a great time playing out there in the portacot while I cleaned around her.
The GP wasn't concerned but wants a specialist to check him over to make sure it's not his hips or anything doing it. Otherwise they pretty much grow out of it. So we may or may not need physio etc for it.
for you. Umm.. with the daysleeps, it helped with Ty to keep him up a bit longer... I was trying to put him down when he looked tired (which seemed logical to me) but I've found timing him works a bit better. I put him down three hours after he wakes for his first nap, then three and a half till the next one, then three hours till bed time. So if he gets up at 6, I put him down at nine. He goes to sleep much quicker and sleeps for longer. But Olivia's that bit older, maybe go three and a half or four hours?
OMG only a week away!), good memory Nic! 
We have got a party at the park this Saturday for our friends and babies and kids, then next Sunday is a party for close family. Seemed like a good idea a few months ago.... I spent yesterday cleaning the backyard (it was horrendous), so today I am all sore and knackered but at least it looks much better and Olivia had a great time playing out there in the portacot while I cleaned around her.
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