oh, I know! You do know where babies come from, don't you?
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oh, I know! You do know where babies come from, don't you?
Cathie: I thibk it's wonderful that you're having another bub!! I really admire you for having so many. I know a few families who have 6+ kids.
Hannah's audio went well, she lost consintration (for some reason I cannot spell that word today, curse you baby brain!!) toward the end so we're having one last review in 6 months.
Hannah's needles are coming up soon. Because she's been sick we're going to wait til end of January at her "corrected birthday" instead.
I'm sure there's other things happening but I'm too exhausted. Not sure why. HANNAH SLEPT LAST NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :leap:
After weeks of getting up 6+ times a night she slept from 10pm til 7.15am.
So nice! If it wasn't for the cat annoying us at 4.30am it would have been the perfect night.
Anyway, I need to go get packed, DH is away for the weekend and I'm staying with my folks so the boogymen don't get me. :rofl:
oh sleep, nice!
Hi all!
Sorry I've been out of action for awhile - wind took our cable down and a certain telecommunications company took its sweet time re-stringing it!
I hope all the birthday babies are enjoying their parties! EJ thanks so much for the link to your pictures - LOOOVE the dress and the cakes look so yummy :)
Char, I know why you couldn't spell: baby brain! Last year I had ESL students correcting my spelling, it was embarrassing! Hooray for Hannah's sleep - long may the pattern continue!
Cathie, safe travels - I hope this lousy weather improves for you. For all of us - I shouldn't be wearing my ugg boots in December!
MadB fx it's not whooping cough :o
EJ, I am long sighted and have a lazy eye, which turns out a bit when I'm fatigued. It could be corrected with very simple exercises, but, like my eye, I'm too lazy to do them so wear very low-power prescription lenses when reading. I'm sure being so young, Aiden's eyes will respond to simple exercises to help him focus.
Hiya Jules, Audax and Georgi :)
Millie is doing okay - she had a fever last weekend so we had to take her to the vastly inferior weekend medical centre. Prescribed antibiotics... for what was, when we saw our regular, vastly superior GP on Monday, a viral infection. (Throat again, poor mite can't catch a break!). She said that as we had started the ab, to continue them. Then on Wed she broke out in a terrible rash... back to our GP - probably an allergic reaction to the abs. Dammit! Other than the petri dish that is daycare, she's doing well - sooo close to walking on her own, she just needs a little confidence to let go of our hands! The front right tooth has cut through properly now, but the left side of her gum is still bulging so fingers crossed they come through soon, they have been making her miserable. I got the babyhands book, cards and poster, and we're working on meal time signs like drink, eat, more and finished. I discovered at the daycare Christmas party last week that one of the Mums is deaf - she has a hearing aid and signs with her kids, and the younger one is about Millie's age so perhaps they will spur each other on? Thanks for your encouragement ladies, DH has really got into it too which is lovely.
Dad's op went really well, he was released from hospy early on the proviso that he take it easy... which he's not, so Mum is really fretting and we're all worried that he's putting his health at risk. I got to go out with MG last night which was wonderful, and headed to Featherdale Wildlife Park with them today. Lovely :) School has gone out with a whimper rather than a bang for me which I am totally fine with. So bizarre that when I was a student and for my first few years of teaching, there was a huge buzz around the end of the year. Now it feels like, oh well, I'll be back before I know it so no need to get too excited...
Feeling a bit flat at the moment. I think it's the weather. I need a good dose of Christmas cheer!
Hope you're all well - much love, ladies!
xox
Big huge dose of Christmas cheer from me PP :)
Good to hear your Dad's op went well, i hope he takes the dr's advice and slows down a little.
Poor Millie, she hasn't had the best few months has she? Hope it's all cleared up for Santa :)
Thanks for the reasurance regarding the eye appt for Aidan, i'm eager to get it over and to know what the specialist will say. The appt involves dye in his eyes and will go for up to an hour and a half. I hope he handles it ok, i wonder how i should prepare him for it?? So your long sightedness hasn't been an issue for you at all? My mum wears glasses and i'm ashamed to say i'm not even sure what for :redface: After Aidan's appt the other day i booked DH and I in for a check too, it's been years since i had one and who knows if DH has ever even had one.
Yay for sleep Charlotte :)
Sweet dreams ladies :)
The dye will be fluroscene (sp?) I imagine - his whites will turn orange and they will fluoresce under UV light - actually VERY cool and painless apart from the initial discomfort of having drops put in. I'm not sure how you would prepare a little guy for that long an exam - maybe call them beforehand and ask their advice? Hopefully the specialist will feed his curiosity and explain all the "cool" instruments rather than just letting him feel intimidated by it all. Nope, longsightedness has always been a great asset - I can read street signs from miles away so always seem to know where I'm going, tee hee :) I do really notice when I don't wear my glasses when I should - like two days this week preparing the time table for next year... bad, bad move.
Right, must go to bed.
xox
No swab, but doc says probably WC so she's on ABs. She doesn't seem so bad so far. But we're staying away from people for the time being. yay.
daycare is like that pixie!
CATHIE - How far in your pregancy are you now? MS is just the pits hey. I really feel for you. Eden is walking everywhere too. He hardly crawls now at all. Have a great time away
EJ - Thanks for the birthday wishes. I decided on the womens weekly train cake. How am I going to get a pic to you so you can see it? You've just reached the levy? Man, we reached it in around March this year lol. I don't know how we manage to reach it so early but we do, every year. I've also managed to get all specialist & ultra sounds in before the years out so we can claim full benefit
MADB - WC, Eeeek.... Hope she gets well soon
CHARLOTTE - yay for a full nights sleep. I hope it's the first of many more
PP - Fever, then rash??? Sounds like Roseola. It's going around, badly.... All the babies in my other belly buddies group has had in it, all within a few weeks of each other & we're all around Australia! Eden had it too. Three days of fever, then the rash appeared. It also caused a slight ear infection. Oh yay to the baby hands.... Can't wait to hear how it goes. I find girls are better at it than boys so Millie will do great. Glad your dad's op went well
Eden's Birthday party today... Very exciting. His cake looks amazing. I decided on the womens weekly train cake. Man, it took me & my MIL 5.5HOURS!!! So much work. I'll upload the pics to facebook tomorrow.
Eden had his immunisation yesterday. Boy was that awful. He screeeeaaamed. He slept all afternoon and is still a sleep now. He normally wakes around 4.30/5am. And of course I had a late night last night so was praying for a sleep in but of course I woke at 4.30am anyway grrrrrr!
Hi all!
MadB, I hope the antibiotics clear up Miri's cough, whooping or garden variety. Do you give her a probiotic?
Georgi, congrats on the cake! Sorry to hear Eden was so upset about his vaccs :( I'm not looking forward to doing Millie's - I guess we'll go in January.
As for us... Friday night was pretty bad for Millie, she was up for two and a bit hours for no apparent reason. We were like zombies on Saturday. Saturday night she only stirred very briefly at 4.40, then slept in til 7.25!! I felt quite chipper yesterday, which was good as Millie refused to sleep all afternoon, despite being too tired to read, play, crawl etc. I ended up toting her around in the ergo, even put her on my back for the first time so I could prep dinner. She then slept for 12 hours!! She kicked up a fuss when I tried to put her down for her morning sleep, so given yesterday's kerfuffle I decided to try and keep her up for one midday sleep. She's been out for an hour and I'm hoping for another, but we shall see... Her eating is improving, after refusing any decent quantity of food for about 10 days, she is apparently ravenous today and demolished a whole weet bix, some yoghurt, a piece of cheese and a sandwich.
Speaking of diet, she isn't interested in her bottles any more, which I'm fine with, but how do I go about making sure she's getting enough calcium? She has milk on her week bix and loves cheese and yoghurt, but I imagine it's not enough...?
Hope you're all well. What are your plans for Christmas?
Hi all!
Apologies for absence, we have had a huge week! The last party guests finally left yesterday. The birthday party was fabulous. Nellie loved all the visitors, and the endless line of volunteers to take her walking round the backyard! She was filthy by the end of the day, but she had so much fun. Wouldn't have a bar of her cake, but loved the hot chips!
We are having a fairly small Christmas. Mum can't travel just now and Dad will very likely be in hospital. My brother is coming, so it will just be the 4 of us.
Gotta go - the little Christmas fairy has just done a wee under the Christmas tree. i think I know where to set up the potty now...
PP you could confirm this but i'd offer cows milk maybe 2-3 times a day, by memory i think i'd give 50mls at a time and whatever they have is fine. All the other dairy she is getting sounds pretty good to me.
I'm currently giving Harper 50ish mls morning and afternoon.
The party sounds great Audax, Happy Birthday Miss E :)
in all honesty, if they had as much dairy as the dairy corp says they need, they'd never have room for anything else. :)
Quiet in here! Lots of busy one year olds!
We are enjoying getting ready for Christmas. Except the gifts from the ILs arrived yesterday, a 5kg satchel full, with no less than FIVE for the baby. And almost all of them feel like soft toys. :rolleyes: And DH got a book, despite me telling MIL that he didnt want it. Ah well. Good thing they won't come to visit, hey?
Nellie has learned to open and close doors. And is playing lots of hidey-type games. Last night I found two Duplo people in one of my slippers, then this morning, while I was in the shower, apparently she crawled over to it looking for them. I also found a crayon in the washing basket, and a ring from the ring stacker in one of my saucepans. :lol: It is ssssooooo funny!
Lol Audax! Miri is doing that too, especially now that she's on the move. Really glad it took her this long.
She's a character and a half - loving all the ways she's so different to DS. Still keeps me guessing. She actually asks to go to bed when she's tired for pete's sake!
hope you all have lovely christmases
Finally i can tell the boys there's only one more sleep!!! It must have seemed like the longest month for them :lol:
Things are moving along nicely here. I have to prepare for family coming over tonight AND tomorrow. All good though happy to be able to have the kiddies at home.
So Harper Barper seems to have become personality + since her 1st Birthday. So much chatting and eye contact and snuggles and clapping of hands and Ho Ho Hoing when she sees Santa. It never ceases to amaze me no matter how many little ones i have been blessed to see grow. We seem to be making some progress on the sleep topic. Feeding to sleep is now and option but not a necessity :dance: and if she is feeding before a sleep she is not necessarily falling alseep. I was rocking her to get her sleepy but if she wasn't yet sleepy she would struggle in my arms for a bit and this was getting difficult, frustrating and i was worried that we might have an accident. So one night last week i put her in her cot and lied on the bed next to her. She rolled around in her cot just sooking, some crying in which i sat up and gave her lots of hugs and then she'd drop herself back down again and roll around head down and bum up a little more. It took maybe half an hour but eventually she fell asleep without too much fuss. Some times she will eventually doze off and sometimes i pick her back up and help her but it's such a huge step from where we were. I see such a difference in her quality of sleep and i've even had a 6 (almost 7hr) block one night!!! And another big woo hoo for me is that yesterday she came christmas shopping with me (would have loved to have her at home with dad but he wanted to work outside so she had to come with me) and she actually fell asleep in the pram!!!!!!!!!! Huge huge acomplishment for us because it used to be that no matter how tired i knew she must have been she just would not do it. So i feel some confidence in finally being able to say we're getting somewhere and i see the change in her because of it. All that matters to me :)
She's speeding around the place on her hands and knees now and much more confident when standing on her feet, no real steps being made but some very stiff legged ones here and there. I can't believe this is where we are, life is pretty special.
As for AA and his eye appt, it was found that his vision is fine, even in both eyes and he does not need glasses but the turn is definately there. They call is squint eye and he needs to have surgery to correct it. The specialist wasn't very forthcoming with info on the actual condition so all i know is what i've read on google but i'm hoping when we have an appt with the surgeon next May she'll go through things with us in much more detail. My initial reation to hearing the word surgery was tears but i want to do all i can to help my boy. So we'll take it from there in May. In the mean time the turn is becoming more and more noticable. The other morning while playing on our bed he went nose to nose with Harper and my gosh i could only see half of his eye ball. I'm not sure what he notices if anything :dunno:
That's about it from here i think, i hope all is well with everyone else.
Audax enjoy your hide and seek games
MadB how is little Miri and her cough going? I hope you got on top of it early.
PP yay for school holidays!!! Like i said we're having my dad's family around tonight for Christmas Eve and then DH's family (or some of them) for lunch tomorrow and then i think we have to go to DH's sisters place on Boxing Day (family rift can't all be together at once :rolleyes:). THEN we go away on Jan 16 for 2 weeks. Really looking forward to that. How about you what are your plans?
Better go i have heaps to do. Merry Christmas everyone enjoy the day with your family and loved ones xoxoxo
Glad to hear you're getting some sleep EJ! :hug: for the surgery. That must be scary.
miri's fine thanks. think she's coughed 2-3 times in the past few days :)
Thats so good too hear MadB, sounds like you guys were lucky with the dose of WC you got :)
to be honest, I think maybe it wasnt wc after all.... :dunno: