Babies Born February 2006 #4

[Kaydee]

Yes, happy 2007! Our bubbas are nearly 1 year.. thats really amazing! Been out of action lately, we have visitors from Oz staying with us, so its been go go go. We went to Berlin for a couple of days, got back yesterday, im so tired!
Ben is going really well. He now has 8 teeth, 4 bottom, 4 top. He doesnt like his bottle anymore, and hasnt been eating much lately, but i think its because of his teeth. He is growing so fast!
Our Xmas was good. Pretty quiet. New Years we went out to a party... the inlaws took Ben for the night, so that was nice.

Anyway, i cant write much, I cant keep my eyes open im so tired!
I hope you are all happy and healthy!

[Snowgirl]

Hello everyone!

We're a quiet bunch, hey? Happy new year everyone. We went to the Opera House and saw the concert there and of course the 9 p.m. and midnight fireworks. Awesome! Best new years ever. Only downside was that we didn't get home until 3 a.m. and then the kids woke at 10 to 6 ... arrrrrrrrrrrrg. I had a headache the whole day. PLUS we had just gotten back from NZ on Christmas eve and we had the first flight out of Auckland, so the previous day we had gotten up at 2 a.m. Sydney time. So I have just been catching up on sleep the last few days. I have fallen asleep infront of the TV the last 4 nights (all before 10 p.m.) ... how sad is that?

Zara is just so mobile. Still bum shuffling her way around and getting fast at it too. She likes to walk heaps too and comes over and grabs my hands and wants to go for walks. I remember that so well from Wolf. You can't ever sit down somewhere in peace - she is just so full of beans! No wonder she doesn't put on any weight. She is still so tall and skinny. We had coffee the other day at a restaurant (Teena: Jellyfish of course) and this couple next to us asked how old Zara was. Their daughter was 1 month older than Zara and when we left DH heard the lady say to her husband " Gee, she is big!" ... I am sure she didn't mean BIG big but tall big as Zara is so skinny but she is about 76cm or so now and I remember Wolf wasn't quite 74cm when he was 12 months - she's tall alright.

On the teeth front: 2 at the bottom and no change so far. But my Kiwi friend said that she reckoned she was teething and that her gums looked swollen (I am never able to tell this stuff... how embarassing... and I'm her mom... )

She eats so much food, it's mind boggling. Fish and chicken and lamb and beef... as long as she can shove it in her mouth herself, she will have it. Wolf was still eating purees at that age and she is chewing through meat - incredible! I hope she stays a good eater, one picky eater is enough, lol.

SIL called yesterday to say she is pregnant with no.2 (no.1 is 15 months). Very excited. She is due in August. Speaking of babies: Anyone thinking of no. 2 yet? I am surprised no one is pregnant yet (then again we are just so few here in this forum now... ). Who will be "making babies" in 2007? Hands up? We will try for no.3 at the end of the year (so hoping for a European summer baby for a change... though maybe that's not so smart seeing as I've got so many new born winter clothes from 2 winter babies?)

Katie: yeah on the new friend. I can understand your excitement! I am feeling a bit lonely here in Oz - though the kids keep me busy enough...
Wow - 8 teeth! Ben is a really big boy, hey? If he doesn't like his bottle anymore, I would probably try weaning him of it then. Sounds like he is ready for it. Some kids self wean of bottles. Zara has 1 at night and 1-2 little ones (1/2 portion) during the day for naps. It's a bit of a lazy way of getting her to sleep but she won't take a dummy and otherwise she cries for ages and I hate to hear that.

Narelle: fingers crossed for the check up then. Colposcopy is weird isn't it? My specialist even took a digital photo of it... that felt weird... 'sure, take a piccie up my fanny' ... hmmm... I insisted on seeing it... though i must say a close up of your own cervix is rather weird...
I hope Aiden is over his gastro and that his teeth are coming through okay without too many sleepless nights. Are you giving him anything? I give my kids homeopathic globuli (Osanit - Katie might know it) and we've never had any problems and they didn't need anything else. Wolf actually loves taking them... I think he thinks they are lollies, ha ha!

Snowy

[narelle]

Hey Snowy...aiden got over his gastro fine lucky is was just a bunch of yucky nappies. He now has 3 full teeth and 1 popping all on the bottom but i can see the 4 in his top through his gums. i use panadol or if he's really scratching at his gums and in really pain i give him painstop (under pharmacy guidance of course)
Colposcopy's are really weird i lie there and say to myself...think happy thoughts and forget someone is looking in your pounani!
We are now officially trying for #3 and maybe #4,would love twins this time...only cause DH says 3 kids are enough unless we get twins and i really want 4! everybody thinks im a little cuckoo! we have quite a few sets of twins on my side of the family and no body has any yet in our generation!

im glad you and katie both had good new years...i was in bed and fast asleep by 10.30pm!

take care narelle

[Snowgirl]

Colposcopy's are really weird i lie there and say to myself...think happy thoughts and forget someone is looking in your pounani!

he he he... yep, sounds familiar...
Glad to hear Aiden is over his gastro. Yeah on (almost) 4 teeth and 4 coming. Zara seems to be getting the top teeth but I think with her the second ones (i.e. the outer ones? does that make sense) seem to come first rather than the ones directly in the middle.
Wow on TTC! I am actually the same way - I'd kinda like to have twins because I am worried my obgyn will advise me against a 4th kid after 3 caesareans. DH really wants 4. ANother boy and another girl, so each one has a brother and a sister. But hey... you can't pick these things anyway.

Did I mention SIL is pregnant with no.2 (DH's sister)? My other SIL (my brother's wife) is due with no.3 in March... it's raining babies in our family this year. Kinda weird to think we will be TTC in September or so this year...

Katie, looks like we might be preggers at the same ttime again!!!
glad to hear your new friemds are nice. It's important to have friends!

snowy

[Wilson]

Hey everyone, long time no see

i haven't been around at all lately as unfortunately my mum died from her ovarian cancer at the start of December, so its been a pretty busy and not much fun time. I'm doing ok and having Harry helps hugely with all that.

He is such a joy, really happy fun baby majority of the time, he finally got his first tooth on the 3rd of Dec and he got his second on Sunday, we have had no trouble with teething whatsoever they have just popped out which is lovely hope it stays that way.
He's been crawling for a few months now and now is into everything climbs the stairs, stands on everything and is just generally a little mischief maker

We were thinking of trying for a second now but with mum gone i think it will be to hard at the moment but i'm not using any bc so if it happens it happens otherwise i think we will actively try at the end of the year.

Can you believe our babies are nearly one, wow this year has flown, we are having Harry's first party at my parents farm nothing to big just close fam and friends.

Anyways think Harry is going to wake in a minute, sorry for lack of personals will pop back again soon and catch up then.

Take care
Sarah