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Hi there+ me again!
Well done Kayla on walking to the TV set!! Yeah!!! (I forgot to say that last time, well done!!)
Mbear, just wait, I am sure she is just waiting for the right moment. Wolf & Zara's cousin didn't walk until he was almost 18 months and just walked absolutely perfectly. He walked like 2 blocks down the street a week after finally walking.
Thanks for being so honest to say that you were shocked. I am glad to hear I'm not the only one... I felt so selfish ... but glad to hear you felt like that too. And it doesn't mean you won't love that baby to bits and miss the pregnany later in life... but it is a pretty big impact on your body and life and everything... but then you think how CUTE that little bubba is gonna be and how your heart melts when you see bubs on the ultrasound and it's suddenly all worth it... . funny that, hey?
But funny thing is, since writing that I have been thinking "oh... no, I don want another one" ... .lol... but NOT NOW... maybe sometime mid 2008... when Zara is 2.5 and Wolf almsot 4... aaaaaaaaaaaah... there we go again... :D but Zara has been soooooooo cute and DH always goes "oh common we HAVE to have another one - she is so cute" lol
Snowy
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Hi girls..thanks for all your well wishes.
Kaydee: im so sorry to hear bout your cousin. my love to you and your family. have you got any news yet?????
Snowy: not selfish just practical and a little cautious....i have had such easy pregnancies apart from the morning sickness with aiden and easy c-sections, recovery and my kids don't seem to want to feed so they both went on the bottle when i got home and my boobs settle really quick,...sometimes bad things just rattle you. you'll know if and when you are ready for #3 "cause there just so god damn cute you could squish there little faces!!!!"
Walking: congrats zara, ben, harry and kayla...you guys need to word up aiden he will only walk if we prompt him or hold his hand and he's soooooo heavy.
wilson - congrats on your positive result...i still haven't organised a blood test yet but by my dates im dute DECEMBER 18, but cause of having a c-section will be early december. i think im about 6 weeks at present. no morning sickness yet (touchwood) but ive had 2 mornings of get waves of nausea but can't complain.
we've decided to tell mum and dad and my brother and SIL mother's day, the day after my 30th birthday! everyone else we thought we'd try to wait until zara's 4th birthday in july when i bout 16-17 weeks or so, it should make it go faster!
take care im sorry if ive forgotten anyone aiden is ready for his arvo sleep.
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Yay Kayla very exciting, you won't stop her now :)
Kaydee - good luck with the flight, i hope it isn't to bad for you, we had a 2 hour flight to townsville and it sucked but the air) hostesses should help you out on the big flights.
Narelle - Cool we shall have bubs around the same age again :) i'm sure dec 8th at the moment having a scan on Friday so hopefully everything is all ok, i've started getting mild morning sickness already so went straight to the doctor and got maxalon this time, hopefully it stays mild and not severe.
Snowy - i completely understand what you are saying as well, i think ultimately we'll end up with 3 but the thought of 2 and been done and able to settle down and sleep all night etc is lovely, will see how we go with m/s as to whether i go again lol
Hope all the bubs are good.
What time do you put them down to sleep? Harry has been going down at 6:30pm for the last while and he wakes at about 6:30am but we leave him play till 7amish. But this way we don't have dinner together, h eats at 5:30pm and we eat later when hubby is home, i guess we will change that as H gets older... it would be nice to eat together.
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Congrats Wilson...its weird were both due around the same time heh! I hope your M/S isn't going to get too bad. ive finally made a doctors appointment for may 9. i would like a scan too.
Aiden goes to bed 8 - 8.30 and wakes anytime from 7.30 - 8.30. He stays up later to play with his sister, but also my DH plays lots of sports and usually gets home around 8 pm 4 nights a week so we started letting stay up later when we had zara and have just continued it. it doesnt bother me having them up this late...cause i dont want them getting up too early in the morning (i hate early starts!) But i too generally feed the kids around 6pm and us a bit later.
snowy...more on what i said before. i found our decision for 3 and maybe 4 kids was an easy decision because im pretty much a full-time stay at home mum, i work 2 days a week a my parents business but there office is at there house so its really easy for me. i soooo know what you mean when you said "oh there so cute...more more!. i too thought 2008 would be a could year for #3 but this little bub thought otherwise.
take care
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Hello my friends,
Sorry I have been a slacko and not dropped in for ages. Ive just been a little down and not in the mood for chatting... I'm feeling heaps better now though :)
Well first of all a massive congrats to Wilson and Narelle (and mbear again!) on your pregnancies (did I miss anyone? Sorry if I did) I hope you have a happy and healthy one with morning sickness getting the big boot!
Katie - sorry to hear about your cousin. Its so sad when something like that happens. But at least you can be assured he is in heaven with his mum. It was just his time to go.
Nadine - good news about Kayla walking. It wont be long until she is running everywhere. Allegra is doing good with the walking. She is still crawling alot but can walk when she wants too! She has been really sick with a cough and high temps for about 2 weeks and I think she didnt have the energy for walking. Now she is better she seems to be doing it again.
We found out when she was sick that she is allergic to penicillin. She came out in the most ungodly looking rash poor little cherub. At least it was only a skin reaction and nothing worse. The Dr knows now and we will steer clear in the furture.
What else is new? Nothing much here. Allegra is a real talker. She says mumma, dadda, legra, nonna, bubbub (as in Bubchia which is grandmother in polish) and other random words like yellow, oh oh, car, duck - she just comes out with them and you turn around and say "what did you say?" and she laughs.
She is a funny little thing - she hears John's car in the driveway and stands at the front window waving and saying "tata" - I dont quite know how she knows which car is his but she must know he comes home just as she is having dinner or something.
Snowy - how are the kids? They are such cuties. Sad about DH having to work in London so much. At least you can make him spoil you as compensation!!
We are thinking of doing some renovations. DH and I cant agree where the kitchen should be relocated too. He just doesnt want to listen to anything I suggest and I feel like knocking him on the head hahah he is so hard headed!
OK - well I am so tied (and have a bit of a hangover from a dinner last night) so I am going to bed with a book.
Chat soon
T
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Nice to hear from you PrincessT...glad Allegra is going really well and sounds like a great talker (it's a bit of a girl thing!)
Mbear - how did your ultrasound go? Boy or girl? or is it a secret? I hope you got really good results on you both.
Wilson - off to the doctor tomorrow now...doctor cancelled may 9 so i should be able to find out exact due dates soon.
i hope all mums and bubs are well
take care
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hehe, just had a snoop around.. and i know Mbear's bubbas sex. wont say tho ;-) I'll let her tell.
Its about 27 degrees today, beautiful... I took Ben outside for a while, but got sick and tired of fetching rocks and sticks out of his mouth. haha.
Ben is a real talker too.. But only when other people are around, and its all "dadad lidllalalalaaa". I think it's because im a pretty quite person.
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Congrats mbear on your ultrasound results....
finally had a blood test to confirm my pregnancy...they seem to think im 7-8 weeks a little a head of what i thought - going for an ultrasound next friday to confirm dates.
How is everyone?
take care
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Helloooooooo...where is everyone?
Im off for my ultrasound in about 30 mins, can't wait.
We are also moving this weekend...oh im soooo tired but excited.
I'll post soon when i know more bout my ultrasound.
I hope everyone is well.
Take care
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Hey Narelle, i hope your ultrasound went well.
Yes, where has everyone gone? Ben is visiting his Oma just now. I feel bad because we were just visiting and MIL started talking about my driving license. Im not allowed to drive on my Aust one here, and i need to take lessons and a test to get a German one. It can be pretty expensive. Anyway, FIL has offered to pay for it for my birthday.. Thing is, i dont want them to because we are planning on moving back to Oz next year, and i dont think it is worth the money to get a license.... Ive gone this long without driving, whats another year?
Anyway i told MIL i dont want them to pay for it, and she kept asking "why, is it the test, the language... are you scared?" i couldnt think of an excuse fast enough... so i told her that i want to move back home next year. You should have seen her face drop. We werent going to tell them, but i was sick and tired of making stupid excuses for why we dont want to do things (such as get new wheels for the car, spend money on things for the house etc...). Now she seems angry at me. Im angry at her because i sometimes feel like it's their fault im here in the first place (long story) and my family is missing out on Ben growing up.
I want to have number 2 at home, i want the support of my family and friends.
enough of that. ben is going well, he is growing so fast. he is really cheeky too, doing things for attention (clearing out drawers). And he is always stealing our bedside alarm, because he knows he gets into trouble. It's so hard to keep a straight face and hide the smile that you really want to give him.. he is just too cute.
take care!
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Kaydee, thanks my ultrasound went well. bubs heart beat 123 bpm and growing well. due december 18.
re: your MIL - does she not realise that your family have missed ben growing until you go back home, and sometimes a girl just needs her mum when it comes to baby. i think your pretty gusty moving to an overseas country that does not speak english when you are young and then also having a bub over there. too bad for her, as long as you and hubby are happy and ben is great try not to let her get to you. AUS is such a great place!
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Thanks Narelle :-)
I was pretty upset with her reaction. Funny thing was, she was making us pancakes when we were talking... and as she was putting some on my plate, i was telling her i wanted to go back home. Her reaction was so cold, Dh said later on that he was expecting her to take the pancakes back off my plate! lol
Now i feel the family has become cold towards me, like im the bad guy. I cant believe they didnt realise that we were definately going to move back as soon as possible. Im so miserable here, why couldnt they see that? We have been talking about it alot, but i think they just assumed it was all talk, and didnt believe it would really happen.
Anyway, change of subject. Horrible thing happened today. This morning Dh was vacuuming Ben's room and realised Ben's changing table was full of bugs (in the wood)! AGHHH!! We thought it was just wood worm (or whatever you call it). the table is over 100 years old, so it doesnt surprise me. luckily a friend has a baby a little older than Ben, and she doesnt use her table anymore, so she gave it to us to use as long as we need it. Its a really nice table, we are lucky. But its a real shame about the old one, it belonged originally to Dh's great-grandma and was passed down the line. Even Dh used it as a baby. Ahwell, it wasnt going to last forever.
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Katie - your in-laws dont deserve you there. They treat you and your husband bad, dont give Ben the love he deserves and all in all make you life miserable when they are around. You should run as fast as you can from them!
Narelle - wonderful to hear the ultrasound went well. Before you know it you will have a bubba here!!!
Hope everyone is well - I'm trying to get everything dont whilst Allegra has her morning sleep.
T x
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Hi everyone!
Katie - DH has been driving on his Aussie driver's license in Europe for 10 years. It's not like they can prove you are not just an Aussie tourist visiting. You are officialy allowed to drive on your Aussie license for 3 months, after that you are supposed to get a German one (same everywhere in Europe). I have lived in the Netherlands and never got a Dutch one, I have lived in London and never got a UK one (and I have lived in Sydney and never got an Aussie one). The police has no idea whether you have been in the country for more than 3 months. If you ever got stopped, I would just speak in English and say you are visiting and borrowing a friend's / MIL's car. I certainly wouldn't bother getting one and I certainly would still drive. Don't worry... unless you have a car licensend in your name, they have no way of proving you are actually living in the country and not just holidaying.
I am sure your MIL was shocked to hear you are moving back (or have plans to) next year. My mom always says that she hopes she is dead when we move back to Australia (lovely, hey? talk about emotional blackmail). It's hard having an international marriage when kids are involved. I am sure MIL's reaction was just bad because she would hate to see you guys go (especially her first grandchild). It's got to be hard for them too (even though they have been very weird towards you...). Well, when you go back, she won't be able to boss you around anymore and butt in all the time... that will be a killer for her... lol. And when she comes to visit, you can tell her that THIS is how we do things in Oz, he he. We are quite lucky because we go to Oz once a year and MIL & FIL come across to Europe once or twice a year, so they don't completely miss out on seeing their grandchildren grow up.
Lol on DH thinking she might take the pancakes back
and YUCKY on the change table!!
Narelle - great to hear the U/S went well. Good heartbeat... are you going to find out whether it's a boy or girl? My guess from the heartrate would be a boy... though that is a bit of an old wives tale about the heartrate isn't it? Though in my case it was true. Wolf was usually 120 - 140 and Zara more 140 - 160... the midwife kept harping on about how it had to be a girl because the heartrate was so strong and high "typical girl" she kept saying... so even though Zara's gender was a surprise, I kinda knew it had to be a girl because the midwife kept claiming it had to be one during my induction.
Well, what's new here... Zara is babbling a lot as well. She makes all sorts of weird sounds all the time... it sometimes sounds like klingon... lots of sounds I can't even reproduce! So funny.
Gotta go, Wolf just woke
Julia
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Hi girls,
Just a quickie - how often do your bubs sleep in the day? Sophie seems to have dropped her 2nd sleep of the day....so now will sleep for 1-1.5 hrs..
A typical day;
7am - Wakes up
11am- 1230 - sleep
630pm - sleeps thru till 7am next day...
She seems fine and content, but i worry she not gettin enuf sleep? What do you think?
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hey Mbear,
How are you? Ben has dropped his second sleep too. Here is his sleep routine:
8-9am wake
12-1pm sleep unitl around 2.30 - 3
by 8pm he is asleep again. We usually put him down at 7.30, but it just depends on the kind of day we have had (busy or lazy). We sometimes put him down at 7.
So, he usually gets 2.5 - 3 hours sleep during the day. It seems to me that Sophie is getting enough sleep. I wouldnt worry, as long as Sophie is happy :-)
2 weeks exactly until we fly. Bit nervous. we had a busy day on Sunday, and went to a few different people's houses. Strange thing is that Ben was terrified entering these new places, and it took him about 5 - 10 minutes to relax and stop crying. He has never been like that before!!! I've got a feeling it's from the doctors. Here they spread the 1 year shots over a few months, so we are going back to the doctors often, and Ben screams when we enter the building. So i have a feeling that he is scared he will get an injection. Hmmmm.
Snowy, international marriage is very very difficult isnt it? Hopefully once Dh is finished with his study, we will be able to afford to go home once or twice a year (or go to Germany if we are living in Oz). But until then....
I would be driving, but Dh and FIL are terrified i will crash, and the insurance won't pay.
OHHHH 2 weeks! I cant believe how fast time is going by!
Narelle and Sarah- How are you both going???
Take care!
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Oh, Narelle, i hope you dont mind me asking, but what town are you from? You can email me if you dont want to say here(kaydee_3@hotmail.com). Reason being is that i dont know if you remember, but I'm from Gippsland too (Traralgon). how did your move go? Not too stressful i hope!!
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mbear - aiden wake 7.30 - 8am, one sleep during the day anytime from 11am onwards and usually sleeps for 2-3 hours, and then back down around 8 pm.
kaydee - move went well. not that bad...just been sooo tired but could be cause of pg too.
wilson - how are you travelling?
snowy - sort of thought along the same lines re: heartbeat. but will find out at the 20 week scan.
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Hi there,
re. sleep, Zara dropped her 2nd sleep a while back. Sometimes, if we are travelling by car, she will fall asleep again in the late afternooon but she is just sooooooooo hard to put down to naps. Basically will only fall asleep in the pram... *sigh*. Often she will only sleep for 30 mins - yesterday she was only asleep for 10 and then wouldn't go back to sleep. Sometimes I can get her to sleep on me and then she can sleep for up to 2 hours but it's just so exhausting with her. She seems to think she is missing out and refuses to "consciously" go to sleep. Wolf was always such a good boy with sleeping... oh well...
So like yesterday with 10 min nap during the day, we had to put her to bed at 7pm, as she was knackered. Usually 7:30 or 8 p.m. Wolf goes to bed at 8p.m. (and always has). Funny how things can change with your second child.
Zara is still drooling so much... arrrrrrrrrg... I hope when she gets her 3rd and 4th tooth at the bottom that it will stop. I am changing tops 3 times a day because of all the drooling.So annoying.
She is saying more and more things now. She can say "mehr" (german for more - which is very important for her :D ) and tries to say "Hase" (rabbit). In English she says duck and "bear" (well, actually in German it's the same).
She has taken to throwing herself on the floor when she doesn't get her way. It's so funny. She will do it at home mainly but also sometimes in public. I try to ignore it and am hoping it will stop. Little drama queen...
She is very sociable and loves to meet with our neighbours. She is "in love" with our neighbour's son who is 3 months younger than Wolf and will stand at the window and wave and go "Huwo" (her way of saying Hello) and then tries to say Pauli ("bouwi")
Animal sounds... well Wolf made them all, for Zara all animals go "mah" except for tigers and lions and bears who go "raaaaaaaah" :D
Narelle, curious to see if we are right re. gender & hearbeat...
Katie, wow 2 weeks, not long at all now.
Mbear, I definitely think Sophie is getting enough sleep... she is getting more than Zara.
Snowy
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so cute with Zara's words. So far the only clear word is "Dada" for Ben but he also tries to say "Nase" (German for nose), for example we will say "where is daddy's Nase?" and he will grab onto dh's nose and says "aaasaa". Dh's parents have a Cat named Minka, and Ben says "nnnkkka" Or "Kah" when he is looking for her. I try to teach him words using the toys he plays with, and he tried his best to repeat - "usss" (Bus), "ttt" (Cat), and he meows sometimes when he hears a Cat.
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Gee, we are so quiet lately. Hope everyone is well.
Zara is learning more and more words. I can't believe how many things she can say. But then again Wolf did all the animal sounds at that age and she does none. But hey... every child is different, even your own two children :D
So she says "Ente" (German for duck), "Auto" (German for car), "Baby" (usually she means Baby dolls with that, she loooooooooves dolls), "Papa", "Mama", "Teddy", "bear", "Hase" (German for rabbit), "mehr" (more), "Hello" and "Bye Bye". I caught her today playing with Wolf's train set, going "Choo choo", it was so cute! I can't believe my little baby is not a baby anymore. She wil be 15 months in 2 days... in 4 days she'll be exactly the age Wolf was, when Zara was born, 15 months and 2 days.... I can't believe how quickly time has gone by. It makes thinking about having a no. 3 more realistic... I mean... if we fell pregnant right now, Zara would be 2 by the time bubs was born! That's kinda freaky. (but nooooooo, i am thining of ttc in October now)
Katie, so cute how Ben says "Nase" and calls the cat :clap: I love this age! It's so cool. I remember when Wolf was 17,18 months or so he learned a new word every day. It was SUCH a word explosion, it was so neat. So I am really looking forward to this again with Zara (assuming it will be similar).
Not long now until you fly!! I hope you are not too worried about flying. Hopefully Ben will be good for you.
How is the weather up there in Munster? We are having such great weather down here in Switzerland. It's been in the high 20s this long weekend and this week it's going to reach 32!
Snowy
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Mbear- Sorry if I am a bit late with this. Kayla was still doing two sleeps a day, but the last 2 days she has been having only one sleep (for 2.5hrs). She is in her cot atm, but talking away, so I think she may be dropping her second sleep now.
So last 2 days her routine has been:
6:30-7am wake up
12:30pm (after lunch) bed (yesterday was 2.5hrs, day before only 1.5)
7pm bedtime
Katie and Snowy- Oh that is cute that they are both speaking german. I am trying to teach kayla german, but I keep forgetting iykwim. The only word she says in german is "mama" and "Opa" (for my dad). DH doesn't speak german and I forget, LOL. Atleast my parents speak german to her, but I must remember to speak german to her when I am alone with her. Oh and I am trying to teach her to say "Omi" (for my mum) but so far she is called "Oba", hahahaha :D
Us- We are good. Kayla is officially walking. Has been walking properly for 2 weeks now. Her new words are: "aww gaww" (all gone), "Opa" (grandpa in german), and she has added the lion, tiger and elephant to her animal noises.
I can't believe we only have 2 more months till we are TTC #2. The time has gone so quickly.
We are going away from the 1st-9th of June. We are driving down to Lakes Entrance in VIC to visit a friend. We will be staying in a cabin. So that will be a nice break :)
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