Babies Born February 2007 #11

[Early Kids]

Goodmorning

Jayne, I'm glad Claudia has been sleeping well for you

Tashie, :hugs: hope your lil man and DH feel better soon. I'm sorry to hear about your nephew, how old is he?

Kym, gotta love the shopping without the lil one!!

Brendan's stats from our last CHN:

weight: 8980
height: 73cms
head circumference: 46cms
teeth: 6, 2 bottom and 4 top.
words: just babble... mumumumum, dadadadad, bubububub and nananan
walking: only a few steps around furniture... he would still rather get down and crawl along to the next destination.

Brendan is finally over his cold... it's been a horrible week continuously getting up during the night, thank fully he slept through till 6 am... which is still not normal, but better

[KymH]

Hi all.

Tash:
I will answer your questions in order, but should probably just pick up the phone!!! We are going to look for rentals kinda near here, maybe a bit east, like Putney/Meadowbank. We both need to be near Victoria Rd as it is both of our best links to work and you're right, we don't want to change day care now, so has to be close to there too....

Will be getting r. estate people in soon, but we already know we need to do gutters and fix rotting back deck! Not sure where we will get money??? But it will be great not to have the upkeep of a place for a while too... And yes, Jayne, I am excited about moving - I see it as one step closer to getting out of Sydney forever!!! (that is our 3-5 yr plan, but I'm always skeptical, as DH is Sydney born and bred - it'll be hard to actually get him away)

We are all still sick - this is a nasty virus. DH has taken Monkey to Dr now, as he needs to go now too. I am probably the best of the 3 of us. Hope you, Tobi and DH are on the mend soon too.

And with my pelvis, was still sore Sat, but somewhat better by today. Physio said it has come back, as I have a chronic mal-alignment problem which I should have got fixed when I was pg! Typical physio's though self-diagnosing, I just took the shortcut when pg and borrowed a friends belt and did some exercises instead of seeing someone who actually specialises in this!!!

And wow, Tash, about maybe looking after Tobi's mate on a more formal/regular basis - that'll be both fun and very tiring I'm sure!!

I keep forgetting that you might be moving.... I will be very sad when you do I used to have lots of school friends at primary school who were army kids and used to lose friends all the time....

Monkey's stats are:

W 9.5kg
H 73cm
HC no idea, sorry
Teeth - STILL NONE!

Words - mama, dada, bubba, tada (teddy), tata (Tilly the dog), uh-oh (whenever something hits the ground, whether an accident or on purpose!), up (to be picked up) and "ta". I think the other day she may have tried to say wawa when she wanted her water, but its a bit inconsistent.

Walking - standing on own and will take 1-2 steps to fall into me. but mainly cruising round walls, furniture etc... She still crawls preferentially if theres a long distance or if she's in a hurry, eg to escape me!

Glad Brendan is better, hope the rest of us follow soon...

[Lisa]

Hi everyone

Urgh... we have been virus central here over the last few weeks... crazy stuff.
No time right now for personals, but I will pop in later and read up more and do some personals.

Harrison is going well... his tooth he was getting decided to go back down... so Monkey isn't the only tooth-less bubba here... he has 2 teeth at the bottom that are so close to breaking through, yet they don't!
Ever since he turned 1, he has developed an attitude. If you look at him for too long, he will grunt... if you call him whilst he is doing something he likes, he will grunt... he has thrown tantys too which is so strange as he has always been so well behaved and quiet... oh well, he is still gorgeous as anything!

[Kristy D]

Hi Lovely ladies,

Thank you for all Erin's birthday wishes, she had a lovely day , but god I was pooped at the end of it.

Looking forwrad to getting out of this 1st trimester and into the feeling great but not fat yet stage of the 2nd trimester.

I'm so sorry not to do personals but hubby is on night shift, Erin asleep so this little brown duck is off to nye nye's.

Hopefully get in tomorrow to catch up properly,

xx

[Early Kids]

Goodmorning

Kristy, glad Erin had a good day.

Lisa, I'm with you on the attitude! I was started to think maybe the "terrible twos" had already started!

Kym, hope you are all feeling better soon.

So, how do I stop Brendan from eating the dog food without moving the dog food? I've trierd distractions and also just moving it around the place.... but he always finds it. He has such a short attention span. I've given him a rusk for the moment, which seems to be keeping him occupied. We are off into town this morning for some shopping. Brendan has run out of banana's for morning tea.

take care

[Tashie]

PMSL...Sally...that is so funny about Brendan eating dog food. I don't know what you can do about it. Other than say no, or completely block him off from that area. When I say no to Tobi now he cries most of the time, but he still does it again tomorrow!!! I think that until they get a little more understanding, there is not too much you can do. They say to ignore bad behaviour and congratulate on the good. But I am sure you can't ignore him eating dog food. My nephew was born last week. Things are looking a little better and he might be out of hospital in a few days.
Lisa - PMSL about Harrison grunting. Tobi does that too. I have a little devil in my sweet boy that comes out ever now and then. I am so over the throwing of the food and drink bottle already. I know we all have to go through the terrible twos and there is a light at the end of the tunnel...somewhere.
Kristy - 1st Trimester is always difficult and unless you have been pregnant, you don't understand what it is like, so I hope that you have lots of people around you that has been through it before, as it can be hard at times when all you want to do is sleep. I hope that you have a great second trimester.
Us - I am sick now. Fun. We lost one of Tobi's favourite toys out walking yesterday. I realised when we got home and I really should have gone straight out and tried to find him but I couldn't be bothered, so fingers cross he is still there when we go out walking today. That is two toys in two weeks we have lost out of three favourites!!