Babies Born February 2007 #11

[Lisa]

Yay Monkey!! Isn't it amazing the things our bubba's can learn to do in the space of a week?

[smylie]

kymmmmy i know EXACTLY how you feel!!!!!!! you wonder how long she might have been able to do it by herself for.... but dont care coz you are just so relieved that you did it without doing the leave your baby scream thing!!! i still cant believe how good jemima is.... no patting no nothing just sleepy time here is carebear turn around walk out room, baby asleep it is amazing
and WOOOHOOOO on the walking, i wish i knew what monkey looked like so i could imagine it... they are so cute walking, jemima looks like a mummy coz she always has her hands in the air, but she has had her hands inthe air since she was born, there is a two second clip of jemima walking on her youtube site (the link is on the site that is on the link on my signature)

our babies rock

ps- i go "back to work" on may 12!!!
pps - benji, jemima and me go on an aeroplane on April 19!!!

[Lisa]

Wow Kel... how exciting for you, going on a holiday to NZ... Are you nervous about Jem on the plane? Harrison is a good traveller in the car, he mostly just sleeps, but I wonder how he'd be on a plane. I hope you all have a fantastic holiday.
Are yoy excited about going back to work? I would be!!! I consider it all the time, but there is a huge part of me that just can't leave Harrison... I don't know if it is because of losing Noah, but I am sooooooooooooo much more paranoid about Harrison than I was about James and Madeleine... and I was paranoid enough with them!!! I haven't left Harrison with anyone for more than 3 hrs... and that was once, with my sister, for a concert... and he was not real happy about it... the 2nd longest time I have left him was for 15 mins and that was with my Mum and my sister together.

[KymH]

I'm glad I'm not the only one still finding it hard to leave Monkey! Wow Lisa, that is incredible! But good on you for doing what feels right for you and Harrison.

I'm cool with day care now, and after last sat night's wedding success with MIL, am starting to feel more confident with her too..... but I still find night outings the hardest.

Have fun on holiday to NZ, Kel! I'm sure Jemima will be fine on the plane, she'll probably just wander up and down the aisle making friends!!! Monkey has always been pretty good on planes - even when we did the 3hr flight to and from Cairns, she wasn't too bad, just had a little time on each flight where she was bored/tired etc.... But that was also before she could get around on her own, so she was frustrated on our laps the whole time....

Just have to tell you all something funny.... Monkey is now starting to say "no" (by shaking head, not the word) appropriately to questions I ask her, like "have you done a poo?" She'll shake "no" if she hasn't and just look at me or point to her nappy if she has - how cool!

But the funniest one is when I ask her if she's got any teeth coming!! Occasionally I stick my finger in to check, but she just shakes her head when I ask her "any teeth today darlin'?" Very funny!!! Her expectations of her getting teeth are obviously as low as mine are now......

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

Very very quick post - we've all been ill so I've been cleaning up projectivle vomit from both my boys. Am having a brain scan next Wednesday to check I don't have a tumour (I don't, but we haveto eliminate it) so please pray that all goes OK. Liebs is being looked after by PiL for that so I hope he will be OK.

In reply to other posts, Liebs has a pillow. Some nights he sleeps on his tum, others on his back or left side with his head on the pillow. If he rolls over he wriggles so he is on tum with no pillow. He's had one for months. But then I am the world's most dangerous mother! I've starting to give him sulphur tablets tomorrow from the homeopath to try to sort his sleeping. They can't hurt.

Liebs can also crawl now, and stand up from the floor (sat down or on tum) without pulling himself up, so I'm quite impressed. And he quacks every time he sees a duck and loves it if they quack back, you can't shut him upfromtelling everyone that "duck say quack" all afternoon after that.

Sorry girls, no TTC for a good 4-5 years for me! Maybe sooner but don't hold your breath, it's up to DH. I don't want to try for at least two anda half to three years, so that's cool.

Have a great holiday, Kel! And love to everyone, I'll try to keep up in the future but probably won't be typing again until after the scan.

[smylie]

brain scan mega scary ryn.......... thinking of you and good luck, gosh it is confusing listening to you talk about puberts walking and standing and crawling sounds like he is doing the same as the other bubs but in a different order like he really did walk before he crawlled, i have heard of that

i am hoping jemima has a sleep on the plane, it will be 10am so she will be tired so fingers cross there....... almost didnt get to go coz all day yesterday was spent looking for the passports, i almost thought my 14month old had put them somewhere but it turned out it was my 27 year old heheheehe

kymmy and lisa i am not really ok leaving jemima with other people, but that is a me thing totally not a her thing SHE LOVES other people she LOVES other kids she LOVES to play so she will cope better than me by far, she will love love love it, i have a backpack she got from MIL so i am going to make that one a big deal daycare backpack i think, it is a bit hardcore going from a couple of hours at kidzclub to ALL DAY at daycare but we will both be fine..... benji will drop her off and i will pick her up and in the meantime earn a gazillion dollars temping and be able to take weeks of "holidays" in between jobs if I want if not there is heaps of work and i may as well, i guess will keep my mind off TTC and food so by the time i do get pregnant my body will be ready

jemima just gone done for afternoon nap and i have not started to pack so bring it on hehehe

question - all you girls with mega strict nap routines what are your plans for dropping a nap time?? daycare is going to get jemima into their routine which is a 11.30ishnap after lunch?

[Impatient]

Hi everyone. Selfish post yet again today - phew I've been busy!

Bella has pretty much dropped her pm sleep which is wierd. I expected her to drop the morning one. Oh well. I just let her tell me when she's tired and we go with that. She doesn't use a pillow but sleeps on top of teddy. Poor teddy!

She has had the best week at daycare this week. She didn't cry at all when I dropped her off, which is a relief! I think she's finally used to me "dumping" her!

She moves to a new daycare the week after next. My current daycare can only do 3 days and I need 4, so my sister's son goes to a daycare that were able to offer 4. The good thing too is that Bella will know somebody! They go to my Mum's every Monday and have a fantastic time together, so I hope he'll look after her in the playground! (He's 3).

We now have 7 teeth - finally! She walks everywhere - even into daycare. I'm not allowed to hold her hand either.

Gotta go - we're dancing to the Wiggles and I have a "date" with an old girlfriend who is visiting from far far away who I haven't really seen since my wedding!