Babies Born February 2007 #12

**Lisa** · May 31st, 2008, 09:02 PM

He has 363 in total.
He likes to buy rare ones... he bought a Mello Yello truck not too long ago which was in the $30-40 price range.
He mostly buys Chevy's. He also has some of the bigger, expensive cars in our display cabinet... I have bough him a few of those.
Basically he just loves buying the cars for Harrison... Harrison plays with them all too and know's he has to pack them all up when he's finished. lol

**KymH** · May 31st, 2008, 10:05 PM

Hi all!

Welcome back Peg and Flutterby!

Will go back a bit... sorry if topics too old and boring for some.... (have a bandaid on my R ring finger.... l/o/p and . very hard and annoying, so may be some typos!!!

Tantrums/Food..... Monkey is becoming highly skilled at these about lots of things but esp food! But Lisa, you were mentioning a few days ago that Harrison wouldn't eat anything.... and I think Tash, we spoke about this too.... Monkey has all of a sudden become a fussy-eating toddler - she basically will eat a good breakfast, then the rest of the day is anyone's guess! But particularly dinner started to become a nightmare, so I've had to step back, take several deep breaths and learn not to stress - I actually read a great quote recently to think of it as a phase like any other, not that she'll be fussy forever. I try to make sure she gets good snacks and lunch (sometimes this is a nonevent too) and dinner is whatever! Doesn't seem to matter whether its finger or spoon food, she just usually won't have a bar of it. DH and I did discuss a plan to try to bring our dinner forward a couple of nights when he can be home early and see if eating together helps, but unfortunately can't do it every night and I dunno how I'm gonna cook properly with her around my ankles! We'll see how that goes... tonight at inlaws she did actually eat a bit more, with everyone just kinda snacking (not a proper sit down dinner due to rugby final...) - ate a bit of party sausage roll and even a bit of Gran's yummy vege and lentil soup (of course wouldn't eat MY soup last week!!!!)

[B]Kel[B] Hope things get sorted for you soon with blood tests etc.... My SIL had similar probs after her 1st bub - turned out she has Graves disease (which is a permanent and pretty rare thyroid prob) - she didn't have the weight loss either... I hope yours is nothing like that.... But now she got it sorted and after a bit more trying they are due in Nov (YAY!) But I also have a friend that had a temporary thyroid prob after 1st bub - accupuncture was hugely successful for her and now they have 2 gorgeous DD's.

[B]Tupperware[B : I LOVE Tupperware - as Tash will atest to! I will come to parties &/or just order stuff from you Kel! What's a 90min flight for a day trip!! Though, Kristy, I think you are prob wise not taking it on at the moment - who needs the stress of sorting all the setup parties to get yourself established etc....

Oh and Kristy, I love my Phil and Teds, but I think the toddler seat for the Valco is great - got a few friends who love it and have had no probs.

Lisa, I am soooo not showing my DH those photos!!! Don't want him to start saying "but your BB friends let their husbands collect cool stuff" !!! We soooo don't have room in our house for extra stuff - we have no storage as it is! DH has a bit of a collectors/hoarders personality - got it from his dad - the garage sale and trading post king!!! I think they have well over 100 chairs in their house! Actually, FIL is just like the Dad from The Castle - I could see him bringing home "jousting sticks" one day (you'll get it if you remember the movie well)...

I have to quickly tell you a couple of Monkey's new words this week - they are just so funny: she says "****a" for chicken/rooster etc.... because I do the rooster sound in some of her books. But she's very discerning, she differentiates them from ducks, which is (boring and not as funny) "duck"!

And the other new one has been just this week, after being sick and ending up on a/b's for ear infection: Medicine is "memi" - absolute classic - she gets excited by it and sucks it all up - today she found empty syringe DH had dropped on floor and threw a tantrum when he wouldn't give her any "memi"!!!!

Sorry, long post.... I'm sure i have more to chat about, but bandaid is really annoying me now!

Hello to anyone i haven't mentioned in personals.