Babies Born July 2006 #9

hey girls
thought i say hi and let you guys know bailee is getting closer t0 walking i wonder if he'll do what his sister did on her first birthday chloe a week befoer 1stn stared taken some steps but not many and it loked like she was going to walk til after she turns 1 but on the day of her birthday she walked like she has walked for months lol i wonder if bailee will do the same
oh yeah im returning back to work i got a job at safeway doing 4 to 12am a couple of days a week which is great iv been home for 3 years i need to go back to work now
well im off ill talk to ya all soon

hey girls
i wanted to say a big happy 1st birthday to Danielle for today hope you have a great day bubseykel with your little girl
also a happy 1st birthday to dustmite little one carban for tomorrow hope you have a great day too
if i have missed anyone else im sorry
talk to ya all soon

Hi ladies,
Happy birthday to our bubbas! I'm so excited Kyana is turning one (I know it's at the end of the month) cause we're having a little family party for her it would be so nice to celebrate after the crappy year we've had. Kyana seems to be so happy all the time now she just smiles and giggles constantly. Kyana has just started to cut her first tooth - well two teeth really the bottom ones seem to be coming through together. She's hardly complained about it at all.

Thanks for the weight reassurance Mads. And wow Trish your boys are doing really well and yes I think from memory we were due at the same time. I can't believe a year has gone already and our bubbas are growing so fast.

I can't remember who said it but about Kyana's walking so early - it was abit freaky but I got used to it quickly - no dirty knees to contend with and she's a really good walker and runner I find it hard to catch her sometimes shes' so quick now - it cracks me up when I tell her it's time for her bottle and she follows me eagerly to her room and then I sit in the chair to get ready to feed her (cause she sometimes still likes me to give her the bottle - bit lazy but I secretly love it at times cause she's my last baby there's no more now) anyway, as soon as Kyana realises this is a bedtime bottle she turns around and does a quick bolt to the door to escape - they are such clever little people.

Cle - I too have been signing with Kyana and she knows pretty much most things but doesn't talk much just says MUM and TA but I signed with my other DD and she spoke very early.

Roya, congratulations, I have a 25month gap between mine and I thought it was too close but now that Kyana is starting to interact with her big sister it's great they get along really well and it's wonderful - I wish you well.

That's me for today - have a great day/week all.:)

xxdd

ummm...HELLLO....did I scare everyone away....

lol - seems now that the little ones have been born the attendance in the room has dropped compared to before. It's like we are busier or something? lol

Hello all!

A quick update on Cooper and then I'll read everyone's news later. Although I did see that Roya is pregnant! Congrats!

Cooper will be 1 next Tuesday. So exciting! Where has the year gone?! We all have the day off work/daycare and are going to spend the day at the zoo. Then the following weekend we're having a big party at our house.

Cooper has 6 teeth now and I think there may be more on the way. He hasn't shown anymore signs of walking. Everyone told me he'd walk before he was 1 because just before he was 10 months old he started standing alone without holding onto anything. But he sorta got sick of that trick and doesn't do it much anymore! He does cruise furniture and also walk around the house pushing boxes, toys, baskets etc but he's been doing that since he was about 8 months! I'm kinda excited and wanting him to walk on his own soon!

No real words yet. Just lots of babbles and the usual mama, dada, bubba, da, ta etc. He loves pointing at everything and knows where some things are if we ask (eg, "where's the light?" and he will point to the light on the ceiling).

His sleeping is pretty much the same. Most nights sleeps through until about 5.00 am. I BF him and then he goes back to sleep for a while longer. He's self-settling again now for all sleeps due to the discovery of a special pillow! Well it's just an old boomerang pillow but he loves it. He sleeps on a pillow in the play room at daycare so I guess that's where it comes from. We had a pillow on our lounge room floor and he started crawling over to it and lying down. So now I put the pillow in his cot and he goes to sleep without a peep. So much better than me standing there patting him to sleep!

This is my third week back at work and I'm working 3 days per week. Cooper goes to daycare those days. He's settled in pretty well. The carers say he's happy, eats well, sleeps pretty well and often just is happy to play on his own! I've been expressing the lunch time feed but he doesn't drink much of the EBM at daycare. Maybe 100mls from a straw up. We try and give him the other 100mls when we get home. Anyway going back to work was not as bad as I imagined. I don't really LOVE it but it wasn't as scary as I thought. And for the past 2 mornings Cooper has not cried when I dropped him off at daycare! Yay!

Next week I'm going to wean his lunch time feed to cow's milk as I hate expressing. But I was determined to BF until he was 12 months. I plan to keep BFing for the morning and bed time feeds indefinitely.

Love to all!

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Fee - good to hear daycare is getting better. How is the EBM in a cup going?? Does he cope without you for those feeds?

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He seems to cope fine. I express 200mls every day at work and send it all to daycare the next day. He drinks 100mls from a straw cup and we try to give him the rest at home in the evening.

Hiya everyone!!

The best advice on a 1 year old's birthday - don't have a big party!! On Saturday had 40 adults, 5 kids under 10 and 3 babies under 1 - it was a mad house. Luckily we had a fine day so most of it was outside. We had my fab (if I do say so myself!) roasts in the BBQ, salad and rolls lunch. I also make her first birthday cake which I was very proud of - Minnie Mouse! I cooked the cake and piped it with icing. All up it took me about 2.5 hours to do but I enjoyed it and everyone commented on it how good it tasted and looked. I was very proud. I would definately do it all over again. I had so much fun doing it. Enough about the cake - she was so spoilt - we are still trying to get all her presents out of the packagings!

As for her developments - she's started taking a bit of cow's milk in her cereal, dropped down to 3 formula feeds per day (breakfast, afternoon tea and bedtime), she's starting to sleep only once a day but for 3-4 hours, some days it's 2 sleeps, she's walking heaps more now and can walk a couple of metres easily, she has her 7th tooth just come through, she says mum-mum, dad-dad, Nun-Nun (Nunzio the dog - as soon as she sees him she's screaming Nun-Nun), she can point out her nose, mouth and ears if you ask her (if you ask where her mouth is she'll show you, etc - apparently very advanced for her age), her hair is finally growning - very light blonde, she also waves and says 'hi' but it's more 'hhhhhiiiiii'. I think that's about it.

As for me I'm OK. My Oma isn't very well and only has a few days to live so I'm trying to spend as much time in the hospital with her as I can. I'm also quitting my job as my boss is a cow and I don't really need her stressing me out (I don't want a depression relaps at all) so I'll find some more work somewhere but only 3 days per week and not 4 like now but I'm not in any hurry.

I better run - I can hear Danielle getting violent with her toys. She's at work with me today. See ya!!

Hi all...it is nice to see some activity in here again!!

Looking forward to the first birthday here. Ours is on the 27th so still a little bit to go. My girls are more excited than me I think. I really don't know where that time has gone...

Ky is just getting more adorable each day now, and he finally is babbling away. We have a few sounds we can make out dadad (dad), nana (alannah), baba (which we think is Phoebe), bata (buster, our dog) and finally today mumumumum (mum!!yay).

Still not interested at all in being on his feet. Still getting around on his bum, but he sure is fast. I think he will skip the proper crawling all together. We do have wooden floors and people have told me he doesn't go on his knees, cause the floor is too hard??!! Makes sense I guess. He does go on his knees on the carpet, but doesn't move like that.

As for his party, I can't decide what to do. We do have a small family, but a lot of close friends around, but I am thinking if you invite one friend you have to invite them all. That means we will end up with about 20 adults and 25 kids.....way too many for me, so I haven't decided what to do yet. I am going to make a gorgeous dump truck cake that I have seen. I have made all of the cakes for the girls, so to make a 'boy' cake is very exciting!! I am used to pink butterflies etc.

I am glad to hear work is going well for those of you that have returned. My turn is coming I am sure. It's not that I don't want to go back...I just don't want to go back to my old job. I really would like a change. But on the other hand, I don't want to miss out on anything, both with Ky and the girls. It is so social at the girls' school and I don't want to miss out on anything (silly I know). I love being there for all their assemblies, awards, etc

Boy, I am rambling tonight
Taker care all, and happy birthday to all the big bubbas

i just wanted to say
:dance: :happybirthday: :dance:
HAPPY 1ST BIRTHDAY TO MY LITTLE MAN BAILEE
:dance:LOVE YOU LITTLE MAN YOU HAVE BROUGHT SO MUCH JOY INTO MY LIFE JUST THE WAY YOUR SISTER HAS LOVE YA :dance:

well in just a couple more weeks all of our little ones will be a year old! So Corban is now walking probably 50 - 75% of the time. He has a little vocabulary going on and a tempers till that I associate with his reddish colored hair! But the little bugger is so adorable!

Mads – Do you mean I could give cow's milk at daycare for lunch but keep breastfeeding the lunch feeds on the days I'm home? Would that work? Would my boobs get confused?!

Bubseykel – Too late about the party. We've already got 45 adults and 10 kids coming to Cooper's party this Sunday!

I'm so sorry to hear about your Oma.

mumof2beauties – Sounds like everything is great with you. Good to hear! All the best with the dump truck cake!

baiza – Happy birthday Bailee!

Dustmite – How cute that Corban is walking around the place. It must be so much fun!

A big Happy Birthday to Cooper!!!! I hope you have a really nice day Fee!

The cakes really aren't that hard...and you are talking to the worst, most unadventurous cook there is...and I can still manage to follow the directions from the book. It is actually a lot of fun. As for being healthy, it is far from it...but hey, it is their birthday. Ky had his first 'real' piece of birthday cake a couple of weeks ago for my husbands birthday, and we couldn't wipe the smile off his face!! He loved it!!

Mads - what date is Freya's bday?...she must be close to Ky.

I am hoping Ky starts to sleep through for his birthday...yeah right. Maybe one day??!!?

fee:
:dance:HAPPY 1ST BIRTHDAY COOPER:dance:

YA COOPER! another 1 year old!

HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY COOPER

HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY DYLAN

We are still around, I have been lurking a bit and reading occasionally but wanted to come on to mark this momentous occasion. I can't believe my boy is one!

I am back at work three days a week and it seems that my days off are always so busy. Dylan is good at the moment he has been sick on and off for the last 2 months I guess from daycare which in turn has been making DH and I sick but I guess you get that.

Anyway I have to go and tend to my sad birthday boy and help him open some pressies.

I will pop back in later today.

:dance:Happy 1st Birthday Dylan:dance:

Happy Birthday Cooper and Dylan - hope you both have a wonderful day!!!!:)

xxdd