Babies Born July 2007 #14

[Meluchja]

Wow Tracey, Zyon and Jack can me Mitcheleon men together lol . I think Jack is now over 9 kg eekkk!! I love a chubby baby. I plan on weighing him tomorrow.

[mrscricket]

Tom is eating!! Yay!! Yesterday he accepted a couple of spoonfuls - which i thought was a fluke - but today he was opening up and eating properly!! I was so excited - i was like 'i have to tell someone!! No-one will care.. I know - i'll tell the girls!!'

[jemima]

Sacha - I bet Autie looks adorable with her headband on - you will have to take a photo.

Thanks heaps for your advice on nannys/childcare. I am leaning towards going through an agency as well for the reasons you mentioned and thought we could have the person start before I go back to work so I can be at home with everyone to see how she/he fits in with the kids. Nanny SA has just sent me a heaps of info so I am reading through that and will have to make a decision really soon. Worse case scenario if I am not organised in time or we dont find someone by the time I go back to work I know Charlotte will be able to get into childcare (same place as the boys) which we can use as a short term thing until the nanny is sorted. Thanks again

[jemima]

Just a quick one

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY for tomorrow Mel! Enjoy your shopping spree - I am jealous (in a good way LOL)!! Also enjoy your night out - it sounds like it will be wonderful, just what you and Luke need! Sorry cant help with the EBM question - Charlotte hasnt had milk in a bottle yet (I have just been too slack to try) - but I must try her soon JIC she needs some time to get used to it beofre I go back to work. I reckon it is a great idea to see what your work say about going back part time., cant hurt to ask. Would there be anyone you could job share with - that sometimes makes it easier for bosses to say yes to part time and if not it just means you get to spend more time at home with your wonderful babies! Hope the nachos were good - yumbo now I am craving some even though it is bed time.

OMG Sacha - no Survivor that is terrible! I love survivor so I can only imagine the withdrawls you are having LOL!!

Blueflower - how did Kaetlyn go with her solids?

Em - OMG I read that post in the punching bag and boo hoo room. Embarrassing isnt a strong enough word to use for that poor girl!

Hi everyone else.
Hope you all had a great weekend.
take care Jem

[blueflower]

Hi Ladies.
All this talk of going back to work
Aaron and I have decided to scrimp and let me stay off on unpaid leave till july, when my mat leave has to end. I think it will be good for us tobe on a tight budget. We did the grocieries for the next week, going to the shops with a meal plan and everything! Stupid interest rate rises as well someone should blow banks up!!! LOL at my reference to Kingswood Country, if anyone gets it!!!!

Well we have all the family for dinner tonight, and IL's gave Kaetlyn her high chair as a 1/2 birthday present!! We then sang at 8.29 happy 1/2 b'day to you!!! It was funny.

Her solids went okay. The facial expressions were interesting, I gave her about three tsp's full of rice cereal with some EBM. She was sucking on Aarons hand to help get them down, as I am not sure that she knew what to do with what was in her mouth!! Anything besides a booby that has gone in before has always come straight back out. She looked confused, thinking 'normally thay take things out of my mouth"

Well am off to play with my new photo pragram. Love this new computer!!!

[kungfubecca]

Hi all,

Raels, happy Birthday lexxen, wow 9 I bet it seemed so far away when he was born. now he's on the downhill run to teenager!!
Glad to hear things are improving for you at home.

Tracey wow at Zyon, Xavier is about 7.8kg's now. Have you turned his car seat around yet??

Em, Yay tom is eating!! I know what you mean when you just have to share with someone.

Happy 6 months Kaetlyn, how does she like facing forward? Xavier has een trying to sit up in his car seat for a while now. Once they are over the 8kg's is that a good indication they are ok facing forward?

jemima, I haven't got a clue about nanny's but we are enjoying childcare. I guess the good thing is that if Xavier sleeps in I can leave him in his pjs and they will change him for me if I ask, but bit harder to do that with older kids.

Mel, Xavier will happily drink anywhere from 125ml to 200ml. 200 is usually his max and more often he does this at night. at cc I supply them with about 150ml per bottle.

Ah, well there is another weekend gone. We tried Avocado mixed in with the farex this weekend and he seems to be enjoying it, didn't complain anyway. He is gassy though, but I think that's because he is all snotty still and swollowing more air. We will do just the farex mixed with avocado for a few more days then we might try some fruit mixed in with it. Well gotta cut this short, lots to do before I go to bed. This is the worst thing about returning to work that You are constantly organising things. You can't really let anything go until the next day because you get stuck so far behind and you end up busiting your a$$ the next day.

See ya's

[mrscricket]

Back again! T is back down for a sleep - i managed to wedge him into his anti-roll thing and tuck the sheets over super tight. I thought it was exciting when he started to roll - now its a bit of pain in the behind .

Happy Anniversary Mel! I was having a look at your photos site the other day and besides having gorgeous kids, your DH is so good looking! Lucky you - enjoy your night! You made me laugh about Charlize's 'special' words - i can bet that they will be part of Tom's vocabualry as well. DH is a builder and is used to saying them at work so he says them at home. I keep saying he will have to stop soon before little ears pick up on them..

Veronica - glad the scuba went well. You are the only person i know that would spend the day out scuba diving and STILL go to the gym the next day! I would be like 'oh well, thats my exercise for the year!'

Sara - we sound very similar at the moment. I have to decided to be super careful with the $$ so i can stay off work a little bit longer. DOnt get me started on interest rates - everytime i watch the news its 'Australians have spent 1billion dollars over xmas so we are going to wack up the interest rates'. I read about a site in the newspaper the other day called savingmum which has lots of little tips for saving money etc. I printed out a weekly meal planner and a shopping list thing so will have to try to stick to it. I am a terrible impulse buyer.. DH was laughing at me because we recently had a ALDI's open up here and i have gone from 'I'll stick to Coles thanks' to 'i might just pop down and see how cheap it is..'.

Becc - are you enjoying work - as hard as it would be to be away from Xavier? I hear you about being organised - i find it hard enough now to think that i will leave something until tomorrow and then actually have to find the time to do it. Hope everything is going well.

We turned Tom's car seat around about a week ago. He is just under the weight but over xmas he just developed a hatred of the car seat - i think because he was in and out of it all the time. My final straw was when he screamed the whole way to Geelong and then same again on the way back. It was really horrible scream until i vomit and choke, so a bit scarey while driving! He seems to really like being turned around - he has a good sticky beak out the window and so far no crying. DH finds it a little off putting because he says Tom stares at him while he is trying to drive - paranoid just a bit??

ok better go - i have a chicken and vegie pie cooking in the oven so better go check it!