Babies Born June 2005 # 2

Max has started walking!!!!!! \:D/ and he is so proud of himself

As for the sleep thing Max has been waking once a night, we put him to sleep in his cot then when he wakes usually about 3am we tuck him in our bed and he sleeps till 6am. was trying to get him to sleep in his own cot full night but wasnt working. at least this way we all get some sleep

brooke- the proposal sounds beautiful ..congratulations again ! and good luck with the prac, I am supposed to be returing to work in 3 week but not sure what to do.. it is doing my head in.

would love to post a photo of max for you to see but wouldnt have a clue how to do it ;)

Astrid- so wonderful that maggies tooth came through. max is still all gums but seems like he has quite a few just under the surface, poor thing is really suffering . hope they come through soon

hi Bel- hope those bottom teeth of cobys come through soon :>


hey Linds- Evan sounds gorgeous!
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Hi all,

How is everyone and all the bubs? Thought I'd pop on and post - Cooper and I are fighting LOL (Cooper is my almost 7 year old). He's always been very....what's the word....opinionated? Overly assertive..thinks he knows best...lol...anyway, we just had a fight about his homework, because instead of doing it last night he said "I'll do it tomorrow" and so he has twice as much to do today and of course he stuffs around instead of doing it and then yells at me like it's my fault he has so much work to do and then he goes on and on and doesn't listen to me so that I end up losing my temper. So I grabbed all his homework books and threw them on another table and told him I'd write a letter to his teacher saying that he refuses to do his homework...LOL, that worked coz he went and snatched them up again and said "I'm going to do my homework no matter what!" and now he's not talking to me LOL.

Lozi - wow at Max walking already. My boys both walked at 10 months, that was soon enough for me. I wished they'd walk later coz when they are still so little they don't really have much common sense or idea of dangers etc, whereas if they are 12 months or older they understand a bit more.

Linds - welcome back! Nice to hear from you again, of course you are more than welcome to rejoin us.

Brooke - ooh, engagement, I must have missed that post! Congratulations! Awwwwww, how cute, when you get married you can have Maya as flowergirl!

Well, Makenzie has started to do this sort of caterpillar crawl all over the place now. It's sort of like commando crawling but she moves both arms in unison rather than one at a time. So I've been madly babyproofing and vaccuuming all the spots that never get vaccuumed today. She's been inching herself around for a while but never this much or at this speed lol. Cracks me up, it's so funny.

She just cut a top tooth the other day, too.

Darn, she's upset about something so better go. Besides, Cooper's abandoned his homework and has joined his brother outside for a bug hunt, so better go and tell him to get inside without it turning into an all out brawl LOL.

hey Lisa,
you are so right about it being better for them to start walking later and i have the same concerns about him hurting himself but hopefully he will be ok

cooper and mackenzie sound gorgeous

Hey Brooke,
Hope all is going well with your prac and Maya. It must have been hard to be forced to do your prac at this stage but good on you for getting through it. It is so hard when you get upset and they do to. keep strong you are doing a great job!
I am not sure what i am going to do about work, not sure if i am ready to leave max just yet and will have to sort out who will look after max. who looks after maya when you are at prac? I am going to speak to work today UGH.. let you know how it goes

Not sure if it easier now that max is walking.. more like a bit of an uncoordinated stagger really. he keeps falling over and bumping into things i am a bit worried he will hurt himself so have had to get a play pen to put him in while i do my extra baby proofing

Lozi - that is one of the problems when they start to walk - they get a bit of momentum behind them and then their little legs can't stop quick enough and they just crash into things and stuff.

I'll try and put some new photos up on Makenzie's website tomorrow, I've taken a lot of pics over the last couple of days.

LOL, I have these dangly earrings that I wear all the time and Makenzie is obsessed with them. Anyway, if I'm holding her she is always grabbing them - luckily she's pretty gentle and hasn't ripped my earlobes in half - but last night she was standing on my lap and kept trying to get them them and I'd turn my head and say "No, they're none of your business" and then she'd grab my nose and turn my head back so she could get them. It's so funny (not for my nose though, coz she grabs it hard).

finally spoke to work about coming back which is kind of a relief because it was really stressing me out. they were better than i expected and said if i want to come back part time i can or if i want to extend my mat leave till june i can do that too .. think i caught my boss in a good mood

i am still not sure what to do .. but have told them will let them know next week after DH gets back from o/s

brooke know what you mean about play pen i am having the same problem with max

Lisa- cant wait to see the new photos

hope you and bubs are all good

Well I have a heap of new photos up on Makenzie's webpage (just click my www link thing below). A couple of the boys, too. Poor boys, I take a heap of Makenzie and a couple of the boys lol. I should try and take some more of the boys. I guess coz they don't change all that much, whereas Makenzie is learning new things all the time that I want to take photos of and her looks keep changing too. Might take some photos of the boys now while they are fighting over Pokemon cards LOL.

Miss Makenzie had chicken today for the first time - thought I'd better start introducing some meats. Chicken looks disgusting after it's been minced up in the food processor - like someones chewed it up and spat it back out LOL. She loved it though, had it with pumpkin.

Grrr, she's having a hissyfit over something, better go,

hey Lisa

love the photos! mackenzie and the boys are gorgeous! I have to try and set up a site with photos.. I am so hopeless when it comes to these things

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to introduce myself, I'm Katie, my daughter Mayson was born 8/6/2005.

Hope it's ok for me to join in, I am a stay at home mum and have finally just got the internet connected so I am a happy woman!

Katie

Katie- Welcome to bb great to have you here! Mayson is gorgeous O:) My son max was born 15/6/05. looking forward to chatting

Brooke- whatever you are doing is working with maya at least for now anyway ;) with max just when i think i worked it out he changes on me.. funny how they do that. That is so great she has been waking once a night.. if you have any suggestions send them my way .. i need any help i can get LOL. I am have a look at photobucket now.. thanks for the tip O:)

Hi everyone else !!

Brooke- i have anxieties about leaving max too. i have only left him with my mum so far and MIL is very jealous but she is a bit crazy anyway but that is another story. i think my anxieties are what is making my decision about work so hard. I think you are being very strong even though you are finding it hard. I hope things get better for you soon

Finally started to get some photos up on photobucket when my camera ran out of battery so will have to put up more recent photos later O:)

Brooke- felt like the solids were helping settle but then he started waking again.. but he has a little tooth coming through down the bottom finally.. you can just see the tip so maybe that explains the waking??

I havent been able to leave max over night yet.. have been using the fact that am BF as excuse not to, though kind of would like to in a way.But then just feel like i cant and find it too stressful
You are right about people respecting your wishes when they look after them, my mum does but my MILS dont and that is what stresses me out more than anything about the thought of leaving max with them or anyone else for that matter

we just got a new pc so havent downloaded msn on it yet but have added it to my signature and will try and do it tomorrow but am off to bed now for some much needed sleep zzzzzzz. Thanks for your support.. it helps knowing that you are not the only one O:)

oh Brooke- forgot to say i put max to sleep by either giving him a cuddle, feeding him or lying down with him.

Hi guys,

I think it's quite normal with a first baby to be anxious about leaving them, especially overnight. You get this idea in your head that no-one else is as capable as you are to look after them and then worry about them the whole time.

I tell ya though, wait till you're up to your third child and then you'll be ushering them all out of the door for a break LOL.

First time I left Makenzie overnight was when DH and I went away and that was for TWO nights, but I coped pretty well. Missed the kids a lot but not enough to make me want to come back home early LOL.

Brooke - you anxiety at leaving Maya just shows how much love you have for her. It will get easier, just stay strong.

I left Evan today for a few hours with DH and missed a feed - the first feed I've ever ever missed! I had to go out unexpectedly, so left DH with some EBM. But Evan wasn't interested in the EBM (he's never had it before and wouldn't take it from a bottle or sippy cup) but he had a great 2 hour sleep this afternoon and ate all his solid meal so he was fine! i gave him a BF when i got home. I'm feeling really good now and more confident that i could leave him for a few hours now to do something more fun (i had to go today because my mum decided to have her 7yr old dog put to sleep after biting someone - has a history of aggression, but has been a companion and best friend for my mum since divorce so was a hard decision and i think she made it mainly with Evan in mind).

Hey all,
Hope you are all good and had a nice weekend!

last night i left max with my mum for a couple of hours to go out for dinner. when i came home found out that he had cried the whole time saying ma ma she tried to give him a bottle but he wouldnt take it. i felt so bad. when i got home he was still crying and then just gave me a cuddle and went to sleep straight away. it sort of made me more stressed about leaving him, although i know the more i leave him the easier he will get.

Brooke- it must be hard for you with your mum in nsw.
so great that you were able to establish a r/ship with your MIL that you are able to feel comfortable leaving maya with her.
I feel alot of pressure to leave max with my MILs but just dont feel comfortable leaving him with them. maybe things will change as he gets a bit older.. i dont know...? Thanks for your advice.. i appreciate

Lisa- i am sure you are right i must get easier leaving them .. at the moment it just gets me so upset but i am sure once i feel more comfortable leaving him it will get better ;)

LG- Congratulations on missing a feed! so sad about your mums dog though.. hopefully next time you miss a feed it will be under happier circumstances


hey everyone else hope you are all good!

laura

Hi guys, I'm having a few difficult days with Coby, he's got a cold, just came on yesterday but must have been brewing for a few days prior to that as he's been in a horrible mood and wouldn't sleep no matter what I did. Anyway, I've got some medication for him now so hopefully that will ease it all a bit for him.

I have been having heaps of problems with my cycle, I've been bleeding now for approximately 45 days, I know, its terrible! Anyway, went to gyno today and he was keen to give me a hysterectomy!! Because I have had heaps of problems and had to go through IVF to conceive Coby, so I guess he figured that it was time to get rid of it all and be done with it. But I told him that I wasn't really ready to commit to not having any more children, so we've put it off (the hysterectomy) and I've got to go under and have a hysteroscopy (scan of uterus etc) and a curette, PLUS, he wants to give me an IUD - Im really not keen on this because I am hoping upon all hope that I will fall pregnant naturally (not that its likely, but you never know). Im just so upset about it all, its just horrible. Why can't I just be "normal" like everyone else and not have to go through this rubbish?? DH is now saying he's "not sure" if he wants any more kids, because it will mean more rounds of IVF and he's not prepared to go through that heartache again. So there's another strain on me, facing the fact that he might not want any more kids.....AAARRRGGHHHH I just don't know what to do for the best, I was thinking that I would just keep trying naturally and if in about 2-3 years if I hadn't fallen, I would consider IVF again.....Im not getting any younger and don't want to leave it till my fertility drops dramatically....

Bel - don't worry, my cycle is a mess. I have PCOS, when that was diagnosed years ago I was told the chances of me falling pg naturally were practically nil. (PCOS causes you to have hardly any periods and very rarely, if at all, ovulate). Anyway, all 3 of my kids were conceived naturally (plus there was a pg after I had Cooper that I lost). I've heard soooooo many stories of people having IVF etc and then falling pg naturally afterwards. So don't give up hope. Just try naturally and see what happens. Actually, don't really "try" so to speak, because it usually happens when you least expect it.

Anyway, my cycle has been all over the place, I'd get a period, it would stop for a few days, come back for a few more, then it would be 5 weeks and I'd get another...then I'd get it for a couple of weeks..then I'd think it had stopped only to have it come back a week later. I did ring my Ob's and the nurse there said wait and see what several cycles do, if they don't go back to normal to go in and see them. Would be hard in your case though with only one child and being told to have a hysterectomy. Could you go on the pill for a little while? Just so you can have a break from your period or at least normal periods for a while?

Isn't it a pain being female!

Brooke - I didn't realise about the anxiety problems. Before you know it you'll have finished your prac, though.

Linds - that's so sad about the dog. We got a dog from PAWS a couple of years ago, gorgeous little thing, but it started to get really possessive of me and doing weird things like taking a dump in the middle of the kids room (as if to say "I want your mum to myself, here's what I think of you kids). Anyway, she snapped at DH one day (just like a warning thing, he tried to get him off the lounge) and he said if he ever snapped at the kids, he was out of here. Of course one day the dog snapped at Riley and he was only 2 at the time, he didn't have the reflexes to move his hand, so it actually bit him. Not a savage bite, was like a warning snap but it still hurt Riley and scared him. So I rang up PAWS and told them they'd have to take the dog as we couldn't keep him. So the woman just said to me "You'll have to retrain the dog and teach the boys to be dominant over him". How do you teach a 2 year old to be dominant over a dog? Anyway, they took the dog back and he got adopted out again which made me feel a bit better. I was so upset when he had to go but I didn't want to risk my kids being bitten again.

Makenzie has a cold as well. She was pretty miserable yesterday and still not happy today, took her ages to get to sleep for her nap but then she slept nearly 3 hours so can't complain. The boys are at school/pre-school today so am enjoying the peace and quiet.

Doh, she just hit her face on the bottom shelf of the desk, better go comfort her.

Hey Lisa, thanks for the positive slant to my probs, it made me feel heaps better. Gee you girls in here are good hey!! I have certainly had a better afternoon, so thank you all.

DH and I have decided to go au natural for a while and just see what eventuates. If nothing well, we might reconsider IVF in a couple of years, but not really keen to even think about that just yet. So Im crossing everything that I fall naturally.

Am thinking about going to an accupuncturist - has anyone used one? What do you think??

hi bel, so great to hear you are feeling a bit better... great idea to try au naturel i have heard of so many people falling pregnant that way after years of trying.
a friend of ours used a chinese herbalist in surry hills in sydney . they had been trying for a long time and werent too hopeful but fell pregnant almost straight away. i can try and find out her name if you like?? I have also heard of another one who specialises in fertility called catherine chan i saw her website once.. you could try googling her name.. think she is in norther nsw.. centrral coast maybe??DH had a realative who saw her.. and they fell pregnant but after unsuccessful IVF not sure how long it took though

wow thanks Lozi, yes if you could find out the herbalists name that would be great. I might google the other one you mentioned too.

Thanks for your support over the dog. I know it was the right decision - can't even imagine how awful it would be if he had ever gotten to Evan - but it's still hard because he was a part of the family.

Hope the pracs going well for you, Brooke. At least Maya is settled with your nana and MIL (2B!). It's really really hard to leave them so i can't imagine what you are going through with your own seperation issues. Thank you for sharing. I know i'm hopeless leaving Evan, and he's always fine! Me, I'm glued to my mobile phone!! LOL!! You should be really proud of yourself for continuing with the prac. I think you're fantastic. I often keep an eye on your website - i love watching Maya grow - she's really very beautiful.

Evan has started pulling himself up on his activity table lately. he's actually on his knees playing with it at the moment. Sometimes when he gets up on his feet it topples over on top of him. Hasn't ever really hurt him, but he gets a bit of a fright. He's crawling comando style everywhere now (so fast!), he can get up on all fours but doesn't move much like that yet.

I was meaning to ask, Evan absolutely LOVES the water (we take him swimming once a week and he loves going underwater and falling in from the side, and making loads of splashes etc) but he is terrible to bath because he won't stay still. We can't get him to sit down! I bought a bath mat thinking maybe it was too slippery but that didn't make any difference, i've given him toys to amuse him, but he still just wants to swim, kicking his arms and legs, jumping up and down and laughing all the time. Any suggestions as to how to get him to sit still for a couple of minutes?????

Linds

Oh and i also meant to say to belinda, i am beginning to suspect that there are far less "normal" cycled people than i used to think!! I was diagnosed with PCOS (despite having very few of the characteristics associated with it), and it took us 2 cycles of using clomid to concieve Evan after 6 months of waiting for my period to arrive since going off the pill! I'm also starting to think now how to go about concieving #2 (not that there's any major hurry) but I haven't had any hint of a cycle (well for about 2 years now!) and am starting to wonder if i'll have to wait until i stop BFing before using clomid again. Or if my body will just jump start iteself. I think it's great that you've decided to try naturally for a while. I think the best thing to do is just relax and not to get stressed and anxious over it. Good luck!

Linds

Linds - with PCOS I think it takes a while for you to get your period back if you are b/f. I b/f Cooper for 13 months, I don't think I got a period until he was 9 months. After that, though, they became somewhat regular (every 6 weeks), so it was almost like a normal cycle. I managed to conceive Riley in about 5 months and we weren't even trying LOL. I think once you've fallen pg and had a baby your body realises "what to do" and it's usually much easier to conceive second time around. I don't really have that many characteristics that go with it either (the PCOS). I only got diagnosed by chance because I stopped the pill as I thought it was contributing to my migraines and didn't get a period for 6 months so they did a blood test then an ultrasound and diagnosed it. You'd be surprised how many people are around that do have PCOS though.

You might have to buy him an inflatable pool and throw some soap in that each day! LOL.

Brooke - How can I look at Maya's website? It asks me for a password now. Did you block me? LOL

Bel - what's the bet you fall pg within the next couple of months because you're expecting it to take a while!

Makenzie's been rotten with her day naps the last couple of days - once she's asleep she's fine, but getting her to sleep is a fight. I'm terrible, too, coz I can't stand to leave her crying in the cot for long, but if I go in that makes her worse. So I have to persevere and if she gets too distressed I go in. Took me two goes today, finally she went to sleep. I don't know whether it's because she has a cold or whether she just wants to play all day long!

We had such a hectic morning. DH took the Ford in early this morning to get something fixed, so of course he goes out to start the other car so I can take the boys to school/pre-school - and it had a flat battery! So we ring the NRMA (road service) and that car is not covered by our road service so we would have had to pay some ridiculous amount to get it started. So he had to phone a neighbour to see if he could get it jump started. Luckily Cooper is within walking distance of school (he was hoping he could stay home LOL) but Riley's pre-school isn't so of course Riley was bawling coz he thought he was going to miss out. Finally got him there an hour late. You never get flat batteries when you have the other car to use though LOL.

Anyway, better go get myself organised and clean this place up. I have to keep so on top of vaccuuming and picking up the boys toys etc now missy can get around.

I just went to look at your site again too, Brooke and it does ask for a password!

I just Looked at your lovely boys and Makenzie too, Lisa - what gorgeous children you have!! Look like a handful tho! I can't imagine how you cope with THREE! I have enough trouble getting everything done and look after one! Let alone throwing in car dramas too!! I can't listen to Evan crying either - I tried once a few weeks ago and it was a disaster! He sleeps much better when i BF or rock him to sleep and its far less stressful for all of us!

We are in the process of going from 3 to 2 sleeps during the day. It does seem to suit him better and he is sleeping for longer (1-2 hours) each time. When he had 3 sleeps, by the last few weeks i was lucky to get 45mins out of him, especially at the end of the day! I always find it difficult to juggle his sleeping around things i have to do during the day tho! For example, today we are meeting with our mothers group at 2pm which is exactly the time i would usually put Evan down for a sleep, and tomorrow Evan has an appt with the baby eye specialist (to get a discoloruation of his left eye checked out) at 9.50am in town and he would usually go to bed at 9.30am!

Linds

Linds - LOL, I don't get things done with three! Besides, if I tidy and clean etc it's all just trashed within minutes it looks like I've done nothing all day anyway. You can't imagine the amount of time I spend in our laundry, either! Boys make their clothes putrid and then change them again several times a day!

Kenzie's usually really good with going to sleep, I can put her in the cot and she just goes to sleep by herself no dramas, but the last couple of days she hasn't. I don't know how people can cope doing controlled crying.

It's hard getting them into a routine when you have things to do at their nap time. Makenzie sleeps when I let her LOL. Although she does seem to be falling into her own routine of a sleep around 10am.

Gotta dash

Wow, I can't believe that you both (Lisa and Linds) have PCOS. Isn't that amazing. When I was first diagnosed (when I was 15 - looooongggg time ago) I'd never heard of it and neither had anyone that I knew. But here we are.

I too don't have any symptoms of PCOS other than the usual horrible skin and strange irregular cycle. Im not overweight etc, so its weird. It must be the "new syndrome" for our age group....

Thanks for your support girls, I am hoping to fall without even trying too. Fingers crossed.... [-o<

Linds - I can't believe that you have some sort of routine with your bub, Coby is still not in a sleeping routine, although, he just goes down about 2 hours after he's woken, so I usually know when he's ready, but we don't really have "set sleeps" or "set times". Would love to get to that stage, but I guess all good things come to those who wait.

Belinda, I'm only just starting to figure out some kind of routine! 7pm has been Evan's bed time for a couple of months now, but the days have been all over the place. It's really only the past couple of weeks that he's been ok with going with 'my' routine! And even that is flexible. I do try to keep 'night time' between 7pm and 7am though. But he's sometimes awake ready to get up at 6am :shock:

The other thing i was wondering, is do any of your babies respond to "no"? Since Evan has been crawling, he won't sit still and he's after EVERYTHING he shouldn't have (remotes, phones, shoes, bookcase, entertainment unit, phone cords....!).I seem to spend my day saying "no" and turning him around the other way! He just thinks its funny that i have another tone of voice i think. Any ideas how to teach him, or will he just learn eventually? And how long?! He is such a curious, active little boy (oh i think i'm in for some interesting times!).

BTW, I'm not sure what happened with that post that has arrived 3 times - sorry about that! Now i feel that i've been AWOL for a few months and now i'm back i won't shut up. Sorry about that, i've just realised what a fab resource you guys all are!!

Linds

Linds - Maggie is very similar, the house is a disaster zone. She has made it her mission to pull everything down and throw it on the floor. As for the NO thing, she is beginning to get the idea, but the moment I have my back turned she is at it again. I think I will just have to live with stuff on the floor for the moment.

Maggie now has a 2nd tooth, another top one. The bottom ones looks as though they will break any second. Had her first altercation with one of the cats, luckily not too much damage, just a tiny scratch, I think the cat kept her claws in.

Think I have a jealous princess on my hands. At MG the other day she had a real tanty about me holding another baby, even though she forces herself onto everybody elses laps.

Bel - the only real symptom of PCOS that I have is being a bit too hairy for my liking. Luckily it's not a problem on my face. I have a friend with it who has all the "classic" signs ie obesity, hirsutism etc. She basically has a beard, poor thing. She's Italian so I guess genetics also makes the hirsutism worse, too.

Linds - Makenzie doesn't understand "No". I do say it to her when she's trashing the house but luckily she hasn't managed to get to any power cords or anything like that yet. I forget she's mobile now and do silly things like leave the newspaper on the floor while I go to get something and come back and she's ripped it to shreds and ingested half of it. She got today's local paper when I went out of the room and DH came out and told me and I was freaking out coz my letter to the editor got published and I wanted to keep my "claim to fame" LOL. Can't remember how the boys learnt "No". I think if they kept going for something they really shouldn't have, like something dangerous etc I'd say a firm NO to them and move them, and keep repeating it to them.

Makenzie's not really in any sort of routine, the only routine thing is she wakes between 7-8am each day LOL, and has a bottle when she first gets up. Everything else is done when she indicates she wants it (ie food and bottles for the rest of the day, naps etc). Her day naps are whenever she gets tired, although I try not to make the afternoon nap too late in the arvo. Sometimes she wants a nap after being awake for 2 hours, other times she can stretch herself to 5 hours without getting upset or showing tired signs.

Oh, we went out to dinner as a family tonight for the first time in ages. My boys are bad enough at dinner time at home, let alone at a restaurant. We won a $20 voucher for the local RSL which is like only a few houses away from us so we went up there for dinner. Makenzie was so good. She sat in the highchair and played a game of throwing her toys across the room for the boys to retrieve LOL. We bought some raffle tickets too and we got some free ones coz the boys had been drawing while waiting for their meal and gave their pictures to the lady selling the tickets. We ended up winning a meat tray, so that was good!

Anyway, off to play The Sims for a while before bed (that game is so addictive, no wonder I uninstalled it several years ago LOL).

EDIT - Hi Katie, sorry, completely missed your introduction post! Was just going through the posts looking at everyone's bub's websites and noticed it. Sorry! Wasn't ignoring you. Welcome to you and Mayson, what a gorgeous name!

Brooke, sounds like you've got what I've got, apparently its going around, so it might be in WA too???

Linds, your day sounds exactly like mine, I'm forever chasing Coby away from phones, power cords, remotes, plants - lets just say anything he's not supposed to have and he doesn't understand NO either yet, but we will persist, I think that's the only way to go about it...

Stormi, sounds like dinner was a hit, you will have to make a semi-regular thing, it gives you a break from the house and from cooking too, aaahhh what a relief!! Good on you for winning the meat tray I reckon they are great, I always buy tickets when we're out if they have a raffle on....

Astrid - Ouch at Maggie getting scratched, I guess she will learn in time what she can and can't do with the cats.... Good on Maggie for getting some more teeth, they are buggars aren't they!! Coby isn't jealous of me holding other babies, but Im sure that is to come, how can you stop them feeling that way?

Coby is feeling a bit better today I think, but Im feeling worse, so hopefully he won't be too hard for me to handle today, I find it so hard to deal with him sometimes when I am sick, you know what its like, you just want to curl up on the lounge and watch daytime telly when you're sick....

Hopefully the antibiotics will kick in soon....

Hope you're all well....

Astrid - Cats seem to know when to not hurt someone. We had a cat a couple or so years ago, someone from the down the street moved out and abandoned it (was still a kitten, not a real little one though). So we took it to the vet to be checked for a microchip etc and we kept it. My boys were quite rough with it but it was sooooooo tolerant, and when it had finally had enough, he would swipe but with it's claws in. Riley was probably about one or so when we got it, he used to go and lay next to it and push his head into it's belly and this cat used put all four paws around Riley's head and bite his head LMAO! But he never bit hard or used claws, but was annoying enough that Riley would leave it alone.

Makenzie looks like another top tooth is coming through, but not the other central tooth, it's the one next to the front top one she already has. Does anyone's bubs that have teeth grind them? Makenzie does it and it's the most awful sound!

What quantities are your bubs eating? (ie tablspoons, cupfuls etc). Makenzie just had lunch and she ate probably 1/3 cupful of chicken and vegies and then a whole yoghurt. I'm sure she's going to make herself vomit one day LOL.

OMG, I just took her out of her highchair and cleaned under her neck and she opened her mouth and that other tooth I just mentioned is through. She was grinding her teeth really bad when she was eating her yoghurt, she must have ground the gum away! Ewwwwww

Lisa - i was actually wondering the same thing about other babies eating quantities! For dinner, Evan usually has 3 icecubes of veggies and 2 cubes of fruit. Just measured the cubes and they're about 50mls, so - 150mls veggies (pumkin, broccoli, potato) and 100mls fruit (apple and pear). That's an evening meal. For breakfast he'll eat 1 TBS baby cereal (mixed with full cream cows milk) and half a banana. And for lunch about a quarter of an avacardo and the other half of the banana. Well that's whats been on the menu the past couple of weeks anyway! I'm still BFing him about 4 times a day and sometimes a feed at night (but usually only a really quick one). I wonder if this is all too much? He is a big boy (about 9.5kg).

Hope Makenzie is coping with the teeth coming through so quickly! Evan is still all gums - no sign of any teeth yet! I'm beginning to wonder where they all are hiding...?!

I took Evan to the optometrist today as he has a slight discolouration in his left eye. As i thought, it's just a freckle, and his vision is all fine. In the waiting room, Evan was wriggling around and checking out other peoples shoes, and AMAZINGLY every time i called him to "come back to mummy" he came!! I couldn't believe it!! He was all smiles and i just acted cool as if he always does that LOL!!!! I was quite impressed!!

Linds

Linds - that's so cute that Evan came back to you when you called. Does he love shoelaces? Makenzie spots shoes across a room and takes off at full speed to get them before we move them. Same with her nappies, that was the first thing she actually commando crawled properly to - one of her nappies I threw onto the floor.

Evan will get teeth soon enough. My boys didn't get their first teeth till 8.5 months and then it was another month or so before they got another. She's quite different to the boys. The boys milestones were pretty much the same - they started sitting, crawling, teeth, walking at the same time as each other. Makenzie has more teeth but I don't think she'll be walking at 10 months like they both were, she's not even pulling herself up on furniture yet. Not that I want her walking yet, she can take her time LOL.

I dunno how much food they should eat. I think I read they should have 1/3 - 1/2 cup per meal. Something else I read said a couple of tablespoons, so who knows. They say babies will stop opening their mouth once they've had enough, or push it away, which she has done before, but sometimes I wonder. Unless she's like her mother, I'll keep opening my mouth to that even if I'm bloated LOL. I guess as long as their weight is not way over what it should be, and they are eating healthy food, then it wouldn't be a problem. It's not like we're feeding them cake and biscuits and ice-cream.

Well, tomorrow is my makeover day. My SIL has a friend who is a hairdresser so she's talked me into going to her house so I can get my hair done by this friend, cut and coloured for a lot cheaper than at a salon. I'm a bit scared coz I'm going to cut it short..maybe not short short but a lot shorter. Bit scary. I've had short hair a few times before but then decided to grow it as long as I could so have had quite long hair for a couple of years or so now. But I'm sick of Makenzie crawling around and ending up with my hairs off the floor tangled around her toes and fingers, and she's forever grabbing it, so time for a change. Haven't had it coloured for a long time either, so who knows what I'll end up with. I'll have to post before and after pics on Makenzie's website. The good thing is DH is going to be home to mind the kids so I get a bit of a break. I told DH it might take a week for my hair to be done LOL. Just hope Makenzie doesn't cry if I come home with a drastic new look.

Cooper got his hair cut today and thinks he looks uber cool coz I let him get "shark" hair (think Kyle Sandiland - not that "sharky' though, his bit is shorter).

Suppose I should get to bed, have to leave early tomorrow as hair appt is 10am and SIL lives a bit of a drive away.

hi all,
max has two new little teeth peeping through down the bottom in the middle! he looks so funny LOL

have to go max just woke up will try and pop in a bit later

laura

WTG Max!! Its a huge milestone isn't it Laura!!

Not much to add but Coby and I are great, hoping you are all having a good time too.

Hope everyone's enjoying their weekend. My boys have been banished outside coz they were so naughty. Riley turned the hose on outside so they were both soaked (as well as all the dirt etc so now there's mud). I told them not to come back inside unless they were clean and dry LOL.

OMG, had such a fright last night. Was running Kenzie's bath and put some water on to boil for her bottle. We were both in the bathroom and when the bath finished running I brought her out onto the floor to undress her, when I could smell burning. Anyway, thought something must have been on the hotplate from dinner, you know how you get little spills and it smells when it's burning, anyway, the water was boiling so went to turn it off and the burning smell was really strong and then I realised THE HOTPLATE WAS ON FIRE. There were like huge flames coming out of it, I'm yelling for DH, Cooper came racing out and I told him to run and get daddy, so he's freaked out and run off saying "DAD! THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE!". DH just blew the flames out. I was scared though, my legs were all wobbly LOL.

Poor Makenzie, there must have been a mozzie in her room, she has several bites on her but she's got one right between the eyes. My kids react pretty bad to mozzie bites, they turn into huge red lumps, so she looks like she's got one of those Indian bindi things between her eyes.

I got all my hair chopped off, it's very short. Probably got 30cms chopped off the length. The boys want "mummy" back LOL. They said I don't look like their mummy anymore.

Better go feed these children.

Lisa, I would have freaked too!! My smoke alarm started going off the other day for no aparent reason and it freaked me out, I thought there might have been something in the roof on fire, as we built our house a few years back and the smoke alarms these days are wired in to the electrical, so it couldn't be the batteries going flat, otherwise I think it just beeps when that happens. But it was going off completely, very scary. I put it down to the fact that it got hot here all of a sudden and must have set it off......

Cobys still got his cold and so do I, its so annoying, Im going to get a vapouriser today for him, its just getting ridiculous!!

Lozi - they look gorgeous when they smile with those two bottom teeth. Then they look sort of weird when the top ones come through, I guess coz those ones are so much bigger. Poor Makenzie is having a horrible time with that top right front one. She's got the one next to it, that's broken through, but that top front one is still working it's way out. Poor little thing, so far all of her teeth have come through two at once - which halves the teething time but doubles the pain I would think.

Bel - it's yuck when they have a cold, isn't it, especially as they don't realise to try breathing through their mouth instead, and they don't understand why they feel like that. Hope Coby is feeling a bit better.

Makenzie's just having her bottle then DH and I (and Kenz and Riley) are going to my parents house to pick up my old school desk for Cooper. He has a desk that MIL gave us but it's an old one, but my one (which is just as old) has the bookshelf part to it so Cooper can put stuff on the shelves rather than all over his desk so he has no room to use it anyway. Trying to think what else I can take from the house while I have the trailer. Long story short, dad passed away a year ago, mum's in a nursing home and she has dementia, dad never updated his will since 1991, so everything was left to mum, she is not capable of handling her affairs, she was also unfit to sign a Power of Attorney so us children could deal with these issues, had to go through the Guardianship tribunal, bottom line is now the Office of Protection Commission is in charge of everything and the Public Trustee will be selling the house. I am not sure what they do with the contents of the house, but they have a fairly new lounge, fridge, TV etc in there and I'd rather sell those and put the money in my mum's account rather than have the public trustee just donate them to charity or whatever they do. It's been such a stressful year after dad's passing because of the way the will was left and we've had to muck around with solicitors and such. Just makes you realise how important it is to update your will whenever ANY circumstances change.

Anyway, better go coz I think we are going in a minute.

Oh dear, it has been a bit quiet in here!

Well one of those darn bottom teeth finally broke through a week or so ago! Cause some really yucky poos and now the poor bub has a nasty rash, that is only now getting better.

I am really beginning to work on a night time ritual for Maggie, it is very hard and stressful, but I am hoping that it is worth it. If you are interested in what is going on have a look in the gentle parenting section.

Well she is just a hyper little bub, into everything!! Had yet another fight with the cat, not her fault, the cat is just temperamental, she is the one that came up for pats. Maggie has an obsession with the chess set. She knows she is being naughty and will look around before she tries to get the pieces. When she is caught, she does what I call the "naughty dance" and giggles insanely :lol:

Finally putting away the 00 clothing, a bit sad, as I really liked some of those outfits, but now I get to use the new cute outfits!

Maggie is now also ignoring boundaries. Before she would not leave the living area without hesitation, now she just keeps on going. I often find her in the bathroom., she is so quick. Off to get a safety gate today so we can at least stop her from getting into the kitchen.

How is everyone else going?