Heaven – Lol re checkout chicks announcement! I’ve just checked out your photos – what a gorgeous family you have. Nathan looked like he had a lovely birthday.
Rory – Yay on Flynn sleeping right through – that’s great news, hopefully you’ll get 5 or 6 months of full nights sleep before it all starts again!
Bath – hehenot a typo – I just worded it really badly – he has been going away a few times a month since we have been in Aus (4 or 5 years)! But yes even the 4 days he has been away this week does feel like 4 years!! Yay for Niall sleeping through too – Until 8am – I am so envious – I am lucky if Will sees 6am these days (although I just bring him in bed with us and feed him then DH often get up with him and gives me a lie-in so can’t really complain). From the photos on your site I can’t imagine you doing ‘bedragled’ either!he usually goes away at least twice a month for the last 4 or 5 years so you’d think id would be used to it by now
Emishka – yay for Caitlyn sleeping through too.
IK – 4th Yay for Oscar sleeping through!
Mel – Might have to arrange a get together for Will and Marley when they’re older as maybe if she’s not going to be too tall herself she wouldn’t mind a short boyfriend hehe – Will was only 70cm and 8.2kg last month!!! Looking forward to seeing pickies of Marley’s canvases, she sounds like she had a lovely birthday. That was so nice of Chelsea to make the book up for Marley – she must really love her little sister. I read your birth story – wow – that must have been so scary getting there expecting the epi then nope – shes on her way now! Sounds like you did an amazing job though – ol on keeping your eyes shut – I think I would have been the same.
Amanda – Poor Cody and his needles, I am dreading taking Will – it will be me crying at just the sight of the needles (DH has to hold him though as I just can’t and get too upset – then I give him a big cuddle and feed afterwards – James reckon Will gives him dagger looks for days after! Hehe). My DH is a Geochemist for CSIRO but mainly computational modeling of fluid systems for predicting mineral placements. (I am so proud of him – he was diagnosed as severely dyslexic at Uni so was helped there but all through school he’d been told how he was never going to get anywhere and to drop his chemistry A level as he was so rubbish at it (not their words) – I would love him to go back to a reunion now and go up to the teachers who were so rotten to him and say something like – it’s Dr James now and I’m a senior geochemist so v-sign to you! But he’s too nice he wouldn’t do it.
Isabella – hope you managed to organise your birthday bash for Indiana this weekend – hope it doesn’t rain for you. Poor Cameron and his haircut – I would have been so mad.
Nickel – sounds like you are having an awesome holiday. Lol on forgetting Ruby’s birthday.
Ali – coped ok without DH but had a pretty average day today – he’s back tonight – hopefully within the hour so that’s ok – although only for 3 nights then he’s off again for another 5 – grrrrr. Glad I’m not the only one who ball for DH’s going away! Hope your ms hurries up and goes – it sounds like it’s being pretty mean to you. It has been pretty chuffing cold here in Perth hasn’t it! This house that we are in is always so much colder than outside – great in summer – pretty bad now although we’ve got heating so it’s ok – just end up with a big electric bill! That’s great that Tori’s walking everywhere – she won’t be trashing her clothes in the mud and wet like Will will – wish he would walk soon but he hasn’t even stood without holding on so I don’t think it will be anytime soon. Good luck for your move. Have a great time at Aqwa – I went about 5 years ago when we were here for a visit and loved it – will have to take the kids soon. Hope Tori has a great day.
Nic – Poor you – I so hope your house sells quick so you can get out of MIL’s – sounds awful. Poor Nixon also – the cough sounds terrible – it is so heartbreaking to hear them like it I hope he is better very soon. I so hear you on getting annoyed when DH is away – I know my DH works very hard when he is away but he also gets to go out socialising with work buddies and go to nice restaurants then I get the tipsy phonecall after having a really crappy day with the kids and having spent till 8.30 tidying grrr so anyway – I know how you feel - (hugs).
IK – Hope your exam went well – and good luck for the one tomorrow – I think you are going to need to sleep for a week when they are all over! Do you get time out from studying when the exams finish before starting again?
Well haven’t had too bad a time with DH away but I’m dreading next week when it’s a day and 2 nights longer (he catches the red-eye on Sunday – grrrrrr). He’s coming back to a messy house but that’s tuff – I am so tired – partly my own stupid fault as I hate going to bed by myself so I have been staying up really late on BB – silly girl that I am. Will was abit of a nightmare today as I left it a bit late to give him lunch then put him down for his sleep so he was over tired and wouldn’t sleep – he ended up staying in his cot for over an hour (not crying but not sleeping either) so I gave up but that meant he was a cranky cling-on for the rest of the day.
I have decided I am definitely going to wean him – the last few weeks of bf have been so unpleasant. I usually love the warm and fuzzy moments of him cuddled up to me when he wakes up (I only ever feed him lying down) but the last few weeks have had no warm and fuzzies – just ouchies. He continuously pulls and twists with both hands in opposite directions and has yanked his head back a few times in the last few days which has nearly sent me through the roof. I keep trying to stop his hands from grabbing me but that just sends him off into such an angry place so that he won’t feed so basically tonight he’s gone down tonight without any milk as I wouldn’t let him try to pull me apart. I have an appointment with a dietician at a local hospital next week for some ideas as he’s still dairy intolerant but might try some soy or goat milk over the weekend.
Anyway, better go – I’ve just heard DH’s plane land so I ought to go and pretend ive been in bed hours!
Nighty night everyone
Julie x
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