Babies Born in June 2006 #38

[Roryrory]

Hey girls, finally a decent post from me! I should be upstairs cleaning (we've all been sick for a week and the place is looking real rough!) but it is so much nicer to be down here talking you you all

Bath, Dubai sounds great! It will be a great time in your lives to go - only bummer I can think of would be losing your lovely house! Maybe the owners would still offer to sell it to you when you got back?

7th, I know the feeling about being broke - we hit that stage a few months ago, but a GF of mine (who works at the ANZ, incidentally!) gave me the bright idea of transferring my credit card debt to a 6 months interest free deal with another bank, which i did, and now we are a bit more financial till July also, as we too are waiting for tax time. I will be able to pay our cc off (but I will keep the extra $20,000 the other bank offered, sitting there, for emergencies! can you believe that credit limit!!) and start putting $$ away for Little One's birth and my "confinement".

Amanda, hope the kids stay nice for ya

Plonkee, LOL at "Will looks extra battered today " - makes me think of some little Linus character that always looks a bit rough aroung the edges but is particularly shabby ATM! Thanks for the three cheers on Flynn sleeping through the other day, but unfortunately our little Terrorist it back to his old night-waking tricks again though, which is a bummer.

And Mel, I love that poem too! I will have to remember that one when I come home from work and DH and Flynn have trashed the place LOL! I can't be too hard - DH is about a month off finishing his masters (THANK GOD!!) and he and Flynn have the best time together, as the pics on our website attest.

IK, bummer about the exam - try not to stress before you get your results tho, you might be surprised

Nickers, I feel so sorry for both you and Nixon, I know how awful it is when they are sick And Ali I do how your ms goes away soon! Gosh it is a bummer being tired and sick and pregnant, ain't it?

Now I know Nickel posted recently, as did Emishka and Dee (congrats again, honey!!) - as Ali said it is so nice to see you all in here again.

News with us? Well as mentioned above the Terrorist is waking up at night again, I think it is a combo of overtired (we have experimented with late nights - sometimes 8 or 9pm) and sore teeth (back molars coming through, we think) and the beginnings of an imagination. The night light seems to help but sometimes he seems really scared, rather than just annoyed.

I spent this morning at a Law Institute meeting, and Flynn was a little lamb for the whole 2 hours, I was so pleased and proud of him. I then bought myself some maternity wear - I nearly died at the price ($310) but I got a good pair of Ripe pants (I cheked out the stuff at Target and KMart but none of it looked as "nice" as the Ripe pants I bought last time, which are still going great guns) as well as a black jumper top, a black skin-tight top and a lovely formal black lace dress - we have a wedding to go to in September and I just know that between this pregnancy and the next I will have a few formal dos to go to. I had one the other night at the Old Melbourne Gaol (lovely place but bloody cold in June!!) and squeezed into a non-pg dress, but realised that was my last time I could wear that one.

Flynnie and I went grocery shopping in the arvo and I made a nice laksa for dinner with Aldi prawns - $9 for 500 grams! I bit of an exxy meal but we have eaten so many curried snag casseroles lately I needed something a little lush.

Better go - I am catching up with mates for yum cha tomorrow and them a GF is down from Sydney and holding arvo tea at her mums, so tomorrow should be a good day too.

Now, if only I could unblock my nose.......!!

[Jesswith6]

Well its been another cold day here at the foot of the snowfields.
We were meant to have visitors today but they didn't turn up! No phone call, no txt msg nothing...I am really p!ssed off!
The whole family went for a walk around to mums this afternoon, but it was too cold for Pat to walk home f=so mum drove us home, the others had to walk though! *evil laugh*
Dubai sounds interesting Bath! Let us know more details.
Dee- I know how it is with no money! Friends of my parents offered to lend us the bond money for the house, but when it came the time to hand it over, they didn't come through with it. We used all of my payment and my mums payment so we have been living on the bare essentials for the past 3 weeks.
Well, better go and get Miss Bella to bed! Ciao

[AmandaJ]

Going to have a quick vent. I rang DH at 5pm to see what time to expect him home for dinner, oh I don't know might be a late night. Well that spark about an hour long arguement mostly me shouting and him as well. So I'd made a nice dinner and the boys and I had it, I didn't leave him any, lol (me been a b***h). Ok feel slightly better, boys in bed, me on here, what else do I need.

hugs xoxo

[MelS]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NATHAN for yesterday, hope you had a great day!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TORI, hope the aquarium was lots of fun

Julie - hope Will has had no more injuries today!

Bath - will have to check out the controversial issues! How exciting about Dubai! One of the Professors at my work travels their frequently to lecture and he loved it, said it was very clean, nice people. Its always a great opportunity to go overseas, esp for work. My GF in Japan is loving it and she is only there for 7 mths. Would you go for #4? Would be super handy to have a maid to help out. School fees sound very reasonable. Love the sound of your concoction, aren't they always the best when you just make things up?

Amanda - hope the weekend is not too stressful! Buggared Chops - sounds interesting, might have to look it up.

7th - must be a nightmare for you with a bad back! Hope it gets better quickly, luckily you have some handy helpers in the house. Bring on the end of financial year!

Rory - DH must be so glad to be finishing his masters. Will he still stay home and look after Flynn when its finished? Sorry to hear Flynn is night waking again, esp when you really need to get some good rest. Flynn did so well to last for 2 hours, Marley would be tearing the place apart by then LOL!!!! Ripe maternity wear is fantastic. I think you get what you pay for, and they will last you and they fit much better than Target ones. I found if you look good, you feel good. Dress sounds nice too and sounds like you will get a bit of wear out of it. Laksa sounds yum and what a bargain with the prawns! Enjoy yum cha tomorrow.

Well it was party day today. I went out for my monthly dinner to Japanese last night and got home and cooked cakes! Got to bed at 2am! I was so tired this morning, took Chelsea dancing, came home and cooked some more slices, tidied up and then family arrived. Thankfully it was only a party for family, there was only 10 people. Marley had a great time and even managed to last the afternoon without a sleep. By the time she went to bed at 6pm she was cactus, her eyes had shut before I had done the zip up on her bag! Some stayed for dinner and we had Thai (delicious!) and everyone had left by 8.30pm. Marley got some lovely presents, in particular a gorgeous carousel that you wind up and it plays music as the horses go around, DH's nana bought her that and it is just beautiful. B'day cake turned out OK, but it was a little down on my usual standards! At least it tasted good LOL!!!

I have uploaded some pics from the party.

[nickers]

Bath- wow id love to go to Dubai, sounds like as great opportunity.

Happy birthday Nathan for yesterday

Happy birthday Tori!

well Nixon is finally on the mend. I think the amoxil has kicked in and doing its thing, i got home from work yesterday to see a smiling happy boy! still has a bit of a cough but nothing like it was. Had a tupperware party today so feel like ive just worked all week! At mums tonight and going to a christening tomorrow. It will be nice to have DH home as im begining to feel like a single mum!

Loved the poem Mel, very true indeed!
IK hope your exam went well.
Rory- if u find a solution of unblocking noses let me klnow will yah! lol ive had this for almost 2 months. BUT i think i can see the light at the end of the tunnel, im on anti biotics atm and think it is helping finally kick this dam cold.

I have emailed a few agents regarding renting a [roperty but havent heard back from any of them. i knew i wouldnt have time to look at anything this weekend so never called any but might during the week so we can get somewhere soon. It may take a bit as we need a ownder that allows outside pets. MIL continues to do her thing, dunno whether to laugh or cry sometimes!

umm i was gonna write something esle but now i forget, will have to look back at the posts again and ammend

ETA: Poor Will, i hope his bruises etc heal up quickly. dont worry about ppl at the shops, like u saud those without kids might think bad things but i am sure those with young ones might see him and think Yep i know what he's been up too!

and Dee- how is your back, hoping its getting a bit better. do u have one of those heat packs or anything? ive found them a godsend in pg anyway. Ekk at Nathan's climbing! Nixon has figured that one out yet, he puts his leg up like he wants to get up but has no idea what to do after that!

oh & the other thing i meant to mention is Nixon had his haircut! didnt get too much taken off just a tidy up really, looks even more like his dad now i rekon.

[Coolabahdee]

yup Nic, heat pack in place, I have had my little helpers going non stop, lol
I though maybe some exercise would help but, i nearly collapsed on my walker doovy, Back was really spasming. It's definitely Sciatica I have the pins and needles down into my feet, It really bad but I'll be fine. We won't be broke soon, ours is very temporary, I probably shouldn't have mentioned it as we are very fortunate really,there aren't to many people how could live for two months without being paid any money. We will be back to scratch next month.
Ok nighty night girls, I should go to bed.
Bye Dee

[New Dawn]

Hi all,
sorry i go a bit quite when hubbies home as we only get a week together before he goes again.
Zayden seems to have gone really well with his glasses his teacher had a big talk to the class to let them know why he has them so fingers crossed thats the last of that.
Kailaia has been really grumy sence she had her needles and hs had a bit of a temp, but it could be just the cold as the older two have given her a cough she sound horrible.
Went to a baby shower last night at the playgroup i go to so have been very busy cross stiching flowers and chickens onto clothes, looked very cute but when i got there my 4yr old ask the mum to be when the baby was comming to have a shower and when the mum to be ( after tring not to laugh ) said not for a while she huffed and puffed and said well how many minutes is that. so i had to tell her that we were here just to give her presents and to have some food and talk she was happy and went of to play.
Well school hoils are here in queensland and i have know idea what i am going to do with them, but half way throu the 2nd week daddy comes home again and we are going down to Hervey Bay for a few days so we can look around and maybe buy land. So i'm very excited about it but not looking forward to the two day drive with 3 kids.
hope all of you school hoils have lots fun

[Coolabahdee]

Thats about 16 or so hours isn't it Tali, do you break it into 2 8 hour drives? Ohhh Gawd the agony. Do you have a car DVD player. I love mine. Lol DH and I share the driving so we don't prolong the agony and do it in one trip, although we don't really go further then 13 hours from home. Except for when we went to Katherine, NT, we overnighted at my Dads place in Mount Isa, DH wants to go up again next year, We are flying, he wants to drive, I said he can, he can drive the Hire car from Darwin to Katherine, lol.
Hope you find some good land. Have fun on your trip.
Yay for the hollies I love not having to get out of bed and maddly organise children out the door. My kids have plenty of kids in the street to play with, so they are occupied.

[Dee78]

Hi Ladies,

Tali - i dont envy you with that long drive, im stressing out about an 8 hour drive that i have coming up in September with one child!! I would highly recommend a car DVD player though (as dee suggested) they are a life saver, ill definitely be getting one before we go away.

Dee - I hope your back gets better, i have had Sciatica in the past and its agonising!

Nickers - I think i will be heading up to Engadine on the 1st July. Ill be up for the week and i would love to catch up with you. I am going to put the feelers out for anywhere for you to rent. I know a couple of people that have rental properties so i will ask around for you! Do you still have the same Mob number?? I will text you when i am up!!

Mel - Sounds like the party went well. LOL at you staying up until 2am to do cakes. I honestly dont think i would be able to function the next day if i was up that late!!

Bath - How did the concoction go?? Was is a hit?? My mum used to make the same thing (well almost) she would do the mash potato and pumkin but stir some vegemite through! It was great, i make it for lachlan sometimes and he loves it!
Dubai sounds interesting. I would love a change!!

Well. i actually had three nights of lachlan sleeping from 7pm until 6am, having a bottle and then sleeping until 8am!! oh it was heaven, considering i was going off to bed at around 8.30pm myself!!
Im trying to think of some new and exciting things for dinners for him but im just at a loss. Is everyone cooking a seperate meal each night now or are we still doing the frozen portion thing. Im still freezing mash potato, pumkin etc in ice cube trays and using those but i cant help but feel like he is too old for that now. The only problem is that he eats dinner way before we do and i dont want to be cooking two separate meals!!

[New Dawn]

Hi All
This is my first time with a ticker so I am just writing a quick note befor dinner to see if it worked sorry not very good with computers. while i at it I dont understand half the codes you all use so if someone has the time to write me a de coder that would be great so sad i know but i guess once the kids are older [url=http://lilypie.com][/url

[Coolabahdee]

Hi Tali. Do you mean these things IYKWIM, DD DS DP DF DH brb AF ??

IYKWIM .... If you know what I mean
DD .... dear daughter
DS .... dear son
DH/DP/DF .... your dear hubby, partner, father of your children what ever you call him
brb .... be right back
AF .... your girlie visitors
DPO .... days past ovulation
IMO .... In my opinion
JMO .... Just my opinion
FYI .... for your information
Lol .... laugh out loud
ROFL .... roll on floor laughing
LMAO .... laugh my ar se off
BTW .... by the way
BFP .... big fat positive
BFN .... big fat negitive

hope that helps babe. BTW love the ticker!!

Tali to clean up your ticker go into user profile and edit signature and add a ] to the [/url at the end of the ticker code. so it looks like this [/url]

[Smoke Jaguar]

Mel - sounds like you had a lovely time for Marley's party! Nice that you could keep it to just family, too.
Donna - Oscar has been having our food for a little while now, for dinner, and sometimes for lunch, depending on left overs. We have him eat with us, but if he's had a big day and needs to sleep, we just eat without him and I just give him booby feeds when he stirs later in the evening. So, from left overs I might freeze some food for him and it mainly gets used by MIL or my parents for when I leave him with them.
Tali - you'll get there, and before you know it you will wonder why it doesn't seem like it took you too long to get the hang of forum-speak!
Jess - how rude about your non-visitors!
Julie - how's the biting going? Did it make you or break you in the last few days since you posted? I can definitely see why many mummies wean during the biting stage - I persevered using blind faith that we could get beyond it!!
Today was our party day. It was ambitious, but we pulled it off. DP was up till late last night doing the deck rails and steps, then was up early this morning to finish the balustrades, so that no-one fell down the great drop behind the deck! He bunged up two places with plywood, temporarily, but it is mostly done, and it did the job for today. We had a patio heater (not one of your fancy cafe ones, but it did the job) and a fire drum on the patio area, as well as the wood heater inside the house, so although it was a cold day, everyone had a source of warmth. My mum helped with some salads and two roast chooks, two others brought salads (pre-arranged), and a family friend made a fabulous cake that I just finished off now (hee hee!). I stressed myself out this morning because my first attempt at a cake for Oscar failed dismally. My oven has worked fine for cookies, but I had never baked a cake in it...and it's just crap! A recipe that is supposed to be 45 mins at 180 degrees, needed a good half hour over that to be cooked. The first effort was binned (it was that unsalvagable), but my second take was actually quite nice! The icing wasn't great, but you get that. One of the kids who came is gluten intolerant and my cake used gluten free flour (just cos I prefer to use it anyway, not cos any of us are gluten intolerant)...he was one happy camper! He went running out to his mum yelling "Mum! I can eat the cake, it's gluten-free!". So, that made me feel better for not having checked the ingredients of the lollies I had bought for the kids! He had his own bag of food he could eat, but it would have been nice if I had provided just a bit more. We had enough food for everyone (you'd hope so, after spending nearly $100 on meat alone!! From a very good butcher, though...would spend that again for a BBQ party), and for a Sunday, we had a few people left after dark. All brigade people, though. I realised that the ones who stayed on were all the ones who are in Oscar's life on a regular basis...all brigade people. So, I'm glad we invited all of the ones we did. I didn't get to talk to people as much during the first few hours because I was organising salads, snacks, lollies, balloons (I kept being requested to provide freshly blown balloons for the kids! More on this later), and whilst trying to keep tabs on Oscar - not cos he wasn't safe, but because it was his birthday party and I hardly saw him!
On a tangent, it really bugged me the way some adults were when I was dealing with the kids. These kids, who were anxiously awaiting me to do my balloon thing, were talking to me at the same time and it was lovely. However, whenever my dad needed to know something, or my mum wanted something, or DP needed something, they would interrupt me with the intention of suggesting that their business was way more important. Yeah, ok, it might be to adults, but to the kids who just want a balloon to play with? I was very miffed by that, because I was expected to just drop the kids and deal with other things. How rude! So, whilst adults were getting impatient with me, I would stop what I was doing, explain that I had to do something but that I would be right back, and I excused myself. Precious seconds that if wasted would have meant the end of civilisation as we know it...according to the adult who was waiting for me to drop everything. How do you explain to a kid that their business just isn't as important as the big people's? You don't, that's how. Anyway, just a vent. Had I been talking to another adult, I would have heard an 'excuse me' and there would have been a hell of a lot more patience involved. It just made my blood boil.
Anyway, apart from that, everything went well. We offloaded the dogs to MIL, because one of the kids is scared of all dogs. That and our dogs would have been too boisterous, but I was concerned about this one girl who just can't deal with dogs.
During the party I didn't have to wash a single dish - we had helpers everywhere!
However, there are no helpers around anymore, DP has gone to bed (after putting in a great effort with the dishes before when I was dealing with Oscar) and there are still things to be cleared up so that we don't get an ant invasion. Oscar is finally asleep in the Ergo and I'll offload him now.
One more thing. Oscar was with my parents this morning while I got ready and they brought him with them (foolishly! I should have left him with MIL...how stupid to think that for once my parents would come on time, or even early - as requested - on Oscar's birthday! He was nearly an hour late!!). When he arrived, most people were here already. He walked in, looked around and slowly started to recognise faces and started to smile - then proceeded to walk amongst everyone like a little lord! He had a GREAT time, and loved the Happy Birthday singing. Not a single startled tear, considering how many people were in HIS house all at once! I was so impressed with him, especially as he went from 9.30am to 3.30 without a sleep! He's a little party animal.
Anyway, from now on I should be able to catch up properly in here because I'm turning over a new leaf. A new study leaf...did you know that its actually far better to have some sort of structure to your week when you're studying, raising a child, and have hobbies and committments? Hmmm, yeah, I realise that now!!

[New Dawn]

Hi all,
Thanks for the codes 7th I will have to write them all down so I can start to use them
*IK* Thats always been a pet hate of mine to why do adults always tell kids to wait until there ready or tell them to say excuse me before they speak but nerver them selves do it when a child is talking. sounds like you had a great day very busy don't think I could do it but we live away from family and DH works in the mines so his friends are living in different states.
We are quite use to long drives as we have driven from darwin to cairns cairns to melbourne a few times but this is the 1st time with kailaia the longest she has been in the car is 5hrs so we will see how she goes. We will be stopping in mackay then to HB the next day but we will also so have our dogs with us I think Iam asking of trouble, but one of the reasons we wont to move is so then we are only a 2 day drive away from my family in melbourne which will be great as i am 1 of 7 children so miss them all very much.
Well have to go and change the first pooie nappy of the day ( Kai can do up to 6 a day )

[nickers]

Tali- there is a post somewhere in BB that has all the abreviations and jargon explained, there is a heap of them. I understand how u feel cause i remember when i first got on i had no idea what ppl were saying half the time!

Dee- oh excellent. I will go look in my diary but i would love to catch up with you and Lachlan. Is this w/e coming up? i am going to a scarpbooking day on the Saturday but cant think of anything else going on. Yep same moby so text me! Thank u so much re: proerty to rent.
I got all upset thismorning (mostly pg hormones) but the R.A agent rung me and all those interested ppl in our house are dropping like flies... i dont understand, he was telling me now the power lines are an issue... well i thought if they knew they were there and were interested in the first place we would have over come that by now.... I asked him what strategy they are using when ppl discuss it because to me i dont feel they try and point out other features and positives they prob just agree with them...i hung up and started balling cause i felt so deflated like we're gonna be stuck here forever and the hosue will never sell.
But then i got excited cause finally DH came home! his flight was diverted to brisbane because of fog so he didn tget home till about 11.15am thismorning. Nixon had just gone to sleep so he has gone to sleep too
oh think he is up BBL!

[Smoke Jaguar]

It WILL sell, Nic!! Good one for reminding the agent how to do their job, too! All houses sell, especially at the moment. Cheer up, you'll be out of there, even if you have to move before your house sells

[Bathsheba]

Nickers: just briefly: regarding what the R.As are telling you: oh they say that to everyone!!!! It's an old ploy... at first they get your hopes up... then just before auction they say what you've said... so then they can be the "heroes" on auction day. If you know what other houses in your street have sold for then feel comforted by that if it's what you are wanting. Don't let the R.As upset you. I was preggy when we were selling our last place too... we did ok despite the agents saying that some people were concerned about the mobile phone tower... it was in Brighton... I mean who is going to walk past a near-new 3 bdroom immaculate townhouse just because you can see a tower if you crane your neck? Buyers will ALWAYS play down a property... it's just how it goes... try not to let it get to you... water off a duck's back... just hang out for auction day... you bought it and you're not stupid... someone will also want to buy it, it'll be ok

[Coolabahdee]

Excuse me,um sorry didn't mean to interupt and when you get a spare sec can I see you please.... Lol how hard is it. I teach my children manners it would be nice if they carried it through to adulthood. I think it is rude that ppl don't use manners.
Ik I also have a mid year study break resolution, lol Very similar to yours, I want more structure in my day, So I'm doing up s schedule, just need to figure out a way to stick to it, lol.
Nik I'm sure it will sell soon, but can I ask how close and what voltage are the power lines?

[Roryrory]

hey girls, quick crash from me - I am at work
I posted this in the general thread but thought one of you gals might be able to help out

My 12mo son has learnt that if he stands at the edge of his cot and grabs onto the bars (with his arms over the side of the cot) he can hoik himself up and grab on to the bars and lift his feet off the mattress, all the while screaming for attention). My DH said he found him like that at 6.30am this morning while he was warming his bottle - I am worried he is going to hurl himself out!!

We have the Ikea Snigglar or Diktad (??) cot, which seems pretty "deep" to me, but does anyone know of any deeper cots? has anyone else had this problem? I am wondering whether we should just take the side off the cot and treat it as a toddler bed but get one of those guard rails to stop him rolling out? It's probably safer that he falls out of bed when its a 20cm drop than hurls himself over the bars!?!?!