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Wow, I haven't been on in ages and thankfully not too much to catch up on.
Jess - sorry to hear you are having more housing hassles. Hopefully you find your dream home soon.
Tali - tell MIL to mind her own business! Why do they think they can interfere in their kids lives? As others have said, its a decision for you and DH to make and she should keep opinions to herself. Bet she doesn't say anything directly to you about it. How is May going at school?
Nic - glad the christening went well apart from your little escape artist! Can't believe no one noticed him, they must have been having too much of a good time. Look forward to the pics, hope your family and friends took good ones.
Jaspen - not nice to still have m/s! You must be so over it? How is the rain, still going? Heard it has been pretty bad up north.
Amanda - twins, wow! I thought I was having twins when pregnant with Marley. Had bad dreams for weeks about it until first ultrasound. When is your first u/s?
Rory - similiar philosophy to Bath, don't push it, just go with it. Their attention span is zilch and can be so time consuming and frustrating waiting for them to say it. We have a big thing about manners in this house and everyone says "please" and thankyou" so the kids pick up on it. I wouldn't worry too much as they copy alot of what they see and that can be far easier than forcing them to say it. They are stubborn little things! Marley has thrown some ripper tantys over the smallest things.
Bath - I am not looking forward to the teenage years. We will be hitting you for advice when that time comes.
Ali - oh hang in there. I hope this phase settles and feeding starts becoming enjoyable again.
Well I am back at work 3 days now which started last week and so far so good. Kids are getting used to the routine and getting up a bit earlier. Chelsea is loving school and really likes going to either before or after school care. The teacher came for a home visit today which was great. Much easier to talk one on one at home than at the classroom with other parents all wanting to talk to her. The first thing Chelsea wanted to show her was her room LOL! She talked about how she is going in the classroom and I was very proud to hear her tell me what a lovely soul Chelsea is. Very kind natured and unphased by anything. She was also impressed with her lunchbox, saying how healthy and appetising her food looks. Wonder what other parents are packing that is so bad?
Marley had her first full 2 days at creche last week and that went great. She is loving the social aspect of it and is eating up a storm, 3 servings of mtea on Thursday! They are great with her allergy requirements, making her yummy alternatives if needed. She is getting the hang of sleeping in a bed, 1 hour the first day and 1.5 the second. Hopefully this week she will sleep even longer but she has come home very bright and chirpy. She even did her first drawing which is proudly on the fridge!
Must go and try to finish the rest of my washing, while the sun is shining!
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I too have been MIA but BHL is now away again for 2 weeks so will be able to catch up a bit as he hates it when I'm on the computer all day as he puts it...( I think it really because he wants to go on a look at mountain bike sites...
Jess- hope you have some good news soon with your housing...
Jaspen- hope the m/s goes soon mine normally goes around the 16 week mark maybe this meant pink for you?
What about this rain I thought we had it bad on the weekend as our pool flooded the back padieo area as we had so much and at the moment the pump is broken so we could get the water out and to make matters worst the drain blooked up so the water had nowhere to go that God BHL was home so he could un-block the drain as it was so gross I couldnt do it plus had about 1000 cane toads swimming around the back yard.... But when I realised you guys were under again and there is another low bearing down by the end of the week I thought the place will never dry up...
Amanda- when do you find out if you have twins or not? I too used to want twins but not now as if we did it would be 5 and that seems so much bigger than 4 Plus I am selfish and would be too scared that I would never get my body back again as I have been very lucky so far to come back down to size..
Rory- I am amazed that you are even trying the P's and Q's yet Kai isnt even talking enought to start that yet....
Mel- So glad that Chelsea is loving school. May is still crying when we drop her off but I think it so that she gets the attention from the teacher's aid as soon as she strats to cry now the teacher's aid will come over give her big cuddles and tell her that she can sit on her lap and that may can be her speical helper today, so now I think May plays on this a bit so that she can be the speical helper but what can I do May's has already worked out the system... But as we will be moving in june she will have to go to kindy ( if I can find one) so she will be in school next year anyway...
Well when I droped off the kids at school today Zaydens teacher from last years ran into us and asked about us moving so we told her when we were going and told her that we were thinking of putting Zay back a year to year 2 instead of 3 in Melbourne and she said what a great idea that was and that, that would do him the world of good, as it will give him a chance to catch up. Now I know that his report wasnt all that flash mostly C and D's but for a teacher to say that it would be so much better for him to repeat the year in another state makes me mad if it would benifit him there why wouldnt it have done the same for him here to repeat. I wish Australia would unifiy the school systems it would make things so much easier...
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thanks for the kind wishes regarding the m/s ladies - i'm hoping that it will mean a nice calm baby - I don't know where I figure this from but one can only hope. (and if it means pink that would be extra special but I'm trying not too hold out hope for fear of disappointment)
tali - it is so wet here at the moment trees are falling out of the ground everywhere with only the slightest breath of wind - flooding not as bad as last time cause it didn't last as long - i've never known Townsville to be so humid for so long.
mel - good to see the girls seem pretty flexible with changes to routine and mummy back at work an extra day - i must say we've never been huge on routine on this house - it just doesn't come to DH very easily.
anyway had better dash for the moment - ob appt this afternoon - don't know what there will be to discuss but hey i'll go give him his money for 10 mins of his time LOL
hump day ladies - hope the rest of the week is good
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jaspen- Funny you say that as that is one of my baby tips LOL dont know if its true or not, but most ladys I know who have had "bad " PG have gone on to have very good sleeping well babies I have had this with all 3 of mine but that all changes when they turn 1, My GF had to great PG wouldnt even know she was PG apart from the belly but had babies who would sleep ever!!!! but with her 3rd she had m/s and back ach and all the good things that come with having a baby. But she had a wonderful baby who slepted through at 6 weeks plus she had had two boys and the last was a girl so could have been a different sex thing as well, but its always nice to think that you might be getting all the bad now and not once baby comes....
Well Kai is been a big pain in the bum, I am trying to train her so she has no nappy on but I have to put one on to do school drop off and pick up and for when she has her naps and this is when she is going I am putting her on the toilet and potty as we have both, but she just wont go I read her a book which she loves but the minute I have to put a nappy on her its like she truns on a tap its never ending the nappys are like night ones, but now the night ones are leaking as she is holding on so much it all come out at night. She know when she is doing it as she comes running pointing and saying a word that could mean wee ( she still isnt making out many clear words) so I know she understands, my only problem is I feel that if she doesnt get it in the next 6 weeks do I just give up as we would be moving in another 6 weeks from that date, and I dont want a half trained child with me when we move. But if I do that, that means that she wont be starting to train until dec this year.. Argggg I dont know maybe I am just beening silly over nothing as I always say you dont see many 10yr olds walking around in nappy's so she will get it one day... :wall:
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Hi All,
Just a quick one to say i got a text from Donna thismorning.
She gave birth to a little boy thismorning, has not been named yet and he was 6lb 13oz
Congratulations Dee, hope your both well and look forward to hearing your birth story and seeing some pics!
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Congratulations Dee on the arrival of your second son - hope you are both well. (thanks for letting us know Nickers - please pass on my congrats if you're talking/texting her)
tali - I can only hope LOL!!!!!
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Congratulations Dee on the birth of your second boy.
hugs xoxo
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Congrats Dee on the birth of your son...Nice weight as well
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OMG...we were on the second page!!!!!!!
OK Junies I have a difficult decision. I have two outfits to wear out tonight and I can't decide what to wear.... Here are the two choices
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Jess- I like the 2nd one the 1st doen't give you any shape...
Just letting you all know Kai did her 1st wee on the toilet today YIPPY!!!!!! but has sence dont nothing BOO....
Gee it sticky here today cant wait to move and have a shower and actully be able to dry my body without having wet sticky skin!!! Do you know how hard it is to put your knickers on in this weather I know you will know what I am talking about Jaspen....LOL
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Second outfit, Jess - it's very smart!
Ok, I'm back. First:
Congrats, Dee!! Thinking of you and your two little boys :)
Tali - I agree, the people at school should be using a full name unless a child expresses a preference for a shortened version, or when other kids start to shorten it without the prompting of a teacher. It's kind of rude, IMO. For instance, I have a shortened version of my name that ONLY my friends called me at school. Being that I didn't have many friends at all, it was only a handful of people I expected to hear the short version from. These days if I want people to know the short name, I give it to them. If I don't, I give them my full name and they can figure it out themselves, or get friendly with me and ask if they can call me something for short! Mean? Nah, it's just a courtesy.
Amanda - congrats, you! Yay for your little bunch of cells in there :)
Umm, there's so much to catch up on that I think I'll implode if I try to comment on it all. DP is on the bed, crashed from the jetlag he didn't believe he'd get (I mean, what would I know, I've only done long haul travel before and he hasn't...hee hee!) and I've sent Oscar off with my dad so I can clean up a bit more without the kid stringing out at me. Distraction is the theme here, and I can't do it while I'm tidying up!
Oscar did so extraordinarily well on the flight home and I got more sleep than DP, hence I'm still in the land of the living. Not for much longer though. I have the dogs returned by MIL and they look like they've spent half the week in planes.
Ok, from memory, someone asked about BFing. I'm still doing it and still enjoying it - probably couldn't have handled the flights without it. Oscar still shows a preference for it and I don't like the idea of making him wait till he's had solid food first. I'd rather he get his 'super food' (quoting Rosemary Stanton here!) first, then fill the rest of his belly with the solids he decides on (some nights he'll love one food and spurn it the next, some nights he'll barely eat a thing). I've explained to DP that it's ok if he has a BF and doesn't eat much after, cos it means he woudn't have eaten much anyway, and been less likely to have 'Babu' after, missing out on solids and BF nutrients. Ift hat makes sense. There are times he'll get distracted and his attachment is sloppy, so I have to reattach him (still!). This can happen at night, too, when he's being careless and really tired - probably my own doing by letting him suck on a dummy at night when he's not feeding, and I use the dummy so that I can give my nipples a breather! Oscar doesn't seem nearly ready to give up his Babu. London is where he fed the least during the day, but there were times when it's what he definitely wanted, and he'd waited long enough. I thought he'd be too distracted in Ireland, too, but for some reason, this wasn't so. Still no AF, so I guess the sporadic nature of his feeding is keeping my hormones in ovulation suppression mode.
I have photos from the rest of the trip on Facebook. I haven't tried uploading anything to BB for ages because it took too long, I'll see how it's going now.
We nearly had a heart failure today. We spent hours shopping in a mall in Dubai, which is so rare for us to do anywhere, but we really wanted to find DP a pair of sunglasses to replace his Ray Bans that he left somewhere in Wexford. I ended up choosing a pair, too, so the guy there gave us a discount, making a designer pair of sunnies VERY affordable! Anyway, we thought we'd lost them again, this time between meeting MIL and getting to the car. I discovered them in the luggage trolley, where they'd fallen out of a bag. I think the thought of choosing another pair and claiming TWO pairs of glasses on travel insurance took whatever wind was left right out of us. Not only had we already lost a pair, but it is hard work getting that man to a shopping centre (if you thought I had an aversion, this man is pathological!). We were in that damn mall for about 5 hours!
We have made it back alive and undivorced. Quite an achievement, given some of the more heated moments. Weren't too many of those, thankfully. It smells so good to be home - nothing like getting back and smelling all the eucalypts and hearing the kookaburras (did they always sound so loud??).
Next time we make that journey, it may well be with 2 kidlets. My head hurts to think about it!
Anyway, next trip is NZ at the end of March for a wedding.
Right, I'm starting to fade quickly, now. better go,and be back in true BB form!
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Welcome back Maya! thats great your still bf and wow on AF still not returning! even when i was bf Nixon i think it came back after about 4 months, and well this time around i never really had the bf opportunity and even with all the expressing af came back 2months ago. kinda didnt give me much of a break seings i bled for nearly 4weeks post birth....
Jess- which outfit did you wear? I also liked the 2nd outfit it was quiet smart!
Yay Kai on wee in the toilet! Ive been putting Nixon on the pooty before bathtime on and off for months now but still no success in weeing in it! i think we'll be a while off b4 he is ready for toilet training, will hopefully get the idea of it toward the end of the year in warmer weather and he will be 2.5-2.9yrs
dh has finally returned from all his interstate work, all up the ast 4 weeks he hasnt really been around. so today i had a day off, after swimming in the morning he went to his mums and i went to have a much needed massage. after that i went to Myer and bought my first ever suit! its a lovely black Cue one and im very happy with it, looks very corporate hehe! tried a few dresses on for a wedding coming up then went down the coast and did a tupp party for my gf.
I've started organising Nixon's 2nd birthday, yikes im gonna have a 2yr old soon lol! Im making a "builders" cake for him which is in the Jenny Dodd party idea's book. lots of great cakes and themes in it.
no word as yet on what Donna & DH have named their little boy.
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Nic - thanks for letting us know about Dee, great news. Hope her and her new bub are settling in well. Can't wait to hear what they named him. Well done on getting a well deserved day off. Cue has some beautiful clothes and I bet your suit is fab! You are so organised planning the party now, at least you won't be rushed in deciding what theme to do. Can't believe Nixon is nearly 2! Love the new ticker pic, the boys look gorgeous.
Jess - have fun tonight, I would have said #2 as well.
Tali - i wouldn't worry about the toilet training much until you move. Its such early days anyway and might be easier once you have settled into a new place. We didn't really start with Chelsea until she was over 2. What age did your others toilet train? I have heard they all do it at different times. Great result today but then expect a few misses.
Maya - WELCOME BACK!!!! I have been checking your FB pictures and they are awesome. You must have a great camera. Glad the trip went well, sounds like my kind of shopping in Dubai! Hope you get a great nights sleep tonight and I am sure those kookaburras will give you a wake up call tomorrow (or those dam ****atoos!)
Has anyone heard from Julie? Its been ages since her last post - hope everything is OK.
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I've been in such a tizz, and you're right, Mel, I haven't noticed any posts from Jules for a while, even in my skimming. I hope she's travelling so well that she doesn't have time to sit down at a computer.
Nic - good one on the massage! No matter how many you have, you just take your opportunities, don't you, cos the other half may well not think of it first!
Mel - speaking of ticker pics, Marley looks ace in yours! Might have to update mine, even though I love that Osc pic, I have some other cute ones now. Our cameras are the same, DP and I both use the camera on our Sony Ericsson phones cos it's a better camera than the dinky little Aldi camera, which also gave some good pics for a 3 MP. Phones have 3.2 MP. So, it meant only having to carry around one unit instead of phones and cameras. Updated some more pics to FB, will just have to tag and title them, then approve them for viewing :)
Woke up nice and early this morning - I'm never up before 8, but I was so glad to wake up in my own bed (albeit confused) that I didn't mind Oscar stirring early.
We've had brekky, Oscar can say 'Coco' (sounds like GoGo ATM), we've discovered that the little mouse in our house has quite the appetite for newspaper when Coco is in boarding school (with MIL!) and all is well.
Our washing machine doesn't work and we have tons of washing, but I don't care, a)because it's mainly winter gear, and b) cos we're in our own home again.
Jas and Tali - I hope you can beat the stickiness somehow! I suppose talc would just become a streaky mess?
Better go do some more unpacking now...
More unpacking to do.
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Hey maya great to see you back!!! Isnt dubai having it Gold sale this month? I know some women who would give there right arm to go to that!! LOL I think it would be to much for me as I hate crawds. I have a GF at playgroup that is going there on monday to see her DH as he works there and he wants her to move over with the kids so she is off to see if she could cope living there..
My AF doesn't arrive until at least 3/4 mths after I have completly stoped BF so with DS that was about 18 mths girls were much earlier, so maybe you too will have to wait until you have finished..
Mel- Funny you say that as about 3 mins after I had writen that she had done her wee in the toilet she did one on the floor again lol which is where she does most of them but as we have tiles here its not so bad.. I am in two minds about training as DS was trained before he was 2 day and night but DD1 was almost 3 before nshe got it, Plus if we do decide to drive down again it would be really hard with a just trained child as she still doesnt talk she can tell us when she needs to go.. Yesterday I was just lucky to catch one in the toilet, I might stop trying soon.
Jaspen- cant believe you are flooding again I hope your house has missed most the water!!! let us know how you are I heard there is more comming today as the troft is moving up the coast..:crossfingers: all is ok
Ok girls I am really bad at finding people in Facebook so it would be great if you could PM me your name or I could pm you mine so that I can find you!!! not that I get facebook much but as there are a few of you on there and its easier to upload photos there I too would love to have a look...
Well May is going to her friends house today for a play its werid letting her go to someone else's house to have a play without me been there she too young but I am droping her off and will go pick her up so she wont be there that long and its not like I dont know the house she is going to its just hard not beening there too.. Gee I have had it too good with Zayden for too long her has still never asked to go to anyones house as he is to scared and what Mays been at school for 3 weeks and she is already having play dates.. Plus Zayden told me the other day that she was holding a BOYs hand in the playground he was not happy I thought it was funny at least I know that when they are bigger in high school he will always be there watching her.... so she wont be able to get up to too much.lol I hope:pray:
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Welcome back Maya!!! :dance:
And congratulations Dee! :D can't wait to hear your new little man's name!
Jess: I liked outfit number 2 as well :)
Sorry have to be brief again... I should be resting... spent yesterday arvo at the emergency dept at the hosp. with chest pain. Everything was fine... just need to up my dosage of medication. So tired, couldn't take my Sunday school class this morning. Dh has been great, he's out doing the grocery shopping now with the kids. Although yesterday he cracked it at verity when I was in pain because she moaned and groaned about having to keep an eye on the boys.... I mean, he really cracked it... so i took myself to the hosp. 3 hours later after tests I wandered down to Heidelberg shops and Verity called out.... DH was in getting pizza and the mood was cheerful. DH said he apologised after I left.
Enough about my troubles. Maya: I checked out your piccys in FB last night.... ooooh Dubai! LOL I love/hate that place! So good to have you back safe :)
Oh and another moan while i think of it: I had the boys booked in a half day care in the city last Friday but Wade woke up with a temp and a croaky voice... so that put and end to that! he is never sick... oh well, can't be helped i guess... have them booked in again this Friday... knowing my luck Niall will fall ill (he's a bit snuffly today). So all going well i'll be in and around Melbourne central this Friday if anyone wants a meetup. Maya i note that it will be your birthday so if you come I'm shouting you a bit of cake! ;) I'm hoping to make the Friday daycare thing a semi-permanent thing so it would be ok to try another day if this Friday is too tricky. Mel: what are your free days again? You're working 3 days now? Mmmm, I'm day-dreaming of a nice little desk job in the city... DH says if we have to leave here we should consider living in there... hmmm, not sure.
Julie: miss you matey, hope everythings ok :hug:
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Well the night was absolutely fan-bloody-tastic! DH took a couple of pics of me with Adam. Catherine and The Noll Brothers (which are Shannon Noll's big brothers!)
I ended up wearing the pants outfit ( I was boiling by the end of the night though!), and at the end of the night Adam gave me a hug and a kiss on the cheek!
I spoke to Catherine, The Noll Brothers and of course Adam and got a couple of autographs as well.
Got home around 12.30am, but I'm not tired at all!
