Babies Born June 2006 #49

[AmandaJ]

Maya no, no camping this easter, and I'm starting to have some good moments now as well as the bad, so that's a great thing.

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE.

I hope everyone is having a great day, the boys have gotten their eggs but haven't had any yet, I was good this year and only got them a few, so that they can pace themselves as they don't get a lot of sweet stuff. I got some carmel kisses and fruit and nut noughut, plus some chocolate.

As I was saying I'm starting to have a break for a few hours from the constant nausea, so I hoping that in the next few weeks it will be gone for good.

hugs xoxo

[Jesswith6]

Happy Easter my dear Junies!!!

Only a quick post from me as I am trying to get this house into order so I can start taking things around to mums. I have all the kids beds apart and out the front, now just have to start to pack the clothes...If you can't tell we are moving!

Long story.
After our Real Estate agent pushed her way through the house, we got some advice from Consumer Affairs who advised us to just write everything down and then if they tried anything else to contact C.A again. We received a letter telling us that they were going to do another inspection 3 weeks after the last one and we said that was it. We organized with C.A if they tried to come in we were to say no they couldn't come in and take it from there, but they decided to offer us another house instead. It's a 3 br, but they are big rooms, and its set out much better than this one! It's about the same distance from the school, but its closer to mum.
We move on the 1st April..or around that date!

[MelS]

Tali - they used to the sand castle display in Rye, this is the first year its been at Frankston. It was a great location so hopefully they keep it there.

Maya - Chelsea is not really a big choc fan, which suprises me as her mother is LOL!!! Marley had her first taste this easter and she did enjoy it. I suppose one of them was bound to take after me. I find things seem so much better when you have a clean house. And you are right, esp the kitchen. Having an open plan kitchen means I have to keep it tidy as we live in there and I couldn't stand to see the mess. I am a bit of a neat freak sometimes, much to DH's annoyance!!! Hope you managed to get some study done, having a week's break is good but I bet there is still alot of work to do. Great news about your Tupperware being closer to home now.

Amanda - fingers crossed that the coming weeks mean no more m/s. Caramel kisses sound pretty good!

Jess - sounds like the new house is great, good luck with the move next week.

There is a great storm outside, I can't believe its finally raining and raining hard. We spent all day Sat in the garden. We ripped out a whole garden bed and moved the plants to other areas of the garden. I have been madly bucketing out water each day to make sure they survive. Hopefully this rain will do them good and they won't die. Spent the day with the SIL's family yesterday which was fantastic. They live on 6 acres with horses, goats, sheep and chickens. Kids loved it, Marley especially liked the pony. They did an easter egg hunt, then road some little 4 wheeled motorbikes. Just spent today doing all the washing I hadn't done over the past few days. Thankfully it was a good drying day today. At work we get tomorrow off as well so I am taking Chelsea and one of her friends to see Horton Hears A Who so that should be fun.

Off to go raid the cupboard for more chocolate LOL!!!!!

[New Dawn]

Did any off you Melb girls get any flooding ( and here I was thinking that I was moving away from all that stuff lol )

Maya have to say I havent been that good as all my kids eat chocolate and all the other bad cr@p too but not too much and they are all heathy so far ( they teach so much about heathy food in school DS is almost to scard to eat anything that might be "Bad" for him as it might make him fat which I think is a bit sad) But must say both May and Kai arent that big a chocky eaters which is good but poor Zay cant help himself lol ( just like BHL)

Amanda- glad that your M/S is starting to go now its the main thing that makes me re-think the whole 4th baby thing but its always worth it in the end and then some how we manage to forget we ever had it...

Well we ended up doing nothing for the whole weekend which Peed me off a bit but we had to clean up the house and garden we ended up feeling 2 skip bins so a fair bit is gone, its just hard as even though we have a fair bit of time before we move BHL only hast 3 more weeks at home before we go and one of those weeks we are camping and then the last 2 my parents are going to up...So not much time really...

We found out that the Navy wont move us home which makes me so mad why did BHL bother giving 12 yrs to his country if they wont even help us out now I would never recomend anyone to join up they just dont care about the people or there familys...But we will just move oursleves we are going with U-Pack-It as they are the cheapest $ 3000 plus $900 to ship the car so we might get there for about under $5000 with storage...Now I just have to play the waiting game I want to start to pack a few things but know that it is way to early for that but I might have to go through all our winter stuff and see what we have and what we dont as BHL is wanting to take about 4 weeks to get down camping all the way so I know that we will be blooming freezing but we might be semi climtised by the time we get down there ( but I am going to make him get a little heater that I can plug in when we are in the camper )

[MelS]

How's this Melb weather, last week heat wave, today freezing!!!! Thank goodness for the rain though, its doing a nice job watering my garden.

For those with older kids, definately go and see Horton Hears a Who. It was great, so lighthearted and funny. The kids loved it and sat for the whole movie with no problem. It went for about 90 mins. I can't believe how much popcorn 2 kids can devour!

Tali - thankfully no flooding (yet!). That's really awful that they are teaching kids of such a young age about getting fat. I understand the obesity epidemic but surely there is a better way of doing it. For some it might have the opposite effect and give them an eating disorder. I think its important for kids to understand why they need to eat healthy food but not by telling them they will get fat if they don't. My kids are both good eaters and are allowed treats. Sounds like you did a good job on the garden filling 2 skip bins. You must have been stuffed after that? How disappointing that the navy won't pay your moving expenses. Regardless of whether you can get a good deal to move everything, they should still be paying or at least contributing something. Get out plenty of winter clothes, because as you know, Melb winters can be super cold (esp after coming from Cairns). It must be hard to know what to pack now. I bet as soon as you do pack something, you will need it LOL!! Love the idea of a plug in heater.

Just been raiding my wardrobe for some warm clothes to wear to work tomorrow. Haven't had them out for a while. Will definately be packing the umbrella and scarf.

[Smoke Jaguar]

LOVING how Melb does this - truly, I do! I have so many summer and winter clothes, I love to give them all a good rotation
Perfect day to see my horse after a long absence - I took Oscar (cos I got guilted, then told that it was ok to leave him at home, but by then the guilt trip had done its work...) and he kept pointing out all the poo...there's heaps of poo around on horse properties!
Tali - how crap about the moving expenses. I agree with you and Mel - terrible way to bring home a message about healthy eating. I notice with Oscar that when he has packaged foods that are highly processed (like his favourite, chips) he stays awake for longer and just strings out near the end. When we have food that is cooked from fresh food we don't have an issue. Today, he had chips and he didn't go to sleep for MIL until she called us (we were at the fire station) and I got there with 'Baboo'. He had dropped a can of food on his toe and upset himself further and just wouldn't go to sleep! I reckon his toe nail might fall off, and he broke skin, so that would have exacerbated an already strung out kid. Luckily, he has a lot of homecooked food and snacks like chips are a rarity in this house (cos DP scoffs it and asks me to keep it to a minimum, for his waistline's sake!). Maybe the next kid won't be so affected by preservatives, who knows? My active kid reacts to it, though.
Amanda - glad that you get breaks in the MS now! I remember that with Oscar - at about week 19 the sickness subsided for moments throughout the day...enough for me to enjoy Christmas lunch, I recall! Camping with 5 will be a whole new adventure - the older boys will really come into their own with their caring duties!
Mel - I'll be out at Clayton tomorrow...it will be very cold, as usual! I've got to knuckle down and do some reading, though, now that Oscar seems to be settled there...assignment due in about 3 weeks I WILL go round for a coffee after this assignment's in! On a Thursday when Oscar's in Swich...
I had a proud Mama Bear moment today. First of all, I had left the potty up near the fridge and he leaned over it, ****ed a leg and took aim...he's been watching dogs, it would seem! About an hour later, after spending the afternoon playing at sitting on the 'throne' (the big loo), he found the potty again, sat down, said 'poo' and when I looked, sure as you're born...a poo! I was not expecting him to pick up on this so soon - I thought I had months, at least, before this would happen, so now my kid's just racing ahead of me and growing up.
Off to bed now...in the middle of composing this I had a fire call (didn't get a truck and we were called off, anyway, as the neighbouring brigade had in under control).
Beddy byes now!

[AmandaJ]

Maya yeah the older boys do their fair share now, Kailen is like a mother hen with babies and especially Cody, so I know that I don't have any worries there. Yay for Oscar, it's amazing what they pick up and choose to use before your ready isn't it.

Mel I might keep that movie in mind for the school hols in two weeks, glad you had a good day.

Tali yeah it's lucky we forget what pg is like otherwise there would be a lot of 1 child families, lol.

Well I've had a busy last few days, on the weekend Kailen brought Cody in and he'd hurt his foot, but seemed ok, then the next day I saw him sort of hobbling on it. So on Tuesday I took him to the Drs and he sent us for an xray, I couldn't get in on the Tuesday so had to go first thing yesterday and sure enough a small greenstick fracture of just above his third toe, They can't put it in plaster as it's not worth it so we just have to be a bit more careful of it, for the next six weeks, poor thing, but he seems to be coping alright and it's not causing to much pain unless it gets bumped, so I guess that's a good thing.

hugs xoxo