Hey Tali just a quick one - I like the brunette better cause it highlights your eyes more
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Hey Tali just a quick one - I like the brunette better cause it highlights your eyes more
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Tali - I think I prefer the blonde, only cos it's softer on you. You look sexy hot as a brunette and brunette is definitely edgier as a look...I just know you as a big softie, though!!
Mel - how was Nepalese? I've had it once before and I remember really liking it. It was in Sydney, in Newtown - a lot more Asian varieties of restaurant in Sydney, I feel. I DID hand in my lab report and I feel heaps better, even though I know I will fail that particular assessment (better to hand in roughly on time and it be crap, than to lose marks on something that wasn't going to improve given more time and end up with a mark deficit IYKWIM!). I've definitely got mojo back - I went to the library today and instead of farting around for a couple of hours to get into the groove, I got my book from Reserve, found a spot, and read for a couple of hours instead (nearly fell asleep, so I took a toilet break to perk me up again). I finished a chapter of reading, and even though it was last week's reading, it was more reading than I've done in any other single week! Shouldn't take me too long to catch up at this rate.
Might leave Oscar with DP tomorrow for a bit and go to the fire station to read some more material. He's been busy bracing the house so that it doesn't move every time you walk from one end to the other - novel, I know!
I was away all weekend for some CFA training and that was awesome and very intense. I brought my breast pump and my nipples had a nice break from Oscar's sometimes 'beaky' attachment (only on the left breast, can't figure it out). I brought home 2.2 litres of frozen liquid gold, from just over 48 hours of being away from the kid! I woke up a bit full, but resisted the temptation to wake up in the middle of the night to express. Funny thing is, though, I get to sleep in longer when I'm at home than I did on the weekend - breakfast at 7.45...I'm normally up an hour later than that! Still, cooked brekky, yummy morning and afternoon tea, fully catered lunch by the kitchen staff, wonderful roast dinners two nights in a row...my poor belly couldn't cope! I love staying there, and I also like to come home to meals less reliant on so much meat! Oscar sure was glad to see me. I spoke to him each morning and evening and he is pretty good on the phone - he giggles, mutters every word he knows how to say and just before he says 'Bye bye mum' (waving at the phone, so Daddy reports) he says 'I laou you', cos he can't pronounce 'v'. Man, they are the hardest phone calls to hang up on!!
Nic - how was the party?
Amanda - welcome back! I still have your old email address, I was sure I changed it, but it musn't have saved properly - could you shoot me an email so I can save it?
Dee - so good to see you back! Hope those kidlets are treating you well
Better go have a bath before mini monster wakes up again...
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I have just recived a email with photo's of a lady who had triplets the photos go from 7 week up until birth it amazing to see how big the belly can get in the last few weeks you can almost make out the babies heads if anyone would like me to forward it onto them just PM me you email address... It truly is amazing I am about the same size at full term as she is at 21 weeks!!!!
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Nic - I'm so sorry I forgot to wish Nixon a HAPPY BIRTHDAY for last Thursday (wish he was on facebook to help me remember!!!!). It always throws me, he is the earliest one. The cake looked amazing, you did a fantastic job and loved the little ones. I bet they made a nice big mess LOL!!! Where was the party, it looks like a good party house, heaps of room and lots for the kids to do.
Tali - I think red would be great a give a nice warmth to your face. I have fine hair too, drives me nuts. Both my girls have really fine hair (and I hear you about the knots!) but thankfully they got curls like my DH and it isn't so noticeable. I can't believe the move is getting so close. I'm sure there will be tears and tantrums in the lead up, just roll with it and you will be in Melb before you know it. Once May starts school here, she will learn from scratch. Chelsea went to a kinder program at creche, so not formal kinder and she has been doing fine. They prefer not to teach them writing, reading etc at kinder and leave that to school. Chelsea is not reading many words but is getting to know the basic ones like "the", "is", "it" etc.
Rory - howdy! How's work?
Maya - Nepalese was delicious! Alot like Indian. It was super cheap so made for a great night out. Sounds like a very productive day at the library, well done and at least your lab report is out of your hands now. I can't believe you get 2.2 litres still! That is amazing. Oscar will never starve. I love the little words they say (or try to say). Marley's new word is "hot", which is said with the hand up. Everything is hot and its driving me nuts. At dinner everynight she says hot, and tries to blow her dinner even if its not very hot. I try to explain (not sure why????), but she still says its hot.
How is everyone else? Its been very quiet, I thought I would have heaps to catch up on but thankfully not.
I finally booked my trip to Brisbane!!!! I am so excited, leaving in 2 weeks and just Marley and I are going. DH is staying home with Chelsea, so that should be funny!!!!
Better go and do some work, need to leave by 4.30pm today and it's not looking good!!
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Thanks Mel. Thats ok i didnt expect Junies to remember because their birthday's arn't until June LOL. btw i love your new avater
Yes Nixon had a fantastic day. the party didnt start till 2pm which suited Nixon to a tee. he had a big 2hr sleep before hand so no tantrums etc.
He loved the cake, we had a near accident the night before where he tried to pull the cover off it and smudged some icing! He kept saying cookie cookie cookie..... and he had lots of practise blowing out candles before hand. The weather held off which was great and he got lots of nice stuff.
Some of you may remember back to when we were pg (i was about 30wks) my dad was diagnosed prostate cancer. i was due to fly up and see him @ 35weeks because his op was 2 weeks later, anyway that never happen Nixon had other ideas.
but 2 yrs on some cancer cells have returned. He is in the process of seing another specialist to see "where to" from here. It is likely he will need raditation treatment which for some its great and others dont take to it well. When he was a 10yr old kid he had radiation on his head for ring worms.
unknown then but it cause a brain tumor which sat dormant for 40yrs. anyway doesnt mean this would happen again i am sure technology has come so far in the last 40 years but its still something he is not very confident about. I just feel very sorry for my parents to have to go through it all again, this will be his 3rd battle in 12yrs. i know no one deserves it but its still not fair.
Im going to do my best to support them through this even if it means making meals for them every night when dad goes through treatment etc, work can take a back seat for a while in my eyes.
i wonder if we will still be alive the day they come up with a "cure" for cancer??????????? i hope so so our children and our grand children & their children never have to battle through what so many do
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Oh Nick that is awful for you and your family - I hope your dad starts to be more positive. Cancer just sucks, a good friend's husband has liver, lung and rectal cancer and it is so hard to see her trying to hold her family together. But you know they are making progress every day with cancer treatments
Maya 2.2 litres is fantastic! I was proud of my piddly 500 mls when I was away LOL!
better sign off - very tired after a day at work (yawn)
Anyone heard from Jess lately? I haven't seen her poke her head in here for a while/ hope her troops are well
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Hi all, just checking in while i have 5 seconds to myself (it is 7pm and both my children are in bed woohoo).
Nic- Happy Belated Birthday to Nixon, I can't believe that he is 2 already. I am so so sorry to hear about your dad, cancer is an evil thing and I am sorry that he has to go through it again.
Mel- i bet you are looking forward to your trip. How will Chelsea cope with you and Marley going away without her?
Things here are starting to settle into some sort of normalcy (if that is a word) Liam is sleeping during the day, usually only 1 sleep cycle, but at least he is sleeping and he has just started sleeping through the night .........woohoo!
Tori is as talkative as ever and is starting to use sentences now, it is great listening to her try and fit all the words she wants to say into a sentence, sometimes she has to say it 3 or 4 times to get all the words she wants to say in the right order, her latest things to say are "thats strange" and "maybe" and the cheeky little monkey has figured out that everyone else calls me Ali, so she calls me that too now!
Anyway I am off to enjoy the peace of sleeping children and my husbands company while I can.
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Nic - Bath is the avatar queen! I love it too. Good timing for the party, esp letting him have a sleep before hand. I haven't even thought of what to do for Marley's party. Sorry to hear about your dad's cancer returning, hopefully radiation will do the trick. My cousin had radiation therapy for a type of lymphoma and he did OK, just lost his sense of taste for a while. I'm sure they will appreciate the support you give them. A cure for cancer would be a phenomena I would love to be around to see.
Ali - isn't it great having peace and quiet at 7pm? When I explained to Chelsea that we were going, she said that she couldn't leave her teacher as she would miss her too much lol!!! And her friends would be sad if she wasn't there. Thank god for that! I told her I would ring her everyday to find out about school and what she has been doing. I am just laughing thinking of DH trying to do her hair every morning, he is not good with scrunchies. How fantastic that Liam is sleeping through, you must be feeling a bit more "normal" now. Tori is amazing with her language and speech, funny calling you Ali!!!!! Cheeky.
Marley had a bit of spill at MIL's on Tuesday and has a black eye with a nice big cut under it! Poor MIL was beside herself with worry. Marley was pushing a little cart around, tripped and feel forward hitting her face on the corner of a chair. It wasn't too bad on the Tuesday night but on Wed morning, she had a nice big shiner! I've been putting lots of paw paw cream on it and it doesn't appear to be bothering her, but MIL was worried how close it was to her eye.
I did the literacy program at Chelsea's school, 2 sessions over 2 weeks and now they will let me loose in the classroom with the kids!!! I start it on Wed next week and I am so looking forward to it. We help with a small group of kids doing various activities. Chelsea is so excited that I am coming and DH is doing the PMP program on Tuesday's (the only dad doing it).
Feels like a Friday today, must be time for a coffee (and maybe a donut LOL!!!)
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