It's so you, Mel! Hair is spot on
I'm at uni today, with all my portable wordly possessions of value locked in the car. Not just remote locked, dead locked with key! No pager messages since this morning before leaving home, so that must mean that our little neck of the woods is relatively protected from the wind direction...wonder if that will change tonight, with wind change??
*stumbling into the house after collecting Wade from School... windblown!!!*
Sheesh! Well the windstorm was meant to start at 3pm and yep... it's here! Got my marquee tied to a table underneath... and proper metal stakes pegging it to the ground as well! Don't want a repeat of last years BooHoo thread with Verity being gleefully unhelpful as she watched the marquee tossing around in the high winds!
Maya: got your sms on route... glad you received your parcel... Happy belated birthday!
Mel: glad you love your avvy... yep, it is pretty you if I do say so myself!
feeling a bit antsy with this wind... our house is surrounded by very tall trees and they are prone to losing limbs... can't sit still... might go make dinner... parent teacher interview tonight too... sooo don't feel like going out again...
Hold on tight Melbourne Junies!!! don't blow away now!
i've just caught up on this thread since i last posted!
Maya- congratulations!! when are you due? thinking Octoberish? which would be a lovely spring bub.
Rory- congrats on your job wow!
Nixon is TT to now yippee! about 8 days ago he started doing wee's in the toilet or potty. he prefers sitting at this stage, yesterday he stood for the first time but then every other time wanted to sit. He had his first day at preschool on friday in undies and had no accidents! he seems to be waking from his day sleep dry but not o/n. Poo's well he has done 1 in the toilet otherwise he has done it in his undies yukkkkkk or waited until we put him to bed and done it in his nappy. last night for the first time ever he pooed in the bath?? lucky Ty was already out.
wee's though he is going great!
still trying to sort out his hearing test saga, have an appointment booked for next monday with ENT which was already re-scheduled because i hadnt gotten the test done again, now i have just realised i still havent got it done, thurs i have a meeting & fri he is at preschool.
geez i just realised its been a week between posts!
Nic - that is fantastic! Slow and steady wins the race so they say. Marley did a poo in the bath when I was up in Brisbane last year, it was hilarious!! Thankfully she does pretty solid poo and it was easy to extract from the bath!!! Its still pretty grose though. Hope you manage to get test done again in time for the new appointment - maybe if you beg???
Maya - how was your weekend away?
How do others find the sharing between siblings? It is driving me insane at the moment, Marley wants everything Chelsea has and screams blue murder if she doesn't get it. I have told DH he now has to buy 2 of everything to avoid the fights. He bought Chelsea this pretend phone, which she loves and of course Marley loves it too and wants it all the time. I don't think its fair to expect Chelsea to hand it over all the time. He had to go and get another one just to stop the fighting. Marley is such a bossy child and expects everything. Its going to be a hard habit to break...any suggestions girls???
We got the quote to put in our inground pool, which we are pretty happy with. This decision is pretty big as if we go ahead, it means no more babies. We were going to look at moving to a bigger house with a pool but its far, far cheaper for us to stay and put the pool in. Our house is only 3 bedrooms and another baby would mean room sharing and I am not really happy about that.
I feel for you Nic I cant cope with poop in their knickers is the worst I can change a nappy but it hard not to die reach when its in there Knickers....
Mel you have come to a big decion... as long as you are both happy with your choice's...
mind you some of my happiest moments were when sharing a room with my sister... both my girls share ATM and almost every night Zayden begs us to sleep in their room ( on the floor ) as he wants to be with them... On the weekends I given in and it so sweet hearing all the chatter and giggles...
As for the fights thats just the way it is in my house so sorry I cant help, but both getting the same thing is the best way around it.... Its very hard as you always end up giving in to the baby as they are always the younger once and make the most noise, so it just easier to let them get away with it, hence why you can always tell if the adult you are friends with was the baby of their family...
well its raining here at the moment it so nice to have some rain back.... ( never thought I would say that after living in Cairns ) I have found myself over the last few day really missing Cairns, I dont know what has sparked this but it is all consuming ache in my soul... strange, as I am where I thought we would be, hoping to buy in the next few years, with my family, but still cant budge this feeling that we should be up there not here... Maybe its because if we could have gotten the money together we would have been moving in 3 weeks... Or it could be because that everyday its getting cooler and I know whats coming.... Sorry I know you would be well and truley sick and tied of me and my where should I live saga.... I havent even voiced my feelings to BHL yet part of me is scared to...
Anywho Hello to the rest of you... Can you believe our Junies will be 3 soon where has the years gone...
Good morning girls Looooovley weather! Nice steady rain here too ATM. Discovered that the train and bus connect perfectly for Wade's school run today! which solves my wet weather fears ('cos I don't drive)... we just have to walk around the corner to the station, catch the 8.31am... go 2 stops... get off... and catch the 8.42am bus which is less than 50m from the station... takes us to the corner near Wade's school... easy peasy! You wouldn't believe how thrilled I am about this... and relieved!
Oh and new back fence is being put in next Monday! WooHoo!!!! Means our backyard will be sooo much safer.... the current fence does a very poor job of containing Niall. SO! Might have to arrange a Junie meetup here at my place before the cooler weather sets in! Best of all the lawn is greening up as I type!!! How about we aim for the first week of uni semester break so that Maya isn't too overcommitted? Naturally all Melbourne Junies are welcome!
Mel: just on room sharing: I was initially kinda against the idea too.... but DH pushed the issue.... so much so that he set up the boys room and went out and bought Niall a new bed etc while I was interstate last year. I was so sceptical that it would work.... but it has I thought the boys would constantly be silly and keep each other awake but that hasn't been the case at all. Anyhow... Like tali said, big decision... but I'm sure you'll chose the best path... and there's no hurry... you've got years up your sleeve! When you reach the big 40 (like I will be in July...eeeeek!!!) it really hits home that time is running out in terms of baby-making. In some ways though, it's also a relief for me, I know my choice to stop now is firm and I'm at peace with it. I sympathsise.... in my 30's I dithered all over the place about how many I wanted.... even up to a year ago.... my choice though was to have all my babies before hitting 40... that milestone has passed now. And thankfully I'm very ok with it.
Tali: I also sympathise with dithering about where I want to live!!!! I'm also torn between states... (here and where my family are in NSW). I've decided that you just have to kinda "read the signs"... and make regular pros and cons lists. I know, it can drive you crazy!
Nic: and I sympathsise with the poos in undies! Aggghhh! I also thought Niall was TT but he still occassional has a regression... with very messy consequences... ugh ugh ugh. Straight in the bath here!
Good Afternoon girls... just thought I'd share our latest drama. Last night at about 7pm Wade and Niall were running through the house at full pelt.... you can already tell that I'm going to say that there was an accident can't you? Well yes, Verity admitted later that she told the boys: "First one to the back door wins!!!" and Wade won... as he hit the back door at a flying speed, hands out infront of him, and straight through the glass window! DH and I saw it happen. We were standing a few meters away near the kitchen. I actually saw Wade's left arm go through the glass... and then yelled out as Wade (in shock) withdrew his arm from the jagged hole... and then i saw that he had sustained at least one bad laceration. DH ran to him... Verity was instructed to get a washer... I made a quick inspection and then called the Ambulance. One came in about 5 mins (we live about 4 blocks away from a hospital). Then Wade and I went to hospital where he had about 10 stitches. It was all mildly horrific. He's having the day off school today but will go tomorrow... they have an excursion planned and parents are encouraged to come along so i'll be able to keep an eye on him. Anyhow, the most fortunate thing was that the cut was on the top of his arm, not the other side where the veins are closer to the surface. He'll have a scar but boys generally love a good war wound All through the drama Wade remained amazingly calm, after a brief initial sob of fear... he was a model patient in hospital... so proud of my poor little man! He agreed that at least he now has something interesting to share at Show And Tell... He's got his hospital wrist band, the wound, and I'll take photos of the hole in the window and maybe even some shots of an ambulance interior for him to show.
Oh the joys of parenting... hope all the other June Babies and Siblings stay safe and that us June Mummies know that sometimes there's nothing you can do! I have told them and told them about not running in the house... maybe NOW they will listen!!!
Oh Bath, how scary! What a champion Wade is, staying so calm. He was very lucky not to have done more damage. Running in the house always leads to injury, I tell mine that all the time, usually after one of them has hit the wall or head first into the wall - thankfully no broken glass, YET! Now I might share this story with Chelsea as a reminder of the dangers. I bet he will love showing his scar and telling the story. Did you get your new back fence? Would love another Junie meet up, I can always take the day off work - any excuse for a good girly catch up
After hearing the "room sharing" stories from all of you (thanks to you too Maya) I am starting to think it might not be all that bad. Who knows, I think I just need to forget about it for a while and see how I feel later. I will just have to put the cot and change table somewhere safe - JIC!
Tali - have you spoke to DH yet about where you want to live? I hope so, as I'm sure he will be very understanding. How good is the weather at the moment, just beautiful. I wish it was like this all the time.
Last Tuesday, just before I left work, DH rang and said that Chelsea had come home from school and just thrown up everywhere - 3 times!! I am so glad that it was DH home and not me as I don't do spew very well. Give me blood and poo anyday LOL! He said she threw up heaps and then to make matters worse for the poor guy (although he has seen much worse), Marley walked in to the kitchen and slipped in it!!! He had already rang his mum to come over and help and she arrived just in time. She whisked Marley off the the shower while DH cleaned up the mess. Poor Chelsea didn't know what had happened, its only the second time she has thrown up so it was a little bit strange for her. I think the universe gives you what you can handle and someone up there knows me and has chosen to bless me with kids that don't get sick. She was fine afterwards so don't know if it was something she ate or a bug but it hit pretty quick and left just as quickly. No one else was sick so I was very thankful. I kept her home the next day, just in case and she was bored witless and just wanted to go back to school. I couldn't even bring myself to wash the towels DH used to clean up, I just threw them out! Now to go and buy some new ones.
I have a meeting to go so better move my butt - Hugs to you all!
OMG Bath! 10 stitches far out must have been a nasty one. Very very lucky it was the top of his arm, i could just imagine seeing it infront of your eyes but not being able to stop it.
well war wounds are a big show & tell in school i hear, to have a ride in the ambulance and pics of the crime scene must be pretty cool for him!
gosh i can see my boys doing stuff like that.
Mel- lol but yuk at marley slipping in the spew ewwww!!
glad chelsea is ok and it went as soon as it came.
Nixon is 3 in just 4 weeks OMG! doing a toy story cake this yr he is really into buzz & woody atm.
dh is going to buy him his first bike and ive already got him a "buzz & woody"
anyone going away over easter? we didnt book anything but i desperatly wanna go away for a few days, struggling to find anywhere with accomodation now though
well I have just had the best birthday weekend ever...
very happy to say that BHL has brought me a life membership for my birthday, which was just what I wanted... Not that he can understand why, but like I said to him I have been on this site for almost 2 years now and its got me though some very boaring days and nights while he is away so its about time I show my apprishation to the site... of course our very own Bath has kindly agreed to set me up with a Avvy...
well on friday we went down to portsea as it was my baby sisters wedding on the saturday so we rented a very flash house for the weekend with the rest of my family, so I wasnt sure on how BHL would cope with us all there, but he had a great time and even headed out on friday night with the boys ( my only brother and our BIL ) to have a few drinks with the BIL to be, while us girls stay home with the kids but as luck would have it mine were wonderful and went to be at 8.30 and we didnt hear a peep until morning, so we had a great night drinkinbg and remissing about our childhood....
Saturday was the wedding and my sissy looked beautiful and we were very lucky to have the Gods smile at us with lovely weather.. I have heaps of photos on FB if you want to check them out, just PM me if you want my full name to find me if we arent already friends.... it was a lovely day all round, and my wonderful Brother offerd to take his and my winkies back to the house so I could spend some time after the respection without havinbg to be a mum for the 1st time in all my mummy years... I am begining to like Melb more and more, lol....
So hears to hoping the rest of my 30's are as wonderful as they can be....
As for us moving or not, the decion has been taken out of our hands, Zayden has started the testing prosess for ADD and dislexa ( sp?) and we were kinda told by the pead that it would be best for him to stop moving about and he needs the contuity now... we are still looking at moving ( buying ) in Selby, so once we do that it WILL be his last school change...
Tali: Like I said in your WooHoo thread; your avvy should be uploaded soon Just to let you know... children are quite limited in selection although I found a boy and girl (for Zayden and Mayleaka) that are a bit different to the usual... but it's really hard to individualise them. I hope your BHL likes his avvy image too! LOL Guys are also limited but he looks as hunky as I could manage! Just as well the BB Mods allow a slightly wider avvy dimension this year! Your brood just fits! Look forward to seeing it up... remember I can update it in 6 months time to fine tune things if you want Unless you need a preggy belly first!!!!
Wade's arm update: healing very well. He actually has 12 black nylon stitches. They look pretty confronting but at least there is no sign of infection. He has been so good about keeping it dry at least
OMG Bath how scary, I've got the fear of the same thing happening to Cody as he loves to run at the glass sliding door and hit into it. I'm glad that he was a brave boy, and it's true about war wounds, my DH aslways says "chicks dig scars".
Tali I'm glad that you had such a wonderful day at your little sisters wedding.
Well I've just used some of Krudds money to buy myself a life membership, I'm so happy about it too, so if it's not to much trouble Bath can you please do my avvy again, I'll PM you tomorrow as I'm going to also get a cut and colour, which will make me feel a million dollars.
Yay Amanda! Looking forward to doing you a new avvy! And Welcome to the Lifer's club!!!
Just a flying visit in BB today... I'm on a roll with tidying up the place... hard rubbish collection today and I'm being RUTHLESS! Bye Bye old massive (dodgy sound quality) speakers that we have had shoved in the garage for 6 years... bye bye old broken poor quality plasticy toys... bye bye nasty chip board shelving. So looking forward to being able to park the car in the garage again!
Hello girls, I feel so bad for not having posted for so long but I have been lurking and cheering, boo-ing and commiserating from the sidelines as appropriate!
I am really loving working full time and our news is that DH is looking at applying for a full-time job back at Vic Uni (his old boss suggested he apply for a one-year position). So we are looking at the boys being in childcare 2 days and with my mum 3 days a week (if he gets the job, that is!) Fingers crossed, because DH having a job will be great for us in so many ways - DH will get away from the kids (he is going a little nuts being a SAHD!), we will get to save $$ (we have agreed his wage will be siphoned off to a separate account and not touched), the boys will get to have time with other kids (Ollie will be king of his room, I think, as he is so used to being pushed around by Flynn, and Flynn would do well to be with other kids) and my house will stay clean while I am at work (at the moment I leave it clean in the morning and I come home to a trashed house each night LOL!!)
On the baby front, we are planning a 3rd bub next year so I am madly trying to get down to a happy weight before TTC in July/August this year. I work in Richmond now so every morning I get off at Flinders St station and walk here via the Yarra River Main Trail - it is just a lovely way to start each morning.
Better go - very busy at the moment, but loving it.
Hiya Rory! I reckon i could manage a trip to Richmond with Niall for lunch one day if you are up for it. Just let me know.
Checked out Kids On Collins "nursery and pre-school" yesterday... an hour long tour. It seems to be a bit better than where Niall has been going... but I still have my reservations. Next stop I think will be the centre run by Melbourne Uni near Collingwood animal farm... such a tricky task!
That really is a great way to start the day, Ror! How lovely! Can't complain about my own surroundings when starting the day - trees are just so happy
Bath - congrats on the clean out! We're still getting through mountains of stuff...which is weird cos we have such a tiny house...but I gave away a huge bag of clothes to the op shop yesterday. Lots of dowdy maternity gear that SIL gave me that I don't think I'd ever choose to wear and don't need it in my house to remind me how dowdy I could be...! She never wore it, either, so I don't feel so bad for saying that. In the clothing stakes, I'm really getting very choosy and picking stuff that matches my mood...and that mood is VERY charged ATM. Poor DP, he came home yesterday and had to jump straight into action before Osc woke up. I was feeling plenty up for it before, and then yesterday I had my increasingly rare brazilian wax...hello, sailor!! I'm a happy, happy girl! Is this a pregnancy thing, or something else? It has to be the hormones, cos last year I would have happily gone weeks without DTD...go figure.
Anyhow, I think Flynn will really get heaps out of CC, Rory, it's a great age for learning the ropes about playing with peers. They don't really pick up on 'socialisation' as such, but it's a great learning experience to absorb conventions of play and group censorship - with the watchful eye of staff Sounds like a great opportunity for your family, and all before you go for the next one.
Amanda - can't wait to see your new avvy!
I've been MIA, too - posting briefly in belly buddies. There's a bit of loss and bad diagnoses in there, and it could easily be me, but as I'm not getting scans this time, I don't even know yet. So, I keep it brief and supportive in there, rather than the way it is here - not that I think any other thread could replicate this one, I really mean that
I have my private middie appt on Monday, which is all new for me, so I'm excited and nervous. Nervous mainly cos my belly is not showing yet - I thought it was, but it's really not. I've actually lost weight cos of the way I get put off food, or anything bigger than a small portion of a meal during pregnancy. My jeans look so stupidly loose on me. So, I have made efforts not to entertain morbid thoughts about what's going on in there. Plus, MS is gone and I'm no longer wearing seabands. Which you'd think would be a good thing.
I've told CC about the pg, so that they can incorporate it into conversations with Oscar, who's in supreme denial about having to share Babu with a baby! He's completely night continent now, after his regression during the fire season, and takes himself to the loo for a poo...disposing of half a roll into the bowl...without any of it touching his little bum...
Hope all Junie kidlets are well, talk sooner, rather than later, I hope!
Tali - love the new av!!! Another Bath creation which is spot on! How ace is your DH getting your life membership - so thoughtful. I loved the pics from the wedding, your family are all gorgeous - and you looked amazing, love the dress. Kai's dress was so cute, where did you get it from? How exciting that you get to stay, and Selby is not far from Maya and I. Good luck with Zayden's testing.
Nic - wow, can't belive Nixon is nearly 3! Although looking at your recent FB pictures, he is looking more grown up now. DH normally works over Easter but who knows this year, makes it hard to plan anything!
Bath - hope the clean out is successful and ruthless! I have to do it when DH is not home as he is such a hoarder and won't throw out anything. I find hard rubbish days quite cleansing. My GF used Kids on Collins for nearly 3 years with her daughter, but that was 3 years ago and she was really happy with it, but it started getting very pricey. She used to run into Allanah Hill all the time as her son went there too! It's such a difficult decision, but I have found that the not for profit centres are a bit better and usually cheaper and if you can find a community run one, all the better. Parents get a lot more say it how the centre is run.
Rory - hope DH gets his job, sounds like a great opportunity for him and the family. Both my kids have done extremely well in day care and I'm sure yours will to. Marley comes home now and tells me who she has played with and she has a ball. I'm sure DH will relish being back in the "real world".
Maya - I can never imagine you in dowdy maternity clothes! I think you will make a very beautiful pregnant woman! I bet DH is not complaining about the extra attention Hope the hormones keep up the pace LOL! That's great that Oscar is night dry and taking himself off to the toilet - even if he uses all the paper!!! I am still not getting much action on that front with Marley, she is one stubborn kid.
DH is away for 6 days working at Marysville. He said its rather spooky at night, no lights and not much noise and he is doing nightshift so its extra quiet in the wee hours of the morning. He is staying in a really nice cabin in Eildon and enjoying meals at the pub! So life at my house is rather busy at the moment - I don't know how single parents do it.
I was dobbed into being the chairperson of the school Parents & Friends Committee, they must know that I love to chat LOL!!! Its been great so far and I like being involved in helping out the school. As a working mum, I miss out on helping alot and only do a couple of school drop off's a week so this way I can keep up with whats going on and have a say in where money gets spent. Also a great way to get to know the new principal who is fantastic.
which solves my wet weather fears ('cos I don't drive)... we just have to walk around the corner to the station, catch the 8.31am... go 2 stops... get off... and catch the 8.42am bus which is less than 50m from the station... takes us to the corner near Wade's school... easy peasy! You wouldn't believe how thrilled I am about this... and relieved!
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