Tali: I was just talking to Maya yesterday and tossing up the idea of a June meetup to celebrate our June babies turning 3... but now that I know you'll be going around then I'm happy to have one sooner... my place? Very flexible here... would be good to catchup while the weather is nice and we have the option of getting outside
Yep, would love to have a meet up sooner so that we catch up, Tali! In fact, there are times I'm kind of near or passing through the Berwick area and I could come and visit then, too It's just a matter of organising myself a bit better (caught up with my old hairdresser cos I was in the area and I'm going to have to give her the heads up next time, so we can catch up properly!).
Things still mad around here and playing catch ups again at uni. Just can't concentrate
DP away for 4 days next week for work, so that will be interesting again.
Had our old neighbours come to Melbourne this week and caught up with them - was really great and we all went to Sky High for dinner (they missed Melb views, even though the dinner was ordinary!) and ended up at a local bar for drinkies (I had a weak beer and a chandy, a bit naughty, but it wasn't much...and it's not often at all!!). So, being that we probably will see them in July at the earliest, and they won't be able to see the evolution of the 'secret' belly, we told them about the pg.
Ok, probably run out of time to post, I can hear DP telling Oscar off near the shed...
I hope everyone is doing well. I have finally found 5 mins to sit down and catch up on everyone's news.
Nic- First of all I wanted to say a happy (althought slightly belated) Happy Birthday to Nixon- I hope you all had a wonderful day.
Maya- Congrats on your pg, how exciting- I am getting super clucky again. I hope uni isnt going to badly.
Mel- Im jealous, I would love a pool, but we are slightly lacking in space here - oh and it is a rental so kinda pointless. Tori also just gave up her dummy, the easter bunny took them away for his baby rabbits.
Rory- I hope you are settling in well at your new job. Sounds like your boys are doing wonderfully, Liam is also starting to talk, I think he figured he would have to get on with it otherwise he would never get a word in, as Tori talks all day.
Amanda- Today was the first time in I dont know how long that I was home with just Liam and I kept listening out for Tori, can't imagine how strange it felt to have one of your babies away for the whole night. Good luck with your Doula course- I am sure you will do a fantastic job at it.
Bath- Enjoy your first aid course, I actualley really enjoyed doing mine (although I do hope I never have to use it), I am actually due for a refresher soon. We are not required to have it as a teacher, but I feel much better knowing that I have some knoweldge if ever faced with an emergency situation in the classroom- or at home for that matter.
Tali- I hope the next move isnt too stressful- I am sure that if it means more time with DH at home it will be better. I hope the kids didnt try you too batty over the school holidays.
Things here have been going at warp speed. We were looking into building a house, we had an offer on a block of land, and plans drawn up and everything, but the site works on the block came back at $45,000 and just blew our budget, which meant the whole deal fell through. We were a little bit disapointed, but I was also a little relieved as well- it was alot of money to be borrowing, and the implications that it meant in regards to work etc just did my head in.
Tori is doing great- she is fully toilet trained and dry at night. We have had some big issues with poo, but finally after a couple trips to the dr's and 3weeks on parachoc she is now doing proper poos in the toilet instead of handing on to them for 3-4 days at a time. Both the kids are at daycare 1 day a week while I am working and really enjoying it. I think Tori will be more than ready to start Kindy next year.
DH and I are seriously talking about TTC #3, I thought after I had Liam that I was done, but I can't get rid of the the niggling urge to have more, and I dont want to let the materialistic things in life take away my chances of being a mum again (part of the reason I am glad the house building thing fell through) so we will probably start trying in Dec for a couple of months and if that doent work out then wait till august and try again (trying to fit it around work stuff). I am really excited, I just feel like I need to be a mum again.
Also a heads up for Melb girls, We are heading over for a holiday in April next year and I would love to try and catch up with you all while I am there, it would be really lovely to put some faces to names.
Anyway I had better go, will try and get back a bit more regularly.
I would love a meet up Bath.... I am free almost all the time I have no life... so just tell me the time and date and I will try to make it... you will just have give me dirctions how to get there via the trains
the only dates I know I am out are the weekend of the 2nd of May ( Mayleaka's B'day and the june long weekend ( going to the BB meet )
Pat is growing up, can't get him to stop the walking into room at all hours, but I suppose its better than him screaming in his room.
I've been talking alot to Maya, so she has filled me in on a lot of things.
Things in our house are pretty busy these days, as I now have ANOTHER daughter!!!
Before you all say OMG, let me tell you that she is 15 yo and she is my foster daughter! Its a olong story, but the shortened version is, her family is very violent, her step mum hates her as much as she hates her step mum, her family are on drugs ( the illegal kind) and the police have given their approval for her to be in our care. DHS haven't contacted us in 4 weeks since the report from thje police went through, so have no idea on what is happening there, but expect a visit from us in the next couple of weeks, because apparently you need ID, to get ID, so we have to make a visit to Births, Deaths and Marriages!!!
So there it is short and sweet...if I've forgotten anything Maya let me know!!!
Rory - I PMed you the details, you have to go there!
Tali - sorry, have to keep calling you that! Don't think of yourself as and old mum, think of yourself as a "hot" mum to a 9 year old! Sunny Brisbane - at least you can enjoy the sunshine! Glad DH managed to get another job, and I'm glad we can squeeze another get together before you go.
Amanda - how is the doula course going? I get the tanties too and really good ones. Sleep overs - how exciting. Chelsea has had a few but only with her cousins, and my best friend. They just love it.
Maya - food was bad at Sky High? Glad you told me, I've been wanting to check it out for ages. Was going to go their atea thing for my birthday in March so glad I didn't!
Ali - shame about the house, but maybe it wasn't meant to be - the world had other things in store for you (like maybe baby #3???). That is so great you got the poo thing sorted out - girls are notorious for having issues with their poo. Would love to meet you in April - at least we have plenty of time to plan.
Jess - hey stranger! Good on you for taking the girl in. At least she has somewhere safe and loving to stay.
Rory - I PMed you the details, you have to go there!
Tali - sorry, have to keep calling you that! Don't think of yourself as and old mum, think of yourself as a "hot" mum to a 9 year old! Sunny Brisbane - at least you can enjoy the sunshine! Glad DH managed to get another job, and I'm glad we can squeeze another get together before you go.
Amanda - how is the doula course going? I get the tanties too and really good ones. Sleep overs - how exciting. Chelsea has had a few but only with her cousins, and my best friend. They just love it.
Maya - food was bad at Sky High? Glad you told me, I've been wanting to check it out for ages. Was going to go their atea thing for my birthday in March so glad I didn't!
Ali - shame about the house, but maybe it wasn't meant to be - the world had other things in store for you (like maybe baby #3???). That is so great you got the poo thing sorted out - girls are notorious for having issues with their poo. Would love to meet you in April - at least we have plenty of time to plan.
Jess - hey stranger! Good on you for taking the girl in. At least she has somewhere safe and loving to stay.
We had our first night away from both kids last week - it was HEAVEN!!!! We layed in bed the next morning (at 7am, couldn't sleep in) and just chatted. Something that usually never happens as DH is either at work or the kids want breakfast. I highly recommend it. One night was enough, I missed them and got the biggest bear hug from Marley when I got back, she nearly knocked me over.
Chelsea lost her front tooth on Friday. Its been loose for ages and hanging by a thread. Her and Marley were fighting over something and Marley hit her in the face and out came the tooth - poor Chelsea didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She got her $2 from the tooth fairy so she was happy. She looks so funny with the gap and now the other is loose too.
Marley is still not doing much on the TT front. She was in undies yesterday afternoon. Said she wanted to go, off to the loo, sits for a while, hops off and walks to her loungeroom and within 5 mins, weed on the floor! This happens all the time. I think the whole understanding is totally lost on her at the moment. Hopefully she might be one of these kids that just suddenly "gets it".
Took last week off, so its been 11 days since I last worked. It was great. Back today and it's been pretty good. Not too busy - I have a good group of students this year who can manage and read things on their own!
Thanks Ali for Nixon's birthday wishes, and tthose with bday wishes on FB, i guess he gets somewhat "forgotten" with the June babies being Apirl! Nixon had a good 3rd birthday mostly. He went to preschool the day of which he got loads of attention for his special day! i made little cupcakes in the faces of our dogs the boxer & husky. he did his first news story that day on his dogs!
whilst he was at school i was making the cake! i made a toy story one this yr, wasnt hard just time consuming, it was 3 tiers! turned out pretty well.
we had his party on the sat just up the road at a nice small cafe/playcentre. Then 10min before we were about to go dh went out the back and found our boxer unable to stand.... he rushed him to the vet knowing it wasnt good. i was stuck with 2 boys and a 3 teired cake to get up the rd! my parents swung by here and helped me.
it was hard to forget about marlu at Nixon's party and had a cry when ppl asked me where dh was.
he came to the party clearly upset and never took his sunnies off. Then i went up to the vet about 230pm they had just done an xray of his spine and he seen me straight away. He had a huge bone grown on his spine bigger than the vet had ever seen (it was about 2 inches long) by 4pm i held his head whilst he went to sleep, dh couldnt come in he stayed int he car. my parents and sister were at home witht he boys thankfully and we arrived home devistated. we both cried ourselves to sleep that night and nixon came into our bed (he knew we were upset) and told us that tahoe was sade and poor marlu.....
the following day we had my neices bday party still feeling shocked at what happened. sunday night my neice ended up in hospital with severe dehydration and gastro..... Monday we took the boys to the easter show and came home to them both throwing up. by wed dh had it and thursday i had it.
it was a sh##ty week to say the least!
this week dh came down with a cold and has been moping around and today i got a call from nixon's preschool to say he had a temp of 39.5 and needed to come get him.
i was an hour away minding my neices so dh came from work (he was 25min away) and i had to get my mum to come home from where she was so then i could come home. he is having a sleep now and temp gone down and waiting to see how he is when he wakes.
thats us in a nutshell lol!
Rory & Ali- very excting about ttc #3!! we have discussed it. i'd like to ttc from maybe sept this yr but i want to loose a good 10kgs first and cant seem to get my but motivated to loose it! i got to training 2-3 mornings a week but just not watching what i eat. (and i ate way to much chocolate over easter)
Mel- sounds fantastic to have a night away from the kids! we did that o valentines day and it was strange but welcomed hehe!
Tyron is 18months old now and such a funny character!
So sorry to hear about Marlu. A similiar thing happened to my brother a few weeks ago, but it was a tumour on his leg. Its so very sad to lose a pet. We have lost 2 dogs since DH and I have been married and each time it breaks your heart just as bad. We have two beautiful mahogeny boxes with their ashes on our bookshelf. I think you said you did the same? He can then be with you always. Glad Nixon had a good birthday, his pictures looked so cute. He really looks so grown up now. How is he feeling now, hope his temp has gone down. How is your neice? Poor thing, what a way to spend your birthday. Not nice that you guys got it too - yuk! Ty is 18 mths old, where has the time gone. He one cute little boy - a smile that will melt your heart.
Our pool is almost ready to start. Architect is just finishing the plans for us to approve, off the council then hopefully they will start digging in 3 weeks. We are now having to pick tile colours etc and its a bit daunting. We want to make sure we pick right.
Marley has been a bit of a brut at creche lately. Not sure what is going on. She has been pushing a bit and hit a poor kid on the head last week. She is so feisty, hates not getting her own way. Chelsea was the most placid of kids, so sweet and very rarely naughty. Marley is the total opposite, although she can be very sweet. Its quite embarrasing when they tell me what she has been up to, but they are so good about it. They just love her and think she has something special about her - she is always making them laugh. She has such a cheeky gleam in her eye. Life is never dull in this house lol!
Get back on soon girls - I want to catch up on any goss!
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It's just a matter of organising myself a bit better (caught up with my old hairdresser cos I was in the area and I'm going to have to give her the heads up next time, so we can catch up properly!).
I have no life... so just tell me the time and date and I will try to make it... you will just have give me dirctions how to get there via the trains
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