Babies Born March 16th ~ 31st 2008 #3

[luey]

Happy birthday James.

I hope you have had a lovely day and you give your mummy and dadddy a present by sleeping all night

[melbell45]

thanks Nic Bec and Luey, i also hope for a full nights sleep but given that James also received 2 new teeth for his birthday i doubt we will be getting that !

Melinda

[Ewol12]

Happy Birthday James for yesterday
Sorry Mel that I missed James' Birthday but it was a pretty hectic day.

I have made an appointment for Riley to see a pschyologist to have him assessed for his speech. I was getting ready to go to the appointment (I had to go and see the pschyologist first and then she wanted to see Riley) when Riley's preschool rang to say that Riley had an accident and hit is head on a corner of a cupboard and its was bleeding so I palm Isabella off to the neighbours (she was going there anyway), rang and cancel the appointment. I raced done to the preschool and straight to the doctors. Thank goodness Riley didn't need stitches.
Riley is going to have a nice shinner!!!

I had better go, Riley is crying and I don't want him to wake Isabella as there rooms are next to each other.
I will pop back later and give you and an update on Isabella
Take Care
JO

[melbell45]

jo thanks for the birthday wishes, hows Riley today ? were you able to reschedule his specialist appointment ?


Melinda

[*becstar*]

Oh no Jo poor riley! Thank goodness he didn't need stitches but I'm sure he has a lovely shiner! Hope his appoinmtent goes well too when you can reschedule!!

Mel, I hope James enjoyed his day

Hayley, Happy Birthday to Nate too....I knew he was very close to Ari!

What are you all getting the kids for their 1st birthdays?? I'm struggling to think of something for Jake! He uses all the kids toys, and they have enough for a small army....no joke! He needs a few clothes etc but I want something for HIM. I just don't know what!!

I forgot to tell you all too, we are having issues here *sigh*. No house for us at the moment as DH's boss has decided he wants to terminate his apprenticeship contract. DH isn't going to countersign that....so he either has to find somewhere for him to finish his apprenticeship or they may be able to rush him through his last 6 weeks of TAFE, and then his boss can sign him off as competent on the job meaning he finishes sooner. Either way it means things are uncertain at the moment, not a good time to buy, even if we could. It also looks as though we could be moving to the NW, where the IL's are, 3 hrs from here. Because it's DH's hometown he has a lot more contacts and at the moment has at least three job opportunities to chase up if need be. Oh and also behind the possibility of us moving is the fact that the owners of our house want to move back in by next February. makes me sad as this is my home now, we've been here the longest we've been anywhere and it's the only house they kids really know of.

Anyway, totally OT, just trying to get the thread going again I know we are all busy too

GTG.

xxx

[AndiE]

Hi all,

Mel - Happy belated birthday for James - I'm so sorry I'm late in my well wishes . Things have been pretty mad here the past few days, but no excuses. Hope James had a good birthday, and will have a terrific party on Sunday. How's he going with his latest teething efforts? And how has Emily been lately?

Jo - How is Riley feeling ... did he end up getting a shiner? Poor little fella. Hope all's well with Isabella.

Bec - That's no good about your house. about that and also your DH's work situation - a real sign of the times, unfortunately, isn't it. Not that that's any consolation. Here's hoping you can stay where you are and your DH can get his apprenticeship signed off. We bought Cam a tonka truck walker/ride-on thingame. Hopefully he'll get use out of it (and enjoy playing with it) for a few months or longer ...

Nic - Soooo true re: us 12 months ago. This time last year (as in Friday 14th, 08) I'd done a mega day's housework and was totally pooped by 7.30pm. If only I'd known my waters would break just 24 hours later ...

We've got Cam's birthday party tomorrow. DH and I decided on a sausage sizzle, but naturally I ended up making zucchini slice and sausage rolls, plus an assortment of finger-food sweet-type things. I say "naturally" cos DH reckons I always go "above and beyond" what I originally say I'm going to do. Irritates him no end, at times . I'm making a fish for his birthday cake - it'll be chocolate butter cake with blue icing (which could prove an interesting flavour combo .... maybe). Will email round some pix by week's end.

It was a good idea pulling up our baby list Bec, but it makes me wonder where all our buddies have gone. I'm sure I put deodorant on this morning! If any absent buddies are reading this, come back and say hello, let us know how you and your bubbas are going! Even if it's a three-line post ... we'd love to hear from you .

Happy birthday to all our little piscean and aries rats! Like me, you fellow mums probably find it hard to believe how fast our beautiful, tiny newborns have turned into beautiful and mobile little boys and girls. Sigh ....

Andie

[*becstar*]

Happy Birthday Ari and Cam!! (sorry for no pretty font, I'm having issues there...)

Happy birthing day to you both Hayley and Andie....oh..... Can you believe the first year is behind us already??

Hope all the parties went well on the weekend

xxx

[melbell45]

Happy Birthday Cam and Ari ! and Andie and Hayley i hope you have a great day with your little men !

and i hope the parties were great on the weekend

James's party yesterday was great, although im pretty exhausted this morning, he slept less than an hour all day so will probably be a tired boy today ! (heres hoping anyway)

Melinda

[Ewol12]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAMERON AND ARI
I hope that you had a great birthday.
Riley ended up with a nice shiner and the cut is looking much better. There will be little or no scarring which is good.
Will pop in later with a update on Isabella. We are off the ENT Specialist now for Riley ears
Take care
Jo

[AndiE]

Hi guys,

Thanks for Cam's birthday wishes - my precious boy is currently sleeping, although I expect he'll wake shortly. So I'll try and be quick.

Hayley - to Ari! Hope your party went well at the weekend and the boys enjoyed themselves with the jumping castle.

Mel - Glad to hear James' party was good, and I so hear you about being exhausted! I think we might do a party every second year (or so ...)

Bec - Nope ... I cannot believe that exactly 12 months ago I was looking at my precious newborn and thinking 'gee I'd like to hold him ...' and then realising that he was actually mine and I could cuddle him/pick him up and time of the day I wanted. Whoopee! Dunno if that makes sense, but I just remember that for a few hours after Cam was born I had this bizarre feeling that I should have been asking permission to pick him up and hold him. Weird. Thankfully that "feeling" wore off quickly. And now, I get cuddles constantly - my little man is huge cuddler, and I love it!!

Jo - good luck with Riley's appt - glad to hear his cut is getting better, and I imagine his shiner will fade pretty quickly.

Well, Cam's b'day party went well - we had a dozen adults and about 6 kids. I organised a freddo frog treasure hunt for those kids old enough, and it was a hit, but otherwise they amused themselves on the swing set etc. We had a sausage sizzle, plus some other finger foods.

My fish b'day cake didn't go to plan. About two hours before the party was due to start, and I was in the midst of decorating the cake, I discovered I'd bought a bag of yellow-only M&Ms. Why didn't some one tell me they are now sold in single colours (although DH was happy to point out that its been advertised on telly in the last few weeks ) Thank God I hadn't cut the cake into a fish shape before I'd made my discovery! It may sound silly, but I'd done a trial run a couple of weeks ago and the different coloured M&Ms are necessary to give the fish its colour and its scales ... I thought a yellow-only fish would look crapola. Needless to say, I chucked a brief hissy fit, got over myself and decorated the rectangular cake in blue butter icing, with a big 1 in yellow M&Ms, plus a few lollies round it. I'll post pix shortly (... and I'll put a pic up of my trial fish cake to show you what I was supposed to do!) Oh, and I'm not anal enough to do a trial cake for the heck of it, some of our family was here a couple of weeks ago, so we had a mini b'day party for Cam then.

Otherwise, today is pretty much business as normal. Or will be till daddy gets home. Then Cam can open his gifts etc. I'm cooking roast pork for dinner.

Cam starts daycare tomorrow, but I've got a birthday treat for him first. Rags (as in the talking/singing life-size dog characters on TV) are coming to our local shopping centre and Cam likes to watch them sing on TV. So I'm taking him to meet Rags in the morning, then get him weighed/measured for the last time. Then off to childcare in time for lunch. Wish me luck - I took him twice for an hour last week and he seemed happy enough. He took off (crawling) outdoors the minute I put him on the ground, and his carers reckon it was a good sign that he didn't cling to me etc ... I can't believe my year at home with my boy is almost over. I have absolutely loved every minute of it. I'm hoping to have another baby in the next 12-18 months, and I can only hope no.2 is as easy as Cam has been. Having said that, my darling boy could turn into a horror head over the next 12 months as he learns to walk/talk and gain his independence. Here's keeping my fingers crossed he stays placid, happy and adaptable

I'd better go tidy up while Cam's still asleep.

Catch you all again later,
Andie xx

[kelebek]

Happy birthday CAM AND ARI

(sorry it's a bit late)

Good luck tomorrow Andie with daycare, hope it goes well and I'm sure he will love Rags. D is such a TV head if it's on especially if there is some singing and dancing, it's quite funny actually if you get in his road he either tries to push you out of the way or looks around you.

Well that's all for me, need to head to bed, have work tomorrow.

[*becstar*]

Happy Birthday to Flynn, Ollie and Seraya!!

xxx

[melbell45]

i second Bec's Happy Birthday wishes to Flynn, Seraya and Ollie !

i hope all the mummies daddies and babies have a great day

oh and Happy Birthday to Riley too :-)


Melinda

[Ewol12]

Happy Birthday Flynn, Seraya and Ollie
Have a great first birthday

Thanks Mel for Riley birthday wishes. He had to go to preschool today. We are having a party for Riley and Isabella on Saturday. Both kids will get their presents on Friday when DH comes home from work

I'm going to see a pschyologist today about Riley. We are having a full developmental assessment done and they are going to test for autism spectrum. I have to go by myself for the 1st visit and they will see Riley next week. This might sound horrible but I hope they find something wrong with him for the simple reason is that we will have more doors open for us to help him then what we have now.

Have a great day
Jo

[loulabelle]

Happy Belated Birthday to James, Happy birthday to Cam and Ari for yesterday and Happy Birthday Flynn, Seraya and Ollie!


Can't believe our babies are turning one!! We've still got 2 weeks to go here.Sam only just sneaks in on the 31st.

Sorry Ive missed birthdays and been MIA.Have hardly been on line the last 2 weeks because Sam has been quite sick.Started with just a cold, then the fevers and yesterday we took him to the doc and it's turned into a chest infection.I tell you what, I would do ANYTHING for a full nights sleep!Just when it seems to be clearing it gets worse again.Now today Ive woken with a tingle in my throat so I think I'm getting it.

As you most of you know we had our big ultrasound and all is looking good and it's a little GIRL! I'm pretty happy about it, although I don't thinkI would have minded either way.So stuck on names.I''m leaning towards Amelie Matilda at this point.Millie for short, I think it's pretty cute.

I'm feeling ok apart from the lack of sleep, emotionally I'm actually surprised at how well I feel.Still on meds, but am feeling better than before I was preg, maybe it's the hormones.

Had my first baby free night on Sat, Dh took Sam down to his parents for the night so I could have a break and catch up on my Doula work, was running so behind.After an initial cry It was great!

One thing that's got me down is the BFing.I think it's over. He was biting heaps and then last since last week has refused to take it at all.I had one dream feed 2 nights ago at about 4am, was so lovely, all cuddled up, but I do think it was the last one.I guess I should be happy that the last one was so positive but I still wish I had milk and could give it to him for longer.he's only this small for so long and I feel like I've taken it from him before he was ready.

Oh well. better be off as I have a hospital appointment, sorry no personals but I'm thinking of all of you.

xxx

p.s Nic, happy birthday for the other day.I'm so sorry I missed that too.xx

[kelebek]

Happy Birthday
Flynn, Seraya and Ollie!

OMG they are all turning one. Well I have tomorrow off so that's a good thing. Thanks Laura for the birthday wishes. Glad the pregnancy is going well as well.

Jo it must be incredibly frustrating with what is happening with Riley and I can imagine having answer will be a relief so I don't think it is a bad thing if they find something 'wrong' with him. I hope you get some answers and the sooner they diagnose the sooner you will get the help you need.

[melbell45]

Happy Birthday Jacob and Dusty ! hope you both have great days

big hugs to you Bec, i know you are sad as i was about your baby turning one !


Melinda

[loulabelle]

Happy Birthday Jacob and Dusty!

Bec and Nic, i hope you two have lovely days today.Wow, the big ONE!

Give your boys huge cuddles and kisses from me.xx