I posted a couple of photos of Jazz that I took last night while she was sitting on her dora couch. She's definately saying dada now!
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I posted a couple of photos of Jazz that I took last night while she was sitting on her dora couch. She's definately saying dada now!
Got my 20 year school reunion tonight..wish me and my liver luck *L*
Hope you are all having a good weekend
Bronxx
Hi all.
Well our fridge, bed, lounges & a few other things are gone. Not much to sort now & we will be left with what we are taking.
I'm excited when I've got 5 minutes to sit around & think about it.
Jesse's started saying Dad too. He's having a go at Nan as well. I wish the little bugger would stop pinching me! The whole time he feeds he pinches my boob & the back of my arm. I try to keep a singlet or something over my side or he pinches that as well.
He's just started pulling himself up on things more.
He's learnt that Taa & Yucky mean to drop or spit out what ever he's got. Makes life a bit easier with all the hidden mess coming out of the wood works!!
Good luck tonight Bron. Have fun.
Cute pics Danni.
Hope you are enjoying yourself Prama. Sounds like Poopy's keeping you busy!
Pitty about the ruined weekend SJ. Don't you hate it when work stuffs up your plans.
Congrats on the crawling!
Jesse attempts it for a step or 2, but goes back to the frog coz its faster!! He goes down steps & all now, cheeky devil!
Hope everything is ok with Codie today Trina.
Hope everythings well with you & DJ, Shell.
Hi All,
Had a busy couple of weeks, just caught up on all of the posts!
Re the Sleeping thing, I have the book save our sleep, a number of friends recommended it to us so we decided to try the theory this weekend as it is a long weekend and we can sleep during the day if the night are rough! So far it hasn't been too bad! Last night she went to bed at 7pm as the plan says (I also followed the feed and sleep routines during the day) and she woke at 7.45pm and we followed the plan for her age and it took 2 hours for her to go back to sleep but she stayed in her cot and just lay there until she was ready to sleep. We had to wake her this morning to stick to the plan but for all of her sleeps today, she fell asleep on schedule except tonight she woke after at 8.20pm but this time it only took 40 minutes for her to go back to sleep and again she just lay quietly in her cot. So I hope I don't mozz it but it seems to be working. We don't do a dream feed as she doesn't need it but on this plan she should sleep for 12 hours overnight and 15 hours in a 24 hour period, it used to be rare to get her to sleep for 12 hours in a 24 hour period!
I am wondering if I haven't been feeding her enough solids because the plan tells you to feed her 2 courses each solids feed which I am now doing and she eats the lot - she always seemed full after 1 - 1.5 courses! Fingers crossed that it goes well for the rest of the weekend. The good thing also is that you don't have to get stuck at home when a sleep is due. Today I went out when her sleep was due and she slept while I was out and transferred out of the car without waking!
Re teeth - Caitlin got her 2 middle bottom teeth a day apart 2 weeks ago. They still are only sticking through about 1mm above the gum but at least they have broken through and she is not miserable anymore. The 2 nights they were coming through were hell!
Bron - hope the reunion goes well and you have a great time. My 20 year reunion is due next year - haven't heard if they are doing anything though.
SJ - Congrats to MJ on crawling. We are not there yet, she is trying hard but hasn't worked out the whole moving the hands thing yet! Goes backwards though she she manages to get to the things she is not supposed to be touching!
Danni - Caitlin says Dadda all of the time and the other day she said Bubba & Hello but she refused to say Mumma! Little ratbag! It is good to hear when they say a new word isn't it.
Prama - Hope the trip is going well - enjoy. I am sure you are making the most of it!
Skye - Hope all is going well with the move and happy anniversary for this week! (in case I don't get back on for a week or so!)
Well that's enough of my essay - have a great weekend all - Jo.
Thanks Jo! I almost forgot about our anniversary!!
Jazz is having another sleep over at grumpy & gran's next weekend and we are going away! I so cant wait. It's a weekend away with a whole group of photographers from another forum I go to. Should get heaps of great photos! I have not done any creative photography since before Jazz was born so I'm looking foward to getting back to it!
Skye Summer is pinching me too geez it hurts, she grabs hand fulls of skin or will scratch a spot on my arm over and over little chickens they are. Nearly ready to go now hey? bet you cant wait to be moved in... Codie is not too bad going to wait until tomorrow and call her specialist and see what he wants me to do.
Bron hope the night was good and you aren't suffering too much
SJ good luck with baby proofing its such fun when they start getting into everything.
Jo hope the sleep gets better not much improvement here, little rascal wakes so many times.
Back later better put a nappy on bare bum
I wanna cry. Anth went pigging with our dog last night & she got burnt. Really badly.
They were cyphening petrol & one of the twits lit a smoke. She was tied up above it & it went up.
The next door neighbour got burns on his hands untying her so she could get away.
I feel so horrible. She's so sore. I got no money for vet or anything. I dunno what to do.
Oh Skye thats awful, poor little doggy :(
What idiots lighting a smoke while doing thta, could have been soooo much worse than only the dog!
Bron, have a fantastic time, hope your liver copes!!!!!
Danni, thats great that Jazz is saying Dadda, thats the one noise that MJ cant really make.
Im getting pinched here too... i just remove her hand and say no, she is starting to get the idea, also we are using 'gentle' a lot and she seems to be getting the idea of that too
Jo - hope the sleeping goes well, if you have success, maybe i could borrow the book and have a go at it??? Will have to catch up soon too, would love to see you both again, i bet they have shanged so much!
Gotta go, MJ is stirring, she fel asleep on a rug in the garden under a tree she loooks so cute :)
Hey girls,
Hope you are all well :) I am pretty good and DJ is good, just been hard to settle last night and early this morning. I thought maybe his tooth was coming through but no such luck....haha I reckon I will end up with one bad night and they all coming through in one hit..
Jo - how is the save our sleep routine going? I really need to do something. I bought a snippett from her routine collection and similar type thing and yeah I don't know how to give DJ anymore solids than he already has. She says to give one savoury and one sweet solid...... DJ never wants anymore than the 1 course, not two courses..... unless you give them a break between the savoury and sweet..... I would love to know more about how the routine is going for Caitlin, and if it is worth me reading more about it and buying the book.
Skye - OMG that is horrible - your poor dog. what animals to do that to the poor dog!!!!
Bron - how was the school renunion?
SJ - wow on MJ's crawling - that is fantastic. DJ has gone back to commando crawling, still crawls backwards or sideways but can't get going forwards.
Prama - yeah he is eating solids again thankfully but back to two meals per day, so trying to sneak in another. I will try him tonight on some rice cereal and veges. He won't take vege puree by itself, so going to disguise it....haha see how we go.... Oh yeah rash only lasted 4 days and it was completely gone. He still has his cough, but that will take ages to go away..... arghhhh
DJ is back to commando crawling, moves sideways and backwards but the funny thing is he crawls properly in his cot hahaha Poopy will get the hang of it, DJ hasn't got the full gist of it yet.... My sunburn is good, wasn't that bad, just got some nice brown colour on my shoulders :) oh wow congrats Prama!!!!! and yeah the last 4kg for me is very stubborn... Wow on how fast he can move around, that is scary. how much longer are you away for??
Got your note re: chrissy thing, so will look into it :)
Danni - oh how exciting a weekend away - Doni and I are going away in a few weeks time and I can't wait!!!
Trina - ouchies on the pinching. DJ just hits me in the head and arms if he is in bed with me to get my attention.....Cheeky bugger.
Well better get some lunch.
Chat later
shell xxxx
Skye, I'm so sorry to hear about your dog. I hope she will be ok.
Skye I am sure if you went to the vet they would rather have the dog treated and have ANTH pay it off than him not get treated at all. Hope your not offended but the whole idea of pigging I think is pretty horrible itself. The boys were lucky the petrol didnt burn anybody else more seriously.
School reunion was great hooked up with my school best friend who I have had no contact with in 23 years it was pretty emotional.It was a great night but i didnt damage the liver too much as was on pain killers. I jammed my finger in the freezer compartment at Aldi doing the gorceries yesterday .Nearly passed out blood went everywhere and I threw up in their toilets *L* very embarrased but my thumb is horendous and because my counts have dropped so much its horrifically bruised.Its funny everydbody does the polite how are you going and then you end up back in your old school groups.I would reccomend anybody to go to one it was a hoot.
bbl bub awake
Hi all.
The dog is feeling a bit better today. She's out from under the house & walking around.
Sent jaz to school with all her library & school books today. Her last day is on Wednesay. Getting school stuff back to school so I don't accidentally pack them!
I wish the kidswould stop unpacking on me!
I had 2 bags of clothes for vinnies, til they decided to play dress ups yesterday!! Then they puled all the books out on me.
Oh well. We are slowly getting there. Its alot easier when Jaz is at school.
She lost another tooth yesterday. The darn toothfairy couldn't get through the rain though! (I forgot!!!) She'll have to come tonight instead.
ETA: I'm going up to Coffs ASAP when I get there. I wanna see what this Aldi is like. Everone keeps going on about it, I'm sick of being the only one who's never seen it!!
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah two teeth and crawling all in aweek heeeeeeeeeeeelp*L* little buggar is lightening fast now hes found his knees.Where has my baby gone????
Anthony & his friend have just gone out to put our dog down.
Her burns were infected. I'm so peed off at them & their stupidity.
I'm sick of paying for the idiotic things they do.
Oh Skye I am really sorry thats very sad I would be mor ethan peeved.:-(
oh skye - poor poor jess :'( :hug: that was really really stupid of them... which idiot lights up when there's petrol around... aarrgghhh!!!!!!!!!!!
not long till you move to the coast.
bron - sounds like you had a wonderful reunion, it's always so nice to see old friends!!
how's ur thumb now?
shell - i fly back on sat, im going to miss my family but looking forward to seeing steve and getting back to routine.
dj sounds so cute crawling!!
not sure when I'll lose that 4kg/.. havent been to the gym, osteo said stay away till my back gets better.
sj - think you're right, poopy might not crawl on all fours, just continue commando till he starts walking. mum said he might not even teach himself to sit. since he's started pulling himself up, i think he's very close to 'cruising'.. eeekk. tooo fastfor me!!!
trina - yup get itty bitty pinches on the boob too. he also comes off, looks at my boob, examines the nipple w great interest and then continues again!
my friend's 2 kids got their teeth at a year old so maybe poopy will AT LEAST take his time with that!
sorry for not doing more personals.. ive been having a bad headache for the last couple of days..
xoxoxoxo
**** skye your poor puppy that is just horrific i would have gone to the vet anyway and asked (anth) to pay it off, poor thing would have been in so much pain. I bet you are in a huge hurry to get the hell out of that town especially now. How are the kids re the dog? bet they are upset
Haha teeth and crawling everywhere
oooh gotta go miss Summer is up to no good
try to come back later
Skye, I'm so sorry about the dog.
Hi guys.
Thanks. Its so not fair. To tell you the truth I wish one of the boys was hurt. It'd serve them right for being so stupid. Sure accidents happen, as Anthony put it, but I don't think this is as simple as that.
Accidents don't usually start with petrol & a lighter. I know they didn't mean for her to get hurt & I'm sure they feel bad, but so they should!
Why couldn't it have been one of their useless stupid dogs? Why was it the one dog out of them that was loved & cared about??
Bri was in denial coz she saw Jess get in the car with Anth. She didn't understand. Jaz was heart broken & demanded we get a new dog right now.
Sorry guys. Vent over.
Its our 2 year anniversary today. Isn't it sad that it doesn't bother me? With everything going on right now it just doesn't feel like a big deal.
I'll be back later. Hopefully I'll be in a better mood. :)
Jazz is really babbling now. Last night she was saying baba a lot and whispering something that sounded like daddy - almost like she's practicing before she says it outloud. I also make a popping sound with my lips and she was copying that and popping her lips. She watches my mouth intently when I'm talking to her now and was trying to copy me when I was saying mum but still not saying it yet. She "talks" to her toys now.
I just tried that with Jesse. Tried getting him to copy mumumum, I got
'mmm.....dah!'
His second tooth has cut too.
Ok guys. I'm doing it. I'm unplugging my computer.
I'm never going to get anything done the way I'm going.
I'm going to load everything including my pc into the back room ready to go.
Miss you all already!!!
Talk to you when I'm on the beach!!!!
I'll be checking in on facebook on my phone though occasionally. Can't go cold turkey!!
BYE!
Oh Skye. Don't stay away too long! Miss you too!
Hi girls,
Well not getting my hopes up but I felt something sharp in DJ's upper gum area..... not going to get my hopes up that it might FINALLY be a tooth, but who knows. He has been very grizzly and wanting to be with me alot and going off his food, especially his bottles, wont' take the full bottle, lucky if he will take 120ml grrrrr and as for solids, will only eat rice cereal, yoghurt or in some cases fruit puree's..... He doesn't like food any chunkier coz I know I am supposed to give him more lumpier food now, but he prefers it puree'd more..... anyway will keep you all update, sooooo hope at least one tooth is through tomorrow. Doni is away this week so what a nice little surprise for him when he returns home on Friday.
I had my mum over tonight which was nice, she gave DJ lots of cuddles so I could sit back and relax a bit. I wanted to get his clothes ready for his class photos for daycare tomorrow. I can't wait. Going to put on a little red top and black jeans on him with his little black and white sneakers, unless his red ones fit him (doubt that coz they are pretty big kehehe).
He still has his cough, and has had it for ages now!!!!! I give him the ventilator twice-a-day and it still hasn't cleared up........ not very chesty, just every now and again after a feed it will get chesty. Wondering if I should take him back to the doctors, or if it is just a typical cough that takes ages to clear.
Now personals.......
Skye - oh good luck for the move - have a safe trip and look forward to hearing from you on the boards again.
Danni - that is so cute of Jazz's babbling :) Don't you just love it :)
Trina - what mischief is Summer up to?
Prama - oh coolies, we should organise to catch-up sometime at Westfields or something :) but yeah I can imagine you both would have missed Steve and he would have missed you both as well. Not really crawling though, well it is crawling when he is in his cot, just not on the floor, he gets up on his knees moves a bit on the floor then flops back down again and rolls over and just pelvic thrusts around the room haha
Yeah the last 4kg are very hard to lose, and stubborn. I have just started getting back into the gym was too busy for past few weeks so finally getting back to it. I want to look good for when we go to Melb. How is your headache?
Bron - oh wow sounds like Will is all go now!!! Woohoooo thanks for your comments on his class photos I can't wait. They will be hard copy so I will scan one in and upload it once I get them :)
Anyway girls, I am going to watch a bit of tv and then head to bed.
Shell xxxx
Oh my.... now i understand what you meant with the crawling Trina...
MJ is all over the place and the floor boards dont even slow her down now, she has figured out how to crawl on them!!! She is not a baby any more :(
No teeth here either, i think it will be a while still
Shell - i hope that DJ's appear soon
Bron- glad you had a fantastic time, sorry bout the finger thou, i went to my 10 year reunion the year before last and it was awesome, i would recommend them too
Skye - hope the move is going well, look forward to hearing form you soon
Prama - i have about 4kg to go too... i think it hasnt been helped withthe biccies that i indulge each evening - i have put a stop to that as of last night...
gotta go, bbl :)
Grr! Jazz was terrible last night. We couldn't get her to sleep until about 11pm, then she woke up at 3am. Matt changed her and fed her and then she wouldn't go to sleep again until after 5am! I was laying in bed trying to get back to sleep the whole time but couldn't. I got up at 7am for work and am wrecked this morning. She used to be such a good sleeper but now she's not and I don't know what to do! I need her to go to sleep at 8pm at the latest again so i can get daycare stuff done and get to bed at a reasonable time myself.
Hey girls,
Well there was no tooth grrrrrr I think it was one trying to come through though coz he was super whingy last night grrrrrr didn't sleep very well last night oh well the joys.
His photos this morning went well, so now wait for 3 weeks just hope there are some good ones, DJ was more interested in the green caterpillar behind him haha or the toys around him....... I got home and he started to do the biggest smiles and I was like damn now you smile big time hahaa always the way.... there were a few cute class photos, so hopefully I will get one of the ones that he is smiling in ;)
Ok, better go, DJ is fighting his sleep and I have heaps of housework to do.
Shell xxx
skye - we'll miss you, but im sure you'll be back online ASAP! xoxxo
shell - definately catch up again!! hopefully by then maybe both the boys might have a tooth or 2!
hope teh week's not so hard w doni away. steve has to go to perth now at the end ofthe month.. sigh.
hope dj's cough goes away, poor bubba, it must be annoying for hi..
headache's better, thanks. it took a while to go away.. my osteo said back problems can cause bad haedaches...
can't wait to see dj's piccies, he must look so handsome!!!
lol, so typical, they dont do things when you want them to, do tehy?
sj - yes, those 4kgs are so hard. my cousin,, who's my closest friend is getting married middle of next year, im hoping to lose 7kgs by then. at least a little slimmer than my pre-preg days.. here's hoping!
crawling is hard work! and lifting themselves up is harder.. for us!!
danni - sorry abt jazz's sleeping.. these kids have their own ideas.
poopy woke up at 11pm and i'd pat him to sleep and as soon as i put him in his cot, he'd scream and cry. tried that a few times, then i thot i'd cuddle him in bed till he was sound asleep and then put him in his cot, but then i fell asleep... and this is the first time in ages he slept thru the night and i was too tired to pick up and put him back in his cot. but im not going to amke a habit of putting him in bed...
There have been many times I've thought about bringing Jazz into our bed but I'm so scared to. She moves a lot in her sleep as does Matt. I'd be worried she would get too hot or when she rolled over she'd end up suffocating in our pillows or something. We'd most certainly have to put the cat outside otherwise he would decide to sleep on top of her I'm sure.
Also, my uncle & aunty used to co-sleep all the time with their youngest and she was a nightmare to babysit coz she was so clingy and would scream for hours if she wasn't being held while she slept and would scream and grab you so tight there would be bruises if you tried to put her in her cot...this was only at about 8 months old. I babysat her over night a couple of times and hated the clingyness so after that I always made up excuses not to babysit. I don't want to put someone else through that.
The other reason I'm scared of co-sleeping is that some people say it increases the risk of SIDS. When I was 6 months old I had a 3 month old cousin who died of SIDS. I don't think my aunty co slept with her though, but considering I've heard there is a higher risk it puts me right off doing it.
Maybe when she is 2 or 3 I might occasionally allow her to share out bed, but not before then if I can help it...even if she might sleep better. Maybe I should talk to Matt and see what he thinks.
Afternoon girls,
Prama - most definitely :) we will have to organise something soon and yeah hopefully the boys will have a tooth or two, but I doubt DJ will, his gums must be very stubborn haha The week without Doni hasn't been too bad, it is only 3 nights this week which isn't as bad. He is just grizzling coz he is teething........Oh bugger on Steve being away for most of the month. We should organise to catch-up while he is away. And yeah hope Dj's cough goes away as well, it wakes him up if he is sleeping.
Good to hear headache is better.
HAHA yeah I can't wiat to see piccies....
Better go sorry girls, DJ is whinging.....
Shelllxxx
Jazz has a bit of hayfever at the moment, the puffy eyes and runny nose poor dear. I gave her some nurofen this morning for it. I think that's the only thing I can do. She woke up at 5am and wouldn't go back to sleep so I brough her into our bed for just over an hour so I could try to get a bit more sleep. I didn't end up falling asleep until about 6am and then Jazz woke up at 6:20am.
She said Mum for the first time this morning while Matt was holding her. It was so clear too! I think it's funny how she said dad for the first time while I was holding her and mum for the first time while Matt was holding her. I wasn't in the room but I did hear it thankfully. She was so proud of herself but got all embarressed when we were making a fuss about it.
DJ is sick again!!! arghhhh He didn't sleep very well coughing and runny nose, diarrohea and wasn't breathing very well. Doctor gave me some antibiotics as well as script for dimetapp (that is the best stuff) and told me I can increase his ventilator puffs from 4 to 6 if I need to. I don't think it helps much but at least he now opens his mouth for it so he must be used to it. He is pretty happy though so that is a good thing. decided to work from home today so I can be with him. It was a good excuse to go for a sleep with him as well, I was so tired from lack of sleep last night. at least Doni is home tomorrow night :)
Danni - I think DJ suffers from hayfever, but I can never tell the difference between a cold and hayfever allergies..... Doni has hayfever too.
Ok girls, better go talk soon
Shellx
I'm fairly sure it's hayfever. matt gets bad hayfever too and Jazz looks the same as he does when he's having an attack.
Dropping her off at my parents at dinner time tonight and then we are off for the weekend. Can't wait! Been cleaning the house up so that it's nice when we get home on Sunday night and also coz it was a mess and Jazz will be mobile soon and we'd like to give her the opportunity to try and crawl around but the floor was far too dirty for that. Now the lounge is tidy and I'll vacuum when she wakes up.
*L*@ danni and the dirty floor. I thought my floor was clean until will started crawling..man di di get a shock he littl ehands and knees got so grubby and his shirts were covered in dust a sad inditment of my housekeeping skills I am afraid *L*. He obbsessed with the kitchen too he loves the lino so gets double dirty. I am not too fussed as figure he cna have abth and thankgod for napisan *L*. He did have his first crash after following me out of the fornt screen door ( which I was sure I had closed when I went to the mail box) he pushed it open and went straight down the step. The first of many I am sure. Its great watchign him explore the world though.
DJ got himself off our lounge and onto the floor and didn't even hurt himself at all this morning. I was like what the?! Doni said he kind of rolled off but landed well haha It is so funny watching him crawl. He goes backwards and sideways really well, but forwards he just doesn't do too well..... We put him on his knees now so he can play with his laugh n learn table and he loves that :)
Hope you are all well.
We are off for a picnic with friends, so better get organised.
Shell xx
back from my weekend away. did matt & i the world of good! Jazz had good timeat grumpy & grans and got a couple of new pairs of shoes an a pair of sun glasses
Apparently Jazz slept all night on Saturday night (10pm-about 8am). Guess what, she did it again last night! Fell asleep on me at about 8:30, I put her in her cot at about 9:00 and she slept until I got her up at 7am so we could get ready for work/daycare.
I'm a bit worried now though, Last weekend we were at my uncle's 50th birthday and his grandson has just come out in spots this week...chicken pox. I don't think he was near Jazz but she got passed around so much that he could have been. I hope she doesn't get it. I guess I'll know in the next couple of weeks.
Hi everyone...
Its so much harder to get onlne now with a crawler!!!
PMSL Bron - nothing like a white wondersuit to show your cleaning up - i was horrified!!! we have floorboards and lino throughout so yet its really bad and i am mopping every day now!
Had a scare yesterday, we were finishing the baby proofing and DH's snowborad slipped and fell on MJ, luckily it only caught her hand, but had the edge fallen with ful force onto her hand it could have sliced it off... whould hate to think what would have happend if it hit her head - well i did think of it and cried and cried...
Needless to say thats away now and there is heaps of moving things....
Danni - glad you have a great weekend away, a break always does you good (we need one here)
OH yeah, git my tax done and got a refund woo HOO, i was expeting a bill so that was great...
figured out that i will be getting the $1000 in december so that will be great too - means that we will have a nice christmas and will be getting a camping holiday hopefully :)
Hope all is well with everyone else.
Take care
I've started uploading some photos from my trip.
We rearranged the lounge room back to the way it was before Jazz was born. There should be more room for her to play now and it looks more open again. We did a lot of tidying up on Friday before we went away so we can start baby proofing. The loungeroom floor has been vacuumed so I'm letting Jazz go on her belly on the carpet to practice moving around. Yesterday she got up on her knees but just rocked back and forth and side to side.