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He he, Mum dad's pup, Wally...My sister called him Wallace once, so I can't help myself. He's Gromit now!
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He he, Mum dad's pup, Wally...My sister called him Wallace once, so I can't help myself. He's Gromit now!
OMG! I just found a heap of pics of the girls from 2005-06!
Bri's first christmas & stuff!! I'm uploading them to face book!!!
Skye Bri and Jesse look like twins at that age its amazing.
I know. I'll have to find some of Jaz to scan. We didn't have digital back then.
Helloooo.............
Guess what? We are going to Sydney for christmas!!
Anyone live near Sutherland & wanna catch up??????
Would really like to!
skye - we dont quite live in sutherland, we're north west...
maybe we can meet half way some where?
Yeah I don't mind.
I have no idea where it is yet. Not much of a Sydney person really!
I kinda know Parramatta & Kellyville & thats it!
lol.. im in parramatta/ryde area!!
will you have a car etc?
Yeah. I'd be stuffed on public transport... I'd feel safer lost in my car!!!
coolies!!
we;ll plan to meet somewhere then!! how long will you be in syd?
we are going to brissy next week. steve has to go away for work again and this time he told his work that he wont go without us, and htey said ok, we can go with him.
we;re leaving on sunday and back on friday.. hope to have internet access...
gonna go to bed.. having a headache.. again! :(
cool!
I don't know when or how long yet. Hopefully know a bit more tomorrow.
I'm guessing you'll be flying to Brissy? If you were driving you'd go just past Scotts & through Nambucca.
I'm off to bed too.
Just a reminder on the christmas cards... there are only 3 of us so if anyone else wants to swap cards, pm me!
Night all!!
With all the toys that Jazz had, she decided to go for Dad's keys instead! LOL.
She almost crawled forwards last night. She keeps getting up on her hands and feet then looses balance and falls on her face. If anyone knows any yoga then you'll know what I means when I say she gets into "downward dog" position before she falls on her face.
We're off to a shoe party today for my cousin's birthday...can't wait! Mmmm, shoes!
Danni - MJ loves our keys too, so 'santa' is bringing her a set - Fisher Price do a good one for $13 at target and at the moment there is buy one get the other for 1/2 price, so we managed to get 2 really good toys for $25 which was great.
So what is everyone getting their little ones for christmas?
MJ is getting the keys and a roll along toy and the poptivity table (thanks for the idea prama) from Santa
a tambourine and maraca's set and a kiddies first splash pool from us.
Dont think that we will get her much more TBH, she wont really be inetersted in them, i think that the box's and wrapping paper will be more fun!
What does everyone else plan to do, more pressies from santa or more from mum and dad?
I seem to remember that everything came from Santa when we were young and only one thing from Mum and Dad...
Got santa pics done, will try and up load soon - both here and facebook
hehe poopy loves keys too, need to get him a set.. :D
he's got a top, a pull-along duck, a popup aussie xmas book and a plane mobile thing. his gran and auntie and uncle will get him more stuff im sure.
i think that's enough! haha. after all his b'day is 10 weeks away!
one of my best friends from melb gave him a toy musical box today and he was so much interested in the wrapper!
sj - poopy absolutely loves teh poptivity table, i was amazed it was just $30 at woolies, i think it's almost 60 elsewhere. and it's good training for his leg muscles and better distraction :P
hehe, havent thot about from santa or us.. hmm hv to think abt that.
we've got a little fibre optic tree. i t hink he will like the lights on that!
sj - hope you're feeling better after the last few days' incident. xoxoxo
oh forgot to add - we also got him a bamboo wind chime today, we have one on the back verandah and he enjoys it when i feed him there.
we've got one on either side of where i put him high chair and he was looking up left and right.. i guess that's an early xmas pressie for him!
we are thinking of going to melb in apr, my friend has invited us over for the greek easter.. will be fun.. and i could catch up w you girls!!
skye - let us know when you'll be here, we're pretty much free xmas week, except 22nd and xmas day of course. not sure abt 23rd as it's mil's bday. xox
We haven't got anything for Jazz yet but will only get one thing and wrap up some of her existing toys as well. She's very into paper and just stopped playing with some junk mail which kept her occupied for the past half hour!
I died and went to shoe heaven today. I'm gonna have a shoe party for my birthday in March...can't wait!
I got a laod of books ben buying one a fortnight for the past few months. Some small hardcover for Will to handle and some larger story books for mummy reading time.also got a good old fasioned wooden block trolley to help with walking as he is already walking along pushing the clothes basket. Some small fisher price blocks with stuff inside a piano a couple of xmas t shirts which he will start wearing soon anyway and a tupperware shape sorter. Thats from us he is also getting a shell pool and sandpit and a swing for the verandah. God only kows hwat he will get form the rest of the family.Have gone abit over board I know but he is at that stage where he is onto the next group of toys if you like and new skills so had to upgrade *L* I love christmas and have been buying all year so have finished my shopping.
Well Jazz is 9 months old today and it's as if she suddenly decided now she's 9 months she'll start crawling forwards! It's not very coordinated and she doesn't get far (yet) but at least it's forwards! She was also trying to pull herself up today. She got up onto her knees and then fell over.
I've started painting a picture for her room. My painting skills are still a bit childish at the moment, but you've gotta start somewhere right?!
Jazz learnt a couple of new words today. While she was having a bath she kept saying "baaaaaffffff" and also when she sees herself in the mirror I think she's trying to say her name. She looks at herself and says "JssssJssss"
Still not much of the mum though, tends to say things that end in a or s or she'll just say mmmmm
Hi girls,
I have been so slack lately but with DJ crawling around and very quick too he is keeping me on my toes kehehe always trying to get to the stuff I don't want him to...haha he stands up as well, and moves himself around the lounge, we have a low lounge.... and guess what he finally has a tooth coming through!!! Yipeeeeee he had been so unsettled last week and Friday night was the night, I was soooo tired!!!! but well worth it especially knowing it was for something like a tooth kehehee I was so proud of him :)
Re: christmas cards, I am hopeless haven't even started.....I doubt I will get a chance either, I am too slack this year.... and too busy.....
re: words - DJ has said "dadda" and "mummy" and also says "I" alot but my mum is scottish so he sees her alot... he will probably have a scottish accent if she can help it ;) kehehe
Prama - oh wow it is hard to believe Poopy's birthday is 10 weeks away, I haven't even thought about DJ's in terms of weeks. eeek We are probably doing something low key though on his actual birthday coz we are trying to save up to go to Greece with some friends and we are taking mum with us so she can look after DJ for us while we go out at night :) She is very excited about it. I just hope we can save up enough for the trip. sounds like a great idea re: trip to Melb for greek easter - that will be a great experience.
Bron - sounds like he is going to be spoilt, soooo cute :) I have on layby for DJ a little V-tech phone with lots of lights (he will love it!!), Brainy Baby DVD's (left and right brain) and a little truck. I am probably going to get one more thing for him but not too much because he will be spoilt this year at xmas from the relatives.
SJ - sounds like great presies. I got DJ some maracas the other day at the chemist and he loves them :) I think it also helped his tooth come through so bonus on that one!!! We are only getting DJ a few things as well, the relatives will spoil him and he loves wrapping paper and boxes too.
Danni - ooooh shoes that is just a magic word for women!!! haha I need some comfy shoes to go dancing in when we go out. Hard to find comfy dancing shoes haha
Skye - how is the new place going?
Trina - how are the girls going?
Everyone else, hope you are all well :)
Take care
Shell xxx
quickie as we are on steve's work broadband..
brissy is so warm and humid.. lol.
we are good.
shell - yaay dj on the tooth!!
wow, sj, it's just mj and poopy now!!
greece sounds heavenly!
gotta run.. take care all.
xoxoxox
We got a new kitten today. Jazz loves him! She laughs everytime she sees him! We're using him to teach her about being gentle. I'm worried about leaving the two of them alone though coz he's so tiny and I don't want her to pick him up and shake him like she does her toys. Our other cat doesn't like him much at the moment, but he'll get used to him.
https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...ml#post1552036
Had to share...so funny & I've witnessed it quite a few times!
:rofl: skye that was great and yep so true, although i think the swearing fit would have happened sooner at our house!!!
Mum and Dad are back from their holiday today, cant wait to see them.
If MJ is not teething, i dont know whats going on, she is waking up in the night with a different cry and i managed to put her down and she is crying again within 20-30mins ahhhh, i have had a few bad nights... how is poopy going??
Molly Jane LOVES Santa - everytime she sees a picture of him she laughs and smiles :)
I bought some netting butterlys from spotlight, a little DIY kit for decoating them and popped them around her room, she LOVES them and coos at them and makes a fussssh sound at them So cute.
Starting to get a little stressed about the rest of xmas shopping, getting it all done in time... Also i dont think we have managed to get a caravan, so we will be tenting it for 7 days ahhhhh wish me luck!!! got another 2 weeks to prepare!
hope all is well with others
Hi guys.
Another quick one, sorry I'm not around as much.
Going for x ray on my back on Friday. My pelvis was so bad yesterday morning that I could barely walk. So I went to my gp. He thinks it might have something to do with my lower back instead. Thats why its still there.
Tenting it sounds like soooo much fun SJ. Have fun with that!
Hope your having fun Prama.
Hope everyone else is enjoying the festive season! (Crowded shopping centres & no car parks make life sooo great, huh!)
I'll try & get back later.
Bye!
hey guys. Just letting u know i'm on my way to coffs hospital with jesse. He's got a fever hotter than i've ever felt before n nothing was picked up in his urine or blood.
Is Jesse ok Skye???
Hope everything is ok Skye.
hi. They've the drip down to see if jesse will get thirsty n start feeding again. Maybe go home later today maybe tomorrow.
do they know what's wrong yet?
Skye big :hug: hope everything is OK with your little man
hi. I'm not real happy. AF is back. Reduced feeding n stress i guess. I'm going to buy a tin of FF tomorrow. Just in case. I've got a feeling my milk night did soon. Don't know whats wrong. He's off the drip to try n get him feeding. Not working yet. I dunno. Feeling like crap.
oh skye - hope little jesse gets better. poor bubba.. xoxoxoxoxox and hope you feel better too, it's hard...
Oh Skye. Hope he'll be ok, and you too. Look after yourself hun.
Jazz is really getting quite mobile now and crawling forwards with much more coordination...still quite uncoordinated, but getting better and further...trying to chase the kitten.
I sat down and had a good look at what happens at day care (from the book the FDC lady writes in) and I've discovered a routine which I've written down to try and stick closely to on weekends. I have written it all down for Matt and pre measured the formula for the day and gotten out her jars of food. I hope he sticks to the routine as well, he's bad at that.
We've not been doing too well. His depression is really bad and when he's having a downer (which seems to be happening a lot more frequently) I cop a lot of verbal abuse and it's getting harder to take. I've taken the step of seeking out councelling (free councelling). Am on a 4-6 week waiting list for that. I hope it helps. I'm going to try everything to save this marriage. But in the end, once I've tried everything if it's not working then it's not working. I'm not ready to give up yet though.
OMG Skye - big hugs!!!! I hope Jesse is ok.... Do they know what is wrong?
I had the worst night with DJ - damn teething...... grrrrr why can't they be born with teeth grrrrrr He was up every 10, 20, 30 mins last night...... Doni didn't go for a bike ride this morning so he took over so I could get some sleep. I swapped my days around this week for work, so it is my day off but I still have to go in to get something done which means I have to take DJ with me. Just waiting for him to have a sleep and then I will leave. He was just sooooo unsettled. I tried everything - panadol, bonjela, Brauers Calm and none of it worked - well they did for a little while but then he was whingy again. I also have something else called Hylands, I will give that a go again.... I just don't want to give him panadol all of the time. Getting some nurofen today because it works far more quicker than panadol. Arghhhh I am just soooo tired. I wish i didn't have to go into work but need to get something done. I am hoping he will be behaved and just play but who knows with his teething, he is fine one minute and then upset the next..... Another thing that is happening is he is wheezing.... well I think it is wheezing, very worried about it.... but Doni thinks it is just him and the different senstations etc..... he is not eating much of his solids or milk.... damn teething!!!!!! Does it get easier???
The exciting news is that DJ wants to walk..... If he is standing up and I am holding him he is taking steps :) very exciting and scary at the same time. He crawls everywhere now and stands himself up and walks along the lounge (little steps). I walked by the time I was 10 months so looks like he is following in my steps.
I picked up DJ's portfolio from daycare and it is sooooo cute, has all of his paintings and pictures during his time there. Lots of little stories including one where he ate playdough hahah
Danni - sorry to hear things aren't well with Matt..... don't give up yet, hopefully the counselling will help. Have you tried St Johns Wart?? anything natural?
SJ - how is MJ doing, that sounds like teething to me..... any come through?
Prama -hope you are having fun in Brisvegas, it is cold down here in Sydneytown.
Hope everyone else is well, I have to get organsied to head into work.
Wish me luck, I am bringing toys that aren't so noisy. Thinking I will work from a quiet room to get stuff done and at least I can close the door and keep him contained....otherwise he will be crawling all over the place.
Shell xxxx
Hi guys. We're home. Finally.
He was discharged at about 10 this morning. 15 minutes down the road we had to take him back coz a rash started on his feet, then his legs, hands & belly. Hopefully it's just part of a viral infection, but I have to keep a close eye on him JIC.
They still aren't 100% what's up though.
We aren't going to Sydney for Christmas now. :( We were going to see Anth's pop,but they are going to have a big birthday for him in around March instead.
Anyway. I need some sleep.
I'll come back & read up & catch up tomorrow.
Night.
skye - how's jesse now.. poor little bubba... hope he's got his appetite back, and you are getting some rest.
maybe we'll see you in syd in march :D
a quick one, still tired fr our trip to brissy.
it was nice but hot and humid and i stayed in our apartment mostly, it was a bit of a walk to the train station and it was hard getting the pram in and out. so only went out one day when i met up w a couple of bb girls. it was tiring in the apartment too, as we didnt have a playpen and poopy was getting into everything, pulling himself up onto the toilet, bin, and then climbed over the cushions, onto the side table in the lounge room, and just up on step on the staircase going to our apartment. boy was i exhausted looking after him!! and he laughs at me or has crocodile tears when i tell him NO!. sigh...
and friday i spent w steve's aunt which was nice.
and there's a pool there so after steve got home fr work, we'd have a swim..
but im glad to be back home.
poopy's doing well, crawling everywhere on all fours, sitting by himself, cruising w one hand and starting to let go and then falling onto his bum. he's been throwing stuff from the cot/high chair and see them fall. he's also holding on to things in both hands and forgetting he's got stuff and trying grab more things!
he's also chattier, saying ammeh (amma = mum) and mum-mum(food).. often together.. i think he thinks im his food provider, ahahaah. im glad he can say mum-mum when he's hungry now.. makes it a bit easier. he also says appa (dad), and a few other words.
anyway, ive had a bad week.. i heard from work.. well i contacted them.. and they said ill have to come back 5 days, i wanted to do 3 days a week. so i dunno what to do... not the best of times to find a new job, and i dont want to be away fr poopy so many days. work cant/dont want to hire new staff, tehre's a freeze cos of the economic crisis and so they cant have someone cover my other days. and im annoyed cos htey should have told me this before... i dunno if i can get day care for the other days...
sorry it's all abt me.....
:hug: Prama. Its ok, get it all out!
Sounds like Poopy's loads of fun!
Jesse started saying mum the other day. He doesn't know its me he's saying it to, but when he says is I'll say 'what!' or 'Jesse', so then he'll yell it out louder for my attention.
He started saying it in hospital. Made me wanna cry coz they were fixing his drip when he was first saying it. He was crying & screaming, then he turned to me & said mum. Poor bubba just wanted me to take him away from it all.
He slept with me while we were in there. In the crappy little sofa bed chair thing.
The nurses suprised me a bit. I was fed for free coz I'm BFing, & they had no problems with me co sleeping at all! They actually tried to encourage another mother to do it with her new born. (Baby born only 2 weeks early, weighed 1700 grms!)
& When we were first admitted they basically asked ME if he was ok. Not what the tests & charts said, but what I said.
have to go. Time for boo boo & mumma's bed.
Jesse & Bri are both blocked up & getting the flu now. Yay.
Sorry guys. I do gotta go.
Night
Jazz is starting to get clinggy. When she's on the floor playing and I leave the room she'll try to follow me and then chuck a big tanty! She's crawling much better now though, and climbing up on everything and bumping into everything, falling over more and hitting her head so of course we have the tears.
We were at a friends house for dinner last night and I put her on the floor while we ate. They had 2 steps that go up from the lounge to the dining room and she kept trying to get up the stairs.
In the afternoon yesterday we were at my second cousin's 10th birthday party. Mum (gran) and dad (grumpy) were there. She was fine with them, and my cousin (the mother of the girl whose birthday it was) and fine with my aunties. But when she wasn't with any of them she would crawl straight to me when I was kneeling on the floor and would pull herself up on me to give me a cuddle. She's really starting to show affection which is nice.
morming girls,
Sounds like everyone is have a bad time at the moment.
Danni - the verbal abuse can be awful cant it, it is so soul destroying and you feel like you can neer do anything right :hug: i know how it can be... sorry that it is bad for you atm... hopefully you can get into see someone soon, but sounds like Matt needs to be talking to someone too (if he isnt already)
Do you think that he is still enjoying being a SAHD or maybe the fact that you are the breadwinner could be getting him down too? dunno, just a thought, a friend in a similar situation to you went through something similar and by her DH getting some perm part time work it helped a lot... dont know if that s anything that would help you guys...
Skye,glad you are back home, poor litttle Jesse, hope he is doing better today
Shell - any toothypegs? Neurofen works better for MJ overnight if she wakes, its an anti inflam, so targets the gum area better than panadol. Did you get any work done?
Prama - im hearing you on the work situation, i have to go back (finacially) but would love not too. we are in the proess of negotiating my hours...
glad you had a good time in brissy, would have been great to go swimming with poopy :) souns like her is really going great guns, his crawling is great... mj loves watching her dropped toys, its such a game for them atm isnt it! and yeah the crociodile tears happen here when i move her away form something and say no!
MJ says mum mum when she is hungry too and smaks her lips if she wants a BF - sooo cute!
hum, work chrissy party ast night, took MJ, she was great but so tired at the end, we left before dessert (how come i always miss dessert!). Everyone had a play and a cddle and she didnt cry once in 5 hours!
Got a parking ticket though, so it was an expensive night out.
TRINA - how are you??? havent heard from you in a while - hope you ae OK
Anyway gotta go
sj - sux when you have to go back to work, doesn't it. i was looking fwd to just 3 days a week but now... we need the money so i have to go back to work.
lol - sounds like they all are getting very cheeky.. yup, he smacks his lips and swallows his saliva when he sees his food. and if he sees his bowl and put it in the microwave, he cries cos he thinks it's gone!
great that you heard back from the pool. did you manage to talk to them abt their promises?
skye - hope the girls arent getting sick as well.. it's hard on you but great that mum's close by.
danni - hope thngs get better w matt.. depression affects everyone directly and indirectly.. it was starting to get to steve too when i was down.
jazz sure knows who her mummy is and where she'll get all the love and cuddles!!
shell - hope dj is feeling better.. and hope the rest of his teeth follow soon so you and him both dont have to go thru a rough time.
bron - how are you feeling now?
trina yes, how are you doing, darling... has your mum moved already? xoxoxo
oh i forgot to say that we are thinking of TTC #2 dec next year.. eeek it's just a yr away!