Babies Born March 2007 #12

[Emma1979]

thanks for the replies, i guess i just have to follow her lead, i think i'll try to give her two sleeps and just see how it pans out...

in regards to talking, hollie has a few things that she has been saying for a few months, and she seems to say a new word every so often.... not sure what your stance is on television (not starting a debate!!) but we have some baby bumble bee dvd's and she has only watched them a few times but has said about 5 new words that i didnt teach her (bus, ball, cup, cow etc)...

at the moment she says teddy, mum-mum, daddy, duck, ball, cow, cup, bus, dog, clock - she understands everything we say and can sometimes follow requests... (go and get teddy etc)... i must say the more she learns the more amazed i am and the more i enjoy it, the interaction is awesome, the more she grows the more i fall in love with her... awwwwwwwwwww didnt mean to get so soppy!!!!

[Catastrophic]

Hey all -
Just went for my post op at the hosp everythings fine healing well i was in an out in 60secs BUT still had to wait in the waiting room for 1 1/2hours before hand GRR.
The weather is driving me crazy its sooo cold and wet! Trying to get a baby out of the car and inot the pram in the soaking rain is hard work!
I gotta go Izzy;'s ready for her nap! I think i might join her!

[Karina]

Hi ladies, hope you are all well.

Cass, great to hear everything is fine now after your op.

It hailed here the other day. Fark it was freezing and I forgot my stupid umbrella so had to walk home from the bus stop in the freezing hail. DH is such a dag though. He went outside and got some hail, put it in a freezer bag and put it in the freezer. hehehe dork!

Claire is going well. We had heaps of fun at the park yesterday. She absolutely loves the see saw and the swings. She wont go on the swing by herself though. She screams as soon as I put her in, but she is happy to go on the swing if I am on it as well. She just laughs hysterically when she is on the swing or see-saw. Fussy little lady she is. Still no words here, but she loves to babble. She is having a nap now and she babbled herself to sleep just before - bababababa dub dub dub dub dub. I'd love to know what she is trying to say. I went on a bit of a spending frenzy and bought her a stack of new clothes at the Bonds shop and all this stuff from Ikea. I really need to leave my wallet at home sometimes I think.

It was dH's birthday last week and his mum and dad are coming to visit on the weekend. I so cant be bothered! I know that sounds awful but I'm just not in the mood for people to come here and crticise everything I do as a parent.

I've been looking at houses to move into. We live in a tiny 2 bedroom unit at the moment (sydney is frickin expensive!) and its driving me slightly insane. I'd love a little bit more space, especially for when Claire starts to get bigger and when we have another baby (we arent trying yet, but will one day!). A backyard that is easy to access would be great too. We have a shared yard, but its just not the same.

Well better go. I have a big fat assignment to do. I have to write lots of words and make myself sound smart. which I'm not really. lol.

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend!

[Alipralli]

Howdy Doody's!!

Hope everyone is all good!

Nothing much to tell you about going on here - we have been pretty boring lately!

Anyway, just coming in to say Hi!

[Ozziehoffy]

Hi from us too!! I was going to come and say hi last night but obviously I didn't...lol.

We haven't been doing too much lately either. Oskar has now got 3 molars and his third top tooth on the left has just cut through in the last day or 2, didn't even know until I saw it today when I was changing his nappy! So, we're up to 8 now. *touch wood* he's such a good teether. He's pulling himself up on everything but not walking unaided as yet which is fine with me!!!

Well, today we went to IKEA - which is a fairly new one and OMG I didn't realise how HUGE it was!! It was ENORMOUS and omg do they have some coooooool stuff! I want to get Oskar's bed from there, they are awesome, they are extendable! So when they're little it's all squashed up and has built in bed rails and as they get bigger you extend the bed and the rails "disappear". Oh and I could spend sooooo much money there....hahahaha lucky for me Andy is now on monthly pay or we'd be in trouble! I was quite amazed that going to a furniture store could be so much fun!

Anyway, hope you are all well! Sarah, when are you guys coming down again?? Feels like forever since I spoke to you.

[Karina]

OMG Cass, We went to Ikea yesterday. I saw the extendable bed too. What a cool idea! We ended up getting a little table and chair set for Claire. She absolutely loves sitting at the table at daycare so we got her one for home. We built it as soon as we got home and she was so excited to see it, and went straight over to sit at it. We also got her a roll of paper and some crayons at IKEA and she sat at the table and drew all over the paper. I think I'm going to use it as wrapping paper for presents, lol. She loved it. We also used it for her to sit at for her dinner tonight, as she hates sitting in the highchair. She ate well at the table although she did decide to stand up and walk across the room with her bowl and then drop it on the floor. OMG I could just go crazy and spend so much money at ikea... which is bad... because its only 10 minutes from my house.

Other than IKEA, Claire has now got 8 teeth. She got 4 teeth all at once. She has 4 at the top and 4 at the bottom. So cute. I took her shopping to get a book for her and she gave such a cheezy grin when I was paying for it. So cute.

Claire is now sleeping crappily. Anyone else finding their babes are now waking up alot through the night? She was sleeping so well, but now wakes up 3 - 4 times overnight and wont go back to sleep without boobie?

Hope everyone is well.

[Emma1979]

hello there
ive spent the last four weeks working full time, just temporarily while someone is away and i've found my dd has grown in leaps and bounds during that time... i'm not sure if i've noticed it because i haven't been around much, but it just seems like she's a real little person now.... not sure if i had spent all day-every day with her, if i would have seen such a huge difference, if that makes sense.

she is saying the most random cute stuff like:
tennis ball
beans
BEER (!!)
skettie (spaghetti)
and whenever i ask her something like 'want to see teddy and have a nap?' she says "NOOOOOO!" and it seems to be in a scottish accent (from my mum) haha

if you ask her 'where's the moon?', she points up and shouts SKY!

its such a cute age.... i can't help feeling like i'm missing a whole heap of stuff while i'm at work.... anyone else out there a working mum?

usually i just do part time 3 days a week which i can cope with, but full time is another story. not long to go though.