Babies Born March 2007 #12

[Catastrophic]

Hey,
Sarah - I added you on facebook There is only 1week and 6days (from today) before i reach 12 weeks... But when i had the ultrasound on monday he was already the size of a 10week old (which goes by my OV dates)

having another ultrasound in 2-3weeks can't wait to see him again... (or her lol)

Karina - Clair just sounds soooo cute! Izzy still not using the potty its scary! lol! But i'm with you so amazed how fast they are growing up... izzy is talking so much, can name so many options count to three And has the worst temper! lol!

I have to get off here soon, got so much to do... Gotta go shopping (bla) i hate shopping haha! and then i have to go to work... Which i am really worried - sounds silly i know but the last time i was there was when i started bleeding... And freaking out if what happens if it starts again..

Anyways ... I'm being very selfish lately and talking about me all the time... Sorry! Hehe...

[Alipralli]

Hey All!!!

Its been a while, but I've had computer issues, and haven't managed to get on here for ages!

I have read back over a couple of the pages, and am glad to see that everyone is good, and that all the kiddies are growing well...

Emy is changing every day - it's crazy! We stay at mum's house every monday and tuesday, and then when DH sees her again on wednesday, he reckons that she has grown in those 2 days. She is talking heaps, and driving my mum crazy coz she never shuts up, and mum just wants a little bit of silence!! She can kinda count, but most of the time it goes 1-2-4-5-9-1. She sings baa baa black sheep by going - baa baa baa baa to the tune. Does the same with row row row your boat. Sooooooo cute!!

And yesterday she did her first wee on the potty!! I'm sooo proud of her! She has been watching her cousin using the potty over summer, and has been wanting to do the same, and has sat on it a bit, but yesterday was the first time she actually did anything. And then she stood up, pointed at it and said "mess". It was pretty funny, but we cheered her her and gave her big cuddles and told her she had done a wee wee. What a little smarty pants! Mind you, she then wet herself twice later in the afternoon, but we were expecting it to be a rather wet process, so not a big whoop.

Cassie - congrats again on being pregnant. I must admit, I'm a little bit jealous! But we aren't ready to try again yet, but it'll happen one day!

That's all about me. We have been very boring around here...

Love to all!
xxooxx

[Rachel]

Hello everyone and Happy New Year!! I apologise that I haven't been around but just don't get much time to sit on the computer anymore.

Congratulations Cass...sorry you are having terrible morning sickness, hopefully it will pass soon and you can just enjoy being pregnant.

Welcome back Sonia..glad all is well.

From what i've read it sounds like everyone has had a great christmas and everyone's kids are growing up very quickly.

As for us, Grace is just unbelievable...she blows my mind at how clever she is. Just need to work on this toilet training thing and we're all good! As for me, now 16 and a half weeks pregnant. luckily everything has been going great. Wasn't very sick with Grace and this pregnancy has been even better! Also probably an element of being distracted as Grace doesn't give much rest time at all. Still can't really tell I am pregnant...depends on the clothes I wear. I am sort of relieved about this cause a lot of my friends popped out so much quicker with their seconds. I am starting to feel very soft movement but generally on a daily basis which is such a relief..I would never wish to be sick but when you don't feel anything it is sometimes hard to believe that you really are pregnant iykwim. Anwyway, have next ultra sound at end of january and can't wait. We are undecided whether to find out gender or not....we are going to get them to write it down like last time and then we are going to go out for dinner etc and decide whether to open it...if we don't then it will get put away for the rest of the pregnancy, That's what we did with Grace. Worried about finding out as can't not know once you do.if that makes sense.. i just loved the surprise when grace was born..but also would love to know too. too hard a decision really ! lol. Have let work know and will go onto light duties at 27 weeks and then finish up at 35 weeks..have some special time with Grace before this baby comes.

Anyway, that's us in a nut shell. We have a few interstate trips planned in February..making the most of Grace being able to fly for free until she turns 2 and not having a baby yet..Grace and I off to Sydney in feb to visit a good friend. Then we are all off to sunshine coast for a sunnie holiday (god knows we need some consistant warm weather..not this crap we have been getting in melbourne!. Then off to Adelaide a few weeks after that. busy busy but fun!

Take care everyone and will be in touch soon.

[SossiGirl]

Hi All
Cass how you feeling?
Rachel: congrats on being pregnant. great that you have no morning sickness.
Ali: Yay for Emy doing her first wee.. it is exciting isnt it. who would have thought we would be so excited over some wee....

Hi to everyone ..

Dont have much time left a work so thought i would pop on and give an update:

I am 5 weeks pregnant and very excited that baby #2 is on its way. I have no morning sickness as yet, so lets hope its a good pregnancy like the one with Kaiden. We are off on a little holiday on Wednesday at Rottnest Island, cant wait to enjoy a few days with DH & Kaiden. Kaiden is going well, he got attacked by mozzies the other night so he was so itchy and sore and now has scabs on his legs and arms, poor baby. I drowned him in calamine lotion and paw paw cream so he wouldnt feel them so muh but didnt help really, he was still itchy. He is talking heaps, hasnt done another wee yet in his toilet i have tried but he just keeps telling me when its too late and he has already weed in his jocks.. lol.. ery funny indeed. I do want him toilet trained before next bubs is born. He loves his swimming classes, very confident in the water.

Well i better go, finishing work now and off to go home cook dinner bath kaiden and pack for holiday.. ciao ciao girls

love to all

[Catastrophic]

Hy Son CONGRATS!!! Thats awesome news

[Ozziehoffy]

Rachel, I can't believe you're that far along already!! Wow!!

Ali, Emy sounds way too cute...hehe.

Son....what fab news too! So that makes 4 of us.

Cassie, how's the m/s going?? Better now I hope. Dreadful business... I had it so much worse this time than any before.

Oskar is growing up so fast. He's been a little monster the past week though and seriously being so difficult to put to bed at night that it's been as late as 11pm before he's gone to sleep! This is doing my head in because I'm getting no wind down "me" time *boohoo* lol. He's popping out with new words and shocking me all the time. I love how he tries to pronounce some things but it can be hard to decipher at times..lol. He did his FIRST potty wee this afternoon . Was crying wee wee until I took his nappy back off and he ran around then sat on the potty and did a HUGE wee. I only have 10/11 wks to go and then we will have another bub. I'm a bit concerned about leaving Oskar to sleep somewhere especially considering the problems we've been having lately. This morning he woke at 4:30am and decided he wanted to play, by 5 I took him to Andy (he was in the spare room) and said here, I've not slept in the last 2 hours do whatever you want...lol. Oskar finally went back to sleep at 7:30am!! He's also never stayed with anyone before. I am having some lovely nerve pains etc with this bub too, get numb down the side of my left leg and omg this morning I was sooooooo breathless that it took hours before bub moved to a spot that was less distressing to me. It's making me glad this is the last..lol.

Anyway, sorry for being MIA for so long. I forget to check in here which is VERY bad!! Glad to hear everyone doing so well

[Catastrophic]

Hey everyone...
Hows is everyone going?
Hows all the pregnant ladies?

Cass No more morning sickness now Sorry oskar is being a little naughty hopefully it is just a phase and will pass very soon!

I'm in the eating phase! Eating everything in site!!! I LOVE FOOD! hehe! 16week today, and go for my ultrasoun in 4 weeks! beany is moving around so much, i love the feeling...

Izzy is just growing so much, she goes to kindy one day a week now and loves it, she is in a big bed now and absolutly loves it, will go to sleep within 2mins every nap time and bed time (sorry cass properly something you don't wanna here hehe)... Shes been going to the toilet alot lately! will come up to one of us and say pooo peee pooo pee and we'd take her nappy off and she'll run to the toilet and do her business!

My other two boys are doing great, Noah (middle child) is loving his new kindy but has been quite a bit naughty with them at the start he can't handle change and unless he has the same carer every day he will play up a bit... But hes doing well, is alot better at him, i'm learning that choosing my battles is very good advice!

Locky is MR ATTITUDE at home, has just got the grumpy pants on lately if he doesnt get his way (which hes not with this attitude) But at school he is a completly different child (of course) They are changing his classes to a grade 1/2 class because he is a very smart child and they think that he would do great being able to do grade 2 work if he wants to (And hes only been back a week when they wanted to change his class)


hope everyone is doing well take care

[Ozziehoffy]

Cass, yay for no m/s!! It's just the best when that passes.

We just drastically changed Oskar's sleeping/bed routine and *touch wood* so far it's been working. I brought being put into bed forward an hour - yep in one hit! He now 9 times out of 10 even in the day just lays down and will go to sleep. At night he gets milk and some books on his lounge then it's a choice out of 2 or 3 stuffed animals to take to bed and into bed he goes....he makes mummy and daddy lay down too but usually we can leave within around 10 mins. I hope I haven't jinxed it all now...lol. Today could be different though as his day sleep was about an hour to and hour and a half late as we were out. He says wee wee and runs to the toilet but if you take his nappy off half the time he cries cos he wants it on and the other half he runs off and doesn't want the toilet at all.

I've been having belly pains a bit lately, apparently I have some muscle separation and was given the awful and very painful stocking type thing to wear. I don't wear it, I went and bought a more comfy one, prob not as tight though and someone I know also lent me a maternity belt which velcroes together so I wear both on days I'm walking/standing a lot. Only 9 wks to go now... yep, getting a little on the nervous side now...lol.

Hope everyone's doing well!!! Sarah, how are you doing with all the rain up your way hun??

[~Saram~]

Hello March Bubba, wow onto our second year already! I always love this time of year when you start seeing the March bellybuddies popping up lots on the new posts and I remember how much we were all posting this time 2yrs ago and goodness me - most of you are back there again :-) Hope all of your pregnancies are going well. Is it only KArina and me not UTD ? Ha the voices of reason (just jking)

Ari is gorgeous. There is not a day that goes by that doesn't have us completely mesmorised. She talks in small sentences now although often we can't quite make all of it out and it is a bit of a guessing game to work out what she is on about. Looking forward to this year #3, lots of great things to watch her do and grow.

Keep in touch

[Karina]

lol Sarah there definately are a few pregnant mummies in our little group. As much as I would like to be pregnant again, I just dont think I'm ready for it just yet. I'm a crap enough mum with just one child, I'd be horrible with two!

Claire is getting so cheeky. She's being wierd with her food at the moment though and she only wants to eat cheese. I want her to eat other things, not just cheese! I dont know why she just wants cheese all the time. The little monkey can open the fridge too, but she cant reach the cheese. I also cant get over how clever she is. She's getting so good at using words and she can almost say sentences. DH has even taught her how to say please! So she says "teese pease" (cheese please) and "driii pease" (drink please). So cute!

Claire is having a birthday party soon and I sent a bunch of invitations out, but of the few people who have bothered to take the two seconds its takes to respond to the invitations, most of them have said they cannot come. I'm so disappointed because I actually wanted people to come to her party. Its on next weekend, so maybe theyre just going to respond at the last minute, which is also rather annoying!

Anyway, I've been so ill all week and need to have a sleep! Hope everyone is well.

[Alipralli]

Sarah - I am not yet pregnant either. Though I can't wait till I am! Hopefully next year will be the right time for us.

Emy is talking A LOT!!! She says "cold water please", well in Emy-ese anyway - but still very noticeable what exactly she wants. Or "Daddy juice" - coz she knows I won't give it to her very often. Then this morning, we were in the car, and she started saying "sore toe" (there is a little sore on her toe), and I told her to kiss it better, so she did then said "sore toe kiss better". It was pretty cute. Oh, and we have been teaching her to say please, and thank-you very much. Her version comes out "thank-you moch". Just adorable!

She knows most of her colours, but is adamant that black is called white. She can count to six. Then misses seven and eight, and says nine, TWO! Funniest counting ever!

Karina - don't you hate when people don't reply, or can't come for any reason. I'd come and celebrate with you, if we were in Sydney! Hope you have a good party for her anyway - are you havingg a theme? I don't know what to do for Emy's...

[~Saram~]

Cass -pleased your m/s has eased up - hope the scan goes well are you finding out the sex?

Ozzy - Ouch on the seperated stomach - that must hurt! Hope all goes well for the last few weeks!

Rachel - wow time has flown. Hope everything is going well.

Karina - you are a great mum to Claire! I was the same, we did not want to have another at all after DS was born, it took us 4 yrs to consider it :-)

Ali - Emy sounds soo cute. Don't you love there pleases. Ari only says please without being prompted when asking for boobie :-)

[Karina]

Ali, nah no theme, I'm far too busy/lazy for that (plus I cant see my husband being any help at all in that department). I'd totally invite you all but I think its just me who is in Sydney! Fark I hate living in Sydney sometimes, everyone always has something "better" to do. Emy sounds gorgeous! How clever that she can count! I'm trying to teach Claire and at the moment she can say "one, three"...well really its more like "un, treeee" lol, so really she could be talking about the trees in the backyard for all I know! But I love hearing say words, so cute. How cute that Emy says thankyou!

Sarah, so are you breastfeeding Ari still? (I dont mean that in a bad way, just curious). Claire stopped a couple of months ago and I was so sad when she stopped but I did start giving her cows milk so she must have liked it better because she got more from her cup than from my booby. I would LOVE another baby, i really would. Its a case of my heart says yes, but my brain says no! Combination of needing a bigger place to live to support 2 kids (super-tiny 2 bedroom unit just wont cut it!), and DH being on contract with work for the next 2 years so we cant move out of Sydney, and its too expensive to get a bigger place in Sydney on one salary. If I had oodles of cash for a bigger place I think we'd have another baby much sooner!

Oh cant remember if I mentioned it but I finally resigned from my horrible job. I feel so happy. I am still doing uni full time, which is 2.5 days a week, but it still means I get to spend more time with Claire now! I'm so glad to be out of the job though. But anyway, I decided to change uni this year as the previous one was incredibly disorganised (like not printing enough exams to go around for everyone, locking people out of the exam venue for no proper reason, not giving us exam timetables until like 2 days before the exam etc) and now I'm at a really good reputable uni that has an awesome course and always wins awards and stuff, so I'm really excited about that!

umm anyway, thats all!

[~Saram~]

Karina 0 yes still feeding Ari, usually only at night or early in the morning, sometimes she will go a day without but she does always ask. DH is funny about extended BF and wants us to wean at 2 but as I don't let her feed during the day anymore, I doubt he would even noticed if we kept going a little longer - she really loves BF and she is my last baby

Good on you for quitting the crappy job and good luck with Uni - is it nursing you're doing?

[Ozziehoffy]

Oh they all sound like they're coming along in leaps and bounds our little bubs... not so little now but I still call Oskar my bubba boy and today he looked in the mirror and said bubba boy...lol. He's really started in the past few weeks to string a lot more words together and say new words almost every day! I must say there are a few of them that sound so similar that you have to really pay attention to him to work out what he means.

Karina, it's funny that Claire says the first part of the words...Oskar says the last part...like drink is rink and truck is ruck...lol. He's learning colours at the moment which is funny cos he gets fixated on a colour and EVERYTHING is that colour then. He says rerrow for yellow. OMG @ the fridge!@ I had to put a lock on it cos Oskar would go and open it and stand there with the door wide open or it once swung back and knocked him over...lol...own fault, I warned him.

Sarah, good for you and Ari! I only stopped cos it was hurting my nipples too much being pg. Oskar still comes up and says "pa" to me re: booby if I'm getting changed and he notices them uncovered. Last night I was getting out of the shower and knelt down and he leant forward got it in his mouth. There's been a few times he has done that but it's like he's kinda forgotten what to do. Mostly he says "pa bubba" cos I have started to tell him that the bubba will have pa soon just so he's not like OMG what is going on.

Ali, Emy sounds so cute! She always has and she's always been so bright!@ Must have a little genius on your hands there I reckon.

Karina, yay for quitting the job too btw! It's amazing how much better you can feel by doing something so simple really huh.

Oskar has his terrible two's moments from time to time.. anyone else finding this now?? He's getting very strong willed but overall is still a very easy going kiddie. Yesterday I had to pop into Bunnings which Oskar calls "mummies"...I think it's more a case of he can't say it and that's as close as he can get... anyway, he went on about going back there for the rest of the day!! Drove me nuts! We're teaching him to say sorry too, he goes rorry mummy/daddy buboo - which is love you..haha what a little suck up Nah, I love how he says he little words and wish that I could freeze time sometimes.

We did a hypnobirthing refresher course today and for the first time Oskar was left with someone for half the day. Must've been the quietest car trip I've had in almost 2 years..lol. Was a little weird and I'd see things that Oskar would see and would say to Andy the way Oskar would say it...lol. It was kinda good for me in a way though cos now I have proof in my mind that he's ok with someone else. He was with a friend who's little boy is a few weeks younger. I knew he'd be ok, but I guess there's always that little seed of doubt if you haven't done it before. Well I guess that's enough from me for now.

Hugs to you all and Karina, hope you feel better.

[Catastrophic]

Hey ladies!!! Wahooo there is post in here

Cass - The morning sickness is back with a vegence again! Bla! Food is again in the horrible things i must do but hate doing... Lol... I am having some days are better then others... Usually every 2nd day is a BAD one... I had a really bad day at work the other day, which ended up me a blubbering mess in my bosses office, i felt like a fool!!!

i hope those belly pains stop for you hun! There is so much i forgot about being pregnant, the uterus stretching pain was one of them I have belly pics up in the gallary if you wanna have a look...

Oskar sounds gorgeous, and i'm glad i'm not the only one getting the terrible twos! that must of been so good for you an oskar Hope you are well...

Sarah - Oh wow, Congrats on still breastfeeding that is fantastic! I would love to keep going that far, but i feel i would get to many road blocks with DF. My scan is in 12 days time... I can't wait, yes we're going to find out the sex. Ari sounds gorgeous...

Ali - hey babe, emy sounds gorgoeus and so smart! Must take after her mummy I love their versions of talking so much cuter then normal talking lololol!

Karina - I told you i would party it up with you but you need to move up to brissy Would you like to do my assignment for me babe, Its a killer! Have you done Health Law yet, It is really interesting!!! and i think going to cause alot of debates in class! I start back up on tuesday! So excited! Hehe at least she is getting her calcium !!!

Well Izzy is growing too fast I need time to slow down, its hard to believe we're in our third year (sarah you scared me when u said that, never thought of it like that) she is getting more independent and head strong (like her mother) everyday!

Is anyone else, if they dont get there own way, izzy will bang her head on the closes thing possible! its driving me insane, she does it heaps more if i recognise it, but if i just ignore it she'll only do it once!

izzy goes to kindy one day a week now, while i go off to uni, on tuesdays. she cries everytime i drop her off but as soon as i am out of sight she stops and has a great rest of the day... she is speaking heaps and learning so much every day, she loves dancing and painting and playing with her bubbas... I can't sit on the couch alone, she has to sit beside me (not on me, beside) so we are going to have fun when i get bigger loL!

When did everyone quit work while pregnant? I'm having a hard time at work already (was an overly emotional pregnant lady who was a blubbering mess in my bosses office the other day, due to being sick, staff politics and exhaustion) I feel like a fool! I'm struggling heaps with the 8hour shifts, luckily i only have 2 of them. And staff polictics are driving me insane!!! And boy are they going to cope it at our meeting tomorrow... And i've already been told if i get to emotional i can blame it on hormones :P

anyways i have to go... This has turned into a really big post! And i'm rambling... take care

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Ari, Oskar, Emy, Claire, Kaiden, Grace, Izzabella... And i am very sorry if i forget anyone! Lucky your all too young to remember hehe

[Karina]

Cassie, hope your morning sickness buggers off soon. When I do get pregnant again, I'm hoping that is one thing I dont get so bad again. I'm starting Health Law in a few weeks, at my uni health law is embedded into another bigger subject, so we only have 2 or 3 lectures on health law and a big assignment. I'm doing full time at the moment whihc is 2.5 days a week, so I'm going to see how I go. If its too full on I think I'll go down to part time next semester. We do only 3 subjects at a time so hopefully it will be ok. LOL When Claire doesnt get her own way she stamps her feet - no head bashing here, or on a few ocassions she has actually hit me. Sometimes she'll just sit on the floor and make lots of noise. When I was pregnant I worked until 37 weeks (or maybe it was 36 weeks, I cant remember!). I didnt have a physical job though, just an office job. The office politics was killing me too but I was lucky in that I sat at a desk away from everyone else, so I was on my own most of the day and didnt have to deal with it too much. Towards the end I was going insane though and couldnt wait until my leave started. Can you maybe have a chat with your manager about doing less shifts - just tell her/him its all a bit stressful for you at the moment and you dont want to burn yourself out. Thanks for Claires birthday wishes

Cass, I love toddler-speak! Lol how Oskar says the second half of the word and Claire says the first half, thats so cute! Claire hit me other day when she didnt get her own way, so DH told her to sit in the corner and then come over to mummy and say sorry and give a hug when she was ready.. She sat in the corner for like 3 seconds then came running over to me, said "rorry" and gave me a big huig and a kiss. It was so cute (not the hitting bit, but the sorry and hug bit).

Sarah, yeah its nursing I'm doing at uni. I think its great youre breastfeeding Ari still. I'm all for breastfeeding toddlers. I'm sure Bob wouldnt realise if he didnt see you breastfeeding her! lol. Its such a nice mummy and baby time, isnt it? Not too long before Claire stopped breastfeeding she became so obsessed with my boobs. She'd just walk up to me and yank my shirt open just to look at my breast, and she'd constantly ask for it but then when I gave it to her she'd just play with it.. It was wierd! But I do miss bf her.

Its Claires Birthday on Tuesday and tomorrow night I'm going to make some cupcakes with her to take to daycare. We got this little cupcake making set from supermarket, I dont know how they'll turn out but we'll give them a go! We had a mini party for her today when DH's parents came to visit us. We had lunch and cake at our place and she got some presents which she played with for the rest of the afternoon. She got a Little People set like a doll house type thing and she was having much fun opening and closing the doors and moving the people around, and she also got some books and a music player. We're having bigger party next weeekend, and we have finially got some RSVP's to say people are coming, lol.

[~Saram~]

Hi gal's it's so nice chatting in here again!

We got some family pics done today at the beach by a photographer, which is actually our aunty - we are so lucky. I have uploaded some we took ourselves to facebook if you wanna see, while she was off doing her thing with the others - looking forward to getting myself airbrushed - I am shocked at the amount of weight I am still carrying :-(

Cass - hugs to you, from someone who was still sick on their DUE DATE I hear you!!! As for working ummmm 36wks with DS (he was born 3days later - so much for my time off :-) and DD 16wks :-) We had problems with my heart though and had to move so doesn't really count. I went back to relief teaching until 24wks but had too many braxtons and had to go home and the schools stopped calling so much after that. As for head butting tanty's she has (touch wood) settled down in the last month. Before that she would throw a wobbly if I tried to put her in a shirt she didn't want to wear, throwing herself down kicking and screaming - just like on the movies - scary! But she seems OK now. She still gets very frustrated if I don't understand something she wants and gets upset if she has to share or someone takes something she wants but she gets over it. We just ignored the tanty's and then distracted her with something else.

Karina - thanks, I do need to wean her but I'm reluctant. She doesn't want to and I just don't want to regret it IYKWIM, she's my last bubba :-( Happy b'day to Claire for Tuesday! Hope the parties and cupcakes go well.

Have to go to bed, have an assignment due on Ari's b'day - that sux, might get called into work tomorrow and I am underprepared and it's been a BIG day :-) night all and HAPPY Birthday March Bubbies! Not bubbies anymore