Question - what does your clutter have to do with someone wanting to buy a house? It's not as if it is going to be there when they buy it and move in! Silly people - obviously don't have kids. Hope you feel better soon, you really are having a bad run.
Well I am back and still sane Xander slept well, no more vomit hooray and Ari slepted reasonably well. Thanks for the thoughts but it's not that bad, I think I was just having a whinge :-)
Caro - grr about the house, don't they realise real people live there! Its so annoying isn't it.
Ok no idea what else was said have to go back and re-read
[QUOTE=~Saram~;838933]Well I am back and still sane Xander slept well, no more vomit hooray and Ari slepted reasonably well. She has been a little better today. Thanks for the thoughts but it's not that bad DH does his best adn DS is just so wonderful, I think I was just having a whinge :-)
Caro - grr about the house, don't they realise real people live there! Its so annoying isn't it.
Ok no idea what else was said have to go back and re-read - oh just discovered if you click quote then you get to see all the messages as you reply - love it.
Cass - thanks, it's good to know someone is there to have a chat to. Oskar will love that paint even more in a few months. Being a teacher we always have heaps of paint and playdough in the house :-)
Karina- thanks I will try that holding facing out and see how it goes. I think that is Ari's problem too, she is getting over stimulated and overtired. Oh yeah on the video!
Rachel - glad to hear Grace is sleeping better. She is absolutely very photogenic Ari has been doing those little sit ups too - she is trying sooo hard to sit up.
Jomarie - Oh I wish ari would sleep like that during the day! Hope he keeps it up for you.
Gosh I'm having a shooker, this is my third edit. Meant to say - took ari for her 4mth check up and she weighs in at ......7.890kg OMG I thought she would be around 7kg but not nearly 8! now wonder those 00 are not fitting properly. she is now 63.5cm long which is only 2.5cm in 7-8wks is that normal? OK now I'm finished I think :-)
Hey Sarah - glad Xander is better and that Ari is letting you get some sleep. OMG on Ari's weight gain. They usually say that they grow 1cm per month but having said that it is obvious that Ari is putting all of her efforts into her weight gain! Grace is the opposite, less effort into weight gain but plently into length (she is now 66cm long which is a growth of 15.5 cm since birth. She grew 4cm last month!). I wouldn't worry, she certainly isn't short. By the way, feel free to whinge away. If you can't do it here where can you do it!
Thanks Rachel, I just checked Ari's length at birth and she has grown 11.5 so I suppose that's pretty good really, I know her weight blew me away as well.
Oh I forgot one more thing in my last post. I got a 5 for my first masters subject! Can't believe I actually passed :-)
Caro - Michael looks so cute in his Bumbo! I think I really have to get one now. I might go up to Toys r Us this week and get one. I hope you are feeling better. As for the house, people really need to realise that you are a family and you are "living" in the house!I am sure your house looks perfect, and as it is the kind of house a family would live in, it is perfectly appropriate that there would be some kids "clutter" around! I hope your buyers get better!
Sarah - I am glad to hear Xander is feeling a bit better, and that Ari slept better for you.
Rachel - I know what you mean, I have loved Brothers and Sisters...now they will put crap on tv!! Oh well, more time to belly belly I suppose!
Well, we spent the day at a kids fun centre today as my sister came to Perth with her 5 beautiful boys. All my sisters got together with all of our babies - 11 in total now!! It was a really nice day and Nic was as beautiful as ever, darling boy.
Caro, how cute is Michaels smile in those pics of him in his Bumbo! He looks so happy.
What silly people who made the comment about the house being cluttered - they must just be used to those houses you see in real estate brochures that no one lives in so the real estate agent have furnished them with like three peices of furniture. Hope you feel better soon.
Sarah, well done on your uni result. Wow on Ari's weight, thats amazing! I also remember reading somewhere that babies this age grow about 1cm per month, so going by that her length would be normal.
Jo, how nice that you spent the day with your sisters - wow on your combined total of 11 kids!
Claire's been cranky tonight and is asleep on my lap after having some booby. I dont feel right just letting her 'cry it out' so I occcassionally booby her to sleep then let her sleep on my lap... although i know my hubby would prefer I let her cry, i just cant do it. I dont like crying myself to sleep so why would I want to let my daughter do it, who doesnt even understand what is going on, kwim? Then he'll say or do something that just makes me feel like such an inconvenience. Sorry for rambling/venting there. I guess I just get frustrated by the way we see/do things so differently
Thanks Cass and Rachel! Izzy loves her bumbo... and she's just a jolly full of laughs in her jolly jumper... Today's fav seat is the beanbag - she's sleeping soundly on it now, next to me... Yesterday's fav chair, was on me the whole day - poor lil girl just wouldn't stop screaming, from morning to night, i', pretty sure she was teetching - gave her panadol and bonjela and that would settle her enough to sleep for 5mins... i hated feeling so hopeless, i didn't know what to do! Today tho, she seems to be happy slef again!
Oh well, i must go, gotta run down the shop and mail letters, pick up nappies, some more scrapbooking stuff, somethign for dinner, ummm am i forgetting anything? lol!
Jomarie - wow on 11 babies, that is going to be fun as they grow up together! I love those play cafes DS has so much fun there.
Karina - I think exactly the same way about crying it out, it is so true, noone would ever tell an adult to go and cry themselves to sleep. DH and I often don't see eye to eye on parenting either but I found the best way around it was for DH to look after bub by himself al day, helped him see what it was all about. Feel free to vent anytime.
Cass_blob must be an age thing as Ari is just getting over a grizzly period too. Love the jolly jumper, had one with DS and he loved it too. What is the weight/age limit?
Caro, I hope you feel better soon. There's nothing worse than feeling sick and crappy!! Why are people saying your home looks cluttered?? I know they do say to declutter when you're selling so that people can imagine their own things there but.... they do NOT say to stop living in your house!!! Nutcases!!
Karina, I'm thinking that the amount I talk about bumbos and the good rap I give them...they should start to pay me a commission!! lol. Truly though they're great I HATE crying myself to sleep too so I hear ya!! You do what you feel is right and let DH "think" you're doing what he thinks...lol.
Jo... 11 is amazing!!
Sarah, great to hear no more vomit from Xander and that Ari slept better!! HIGH FIVE on passing!! Woohoooooooooo
Well today we went on a big adventure...lol. We drove an hour across the other side of town to the guy who invented the Amby Hammock cos I wanted to get the Jump Jump (similar thing to the Jolly Jumper) for Oskar. Oskar was good and slept on the way there, then we went to the shopping centre near it so I could get some lunch and feed him. Then on the way home I thought... hmmmm I will drop into my old workplace and see the girls cos they haven't seen Oskar since he was only about 4 weeks old. Well, that was the MOST STUPID idea I had today!! lol. He was asleep but woke when I took him out of the car so he got cuddles from the girls and all.... put him back in the car and NO mum, I'm not going to go back to sleep I'm going to SCREAM as loud as I can. I'm almost in tears cos I'm on the highway and the traffic was bad so I get off at a servo and feed him. He's ok for about 5 mins then he's SCREAMING again... now I mean the blood curdling screaming which is making him cough every now and then. So I think ok... let's get to the next exit and we'll go to my friends house and feed him again and try to settle him and go home a bit later. Well, when I'm getting to the exit he's settled down and chatting to himself so I think... I'll just go home. About 10 mins later out of nowhere he just lets out an almighty scream *sighs*... I don't know why but he then cried for the next 10 mins ... I decided to just drive to the shops near home and go and grab some potatoes etc for tonight instead of coming home straight away so I could get him out of the car and cuddle him. Poor little possum... I hated it so much cos he doesn't usually scream like that but he was full on letting it rip and I wanted to stop in the middle of the highway!! He's all good now. Had a feed when we got home and he's had a nap and just woke up now (on my lap now...hehe). Anyway, going to try out the jump jump now while I chop potatoes for dinner.
I too have just bought the tray to go on top! waiting for its arrival! hey Cass/Caro can you let me know how long ur's took? plz!
Cass - Ohhh, that must of been horrible! I hate those screams! Glad he all better, howd the jump jump go?
i followed your idea's, and did some finger painting with izzy, me and a friend did it with her 2yo as well! had a blast, and izzy seem to enjoy me painting her feet we did a canvas of just izzy prints, one of hayly prints and one of all four of us together~! lovely keep sakes... I've got a picture of the one i did for izzy in my photobucket, if u'd ike to have a look...
Karina - i agree... I'd much rather cuddle izzy untill she is nice and settled then put her to bed, I don't like leaving her to cry at all, and most of the time all she needs to know is that i'm still around and she'll get a cuddle and settle anyway... You 2 are allowed a difference of opinion, you'll proberly find that sometimes he's right other times you are...
I have EVERYONE (even the childless people) telling me i'm "making a rod for my own back, she's going to be no good for you to leave. blablabla" I just tell em to 'stick it' these days, she's my daughter i'll do it how i please...
Me and Tim have some 'discussions' about this the other day, he dosn't like Dummies... So he had izzy and she started crying, the first thing he did was ask for the dummy, i'm like no, you don't like them settle her with out it (she wasn't screaming, just a grizzel) and he couldn't, so within 2-3mins of trying he handed her back to me, where she settled (without the dummy)... Why is it, that i keep getting told how much im smothering her by not letting her scream - when as soon as she just grizzels someone else is picking her up, then she gets more cranky and i get givin her... bla i'm just rambleing now, moving on heheh...
Today my dad brought me over the photo albums he brought for us... THey are relaly gorgeous! I've got 2 really nice ones know, So i'm doing one of just me and izzy together, for the next 18 years (this one is going to be a l o n g working project) and give it to izzy for her 18th... the 2nd ones is going to be of izzy and everyone else for the first 12months. . . plus i'm doing a scrap book poster thingy (the idea is still iup in my head lol) and we have 4month portraits next tuesday so thats going to be a lot of fun...
I feel very mummzy artzy crafty lately
Caro - I am taking the girls to the Fairies tomorrow as a surprise. Have fun on Thursday! And I hope you are feeling better soon.
Cass - Poor Oskar, I hate it when Nic screams in the car (which is every time he is in it!). I have tried stopping and getting him out, but he cries as soon as I put him back in. I bought a mirror for the car, but it didn't work! The only time he is ok in the car is when the girls are in there with him. Maybe he gets lonley without them? Did Oskar like the jump jump?
Cass - everyone has an opinion don't they? I hear you on the when she starts to cry, they give her back, or pick her up! My mum is the worst for that! When my sis was having trouble with their daughter, she was waking all the time and the only way to get her to sleep was rocking her at the time, my mum said, just rock her! After preaching for years about how my other sister made a 'rod for her own back" by doing this for her son! What the hell does that mean anyway - rod for your own back?? There is nothing more special than being the one who can comfort your own child, you are their mummy, it is your job. It never ends either, I fix everything with band aids here! The girls might have a headache, and a band aid can miraculously fix it!
I am going to Toys r Us on Thursday to get a Bumbo. I showed DH last night, and he said - "Oh, just get one!" I showed him all the pics of the babies in them, and he thought Nic would like it too. I do have a question though - if they are sitting up a lot, will this affect their learning to crawl? My CHN said they should be able to crawl before they can sit up, so if they are sitting up already with this very different view of the world, will they still want to crawl?Did that make any sense? Or am I just talking crap???
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Xander slept well, no more vomit hooray and Ari slepted reasonably well. Thanks for the thoughts but it's not that bad, I think I was just having a whinge :-)
I HATE crying myself to sleep too so I hear ya!! You do what you feel is right and let DH "think" you're doing what he thinks...lol.
we did a canvas of just izzy prints, one of hayly prints and one of all four of us together~! lovely keep sakes... I've got a picture of the one i did for izzy in my photobucket, if u'd ike to have a look...
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