Babies Born March 2007 #9

[Ozziehoffy]

Shell, it's sooooo totally gross how saturated the foot of ones his bears he likes to suck gets!! It's one I keep in the car so he has toys for his pram... and GROSS ME OUT! It has little rope arms and legs then "teddy" type material and filling and ugh! One foot is flatter than that other cos he sucks it so much... pmsl. I would fully gag if I had something like that shoved in my mouth... it's in between the size of a 10c and 20c piece, so not tiny! Oh, he sucks his socks too. As soon as you put something on his feet, into the mouth they go so I really have to watch him with his shoes. Joshua LOVES playing with Oskar but won't openly admit it..lol... I guess it's not cool He'll wait next to the change table for me to finish with Oskar and then take off with him. He goes in and plays with him when he wakes up and if I've got him will come and steal him off me! At least he isn't ignoring him.

Lol Shell, you posted about pics while I was still typing my post. I LOVE the little green top Em has on... she's soooooo cute!! I haven't worked out how to do pics there, if you click on Oskar's name in my signature though it will take you to piccies

[*Shell*]

Ozziehoffy - Very true on ignoring. Im hearing you on the "not cool" thing too, Renae loves Em, more now that she can agknowledge her, although it does come in quite handy sometimes having an older child, i get Renae to sit in the car with Em sometimes if i need to run into the shops - i really hate having to pull Em in and out if im running in for bread and milk! Whats with the sucking on everything?? her hat, toys anything goes in the mouth! I pick her up or something of hers and its soaking wet!

[Ozziehoffy]

Oooh yeah having an older one is very handy at times. I actually send Joshua in and stay in the car...hehe. Then sometimes if I want to have a shower and wash my hair I'll get him to watch him. He's the same, he's really enjoying Oskar interacting with him and even comments on how much he's changing and finds him very amusing. It's so lovely to see the interaction when they don't know you're watching There's a pic on the website with Oskar laying on Joshua's legs and it just captures it beautifully and that was a couple of months ago.

[*Shell*]

Where can i see the pic?? Im really dumb when it comes to these things, as i said - i had only just figured out how to put pic's on here!!
Never mind about me but i just noticed you've had a vbac, well done - i hope i can do this with #3.

[Ozziehoffy]

Just click on either my name (Cass) or Oskar's name (just near the VBAC info) and it should take you to where the pics are.

I just noticed that Em and Oskar are almost EXACTLY 24 hours apart... One minute under 24 hours... how weird is that!

[*Shell*]

Yep, found them! I said i was dumb!!
OMG - he's soooo cute!! I loved the pumpkin face, when he's in the yellow suit and the one of him and Joshua together is very special! You must be so proud of both your boys!
Never noticed that about the 1 minute, 24 hours apart - how weird!! and they both have a older sibling!!

[Ozziehoffy]

Thanks Yeah, the pumpkin face is adorable. Yeah, they're both pretty good boys

[Rachel]

Hey there ladies...just wanted to say hi! Wow, I can't believe how big everyone's babies are. 2 weeks ago Grace was 7.02kgs and 68cm long. Long and lean....it's amazing the growth difference isn't it. Have a great weekend ladies.

[Ozziehoffy]

Hi Rachel!! I mentioned to my doc yesterday how people reckon Oskar is big for his age (which he isn't) and he said sometimes people just forget and compare girls to boys and boys are usually bigger. Grace is beautiful so I wouldn't worry

Ok... just added some pics and made a new album for 6 months +. The pic of Oskar in the outfit with the hood (6 months 6 days) and the one of him in the yellow, white and blue outfit (6 months 8 days)... they are both old outfits of Joshua's!! 14 years old...lol. The one with the hood I have a very similar pic of Joshua in it... I can't believe how different their face shapes are - I always thought Joshua had a round face as a baby but it is longer and it's not as round as Oskar's!! Oh and the yellow/white/blue... Joshua was wearing that when he was like 18 months old... surely he wasn't little or Oskar big... it's a size 0, makes me wonder if sizes have changed over the years??

[*Shell*]

OMG Cass, you kept something for 14 years!! good on you, when Renae hit about 9 i swore i'd never have another bub as i thought she was too old to have a sibling (how wrong was i!!??) But i had already thrown all there old things out! Mind you i was only 17 when Renae was born!
Quick question for all of you - So as my sig says we will be ttc in jan '08, i have named Emily, Emily Renae (as Em and Renae have different dads i thought this would help Renae feel more Em's sister ? or part of the new family - not left out i should say, is that dumb?) but anyway, what should i have for my next - if a girl - Renae again?

[sasha]

Hi everyone, I've been lurking for a while, trying to catch up what you've all been doing, but you're too busy and I can't read it all! So I'm just going to jump in and tell you what's been happening here, and I'll just let the news catch me up

Well, I'm finally on holidays and loving it. I'm not going back to work this year; I'll have a look and see if there's something for me next y ear, but right now I'm not that interested. With daycare and the stress of trying to work and be a fulltime mum I don't think the money is worth it! M's parents are talking about moving over from Qld and if they do and they live closeby then I might look at doing some relief or even go parttime. We'll see. Suffice to say, starting working fulltime is not ideal when your baby's not even five months old!

So we started solids and S was quite happy about it and then got fussy and started refusing it. So I just put it on hold until now. He's been having bottles at daycare and I was breastfeeding at other times - now I'm still giving him two bottles a day but hoping to bring that down to just b/feeding while I up the solids. So far pumpkin is go, although it took him a while to get used to it. Rice cereal started off well, but then he decided it was yuck, so I tried him on farax which he's OK with so far. Bought the Heinz apple custard and he went mental for the day, hardly slept, really quite full-on... then I tasted it, wow, talk about sweet! So I think I might just make my own stewed apple.

And today, he cut his first tooth! How exciting!! Bottom left, a tiny little sharp thing, which so far doesn't seem to be hurting when he breastfeeds, but I guess that's because his tongue goes over that part of his mouth.

Now that I'm back at home I'm looking forward to getting into a bit more of a routine as far as sleeping goes... he seems to be OK during the day but nighttime not so good. At least now I'm home all day it's not so exhausting - going to work on a 4 am start was pretty difficult, I have to say!

Anyway, I'm off to have a shower, finally! Have a good weekend everyone.

[*Shell*]

WOW sasha, Yay on s cutting his first tooth! that great! Im not at all interested ingoing back to work either, DP and i have agreed i wont work until dd#2 and #3 are at school (am im hoping for a supermrket only job - dont want to get into the big work place again, just cant be bothered now - not that there's anything wrong with that- just not right for me!) Sasha, its sooo good to heard from you!

Where's nattyg??????????

[sasha]

Wow, you're moving Caro, just within the state, I take it? I can only imagine moving with a baby... my sister has just sold her house and they're about to move to Canada for 4 months, her baby is just 3 months old on Sunday, a glutton for punishment I think!

[Ozziehoffy]

Lol Shell, yes I did. I kept a few of his things which I just couldn't bear to part with!! I knew that one day I would have another bub though

Bec, it can be way too stressful huh!! I did it with Joshua when he was 9 months old and it was hard enough then! It contributed to our marriage breakdown (only a little part, but still did). I'm very happy to be in a better place in my life now and to be able to afford the time to stay with my little man at home. I am happy when he's a little older to work casual say 2 days a week or something but nothing full on for a while to come. Way to go on the little tooth Sebastian!!!

Caro, yup have your numbers... well will only need the mobile though

[Karina]

Caro, hope your move goes well.

Sarah, thats great you found a nice day care for Xander and Ari, and even better they have vacancies! Are you planning on going back to work? We found a lovely one but they hve a HUGE waiting list. Big YAY about Aris sleeping, thats great news. Hope she keeps it up! hehe that she has to sleep naked.

Cass, woohoo for Oskar going to sleep on his own. Clever boy! Claire is going through a phase where she wants us to lie down with her until she goes to sleep. I like snuggling her but sometimes its in the middle of dinner and thats so not cool when I am starving!

Simone, Logan is such a cutie. They sure do grow fast!

Ok, just a Q everyone: how many solid meals are you giving your bubs each day? And when should you start increasing the number of solids meals each day? We're usualy having one or two attempts a day. I say attempts because she just collects the food on the roof of her mouth and them blows a raspberry so it sprays everywhere.

I bought some rusks for Claire but she doesnt seem too keen on them. She scrunches up her face when she puts it in her mouth. Its very cute, but I am wondering why she doesnt like them. It just tastes like a bread stick, LOL.

Claire sucks and chews on her socks as well. I'll put some on her and within minutes she'll be sucking on them making them all slimy from her slobber. She loves her teething ring though. It has to be particular one.. She only likes this one shaped like a fish (tommee tippee brand I think) which I got from Coles... She wont touch the other ones. Other thing she loves chewing on is her duds. I think thts DH's doing though.. When she gets cranky when he changes her nappy he sings a song about duds in the tune of the batman theme song, and gives her the pants she was wearing and she loves to play with them...

We went out and bought a new rug today at Ikea because I wrecked the other one.. the vacuum cleaner ate a chunk of it the other week. Claire loves new rug. Its so soft and bouncy and she was really enjoying touching it with her hands and face. We also got her a new toy. DH brought home an old keyboard from an ancient computer at work, and she LOVES presssing the buttons.

ok, well since we're putting stats up:
Claire is 6.7kg and 64 cm.
I'm sure she'll get big once she actually properly eats solids!

Hope everyones having a lovely weekend.

[~Saram~]

Hello all, well Ari has been a little unsettled again recently but seems (touchwood) to have settled tonight. I'm pretty sure it was more moving teeth, she won't let us put fingers in her mouth to check anymore but I can't see anything.

Hi Shell - great to hear from you. Yes I finally worked out how to put photos up and actually got on DH computer (where all the photos are) I love that photo of Em in your sig, she looks so grown up. Congrats on ttc #3. I was wondering who was going to be first. Not sure on ideas for middle name for #3 but I think it was a beautiful idea to use your DD name as a middle name. What does DD think?

Cass- how are you going. Oskar is so gorgeous! Great to hear the boys are getting on so well. Ari thinks Xander is HILARIOUS! She cracks up all the time and he loves that he can make her laugh so much.

Cass_blob - so pleased it's not just Ari. Today she was watching Madagasger with DS and there is a part when Alex the lion sneaks up and scares Marty the Zebra - well Ari jumped 2 ft in the air and screamed. Kind of funny (for us anyway)

Bec - hey great to hear from you. I'm so not looking forward to going back to school next year - blah. Thats awesome that you were able to do bottle and breast so successfully!

Karina - haha - Ari spits all over us too when she's not interested in food. We only gave her veges for the first month, then breaky/m'tea (sometimes it was at 8am sometimes not until 10 depending on her sleep etc) she now has breaky 8am, chew on some fruit at around 10-11am when DS has m'tea, lunch (fruit puree), afternoon tea is a rice cookie or custard, dinner vegies and then custard after her bath. We also give her rusks (we get the vegetable ones or you can make your own vegemite ones vegemite (and cheese if you want) roll it up and microwave for 30s-60s and when it cools it will go hard. Mainly she just has a couplke of chews/sucks and then throws them around.

[JoMarie]

Hi everyone!

Karina - Nic has 3 solid meals a day - usually cereal and fruit for breakfast, veg and maybe more fruit for lunch and veg and fruit again for dinner. He probably has the equiv. of 1 jar ful of veg (about 3-4 ice cubes). Somedays I also give him a piece of pear in the mesh thingo in the afternoon as well. It took Nic a while to get the hang of rusks as well, and he prefers the fruit to chew on.

Caro - good luck with the move!

Hi everyone else, sorry, can't remember what everyone else has said now! We had a full on weekend. I decided that I wanted to do up the girls' room (again!). Their room is split level (it used to be two rooms, now one, sparated by 3 steps and half walls). Their bed is in the bottom bit, and in the top bit they just had heaps of toys and, well, crap really! I thought they would use the space better as a "chill out" space. I put a cool rug on the floor, some beanbags and cool cusions, a new cube bookcase and all their books and cd's. For Jas' birthday, she got one of those beaded door hangy things that you walk through, so we put that up there, and two huge butterflies hanging from the roof. Anyway, it is very cool, and took us all weekend and they love it! Nic has been sick with a cold, but is getting better and slept a lot over the weekend. He is pretty happy and very cute! He is getting very close to crawling now. He made a move forward today, so that was pretty exciting! Still surviving the school holidays, and looking forward to our holiday in 5 weeks!! Yippeeee!!!

[Karina]

I think Claire is getting a little tooth. Bottom left hand side. I can see it, but its really hard to get a good look at it as she wont let me! Poor thing, I can see its really bothering her! She was cranky last night, then had two long naps today and cant get enough of her teething ring. I gave her some of our Brauer teething stuff and that seemed to help. But she is still quite cranky!