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Morning girls,
Thought i would pop in and do personals while Colby is still asleep and Brent and Briley are outside.
Elissa - Glad to hear that the CD player is working for Archie's sleeping. I have worked out that if leave the door open Briley won't get out of her bed a million and one times!! It was hot here lastnight and the night before. We have a little weather station in the house and it was saying that it was hotter inside than it was outside. And it was stinkin hot yesterday! Good to hear that Archie has been a good little boy! I hope his toe gets better soon! Poor little man!
Kim - LOL! Its amazing how much you really need your voice to disipline your kids! Tone is everything! I can imagine Briley would be exactly the same if i lost my voice. Love to the new ticker!! I have to update my pic soon.
Nat - Thanks for asking how i am! Yeah i am ok. I don't want to bore you with my problem though! Nothing serious. Just the usual stuff. Men, money and life!!! My life story! Sorry to hear that Em is going to well health wise. What multi-vitamin in Em on??? Briley was on Pentavite and that worked REALLY well for her. I wish i had of thought about it when she was going from cold to cold. Em sounds like a little angel!!
Sheree - Your welcome hun. Anytime. I am always here for support and guidance if you need. As is everyone else i'm sure! Good to hear that you are feeling well in amongst it all though. A good sign i am sure.
Tania - Good to hear from you hun. Glad the move went well. OMG @ your dog! Our dog, Tyson, tried to jump a high fence once and got one of his legs caught in between the pailings. We pulled in the drive and there he was hanging from the gate!!! Lucky he did'nt break his leg. Glad your dog is ok. Jayden sounds too cute! I too have run out of noises to teach Briley!! She is growing up so quick. She watches these shows on Playhouse Disney on Austar called Little Einsteins and Micky Mouse Club House. In the shows they give the kids instruction to do things. In Little Einsteins they say "patt patt" to get the rocket to fly and she goes along with it flapping her arms like a chicken but patting! Then on MMCH they call our to "Tootles!" and she yells out too! Its so funny!
Leanne - You sound like your having the same week i've had. You know how your luck just seems to be down and EVERTHING goes wrong! Mine started when Brent got put off at work for a few days cause they did'nt have enough work for him! So now we have to worry about how we are going to pay for the house payments next week! I'm won't go on but i do know how your feeling! I've nearly broken down a few times but whats the point! Massive hugs hun. I can't sympathise with you on the tanties in the shops yet! We have'nt been there yet! I hope we bloody don't either!
Christine - Thanks for reminding me about your occupation! Everything seems to go in one ear and out the other lately. Not that its my ears that i read with!! Briley does the complete opposite to Riley with the doors. She likes to open them, pull everything out and then close them!!! She also like to get in and hide in them! She has really gotten into that hidy hole thing lately. If she finds a little secluded area she plays in there. Mmmm pancakes......
Shazz - Good on Ryan for being a good little boy! I can't barely put Briley's hair up in a piggy tail without her moving let alone sit still for hair cut! Both times she has made it very hard for the hairdresser to cut it. I am just letting it grow now. I will just trim the fringe to keep it out of her eyes. Nah i don't think i am going to go in the Secret Santa...How do they do it when everyone lives away from each other???
Hi to everyone else! Has anyone heard from Vic???? I see her on MSN sometimes.
Ok now for us.
My little terror has me run of my feet the last few days. I clean and she comes straight behind me and makes a mess. All i want is a tidy house but its becoming impossible! The new words are still coming. Esp the ones i don't want to hear. Like "Get!". I was trying to get something out of her mouth and she told me to "Get!". And when i mention the Geese, she copies her father, and says "Bloody Goosies!". I say bloody a bit too so i am probably part to blame!
Oh and we are booked in on the 20th of November for her eye op now. They must've sensed that i was pi**ed about them cancelling and went out of their way to get another app closer. If they cancel this one i will be writing a letter.....
Colby is good. Sitting up most of the time now. Not on her own obviously but while you are nursing her she sits up. She did a massive poo yesterday and it went all through her bassinette. So i thought i would wash it in the washing machine...big mistake. When i went back out to hang it out the matteress was in pieces all over the washing machine. I was so angry at myself. So lastnight she slept in the bassinette on those little sleeping bag thingys that come with new prams!
Speaking of Colby....she's just woken up. And my boobs are about to pop!!
Hope you are all well...
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Hi girls just quickly as I went to bed at 3am (what a party!)... I'll pop a group photo of us all in my photos on BB.
We have raised a total so far of $500.00. Pretty stoked.
Off to get a berrocca!
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Nat - yeah we went down last Sunday and yesterday to the pool and he is so happy just to run in and out of the water himself. As for before the lessons we do that too, but the instructor told me maybe we shouldn't be cause it will get him cold too quick. So I have now been turning up late and then we stay and play after the lesson. I would love for you to come and visit next year, start thinking of a date girly.
Leanne - gosh you have only had one tanty in the shopping centre, you are lucky! Whahooo on the money you made. Well done.
Christine - no unfortunately she is the only one that does blood tests in town and don't believe she is a midwife, just got a background in antennatal care I think. Yeah I asked the instructor the same thing if he would be missing out on anything as far as his development goes in the water and she said no, so if he doesn't improve I have no problems in pulling him out of the lesson. Lachlan doesn't say alot either. Hope you are all well.
Kim - maybe we do need lessons on how to say No - hehe, we have the same problem. Can't believe how clever Darcy is. We feel so far behind you guys.
Tania - I loved the pictures of your new house, made me so envious as these mining houses are not so great and I am use to living in nice big houses. Can't wait to see you guys in December.
Elissa - yeah replacing the bottle like a dummy really sux sometimes, but I guess him going to bed without fuss is just so great these days and him staying bed and not disturbing me in the morning too. I have always wondered if CD player would help lachlan sleep, worth a try I guess. Being a mother, anything is worth a try huh! Ohhh poor ARchie on stubbing his toe.
Sara - bugger about Briley and the swear word hehe. They are such little mimickers now. Yay on the appt for Brileys opp. Gosh they wouldn't want to cancel on you again...... What a bugger about the basinette mattress.
Well daddy now plays cricket every Saturday, and as it was the only family time we ever has is Sat and Sun afternoon, so now it is just Sundays. Also Sat and Sun afternoon gives me a chance to get into my paperwork while Wade watches Lachlan. So that kinda sux, but he loves his cricket so much, just wish he decided to start it next year not this one, as we are still trying to settle into the business.
Anyway Lachlan and I went to the pool yesterday but Wade 4got to leave us the keys, so I was all packed up and no way to get there, so we had to walk!!!! It was still hot even at 4pm in the arvo. It was a stinker yesterday at 35 degrees plus! Anyway we had a really nice afternoon. The pool was packed with kids.
Lachlan slept thru again, maybe the 10th time in 5-6 mths. He slept thru a few nights ago too, but then the night before last was 6-7 times again. Does this sleeping ever get any better? I am seriously considering giving him phnergen over a 2 week period to get some good habits forming again. The paed told me to do that some time ago now and he came good, so didn't bother. I might just ring her and ask her how to go about it again.
As me for I am getting really worried AGAIN...... I have next to no symptons and worry that something is wrong. Might go for an earlier blood test then I was first going to seeing as the results can take 3 working days to come back out here too. Just really freaking today. I haven't had sore boobs / nipples, haven't been tired / nauseas or hungry, haven't been fluffing, haven't felt bloated. I have nothing to go on here, I am sick of waiting.......... for my scan...............
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Woohoo Leanne great job! You all looked great too. Loved the hair - does it wash out though?
Oh Sara, you poor love. like you haven't enough to worry about. :hug:
Sheree, I totally get why you're worried. I'd definitley be in the same boat if I were you. No symptoms could be a great thing though. Would the BT be a HCG monitor?
Elissa I used to use a CD player too....glad it worked for you. Might have to get Darcy's out again. Trying to wean her from sleeping with me. Last night was not great. Up from 11-1.30. She thinks she can just come and get into bed with me at midnight - i'm over that. Guess it was my fault though. Shes in a fold out bed atm until I can afford a real bed. Trouble is she likes to sleep sideways and wakes up when her legs fall off because the foldout is narrow (she's pretty long). Hoping the width of a real bed helps.
Hope everyone is having a lovely Sunday.
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Ohhhh I hope and pray no symptons are a good thing Kim, I really do, but I guess it is just so hard to think positive with no symptons.
And yes the blood tests are monitoring my HCG levels, was only going to get them done weekly but I feel like I need them more frequently with no symptons.
Bugger about Darcy coming into your bed, that would suck. I think back to all those months of Lachlan sleepign with us as a baby and there is no way we could do it now. He is such a wriggle worm, doesn't stop still even in his sleep!
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sara - god to hear taht you have found a way of stopping briley coming out of the bedrooma million times! Gosh, sounds like your house isn't much better than ours, do you have air con? The first thing Archie did when i got him out of bed this morning was show me his sore toe LOL. he he at Briley being bossy, tey are quick to learn the swears aren't they! Good news on the op, hoping they go through with it this time! Bummer aout the bassinette matress, hope Colby had a nice big drink when she got up!
leanne - sounds like a great party, well done on raising all that money, hope the berocca helps!
sheree - yep i sure agree that anything is worth a try these days! Bummer that you have lost your lachlan free time on Saturdays. Glad you had fun at the pool, oh no 35 degrees i am so dreading that again! try not to panic, i had no symptoms til 5 weeks maybe the bub is still busily burrying itself in in there!
kim - hope you get some luck with Darcy sleeping in her own bed, sounds as if she might do better when she gets a big bed. Shame money is hard to come by sometimes (alot of times!)
i chucked a bit of a tanty today, i never show my anger, never really have so chucking a tanty isn't something you would normally see from me. i threw the newspaper at the wall, threw Archie's plastic chair across the room then jumped in the shower and had a cry, LOL, wish i could do it more often sometimes..
Dh and Archie are sleeping, and i am thoroughly enjoying some time alone! Going to go and read up on reflux again, Archie is getting worse and worse atm.
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Well 38 degrees today, can you believe it!!!!!!!!! I am soooo not looking 4ward to this summer here..........
Good on you for chuckin a tanty Elissa, you obviously needed it. Hope you feel better. Well I never had much in the way of symptons till 6 weeks with Lachlan but I still had the sore boobs/nipples early right from the start!
I just cleaned out underneath our house, boy what a job, just what I needed to do to keep my mind occupied. Now I have given strict instructions to keep it this way, wonder how long that will last!!!! Wade has a habit of bringing some of the old gift lines from the shop that we inherited and just plonking them anywhere under the house. Also boxes of stationery/cards, you name it we have it under the house. Anyway atleast it is in a tidy fashion now.
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you could set up and online shop sheree.....to get rid of it......just a thought - would keep you occupied at least
Go ELissa!! I agree sometimes it has to come out.
Sheree, Lachlans not far behind.....Darcy took her sultanas for afternoon tea and sat in front of the drier and watched the coloured load go round and round.....oh my small things....lol she can't even sit and watch the telly.
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Gosh I wouldn't buy this crap we have here Kim - we inherited so much rubbish. What do you think I haven't already got enuf to do Kim hehe. Lachlan doesn't sit still watching telly either, he is climbing up and down the lounge the whole time, no wonder he stacks it all the time with his head turned to the telly and not watching what he was doing. He is so like my sister it is not funny, she use to do summersalts and headstands watching the telly all the time as a kid! So I blame my sister. Oh I really do think Lachlan is heaps behind Miss darcy and most of the other kids here in our group. I was actually just saying to WAde this afternoon we really need to try to teach him more things in books and stuff, but Wade hit the nail on the head, he won't sit still, just wants to get off your lap.
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Sheree - I was the same with Colby hun. Had hardly any symptoms for ages. Even my HCG levels played up. So no signs/symptoms is'nt nessesarily(sp??) a bad sign. Keep hope hun. I have a real good feeling about this one babe.
Elissa - There is something in the air today. I lost it thismorning. I am sick to death of all the ADULTS in my house relying on me. I am sick of everyone eating then wallking out and expecting ME to do the dishes, fold the washing, etc etc. I am even thinking about moving out with me and the girls. All i want is some time to myself and a damn CLEAN HOUSE! His parents living here is putting too much strain in our relationship. Sorry hun...got lost in the moment then. I hope your feeling better now.
Leanne - GO GIRL!!! So did you have a good time??? Must of if you got to bed at 3am!!!
So yeah as i told Elissa, i had a major breakdown here thismorning. What signs do i need to look for in depression?? When SIL was up here we had several D & M's and she said she thought i was depressed. I really don't want to be.
I think i need to move out and find myself again. I have lost who i am in this relationship.
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Oh thank u thank u thank thank u Sara, you saying you had no signs at the start of your pregnancy has given me sum hope. Hopefully this pregnancy is just different to all of my other pregnancies. I don't even have any extra discharge down below, did you.
Gosh not that I am any expert honey, but I would think the determining point for depression would be no energy to get out of bed in the morning, obviously combined with other things but I mean I was really bad with Lachlan when he was born but can't say I ever crossed that line to depression even though the Midwife didn't know how I had walked away from it. I think mine was due to Wade, such a good influence on me, especially when I have been on antidepresents before.
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Nah only joking Sheree...I can't imagine how you fit everything in. Lachlan's a bright little spark with loads of energy that's he's using to discover stuff no-one can teach him.
Oh Sara. You sound like you're in a bad place at the moment. I didn't want it either. It just happened. No predisposition either. Ring the local health service/your MCHN and speak to them about tlaking to someone. It doesn't have to be to diagnose, but they have access to support services that you don't know about. Please tell someone though. It wasn't until Darcy was 7months old that I got 21 out of 24 on the PND test (a huge risk to both of us), and even though someone was aware of my pretty much instant PND it just got worse.
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Yeah I knew you were only joking Kim.
And I agree Lachlan is bright in his own energetic kinda way, I guess it just makes it hard hearing what other kids are doing and he is not.
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Sara I agree with Kim, I didn't want it either but it does happen. Medication has saved me so don't be afraid to get it if you need it. If you need to ask any questions at all feel free.
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Morning girls,
First of all, I just want to thank you all so much for the love and support that you guys have given me. I really do appreciate it.
Well i have woken up feeling very motivated today. And i have made a bold decision to go back to work for a month or two. Brent's work is real touch and go at the moment and i am sick of the stress of having to worry about how we are going to make the house payments when he has been sent home from lack of work.
I don't want to but i have to. I also see it as a way of having "me" time while bringing in some money. I am only after a temp position and i think i will get one straight away. I have a very good record with the temp agency that i go through and plus there are plenty of other Admin positions around at the moment.
I will be honest and say that as i am typing this i have a feeling of dread. Dread to leave my babies when mostly i just want to stay home with them and do my studies rather than work. But in saying that, i really think this will be my saviour.
I am happy to hear everyones opinions on this. At the moment my way of thinking is....If i get a job straight away it was meant to be. If i don't get one, it was'nt meant to be. I am happy with this thought!
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Sara - I am not sure what my opinion is on this to be honest, but after reading your last line - I am glad you said that to be honest. Please don't put too much pressure on yourself. You are still breastfeeding Colby don't forget. But I know also it will give you the outlet that you obviously need too. But also don't forget that you don't have to work if you don't want too. Hubby should go and get another job if things don't work out. You don't need this worry at your sensitive state atm. Sorry probably gave you no answers really, you do what you think it best ultimately. Mwah.
Well girls, we had to sleep in the spare room last night as that a/c works better then the one in our bedroom. What a horrible horrible hot night. This summer aint gonna be fun.
And I didn't sleep well and kept touching my nipples and they slightly feel sorer YAY! I have a sympton. So this morning I took another pregnancy test, which I would not normally but I have read that so many people do this, so thought it couldn't hurt. And the test was more positive then ever. The control line came up nice and strong and almost instantly, whereas the ones last week, took a few minutes. Yay I am so excited and feeling more confident.
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Well I have been busy making appts.
*scan 2pm 8th Nov (Emerald)
*see my gyno 11.45am 15th Nov (Mackay)
*bloods for nuchal 17th Dec (Brisbane)
*nuchal scan 9.30am 20th Dec (Mater Womens Diagnostic Centre- Brisbane)
We go to Mackay (3 hours away) from the 9th Nov to 16th Nov
Then we are off on a holiday from 5th Dec till Boxing Day (without Daddy - as he has to run our newsagency). We are going to Gin Gin/Bundaberg/Hervey Bay/Brisbane and to Mackay for Xmas.
So as you can see we are off here there and everyone, so had to plan my nuchal for when I am in Brissy. Such a drama, but I have it all sorted this morning.
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sheree - wow i can't believe you have 38 degrees already! Our hottest so far has ben 27, any more than 30 and our little family just doesn't cope very well! Good on you for tidying under the house, i would be way to scared of creepy crawlies to get under our house. You know, i reckon, Lachlan is probably a lot more co-ordinated than Archie, Archie isn't very good at climbing at all, dont worry about trying to teahc him things yet, he will pick them up in his own sweet time, let him be a rough and tumble boy while he can. yay at the BFP, that should help you feel more confident!
kim - LOl at Darcy watching the washing going round, its amazing what they find interesting...
sara - oh gosh, i totally know where you are coming from, i am so over having to organise other people's lives, i have enough trouble trying to organise mine! i can't imagine how stressful it would be with extra adult in the house!! Oh Sara, i can't believe it, we are both thinking the same things about ourselves....i cant find "me' anymore and i can't seem t have relaxed fun with DH like we used to, last night i had a major meltdown, Dh told me Archie shouldn't have a dolls pram or a toy kitchen cause they are too girly and he will get picked on WTF! that was it, i hid in the bedrooma nd bawled and bawled, DH eventually found me and helped me get over it (for now). I honestly am thinking that i still have PND but i am in such denial, im not the type of person who is depressed, i have nothing to be depressed about this is the best time in our lives so far in every way......i am gonna talk to the GP about maybe seeing a psych and getting my head sorted out.....just need to get past the denial...
As i just said to Sara, i am in a bad place atm with anxiety and now i am thinking (dreading) depression. i am so angry at myself as we are in the best position we have ever been in and here i am sleeping and crying and battling with anxiety every time i leave the house. i am angry that the GP and the Counsellor both told me i was fine and coping really well. Where do i go from here? GP again???
Was meant to pick my sister up from school at 12 to take her to the dentist and she was nowhere to be seen, haven't heard from her so who knows....
Archie had fun at kindergym this morning, i felt so rare, all the other mums knew each other and chattted the whole time and here is me by myself.....oh boo hoo get over it!LOL.
Sorry for the negative post, thankyou all so much for the support you give to me, you have no idea how much you all help.
