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busy busy busy... i have had visitors for the last week... god I'll be glad to get my house back to myself. having had people here for the last three weeks has finally done my head in. finding it a little hard to keep smiling at the moment... feeling very old. 18 year olds are something else. lol I swear I wasn't as unorganised as they are....but then again maybe I was, and I just cant remember that far back!!!!
Aston is better now, thank god. but it made for a very long week, with a sick boy,and attempting to entertain.
Hope everyone else is doing ok. bbl when I have the house to myself again!!!! for personals!
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woo-hoo Gigi!!! its funny you say that because evie's just become fascinated by her projector again and falls straight to sleep.
Yes we are moving back into our old house, i had posted on here about it but i think it was a while ago and probably mixed in amongst all my other babble
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gigi- fingers crossed that DH gets the job. and wouldn't it be lovely if you have found something that works to help bilby go to sleep.
Tara - i bet your getting excited about moving back into your house. How is your bump going? I can't beleive you are half way!
Blanche - surviving the heat hun? not long to go now til your little man is here.
Jols - are you still looking for someone to hand your resignation into? days like that suck!
Christy - any word on your mum?
Ann - how goes the new job? and Ella settling into childcare?
Nelly - how are you feeling? on the improve I hope.
Kim - how are you and the girls going? any decisions made regarding moving back to Sydney?
hope I havent forgotten anyone...
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Plans on moving...hmmm...have come to a hault. Craigs mates are moving back from Canberra now next week, so i think he wants to stay now
The girls are going well...lil Miss C slept from 11-2.15 today, i kept checking to make sure she was ok....must have been tired! Jasmine is having sleep issues through the day but is going well all the same. had her check up yesterday and she is a little long porker!!
Gigi Chelsea loves them projector thingys....she has a star one but the batteries are dead and im to lasy to change them, but she doesnt need it. Sleeps fine as it is!
Vicky glad to here Aston is better, sick kids is not fun at all. Your visitors sound 'fun' and way to energetic. At 18 i was organised...but its how i grew up. Your certainly not old so try not to feel it!
Tara hows things? Im so glad Evie has worked her sleep out now...must be a happy time now for you!
Jols how is Sophie sleeping now?
Ann hope all is well with you and Ella
Christy fingers crossed yoru mum is ok....and hows the job thingy going you got offered?
Blanche you can keep the heat there....been bit warm here last few days.... mr man better be behaving for you!
Is there anyone else? We have a few drop ins now and then....wonder how they are going?
Chelsea keeps walking round the house saying ellllloooooooo.....and oh dear mama. not sure who she is talking to...maybe her fairy friends!
Oh yeh... not impressed Chelsea story...yesterday morning i was driving home after dropping Craig off at work, and we are still having the car seat belt issue with Chelsea. So i tightened it more. Clipped her in so i *thought*. So yeh anyway....driving along and i look in the rear view mirror....to see Chelsea STANDING up in her seat
Stopped at light and theres a guy next to me pointing and trowing his hands in the air and i assume probably swearing and cursing at me and my 'bad mother not strapping her kid in' antics.
I couldnt turn, so had to drive to the next lights and Chelsea is now climbing out of her seat and over to Jasmines seat. Turned into a car park, where theres a group of guys standing round a hotted up car. Out i get, open Chelseas door, Screaming, yelling, pulling her arms....you name it....the guys go silent and are all staring at me
Anyhow i get her back in the seat and make sure it clicks all ok....and the lil bugger is LAUGHING at me.....man i was sooooo pi$$ed off. get home and im on the fone to Craig 'i was gunna kill your DD today...'.....man was not a good morning.
The end
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Oh kim...cheeky little monkey! well I'm sure that is not what you were thinking at the time!!! They sure can be bloody challenging...
Aston takes great delight at throwing everything and anything at anyone, or anywhere - so a car at the wall, a ball at someone's head, food... you name it!! so my challenge has been to get him NOT to do it. The other day he was YELLING at me to get my attention - we were at the table, and I was in the kitchen serving dinner, there were 5 other people at the table mind you - but NO he wanted ME! anyway, I did a supernanny tone Excuse Me!!(LOL) and everyone shut up - including aston lol... he looked down at his tray, and quietly mumble something. I crouched down next to him, and said please dont yell at mummy - and he gave me a kiss! Never a dull moment is there!
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Omg Kim wat a cheeky little thing!!
Vicky - when do ur visitors leave? yeah the heat is still killing me, its ment to be raining tomorrow so we will see!!
Tara - woo hoo u get to be bak in ur own home.
Emelia is asleep atm so im going to have my shower otherwise ill never get one!!
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Well DF and Emelia are both sick with some bug
DF came home this arvo from work and said he had been sick most the day throwing up..i thought "great"!! and then a few hours after he had been home Emelia started throwing up so looks like im in for a long night i have to babies cos DF is acting like the biggest baby, Emelia is taking it better than him!! hopefully its just a 24hr thing. and im praying i dont get it.
Vicky - how sweet he gave u a kiss! Emelia is a hitter and i dont know how to stop it when she gets told no or taken down from somewhere when climbing most of the time she will hit us..
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yep hear yopu both on the hitting, sophie does it too!!!!
vicky i bet your glad to have your house back to yourself! been able to fart without others caring must be great
blanche oh no!no good on the sicks bubba(s) men, they think the world is caving in on them when they get sick, women, well we soilder on
sophie has been off her food today, she is cutting two molars a lower lateral incisor and an upper canine, so figure her mouth is sore!
me stil lhave a cold, coughing, pelvic floor muscles have gone again
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LOL kim,sorry to laugh...what a monkey!!! i think you can buy things to clip over the belts so they cant get out of them...not that they're supposed to in the first place!! lol
we've got a cheeky photo of evie smiling and covered in jam on the shelf and it always catches my eye when she's being a little toad and i just have to remind myself that she can be happy LOL doesnt always work!
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Yeh Emelia is cutting another molar too so she hasnt been that happy!
i told Leigh hes such a baby and he said to me "ur lucky u dont have it" and i turned around and said "yeah lucky me cos i i know if i did i would still be doing everything and wouldnt be in bed get waitered on!"
hope u feel better soon Jols
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Blanche you sound like me when i was sick them few weeks back. I was going on how when im sick i still have to do everything, but when ever anyone else is they can rest and recover!
I hope both your babies (but more so Emelia) gets better super fast!!
Im gunna have to look for some clip to keep Chelsea strapped in....tongiht on way home from gettin Craig she got both arms out but was still sitting
No new teeth here...so much for her teethign when she was really sick....still has 13 in her gob!
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ive seen something too kim,!! little monkey, sophie is in so tight she's got no hope, yet
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The thing is it is so damn tight she cried when i strap her in....it nearly cuts in to her (but ti doesnt...just so damn tight)..but she has found a way to slip her arms through still....i worry ill get done by the cops
Ill have to hit the shops on the weekend to find something!
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Yeh for getting your home back Vicky.
Oh Kim, that must have been so scarey to see Chelsea standing up on the back seat - in the middle of traffic when you can't just pull over - without having to deal with other people's tut tutting too! they don't understand all you're dealing with! I can think of the strap that goes ACROSS the bub's chest to narrow the vertical straps, for safety, but dont' know what they're called or where they're sold.
i do a homemade version for our highchair cos bilby squirms out of those 5 point harness vertical straps, i wend the two ends of her bib thru the harness and once i've snapped up the bib, THEN the harness is shortened and pulled up so she can't get out. Doubt you could do that with a car seat harness though.
Taralee - that's wonderful you're moving back into your old place! wow, i'm so curious how you managed to swing it, for ages you came up with plans, they fell thru and then you stopped talking about it, so i thought it was a no deal. You've prolly already explained it elsewhere, wish i knew where! So without knowing any details I"M SO HAPPY FOR YOU!!!!
Kim - are you and Craig committed to moving back to NSW, like sold house/told landlord or is it a "dream" thing to aim for? Moving to where you'll be around supportive family sounds great to me.
SLEEP NEWS - i got FIVE HOURS last night - from 4am to 9am - thank you little ceiling projector thingy!!!! wow!!!
Day 11 of 17 days of heatwave
it will be 38 or 39 everyday until Wednesday next week (when it will be 31)
tomorrow is 40
how do people in far north WA and NT cope? i'm sure they have worse temps but gawd, i am struggling with this. A person died today due to the heat. bushfires are starting too. we're all waiting for power failures.
makes me wonder if we should migrate to another state - somewhere with rain
bilby is also wandering around saying eh wo (Hello).
my flickr page has pics of us at womad if you're interested
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ahh funny little people we have
Vicky Jake is the same and this morning to wake me up he threw his super ball at my head teehhee then climbed on the bed and gives me a kiss and cuddles
we have sorted his sleeping issues so days and nights are both good gosh I am so tired though been burning that candle at both ends again - I don't know how you nights owls do the late nights every night.
went shopping yday and decided to let Jake walk as long as he held my hand. Was god for the first 5 seconds then was happy to just walk beside me... then started to run off. So I went to pick him up and carry hm only to have him prostrate himself on the ground and scream. So picked him up ignoring the screaming and crying and he's flailing his arms about and carrying on like a pork chop - now when he wants to get down he straightened his whole body rigid with his arms above his head so you have nothin to hold onto. need to get me a monkey for him....
well we timed our latest ttc attempt to a tee I actually knew when I o'd so now just waiting waiting....
how is everyone else going today?
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arghhhh.... so over being a woman! finding it incredibly hard to love this body that has given me three beautiful children!
It is nice to have my house back - and fart when ever I feel like it lol. Aston cried when we dropped the girls off yesterday, and went looking for them this morning funny boy.
Nelly - gotta love those tanties! have you looked online for a Monkey? fingers crossed that this is the month for you.
Kim - you have a little houdini on your hands. I'm so glad aston hasn't figured out how to do that- yet!!
Blanche - have you tried picking emelia up and removing her away from you when she hits you? I have done that with Aston - picked him up and planted him somewhere away from where all the action is. and if he throws food or plates when in the highchair, i take everything off him and turn the chair away from us. for a minute at the most, then go and speak to him...telling him that its not ok to do "whatever"... then we have a cuddle. The concept of "I did this, and the consequence was being removed from where all the fun is" is starting to sink in I think. I guess its like mini time out. if that makes sense.
A book that I highly recommend is Boundaries for Kids, written by two pyschologists. Its a christian book - with biblical references through out, which if you find too much you can just skim over, because there is HEAPS of pratical, sound solutions that work!!! I wish I had read it earlier then I did...
Gigi - yay on the projector thing working, and getting some sleep... may it continue!!!
Jols - Sophie's mouth must be so sore. poor darling. bloody teething monster!! How are you doing hun?
Ann - how are you and Ella?
christy - are you lurking darling?
i'm blahhhhhhhhhh today... in pain and over being a woman. going to have to take some strong painkillers soon...which i hate doing when its just me and aston. i figure if I take them now...by the time he has a morning sleep I can lay down too... and hopefully get through the day. blahghghg....
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Anyone for a spewing, tanty chucking, lets bash mum and baby sis up, back chatting 15 month old??
Yes my darling monkey is in full swing today. After walking into her room this morning and heaving, holding back my own spew i turn on the light to see vomit...EVERYWHERE....all over her sheets, blankets, dolly, carpet, change table and the cot rails.Then she gets up and chucks tantys cos i have to wash her fav dolly and she cant have it, so proceeds to bit and hit me, then i get angry so she takes it out on Jasmine, who then screams like she has never done before. then i *try* to talk with Chels....only for her to say 'Stop it' 'No' 'Go way' arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Kids...why do we have them?? My body is a blob of fat (but hey im on a diet now...first weigh in is Saturday and im packing my dacks about it).
Vicky i feel for you. It sucks being a chick some days hey!
Nelly i hope this is the month for you and there will be a 2nd bubba on the way. When we go to the shops we have a harness (like Astons) only its a dog....and Chelsea wont walk....she crawls with it....lots laugh, i dont. So i let her walk alone and try not to make a big deal if she starts running off vos it makes her worse...and thinks its a game!
Gigion some sleep at last!!!!! Did you get my email in regards to the cups? I ask cos i have an awful feeling our support system is playing up, so can you please let me know if u did indeed get it or if Craig needs to check it out. As for moving, our family is all in NSW. The house we live in PIL own, but its in a family trust and should they pass away the house becomes ours. So in theory its our house and we pay the rent/mortgage repayments on it. Ive not heard a thing from Craig about moving back...so im stuck in Vic with no one i guess for a lot longer.
Blanche i used to put Chelsea in her room when she bit/hit etc.....but then she didnt care cos in her room she detroys everything. Unpacks her drawers. pulls all the wipes out....empties the cupboards and pulls clothes off the hangersi really do have a handful of a child!!
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nelly, i can just see jake still as a board with you carrying him, they become slippery little things when they do that doen they!!!
lets hope you caught that eggy this month!!!!!!!
vicky, nasty AF pains? its amazing what we women go through and what do me get, mmmmmm nothing, zero, nada, sucks hey, grab some panadiene and a heat pack and head off to bed
gigi yay for the 5 hours sleep!!!! must have felt sooo good!!! its going to be 38 here today and 39 tomorrow, i feel sorry for you having so many days above 35!
kim spewy again , yuk! have you both got gastro????
i have finally realised that if sophie only sleeps for a hour a day its obviously all she needs!! ive been reading that at this age they need 13-14 hours in 24 and she gets most of that at night! last night was 13 hours, we play, have quiet time, snack bottle then bed, i do however leave her in bed for the 90 mins ragardless of how long she actually sleeps for, yesterday after 1 hour, i went to check her, thinking she was still asleep, wide awake but she just lied there for another 30 mins, so she;s learning!!!
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