Nikki thats excellents news on the test score, well done. I hope you rewarded yourself. Yeah on the job offer also. I hope you and Grant work someone out. Poor Harry I hope he feels better soon. I am up for next thursday if you want to go to the play centre.
Cindy How did work go? I hope the girls enjoyed their day with their nanna
Kristie I know what you mean about falling behind in housework. I am back up to date but 1 day out a week is enough for me as otherwise I cant cope and the house looks like a pig sty
Rachel I dont think I could handle shop at midnight.
Well so much wiggles stuff in the bigw catalogue that I want. Better go check it out and put layby on i think.
Just got message from another friend who is pregnant with #4, God everyone I know is pregnant.
Jordan had a great day with his nanna today, he walked home from her house with Jamie which is very cute. Its quite a long walk to but Jamie said he loved it.
He didnt however like the tacos we had for tea. I had to make him toast in the end as he didnt eat much at all. He definatly doesnt like lettuce (like his mum)
Think we will get an early night tonight. Quite tired after today at work.
Night all XX
Nikki - Thats fantastic!! Congratulations on such a great mark and a job offer!!!
Tracey - Glad Jordan had a good day. Bugger at the taco's...Louis didn't really like nachos either...
I'm going to the sale after Michael gets home tomorrow...I'm tempted to go through the night but sleeps too important to me at the moment...Big w's sale starts tomorrow as well and Target in a fortnight...I'm just too excited - LOL!
Oh and we got a dishwasher today!! wooohooo! It's just my brothers old one but it got a leak and he bought a new one. I'm so lucky Michael's so clever at fixing things and he got it working today! Yeah!!!
Well first day of work over with and it was great! I was greated with hugs and kisses and a new filing cabinet (easily pleased arent i) and then when i got to mums i was greated by a very excited tori who had missed me terribly and was really sooky unless charlotte was around too! I am definately brain fried tonight though.I did miss my girls too!
Nikki CONGRATS!!!! thats fantastic about both the job and your exam score! How proud of you am i!!! How many hours would the job be?
Can you believe its 10 and my girls are just going to sleep now! how slack am i tonight! Best be off to put the big one to bed now that the little one has gone to sleep finally.
Krisite - see you in the morning, dont stress about parking, there is heaps! I will meet you out front about 9.45!
Tracey - tori doesnt eat tacos either the little bugger, coz i love them, lettuce and all!
Night all.. off to clean the kitchen now. ho hum a mums work is never finished!
oh wow.i have just woken to feed harry and it is 11pm,i went to bed at 8,oh dear i must have been tired but i feel like i have just had a full night sleep,i must go to bed early more often.
nikki
I'm soooo tired.
Dragged myself out to kmart last night, OMG! I had everyting I wanted by 12:30, and stood in the layby queue for 2 hours after that...
The lady 2 places ahead of me in the queue had brought her 4 kids along, the youngest about Milo's age and the rest not much older, and was feeding them chuppa chups and applu juice at 1am...
But I did get all the stuff I wanted (from Kmart), and have birthday and christmas covered now without going into our Christmas budget, it was so cheap and with no deposit laybuy it will all be paid off. I am so proud that we won't be using our credit card this year! Just some playschool and wiggles DVDs to go now.
Tacos..mmmm...taaaacos...I've not tried Milo with them, he loves cor chips though. I might try him out with a burrito first and see how we go, cos Neil and I both love Mexican.
Housework..DH does most of ours, well he thinks he does. He vaccuums, mops and does the dishes/tidies the kitchen. I do the bathroom and the toilet, and most of the clothes washing (unless I want everything pink), and anything outside the house apart from the lawnmowing, though I have done that too, on occasion.
well we did a make up swimming class today and it was good. We then had lunch and now Jordan in bed and I can chill. Kristen is coming over to watch model this afternoon so that will be nice.
Rachel WOW on braving the sales and OMG I so wouldnt have waited 2 hrs in the layby queue. What was the lady doing with her kids out that late, thats ridiculous. Glad you got everything you wanted though.
Cindy LOL at being excited over a filing cabinet. I am glad you had a great day and thats so nice that Tori was rapted to see you. It makes it all the more special when you get home and they great you with a big smile and hug.
Krisite Yeah on the dishwasher I couldnt live without ours. I hate doing the dishes. Hope you have a good day today.
Nikki An early night is sometimes what the doc ordered. We have done that a bit lately. Glad you felt better for it. How is Harry doing with his ears?
Missy hope you are all well and the job is going well. DO you get any perks? Free rentals??????
gotta go finish the washing i guess. check in with you all later.
We went to New Mcdonalds farm show this morning! Was pretty good...got sucked into buying Louis a t-shirt - they're such a rip off! Tori was giving me cuddles which was nice!! Both the kids were tired and while Tori was being gorgeous Louis was being a feral! hehe.
He was running around everywhere and I was being a paranoid mum so I thought I'd let him got a bit and then I lost him!!! I knew he couldn't have left the room but I couldn't see him anywhere. Then Cindy did a walk around and couldn't see him and by then I was starting to get really scared and anxious and then luckily a lady could see Cindy looking and he had climbed up the top of the steps/seating...like to where they do the scoring for basketball and was playing..OMG!!! She brought him down to her and everything was fine. He was just having so much fun running around but gave him Mummy a heart attack!!!!!!!!! So after that experience I'll be getting Dylan babysat when we have the wiggles so I can look after Louis...I wouldn't want to lose him at Rod laver!!!
Anyway, got some chippies on the way home and he crashed and is still asleep. We've just been too busy lately and he's soo tired. Dylan was good though!
Rachael - Yeah for doing all your shopping! I'm heading out later when Michael gets home...I almost can't be bothered now though...I can't believe that lady took all her kids out at that time of night - bet she's paying for it today!!!
Tracey - Sounds like you've got a cruisy arvo planned! Glad you had fun at swimming!!
glad you had fun,did louis enjoy it,he is such a big fan!that would have been scarey,i lost corey for 3 hours when he was 3,the police helicopter and car loads of police were out looking for him.was the worst day of my life.
i have 9 kids today.omg,they are all still asleep though,even the babies.i am waiting for the explosion of noise and mess any moment now.
nikki
Did some more shopping today...laybyed a cars 4 wheeler for Louis! I think he'll love it!! Bought them some more winter clothes as well - thought I better hurry up before all the summer stocks in...
Michael's gone out for the night so the house is quiet - at the moment - I so hope it stays that way...would be nice to have some quiet time to myself..I'm sure the quiet will be broken by Dylan very soon though...we're having a bit of trouble getting him to sleep at night at the moment cheeky bugger...
Nikki - OMG!! How scary - I can't imagine how horrible that would be! Wow at the kids having such a big sleep in! Wow at having 9 kids - I don't know how you do it! I'm babysitting my niece and nephew next week - I think 4 will be hard enough for me in our little house!!
Yeah..he enjoyed it but I still think he's a bit little to get the most out of it iykwim??
Hope you're all well - very quiet in here at the moment!
Cindy - Hope everythings ok and you and Al made up! meant to ask last night when I posted...
Nikki OMG you are a supermum to have 9 kids. I cant beleive you do this every holidays. Why do these other mums never offer to do the same for you??? Bonus on the sleep in though
Krisite glad you had a good time at mcdonalds farm. I felt awful for you when i read you lost Louis for a while. Glad he was ok. I too would prob try and have Dylan looked after for wiggles so you can concentrate on Louis although there will be all of us there to help you.
Well today Jordan said BYE BYE. It was so adorable. Now thats about 5 words (slow and steady is Jordans game plan)
Had a nice tea and have been chillin on the couch all night.
MIL asked me if I felt pregnant yet...... so dont need that. I really hope we did it this month but have my reservations. TIme will tell.
Will be working OT tomorrow as just checked the bank balance and its terrible and its pay day. We so need some more cash but dont know where it can come from. Maybe that stripping idea is an option NOT
So what does everyone have planned for the weekend? Work and then dinner for friends 30th on our agenda for tomorrow.
Take care everyone.
Tracey - Yeah on Jordan saying Bye!! woohoo!! I have my fingers and toes crossed for you this month as well!!! Bugger at the bank balance...I've spent way to much lately as well...whoops. Will have to tone down now until the target sale - LOL!!! Nah...We just got in our gas and electricity bills so will not be able to do any shopping next week...If only there was an easy way to get loads of money!!!
We have a quiet weekend planned...Just got to do food shopping tomorrow and some housework!! I think I'm going to sort out Louis' toys and start putting a few out each day...he's got so many he doesn't play with half of them unless I get it out for him...
i went through all of chantelle and harrys toys today aswell and soughted them all out,i have put them all into boxes so she can easily get to them,doll box,dress up box ,rattles box,noisy toys box,blocks,etc.she played with them all afternoon,they were all thrown into a big box together before and she never went near it as it was too big and overwhelming and too hard to get to a particular toy.
nikki
Nikki - we did that with toris toys a few weeks ago and she plays with them so much more now!
Kristie- he is still giving me the whatevers but is better and he apologised for ebing a turd to me! SO thats a start!
Tracey - jordan is such a super star, as you said, slow and steady! Its a much bette way to go i think.
Unfortunately for me i think i have anothe bub that wants to get going early, she has started giggling already and she shuffles up her cot on her back and is already trying to roll, she can get onto her side but thats it for the moment, i dont think it will be long before its more though!
Best be off to have a shower and tidy my disgusing house up a bit before my sister gets here, she is taking tori for a few hours so i can get a bit of a break, al hasnt been home before 11pm all week this week and i am going crazy! I need some cindy time!!!!
I've been doing the same thing re the toys. They seem to be multiplying exponentially! I actually only got 5 or 6 things at the toy sale (well I've only been to kmart so far) but one of them was a toybox, and I am going back to get three matching, stackable toy tidy boxes. That way I can bring out one cube at a time, and Milo can play with those toys. Hopefully it will stop him getting bored with the too!
There was more chicken pox in Milo's creche room again yesterday, at least he is immunised now. Its not going too well with the new staff roster they have in place, last night he came hom all worked up and cranky. I've never seen him like it before.
Nikki - 9!!! OMG, I think I'm run off my feet just with Milo!
Better go do some housework before Milo wakes up from his nap!
Having a beautiful quiet day at home...Just went through Louis/Dylans toys...I've put everything into bags with a selection of toys in each bag and I'm just going to pull out one bag at a time...I managed to fill up 14!!! (books included) Even just when I was sorting them he was playing with things he hadn't for ages! It has also cleared out my lounge room and his bedroom heaps (just to make room for xmas toys! LOL!)
Dylans been great, finally having some big sleeps- he's still having his 2nd big one which means he's been going nearly 3 1/2-4 hoursly between feeds - cross fingers we're getting into the beginning of a routine!! It certainly makes life a lot easier!! He's way to big for his bassinette so we're setting up the cot this arvo...not sure how it's all going to work but we don't have a choice... He's getting so big already!!! Very scary...I'll definitely be going back for no.3!!!
Nikki - I had Louis' toys like that as well - cars box, books box etc but I still found he didn't really want to go searching through them...Hopefully my new way will work!!
How's Harry going?? Hope you're coping ok with all the kids!
Cindy - I'm glad things are a little better...hopefully it will be all good soon! Wow at Charlotte nearly rolling..I don't think Dylans anywhere near it yet - he's a lazy boy! LOL! Mind you - like you said - I wouldn't mind if he does things a little slower than Louis - It's much easier when they just lie there!!! Louis didn't roll until he was 4 months + anyway...
Hope you get some time out!
Rachael - I want to get some storage boxes for under the bed...it's about the only room we've got left after having a bed, bookshelf, drawers, cot and change table in a single bedroom!!! LOL! Ooh thats no good with the chicken pox...sounds like things aren't too great at the childcare - maybe you should say something to them???
Well my sister came and instead of her taking tori we allwent for a walk to the playground around the corner with tori and her cousin shae on bikes. Wouldnt you know it we get half way and it starts raining!! It was lots of fun though and the girls had a ball on their bikes and charlotte just slept all the way in the pusher so it was all good. I have started taking the girls out for walks a fair bit lately and tori just loves it. I cant wait untill she can ride without me having to oush her though so we can take her bike out when its just me and the two of them.
I cant blieve everyone is going through toys, Kristie - you scare me talking about neding to clear space before chirstmas pressies.....
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