Just a quick post from me, too. Matthew has two more molars coming through. New total: 14 teeth. For the first time, I've seen the blood blister effect. Looks nasty! Anyway, he's drooling constantly again, has his fingers in his mouth all the time, is chewing everything and back to biting me. Ouch. But not while breastfeeding, fortunately!
Looks like we'll be spending the holidays in this little town as my father and stepmother are coming down from Brisbane to spend Christmas with us. They've both retired and finish up at their respective workplaces this week. They may be staying with us for a while! The water situation is quite grave though and it looks like the lake by which the town is located will be dry by Christmas Day. Tomorrow's forecast is 37 degrees, Wednesday and Thursday will be 40. The smell of dead fish and turtles is horrible. So, Santa, I'd like to put flooding rain to fill the catchment on my wishlist. Sadly there's no green grass in the town's parks and our lawn is just dirt and *****les. No running around outside for Matthew!
How are Molly, Bella and Poppy going with their walking? Have they taken off again? Yay for Ashlyn, who sounds like a very independent little girl now, Tenille! How are you going with the work/home arrangement? I was panicking about having to find someone to look after Matthew for me for two days a week next year but now the sitter says she will continue with the five days arrangement. Such a relief! Choices are extremely limited here. Sue, is Arabella over all her sickness? I hope so, especially with Christmas on our doorstep! Pam, woohoo on the kicking - I did enjoy that part of pregnancy.
Oooher Kerry, I hope you get your wish for some rain, sounds really bad for you down there. How lucky that Mathews carer stuck with the 5 day a week for you, it would have been confusing for the little fella to be with 2 different carers. Molars, well we are the same here. Bella only has 3 front top and 3 front bottom and I saw in her mouth last week and it was raging red and so swollen, felt it and she had just cut 2 molars. She's been all over the shop with her teeth and she is biting everything including me and the dog's ears LOL. No more sickness thank god, only the usual teething crud. Oh, I can offically say that Bella is walking now. She walked around for a day and then nothing, but the last couple of days she has been getting up without holding onto anything and walking everywhere, we are very proud of her.
Captain - Heheh, we have little one's with a similar nature I think. If Bella doesn't get her way, it's on LOL, she is just like her daddy I think.
Hi to all, hope everyone is going well and all prepared for christmas. I am done with all the shopping, just need to get my food shopping done. A relief cause the shops are CRAZY and full of nutty people. Not much else happening here, just trying to stay cool each day. I can just imagine our power bill that's due just after christmas, I am sure it will hit the $1000 mark, oh well, the price you pay to stay cool. I HATE summer....
Hi All quickly popping in have to read back and catch up, all is calming down so I can relax a bit now and pay more attention to cleaning this house for christmas looking forward to it this year!
Eireann and the boys have all been sick, I thought Eireann sounded a little weezy spelt that wrong LAMO! but the doctor has her on a inhalor seem she might have asthma. she is doing great though. I have a feeling it will be very mild and not be to much of a problem I hope..
the boys all had ear infections and colds lovely! lack of sleep has been a nightmare.
Hope every one is well and I will beack soon haveing a late dinner and have Pizza on the way!
Niamh - Have a great Christmas and worry about the waistline later
Molly has been doing well. The drool just keeps coming and for a while it looked like more teeth were coming through but they are being pesky at the moment. She looks a little lopsided as she has 5 (maybe 6. She won't let me look) teeth on top and 2 on the bottom. It looked like there were 2 on the way on the bottom but they have gone back in. She has also just started to bite. Although strangely she tries to bite your toes.
She has started nodding yes to questions when she wants things. Its funny to watch. You ask her if she is ready for bed and she nods yes before waving bye-bye to her dad.
We are all ready for Christmas here. Will be interesting to see how Molly goes. Hoping she opens at least one present before she wanders off.
Christmas eve we are going to walk around to see the lights around the corner from us and might then drive around to find more. Christmas day we are off to SIL's family's house for the big day, after opening our presents at home, so I guess Molly's cousins will be busy telling her to leave their stuff alone. She just loves her older cousins, even if they find her a pest.
Pam- I am heading to my dad's house in January some time for a week so we will have to catch up then if you aren't too busy.
But i would have 3 under 4 hahahaha - CRAZY!!
I have started my eldest in day care one day a week because i am so busy with my business. The little break is nice.
But i would probably wait until nathan has night weaned he still feeds a few times a night
Merry Christmas.
May it be a Happy and Safe Christmas.
thanks for all your support and being such a great group.
MMMWWAAAHHH Pam, Poppy and new baby girl.xxxx
Merry Christmas gorgeous ladies!!! Emily, DH and I hope you have a very safe and happy holiday!!
I can't wait for Emily to open her presents tomorrow, she still isn't quite sure what presents are but I think she'll get the hang of it. I'm not keen on having 16 ppl for lunch tho...eek why did I volunteer????
Ooo I'm still clucky too..I said to DH today would you like to have a baby in November and he said sure lol I said that means we have to get pg in March..again he says sure we'll see!!
Merry Christmas! Hope you, your families and all our September bubs have a wonderful day, filled with lots of love and laughter. May Christmas 2009 be truly special.
Enjoying the sound of rain falling. At last! Hope it floods.
We are plodding along here home after a big 2 week holiday. We drove to SA and Emily surprised us. She was really quite good in the car. I sat in the back to entertain her and she must have watched Beverly Hills Chihahua 100 times! Thank goodness for portable DVD players. We had a lot of time with fmaily and 3 days on our own. The Barossa is not a great place for a one year old..she did pretty well but was pretty over it by that stage ...hindsight hey.
We are definately considering trying for a second sometime this year, its a bit exciting.
Pam how are things going with the pregnancy? I've been thinking of you.
I just thought I would stop by to see how everyone is doing. We have just come home from a week long visit to my dad and trying to settle back in home again. Last week Molly decided that walking is now the prefered method of travel and has been walking non stop since. We have also had 2 molars poke through as well.
Ezy I saw your thread on biting and responded to it. Molly is doing the same thing too.
Not much news fromm here except sleeping at night has become so stressful here. Molly just screams when she is put in her cot. I am at the end of my tetther. Any ideas on what to do?
Hi girls, I'm just over 30 weeks now for the hard part of the journey!!! I am so scared about the birth no matter how it happens..I know it is a moment in time, but it seems a big moment that i am having trouble getting my head round, except meeting my bubba girl..
I had my scan to see how she is going, it went well...bubba girl looks good no further problems, her kidney is not working now and the cysts have gotten bigger largest 2cm then 1cm and there are 6 around that size so when she is born she will have a swelling to her tummy, her other kidney has started to get bigger to take over the extra workload which is a good thing..last scan her head looked a bit mishapen but it looks good now, they told me that can happen..I have to say I am glad about that one
I have another scan in Feb just to see what is going on and when shhe is about 1 week old we go to Monash to get her US done they check to see that urine is'nt going back into the good kidney and that is all working well, then it will be monthly checks for awhile after that. All in all I intially felt relieved , but now am starting to feel a bit depressed i think cause I have been living on nervous energy for all of the pregnanncy and to get good news is aload off but..?????.weird i know.
I am huge put on tooo much weight but bought a twin pram off ebay so will be walking the baby girls a bit when I get over the intial sleep deprived stage...so by bubs first birthday i will be looking fab, @#??? well let a person have some dreams lol:
Donna lovely to meet you and thanks so much for the clothes and nappies, all washed and ready to go...Molly is gorgeous, I reckon she just needs to settle back into her own bed, going away even if it is to your dads always mucks things up for a few weeks.
Anyway off to have a hunt around, hope you are all well...
Hi girls - sorry been in babyland, with 4 kids so little time for much!!
Just wanted to say quickly to Pam, I'm so glad your baby girl is looking good, now to 'cruise' through the last couple of months - good luck with it all, hope you can rest (difficult, almost impossible, but try!!)
I'm doing okay, but so incredibly busy with a newborn and Remy, plus the older 2 - got to say I've never felt so stretched in all my life - but am coping okay, just got to accept very little time for myself for a while yet.....!
Hope you all are going well!! Remy is so gorgeous, my god she never shuts up or sits still - am hoping Flynn is a more quiet child!
How the new year being going for you all, quite enough for us just plodding along its been so cold really bad over christmas brought the country to a stand still!!! some people here have no water since christmas and we have so much rain here so no excuse. then reports the water not so safe to drink lovely!
I started our new healthy eating plan 3rd week in now loast half a stone the first two weeks so delighted with that. Dh is doing it as well and lost 13lbs we both stayed the same this week think we over did the exercise and our bodies are gone in to scared mode LOL but doing well so will keep at it, its so much easier with him doing it as well.
Eireann looks like she is getting 4 molars two on top and two on the bottum she has been very good a bit out of sorts and getting so cute in to every thing and bosses the boys.
Pam how are you doing
Sue how are you doing are you all settled in to your new house for now
Mummatotwo! we love to make life hard dont we LOL Ild have another if money was no problem and Dh was willing but think we are finished now 4 is enough I keep telling my self I must be mad
Goodnight all!
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