Babies Born September 2007 #32

[Ozstar]

Hi everyone,

Sorry I have been MIA again, I have skimmed the posts but there is to much to catch up on. Have been trying all day to get on but keep timing out.

Hayley sorry to hear Maddie isn't well. My fingers are crossed for a speedy recovery.

Noni congrats on the house, that's awesome news.

I'm sorry I don't have any more personals but as I said there is to much to catch up on.

What have I missed? I hope your all doing well.

Not much happening here Logan is cruising around the furniture and discovered how to get into all the cupboards and pull things out, guess its time to childproof. His second tooth popped through on Saturday so he now has half a tooth and a corner through. His poor little bum is soooo red. I have my sister coming up for a few days so I will be MIA again but promise to catch up properly next week.

[Leemar]

Hi Girls,

Firstly Hayley- Your a wonderful Mother. WTG Daycare a phone call would have been great ... WTF Poor Maddie I hope she will be better soon...
Noni Congratulations on your house... I am so very happy for you,DP and Asha.
Hi Ange
Art- Jordy fell off the bed once. Hope Will is all better now
Ozstar-Glad to hear about logan cruising around the furniture. Hope his bum gets better.
Cally- I have been having the same problem with being timed out.
Renee- Congrats to your BIL and BF.. we should all be calling you cupid now...

Well My Jordy seems to being doing much better he has been pooing every day since last friday so I am a very happy mumma atm. Olivia is now pulling herself up on things now and seems to think it funny to do it in her cot. She loves watching me walk past her room. Xavier is great and can not wait till his birthday. I still can not believe my boys will be 3 soon.. Were has the time gone. I still remember feeling them kicking me in my tummy. DH went for his consultation with the snip dr today and is now booked in to have the procedure done on the 19th Aug.

Well better go Sweet Dreams to all.

[Isadora]

Leanne - Thats exactly what I thought about daycare!! Considering a couple of bubs were hospitalised last week and Maddie woke up Fri morning all congested. They could have made some quick phone calls to say giving you the heads up this is what is going around the babies room, so if your child gets a cold have them seen to asap. I let her go the whole weekend thinking it was a simple cold and she'd be fine! So glad Jordy is on the mend, thats a relief. Wow on Olivia pulling herself up, is she crawling?

Katie - Is it his bottom tooth coming through? How exciting! Cant believe he is cruising furniture, little explorer!

[Leemar]

Hayley- Yep she is crawling now. She is really fast so I have to make sure the boys dont leave little things around. We though out most of all the small stuff but they have stuff hidden so I have to be careful. I would definately tell the daycare when you go in next that you want to be told of this stuff asap. I would tell the director too. The boys day care did that with me once with conjunctivitias. If your not sure about Maddie tonight just take her straight to the hospital. I hope she is ok. Please let me now how she is in the morning. I will be think of you.

[Trillian]

Katie, I'm with you on the childproofing of cupboards! We had taken them all off because we didn't need them anymore, but the other day I found Alister in the tupperware cupboard LMAO. And he got into the cupboards over at the IL's the other day too.

Leanne, that's great Jordy is doing so well! Gosh I bet 3yrs has just flown by for you - next year it will be kindy for them.

Hayley, how is Maddy going now?

Alister is just into everything ATM - climbing, pulling toys out of the box and then just leaving them (buy hey, the other kids still do that LMAO), getting into the cupboards, the laundry, the TOILET. I spend a good part of the day making sure the doors are shut LOL. He is getting really cheeky too, like when he is in the bath, he has started to stand up in it (hanging onto the side) and I tell him no, sit down or you'll fall, and he usually sits down, but the other night he looked at me, smiled and the pushed off the side of the bath with his hands and splashed back down into the water and laughed - and then he did it again! he is getting quite confident with standing alone too now. Oh, and he has started this thing where he is crawling along and then all of a sudden he drops down like he has 'tripped' over and laughs - I'm sure its because the older kids will muck around falling over to make him laugh, so I think he does this to make them laugh kwim? Like he is part of the game too now. So cute to watch.

PS: There have been problems because the server that hosts the forum is being absolutely slammed ATM, so Kelly is getting a newer, bigger server to host them. You may have noticed today though that some of the features have been turned off to ease some of the congestion - the avatars, moods etc are gone for the moment. It should be fixed by today, so if you're having problems you aren't the only ones LOL.

[*noni*e*]

hey everyone
well we sign tmw and get the keys to our new home.. if everything dosnt go well i will just die!!! feeling a bit nervous still.. have been packing n gosh is that a nightmare!!! considering we start moving tmw though its kinda important that we do it haha..
ashas gone off bottles lately shes probably only collectively drinking 2 bottles a day when u add it all together.. she gets up in the morning and i am lucky if i can get her to drink a third of her bottle before she chucks it away and winges for breakfast.. this morning i just gave her breakfast straight away and plan to give her bottle say an hour or 2 after and see if that has her drink more coz she shouldnt be expecting food at that time.. its pretty hard lol shes a guts she just wants food all the time and not bottles lol but shes only almost 9mths lol..
sherie - oh sounds like A is very clued in copying the other kids how cute!!
leanne - glad your jordy is better now!! and congrats to olivia pulling herself up. asha still cant figure it out lol..
haley - usually daycares (though i didnt work where there was a room with babies so it could be different) just put a sign up on the notice board or tell you if you go in but if you tell them specifically they might be able to call you as soon as it happens rather then after the fact..
katie - well done to logan cruising round and raiding the cupboards! lol time to childproof i am so glad we are moving coz this place its just not possible to child proof and i often turn around to find asha doing something she shouldnt be!
cally- do you only give her the milk on her cereal? i was wondering with letting asha drink it since she wont drink bottles what the go is exactly..

[MamaPan]

hi all!
i have also been having probs with BB - i did a big post yesterday morning and it seems to have been lost and then when i tried to get back on later it timed me out every time! v frustrating!
Anyway - sounds like MM you are having a tough time, my post yest was mainly telling you not to beat yourself up about it.... i hope Maddie is doing better today? When i was in melb at xmas time heaps of the bubs had just had bronciolitis (they were all about 5 months) so it is v common and so completely not your fault. the day care def should have let you know - that isterrible i would def have a word with them.
noni - wooo hooo on the house! congrats! wil be great to be in your own space. is it close to where you are now? i hope yiu will still be able to see your friend up the road etc. for bfast i usually give N oats and fruit (sometimes baby oats - bellamys - and sometimes normal oats). this week he is having weetbix and milk (i also just use full cream milk, a little bit) and he usually munches on a cruskit after his cereal. sometimes i do yoghurt and fruit and sometimes he also has some cheerios as finger food. bfast isnt his fave meal though. you could also make fruit pikelets or corn fritters or something if she wold prefer to feed herself. though personally i think it is ok for them to always have cereal for bfast?? of course once eggs are ok hard boiled egg or an omeltte will be a great option or french toast. wrt the cows milk - i think it is ok for cooking/in food but not as a main drink til 12 months? i may be wrong though as i am still bfeeding so havent really looked into it all properly.
hi katie - have fun with your sis!
not much news here, noah is going through such s gorgeous stage with so much giggling and being interactive. no sign of crawling yet - but i am not so worried about it, though he would look v funnynext to all your bubbas whi are cruising and moving around so much!! his fave time of the day seems ot be just before hos shower when we get im naked and he rolls all overour bed. he squeals with delight!

[Cassius2]

Hi Girls! Wowsers, alot has been going on (including with the BB site!).

MM: oh dear! you guys are having it pretty rough ATM. and seriously, there's really nothin you could have done to stop maddie from getting Bronchilitis (sp?) (except maybe wrapping her up in cotton wool and never ever leaving the house!! LOL!!). bubs get sick, we get sick, it sucks but doesnt mean that we are bad people! man, i still remember the 'chicken pox' parties that our parents used to hold so all us kiddlywinks would get them!!

Pregpan: sometimes i wish that leila wasnt crawling! she is getting into everything...including the dog and cats bowls...egad.

Noni: yeah we have cereal (raffertys or weetbix) with fruit. or sometimes ricotta with fruit, or yoghurt with fruit (notice a trend here LOL!). then we follow it with a piece of toast with either avo or vegemite...she loves it.
he he he with the moving. we just did a mammoth move from canberra in january, so i pity you with the packing and unpacking. although our packing experience was pretty funny as we were using the same company as kevin rudd, so we got all of his old boxes that he used to move into the lodge!! unfortunately we didnt find anything exciting hidden away...

Leanne: wtg to little jordy! it must be so much more comfortable for him. so i guess time just keeps on going faster the older they get...3 wowsers, i just cant imagine leila not being a bub, although she is reminding me everyday of what a big girl she is becoming! it must be really exciting watching them grow and becoming into their own looks and personality....

Sherie: Alister sounds like the greatest bub! what a sense of humour! leila is also getting into the whole splashing back into the water thing which has my heart skip...oh the stress begins...how will i be when she brings home a snot faced boy with a motorbike...

here things are good. like pregpan said about Noah, leila is going through a fantastic period, giggling, laughing, trying out new things, bashing toys across every surface to see and hear how they sound. terrorising the animals, stealing pens...you know, the usual stuff. she is also doing loads of 'talking'. she is trying so hard to engage us in conversation and i think she finds us droll in not being able to keep up.
this saturday we are off to an italian playgroup (egad!!). DH signed her up, so we'll see how that goes. i had better brush up on my lingo...

hope all is well for everyone (or improving!!).

big hugs to Maddie get better soon girl!

[Patooties]

Just a quickie - will be back later or maybe tomorrow to catch up

Happy Birthday Cally

Hope you had a nice lunch with your MIL

[MamaPan]

HAPPY BDAY CALLY!!!!! so sorry i missed it earlier, i even have apost it on my computer to remind me!! Hope you are having a FAB day - did 'Katie' make you breaky in bed???
Clare - so funny wioth rudd's boxes - you could have made a packet selling that story on today tonight or something if only you found something scandalous!! OK have to ask what is egad???
Italian playgroup sounds fun!!! And the ricotta idea is a good one - baked ricotta would be a delicious breakfast i think. Leila sounds gorgeous - when we meet for coffee N and her can have their own convo, he is such amotor mouth!! da da da ga wa na ma ga ga. i sometimes say it all bacxkto him and he squeals. i am prob saying I would love a breastfeed in baby talk LOL!!!

[Trillian]

Happy Birthday Cally!!!!!
So sorry I missed it earlier today I hope you are having a great day! and that dinner tonight is wonderful.

Pregpan, 'egad' is an exclamation like crikey! LOL.

Clare, the way Alister is going I think he might be that snot nosed boy on a motorbike LMAO.

[Cassius2]

Pregpan: i know i use 'egad' alot!! i think it is a derivitive, like golly and gosh, when back in the day it was blasphemous to use the 'lords name in vain' and so people came up with other words in its place...not sure though...
yeah, we'll have to have a baby babble talk off when i come up!!

Sherie: LOL! at least if it's Alister, I'll know you and we can laugh (and or reprimand!!) together!! and look, if it's a ducati motorbike, then at least there is an element of style...

Cally: i totally missed that it's your birthday!! i hope that it's loads of fun and you get lots of pressies!

[Trillian]

LOL Clare, so long as it's not a Harley

And a big Happy Birthday to Marydean's H for today too! I hope she loves the room and feels all grown up now!

[suziette]

Hello all,
I have finally managed to post a greeting after Artichem suggested a couple of months ago that I come in and have a look ( I posted a bit of a despairing question in the relationships forum). I've just read through the recent posts of a few days ago; Georgie has been doing exactly what noni e was saying - up at different times every night, not going back to sleep, being inconsolable at times. Not getting much sleep and therefore my ability to cope with it goes down the tube. And it seemed to be getting steadily worse and worse. This morning though I've noticed her first teeth poking through! I'm sure this isn't the end of it though, but it IS a relief!
Anyway, I just wanted to say hello and introduce myself.

Suzie
Georgie born 07/09/07

[Trillian]

Hi Suzie and welcome! It is so hard when you have no idea why they are waking so much and what other avenues you can take to try to fix it. at least you know that when a tooth pops through it seems justified kwim?

[Cally]

Hello Suzie!

Thanks for the birthday wishes everyone. Had a lovely lunch with PIL. A parcel arrived in the post today which is my present from DH but I am waiting to open it when he comes home.

Happy birthday to MD's DH and DD1 as well!!

She just woke up, so will try and pop on later.

[Ozstar]

Woo look at me two posts in two days lol.

Suzie a big hello and welcome to you.

Cally HAPPY BIRTHDAY, I hope your having a wonderful day.

MD Happy Birthday to your H too.

Clare Italian playgroup sounds great.

Pregpan don't you just love the stage they are at now, I have been telling my sister that she isn't going to want to go home after seeing how much fun L is now. Its why I haven't been on much, I spend so much time playing with him and being entertained by him... then when he is asleep I need a rest lol.

The weather is so crappy up here today I hate it. We have started some painting here, we are going to wrap all this years Christmas presents in L's home made paper, so far it isn't to messy but I have no doubt that will change. Better run and get some things done while DH is home to entertain L.

[reneenay]

Hi Guys!

Spoke to MCHN and she said Rory's behaviour is perfectly normal! YAY!!

Rory slept from 7:30 - 9:00am the other night! I just about had a heart attack when I woke up and he wasnt awake! I hope he doesnt do it again! This week he has cut his day sleeps down to one in the morning and one in the afternoon. He is a ball of energy now, constantly crawling around the house, bouncing in his JJ and bashing toys! He has a permanent smile on his face, he is just so darn happy!

Looking forward to mothers group now as there are lots more babies Rory's age. There are twins now too eeeep! The thing that bugs me is when the mothers dont supervise the older siblings they bring along! Last week a 5 year old boy was jamming Rorys fingers in the baby cubby house, the mother saw and did nothing! Arrghhh!

Oh and we are booking our holiday to Bali on Saturday, only staying 5 nights but we got a fantastic deal!

Happy birthday Cally!!!!!!!!! Thanx for the jaffa muffin recipe too hon! Between both BIL's, my mum, DH and me they lasted hmmmm 1 day!!! Im addicted!

Katie - What a fantastic idea! Whoa very creative I bet Lewis is having a ball. Im too much of a anal anne to do something like that haha. I need a kick up the bum! We are in the process of child proofing now, we just bought some wooden barriers to block the steps and kitchen. The plastic/metal ones were $90 PLUS so I got the cheapo ones for $25 but they dont have a gate.

Welcome Suzie! Looking forward to getting to know you and Georgie better (lovely name btw)

Pregpan - I thought it was a computer-life term haha, like 'iykwim' LOL! They are at a great stage arent they! I love it! It seems they are learning something new every day. Have you booked your Christmas Holiday????

Clare - italian playgroup, that sounds awesome!! Hope you have a great day!

Noni - Im still so excited for you I would so help you with the packing if I lived by you! I love packing and sorting, its so cleansing! I threw so much away when we moved a few years ago!! You were signing the lease today werent you?? Dont worry about Asha's bottles, Rory has gone through that stage too so has Maddie.

Sherie - Awwwww I wish I could see! I cant get over how active A is! Rory comando crawls everywhere and occasionally pulls himself up onto his knees.

Leanne - So glad Jordy is better. You brought a smile to my face when I read your post. You can relax now! How is DH feeling about his op??

Hayley - Pooor Maddie! How is she today? I cant even imagine how you must of felt taking her up to the hospital Hope your okay xxx What porridge do you give Maddie??

MD - Happy Birthday to H!!!!!!! Was her party this weekend???? I bet she is going to have a ball

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Oh god! I was vaccuming and Rory was next to me as he likes to chase the vaccum (I cant remember if thats how you spell vaccum!!!!!!) around. I dont know how but I managed to knock my beautiful purple vase off the entertainment unit and it missed Rory's head by mm! Glass went everywhere and do you know what I said.....'dont move Rory', I must have rocks for brains!! Between that and his fat lip from face planting it into the carpet when playing with his Uncle I feel awful!!!!!!!!!