Sounds good, i can get someone to watch her with a bit of notice. ;)
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Sounds good, i can get someone to watch her with a bit of notice. ;)
Falg - as long as you leave the window down a bit, a bowl of water and a coupla bikkies then she'll be just fine in the car ;)
JG - WOOHOO TO THE BLOO! Definately makes it a bit easier I'd think having another boy. Recycling is good for the environment so you can get some extra uses out of all the favourites in the cupboard. :clap:
Sarah was still funky last night. She only had the one sleep for the two days previous and those were the nights that she played up. So I put her down for two sleeps today so will see how she goes. Could just be a coinky-dink or it could mean she's not ready to give up her arvo sleep.
I think we've found a house we like! Just got to get the approval from the landlord and decide for sure that its what we want and we'll be in within 3 weeks.
Have a good night girls...
Hi ladies,
Just wanted to pop in and say Congrats to JG. I am sure both of your little men will be great mates. I am glad everything went well at the scan.
MD hope you scored some fab pressies from DH.
I am not feeling 100% tonight so I will try and catch up properly tomorrow.
Oz: sleep well sweet and hope you feel better in the morning!
Kate: so true!! i hate putting away L's clothes when they get too tiny...we may never see them on a bub of ours again. oh how time flies...
rainy: oooh now i am really green with Envy!! day spa?!!! have been wanting one of those for yonks. maybe we should organise a meet-up with all the southern state girls and have us a de-schlumpadinkywhatsyoucallit...MD?? LOL!
Ange: well this boy was in Brisbane...so dunno!
as for L's weight she was at her 12 month checkup she was 7.8kgs and had a length of 72cms...what about Lu? i am curious cause she (leila is near the bottom on the charts in the blue book, but for all intents and purposes is healthy as...).
AFM: well waiting patiently for DHs arrival home. due around midnight. should go to bed and catch some zzzz's but i know that he would love to come home to a warm house IYKWIM....
Luckily L went to sleep easily tonight. we had a really rough night last night with her finally settling for a proper sleep at 2am. fortunately i held my will and did not feed (YAY!), and it appears that she didnt need it. everytime i went in she just wanted to feel some contact. i actually felt really empowered by it...guess i have finally achieved the magic touch that mums seem to have...oh bliss!
morning all!
cindy - yay anotherboy!!! how exciting and i am sure it will be gorgeous seeing him and H together.
rainy - i got my dress from saba. it is black (boring i know) and absolutely gorgeous and classic. the other one i have that i am taking is a bright emerald greeen so i figured something more demure for the corp entertaining! i love saba, v classic and timeless.
clare - so glad you managed all the settling no feeds, i know what you mean re the empowerment, N has no feeds in the night now,sometimes more work but i think it has broke cycles... we had a terrible night last night, he has an awful cough and was up a lot of the night, i ended up with him in bed with me and DH on the couch. poor little boy. i hope he does okj with all the schlepping this weekend.
md how is it having dh home?
hi girls, just a quick hello from me.
i'm waiting for lewis to wake up so we can go to the play centre. he always over-sleeps when i don't want him to....
pp- emerald green is one of my all-time fave colours. sounds divine. i'm so fat and frumpy, can't even imagine getting dressed up.
clare- i'm up for a spa day whenever you want it. there's one right near my house that jessica alba went to when she was out here for the logies, and i was reading in the paper the other day about a really lush one in the yarra valley that i want to try. it's my fave thing to do, can you tell i'm not sporty at all? lol
i'm in the process of writing up my will so that if dp and i were ever both killed, the wicked witch mil woud not get her dirty hands on our kids. i want to make sure they go to my older brother.
btw, she wrote us a card in the mail, completely disregarding everything that happened. when i saw her writing on the envelope i thought for sure it was going to be an apology letter, but no! no mention whatsoever of what happened- just a thank you card for a present we gave her before the incident. it makes me so mad that she is so delusional that she can just shake off all responsibility for what she's done and pretend like nothing has happened.....we threw the card in the bin....
Rainy: yep, we soo need to go to one!! if it's good enough for jessica alba it is good enough for me! LOL!
man MIL sounds really like a mind game player. that is soo wrong of her. hope you guys feel ok...:hug:
PP - ooooh emerald green! I'm sure you will looking stunning in both your frocks!
Thanks for asking about how it's going. E seems to be quite happy to have DH around but she has these little moments every so often where she's suddenly weirded out and needs a mummy or a H cuddle. He's been feeding and changing and bathing her (mostly) and she's been pretty free and easy with her cuddles but she's not yet 100% at ease with him. Another week or so and i think we will be past that.
Clare well done with the overnight empowerment! I'm having the opposite scenario here where I think perhaps I'm not giving E enough feeds (not about to start jumping out of bed to wake her up for it tho) but I might start offering an afternoon feed. More for her comfort with all the changes going on with that strange funny daddy man back again.
Kate good luck with the house. I'll shortly have to be a horrible landlord and tell our tenants they'll have to move out. :(
When you ladies work out what you're doing for the de-schlumpadinking intensive retreat, let me know, I think I'll need to book a plane ticket and meet you there! LOL
Raino, woowee last magnum, eh? I'll hold you to that! Thanks for your (still possibly misguided) confidence in my abilities :lol:
ETA - good on you for making your will. In ours, good friends would be the legal guardians, executor and trustee of any funds and can choose who my girls would live with. They know that means either them or my sister.
rainy: good on you for being so organised with the will. we soo have to do ours...urghh. my mum has been on me about it cause she used to work for the public trustee. and it really does mean something to me now that we have Leila...
MD: i would hope that you get on the first plane down here!!
Even L is a bit funny with DH for the first couple of hours when he returns home. i guess kids like routine, so it's not so much about them not feeling comfortable with the person, they are just uncomfortable with the changes to their routine IYKWIM?
is anyone else copping this MASSIVE storm in melbourne!! O....M.....G! i am high up in a building and just seeing lightning after lightning!
Still feeling meh today. Took Logan to the beach with his mate this morning and got the cutest photos ever, you girls will have to check out my FB.
Clare the weather up here is absolutely beautiful.
Afternoon Girls,
Clare- clear skys here in brissy today.
MD- I am so happy that your DH is now home with you all. Livi was like that when DH was only away for 2 days.
Rainy- Yep we really have to do our wills too. We have already arranged with my Cousin who is like my sister that the kids go to her and we get hers if anything happens to her and her DH.
PP-WTG on 2 dresses they sound wonderful
JG- Congratulations on having a boy.
we are about to have the storm here!!
ooh just saw crap weather for next few days.. hmm may have to buy a little gorgeous something as a cover up with my dresses!! ah ha ha ha ha!!!
All this talk about will's and custodians of our kids... We have our wills done, but haven't specified who we want to have the kids. I would rather the IL's have them as opposed to my family because 1 my Dad is completely mental and out of touch with reality and they would grow up to be anti-government/anti-establishment losers like he is. Mum's health is in such a poor state of affairs I can't even trust her to look after the kids for a few hours JIC she falls into a diabetic coma (yep, sadly she takes very poor care of her insulin dependent diabetes) and I am more concerned that I will have to end up taking care of my half brother (who is nearly 14) as his father has cancer. So the IL's would give them much better stability both emotionally and financially, but they are getting old and MIL has a minor heart condition too. But they would be raised the way I know we are raising them now kwim? We have made sure that we have very hefty life insurance policies though to help take care of them financially too so it isn't so much of a burden on whoever takes them.
Anyway, onto brighter subjects.
MD, I"m sure it wouldnt' even be a few days before E is comfortable with her Dad again. I hope he wasn't hurt by it though kwim? And I"m sure you did great with the interview.
Katie sorry you aren't feeling much better today :hug: I will check out his pics shortly.
Clare, L sounds delightfully gorgeous. She sure is a little pocket rocket then isn't she? I envy you being in a tall building watching lightening - I love watching storms pass over. We might be in for a sound and light show later too, but I don't think much rain is forecast though.
G good for you for throwing the card away. Seeing that vindicates what you've been feeling about her and you don't need to waste a minute more on that piece of work. I just can't believe that someone as toxic as she is could give birth and nurture someone like your DP.
Kate, how was Sarah today?
Katie- Those pics are great.
thanks for the heads up on the weather girls! i just ran out and pulled all the washing in. no rain here yet though.
sherie- yes i know it's unbelievable that mil produced dp- they are so completely different.
katie- your photos are unreal. you have a real talent. do you have an exxy camera? the camera my bff uses when she takes all the photos is worth $65000!!!
Big day in the city with the MIL. I survived. Woohoo. I am exhausted, traipsed all over the place today, got a couple of new maternity bras and some shoes for Lu, but nothing too exciting.
Clare- i think a deshlumpadinking meet up is a fab idea. :D Seems like Raino has all the contacts. That storm was very tropical today, felt like QLD weather.
MD- A friend has a hubby who goes away for long stints at a time, and she finds the adjustment period hard when he gets home. But as Trill said it never takes long to get the team back into the swing of things. In a few days it wil lbe all back to normal. ;)
Rainy- The card is just another example of her psychological insufficiencies. Good on you for binning it. Did you get some grape vines? I should really get A into G and organise a will. I'm having trouble organising my sock draw ATM, let alone anything else!
Rainy - $65 000. Did I read that right?! If so then Holy *****.
Sarah had another rough night last night and that was with her second sleep. Do you girls reckon that it could have something to do with giving her 120mls of cows milk before her nightly breastfeed to sleep?
Way to go with those gorgeous beach pics as well. I need to give that a go myself I think. Although, I'm sure they'll be nowhere near as good.
I'm off to the doctors tomorrow to get Sarahs jabs and to make my official complaint. Firing up now in preparation.