happy birthday noni, hope you have a wonderful day.
katie- i can't wait till xmas- no way!!! i want it this weekend LOL
pp- we're going down to torquay. i can't wait, it's like a girls' holiday but we've all got babies as well. it'll be so nice cos i feel like that's one thing that i really miss since having l. only problem is i won't be able to take a bottle of wine!
why don't you head over to perth/maragaret river for a week- so nice and relaxing there.
i doubt we'll be taking a pre-baby holiday. we usually go to sydney for hols but can't go this yr due to fall-out with in-laws. also it's just too hard for dp to take time off work cos if he doesn't work we don't get paid!
are you going to find out the sex of this bubs???
Happy birthday Noni! Have a great day, enjoy playing with your new toy!
PAP - Mmmmmmm Halva! I have a friend who makes a to-die-for semolina Halva, only wish i knew how. Why don't you do NZ at Christmas - it will be cooler than Aust so good in your superheated PG state...??? You can pop in and say g'day to Arte while you are there.
Rain - getaway to Torquay with the girls sounds lovely.
Oz - aaaaaw hope you have a much better day today.
AFM - well we had our first whole bowl of porridge tipped on the floor this morning. I took my hand away for a second to grab the other spoon...greased lightening! on the floor. Lucky it landed on the tiles not the carpet. DH cooked it (not too well) and I'm afraid the world's littlest food critic spoke. LOL
MD - lol at the world's youngest food critic!! We've moved onto the melamine bowls here after an incident with one of my Royal Doulton bowls last week (silly me I know, turned my back for a moment).
Ange - I have a mandoline so all the vegies are cut up the same thickness and then put them on a tray and roast. I do each vegie separately (unless there is space on the tray) and just do it until they are soft in the middle, then turn over. My oven is dodgy so some of them end up with crispy bits but that's OK. Sweet potato and pumpkin take a while, but zucchini and eggplant are really quick.
PAP - feel free to share any pregnancy stories here. I want to hear about it, but I really only look through this thread in details so would miss anything else.
What is halva?
Rainy - sounds like a lovely holiday. I bet the kiddies will have an absolute ball!
So all of you preggo ladies - what (if anything) are you going to do differently this time around to last time?
cally- i guess the only thing i'm going to do differently this time is that i'm going to have a doula at the birth, and i'm going to insist bubs is not given any formula whatsoever at the hospital. they started giving Lewis top-ups of formula at the hospital last time and we didn't like it at all....
That is terrible Rainy. No way anyone was coming near me or her with a bottle in the hossy! The hossy i went to are really pro BF'ing and were a great support. Shame they are not all like that.
PAP- hmmmm pre baby holiday sounds great. If i can talk DH in to taking some time off that is. I know what you mean about choosing a cold holiday, but NZ and Tassie are so beautiful, you have to do it sometime. i feel funny posting about my pregnancy in here! lol. But i certianly don't mind reading about everyone elses updates.
Cally- i'm glad you asked, i have no idea what Halva is either....i don't have any plans to do anything differently, oh except not get pre-eclampsia this time! Realy put a spanner in the works! Fingers crossed. I'm a bit of a take-things-as-they-come kinda gal so no real plans, just keep reading and gathering info!
I was out walking yesterday with Lu, we were checking out the helicopters doing emergency drills in the front paddock. Anyway, i swallowed a fly and started trying to cough it up and wet myself in the process! What a glamorous mum i am!
Halva - imagine a sweet nutty tasting nougat made from sesami/tahini sort of stuff. Semolina halva is like a dense semolina cake with pinenuts and syrup in it. Mmmmm.
Fish oil sounds like it could work, I'm just not sure about the ponk factor.
On the day sleeps, E has pretty much dropped back to one only, but she's pretty tired so she has to have an extra catch up sleep every few days to compensate. Because DH has been here it's easier to manage the late arvo tiredness and so we've just been pushing through it and putting her to bed a little earlier. Which works on the days when we're at home because she has a long sleep but on daycare days not so good.
Ange - that is HILARIOUS!!!did you take the opp to teach Lu the story of 'the woman who swallowed a fly'??? too funny!!!
Halva is a sesame based sweet - middle eastern. yu can buy the good stuff at delis. and normal range in a supermarket, it is super sweet and v good with a nice cuppa tea!!
Cally - i loved my whole preg, birth etc so ideally i wont doa thing diff!!! i am doing acupuncture though so that is additional to all the prep/pampering i did last time.
PP- We are going to San Franciso, Flagstaff, Las Vegas ,Disneyland. How do I manage with 3 hummmmmm I do the best I can to stay sane. lol and I do have sort of a routine.
Re the Havana's - OMG I was totally ****ed that she lost it and dreaded telling DH. Believe me I not the type of person to go out and splash money around on expensive shoes but I did like them and did a really stupid thing of trying them on her then just giving them to the lady and I didnt even check the price. Yep Stupid I know but whats done is done and still kicking myself.
ange- i'm loving it that i'm not the only one wetting my pants
last week we went to a picnic at a friend's house and lewis was crawling around the rug and picked up a jug of cordial and ice and threw it all over my friend. she was in the middle of telling a story and just stopped and froze cos she went into shock cos it was so cold on her back. anyways, ...i couldn't help remove the ice from down the back of her top because i was wetting my pants from laughing so hard....not good.
l is still on 2 day sleeps. i tried to do one but he couldn't hack it
Rainy, you are soooo gunna get caught!!! What if he comes home early??? Do you have any special occasions coming up like anniversaries etc?
MD, I have been using wheatgerm oil on W's dribble rash (left over from pregnancy - doesn't prevent stretch marks BTW). It seems to be helping a bit. He also has nappy rash for the first time ever, these friggin molars are never going to come out!.
Rainy, I would have been superp1ssed if they had decided to ff W at the hospital. I specifically said they couldn't, they are all too eager because I had gestational diabetes. I think I got lucky with my hospital though because some automatically take GD bubs to special care for 24 hours and I got a lovely dr who saw how upset I was at the prospect of a c-section so he kept doing scalp lactic acid tests on W to make sure he wasn't too distressed. I think a different combo of people/places and I would have been sliced and diced.
PP, come to NZ!!!! It is lovely here, you won't regret it. It won't be any colder than Tassie, and late feb/march is still good weather. I would suggest Nelson and Marlborough Sounds area, so beautiful. I got married there in late Feb and the days were long and hot, it has one of the best climates in NZ. You could come to visit me too, but we live in a ski town so it is pretty dead and boring in the summer time. We are forcast to have a hot summer and judging by the past few days they have it right - I have crisscross sunburn all up my arms, that's what you get for letting a one year old rub the sunscreen in lol
Leanne, bummer about the shoe, that would really bug me. LMAO at your boys having fistycuffs because of their cool hair
Ange, PMSL at your fly incident.
W is down to one nap a day now. Today he considered his 20 minute nap on the way home from Playcentre to be enough, then really needed one later but it was well past the 3pm cutoff (or he won't go to bed). So he ended up having a meltdown at dinner and was in bed at 6pm which is 2 hours earlier than usual. Not sure how that will go. We had a great day playing outside in the sandpit and the paddling pool.
Can't remember who was asking about roast veges? I have started pouring a bit of olive oil in a bowl and tossing them though that so they are lightly coated. It makes them crispier on the outside but still moist on the inside. Not as healthy though. I usually put some garlic stock or curry powder or balsamic vinegar etc with the oil so they have a hint of flavour.
I took my hand away for a second to grab the other spoon...greased lightening! on the floor. Lucky it landed on the tiles not the carpet. DH cooked it (not too well) and I'm afraid the world's littlest food critic spoke. LOL
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