Nella, hun, if you think any of the arguments might be escalating to violence EVER, call the police. Everytime. You might save a life. Right now, she's pregnant and might feel like she doesn't have any choices, but each time the police come it's an opportunity for her to make a break for it. To get the hell out of there once and for all. It's awful for you and none of us like to live near to that sort of stuff but statistics say it's probably happening in houses on all our streets (except you Trill haha I think you have a private road don't you?).
Nella, try mixing some other things like savoury mince, soup, pasta sauce into some of the mixed or blended veggies that you normally give, to start getting L used to some different flavours/textures. And keep giving the same things over and over, even if they refuse them 10 or more times, eventually they will pick it up and eat it.
Arte - LOL at W saying "no"! We're all going to be hearing that soon.
Rainy, we've got E pretty much having one day sleep now, we go out and do things in the morning, then have a biiiiig morning tea, then she has a sleep. If I linger too long and she's tired, then she may fall asleep in the pram or car. If the morning sleep is too short, then she has another in the later afternoon (like today, we were out at the shops for sleep #1 so she's gone down again). We went thru a patch when she was getting up at 5 or 6 am, I would feed her then pop her back into bed like it was still nighttime and she'd sleep a bit longer.
ETA - glad your arm is feeling better Trill. And most pleased that you're getting such good results from your meds! xx
Some good news, puppy is doing okay, she was out barking this morning but really hasn't eaten, tho I only gave her dry biscuits & not tin food.
Will try some revolution. Thanks
I am quite glad actually that Wispa is okay. I think it wld have been hard on Jack if she wasn't. Quite often I hear a giggle & find Jack & Wispa playing around in the bedrooms. They are quite close.
On the other hand, my Ex-SIL gave birth last nite & yes, all is well. 9lb 7oz via the birth canal. She very tired & has some stitches but all is good, except she still has very low blood pressure.
Jack was too sick to go swimming today but I took Alex still.
We had a massive storm last nite & lost power. Alex & I were watching a dvd in bed at the time & I said "crap", so Alex then says "crap". Its very quite cute.
Nella: I agree with calling the police. I have the same problem with the boys eating vegies but I was told to keep giving it to them & eventually they will eat them.
Jack loves daycare. He went from one day a week to 3 days just last week, tho he has been so used to lots of diff people since day 1 & Alex is there (tho I wldn't mind seper8n if had the chance). & the day care mums are gr8 too.
Elf suits: try some other discount shops. I have seen them in choice a few years back.
Talking about daycare: Alex & I was sitting at macca's when I hear "hi alex". It was one of his monday's friends. Then Harrison asked where jack was & then kept talking. He wasn't annoying. Then his mum realised he was yabbering away only when she was ready to leave & was like "don't annoy people" & I was like no, he's fine, they all go to Sue on a monday. (hehe)
Trill: glad to hear your arm is feeling better.
Arte: How cute, with W on the "no".
Rainy: hope your MT went well
Cassius: Jack cries in his sleep l8ly. I am postive he is teething. A good dose of teething gel settles him right down.
Hayley: I am jealous! I would love to have a shopping spree like that tho I did buy Alex a new tshirt the other day. Tis was a Roary the Racecar one & they only had one size 3 (& it was only $10) so I grabbed it for him. It has 5 of the cars on it & u ask him any name & he point to it. But now that I think of it, Alex does need size 4 & 5 clothes! hmm,
Andie - Haha dont worry my shopping spree was short lived. It was back to the op shop today!! We are just trying to be very careful with our money lately, seeing as we have a few big expenses coming up. Not to mention we want another child late next year. Had to laugh at Alex saying crap. How do you go on your own during a blackout? I would freak out big time.
MD - Yep we do the wake up at anywhere between 4 and 6, have a feed, and back to bed as well. If its a decent hour (6ish) I have tried to keep her up but she is just a grumpy tired girl. Its amazing what an extra hour or two can do!
Nella - I've done the mixing of pasta sauce through veges as well as suggested by MD, its a hit. With pasta, I find now M wants to feed it to herself. I buy the big kids shapes in the pasta section and cook them up, mix a bit of sauce through, and she just helps herself as finger food. The other night I even mixed just mashed potato & pumpkin through pasta shapes and she loved them. Other meal ideas: tuna patties, risotto, canelloni, lasagne, fish fillets. I also give M alot of finger food steamed veges, like pumpkin pieces, potato etc. I must admit lately I have been lacking on ideas for her and she has been having alot of the same foods. She usually has what we have, but I've been a bit slack lately and just been doing tacos and easy bang it together meals lol. We need pregpan to come in and post some of her fabo meal ideas, she is a wizz in the kitchen. Yes my parents are on holidays, they bought a camper van thingo and have just been driving around randomly. So they got on a boat and ended up in Tassie lol. As for daycare, M has never had a problem settling in (touch wood) and she just loves it. I'm sure L will be fine, might take some time but he will love it eventually.
Trillian - Poor you all these blood tests, just as bad as being up the duff!
Arte - Aww sleep walking how gorgeous, maybe not so much for you in the middle of the night though.
Rainy - Yep I always have the issue of going out and working around M's sleep. She wont ever sleep in her pram either which is a pain. We are down to one sleep a day and its usually between 12 and 2 so I just kind of work around that.
Bit worried about M tonight. Her teeth have been giving her trouble all day, and just after her bath a whole heap of gunky stuff came out of her ear. I really hope it isnt an ear infection!? Just as well I made an appt during the week for next Wed to see the doc before we go to Melb, I wanted to get her ears checked. However if it is an infection I am worried about having to wait that long to see someone about it, poor thing. I guess I will keep an eye on her tomorrow and if need be I can run down to the children's hospital and see what they say.
i'm so ****ed off with df right now. today was supposed to be a special 'treat' belated birthday day today for me. df was going to wake up when lewis woke up (at about 6.30) and come out here and do all the morning stuff so that i could have a sleep in. i don't mean to whinge cos i know that some of you in here have got situations a lot tougher than mine, but i have never had a sleep in, not even ONCE since lewis has been born. i'm just so tired with this pg now and i've been going to bed at 9pm everynight, but it makes no difference cos lewis always wakes up at least twice during the night...i'm so tired and df promised me this morning he would handle everything so that i could stay in bed until 8....well, i'm out here watching cartoons with lewis while df is fast asleep in bed...he's so friggin selfish. last saturday he stayed in bed until 2pm. i'm sick of him!!!
anyway, on a good note, i'm heading out to the day spa at 9am with my friend and df is going to look after lewis. he's already started whinging at me about what time i'm going to be home as he has to have a burn-off today WTF!!! this is the first time i've ever done this, and he's already on my case about it before i've even left....he's really doing my head in. i don't know how he'll go putting lewis down for his morning sleep, but i suppose he has to learn. sorry about the vent, i'm just feeling like a very unsupported parent right now.
hayley- that ear stuff doesn't sound too good at all. can you take her to the dr tomorrow? what have you got planned for when you're in melb? the weather here is absolutely crap atm so bring some warm clothes.
andie- what is your x-sil's baby named?
md- lewis is just not ready for one sleep yet. i wish he would, i think it would make life a lot easier.
sherie- that bruise sounds nasty, you poor thing
nella- i'll keep my eye out for elf suits. have you tried ebay?
arte- there was defintely a direct correlation between giving L more cows milk and the bfs decreasing, if that makes sense? he also started sleeping much better once he started having more cows milk. he's really taken to the cows milk. which surprised me, cos he was soooo dependant on bf, but now he couldn't really care less.
MM was it wax coming out of her ear or something else? If it was something else I'd take her to the drs straight away. Missy E is a chunky ear wax queen, I spend half my life picking chunks out of there LOL (I don't dig for them, just pick them out once they're on their way out). If you think she might have an infection ring your drs and INSIST she needs to be seen today. Often the receptionist will say they're full but if its your regular dr you can ask to be squeezed in and explain why. If they still refuse ask to speak to the dr on the phone and they will usually fit you in. A 1 yo with an extruding ear infection is a serious enough thing for them to see her today. xxx
Rainy, I have found in the past that a glass of icey cold water is a good way to wake a man up who shouldn't be sleeping. Tip it anywhere on his body, that'll do the trick. Enjoy your spa experience!!
Andie, glad all went well with your SIL. Hope she makes a good recovery. What did she have and what did they name him/her? Congrats, aunty!!
Rainy, I can't believe he slept in until 2pm! That is crazy. I would let L in the room to 'accidently' wake him if he wasn't up at a reasonable hour. My DH is really good, he often lets me stay in bed in the weekends, although it is usually only for 20 minutes before W comes looking for me lol. Hope you enjoy your spa day and that L goes for his sleep with DF. I wish W would take to cows milk like that.
G, you are going to have to say something to him about it (something along the lines of 'harden the F up' should suffice ) because by golly if anyone has earnt a sleep in it's you. Once you have two little ones he is going to have to pull his weight a lot more than he is now.
Marydean, LOL at you getting the ear wax out - you sound like me only the girls (who have super waxy ears) wouldn't let me near them to clean it out so now I have introduced them to the wonderful world of ear syringing and they can't get enough of it LMAO.
H, how did M go last night? It could have just been a big buid up of earwax and not a sign of anything nasty. The nerves in your jaw often go right up to your ear and can give a bit of deferring pain up there. So it could just be the teething kwim?
Andie, do you keep contact with your xSIL? Bubba was certainly a good size.
Oh, about the sleeping interferring with plans, it's never really stopped me from doing things, but I have always been blessed with children who will either sleep while we are out or are not fazed to go without the sleep and they make up for it when we get home.
I am off for my own shopping spree tomorrow LOL. Mum and I are going Christmas shopping. Plus I have my follow up dermo appt and she will mind Alister and Paige while I"m in there.
I have a devil's food cake in the oven ATM and I am a bit scared it isn't going to cook properly - it is sooo runny (it has 2 cups of milk and a cup of water, plus the eggs) but my neighbour who gave me the recipe swears it turns out all right but I'm not convinced yet LOL.
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