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MM your "uh oh" story is too cute. And Katie's too! E doesn't say it yet. I think it's because I've turned into a foul-mouthed trooper's wife and she can't yet say a string of expletives (:o). But we were on our way to school and DD1 was telling some long and rambly story (like usual) and all of a sudden I realised every time she said "Ummmmmm", I'd hear this little voice saying "Ummmm" from the back seat. Classic!
Andi - cold bbq chook and some ready-made potato salad from the deli!! That's what you get fed when you don't provide notice!!!
JaZaH, I don't know about "action" - I think a chocolate will prolly be as exciting as it gets. :rolleyes:
Sorry ladies, GTG, I have a little monkey trying to climb my leg and force her favorite animal book at me to read so she can say Baaa for the cow and Roaaaah for the bunny rabbit (AGAIN).
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MD! :rofl: that sounds even better ... will have to remember to pick some up tomorrow. thx for the gr8 idea ... (unless i make my ex shout kfc! haha) ...
:D .. am tired, in a wacky mood :p
but thought it was cute when Jack climbed into my bed at 7.10 this morning, after sleeping in his cot
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morning ladies
hope you all had a wonderful sleep.
md - chocolate would do the trick :lol: are you nervous about tomorrow, or just going with the flow?
that is so cute about E saying Ummmmm. Hannah copies Jessica when she speaks.... Jess talks with her hands alot, and Hannah does it too when she's having a long babble. You could just eat them up, they're so cute!!!
Andie - did Jack climb out of his cot and then jump into bed with you? that would be a wonderful way to be woken.:)
clare - hope you're feeling better soon. doesn't sound like much fun.
oz - hope you find some good bargains today .
Hannah is having an early sleep today, so i'd best get off and do some ironing.
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Rainy and Ange, I wish there was something I could do to help you guys out. The fires have been on the news here and I went down to an internet cafe to check you guys were o.k. I couldn't post because I couldn't stop crying about Ange's poor dogs. So much devestation, I just can't believe it.
Katie, I knew it!!! I thought Jan would be your month and you wouldn't give me an answer about your test result! Congrats.
MD, wishing you good luck for you op tomorrow, and much happy morphine for valentines day.
Sorry guys, hard to catch up. The move went well, still living out of boxes but most of our hoarded stuff has gone straight to the sleepout so there isn't too much clutter. We have a severe rain warning here today so I guess we will see if the house leaks (wish I could send our rain over to Vic).
William has handled the move well. He is saying so much it is amazing. I lost count after about 50 words, that was a couple of weeks ago but now they are so thick and fast I can't keep up. The cutest one is pie - he says 'more pie' and sounds just like Cartman lol
Sleeping is much better. I don't feed him at all during the night now and he doesn't expect it. I can usually get him back to sleep with a pat or worst-case pick him up and sing him back to sleep. He has done a couple of 8 hour nights. There was one night where he cried for half an hour and I couldn't get him to settle, eventually he saw a screwdriver on the table and was happy to go to sleep cuddling that (such a boy!)
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MD - LOL at the ummmm. How cute!!
Arte - Sounds like cartman LOL too funny!!! Enjoy your new house, but be nice having a house of your own now & knowing that you wont have any unwanted people drop in to fix this & that?
Jaz - Yep M is the same with talking with her hands, its absolutely gorgeous.
Oz - Good luck hunting for bargains at the Big W sale! So excited for you.
I just saw a pic on news.com of totally burnt bush in the Kinglake area, with Melbourne city clearly in the background. I thought this area was a few hundred km's from Melbourne!!?? :o
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Jazmum .. that is ecactly what Jack did, though I was awake from Alex coming in & asking to set his Thomas Road & Rail set up. If Alex spends the whole nite in his bed, occassionally he'll crawl into my bed for a cuddle when he gets up before going to play.
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Arte, so pleased to hear you're in and getting set up! I was starting to fret about you, for some reason kept thinking of you everytime I was cleaning my teeth (??! Make of that what you will). Well done stowing all your stuff in the lean-to. Maybe I should build one of those for all the gear I can't fit in my house LOL. Is there plenty of room for W to play when it's raining? I can't *wait* for E to get some more words, it's driving me crazy because she is obsessed with dogs that say meYOW and cats that say meYOW (and apparently every other animal on the planet also says meYOW except for cows who say BAAA and bunnies who say ROAARRH) although we had a breakthrough at the pet shop the other day so she now screams (at the top of her lungs) BURDie BURDie whenever we're driving along and she sees so much as a pigeon. LOL
Andi - aw so sweet for morning cuddles. Much nicer than having a toddler peel back your eyelids to see if anyone's in there. LOL
JaZaH - soooo not nervous about tomorrow. Prolly should be and might be in the morning, but you know, it's like when you're going in for a needle. You know it is going to hurt, but then the pain will finish. It's just yuckky while it's happening, you just have to think about coming out the other side of it, kwim? And let's face it, chocolate awaits me 'on the other side' so it's worth bearing up for LOL. Your girls must be a whole bunch of gorgeous together!!
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MD good luck tomorrow!!!
Arte yep you knew it lol. I had a good giggle about W sleeping with a screwdriver.
Jaz feel free to come around and do my ironing.
MM didn't get much today. Got L some winter clothes and that was about it. It was like a madhouse in there.
Andie what a lovely way to be woken up.
Got to go L is dragging me away from the computer.
ETA I am back, I knew he would just be dragging me to the cupboard. But now I have lost my train of thought, there was something I wanted to ask everyone too. I am sure it will come to me eventually.
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MD - GOOD LUCK FOR TOMORROW! Will be thinking of you.
Oz - I went to the shops too & it was a nightmare.
Anyone else finding shopping these days even more impossible with a toddler? M today was a terror, am I the only one with a child who goes dead stiff when I try to put her in the pram or try to stop her from doing something? & I cant believe some of the looks people give you, especially older couples & other women, either they have never had kids themselves or they are the 'perfect parents'!!
I'm still feeling nauseous, its terrible! I chatted to DP about it last night, he said do another test, I did just before & very clearly a negative. SO thats ruled out at least, but wondering what else it is....!
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MM, E doesn't go dead stiff, she flings herself backwards. Spectacularly hard, so I have to grab her and ease her down so she doesn't hit her head/fall onto or off furniture. All whilst shrieking and/or screaming. She had a tanty getting into the car this morning, had to resort to my old trick of pinning her groin in by planting my elbow where the bottom bit of the seatbelt is, that leaves you with TWO hands free for grabbing the straps and plugging them in.
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LOL MD, we can laugh about it now but at the time its like omg!!! M sounds much the same, if she doesnt go stiff she throws herself on the floor, oh so dramatic, and has a cry. Toddlers! :rolleyes:
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Yep, DH and I had a conversation the other day where he suggested that I put DD into care for 2 days not one, specifically because of toddlerhood issues. LOL
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Its such a full on age. Are you going to do it? This is why in a way I am relieved to be leaving Maddie home on our honeymoon, I can just imagine her on the plane....oh my goodness.
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Hey everyone!
We don't have much trouble out in public with tanties, he's thrown the occasional one, but for the most part he's co-operative. He gets antsy and starts up with a constant 'go go go go go' when the stroller is stationary for too long, but I've started to let him walk beside me and for now he does OK - I say 'for now' cause that's likely to change ROFL and never in the supermarket! The tanties at home are a totally different story. he's started to refuse going to bed at night, even though he's dog tired, so I have to keep him up till 9-9.30 or later and then pop him in and he doesn't carry on for as long before he falls asleep. He doesn't cry, but just yells out.
With the cooler weather I've been hooking in and sorting out everything we have stored - I gave 7 bags full of clothes to St Vinnies today (our local one was taking a heap of stuff down to VIC) and threw out a heap of stuff that we kept, but can't remember why it was so important at the time to keep a stereo that didn't work, a vacuum cleaner that was broken and all sorts of other things ROFL. I have so much space now to store stuff!
Arte, glad to see you back online and settled into the new house! I hope this is the LAST time you have to move for a long long time.
MD, will be thinking of you tomorrow and I'm sure everything will go smoothly and you'll have a good recovery.
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MM, Maddie sounds like such a groover! I had a practice hair and make up done the day before my wedding - they made the front of my hair into a huge 3 inch wave on one side and were very heavy on the blush and blue eye shadow! When I was allowed to put my glasses back on to see it I could barely speak - I looked like a cheap 80's hooker! When I said I didn't like it they got cranky with me, they were nowhere near as friendly and didn't spend as much time on the actual day but it looked ok in the end.
MD, good luck!! Hope there is an appropiate amount of chocolate waiting for you when you wake up. I would take a squealing BURDie over the embarrasment of walking through the supermarket bakery section with W yelling BUM BUM BUM (bun) constantly lol
Rainy love, I hope you are doing o.k. Try not to stress about bub not being engaged - post a question in the preg section and you will get a million stories of babies that don't engage until labour. It is a good idea to get your irreplacables out of the house, hope you can relax a bit this weekend. Is there somewhere close that you could try a bit of relaxation/labour prep accupunture? Or a massage? I know you have such a big heart and I can imagine how much the bushfires are upsetting you but you need to try to find some sort of calm within yourself so your body feels it is safe for your new bubba to come out (Arte's crackpot theory of birthing - animals in nature won't birth for as long as possible if they feel stressed/threatened)
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Hey Arte- The corn off is all over, no winner! Ours was cooked on the plant. ;) GIve you another challange next year.
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Hi girls!
first and foremost...i guess those fires are close (healesville?) cause we are in a blanket of smoke and have the eerie orange light thing happening.
rainy: are you guys on alert or anything?
MD: what kind of bunny rabbits do you have? LOL! scary ROARING ones....!!
ALSO: just wanted to send you loads of good luck vibes for today....:goodluck::goodluck:
Arte: that is so cute with W sleeping with the tools! LOL! And look, a girl likes a boy who can fix stuff...so you are setting him up well! LOL!
Ange: i was just thinking about the famous corn-off this morning! i think laying down the challenge is exciting...maybe i'll join in the ranks...if DH will let go of his tomatoes that is...
MM: oh yeah we get the PT (public tanties) thick and heavy here. in fact, i think leila accrues all of them specifically for public. at home she is more pliable but not when we are out. and yep, we do the elbow in the groin to get into the car seat/pram/highchair...
leila tends to do the drop. she'll just collapse the legs and 'dramatically' spin herself in the air to land on her side. this is her fav tactic when i am holding her hand so she can do this rather theatrical hanging in the air trick...:rolleyes:
i just dont pay it though. i usually look at her and keep on truckin'. my mum calls it my 'mother russia' move LOL!
AFM: well i am still not 100% and bummed about it. but i dosed up on nurofen last night as our mums group had a girls night out and there was no way that i was missing it. great night too. although walking through the streets of brunswick at midnight and slightly tipsy is not much fun when you are alone. saw one guy being carted off in the paddy wagon and 'chromer lady' was doing the rounds (she is a local institution...at an open for inspection last week she passed out at the front door so everyone had to step around her...the house didnt sell funnily enough).
also the smoke here is getting stronger. i can only imagine how it is for those further out like rainy. but we are inner-city here, so didnt expect it to travel that far.
the smell still gives me shivers of the time we were stuck under a concrete bridge for 4 or so hours in the gosford fires a few years back.
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Morning Girls,
MD- Good Luck today and I will be thinking of you.
Art- Good to hear the move went well.
Talking- Livi is talking more and more every day and its very cute. I am sure she will be like Xavier and never stop. OMG I am sure that boy can talk under water...lol
Rainy- I am getting really really excited for you and actually I am so excited for all you ladies that are PG how truley wonderful.
AFM- I got the cold again and my nose is a tap. Still have heaps of work to do and my house is like a bomb has gone off in it. The boys are getting there much in need hair cuts on sat but I am holding out for livi. Going to try and have a very relaxing weekend after I clean the house...lol....
Well better go and do some work.
