Clare, have a wonderful time honey! You absolutely MUST have some strawberry champagne while you are there (you can buy it at the Salamanca markets) and when you do think of me ;).
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Clare, have a wonderful time honey! You absolutely MUST have some strawberry champagne while you are there (you can buy it at the Salamanca markets) and when you do think of me ;).
Clare I hope you have a wonderful holiday.
Noni I hope you have had the most amazing day of your life.
I am not sure what to do, my dad's wife wants to pay for L and I to fly down and see my sister. As much as I want to go I dont want to take her money, I am also not sure if I want the hassel of taking L down on my own, its not like I will be able to spend a lot of time with my sis I want her to settle with her new bub and everyone else will be at work so during the day it will be just me and L at mums. I am booked to go in 3 weeks for DH's dads wedding so I will see her then. It is meant to be a surprise for my sis but I think I want to ask her what she thinks? What do you all think?
Clare:
Liked your description "while lady dame gradually crawls out of her bat cave and prepares herself a cup of tea in the morning"! hehe
Enjoy your honeymoon!!
Katie:
Awesome news, congrats Aunty!!
:hug: I hear your dilema. Personally, if you already have plans to see her then I would stick to them, esp if you want to give her time to settle. On the other hand, your sis might like having you close. Chat to her about it.
AFU:
Alex is full of manners tonight. It first started when he first passed wind & said "ooh my bum talked, pardron me" then its "Pardon me" everytime he passes wind. Mean while the boys have been at each others throats since being home, till bout dinner time.
bbl ... train set up time (even tho i know its a wast of time!)
Girls we slipped off the 1st page. We must all be having a great weekend.
Been sitting here watching the MCG Sound Relief concert since midday! Katie, I too noticed it was quiet in here! hehe. Was tucking Jack back in b4 & thought he looks so long in his size2 full body jumpsuit! Can't believe our bubs are around the 18mth marks!
Have a good evening!
You ladies intimidate me with all your chatter! I don't feel that I can always keep up...:doh:
We have been having a rough one with Sarah and guess what...now me! Sarahs doing better but shes passed onto me V & D. So we've had a shocking few days.
Then, okay a majorly selfish rant here, I told Rory (whos in Emerald working at the moment) that I had a rough nights sleep with sarah and still felt like *****. So he rang his mum and got her to pick sarah up for a few hours to let me have a rest. MIL brought Sarah back after 6 hours and told me that she hadn't had a nap. So of course S had the WORST night sleep ever with like 10 wakeups with more than half of those needing me to resettle. I am so freakin tired today and she made some lame ass excuse when she rang this morning that she couldn't because she didn't have a bed for her. (Like WTF! she has three bedrooms, Sarah doesn't need a cot).
So I am currently sitting here...drinking coke, eating apple danish and praying that sarah has a better nights sleep. Okay rant over for now.
Hi to everyone...I HAVE been thinking of you all and having comments along the read but come time to write them down and ****** gone.
I hope Noni had a wonderful time on Friday and the photos I saw looked fantastic.
BBS...!
Aw Kate, big hugs. Not sure what you mean by V&D but it sounds naaaaasty! Don't ever feel like you have to 'keep up' - just jump in whenever you want to. xxx and :hug: and I've got my fingies crossed for a great nights sleep at your house for everyone.
MD, I believe that V + D would be everyones favourite combo of vomiting and diarrhea. I think that it is possible for a pure science nerd to believe in psychic dream phenomena, I have met quite a few religious scientists and it all boils down to a faith in something unprovable
Kate, hope tonight is much better for you. W has only been sleeping through the night for a couple of weeks but I don't think I could manage a 10 wake up night
Ozstar, The Thread Saver lol, did MD send you your spangled undies and cape? What did you decide about your visiting dilema? I didn't offer any advice because it is too hard a call. If you weren't going down in 3 weeks then I would say go for it, but since you will be there again soon I don't know. It is so hard to miss important things.
W's talking is amazing. He copies 2-3 words out of every sentence we say now. Yesterday I asked what he was doing and he replied 'eating sesy (muesli) bar'. He almost never babbles, it is always words or little sentences. I am just blown away at how quickly it all happened. Two months ago he only had a dozen words, now I have absolutely no idea because he can copy almost any word and use it in context later so it isn't just parroting. At a guess it would be in the ballpark of 200-300 words, saying probably 5-10 new words a day. He can also count to 2 - if there is more than that he starts again - one, two, one, two - we are working on 3 lmao
We have been busy this weekend with two kids birthday parties. His social life is better than mine lol. One was in the closest town with shops so I thought I could do some shopping while I was there but sugar-rush William had different ideas so I only got the first couple of things on the list.
lol arte at w's social life - i know what you mean! has he made a lot of 'friends' at the play centre you go to? n also has heaps of words and explodes with new ones every day - no idea how many he has. he counts to 3 and also says 5 if there are HEAPS - like is a car park - 'ooooh five dars' it is gorgeous. we had such a nice weekend this weekend, he has been in the best mood today - think his canines have been hurting of late but he got some respite today so was in a great mood.
Noni - i hope fri was AMAZING - where can i see pics?
kate - grrrrrrrrrrr at the mill - that is CRAZY. mine are the same, hence why when we are in melb i give my mum babysitting duties. i know it p's off the ils but even dh prefers her to look after him so not much can be done lol!
well we have decided to get mr n a bed... i guess the sooner we do this the better for the baby to use his cot - and also he sleeps so well in our bed i think it will be good. we got a king single - easy for one of us to lie down with him and setle him. now, what bedding do i use? a doona? i need to get it this week... it could be a disaster but hey it has to happen some time i guess.
I wonder how Rainy is?
hi to everyone else - sorry not many personals will try to be on tomorrow. xxx
Arte, get used to W having a better social life than you do! (the lot of the modern mother LOL). All that talking is amazing. Do you talk a lot too LMAO??! :p
PP - good to hear from you hun. Let us know how the bedding goes, personally we will probably do a tuckable sheet and blanket before getting into the doonas, just to keep Missy E better secured in place under the bedding, kwim? But if N doesn't move around a lot in his sleep a doona could work well too. Missy E's a long way off moving into a bed - it'll probably be closer to or after her birthday before we take the side off the cot.
Kate - oooh V&D! Oh I hope you're feeling better soon. xxx
Katie - only you can decide what you feel comfortable with hun. The time you spend with your sister will be special, no matter when you go...in fact it might be better in a couple of weeks because she won't be so overwhelmed by ppl wanting to spend time with her by them, kwim?
Andi - I listened to bits on the radio, man the crowd was totally going off!! :)
Wont be on for a few days girls, decided to go to Sydney after all. Will catch up when I get back.
Have fun Katie, enjoy you newborn cuddles!!
MD, I don't talk that much (unless you ask DH or my mum lol)
PAP, isn't it great when you get your nice bubba back after a grizzle patch! With the bed we got a light duvet (= aussie doona) but he kicks off blankets so it is probably pointless
i'm here girls
got jimmy asleep on my chest so one hand typing
katie-have fun in syd
andie-i watched sound relief all day too
pap- we bought lewis' king size single bed a double doona- with gorgeous sheridan doona cover :)
arte- w is so smart!!
lewis only says a couple of words still- should i be worried??
Yep V & D (or VD as I call it, which makes my mum cringe) is vomiting and diahorrea sp? :p
OMG on W's talking. Rainy - Sarah is the same...few words and the ones she does say are said in a way that I'm not sure if shes said what I thought she said or not. I think W is going to be a great world speaker by high school the way he's going.
PAP - You could always just dress N in trackies and socks in bed if you think he'll come loose of his doona etc. Let us know how you go and what you decide...I'm thinking of putting sarahs side down on the cot after Fiji in SIX WEEKS!! :dance:
Have a blast Katie and enjoy the time with your sister and bubby
Talented Rainy! Bubba cuddles and BB...at the same time. Whatta combo! lol
Off to bed...fingers crossed on uninterrupted sleep
Sorry guys, I don't mean to make anyone feel like their bubs aren't saying enough! It is very normal at this age to have only a couple of words. There is a September bub at mothers group who has no words and has just started taking a few steps, there is a world of difference between him and W but either way is perfectly normal. By the time they start school there will be no way to tell who was an early talker etc, they will just be busy little boys. At this point as long as they seem to understand what you are saying it is all good. I was a jabbermouth at this age too, he must get if from me.
Kate, only 6 weeks until Fiji!! I wish we could go on a holiday sometime but DH is the holiday grinch, he just gets bored and complains and wreaks it anyway so it isn't worth the bother.
wahooooo kate on fiji - which resort are you going to?
i think N is also a chatterbox (as i was) - but to make you all feek better he still isnt walking!!! ha ha ha! they all do things at diff paces (i keep telling myself) and as arte says you will never know when they are older. i mean L isnt going to be silent and N isnt going to sit still forever LOL!
Rainy - oooh sounds nice re the bedding - i get to look for that this week - will be lovely.
it is my wedding anniversary today - 6 years!
PAP, well done on 6 years! N sounds adorable with his counting, they are so fun at the moment. My mum seems to get some sort of satisfaction out of W's blabbering, like she has been waiting years for me to get my payback for all the constant chattering she had to endure from me lol
MD, I meant to ask how your meeting with the FDC lady went?
Congratulations PP on 6 years, I hope you and Mr PP do something nice to mark the occasion! Fully agree with what you say about diff bubs doing things at different ages. My cousin (who has little Amelia who's 3 weeks younger than E) commented on how "advanced" she thought E was. I was shocked because - apart from obvious vision issues - and A had just started walking (much earlier than her older sister too) I had thought they were pretty much doing the same stuff/interested in the same stuff. So I really think a lot of those comparisons really are in the eye of the beholder, kwim?
Arte - thanks for asking, she is *wonderful*. Fully qual'd childcare worker, lovely home, lovely bunch of kids, lots of activities set up (including a permanent "reading corner" - 10 gold stars!) So it looks like E will start on Friday morning, just for a half day. In the meantime E will continue to go to the other lady once a week until the new FDC lady's DD start school midyear then we can have more days.