Just a quick one to say I'm still around and checking up on you all. I'm thinking of you all but don't have a lot to contribute that another wonderful lady hasn't already said.
Sarah has decided to drop her day sleeps and hasn't had one for 2 weeks. She thinks shes too cool for school. Shes really getting into her tantys tho...doing mummy proud!
Nothing much else from us here...exhausted today after a lot of running around for the business. Thank god Sarah was in FDC otherwise there is no way I could of gotten it all done.
Night all...and hugs to anyone that would like to grab one.
Well we are back LOL. Got back on Monday, but haven't had much puer time so I've only been on really briefly.
Cally, don't worry about it hun, collar bones are one of those dodgy ones where you can't really tell immediately if it is broken or not kwim? But it's been dealt with now and fingers crossed she keeps it in the sling for as long as she needs to have it on. If she does get a bit fussy with it, just get some tape and tape her arm to her body while in the sling and just put her clothes over it.
Clare!!! WOOHOO on getting the surgery organised. You will feel like a new woman afterwards I'm sure.
MD, I'll be off to read your thread when Ive finished here
G, I can't agree more with what Clare said. It is true that when you have more than one child the family dynamics change, but it's all good, it really is.
Hi to everyone else, sorry for the lack of personals. I will have more time later today.
MD-of course we want 2 hear all ur thoughts honey. Spill...
Cally-dont beat urself up about the collarbone, who would have known? Not me.
Clare-mind my ignorance, but what's the surgery for. Pretty exciting!
Jaz-T only just volunteers cuddles now, she has always been miss independent-yuck-push-u-away-i-dont-need-cuddles girl. Which is not really playing nice in my books! I am very much cherishing this 18 mth clingy stage. So much so she is waking early every morning and wants me to hold her til she goes to sleep, but this morning I only gave her a quick cuddle + changed nappy + put her back and snuck out. Hee it worked + now she is still in bed. Must get her up.
Rainy-no advice here sorry. That is what is holding me back from thinking about doing something (hee) about a second. I think those feelings would b normal. Loyalty goes to daddy + u move on. I have a friend with 6 kids in close succession. She would have had to move on so quickly. Makes the kids stand on their own two feet quicker it seems.
Well t + I have been a bit sick this week. Was going 2 have immunizations today too. She can't b sick + runny nose though can she? I just don't want 2 wait 2 long. What is everyone else doing?
We are miles overdue for immunisations, they were due at 15 months and I still haven't taken him. Things keep coming up, we were going on holiday, then moving and now he has had a runny nose cold for the last month. I am not too worried as I wanted him to be a bit bigger anyways. I think I will split them over two visits, the MMR and then the other two (influenza b and pneumococcal) at a later stage.
Cally, don't feel bad, as the others have said it is hard to know with collarbones and you knew something was up straight away. MIL sent DH to school for two days before she took him to a doctor after he fell out of a top bunk and broke his - she told him to harden up and stop whinging lol
PAP, how did your meeting go with FDC?
Rainy, I am sure that L is loving the time he is spending with his dad. He still sees you lots during the day, I am sure you spend time with him while J is asleep. Don't feel guilty because you aren't spending as much time as you used to with him, it is how it is and he will adapt quickly. Bummer about the bottle, W would never take one either.
MD, I think I could denial a pregnancy away if I were in the wrong place in my life. How are you doing? Has it sunk into reality for you yet? What is the next step?
Looks like we are on a good path to weaning, he hasn't had a feed for 3 days now. At night I give him a bottle of milo (I am sure it is bad for his teeth but we can work on that later) and then he wants a BF but I tell him cuddles instead and he grumbles a bit then goes to sleep. I have had no milk for weeks now, the other night he even asked for some 'empty please' lol. Day naps are going o.k because he has fallen asleep in the car the past few days and yesterday fell asleep on the couch watching telly for the first time ever!
His talking is very amusing, he is doing 3-4 word sentences and is very cute. At the supermarket today he saw me putting chippies in the trolley and kept saying 'chippies one out please' because he desperately needed one. DH lit the bonfire with some petrol the other day and it exploded a bit, W kept saying 'fire boom, more petrol' and heading off to get the petrol can lol He is a fire bug already!
SupaB - ok well here's my first thought - let's you and me get together soon while I still have hair!! PM me/txt me and we'll organise a hot coffee (and because it's close to easter well it will have to involve chocolate I"m sure) DATE!!
Also - Clare is having her tonsils out - they have been infected to the point of dragging her into hospital in a state of near-organ failure so they need to GOOOOOOO!
Supa we're getting vacc's organised next week - for everyone in the household - including Whooping cough booster etc for me. Missy E will have her fluvax as well as the chickenpox one. Preemptive strike.
Anyone got any April Fools moments to report...?
Clare you deserve all the icecream and jelly you can shovel in next week. xxx LOL
ETA - Yep Arte it has sunk in good and proper and I've been taking every child-free opportunity I get to have a good cry. "Their" next step is a core biopsy to determine the nature of the mass and formulate a treatment plan, I will see Mr Compassion (oncologist) on the 17th (it's a ***** - that's my sister's birthday) to find out what the treatment plan is - chemotherapy +/- surgery. "My" next step is to write in my journal a lot, eat plenty of cake, visit my new friend at the health food shop, find a TCM/Naturopath to get my immune system boosted, watch lots of funny tv, plant a hope garden that I can watch grow and bloom as I recover, work out how to start telling people, and enjoy the night out at the HILTON that we've got booked this weekend (woohoo!). Oh, and shop for hats. For obvious reasons.
How are you feeling about how the weaning's coming along? Relieved or sad?
Trill, oh, am still waiting for your funny zoo stories hun!
ETA(A) Oh I had a funny moment for a second when I thought...HEY what's Kelly doing in our thread?? LOL Good one you funny mods!
Well Arte, I'm thinking of shaving it off before it gets a chance to fall out. My sister said she would shave her head with me so we can both have "dykey do-s" PMSL. Or I might get a number 1 all over with tracks in it. TBH I'm more worried about losing my eyebrows than I am my hair. Always fancied I'd like to shave my head, at least once. Well now I've got an excuse. LOL Seriously tho, it might not happen, depends on what drug regime "they" decide is best. I'm just getting in early and getting the crying done now so when it happens it's just a thing that happens. Kwim?
ETA - plus I've always had short hair so it' not a drama like it would be if I had long tresses. Never been my best feature...apparently sometimes it grows back a different colour (!) or curly (!)...so I can only hope!!
i too was wondering what Kelly was doing in our thread LOL!
Supa: yup, as MD said i am getting my tonsils out. it was a sordid love affair that went bust.
PP: i think we will all be looking towards eachother when all have our next! soon enough you will be our guru too!
MD: i couldnt help but notice that the cake eating was connected to the health food shop visit...had to have a giggle and agree wholeheartedley.
excuse my ignorance but how do they do biopsies (i should know as i did watch Home and Away last year, but all they showed was 'martha' with tubes up her nose in post op). i hope that it isnt too nasty, and/or they give you loads of happy pain relief on tap.
i will be going private! through the st vincents here in melbourne. so it had better be comfy at $800 a night!
Arte: sounds like W is a man with a mission! chips and boom! lol! love it!
Kate: wow! S down to no sleeps!! that's amazing! does she seem to make the distance of the day?
JaZ: ROFL! i can just imagine you on the trampoline! WTG!!
no, unfortunately no theatrics needed (was kinda looking forward to doing a bold and the beautiful style dramatic pause). going private they do just really like slicing and dicing way too much to argue LOL!
AFM: all good here. saw the worst movie i think i have EVER had the displeasure of sitting through. called "out of order". utter crapola.
we had a lovely day yesterday. the usual mothers group indulgence of coffee and lunch (we have our local cafe situated in a big warehouse with toys so the kids can go nuts). then leila slept for 2 hours and when she woke up told me that she was in a foul mood and i better entertain her, so we jumped in the car and went to the pool for an hour. so much fun!
Clare, I was just coming back to say YAY for finally getting your tonsils out! Must be good to know the problem will soon be gone
MD, Elizabeth Taylor's hair grew back white and fluffy! Eyebrows would worry me too, but you can get cosmetic replacements - not sure how real they look though - might be better to go without than have obvious toupee brows! I can't stop thinking about your breast (lol), well the lump in it. I find it amazing that you had it checked so long ago and they found nada, yet it was there all along. I am glad they didn't find anything amiss while you were preg and away from home, at least now you are in a place to get it all fixed up.
MD you can try out all your hair fantasies with wigs??? there are some that are so wonderfully realisitic - i know afew women who have used them... hmm i wouldnt be wishing for the curls though... seriously from someone who knows they are not all they are cracked up to be LOL! though you can then become a GHD expert like me when you are trying to get rid of them.
ok i need to know, is there a haighs in melbourne? i think so?? i must admit i dont think i have ever had it, and now i MUST! we are there for a week from this weekend so think it'd better be placed on my to do list! clare was going to suggest a catch up maybe (and i love the sound of your cafe, where is it?) but maybe it will coincide with your slice and dice? if not lets plan something (also rainy and all the other melb mums, IT'S TIME LADIES!!).
I totally fell for the pic of kelly, i was like does sherie know her av is stuffed??
Well as for me, i havent had much news of late. am suffering a bit as i have an unstable pelvis (is this what you had in preg MD) - OUCH! been to physio which is good and looking fwd to yoga today as maybe that will help now i know what tje prob is. i feel like such a whinger this time, it just hasnt been as easy as last! that said we have now agreed on a name and the little one is basivally a footballer in my tum so lots of kicks all the time which i am loving! N is going through a terrible terrible sleep time, i think i told you all about it a while back up for hours in the night etc etc, stillgoing on, he is still getting his incisors and is in pain poor little mite. his walking is amazing now and new fave work (complete with action some of the time) is RUN! he is a delight!
i have put in my leave forms for mat leave - about 10-11 weeks to go - YEEEEEEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAAAAAAA!
MD, I suppose one positive to take from it is that with the lump being there all that time and only now finding out, is that you could have been riddled with it by now if it were aggressive kwim? So I would assume that if it's not aggressive then it will respond well to treatment? Most people I know who go through chemo get curly hair when it grows back. But my Mums partner didn't lose any hair at all when he was having chemo earlier this year for bladder cancer. I just feel so helpless about it all though.
No pee-your-pants-funny stories from the zoo, but he really loved it. He did get a bit confused when we were watching the meerkats though and he kept meowing and he was totally enraptured by them. Every time we saw a new animal though, he was like "over there!" and pointing to it. By the end of the day he was completely over it and sick of being put in and out of the stroller and car (cause you can walk or drive, so we took the cars as we had a picnic lunch) and as we were leaving we didn't even get to the front exit before he was asleep LOL. Oh, he did get to pat a Galapagos Tortoise too - it was next to the fence and the enclosure is really low, so I leaned him over for a pat LOL. Probably not meant to do that though But the downside of the trip is that his sleeping has gone to the pack and he's funny about me putting him in his cot and leaving him there. While we were away he would only settle to sleep if I was holding him and he was up so often in the night I had to resort to cosleeping again so I could at least get some sleep. Made me glad we didn't take a proper holiday just yet.
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