sorry for the double post but I clicked the wrong thing.
Well DH arrived home last night at 11.15pm with Livi's new bed...OMG its so beauitful and will post some photos on FB. She has gone to sleep in it tonight and with no problems so far.... We are all set for our big day out tomorrow and no doubt I will be exhausted tomorrow night...
Leanne woo hoo on the new bed. I am sure your going to have a blast tomorrow (and sleep very well tomorrow night lol).
Trill Sorry to hear everyone is your house is sick, its a shame none of us live close enough to drop off some chicken soup for the sick ones and some chocolate for you.
MM I hope your having a good night!! like Trill I am sure M wont be your only baby!!! I know what you mean about PHI, we have it but only basic cover.
Clare sorry to hear about your great uncle, I hope that the church can do a service for him.
We went and got a few little things at the toy sales, B'day and Christmas are pretty much done. We are hoping to get one of the climbing gyms from target.
A big hello to everyone else, I hope your all well.
MM: oh a limo ride is soo exciting though!! man, i wish i was going to a party!
Leanne: how fantastic that she is sleeping in her big girl bed?! she must look so CUTE!
Sherie: yeah i have all my fingers crossed that the church will be able to organise something. i remember last time was a very small service with just the 3 of us (my Oma, Opa and I) when a dear friend of theirs passed. and i remember it was a really touching thing for them iykwim. here's hoping!
and i agree, i reckon the big w sales were a bit of a let-down. at least it wasnt busy though (i was expecting pandemonium).
Oz: yeah i am also hanging out for the target sale. there is a pram for leila that is too divine and i also wanna get her a cozy coupe from little tikes...
AFM: well, still rather yucky here. am trying to get myself out of the funk, but it is a bit tough. did some retail therapy at the toy sales and bought leila a FP little people animal friends gift set (she has the farm and this clicks all together). reduced from $80 to $56.
i still want to get a couple of things including a new dolly pram and some doll dress ups etc, but will wait for target sales...
and OMG but HOW MUCH is the ITNG gear?!! i couldnt believe it! *mummy quietly returns it to shelf...*
also went house-hunting yesterday. was a 2brd advertised at 500-550. sold for 655!!!!!! just wanna cry.
Clare, sorry that you are stuck in a funk. I was recently there and it wasn't much fun. I am feeling a lot more positive the last few weeks though. Hope you can get yourself out of it. Bummer about the house situation, I can only imagine how frustrating that is for you.
Rainy, hope everyone is surviving the family visit and Jimmy is not too over excited with the extra people around
MM, I thought you didn't have to pay the medicare levy once you have private insurance?
MD, how is everything going healthwise?
Leanne, that is great that Livi went straight into her big bed! Your trip can't be far away now.
I probably won't be on much for the next week. We have the IL's coming and BIL is coming with them. He used half our internet data (20 Gig!) in 3 days last time he was here and now we have almost none left so we will just have to disconnect it and ban him entirely. He had a head injury a few years ago and it just doesn't seem to compute that if he sits and watches you tube for hours that the data will run out and we will get a huge bill.
Wish me luck, they aren't even here yet and I am already annoyed at them lol. They said they were coming on Monday, so I accepted a dinner invite for Sunday night, then on Saturday they said they might come on Sunday but then when I asked them Sunday morning if they were coming they still didn't know so I had to cancel dinner and then they finally called around 4pm and said they wouldn't be up until Monday. It is harder than getting blood out of a stone trying to get a fricking decision out of these people. They diddle around all day deciding until it is too late to do whatever they were thinking about anyway!
arte- i feel your pain on the indecision of outlaws. that is one of my major gripes with mine-is that they can never give an accurate eta. they just expect people to sit around all day waiting for them. so friggin arrogant if you ask me.
i sensed you were on a bit of a downer a few weeks ago. glad to see you're feeling better.
are you going to co-sleep with the new baby?
clare- sorry to hear about all the stuff going on. i saw on tv last night something aboutthe 'melb real estate boom' gggrrrr. there's no way we could ever live in the city, lucky i'm such a country girl!
md-thanks for checking in on me. dh loved it that i got a message from my internet friends cos i hadn't been on for a few days-thought it was a crack up!
trill- hope everything is getting sorted at your place. i hate man flu!!!
well the visit went pretty well in the end. it was hard cos the weather is so crap and there's not really too much you an do with 2 babies in the rain so i felt like they might've been a bit bored but they assured us they were happy to just chill out and relax and enjoy the country life in front of the fire. we went out to breakfast one day and lewis was out of control climbing of tables etc. so we went to a playcentre to let him go nuts and i think they were a bit freaked out by how much of a hyper monkey he is!
jimmy was loving all the attention,had one small freak out on sat night but luckily they had gone out to catch up with friends in the city.
so i've officially given up caffiene in an attempt to make jimmy easier to settle and it's killing me. my head is pounding!!!!
Rainy, DH doesn't want to co-sleep with the new bub. After all of W's sleep issues he thinks I am going to 'stuff it up' again. I have tried to tell him that it was the feeding to sleep that caused the problems, not the co-sleeping but he thinks they are the same thing. I will see how we go, if it wakes heaps during the night then I am so gunna bring it into bed with us, I don't care what he says because he isn't the one getting up all night! Especially since there is only 9 weeks to go and W woke nearly every hour last night.....
How is it going for you? How is L sleeping these days? After the IL's go we are going to have to make some hard calls about W's sleep - it has been 7 weeks of DH coming in at bedtime and W still panics and cries for me if I am not in there too.
I have been hanging out to hear from PAP too...
OMG if I am offline I won't know! Can someone text me??? My number is +64210500288
Eta, good on you for giving up the caffine! I think it is about 4 days before you stop 'needing' it? That is what they say about ciggies anyway (although years later and I still dream about them lol). Hopefully it works. You have just reminded me that I could barely eat any sugar while BF because it made W windy and grizzley. Hope the next bub isn't like that lol
Off to wait for the IL's to arrive, apparently they will be here some time before lunch or maybe late afternoon....
aarrrggg i hate not knowing an exact time of someone arriving- you poor thing!!!
well i'm happy to tell you that L sleeps really well now. last night he slept from 7.30pm-7.30am with no wake-ups. i finally feel like all my hard work is finally being rewarded. he even has great day sleeps-on friday he slept for 3 hours in the afternoon. it's fantastic.
i really don't think i'll ever know if co-sleeping causes all the problems, i just don't know...but i personally love it. i'm just trying to enjoy my 'last baby' jimmy, so i'm trying to savour the co-sleeping. i'll never know if it's a good or bad thing re: sleep though iykwim?
is w still in his own bed? do you go into him every hour?
the caffiene thing is killing me...just gonna trial it till next sunday. ifit makes a difference then i'm off it for good, if not, then i'm back onit LOL
W is in his own bed - but I am in there too lol. I haven't slept in my bed since the end of April. W calls it dad's bed and dad's room now lol.
I am with you on not knowing if it is a good thing or bad thing re cosleeping, but it is nice to wake up next to them with their sweet little sleeping faces.
I was leaning toward blaming co-sleeping for the clingyness that we have had, but after talking to all of you on here, there seems to be no pattern between clingyness and SAHM/working, cot/cosleeping, daycare/at home etc. I have come to think it is more the personality of the child - W is naturally a cautious and gentle child and seems to need me more for security than other daredevil kids.
hey everyone
where is pap?? hellooooo helloooo are you out there???
hehe well i am off for an ultrasound today just a sizing scan etc dont really need it but am happy for the chance to see bubby dh cant come which is a bit of a downer.. never been to a scan without him but hes been off work a bit lately and is gonna take 2 weeks off when bubba comes which i suppose could be any time now so he dosnt wanna make his work too cranky with him haha!! cant believe i was 36wks on sunday eeeeeep!! starting to worry heaps more about Asha while im in hospital.. shes become a super clingy mummys girl wanting cuddles all the time and wanting to sleep with me snuggling in all the time.. im sure she knows whats going on and she senses a big change coming and thats why shes doing it and im not sure whether indulging her is the right thing to do but i cant help giving in when i know its not gonna be long before shes not the only child anymore...
we had a big scare last night with her almost went to the hospital! Asha has had a mild allergy to tomatoes but has been growing out of it to the point where she can have a little bit every now and then and only get a few spots on her cheeks.. last night we were having burritos and there were a few tomatoey things and all of a sudden she broke out in a terrible rash all over her face.. i quickly wiped her down and gave her some zertek (sp?) she layed down and was very sooky i checked her stomach and body and there was nothing so i thought all was fine.. about 10 mins later i checked her again and she had a rash all over her tummy too.. we started packing for the hospital rushing round grabbing stuff and as we were about to leave i checked her again and the rash on her tummy was going down phew glad i had the medicine in the cupboard!! am wondering now if its deffinately tomato coz i havnt seen that happen so badly before.. might have to get some allergy testing done...
arte - i dont think co sleeping makes them more sooky or clingy.. until recently asha hasnt been clingy at all and was very much a daddys girl even though when we co slept (which we still do sometimes) she slept with me and wanted me.. think its only that she knows the baby is coming soon that has made her clingy.. goodluck with the visitors.. dhs family are notoriously late it drives me insane!!
rainy - hope your going ok with no caffiene!! i am a total coke addict so i would go nuts without caffiene haha am trying to drink less during pregnancy but its hard!! atleast i cut out the sugarless v hahahahaha!! thats great re l's sleeping i hope A starts sleeping like that asap!!
cassius - sorry to hear your having such a hard time house hunting hope it all picks up soon!!
katie - we got xmas done at the toy sales but not birthday.. we got her a little people farm set with animals that make noises etc a bubble machine and a tub of cars coz shes into them atm.. will get her a few small things to go with it when it gets closer..
leanne - happy birthday to the twins!!
anyways i must be off to get ready as mum will be here in about 20mins off for some shopping and then an ultrasound yay!!
Arte, just saw you online and wanted to wish you luck with the inlaws this week! Double dose ARGH! BTW I think you're right about the clingyness and personality. My friend's eldest sounds just like your W and he was always needed that extra mummy reassurance, for a long time. Other kids in the family completely different tho they were all raised the same and if anything the cosleeping etc got more entrenched the more kids she had so that doesn't cause it at all.
Noni, enjoy your shopping and of course the u/s! Pity DH can't be there but hopefully you can get some piccies.
Last edited by AnyDream; July 6th, 2009 at 10:16 AM.
The boys are enjoying ther birthday and yesterday at Movieworld was awesome enjoyed by all. Livi slept in her bed all night last night with out even waking up crying for her dummy. Must have been that having no sleep at movieworld that would have done that... lol
PAP couldn't go too long without letting her dear babybuddies knowing that she (in fact, we) are proud owners of a newly minted beautiful baby boy!
Little bub (who will be named at a naming ceremony in the coming days) was a healthy weight and size, and is doing beautifully.
Just a little bit about PAP the person...if you'll indulge me...
Many of you may not know all the sides and aspects to my beautiful wife - but here is some anonymous imagery: she is a beautiful woman who only days ago was closing a multi-million dollar deal and is now breastfeeding a new little life like a natural; she is a woman who devotes hours every week to service in our community and who rolls around giggling with our firstborn cheeky little boy till they have no energy left; and she is a woman who soaks up all my complaints/fears/concerns - always with the best advice - and finds time and space to dream about what's around the next corner.
I guess you can tell...I really love her.
I'll let her tell you the details (and she'll also do the birth announcement), but just wanted to let you know we're pretty happy.
Again, in this pregnancy, you've been a great font of advice and support.
D(and very proud, a little tired, but exhaustingly happy)H
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH CONGRATULATIONS TO PAP, HUBBY & N!!!!!!
Awesome news so happy for you. I bawled my eyes out reading what your hubby just wrote. For the record hubby from what we've read we've already come to the conclusion that PAP is a super mum, juggling work & mummyhood so easily. So over the moon for you all, cant wait for the naming day & cant wait to hear all about the birth. Congratulations!
omg i just got shivers reading what you wrote mr pap...i've got tears rolling down my face
congratulations to our dear friend Pap
a beautiful little baby boy, it has made my day!
i wonder if he'll have hair like Noah!!!
PAP and DH and little N - soooo happy for you on the arrival of little mr ? !!! Another boy who must be every bit as gorgeous as N! Mr PAP - love your style! We've known for a long time you've got a really special woman there - we're all fans
Last edited by AnyDream; July 7th, 2009 at 08:54 AM.
OH OH OH OH !!!!! This is so exciting! I had a feeling that the new babe must have arrived and you were in babymoon heaven. Thank you so much for posting Mr PP, we love the way you write about her and your love really shines in your words congratulations and I can't wait to hear what you have called your newest little boy!
like Trill I am sure M wont be your only baby!!! I know what you mean about PHI, we have it but only basic cover.
hope it all picks up soon!!
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