Babies born September 2007 #52

[Leemar]

PP- Happy Birthday to your nephew for today hope he has a awesome day
Birthday BBQ- We had one too for Livi it was at our house with about 20 family members. I will post the photos on FB.

[Cassius2]

hi girls!

I CANNOT BELIEVE MY BABY IS TWO.

MD: so jealous of your kitchen acquisition...i so want one for Leila but yeah, the prices always scare me off. must be brave must be brave lol.
we are doing a theme of sorts. a 'farm' theme. so cake is going to be green and have a fence around it and i have bought some 'schleich' baby animals to put on top. we have farm theme napkins and toothpicks. but that is about it. i'll just hang some balloons around the yard and crepe the life outta the hills hoist...noice .

PP: oooohhhh nooooo! and i was the one that recommended the OB!! i am so so sorry PP!!!! such a different experience. i cannot believe it! (although i have to say that i was not impressed by his backup OB...i found him to be very intervention happpy). so maybe....i am sorry!

Leanne: you are my inspiration LOL! we are doing a bbq at home with about 20ish ppl. just hoping that everyone fits.

Cally; what's rain? LOL! you lucky duck! i think my bulbs will do a no show this year for lack of the h2o.

AFM: i am recovering from the mother of all migraines. hit me like a truck halfway through thinking about your generation (how funny was it last night?!). ended up on the floor screaming for the lights to go out. even the light from the street lamps was sending me over the edge. spent the night throwing up and had to take 2 pan forte. did nothing but at least helped me be carried to bed. also the vertigo was really really bad. i havent had one in years so was really taken by surprise.
today has been lovely though. leila woke up special early (little terd lol) and we opened pressies. she scored a baby cradle (made by my Opa), a tea set and handbag/purse set from grandma, a FP animal farm set, a blackboard/whiteboard (quite a hit!), a hobby horse, some duplo and the peice du resistance was the gaudy bright PINK barbie suitcase that she picked out herself a couple of months ago. omg it is soo ugly. but she LOVES it. it even came to uni today

[Isadora]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEILA!!!

Lol at the ugly pink barbie case, how funny. When is the party Clare, this weekend? What a shocker of a migraine!

PAP - Oh no hope the in laws get there soon (I think?)

MD - I agree dont go with a theme, or do the theme but to a small extent iykwim? Dont stress yourself out woman!!

Arent the kitchen sets expensive, especially the wooden ones.

While M is in bed I've just got all her bday invites organised & ready to send out, too exciting! While we are talking bday pressies, I saw a cool my little pony in target today called the dancing pinkie pie or something along those lines, went to have a look at it, $100 thank you very much!! Who can afford a $100 piece of plastic, unless you are married to a millionaire hehe. What a joke.

[Cassius2]

MM: we are having it on the 13th. we have a BIG weekend travelling in the car to canberra for the birth rights rally and thought it would be better to have time to recover from the trip and then have the party. the 13th is also closer to when she was really due too LOL!

is anyone else here going to be at the birth rights rally? if so we should meet up!!!!!

[MamaPan]

Clare - when is the rally? so sorry i dont know... i ony just heard about it. when are you in canb and can we catch up - i would love to see you. xxx

ps dont feel bad about the ob recc, a few ppl rec him and i know he is good - just not an amazing experience for me.. (compared to my other ob who i LOVED)

[Cassius2]

PP: the rally is on the monday. cannae remember the time it starts will check it out when i get home...we should sooo catch up! not entirely sure how long we are going to be there for as waiting on news from my friend to see if we can stay at her place (she travels for work alot so may not be there...). hoping to be there until at least tuesday though...

[MamaPan]

ok cool just let me know...

[AnyDream]

Clare, wishing Miss Leila a very happy birthday - though it sounds like all her wishes have already come thru with that pink suitcase...I will eagerly look out for it on the lawns of Parl House on Monday! LOL A dolly cradle is on Missy E's wish list. Your farm theme sounds fabbo, we did all the crepe paper streamers on the hills hoist one year, my tip is make sure the line the dry before you put them up (or you will get a damp crepe paper mess on the ground underneath - speaking from personal experience here LOL).

Ok I'll fess up re the kitchen - the discounted price was $180 (*makes choking noise*) BUT I'd just found out how much Centrelink back pay we're getting (it was a fall-off-your-chair-moment) so what they hey. There were more wooden ones in the shops at the time of the sales - I guess there *might* be more again before christmas but I won't be in a shopping-state at that end of the year & I didn't want to wait another whole year to get it. It's a kidcraft country kitchen - looks a bit like their prairie kitchen (if you google) but with a bit of pink. Same co makes some really funky retro style ones too.

[Artechim]

Happy 2nd Birthday Leila

Party themes: no party here, but the cake thing seems to be quite important to DH and he blabbed and told W you get a cake on your birthday so all going well I will be making an orange 4WD cake.

MD, you won't regret paying the extra for the wooden kitchen when she can still use it years from now. I am not sure what the Wotwots are, I saw an ad on telly for some toys but I haven't seen the show. Is it another of those nonsensical babble ones like ITNG and Tellytubbies? I can't stand those sort of shows, they don't get played around here.

PAP, what have your IL's done? Feel free to vent away, everyone loves a good IL's whinge lol Sorry your ob was a bit of a disappointment. I didn't even get checked at the 6 week check! I went to my GP, she just asked how I was feeling, listened to W's heart and that was it. Was out of there before my appointment was due to start lol.

[Trillian]

Hey everyone!

Happy Birthday Leila! Clare, that's awful about the migraine, I wonder what brought it on after all this time? I hope you don't get another one any time soon. Your Gen was very funny last night, bugger that it finished now. Shaun is just hilarious - such a dry sense of humour.

Cally, I hope you stay safe down there - I know the fires are well away from you, but it is just such a worry now kwim. We got 11mm of rain too which was super great. Bugger about the timing of you coming to canberra - would have been lovely to meet you finally.

Arte, you are well and truly on the last legs of this pg now! One handed countdown and everything LOL. The WotWots are sort of like teletubbies because they don't really talk, but it's heavily narrated and it is focused on them being at a zoo so they learn about all sorts of animals etc. It's quite quaint.

Gosh, I can't remember where I am up to now LOL

MD, do you have anything planned for Monday at all for your special day? The kitchen sounds gorgeous. I have always coveted a wooden one as they just seem so much sturdier than the plastic ones. Preschool has an excellent one that I wish we could afford LOL. It will pay for itself in no time I'm sure.

We aren't doing a party for Alister this year, we've only really done the 1st birthday and then that's it. We still have family over and have cake and everything though.

[AnyDream]

I agree, Your Gen is a crack up. I especially love the way Shaun's patronises Josh endlessly and Josh is always happy for him to do it (hilarious every time IMO). I reckon they should dress up every week, it was hilarious. Even funnier because both my DD and DH thought shaun was dressed as Edward Scissorhands PMSL!

Well done on your Slice triumph Trill. Noice work. We're making a big deal of the party because my fam and friends all missed when she turned 1 yo. So it's a bigger deal this year than it otherwise would've been. Not sure what I'll do on Monday, we've got the Show here at the moment and we're going on Sunday so I'll prolly be exhausted...might catch a movie or take in a bookshop or something nice like that. Dad's taking us out to dinner on Sat night and it's very exciting because it's a *mystery location* restaurant and I'm busting to find out where LOL!

Arte I can't wait to see that orange 4WD - sounds craaaaazy! LOL How are you feeling - over it and uncomfy yet or still cruising?

PAP sorry you had a less than fabulous experience with that ob...he was fantastic every time I saw him so dunno what happened there. Vent re your ILs anytime - tho it sounds like you would rather save your breath for other things right now.

Ok well better go, have an actual coffee date this morning!! It's payday so I'm looking forward to stocking up on moisturiser and cleanser and all the things I have been making do without for the last umpteen fortnights .

[Cassius2]

hi girls!

thanks for all the birthday wishes! it was a lovely day and i think Leila had an absolute ball. cant wait for the party now!

MD: 180 for a wooden kitchen is a good price! the ones that i had been looking at were closer to 300. but like sherie and arte said, they will last the time and can be used by a million kids when they all come over for future sleepovers :wink:

i too like the shaun/josh banter. total crackup. went to josh's website a little while back and if you register for his newsletter you get a rubber duckie named after you on his home page. pretty cute and soooo gen y LOL!

Arte: the yellow truck cake does sound exciting!

Sherie: DH reckons the migraine was 'ode to labour' LOL! i think it was just an unfortunate flare up of an old shoulder injury that i have been ignoring for years. still very tender in the neck area and the headache is kinda lying quietly at the back.

AFM: not much to report. blowing a gale here again today but at least the sun is shining and warming up my old cold bones. have a headcold now too to boot. so over winter.

i wonder how Kate is going?

[Artechim]

Clare, glad that your migraine has gone, sounds like a whooper.

Isn't the weather crazy atm! I was sitting outside marvelling at how lovely and warm it was with the sun shining, went inside for about 2 minutes and when I looked out W was sitting in the sandpit being hailed on!

Ginger, were you planning to get a 14 ft trampoline? They are massive! W has just figured out how to jump and how to land on his bum, it has been sitting in the yard for a few months now but he has finally started to use it. It is a great size though, especially with two kids. How is the pony campaign going? Really there aren't that many ongoing costs with a Sheltland pony - those things can live on the smell of grass so you don't need to give them heaps of supplimentery feed, probably the biggest cost would be the hoof trimming every few months, which isn't even that much. Tell him that the dirt bike probably uses more in petrol than a pony would cost.

Finally had some time today to paint the babies bookcases - one more coat and they will be finished. That will be satisfying.

Trill, I forgot to answer you about the size of the bookcase. W's one is 1.3m, the babies one is 90cm and the one in the office that had to be butchered to fit in is 2.4m.
I find W's one to be a good height for him - he can't reach the top two shelves so I have all the books that are too old for him and the soft toys that just mess up the place up high so he can't reach them. I am sure you could make a really nice set for the girls, they aren't hard at all.

ETA, does anyone have any fathers day plans? DH doesn't think it is a big deal (hence the reason I get nothing for mothers day) so we aren't doing anything. I let W pick a present when we went shopping last week, he managed to pick something surprising relevant (a Kombi shaped tin - we have a Kombi), we got it wrapped while DH was out but within 3 minutes of DH getting home W was saying 'might get that Kombi one for dad' and was going to retrieve it so we gave it to him early.

[Ginger]

hi girls
been reading but not posting,feeling totally unmotivated!

happy birthday pretty girl leila!!!

arte- we have the 14ft tramp on layby. it's huge but our backyard is an acre so it won't look silly iykwim? can't wait...
operation pony has been temporarily stalled.....dh is being v stubborn so i'm giving it a rest for a little while....
shouldn't you be in labour or something? loL

md-no party theme here....just 'have fun and get amongst it!' LOL
we're having a rabbit and teddy bear turn up to entertain the kids and make balloon animals, and face painting/pony rides/dirt bike rides/trampoline/bbq.

went to ange's on tues for vegie lasagne. i think lewis and luella are in love..they are sohappy to just disappear and play together happily for hours.

[Cally]

Ginger - how cute!!

We're not doing a party theme. K isn't into ITNG or anything like that. Also we're not having a party as such, just going to the IL's for an overcooked baked dinner......

PAP - how are your IL's going?

Clare - I hadn't realised the rally was next week, enjoy yourselves!! Ouch to the migraine!

Fathers Day - DH said he didn't want anything so he is just getting a card (like Mother's Day). Our usual Sunday breakfast spot reopens this weekend after being closed for August so we will probably go there unless he has some other request.

Arte - need to see photos of that cake!!

[Cassius2]

Also we're not having a party as such, just going to the IL's for an overcooked baked dinner......

oh YUMMO ROFL!! (sounds like dinners at my extended family gatherings LOL!)

[Cassius2]

crazy crazy computer...

[AnyDream]

Finally had some time today to paint the babies bookcases

OMFlippinGawd Arte you're not expecting TWINS are you ?????!!!!! We didn't see that one coming LOL

Clare glad you managed to conquer that meeeegraine. Sounds awful awful awful.

Rainy your rabbit and teddy sound great! Your party will be a blast with all those activities!

Arte, for Father's Day we are going to the Show, so not doing any brunches or lunches or dinner. Seeing my dad the night before for tea, will give him a tray chocolate-ginger, mMmmmmm. DH - still undecided tho Missy E was put to work making a card at FDC this am! DD1 doesn't have any bright ideas but she seems to be fixated on nuts at the moment so we might buy a couple of charlesworth packets and DIY him a goodie basket.

Ok so well it looks like I'm the only nutcase going OTT for the party then . Well I've finally arrived back where we began, it's going to be ITNG - I found a sticker book and will use the stickers to make party hats, whistles, etc. Decorating with pink, yellow, orange & red (off upsy's frock) balloons, serviettes, etc, and we'll have a pin-the-blanket on IP game. Was going to ask the folks at hte ABC shop if they had any old promo posters or cutouts but chickened out cos the guy wasn't looking very happy. Need to go in and work my mojo LOL. Going to trim some gingerbread men down & ice them blue, do some tombliboo iced cupcakes, and I'm thinking about how I could make a little blue boat for them to play in out of a big box! Now all I need to is work out how to make a carousel for the cake...hmmm...or even one for the garden (based around the hillhoist???). Just thinking out loud.