MD, my Nan always put us kids in the sweeps when we were kids and sometimes we'd come home from school to an evelope of money and sometimes we didn't but it seemed all very grown up LOL. I had to chuckle at Miss E picking that up from you - it's so funny yet at the same time you know they shouldn't do it. A has done it a few times after being out and about on the farm with DH and it makes you giggle.
H, such a crappy situation. If it's just a dry, unproductive cough (no phlegm) then it's usually fine if she is otherwise well. But summer is the worst time of year for tummy bugs unfortunately but I think once she has these grommets in you will see a 110% improvement in her health.
Hey Arte, I hope the giant pumpking don't give your NIMBY neighbours something else to whinge about
hey everyone,
cant believe its only wednesday is this week going slow or is it just me??
havnt had much sleep william was very unsettled last night.. got haps planned for today, dunno if ill actually do it or not tho haha.. wanna make chocolate slice, sort out all the clothes in the spare room (looks like the salvos shop exploded in there!! have been washing but not putting away and just got a big plastic box of 00's and 0's from a friend for William that i needa sort through!) then theres the general tidying etc and keeping the children entertained lol just a normal day i spose!!
very excited about the new tattoo im going to get, my birthdays coming up on the 11th and underneath ashas name i wanna get a design i found that has a dandelion with some of the petals would u call them? coming off in the wind and theres a few birds as well and then underneath it williams name, just so it looks more like a design and less like a list of names lol..
TT going well barely any accidents now and she went for my mum the other day so now its just school.. shes done so well though im very proud of her
trill - thanks, i think he just seems sooo big coz he was underweight for a while, we had him in 00000 at one point and to see him in 00 now is a bit of a shock.. as well we were told to expect he wouldnt catch up till around 6mths old and to hope for around 5-6kgs at 6mths lol but we got him weighed at 2.5mths and he was 5.6kgs lol..
md - ashas going into size 3's as well! i cant believe it when i put them on her and they fit lol.. oh and on the swearing thing ash said for f's sake the other day oops!! she was also singing some choice lyrics to a marilyn manson song the other day "everyone will come to my funeral to make sure that im still dead" glad she gets the word funeral and dead kinda wrong but just knowing what she was singing made me feel a bit bad!
mm - sorry ur feeling down hope it happens for u guys asap
arte - yeh i do feel like hes growing up much faster than asha ever did but i spose its coz we are busy etc so times going quicker.. wow giant pumpkins sounds like fun i would have no idea what to do tho haha cant imagine what the neighbours would think! (i live in the western suburbs of sydney)
clare - hope u had a nice dinner out
sorry to anyone i missed spose i should get started on my spare room
Giant pumpkins sounds good, although I'm not sure I will do very well seeing as our garden is sand! Will the packet say giant pumpkin if I go to the hursery or should I be looking for a different name?
Oz - don't feel bad about struggling to keep up, happens to all of use every now and then.
Kate - congrats on your TTC news, I take that to mean you and DH have sorted out some of your issues?
We are so not ready for size 3's! She was in some 2's shorts yesterday and they were sitting so low I think I might pack them away. She still has some 0 Osk Kosh shorts that fit!
hi everyone
sory i have been terible at keeping up - a combination of things really - comp not working well, been away at the coast twice, boys been sick and generally life a little out of control! But eveything is fine here with us!
I have had a quick skim - sorry if i have missed anything crucial...will ty to do some personals buy expecting M J up any min so may get cut short
Noni - wtg on the job front, when will you start? i dont think you need to worry about W - he sounds perfect and i guess he just caught up weight wise faster... i think they cant realy predict these things so accurately, and then we get hung up on what the dr/nurse says iykwim. sounds like you are doing a great job on the TT front also - wtg Asha!
Clare - woooooooo hooooooo on the house which sounds divine. is miss L loving her new room?
Rainy - sounds like your life is a little like mine atm. hope L is ok.
Ange - hugs re your bro.
Kate - wtg on the ttc and good luck! exciting!!
Trill - OMG re the scooter! he is A WILD CHILD!
Arte - wow on A sitting and rolling - my J is way off that still! i guess he wont top the class on the physical front! I dont know who asked re alphabet etc - N is quite amazing he knows the whole ABC, all colours, numbers etc - I am constantly amazed on that front. he is now into the concepts of 'imagining' (he shuts his eyes and tells us what he imagined) and 'remembering' he will say something that happened and then say 'I remember'. he is coming along leaps and bounds. we have a physio follow up tomorrow - i think they will be happy - he has improved so much on that front too - nowhere near doing what lots of yours do yet but way way better than he was. he seems to enjoy physicality more now too if that makes sense.
MD - hope you avoided the gastro. I wouldnt worry about her having a bet - the liking of that name though...
MM - hope the op goes well (sorry missed when it is). I bet you see a huge improvement after that is done. N hasnt been too sick this yr with kindy - am thankful for that!
oh gotta gp J is up - will try to come back later. love to you all and sorry such a bad buddy!
So they aren't sick now PP? I'm sure the physio appointment tomorrow will go fine - I bet he wont even have to go back for another one.
Cally, Alister is growing just like Paige did and is such a skinny thing - some of his shorts I have brought for this summer are still only 0's because unless it has an elasticised waist they aren't any good and even then 1's are still plenty big enough so K isn't the lone ranger on that front LOL. But I don't mind because they look like proper shorts where the 2's look too long kwim? Paige was still wearing one skirt that was a size 0 skirt up till last summer but she's put on 5kg so far this year and has jumped to a size 5 from a sz 3 last summer. But because he is soooo tall I need 2's and 3's for shirts and T's so buying a set of anything is hopeless - even pyjama's have to be separates. So I imagine he'll be a bean pole for a few more years and then just start gaining weight.
OK, so I started a blog and uploaded the video of A on the scooter. It was a few weeks now and he's much faster than that now LOL. The quality is a bit dodgy because it was taken on my phone.
Trill - will have to check out the vid when I get home. I saw some gorgeous tracky sets when I was last shopping in Canberra, but didn't really see the point of having to buy two sets to get one lot of matching out of it!!
MP - glad to hear from you. Sure the physio appt will go well.
Hi again
On my I touch so this will have to be quick
Cally you must think I am so rude I sent you a text before I left on fri and them was staying in sth durras with no reception so never wrote back to you.
Am really sorry I meant to say a meet up wouldn't have been good ok sat as the other little one we had with us was just recovering from gastro. You will be glad you stayed away as I am feeling sick and so is dh! Will be back down many times over summer so the play date will hapen
Physio went well today big improveme so no splints yet we will see how he goes over summer and go back end feb. Took j to be weighed etc too his head is growing and he is 6.8 kg, so not as big as Noah was at 4 months but a big boy! He is 4 months today!
I Am feeling lots better now I am losing some weight - 3 kg so far!
Trill - awesome scootering! Missy E has a try but she really just shuffles along LOL. DD1 was pretty scootie proficient at a young age which is wonder because she's totally clumsy at everything else! Excellent blog BTW I have learnt how to sew a bit of wide elastic in at the back of the waist band to pull the pants in around the waist (constantly needed to do it for DD1 but she's finally getting hips now).
MP - sorry to hear it's doing the rounds of the family, glad the boys are better. yay that's great news from the physio, hope it just gets better from there.
Cally, the oshkosh baby things are really wide around the bottoms - I think they're to accommodate wads of cloth nappies?
Still feeling bad about being such a potty mouth mummy. I must have had such a pure clean livestyle with DD#1, don't remember any swearing incidents. I'm just hoping like crazy she doesn't think fit to repeat it at the FDC lady's house...the 4 yos are all getting into saying poo and bum (like they do at that age) so the last thing we need is my 2 yo dropping a corker.
Oh MD! it would be slightly funny if she did but they can drop them in the most inappropriate of places LOL. I might have to do that with some of his shorts. I was tempted to just make him some shorts now I have the sewing machine. I find the sprout PJs are the best as I can tighten the elastic if I need to but for a sz 2 they are actually a good fit.
PP that's a great weight loss so far. I find if you lose it slower you are more likely to keep it off. Great to hear that N has had improvement. I cna't believe J is that old already!
Trill, don't say that word (*blocks ears, and whispers* Sprout). I'm totally devastated they stop at size 2.
ETA - Arte have you planted your seeds yet? Or did you plant them a month ago to give yourself a head start ???
MP - meant to say congrats on the 3 kgs tho at first I was confused and thought it was gastro commentary? I am having *no luck* after a week or so of eating right and heaps more exercise than usual I gained a kilo so promptly had a huge tantrum and ate the rest of the tub of icecream. I"m sure that's not in the anticancer diet either...*sigh*
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MD, I am having trouble like that too with my weight loss. I'm not on a diet as such but I know what i should and shouldn't be eating and Im convinced that it's my cycle that is buggering things up for me and why I and finding it really hard to loose a significant amount of weight even though I exercise daily and eat right and drink loads of water. But if I have a bad week I just keep on going as tempting as it is to say 'bugger it all, I'll have some chocolate' LOL So I am thinking about having some acupuncture to help with my period and see if that makes a difference because my periods are still shockingly heavy and I don't think a gyno approach would solve anything kwim? Yeah I love the sprout stuff too so it is a bugger that the tops are too short to get away with buying them but at least he can still fit into their shorts
Trill I think you're on to something with the cycles...I'm still not sure if i'm fertile or what, things have been crazy on that front. Acupuncture is a great idea...might look into that once I've had surgery and more scans show no signs of anything brewing (don't want to accidently stimulate the wrong processes in my bod). I was especially demoralised after my kg gain - I am having a massive summer-clothing crisis (like every year) made worse because I'm desperate to do something before my surg because of the long recovery time. Summer lasts a looooong time here but they always bring out the autumn clothes early. Most of the clothes are either Urgh (horrid horrid colours, horizontal stripes, transparent so you have to wear 2 layers, flimsy fabric that's gonna wash to ****) OR they are cut so that my scars/horrid surgery bras are all gonna hang out the top .
Urgh! I hear you on the clothes front. Nothing is the right cut for me this year it seems. I would love some casual dresses but they just don't look right on my figure because the skirts always have far too much fabric so I look like I'm wearing a tent because I have wide hips and I just hate the way that looks kwim. Even the plus size clothes are quite huggy on the body too and some may be happy with letting their belly show through tight fitting tops but not this black duck! so I have some size 24 T's that are really only a size 18 because no way known would a women who is genuinly a size 24 be able to wear those T's and look any good in them and I'm an 18 so that hurts a bit when you have to buy a T shirt that size when you know you aren't really that size at all . And it IS bloody disheartening when you try like crazy to loose weight and it doesn't happen at all. With my cycles now I can retain up to 3kg of fluid depending on what part of my cycle I'm up to. So I really need some new clothes, but at the same time don't want to buy too much because I want to wear the clothes I already have but can't fit into atm
MP: eeewww hope the poo bug stays away from your house! so tiring to get gastro.
Cally: we are the same. Leila is still quite small. i am forcing her into 2s simply because the Os and 1s are fast becoming really worn out. (and here i was dreaming that i could re-use them for any future baby )
MD: SPROUT STOP AT 2??!!!! What is this heinous thing you talk of????? but, what.do.i.do without sprout to boost DDs wardrobe???
Sherie: i reckon it's a cycle thing too. when my endo was at its peak (around 2002-2006) i was much heavier (it would fluctuate throughout my cycle as well). i didnt realise it at first, but when i look back i couldnt believe it. the bloating alone was bad!
and i have to agree with the clothing...was in italy and wanted to buy up for me, but the majority of the stuff was a 70s/80s flashback and the rest required a detailed lesson from the staff on which way is up......and i am just not into black leather pants.
Clare - I love your new house it looks beautiful and full of character. The backyard looks a nice manageable size too. L's wall decal is awesome, is that the one you got in Italy? What a gorgeous room she has.
Trill & MD - Sorry to hear of your weight loss struggles, its so darn easy to put it on yet so hard to lose it!! Hope you guys get somewhere really soon.
MD - Thanks, I hope its my turn for a baby next. As for swear words, dont feel bad. These things happen. I can understand your guilt as the other day M was bucked into her car seat when I spotted a spider (just a daddy long legs) crawling on her so I said S*** and she started repeating it, oops. Its just a little slip hehe
M has a yucky nappy rash, so been letting her go nakie for alot of the day, its so hot here anyway. She just came up to me before saying 'uh oh' & sure enough theres a BIG one right in the middle of the floor lol. Thank god for tiles is all I can say.
Just a quickie as I am off to make DH a lovely bday dinner. Hope everyone else is well.
Thanks H It's not too bad, but more frustrating when you know you take one step forward and two steps back sometimes. I will get there but it just really ****s me when I work so hard and still struggle to do buttons up because of the fluid retention.
Clare, I haven't checked out the pics of L's room yet, I must do that tomorrow.
Trill, I am with you on how crap it makes you feel when you have to buy sizes up from what you actually are - I am a 14-16 (more 16 atm) but at some shops I have to by extra large. It really bums me out. DH can't understand why I walk into some clothes shops and then turn around and walk back out but some places just don't sell past a 14. I am the same with skirts too - heaps of them look good on the rack but look like a tent on. I am looking for one that minimises my big butt, hides the thighs and basically makes me a size 10 lol
MP, N sounds amazing! W has been walking around carrying handfuls of imagination lately, it is so cute. He hasn't really learned anything new lately, we have been having a few behaviour issues the past month - I think it is just him adjusting to the baby.
MD, I have a summer clothes crisis too. Too fat for all my old stuff and it is soo hard for me to find anything I like at the shops. I have to admit that DH and W already planted our pumpkins last weekend before I had the idea. But to be fair, I have the disadvantage of cr@p weather - on monday it was snowing in the next town!
Cally, the pumpkin seeds are in the seed stand, they are the big orange ones.
Hi to everyone else, busy this morning packing as we are going CAMPING!!! William is so excited, he has slept in his sleeping bag for the last few nights lol. We are taking the boat too, so should be a good time.
so promptly had a huge tantrum and ate the rest of the tub of icecream. I"m sure that's not in the anticancer diet either...*sigh*
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It's not too bad, but more frustrating when you know you take one step forward and two steps back sometimes. I will get there but it just really ****s me when I work so hard and still struggle to do buttons up because of the fluid retention.
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