well done on the Oobi!!!! that is awesome- they must be selling all their stock as the new range comes out march 5th -check out their website if you dare LOL
Ha ha, the worst thing is my bf is a photographer at country road so she's always telling me about the cute little boys stuff that is coming up. Does my head in cos I want it all! Lol
Hiya ladies, just wanted to pop in and let you all know i've been reading - mostly on my phone on the bus - but it's a bit of a pain replying on the teeny tiny screen, etc.
Ginger, go little J the big 2 yo Rockstar!!! The cake looked awesome, sounds like a great day. My nephews have one of those tables and absolutely love it, still play with it even though they're at school now.
Arte, have you recovered from your weekend away yet? Sounds exhausting.
Cass, how come you're going to Tvl? Special event? Is it all cleaned up and functioning again since the cyclone? BTW meant to thank you for posting the Laid vids on FB, watched them all last night, hilarious!
You did a great job on the cake G. I don't really like the oobi stuff - I've tried to LOL because I've seen some great bargains on it, but it's just too impractical for my kids.
I hope Arte is OK, there was a quake in Wellington and I think that was a bit closer to her?
I'm ok. I don't think the Wellington one was out of the norm, they always have lots of little ones there. I am just down about the whole thing. By the time it is all said and done they are predicting around 240 deaths. 240 people, just doing their everyday things and then all of a sudden gone. The cathedral is a tomb. Many of those missing will never be found and will never go home to their families.
Reading but not posting much. So tired and W has started with the mega screaming bedtimes again so I get to deal with that as well as DH being an A-hole because it is obviously my fault and I have ruined W for life by allowing him to be difficult at bedtime. Grrr. Can't be ****ed with his crap as well. Far out I wish I had left him years ago when I wanted to before we were tied down with the kids.
arte- are you ok mate? i don't blame you for being down, it's a lot to comprehend. the bushfires here really affected me for absolutely ages, i thought about it constantly and about all the different scenerios. big hugs hun.
what is going on with W at bed time? tell us more and maybe we can help you out. i'm no expert, but you know that both my boys have been shocking sleepers too so may be i can help?
trill- i'm not a big fan of oobi anymore either. i really like the girls' stuff and love buying it for gifts for my friends with daughters but the boys stuff sux once they're past the baby stage iykwim? my new favourite brand is Minti (it's actually from nz arte)
md- thanks for your comments about the cake i'm so pleased to hear your nephews still play with their table. it cost a bomb! so i hope the boys get years of use out of it. we haven't actually set up the atble itself yet but i have to say that the boys ahve been playing with the trains just on our coffee table non stop since sunday so i think that's a good sign
Ginger, DD1 plays with E's trainset nearly more than E does LOL...plenty of years use yet!!!
Arte, I"ve thought about it a lot too. 240 people, and all their families, and friends - it's so much tragedy to absorb and it just doesn't seem to make sense. Maybe though you need to try to distract yourself from it for a bit - it's not disrespectful to look after yourself when you need to. xxx Sorry the bedtimes has gone to shiat again, perhaps you need to tell DH calmly what a bad place you're in right now.
Trill, I'm glad you said that about the oobi. As a fan of all clothing/shoes that are practical, I totally agree!!
md- that really is great to hear. i hunted around on ebay for ages to find a second hand table but i just couldn't find one that was suitable within reasonable distance. i put a few bids on but always got outbid so we ended up buying a brand new one and like i said, it did cost a lot so i really hope it's a great investment. we figured it's something we can always add to at birthdays and xmas and i'm going to try to keep it all neat and in good condition iykwim? so its really lovely to hear that your dd1 plays with it.
yes i've definitely outgrown oobi myself as the boys stuff is just too babyish once they hit 2yo and i also agree with something jm said previously and that is that the quality is not great. it is lovely stuff for little girls for special occasion wear though i think.
Arte I struggled a lot with the Brisbane floods, I was so down about it. I felt a little guilty that it was so close and I knew people affected but the GC got away unscathed iykwim. What has happened in NZ is devastating and really is a lot to absorb.
I am sorry W is acting up at bedtime, I wish I had a magic cure for you.
G your cake was awesome. I can't believe little J is 2!! Z has a little Oobi dress that is still to big, its very much a "party" dress. She also has a little long sleeved dress/shirt type thing which will hopefully fit her in winter.
I am back from a huge weekend! I missed the kids like crazy and now have mountains of editing to do. L is at CC today, I am trying to think of something to do with Z..... maybe some baking she likes to lick the beaters.
Oz, I'm so happy for you that business is booming. You do such a great job
G, I noticed that with the boys stuff too from oobi. their baby boy stuff is OK, but their toddler clothes make them look like Little Lord Flauntleroy LOL. I would have loved a Thomas table for L when he was younger, but we don't have the room and they both have way too much stuff now for it to all fit on the table. They have enough track now that we can make a track over 10mts long! L will still play with all it and is still keen to get more as well. It's something they don't grow out of quickly and I think its like an investment because you get so long out of it.
Arte huge squishy 's for you. It sucks that things have gotten rough again and I wish I could just shake your Dh and tell him to pull his head out of his bum and realise that none of it is your fault, because I'm pretty certain that you didn't request not one, but two kids that don't sleep LOL. Tell him if he isn't part of the solution, then he's part of the problem.
Oh, I forgot to say that we are finally starting the boys room! DH picked up their bunks last week and I got the paint and curtains all ready to go. Yesterday I started sanding and washing the walls and hopefully by the weekend we'll have started painting. I suggested to DH that we get the kids to stay at the IL's on Friday night so we can clear their room completely and paint without interruption, but he reckons we'll be fine if they stay here. I don't think we will be because while I was sanding the walls yesterday A came in and rolled all over the plastic sheet covering his bed and got covered in sanding dust so I don't know how he thinks we will be able to stop him touching freshly painted walls LOL.
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Trill, tell us more about your plans for the boys's room. I think you told us once before but I can't quite remember..??!
We haven't painted E's walls yet, dont' want to attempt it when the kids are at home either, but neither of us have very much leave so she might be waiting a bit longer. Not that she minds, she's quite happy with her couple of test-patches that we painted on LOL.
Trill, when I am painting the kids ALWAYS go somewhere with DH. Even if he just takes them outside and I shut the door to the room I am in. Otherwise W wants to help ie not help. Last time I did let him change into some painting clothes and do a bit of the first coat of rolling and he thought he was really neat though.
MD, lol at E being happy with the test spots!
I haven't ever understood the Oobi or any designer clothes thing - personally I like cheap clothing that lasts lol. There is a shop I visit every time we go to Wanganui that has specials on for $3-5 so I usually stock up there. Last time I got three tee-shirts and a pair of shorts for $12. Nothing fancy, but great for around the house and kindy etc. It isn't like we go anywhere worth dressing up for anyway lol
Thanks for the kind words. I am just so tired atm, I have been sick all week and I want to crawl into bed and sleep forever but since DH had last week off work he is too busy to have any days off this week.
The bedtime disaster is just that he is silly and ignoring/growling etc doesn't work and eventually he ends up yelling and screaming for a couple of hours like he used to. I think we might have had a bit of a break-through though - since kindy started he has been a wreak and in bed by 6.30-7pm, but I think he might have adapted and just isn't tired enough then so we are trying a slightly later bedtime again to see what happens.
We went on a kindy trip to the local blueberry farm and got a big bag of blueberries (for $3/kg!!!), so if anyone has any good blueberry recipes...
Three tshirts and a pair of shorts for $12?! Bargain! I always hear about these mythical bargains but rarely stumble across them, or if I do they get disqualified (I have a whole internal checklist of things I don't want on clothes - no cheesey slogans, or even better no slogans at all, none of those painted-on plastic pictures that go to ****e first time you put them in the dryer, no crappy loose-weave fabrics - cos they wash terribly - etc...it's a wonder i ever find anything to put on my kids at all).
Arte, we went through a tricky patch with the bedtimes not so long ago. She still needs a daytime sleep sometimes but it has been counterproductive some days. Then I twigged DH had started giving her Milo instead of milk at bedtime and it turns out that was making her hyper (we're talking sing&dance in your bedroom - with lots of shouting out inbetween - until 10.30 every night ). Then I realised my late night Milo was interfering with my sleep patterns too. Moral of the story: Nestle is evil and Milo is proof. (it didn't use to be this way, i think they might've changed their formulation). So it might be worth checking if there's a food or additive that he's having on kindy days that might be setting him off, kwim? On really bad nights we try "lie down and be quiet or I'll shut the door" and even "lie down and be quiet or I'll turn the hallway light off", and I've also done "I'll come back in and rub your back in 10 minutes BUT ONLY IF I don't hear any noise" (rewards lying still quietly which - surprise surprise - usually results in them going to sleep after only 1 or 2 rounds of back rubbing). HTH.
MD, thanks. We do the "lie down and be quiet or I will move away from the bed" but the other night I was out the door and ran out of threats! We ended up holding the door shut for about half an hour (in which time he trashed his room!), and when it was opened again he settled down very quickly. But it was 10.30pm by then. I don't think there is anything foodwise that is causing it because I pack his lunch and it is nothing that I don't give him every other day. Interesting about the milo.
The bargain clothes are awesome. They are generic print tee's, so maybe a pic of a motorbike/surfer/4x4 but no horrible slogans on them. I don't tend to use the dryer for clothes because we have the fire over winter so they stay alright. The pj's from that shop warp terribly but the rest has been fine.
a lot of the clothes i buy are the more expensive type i guess, but having 2 boys so close together in age means that my clothes get a huge amount of wear as they are handed straight from one to the other iywim? some clothes have actually had 4 seasons of wear! i have found that all of L's Cotton On clothes have not made it through to J, so i guess this just seems like false economy to me. anyway i've learned my lesson the hard way from that shop, and don't buy anything from there anymore! i love buying stuff from myer and country road on sale cos i know i'll get my moneys worth iykwim? i get depressed going to Target as there is 1 ailse of boys clothes to 8 ailses of girls stuff so i just don't bother.
so in other news we've just found out that it looks like we'll have to move with the times and replace our septic tank with a proper sewerage system over the next few years which will probably be super exxy. septics are super bad for the environment though so i guess it's a good thing, but just another thing to spend money on grrrrr
trill- what colour are you painting the boys room?
G, There is a cotton On in Wagga and every time I walk past there you can just tell their clothes are nasty and wouldn't last. I get what you mean about the more exxie clothes. I always had a few 'good' outfits for the kids and most of the stuff was good enough to be handed down so I certainly got my money's worth out of it.
Arte, that is a lot of blueberries! The last time we painted a room in this house was back when P was only 6 months old, so we had a 3yr10mth child a 2yr 2mth child and a baby and I have no idea how we got it done with them around LOL. But it wasn't a room we were using at the time so we could close it up when we weren't in there.
MD, we're doing a pale grey for the walls, and then a charcoal for the trimming and the built in robe, which takes up one full wall. Their curtains are a steel blue and their new bunks were charcoal as well.
Trill, W loves his grey room. Sounds like it will be very cool in there.
Ginger, if I had two of the same gender I think lastability would be more of a priority. But then maybe not - by the time W is done with clothes they are usually stained up pretty badly and a bit too cruddy to hand along anyway. I have never had luck with the napisan type products. I try them all thinking there must be a good stain solutions somewhere! Anyhow, your boys always look georgeous!
Why are septics bad for the environment? I just had a system designed for a bit of land we have and the water leaving the tank is supposed to clean by the time it gets to the surface. But sucks you have to spend heaps of cash on something unexpected and not strictly required. I know I have battled my neighbours next to my land for the last 6 years to get them to put in new septic systems that don't leak sewage water onto my land but they resist because 20k is a lot to spend when their current system is working just fine (they tend to ignore the raw sewage discharge on my land lol)
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Maybe though you need to try to distract yourself from it for a bit - it's not disrespectful to look after yourself when you need to. xxx Sorry the bedtimes has gone to shiat again, perhaps you need to tell DH calmly what a bad place you're in right now.
so I don't know how he thinks we will be able to stop him touching freshly painted walls LOL.
). Then I realised my late night Milo was interfering with my sleep patterns too. Moral of the story: Nestle is evil and Milo is proof.
(it didn't use to be this way, i think they might've changed their formulation). So it might be worth checking if there's a food or additive that he's having on kindy days that might be setting him off, kwim? On really bad nights we try "lie down and be quiet or I'll shut the door" and even "lie down and be quiet or I'll turn the hallway light off", and I've also done "I'll come back in and rub your back in 10 minutes BUT ONLY IF I don't hear any noise" (rewards lying still quietly which - surprise surprise - usually results in them going to sleep after only 1 or 2 rounds of back rubbing). HTH.
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