Babies Born ~ September 2007 #63

[Trillian]

PMSL Arte! I did the same thing about next week - I have to take Mum to an appt with her surgeon and I had it in my mind that I had to take A because DH was working, but when I actually bothered to look at the calendar I realised that he wasn't working at all.

JM, how long were you and DH planning on staying over there? I don't think you ever said? My SIL's DH used to go there a lot for work - he is a Drill rig sparky and does contract work in the mines but he hasn't been there for nearly 2 years now because he said the money was great but not nearly enough for all the worry you had to have.

So being Friday, I took A to preschool and then went down to my fave coffee shop for cake and coffee while I read the papers. Now I'm at the local library to try to get some study done while I wait for him to finish at 1pm.

[AnyDream]

Oz . Such a terrible thing to happen to anyone, and traumatic too for close friends and family. Thinking of you. xxx

JM, that sounds like an absolute shocker of a trip, but I suppose you just get on with what you have to, don't you?

Awww I want orange writing now. Seriously! Never thought about lifetiming it but Kelly has upped the ante with the pretty colour. I wanna be SPESHAL!!!

[Ozstar]

Little Jack actually had a heart condition and although things looked positive it seems his little heart just gave out. The slow placenta meant she was having monitoring though.

[Trillian]

Oz, I knew he had the heart problem, but I didn't think that he wouldn't survive.

[Ginger]

I think you should definitely find out Arte. I loved knowing j was a boy.

[Isadora]

Girls can I just say you are super mums for doing the 2 hourly wake ups for that long. I just could not hack it!!

That being said Cass its probably just a growth spurt or bit of a rough patch, from what I can remember with M it was all over the joint, one good week, one bad bad week. Hang in there!!

Arte - Yeah I agree find out the sex. Then you can get all excited knowing what you are having. I was thrilled to know I was having another girl.

[Cassius2]

i loved finding out with my girls! go on arte lol!

[AnyDream]

Hiya ladies, I'm totally braindead after a few very busy days. Had a totally ****house Valentines yesterday with a massive fight with DH, so i hope some of you at least scored some chocs or flowers or even a decent smooch cos it sure aint happening here!!!

Wanted to say while I still remember Ginger I am very impressed with you getting onto the IRL mumma bonding during your away from BB time! Good work. I'm feeling ready for some new IRL friendships too, thinking about taking Missy E to care later one day just so I can drag her along to playgroup as a pretext to meet some other mummas LOL.

Cass WTG with the neighbour action. You are such a social butterfly, is there anyone on your street you don't know yet? LOL How is it going with FIL there?

Arte, another vote for finding out here - it was such a thrill with Missy E to find out as early as we did (courtesy of the CVS).

MP, totally love the house-swapping concept! What a great way to have yourself a little break

[Trillian]

MD we don't 'do' valentines day either I'm sure he will make it up for you later.

MP, that sounded like a great idea. Are you going to do it again with your Mum?

H, I"m so proud of you the way you have been going with the BF this time

Cass, I think it's awesome knowing all your neighbours like that. It just doens't happen enough in cities anymore so it's really refreshing to hear that you all make the effort to connect.

G, fingers crossed that a wonderful friendship develops for you. The MG sounds horrible.

Well after a quiet start to the week the arse end is going to be flat out. Tomorrow I have to take mum to Wagga for another appt with her surgeon for a check up, but the bonus of that is I have a DH approved trip to Spotlight on the cards to get curtain fabric for the boys room because their bunks will be here by the end of next week. Then Friday is preschool day so in town all day for that. Saturday we have 2 birthday parties - one at lunchtime at the pool for a little girl that P did little A's with and they are homeschoolers so that opens up a new friendship for her outside of school, then another party for our friend's 1yo DD which is a afternoon/night BBQ, then Sunday is L's 10th birthday!!!!! But we are off to Forbes that day (1.5hrs away) for a little A's regional carnival. And at some point I have to make him a birthday cake LOL. OH and on Monday I have to take Mum to TAFE to so she can enroll in the course she's doing. I need a bex just thinking about all that LOL.

[Cassius2]

oh MD! that does sound like a shocker way to spend st vals....man. i wont rub in our day lol (not that it was romantic...FILs presence is not really inducive to that kinda thing ).

and yes, it is getting might close to knowing everyone...there are a few that i dont know, but we still wave etc to eachother. lovely street, cant complain.

yikes, my timing lately is shocking...marta is awake...gotta go BBL...
wish me luck we are off to kindy. last time was disasterous.

[Ginger]

I never used a blanket, I used to just flop em out anywhere lol

[Isadora]

haha go you, wish I was that confident!

[Cassius2]

I never used a blanket, I used to just flop em out anywhere lol

me too ahhh it's bad though when the toddler runs off and you go after them britney spears style with a boob and baby hanging out lol.

[AnyDream]

I have a pathological aversion to covering my boobs when feeding! I keep it discrete, but I don't believe in hiding it. BUT having said that Missy E was always terribly distracted so I used to plop a bunny rug over her face sometimes to stop her from looking around every where. My FIL tried to suggest a breastfeeding cape to me once, and lived to regret ever opening his mouth

How come I never know when stuff is on sale at Myer?...our Myer's pretty shopped out though, not sure how much decent stuff I'd find up there.

Ginger well done on signing up for first aid. I did a red cross on for free when DD1 was tiny, then did another when I was working in the drs surgery. The kind of thing you hope you never ever have to use.

[Cassius2]

yeah i missed the myer memo lol. and i still have like $65 on a gift card to spend...it's actually been hard to spend it (mostly because i have decided to not spend it on the girls lol).

MD: hmmm Marta is also a 'looker' while BF. starting to drive me barmy. mebbe i do need a wrap type thingy of some sort to keep her focused??

hmmm now i cant remember what was said in the other page...sorry that i have been slack guys, just trying to get on briefly while DHs dad is here...

[AnyDream]

Cassius, quickest way to burn through a gift card in myer is to head to the underwear section. Closely followed by perfume (not that you could get a decent bottle for $65, but it's a start . How long is FIL staying for?

[Ginger]

I would say get a blanket then isa. Check out mothers direct website and see which ones the aba recommend xo

[Cassius2]

Isa: i was actually thinking about the blanket thingy and yeah, i can see your point as well. especially considering that WA only recently stopped allowing discrimination against BF mums at restaurants etc. if i felt a bit uncomfy or was having attachment issues then yeah, i would probably try everything to keep it happening! i saw some in baby bunting the other day but i would try "etsy"...they have way cool stuff and with the Oz $ so strong it is great to buy from the US

G: i would do it! if it all falls apart and the gym or the creche arent working then at least you gave it a crack. and it's cool that the boys would have eachother IYKWIM. i remember being at the gym care when i was a kidlet...we coped lol! (one place that mum went to was really boring as basically it was just a boring old room with nothing in it, so the following times i brought books and colouring pencils etc to bring).

i need to re-do my first aid. i did one when Leila was 6 months old...so am feeling a bit rusty.

MD: hmmm, mum stocked me up on knickers et al at chrissy...and i dont wanna buy a pretty bra until after i stop BF ITMS...want to know that i can get it to fit lol...so i *think* i might have to check out the shoes man i love shoes.

OH OH OH! and my totally awesome find for the week (or the century??!) is BigW jeans!! YES. i know, daggy place, but OMG! they are awesome! i bought a pair of their standard range (the ones in the boxes in teh wall) of the skinny blue jeans and they are AMAZING! and only $30!! so cool.

AFM: we are all good! DH had his super succesful book launch last night so happy for him! and all the books sold!!!! it is actually selling really well, on amazon it has cracked teh top 100,000 mark (i know, not the top 10 like it should be ). but this is way better than the last book that struggled at around the million mark . he had the historian Henry Reynolds launch it for him too which was great. then all of us went out for dinner for the most delicious pizza...i got the quattro formaggi...mmmmm. still dreaming of it lol. so it was a late night, and the girls are tired, but they did so well last night i am so proud of them. all our friends and their kids turned up as well (including my dear friends with their little boy with the respiratory problems...soo happy as taht is not easy as there needs to be one of them in the back with the machine to help clear him etc etc...no mean feat). it was just lovely! and i loved it as i got to be a bit dolled up and wore my roberto cavalli strappy heels that i havent worn since, well, since leila was born so i felt quite spesh