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G: hahaha, nah, i have seen the disparity between the two as well. the highschool here looks big and scary lol and well, alot more conventional. what a shock to the wee 7th graders lol.
Trill: that is very cool that Chewy has a new home :dance:. Does this mean that your mum is on kangaroo care duty lol?!
Ella: yes! we want pics!!
AFM: well, i am feeling....a bit better :dance:. but am still to the GP as it can all change rather quickly throughout the day and the breathing probs are a bit worrysome.
ATM i can hear the girls playing in their bedroom and you know what? i love that sound!! it is so gorgeous to hear them playing and getting really involved in their fantasies etc. never having had a sibling, i just love to see it all unfold IYKWIM.
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Trill - a very big happy (belated) birthday to young master A :birthday2: !
Cass, I'm thinking that you might be feeling the after effects of the rheumatic fever. It's good that you're going back to the Dr. The RF side of the things needs good ongoing monitoring, and a run of blood tests is a good idea too.
Ella - hang in there :hug:
Hmmm yes very big difference between primary and high school, although from what I've seen the school we've chosen for H seems to be a little more with the program. They provide more structure and support in yrs 8 and 9 instead of just throwing the kids into the deep end of high school independence. No community garden or worm farms though and I have yet to suss out the canteen offerings. Our current canteen is done by a local cafe-owner so they have yum things like sushi and beef stirfry on the lunch menu. Costs an arm and a leg though.
AFM well I'm home today courtesy of a golfball to the windscreen on our way to school this morning. It was one that got away from the golf club, landed square in front of my face. Scary as. I'm staring at the massive crater in the glass thinking "That couldn't be a bird!? Did someone throw a rock at us?" and H (who saw it bounce before it hit us) keep repeating "It's a bouncy ball, mum! A bouncy ball." And about 3 seconds later the penny dropped. Anyway the golf club is going to pay for the repair, it's just inconvenient really, the man can't get here until this afternoon. Lucky the ball hit a car though and not a person.
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Happy belated Birthday Mr A!
MD - PIL live next to the first tee of the golf course - they have an ongoing arrangement re window repairs.....
Cass - Sounds like a round of blood tests is in order. Hope you feel better soon.
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MD: omg that would of been scary! Not to mention dangerous!! far out!
All my BTs so far have come back as recovering (from the RF). i have low iron, but that is no suprise at it really is my achilles heel. but yeah, i think a chat about my immune system is in order. obviously it's just not kickstarting (and could be that the iron is a symptom of that :think:). anyway, i'll see what we can do. i am off to the TCM dude next week (had to delay as i was just too unwell). they are pretty good in getting immune systems going for gold again (or so i have been told!).
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Far out MD! I reckon I would have crapped my dacks if that happened to me - or at the very least a little skid mark :LOL: How long did it take for your heart to stop pounding after it happened? :hug: Glad they are paying for it though.
Cass, fingers crossed you find out if there is anything wrong because at least you can fix it then.
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cass - my two are always playing very fanciful games together too and i love it. they go on safari's, and to weddings, and make up concerts - and DS (2) is invariably dressed as a princess, butterfly, etc by his big sis. he doesn't care though - he likes being included in the game!! the latest game this week is crocodile hunting - they have been finding crocodiles everywhere, and it takes them a good 20mins to get themselves set up for the hunt - backpacks, outfits, hats, sunglasses - it's lovely to observe!! of course my DH comes home and complains about the mess of the house, but i'd rather they were playing and having fun and messing up the house than sitting in front of the TV and keeping the house tidy!!
MD - that would have been REALLY scary!! glad your windscreen didn't shatter in all over you!! my car was broken into a few years ago (side windows), and i was finding little segments of glass inside for MONTHS despite having it professionally detailed twice...
Trillian - i ordered my food colouring from eBay last night at 2am while i couldn't sleep - I was pretty excited about it, so paid the extra $4 for Express Post!! i want to make some rainbow cupcakes with the kids this weekend as a fun activity for them...
afm - went to the Ob today. he asked "so how long are you happy to wait for the baby", and i said "indefinitely", and he said "ok", and i was sent on my way for another week... baby still sitting high up and not engaged (but DS was the same until i went into labour, so i'm not worried about it), and other than some uncomfortable braxton hicks, there's been nothing of any interest to report...
the bricklayers are meant to start work on our ground floor walls next week - pretty excited about that! the slab looks pretty small at the moment, but i've been promised that it will look bigger once the walls go up. it seems counter-intuitive, but i'm hoping that it's true!!
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Cass, I hope that they can find a reason for you getting so sick all the time :hug: W and A play together sometimes now and it is adorable. They were doing a pillow fight around the house the other night.
MD, I sooo would have wet my pants if that happened to me! Glad the golf course are paying for it.
Ella, anything happening yet? FIL is a builder and he always says the rooms look bigger once the walls are up.
Everything is going well here. E is great, never fusses. She has been having an incredibly convenient nap right through tea, bath and bedtime :) I know it won't last long, but it has been a good intro to having three kids. Her awake time has stretched from two to three hours now. She is still having a couple of big naps but she seems very similar to the other two so I am picking that the awake time will keep getting longer and the naps will turn into cat naps in a few weeks. Never mind though, she is adorable!
And......W goes to bed by himself and sleeps through the entire night (touch wood!)!!!! Since the day E was born and DH told him he could pick a present if he went to sleep by himself he has done it every night with no fuss - 9 nights in a row now, and the sleeping through is some crazy bonus we didn't see coming! We went to the city on Sunday and he picked a bigger Nerf gun (and one for DH) and there have been constant Nerf fights which have been fun. Erin has only been hit once and that was by DH! W has been such a great boy, so helpful and always wanting to hold E.
Amelia is taking a bit more to adjust. She is spending a fair bit of her day screeching. Very frustrating but she will get over it eventually. She is also cutting some teeth so I guess that isn't helping at all.
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Nerf guns are a huge hit in this house too Arte, the boys have so many of them now and apparently they are all necessary LOL! But they are loads of fun. That is fantastic that W is sleeping through now. I really really hope that it lasts! How is A on that front though?
Ella, it's weird the way it changes when you have the walls up. We had a friend build a few years ago and the rooms looked so tiny, but yeah, once it was done they were decent sized rooms. I hope it's not too much longer for you to wait either :hug:
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Arte, good to hear from you, I've been wondering how you're getting on. Is your pelvis feeling much better now? Yay for W's sleeping, amazing what happens when you push the right motivational button LOL.
Ella, building a house - so exciting!
Trill, will you be doing a summer subject/semester this year? I had previously intended to but I think I'll let my brain to cool off for a little while instead. I've been finding it hard to think and concentrate all day for work (some big deadlines lately) and then come home and have to think and concentrate some more, and I've been putting off making decisions because the lobes are too weary, and I can only think about one thing at a time!
BTW - DD1 got her Naplan results back and she's at the top of the top band for persuasive writing and off the chart for grammar and punctuation (!). So I looked over her UniNSW comp thing again, and 2 years ago she scored above the 91st percentile. How can she possibly be below the 10th percentile now? I smell a RAT. So I rang them up (UNSW) and they are going to send me a copy of what she wrote. Either it was tripe and we can discuss where it all went so horribly wrong (and hopefully learn from the experience) or it was good and they've made an error and they will need to review their results. I'm much happier now I know I can get a copy of what she did.
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Trill, A has slept though a couple of times lately, but usually she has a wake up and needs to be put back in bed. She was going straight back to sleep, but the last couple of nights she has howled at the door for 20 minutes or so before putting herself back to bed.
MD, pelvis is still sore but much better than it was. The ligament pain is mostly gone - it was more of a physical whiplash type injury from the birth so it has cleared up faster than the hormonal caused pain I think. But my tailbone is still sore and I have been trying to get a referral to the physio but the fill-in midwife doesn't seem to be doing it. I was hoping to get there this week while DH was at home but I don't see that happening now.
Well done to H for her Naplan results (I still don't know what they are but top of the band and off the chart sound good!). I wonder if they have mixed up the marks for the comp and some other kids is sitting on her award? How is H going now?
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Poor kid was in a cold sweat when she handed over the Naplan envelope to me to open LOL. So she is much relieved, although I intend to whoop as much academic mileage out of her failed assignment as I possibly can. This might be where she actually makes the connection that there is some relationship between degree of effort and outcome. (ETA Naplan is a set of compulsory national tests of different aspects of literacy and numeracy that all Aust children do every 2 years. You get a detailed report which shows where your child sits in relation to the expected performance range, the average for your school and the national average for that age).
Have you tried to ring the physio service/department direct? Reason I ask is because at the hospy I went to I was able to self-refer, so you might be able to bypass the middie and organise it yourself.
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Arte - Awesome news of W's sleeping. So glad that at least one of them seems to be sorted out!
MD - well done on H's results.
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They are fantastic results for H, MD! Clever thinking about calling UNSW about her comp results too. Maybe she was just having an off day the day she did it?
Arte, after having both A and P, my tailbone was sore for weeks afterwards. Sometimes when you give birth the tailbone is pushed out enough by the baby passing through that it can take a while to settle down afterwards. After A it was that bad I could hardly sit sometimes. Definitely give the physio a call about it though.
Cally, do you have anything planned for your time off?
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hi ladies
md- that golf ball incident is horrific! how totally scary for you xox
ella- how are you going?
trill- L loves his nerf gun too!!!
arte- glad to hear how well it is all going. so happy about W's sleep too
afm, L has been waking up in the night crying a lot- I've been speaking to a few people about it today and it seems as though it might be growing pains? trill- i thought you might know something about this from your L? did he go through this?
um....anyone else's boys been noticing and playing with a nd displaying their doodle a lot lately????
great news- we have just ordered an awesome cubby! it is for L's bday, xmas and J's b'day combined (that's how bl88dy exxy it is) so excited though, it is an absolute cracker and hopefully they will love playing in it.
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Ginger, the cubby must be awesome! Hope they enjoy it. Not much doodle stuff here. He sometimes plays with it a bit after bath time when it is right there but he doesn't go out of his way to play with it otherwise.
The crying in the night must be worrying :(
Trill, I have had trouble with my tailbone in all three pregnancies but this is the first time it has lingered after the birth - I guess because she was big and she was slow to come out.
MD, I could self refer, I just have no idea which physio is best for post birth problems.
My mum came to visit yesterday and had the little springer spaniel/ beardie cross pup with her - so freakin' cute!! I want a puppy! And another baby! Cluck, cluck, cluck lol.
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Ginger, I look forward to seeing some photies of the uber-cubby!! Very exciting. :D Sorry, it's a doodle-free zone here.
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Arte thats awesome that W is sleeping through!!
MD what fantastic results for your clever little H.
G L is ALWAYS playing with his doodle, he will sit there on the lounge watching tv with his hand in his pants lol. We did notice the other week though that his foreskin now comes back so we think thats why he has been extra fiddly. The cubby sounds awesome.
A big hi to everyone else and Happy belated Birthday to A and anyone I missed. I can't believe our kids are 4, it seems so grown up.
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Oz, it does seem so grown up doesn't it? Just think, this time next year we will be talking about getting SCHOOL UNIFORMS! I'm devastated already LOL.
MD, I forgot to say earlier that I wont be doing a summer semester this year. Far too much work when I have all 4 kids home and they aren't offering any subjects that I need to do anyway. TBH I'm looking forward to the long break from it. I've been going full on since the start of last year and my brain needs a rest LOL.
G, the cubby will be a hit I'm sure! it could be growing pains but not likely kwim? Maybe bad dreams? I know A will wake up upset from time to time and most of the time he has no idea what is wrong. But if you think it is growing pains, maybe give him a good rub on the legs before bed and see if it helps. My brother used to get them really bad when he was about 5 and Dad used to massage his legs with liniment to ease them. And A will always play trumpet with his pecker in the bath but he doesn't really bother with it any other time. L never touched it at all really LOL - he's a bit of a prude like that.
