Babies Born ~ September 2007 #71

[Junglemum]

No Tril. At this rate she'll be lucky to get a cake! Lol I'm supposed to fly home on Monday but not sure if I am. So not too sure where we'll be for it. I will get there but no big plans.

Hmm shares in sorbent, now there's an idea...

[Artechim]

Cass, I wouldn't be your new hero if you heard me nearly crying on the phone when the lady said they wouldn't be there to fix the air con on Thursday lol. I even pulled out the 'I've got three kids under 5' thing to get some sympathy but they still didn't come. But they did come today and we are warm again
Nico is a cute name! You pick awesome names. I can't wait to hear what little miss is going to be called.

W has been wiping his own butt for over two years now and still uses half a roll of paper. I just flush it down and be thankful that is all I have to do lol

JM, I am sure you will find something special to do for her no matter where you are. I am constantly amazed at how fast time goes when you have a baby. That first year is just crazy - seems like a blink of an eye from the time you are holding a sweet tiny newborn to when you are pinning down a wriggly screamy big baby who is pulling a nappy off as fast as you can get it on.

[Cassius2]

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I am constantly amazed at how fast time goes when you have a baby. That first year is just crazy - seems like a blink of an eye from the time you are holding a sweet tiny newborn to when you are pinning down a wriggly screamy big baby who is pulling a nappy off as fast as you can get it on.

that is so true

JM: packet cake and splash it up with loads of norti icing you are set lol!

[Cassius2]

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I am constantly amazed at how fast time goes when you have a baby. That first year is just crazy - seems like a blink of an eye from the time you are holding a sweet tiny newborn to when you are pinning down a wriggly screamy big baby who is pulling a nappy off as fast as you can get it on.

that is so true

JM: packet cake and splash it up with loads of norti icing you are set lol!

[Artechim]

MD, Happy double birthday for your house I am a bit afraid to ask, but does that make H a....teenager? I have seen photos of both your girls on FB lately and they look very similar and very much like you (and pretty too).

Not much going on here. Thumping headache, not improved by the arrival of a $420 power bill (monthly!). Not impressed, didn't believe anyone that heat pumps are cheap to run but that is over double our normal bills and we haven't done much different since the move except turn that on. I will chase up the guy to hopefully get the diesel central heating going. If we are paying a fortune anyway then we can at least use the system that heats the whole house, not just the lounge.

[Cassius2]

woah, that is one steep bill arte what a pooer. i reckon there is some serious energy zapping going on there. is the hot water electric??

[AnyDream]

Arte, you have described the bleh-weekend-without-DH feeling very accurately! What a relief to have the heat on again, I'm not sure I could have coped, and getting that power bill in the midst of not-even-having-heat would totally tip me right over the edge! Make sure you query that, it might be there was an error on the reading of the meter just before you moved in, kwim?

BTW, H was teenager LAST YEAR! So she's fully into teenagerdom now. And she's finally grown herself some boobs... and a bit of interest from boy-teenagerdom too. AAAAAAAAAAAAH (*runs screaming from the room*).

Cass, well done getting L all set on the bum-wiping. Miss E is having a go but maybe her arms are too short or her aim is poor, because I have to wipe afterwards. Luckily we've got another half a year to get it right! When you and Trill are done acquiring the market in Sorbent shares and launched an aggressive merger/takeover of their dunny paper division, remember your ole friend MD.

JM, I can't believe it's been a year already! Are you in Oz right now? How long are you planning to linger on in the jungle? BTW I have been meaning to ask how your book-container project went. Did you end up with enough materials and did they make it ok to the jungle? I've got a new contact in the library world who collects good used school material for sending to places like PNG, so that might be another avenue for getting something useful sent your way.

[Trillian]

LOL MD, I will give you a job as CEO of my toilet paper empire. Your Big Girl is growing up into a young woman far too quickly! Hard to believe that she was only as old as my DD1 is now when we had our meet up. So how are you coping with DH away still?

Arte, it was 1 deg here this morning and I thought of you when I turned the heater on at my feet. I hope it's sorted out for you now. I'm dreading getting our power bill this winter.

I have been trying to take a break from Uni while the trimester break is on and it's been great, but now I have this feeling that I am completely left behind and I should have just gotten stuck into it like everyone else seems to have done. There is a fair amount of group work to be done this time and I'm in groups with people who are far more anal retentive and organised than I am and I'm feeling the pressure already.

Also enjoying my new toy too - wishing I got the bigger data pack so I can use it more, but I will see how it goes after the first month.

And A can't wipe his own bum properly yet either and I'm quite happy to wipe it for him if it means there are no skid marks in his jocks