Babies Born ~ September 2007 #74

oh we have that show here too! is he the dude with the specs?? i saw them advertising the show and he was jumping out of a box of giant biccies...heston someone or something??

I have been MIA due to cray cray busy selling times and our place becoming the House of Lurgy for the last 5 days. all three kids sent to be with nurofen tonight :(

Miss L will be SIX on monday :o

as in...6, six....SIX!!!! what the? when the??

and then i read that MDs H is....15!! cannot believe it. like seriously. far out brussel sprout....so are the teenage years shaping up to be as scary as everyone is telling me?? everyone tells me that i am going to be in trouble when my girls hit their teens lol.

I'm having minor freakouts about her being 6 too!

One of my facebook friends says that her teenagers are doing really well. Their friends all seem to have issues (self harm, eating disorders, issues with technology etc), but they're going OK - they have a really good relationship and she's always been available to talk to them when they need to. Really hoping that happens here!

My bad posture is catching up with me. Major lower back issues due to a sway back. By Friday at work I can hardly sit down. Physio has given me so many exercises I might have to go part time!

Such beautiful weather here this weekend. Hope everyone has great weather for all the parties coming up!

I haven't seen Heston do giant food but I did see an episode of a show where he did an entire fairy-tale themed dinner, the highlight of which was an entire hansel & gretel-style edible HOUSE complete with see-through sugar windows! Amazing.

Arte, I'm very impressed with your quiz team's ascendency. I went to a quiz night on Fri and either we were rubbish ro the questions were rubbish. Too many baby-boomer references and not enough funky geek questions. FWIW, you might find the motivation/inspiration factor creeps back in once the kids are little more self-directing. Well, that's what I found anyway.

I'm a little bit in denial about the impending 6-ness of our September babies. Miss E is thrilled to be having a birthday soon(ish) and interrogates me most days about how many more sleeps. She's getting so big and she's my babeeeeeeee~! And yep, H is 15 (!). Unreal. Teenagerhood seems to be going ok, no terrible attitudes or anything - nothing that we haven't had all along, anyway LOL. I sometimes feel though like I'm having to be a little more of a control freak with her than I would like to be - but I have to keep reminding myself that even though she looks kind of adult-sized, her brain's not going to stop growing for a few years yet.

Cally :hug: re your sore back. I hope the physio gives you some good long-term outcomes, although the parttime lifestyle is highly recommended LOL.

I hope all the daddies had a lovely day today - DH enjoyed a gourmet breakfast and gifts of jocks without the the socks LOL, and cute handmade picture & keyring from Miss E. All good and a gorgeous day with more sunshine coming tomorrow.

Cally, I hope you can get some relief for your back. Is there some sort of brace that you can wear to correct posture?

Cass, wishing Miss L a very happy birthday! I hope she has a very fun day.

MD, glad to hear the teenage years aren't as bad as people say. I am hoping for nerdy geeks like me that would rather sit and read a book than get up to mischief. I won't hold my breath though lol. It is hard to imagine H as a 15 year old - she was just a little kid when this all started. Only a few more years at home before she ventures out into the world! Is she planning on going to uni?
Our quiz was going downhill for a while there - loads of questions that we couldn't answer at all, categories like American football/baseball etc that we had no hope in. But last week was back to more general knowledge and much more enjoyable.

Spring has arrived in full force here. Beautiful sunshine, birds singing and all that guff. I feel a busy month coming on with the trio of birthdays, big assignment, tubal op, father visiting - seems like the whole month is booked out before it has even started!

Arte, I think I have successfully trained some nerdiness into her. She has a blog nerdling in a cage if you want to check it out (she would be beyond thrilled to see a hit from nz in her analytics, it doesn't get much traffic LOL). It's not all smooth sailing, I have to pull her up every now & again but there's an underlying mutual respect & appreciation which I'm not sure all mother-daughters have.

Anyway, I really just meant to say -

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to all our SEPTEMBER KIDDIES!! *mwah*

PS September is *always* idiotically busy here too. :)

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Arte, I think I have successfully trained some neediness into her.

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Freudian typo?

I briefly checked her blog, will have a better look when I have more time. It is a bit of a mind bend to think of her as a young woman with a blog!

Bahaha! Definitely an autocorrect.

I had another look through the blog and I am now inspired to watch some more anime. Good timing because I have run out of my regular shows atm. I have heard Code Geass is good. Any suggestions she has are welcome - looking at fantasy/supernatural genres. In return, I know it isn't anime but one of the best series I have watched for a long time is Avatar: The Last Airbender. We are late to kindy nearly every day because I have to watch it.

Commiserations. Glad I don't live there anymore!

Been very busy the last few days. I think I have everything sorted for the party tomorrow. Few tears from W today when he finally realised (after me telling him for the last two weeks!) that it is A's party and not his.

Arte - hope the party went well. I'm going to try really hard not to look at the forecast this week - I cannot control the weather, if we end up with 10 small girls in the house, I will just have to cope!! So how are you sorting out parties etc Arte? Are they taking it in turns with one every 3 years or how are you managing?

Feeling jealous of MP's posts from USA.....

My back is feeling a bit better. Amazing what correct posture can do.... I tend to stand with a sway back, so it's mainly abour correcting that. I'm a bit over physio exercises though - 3 times a day and it's about 15-20 minutes each time. Imagine what I could do with my time when it's all over!

we had Miss Ls birthday today :D it was fantastic! the weather really turned it up for us and the rainbow cake was frikkin' AWESOME! it came up a real treat! we had 'pin the pot of gold under the rainbow'

Photos Cass!!

Cally, glad you back is feeling better. Every time I get a twinge in my back I am reminded to be thankful for my good spine health - it is so debilitating when you have back issues.
Not really sure what we are doing about parties. I prefer the idea of a fun family day, spending the money that a party would cost on an activity you wouldn't normally do. The kids don't seem to agree though lol. We have told them once every three years, but that doesn't really work out with milestone birthdays.

L, glad the party went well! Ours went well too - helium balloons took care of most of the entertainment, with a small treasure hunt as well.

I am sick today. It started just after the party and I am worried that I fed people something that made them ill! There is only one mum/son I didn't see at kindy though, so hopefully it was just me. I ended up in bed at 6.30pm last night, leaving poor DH to deal with the post party fallout by himself lol.

hi everyone
hope all is well - we are in party season already. happy bday to all the gorgeous 6 year olds!
having an awesome time in usa - totally amazing! had a very special 6 days with my family in cleveland and am now in san diego and loving it. we rented a great house on the beach. been doing some great shopping, been to legoland (AMAZING), beach time, family time... could not be happier.
was sad to leave my great aunt but we are hoping to come back next year.
the main drama we had was n had to have a tooth extracted, he had a massive cavity. i cant believe it - i have never had even a filling! i do limit sugar and brush twice a day... dentist says it may have been a defective tooth. who knows.. anyway, he was amazing - brave and we just got it out. tooth fairy found him and he is happy. we will have to get a spacer i think when we get home.
looks like vietnam will be a goer... should have a contract later this week and prob move mid-end november. wow. will be so different.

i foud out today my perf ratig for last year at work - i did really well which equals a great bonus so i am thrilled. i have worked really hard this year.

better go - realy just wanted to say hapy bday to all the kiddies and to touch base.

xx

oh MP! you are such an asset to the company so that is totally awesome that you got a good bonus...more shopping now hahahahahahahaha!

eeekkk! Vietnam!!! exciting adventures! make a baby hahahahahaha!

Yay for anime! DD mostly watches kinda girly ones, and her anime-watching friends (all guys) like the fighty ones. I will ask her for her recommendations though. We're big on Studio Ghibli here too. Not too many of those we haven't seen. Arte I hope you're feeling better and I'm sure it wasn't anything from the party, more likely some random germs.

Miss E's birthday tomorrow, we will have a festive dinner and pressies and cake but she'll have to wait until later in the month for her PARTAY because I'm kinda having a stress breakdown right now, too many deadlines all at once & nothing I can postpone. Why is September always like this?

MP - your time o/seas sounds amazing. Congrats on your bonus!

MP, how exciting about Vietnam!! Glad your holiday is going well (dentist trip aside) and big fat woohoo for a great bonus! Happy Birthday to N - the 14th is it? - if you aren't back before then xx

MD, a very happy birthday to Miss E for tomorrow. Bummer about the deadlines :(

W's birthday today. Presents in the morning, then he went skiing (crappy weather but apparently the kids didn't complain at all!), then we went to the climbing wall for a bit and out for dinner when DH got home. We just did the candles in dessert thing rather than another cake. Two down, only one to go!

School holidays are fast rolling around again. Anyone got any particularly exciting plans?

nup. we are selling the house and the following day going for some camping. that's about it. boo hoo. i want to go on a real holiday with like sunshine and stuff.

Selling the house is something a bit exciting, but not really entertaining for a long period of time I guess. I was planning to take the kids to Wellington for a couple of nights via hometown, but it seems city motels are very expensive so it looks like it will just be hometown. Someone at kindy just got back from Fuji and I realised I can't even imagine warm atm lol.

No major school holiday plans here - I guess my kids will have had enough excitement before holidays start! They are doing a few sports days and school hol program and spending time with us and grandparents. Theyll be really sick of each other by the end!
All good here. Celebrating noahs bday tOday as it's a fast day on his bday. Went to the zoo and out for dinner tonight.
Couple more days then we head home.!

Happy Birthday to Miss K and Master N!

Cass, how are the open homes going? Lots of people through?

hello lovelies!

it is chaos here as per usual. i am totally over it. we *just* forgot to pick up Miss L from school :o i had no idea that it was an early pick up today (they send the newsletters to DHs email instead of mine...'cause that's gonna work lol). so luckily he is home today and is literally sprinting down the road to get her. poor thing i feel terrible as there is nothing worse than waiting for a parent that is not showing up :( (i have BTDT with my own mum more times than i can count).

the inspections are going quite well. i would, of course, prefer loads more people and for those people to start punching eachother up in the hallway during inspections in mad dash to offer more than the other for our Casa del Awesome hahahaha. cannot believe that THIS saturday it goes to auction. someone better bid, and they better bid big hahahahaha. our RE reckons we have it in the bag for at least low 700s...better as at that price in this area that is a bit of a bargain. i would want/expect the mid 700s (just going by what the other places in the street have gone for in the last month).

Can you believe all these big 6 years olds?! amazing man. cannot believe it. i especially have a brain bursting moment when i catch up via FB with my mums group from canberra and see just how big those kids are now. i remember them basically all as newborns (we left the 'bra when miss L was 3 months old). it's mindblowing.

cannot believe that we forgot to pick up Miss L...*goes off in a pile of shame and guilt*

Cass, I also recall a sizeable proportion of my adolescence spent sitting places waiting for mum to pick me up. Back in the days before cell phones, so I couldn't go anywhere in case she arrived while I was gone lol. I *always* had a book with me! I bet teens of today don't have to sit around waiting.
I hope you have a very exciting auction with lots of bidders :)
How is E going with the seizures now?

I am sick again! W was sick yesterday, the girls have snotty noses. I have dosed up on cold and flu pills in an attempt to make it to quiz night tonight lol.

We had dinner out last night for the end of skiing break up. Several of the people commented to us on how gorgeous W is, a sweetheart, lovely etc. We know he is a neat kid, but it is nice to have other people saying it :) He is doing so well now.

BTW Cass, I should have said last post, but when kindy finishes early for some reason there are always a heap of parents that forget. We all get into our little routines and anomalies like that just don't sink in. Last early finish I only remembered because I overheard some people talking when I was walking out the door at drop off, and I had to bring my friend's son home with us because she forgot lol. So don't feel bad, it happens to the best of us xx

haha, you are so right Arte...when DH went to pick her up there were 15 other kids waiting at the office as well :rofl:

did you make it to trivia?? I had to dose up on painkillers the other night for my dinner out as i had pulled my shoulder and had a ripper headache. nothing was getting in the way of my once a month outing lol.

Yep, made it to quiz night. I'd have to be half dead not to make it there.

How are you going with the sleep issues? I have no advice since I have lived it three times now and never managed to solve it. Eventually they do outgrow it if that is any help :hug:

What are these early finishes? I don't think we have them here.

Birthday went well, been crazy at work trying to be 3 people, will try and catch up again soon.

Cally, we rarely have early finishes, but they are usually when staff have to attend a course or something. Glad the birthday went well. Hope you aren't too stressed being three people!

Very bummed today - one of the kindy teachers is leaving at the end of term :( She is the most awesome kindy teacher ever and I have spent a lot of time just spinning yarns with her. She was so fantastic with W and now with A. I was hoping she would be around for E as well (if we don't move). But she has to do what is best for her I guess, I will miss her advice and friendship though. On the bright side, she is staying local and lives 100m down the road from me so I will still see her lol. I cried a bit this morning when I found out. I wish I could hold it in and wasn't such a public crier!

Just had a really busy weekend with my father, stepmother and nephew over from Aust. Went well, but I have a huge assignment due tomorrow and now I am really hoping E has a nap so I can finish it! I did about an hour of referencing over the weekend and my computer ate it!! Not happy!

Hi Arte - thats such a shame that she is leaving kindy but great you can still be in touch. never feel bad you show your emotions - a great quality imo
Cass - congrats to you on the house sale WOOOO HOOO. what adventures ahead of you!

as for me, well.. we have decided not to move to vietnam. its been a bit of a journey to get to this conclusion but it feels great. i feel privileged that we had this amazing opp and it allowed us to think through all we have and we decided we like life here too much! lucky us! one of the projects i was going to do there was my blog/facebook and to end with the long talked about family cook book. so i decided to start it all anyway! you can check it out on facebook or wordpress (its called cooking with one hand) if you havent already foiund me on facebook. its really fun and i am enjoying it - already have nearly 100 followers and i am aiming high.... exciting and fun project for me!

MP, glad you made a choice you are happy with about Vietnam. It is nice to be able to look around and see that you have it best right where you are.

oh wow MP! what a whirlwind you guys have been going through! Bummer about no vietnam...i was going to live vicariously through you with teh culinary adventure hahahaha.

i'll have to start following you :D

Arte: that is a massive bummer about the kindy teacher. i remember when Miss L had a great one and they didnt renew her contract as she had been there long enough that they would of had to offer her a permanent contract and they didnt want to. she was sooo fantastic.

sleep? what's that??! :ROFL:

AFM: experiencing severe sellers remorse and have been having loads of teary nights lol. i suck man lol. we escaped the day after sale to the bush and did some serious camping away from it all. was so lovely. just back now and i am so smelly and gross (there are no facilities...you even bring your own water and firewood etc). the kids had a real blast! just so amazing to see them run off into the bush in a large pack of kids (we were there with 5 other families).

Cass, once you get where you are going and settle in, you will be fine. Is it the actual house, or the change in life that the sale of it signifies? The camping sounds fun. It is a good idea going with other families - the last few times we have been it has been hard work to entertain the kids.

I am having a slight resistance to change myself atm - we are up in the air with what we are doing and then with kindy teacher leaving it is like the beginning of the end itms, those days are all being relegated to memory. I guess as much as I want to hold on to what we have here, life is going to change it all out from under me anyway.

Hello my darlinks!

MP - you sound like you had a magic time away - sorry the Vietnam thing didn't go ahead, but I love that it's because you love your life as it is already! That's fantastic, you're obviously doing a lot right. :) PS I think your blog's a great idea! I've added it to my feedreader.

Cass - congrats on the house sale! I know it will be hard to leave and that a home is a living thing, but I also know that it's your family that breathes life into it.

Arte - I'm glad you manage to struggle out to quiz night come rain hail or snotty noses LOL. It's great to hear W is really thriving - I can't believe what a ski/wall climbing champ he is! Pity the teacher is leaving - but you know the saying - change is the only constant. x

Cally - the early finish is when all the kids go home at lunch time and the teachers head down to the pub LOL. Well, that's what I suspect, anyway. Not sure why, but they're every term here.

School hols are just starting here, DH got home this week and not a second too early, either. Nothing exciting happening here for the hols, but it will be nice to have some time at home together. We all got a bit ratty and tired towards the end of the term so it will be good for everyone to recharge.

MD, glad your DH is home again. We have no particular plans for holidays either, but I am hoping to get to hometown for a couple of days and BIL might be dropping by on the way back from Canada so that will be entertainment. The kids will be all over him like a rash lol.

Enjoy your hometown trip, Arte! I'm guessing BIL is the glacier-helicopter flying BIL and not the other one? Have fun.

Well it's only day 2 of the holidays and I'm not even on holidays yet and the people who live at my house are already driving me nuts. Miss E has developed a habit of bellowing every time she talks, and she constantly drums the cup song on any and every surface (thank DD1 one for that). In the meantime, DD1 is onto "cleaning her room" Day Four :o with all the attendant stress. I might kick DH out tomorrow morning so I can get ready for work in P&Q. LOL.

Hope everyone is surviving holidays.

I am going to take a BB break for a while. This group has been a saviour to me at times and I want to thank you all for the support and care you have given over the years. It has meant a lot.
Take care of yourselves and all those lovely children.
Love Arte.

oh no :( hopefully not too long a break hey?! i was thinking of you last night and had a giggle as i was up with miss m for about an hour at 12.30...you and me babe...we dont make sleepers :rofl:

MD: oohhh sounds like it could be a looonggg first week of the holidays lol! ours are almost finished - for us they just flew by...what with selling house, camping and interstate guests...just went lightspeed (ok, that sounds like it is rubbing it in hahaha...so not my intention!).

can you believe that our little preppys are almost through their first year!!!! amazing man...cannot believe it!

I hope not too much of a break too Arte - and hope all is OK.
Cass - well you havent been very busy then have you? My kids are back to school tomorrow too, and I agree the holidays went quite fast, even for me who stupidly went oseas for 3 weeks BEFORE the holidays!
Saw a great movie last night Blue Jasmine - the new woody allen one. recommended.
All is well here - DH has just left for a oseas trip for work. so flying solo this week. Also doing my bosses job - so crazy week coming up I am sure. Having a roast at mums tonight which will be a good start to the week.
Cant beieve how the boys are growing up - especially freaked out when I think there is 1 term of prep left. WOW!
I have been trying to convince DH we should get a dog. That mission isn't going so well. was wishing i never brought it up and i could have gotten it for his bday LOL

Saw the cutest puppy on a rescue group on fb today mamapan. He's awesome! Maybe you need to convince dh harder lol