Nay - give huggies a call or send them an email and ask them if you can use the toddler barcodes instead. When I was going to get the play mat thingo that you used to be able to get with the newborn barcodes I was one or two barcodes short and Kyson was already in the toddler size nappies. So I emailed them and they said I could use the toddler barcodes and just pop a note in with them and tell them I had called them and got the ok from someone. They might let you do it too From our prof photos we have a pic of DH with Kyson and another with me and Shayla, so I really want them both as canvases, so I'm hoping that I have enough barcodes to get two (will get mum to sign up with the Huggies club and have one sent there as it's one per household). My bestie is moving to the UK soon so she is giving me all her barcodes so hopefully there will be some newborn ones in there. If I have extra I'll let you know
Vic - Isn't it funny how thorough you want to be second time around when there has been an issue with the first (or second in my case). If DH would ever let me have another baby (which will never happen ) I would be making them check the ductus arteriosus (duct between the two arteries coming out of the heart) very carefully at the 19 week scan. Apparently it can be picked up then, but it wasn't found at Shay;a's scan.
J - I'd love to catch up! I didn't realise you had already moved. Feel free to let me know what days you are free and you're welcome to come around for a visit. If you're lucky I might even bake a cake
I was just looking at Shayla's "little blue book" and if I weighed her correctly when she was 6 weeks old, then I think she is growing MUCH faster than Kyson did, and I think she is now sitting in the 97th percentile! She was in the 75th at 3 weeks. I might have to weigh her again this weekend when she is 8 weeks old. I might even drive into work and weigh her on the cat scales, lol. They are actually baby scales and I promise I'll clean it first and cover it with a blanket hehe. THey give nice accurate weights though
Hi all!
Vic congrats on the little boy!!! How exciting!! Little boys are fantastic as the girls have already said. You get so many mummy cuddles.
Hope everyone is doing well.
Busy busy again.
Unfortunately, the kids great grandfather passed away yesterday morning, and I had to explain death for the first time to Lachie which was really hard. He seems to have understood... has asked a few questions and mentioned it a few times, but I'm sure he doesn't totally understand it at his age.
I'm thankful that Allira is just a bit too young to comprehend it all.
Other than that, we're doing ok. We move end of next month which will be good.
Allira has been cracking it after we drop Lachie off at 3yo kinder. It is hillarious! I wish she could go along.
Every morning she tells me she's going to kinder and grabs her backpack and puts it on.
Every Monday morning when we go to kinder, she has to take her backpack with her.
This coming week I have kinder duty, so she will spend the whole day there with Lachie and I know she will just love it! I wish I had to option of putting her in childcare for a day or 2 every week. She'd love it!
And I'm needed again. Sorry all.
Been thinking of you!!
Bella I hope all is going ok.
Nicky: Sorry to hear about your grandfather. I hope you are doing ok. Natalie and I have talked about death too. She just came up and asked me out of the blue one day. It was actually quite handy because not long afterwards it would have been MIL's 70th birthday, had she not have died 9 years ago. I explained that we were buying a candle for her other grandma who died before she was born. She got it straight away and even told her other grandparents what we'd done. They are very logical little beings, and really quite accepting. I hope your kids make this time easier for you, that along with your memories, they will brighten your lives and bring you joy. xx
krystie: Wonderful that Shayla is growing so well and is so settled and happy. LOL @ the cat scales! Much more convenient than lining up at the chemist. What was the rash like? I would think your best bet is sticking with the cloth wipes. It could be she just has sensitive skin that reacts to commercial wipes (and she may grow out of that anyway). I was using cloth wipes for ages with Nat when I was being diligent with cloth, LOL. They are really not much more hassle. I even chopped up and edged terry nappies and used that too (cause some of the more grippy fabrics are a bit more expensive, although they are a lot more effective so I guess you get what you pay for). You can even use cooled camomile tea to soak the wipes in first which is very soothing for her bottom!
Can't get over Kyson's big sleep! Wow!
J: I didn't know you were going back to work. I am glad it went well and hopefully you get into the groove of it all without getting too tired. Glad the move went well too
Vic: Glad all's looking good with Stirling. You obviously just cook lovely large babies and that's great.
The amount of hair the girls have hasn't made a difference to their cradle cap, unfortunately. I was really diligent with Natty - oiled her up regularly and combed it out until she was a bit over 1. Then it settled down and went away. Phoebe's is holding on though, but I certainly haven't been anywhere near as good at working it off. Less time, I suppose. I bought some Moogoo scalp cream last week and have used it twice now but there are still some really stubborn patches! I wouldn't care if you couldn't see it, but there are some seriously dark flakes right where I part her hair on the side and you can see it. There's nothing wrong with it I guess, I just don't like the look of it. And apparently it can be itchy for some kids but it doesn't seem to bother Phoebs. It's a hassle to comb it out and I have to really scratch it with the comb to get it off! So I'm just going to do bits at a time.
Sorry girls, have to dash. Smells like someone needs a nappy change and she's also due for a sleep. BBL.
Nicky - condolences for the loss of your Grandfather
Sooo, we are on our way to Melbs - flying over the morning of Fri 8th April - Sean has a gig at the Espy in St Kilda on the Friday night, then we are free Sat and Sun for a meet up if we can get a few of us together - was thinking maybe a picnic in one of the parks in St Kilda perhaps? We fly home Monday morning so its a pretty quick trip. Not sure if we will still come over July/Aug now as originally only Sean was coming over for his gig but Bailz and I decided to tag along. I have booked our flights and just waiting to hear back re an apartment I am hoping to rent (like a holiday rental - much cheaper than a traditional hotel or apartment)
Man, I had NO patience this arvo with Bailz and now I feel like a right cow - DOH to having no patience when your toddler is being a PITA Oh well - we all have these moments!!
Amy - Bailz still gets the odd patch of cradle cap, I barely do much about it these days as its rarely noticeable and he doesn't seem to care!!
Krystie - I cant believe Shayla is 7 weeks!!
Other than that - we are about to start TTC again (well in April anyhoo), but apart from you guys, I we are telling no one. I posted a thread here about what's going through my head atm, I hope its a smooth journey for us
Nicky - I'm so sorry to hear abouts the kids Grandfather. I hope Lachie is coping ok. Even though he's a bit older than Allira, it must still be very hard for him to understand. My thoughts are with you and your family.
Its super adorable that Allira is getting herself ready to go to kindy in the morning as well, hehe. I bet she is going to have an absolute ball on Monday!
Amy - Do the chemists near you still let you take babies in to be weighed? My MCHN nurse told me that none of the chemists around here do it anymore I might give a couple of them a call just to double check. I've been really lazy when it comes to the cloth wipes that I made. I just used some scrap bits of fleece material that was left from making some of the nappy covers. It's not a very absorbant material, but once they are saturated they work well enough at doing the bum cleaning, and then I just pat Shayla dry with a tissue, lol. I don't think I'll have much luck getting DH to use tham as well, but seeing as I have been using the cloth wipes for almost a week now, and DH has only done 2 nappy changes in that time, I guess the commercial wipes he uses on her won't make a huge difference, hehe. Good thing Kyson occasionally saves up a nice poopy nappy for him to make up for me doing all the nappy changes during the day
Nay - We're looking forward to seeing you and Bay when you come down! Not long now
Don't you just hate that impatient feeing? There's been times when Kyson is being a real cranky pants and being super demanding and I just feel like shouting at him! There's been times when I've pushed him away from me (not hard though, but just to get him off me) and then he's cried and I've felt so incredibly horrible. I've been getting frustrated when he throws things when he's not getting what he wants. He actually searches around for things to pick up and throw. Before Shayla was born I tried the ignoring tactic, but since Shayla has been born it's too dangerous to leave him throwing things with her around, so we've started picking him up and taking him to his room. He screams when we put him in there, but even when we open the door after only half a minute or so, he stops crying and starts chattering happily away as he walks back to the lounge room. Talk about bouncing back quickly, lol.
Wierd thing happened today. I was sitting on the couch feeding Shayla and Kyson was next to me playing on the iPad. He hadn't even moved from my side, but then I looked at his hand and there was blood on it. The I look at his face and there is blood smeared over it! Poor kid had a blood nose and I have no idea why. It wasn't a really bad one, and had even stopped bleeding before I got the facewasher to clean him up. It wasn't even really bothering him, I think it just tickled because he was wiping his hand across his nose which is how he got the blood over his hand. I must admit that I had a second of panic when I saw the blood though. Just a mummy-thing where you hate to see your childs blood
Quick pop-in - who was asking where you buy those mesh bags to store your bath toys in? (I thought it was in here but maybe it was someone from mum's group...)
Anyhoo... ALDI have them this week and they are only about $4. They are way cute. I bought one with an elephant and a lion suction cup. You can also get monkeys.
Oh Oh, we dont have aldi here, and I need something too - we have too many bath toys. Vic if you happen to see any, can you pick me up one and I'll fix you up for it (hopefully in the flesh if we see you in April when we come over )
Ok no problem Naomi - we are definitely around that weekend and up for meeting up - happy to come keep you company on the Friday night in St Kilda too if you like we are not that far away.
We have one right up the road - would you prefer monkeys? The elephant/lion combo are rather pink?
I reckon I like you enough to throw $4 your way
You may need to txt me your address though because I may well have lost it...
How convenient is your aldi, Vic? I can easily grab you one if yours doesn't have it or whatever...?
The Aldi is not that convenient actually well this week isn't with other stuff so Amy if you are able to grab one for me and Naomi that would be great - CJ loves monkeys so preference for monkeys!
and another here if possible - aldi here is crummy! seriously - i struggle to understand why people like it so much cos it drives me bonkers with it's lack of anything that is in the catalogue! i'll send you some dollars though
I'm happy to grab anything from Aldi the next time I'm there if anyone needs anything?! I LOVE Aldi!!!!! I do all my shopping there.
Got the best Vac last week for $99. Seriously, the best one I've ever owned!! LOVE me some Aldi stu***. (we already got the toy mesh bag, along with sme lightning Mcqueen loofah's soaps, bath wash and a funky new bath mat all for when we move ina few weeks. Ooo got the kids a themed floor mat too. Thomas for Lachie and Tinkerbell for Allira.
We have 2 Aldi's in town and a 3rd opening at some stage.
LOL, is that what it was? Autofilters are funny.
Nicky, I loved the look of the bath toys. There were waterfalls and fishing games etc... They all looked fab! But I had to buy the mesh bag because the girls already have too many bath toys, LOL. I also loved the look of the pop-up hampers! There were monkey ones and elephant ones - way cute! But the girls already have a dirty clothes 'bin' - one of those hot pink wheelie ones from the reject shop So even though I desperately wanted a monkey one I refrained. haha.
Our Aldi is just up the road at our local shops and I love it. There's a reject shop right next door too!
From our prof photos we have a pic of DH with Kyson and another with me and Shayla, so I really want them both as canvases, so I'm hoping that I have enough barcodes to get two (will get mum to sign up with the Huggies club and have one sent there as it's one per household). My bestie is moving to the UK soon so she is giving me all her barcodes so hopefully there will be some newborn ones in there. If I have extra I'll let you know 
Oh well - we all have these moments!!
Autofilters are funny.
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