Babies born~ May 16th-31st 2009 #9

Awwww Nicky - I hope you are going ok, have you lost everything? Babe - I dont know what to say :( Anything you need, and I mean ANYTHING, just let me know, clothes, toys for the kids etc - I am on it!!

Vic - our transition to a 'big' peoples bed went amazingly well. As our house is quite open plan though we have put safety gates in the hallways otherwise if Bailey gets up before us (which is standard) he will be climbing on furniture and sticking forks in power points :o With the gates he can only come into our room

i was speaking to Nicky earlier, and she thinks she everything is gone but can't get back in to check for quite a while yet. She is ok for clothes and stuff for now - no where to store anything at the moment even if we wanted to send stuff

you are in our thoughts nicky

im so sorry nicky just let us know wat we can do xoxoxoxox

well we had our power go out fri at midnight and it came back on yesterday but we didnt have phone reception till just before i was going crazy bloody optus cut out and didnt even know till someone rang them this morning

Hi girls! Just popping on quickly.

Still have no idea about my house. Adam tried to get there yesterday but there is just far too much water still. We were told that from the air it looked as if our house had been inundated. We still do not know for sure.
on the bright side... the IL's place was dry. It missed going in their house by just millimetres!! Amazing. I'm so thrilled that their place is ok. The shed which is the busniess is just stuffed. Adam has now technically lost his income so we're kinda just waiting to see if we have anything left at home to make that side of things slightly easier.
We thought we'd lost adam's ute, but thankfully it didn't fill with water... so that's something I guess. The roads are stuffed. We cannot drive to the IL's house as the bridge has partially collapsed it will be months before that's fixed no doubt. When adam got to within 10kms of our place, he found massive parts of the roads just washed away, huge gaping holes. I won't be able to drive my car to my house at all. I doubt they will be concerned with fixing our roads before mid year. it's the hardest part about living outside a town. not only do we in VIC already feel like we are forgotten, but those of us in rural areas not within city limits already know that w will be last on the governments list of things to fix. It's hard... but we'll get by. I'm hoping that the water if it has indeed gone through our house, that it has spared out important papers. We will have lost lots of photos already but not all. The kids clothes and toys will be buggered though. Everything. I doubt their cubby, sandpit, slide and swing set and even the trampoline will even be at home! haha. I cannot evenm imagine where they've gone if they have. Kinda a bit funny... I can imagine them bobbing up and down in the water somewhere.

We're in good spirits... especially because the IL's house is ok. I'm waiting for the government to start opening things up for us as although we are ok at the moment... we will struggle in weeks to come. A little dismayed with our premier at the moment, but we won't even go there. haha.

The kids are good. I got them out early enough that the latest floods don't seem to have affected lachie this time. The trip back may affect him... everything will look different so I'm not sure how that will go. if water has been through my house I will not be taking my kids back there. I will also not take them back if it hasn't been through the house but has caused havoc in our yard... I want it cleaned first. I worry more about how he will react than anything, and I'm thanking my lucky stars that Allira is just too young to comprehend anything.

Anyway... I'm just waffling. Thanks so much for he thoughts. I won't be on very much at all over the coming weeks... I can only get to a computer rarely. We're just hoping that up here in Swan Hill that the power doens't go out today when Kerang cops it. It already looks like I am stuck up here for at least 2 weeks with no way back because of the water... the power going out would make like extremely hard.

xxoo take care all!

Nicky, Hope the trip back home is ok, hope you find things are not too bad and you and the kids cope with what you see. As others have said, if you need anything over the next few weeks, please, please let us know. We would love to help out even in small ways if we can. I know I've got some new stuff stashed away - some bath toys, books, a few clothes (might be a bit girly... can't really remember!), other small toys - all new. I buy them if they are on special and keep them for gifts. (There - now you all know I'm a tight a$$ ! LOL.) Just say the word, babe.
Nay, Bailz is in a big bed! Aaaaagh! When did they get so old?!?

I am at work. LOL! Seriously. It is soooooooo slow because the boss doesn't get back until next week so I am basically just sitting here waiting for the phone to ring. Tedious.
DH had a good day with both girls yesterday. They are beginning to play well together, although Phoebe is still more comfortable with parallel play. DH set up the blow-up pool and they had a paddle. I was actually most p'd off when I arrived home to find the state of the kitchen and lounge room. I felt like such a whiner, but it was a kick in the guts to see all my hard work on Wed cleaning every surface of the lower levels (I didn't do the bedrooms or upper bathroom) because of ants, had gone to ruin. The bastard ants were back, they were on Phoebe's high chair :( On the dining table, on the kitchen bench. DH is so freaking lazy and it really annoys the living crap out of me. But I am glad they all did ok without me.
I am looking into going on a sugar detox. Have any of you done this before? I have been bingeing like crazy... and I just can't stop. The other day I ate 5/6 of a packet of oreos in one sitting. And that's just one example, it happens all the time. I feel like I need to do something hard core otherwise it's just going to get worse and worse.
On a more positive note, I've decided that next year I'm going to look at studying nursing part time! I'd like to become a midwife and why the bloody hell not? So that's the plan. I have asked for some info and I'll be ringing a couple of universities to ask about timetabling in order to work out if it's humanly possible for me to work and study at the same time. Lots of challenges, but I think it'll be worth it.

In case you guys didn't see on FB, Bella is back from the UK and said she'll post on here soon... but I think everyone has probably caught up with her on FB anyway.

Sorry girls haven't had a chance to get on! I'm sure most of you know by now, that hubs got through to our house a few days ago to find that our house is dry. The cellar is full of water, the outside is covered in muck, dead fish, yabbies snakes and other crawlies everywhere... but we have a house!!
We just can't get to it. haha. Not without a 4wd.... the roads are STUFFED!
So we are staying at the IL's until we can get through. Not sure when that will be. I haven't been home in 10 days now.... It's like an extended holiday!

So tomorrow, we are leaving the area... going and doing something as a family. We haven't had just the 4 of us time in 11 days... so that will be good.
I am thinking of heading to the zoo.... but we usually just wing it and see where we end up.

Thanks for your kind offers of help, your thoughts and your lovely messages. I appreciate it so much.
Hopefully the IL's busniess can start up again in the next few weeks... in the mean time we will be centrelink bludgers. LOL
Just good to be back in teh area. I had a 5.5 hour drive yesterday just to get back from Swan Hill ( usually it's 1.5 hours.... it was a VERY testing trip on my own with the crazies in the back!!).

xxoo I'm sorry for everything I have missed. Once I get home and settld again I'll make sure I get my bum in here and catch up on everything that's been happening.

xxoo

Soooooo happy that you've got a house to get back to (once the roads are drivable)! I don't envy you that trip, babe. Anything more than 2 hours with P in the car is painful.

Hi girls!!

Sorry it has been so long in posting. We had a lovely time in the Uk with lots of snow and a white christmas. Mind you the temp was crazy cold and got down to -17 at night. not that we felt the cold too much cos of the double glazing and the central heating. Was so hard to be in the UK for the last week whilst hearing about the floods. My bro came very close to being flooded in and did some work filling sand bags and DH couldn't get home from work one day and had to wait 4 hrs on the side of the road , but essentially we escaped untouched and were very lucky. I must say I shed many tears tho reading all of the news. I just wanted to do something for my community.

Nicky I can't imagine how hard it has been for you. I am glad to hear that your house is ok.

Jemima has been really hard to settle back after the jet lag. She has woken 5+ times a night since we got back and stayed awake for 2-3 hours btwn 1-4am every night but last night. then again I accidently left the monitor off and so maybe she did cry and we used a harsh form of CIO! Luckily I realised at about 3am so hope it was ok. Anyway I am hoping she settles down now.

Her speech has finally come on now. It has helped by having a nana and poppy speaking to her all day long. Now she says "oh dear" "all gone" "no more" "mama" "hewoow!"(hello). She counts a little but really she just wants to say "two". She now can recognise lots of animals and if she sees a picture of a cat she says "cat... meow" Although it comes out more like oowwww. and dogs are correctly identified by "woof woof". She actually says lots of words now that I think of it. She mimics everything we say. IT is lovely. She has got a temper coming along tho so I am sure you will hear more about that

Must go my lovelies. It has been really cool to hear about all of the pregnancies. We are about to start trying soon so wish us luck and I am sure you will all be first to know when we suceed

Love Bella

Hey all.
Just a whingy post from me. Phoebe has been sick and I'm soooooo over it. She was vomiting on Wednesday night like I've never seen before and she's now at the stage of being REALLY cranky and sooky, I think because she feels hungry and/or has a headache but doesn't want to eat. Plus we were up for over an hour in the middle of the night last night and I doubt she has recovered from that broken sleep so is really tired.
I cannot do anything right for her today and I'm just about fed up.
Thanks for letting me get that out there into the ether. Hope you are all doing well. xx

oh NO! Hope it all settles down for Miss P soon Amy - nothing worse than a sick kidlet that can't tell you what they want or where they hurt!

Poor Phoebe, Poor you! Hope it all gets better soon

Oh No Amy, is she any better today? And did YOU get some sleep?

Welcome Home Bella :)

I got RAK'd - I have a sneaking suspicion it was one of you lovely ladies, but I'm not sure - but I just wanted to say a MASSIVE Thank you in case it was, cos I am stoked!!

We are having yet ANOTHER run of 4am wakeups, althought this morning Bailey slept till 645am - a sleep in - YAY (Who would think you'd get excited about a 645 sleep in????) Hopefully its over, I am exhausted!! I think today Sean and I will just tag team each other with naps LOL

Sorry to hear P is sick Amy. I hope she is feeling a touch better today.
Congrats Naomi!

Hi everyone!!
How hot is it??!! I am not a summer girl AT ALL but it def beats the floods.... although I'm holding my breath for next weekend. It doesn't look good for us VIC people's....

Crazy Kids, Wacko Hubby and just stuffed. Allira won't stop talking and it is doing my head in! haha.
Cannot wait to send Lachie off to 3yo kinder in a few weeks and have 2&1/2 hours just Allira and I.

Bought Allira's bed yesterday. Won't put it up until we've moved. She should be alright in it, I hope. lol.
Yeah, we're a boring bunch. lol

Thinking of you all. Hope you've had a wonderful weekend.
xx

I'm completely blown away and filled with surprise and joy.... I've been RAK'd!!! I'm so appreciative to my RAK'er who has brought tears of happiness to my eyes ♥

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I'm completely blown away and filled with surprise and joy.... I've been RAK'd!!! I'm so appreciative to my RAK'er who has brought tears of happiness to my eyes ♥

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ooohhh yay!!

Love RAK time x

awesome :) love it when ppl get RAKed

Hi girls. Krystie, that is lovely :)
Thanks for your thoughts re P's sickness. She kind of snapped out of it at around the 48 hour mark. Then I got sick the other night! It was weird - I wonder if I caught the same bug? But maybe it was just something I ate.
Am so OVER this heat. We have no air con and have been roasting. At least tonight there's a bit of a breeze - even though it's not a cool one it's still better than being so still.
Nay - Those early mornings are a killer! Has B settled into a nicer waking time yet?
Nicky - I hope Lachie has a fab time at Kindy! (And that you and A have some lovely bonding time just the 2 of you.)

I am about to set out to a pre-school information evening where we'll meet the teachers (like I don't know them already after 3 years, LOL!) and they'll tell us all about what the kids are going to learn and about the school readiness program at the end of the year.

Hi girls!!!
The humidity here is just HORRIBLE. Has been for the last few days. Yuck! I am never moving any further north. lol
Amy no air con... I would DIE! I can't live without it now! It's bad enough that I've had to swap cars for the time being until the roads are fixed.... the air con in that is poor compared to my car. I hope it cools down for you up there!

Hi everyone! We are off to town for my sisters birthday dinner tonight, childrens market tomorrow and my besties engagement party tomorrow night. Cannot wait for some drinks after my last few weeks.....
Funniest thing about it is that we are on flood watch again. IT looks like we could be flooded out for a while as they are suggesting we could get ALOT of rain over the next 6 weeks.
So last night we started lifting things up off the floor, grabbing the really important things and packing them in a box to keep in the car, and I will finish packing our weekend bags with 4-5 days worth of clothes just in case we can't get home again.
I won't be thrilled... but such is life hey.

Anyway, we'll head out of here at 4pm when we were planning to to meet hubs at work and all head into my folks for the weekend.
Goodluck down there in gippsland!! It looks like you will get more rain than us!

Will pop back when I can. Hope you all have a great weekend!!