Babies born~ September 2007 #65

[Trillian]

I've seen those tops Cass. They are nice this season. and yes it is the one where he is on the motor bike.

Arte it's good that your DH plans to do those things with W - despite all the tension over his sleep it's good that he is seeing past all that and bonding with him.

JM I forgot to say I totally sympathise with the wee incident - I have to wear a bloody pad while I play netball because sometimes I *may* have a little leak. Damn crappy pelvic floor!

[Artechim]

Trill, DH and W have a great relationship during the day. It is only at night that things get strained. And I understand why. It is such hard going when it is 3am, W has been screaming and yelling for an hour and it is the third time that night that he has done it. I haven't really heard of any other kids having night tantrums but it is absolutely infuriating! He hasn't been too bad lately, I copped one the other night but mostly he is having quick resettles.

But the daytime tantrums have returned. I am sick of it. Every time I tell him to do something he acts like it is a democracy and gives me "I will do it after xyx" or "oh, but..." or "I'm too tired". Then when I tell him to do it now he starts crying and screaming. This morning has been particularly bad and my throat hurts from yelling at him. I feel terrible for A who has to watch the whole thing whilst being ignored.

[Cassius2]

But the daytime tantrums have returned. I am sick of it. Every time I tell him to do something he acts like it is a democracy and gives me "I will do it after xyx" or "oh, but..." or "I'm too tired". Then when I tell him to do it now he starts crying and screaming. This morning has been particularly bad and my throat hurts from yelling at him. I feel terrible for A who has to watch the whole thing whilst being ignored.

we have been there alot recently too Arte i dont know, maybe there is some sort of hormone surge happening at this age because it seems almost like a crazy out of control hormone induced irrationality that i believed was only attributed to 13 year olds lol. i think the term "threenager" is so apt now that i have a three year old haha.

L has been insane in trying to set her own processes. and thus has been driving me insane as it is with every.little.thing. from who gets to clip her in the carseat, to which cup (that one lasted an hour of screaming). it's a bit insane atm, and i am just trying my darndest to ride it out lol. we also have over the last 3 nights been getting some middle of the night antics. i am not sure if it is moon related or cold related (or a bit of both). but i swear that i was ready to pour the frikking glass of water (for the hundreth time that night) over her :hides:. i never thought that the relaxing calmbirth breathing exercises i learnt would come in handy post birth

[Artechim]

LOL, W does the car seat clip thing too. Drives me mental.
Only one more week and kindy will be back. I am sure most of it is boredom, he needs a lot more stimulation than is provided here.

[Cassius2]

that's what i think it is for us too. L has been sick on and off so much over the last 5 weeks and has missed loads of kindy. she is going stir crazy. bring on wednesday lol.

[Ozstar]

Happy Easter everyone! Hope you have all had a fantastic day. Easter egg hunt was a huge hit with L.

[Cassius2]

oh yeah i hope that everyone had a lovely day today! we ate too much food and way too much chocolate, and were in good company with friends, so all in all a great day!

[AnyDream]

Happy Easter my lovelies. I hope everyone's had a lovely day without too many chocolate-overload moments! xxx

BTW - the 2 dozen plastic eggs worked at treat to extend the egg hunting without overdoing the chocolateness!

[Cally]

Great idea MD - we certainly have had a case of chocolate overload here, grownups too!

[AnyDream]

Yeah, chocolate overload here. Funnily enough we showed my dad a video of the kids hunting their eggs, and he raved about how much chocolate they got BUT they actually gave the kids more choc than we did It just looked like a lot on account of the 2 dozen plastic eggs (which was about the right number becaues DD1 flits around finding them really quickly, need to put a lot out else missy E misses out)!

Now wondering what to do on our extended public hol...hmm, thinking thinking...

[Artechim]

Hope everyone had a good easter/passover

Ours was pretty good. We went out to the bush for an easter egg hunt, decided it was good weather for camping so we went back home and got the tent and camped out for the night. We didn't do too much chocolate. I made about 20 eggs and choc lollipops which we wrapped and decorated with little stickers. I was going to make a big egg for W but decided his recent behaviour didn't need a choc boost!

Off to Wanganui for scan tomorrow. Still haven't decided to if I want to know the gender - kind of hoping for legs crossed so I don't have to decide. I do have a girls name picked that I like and I can get DH to agree with, so most likely it is a boy.

[AnyDream]

Hope all goes well with your scan tomorrow. Will it be an opportunity for some added retail therapy too? Your choc making efforts sound fantastic, well done. I must say you make camping sound pretty effortless, gosh I'm hard up just packing and getting the family ready for an afternoon across town!!

[Artechim]

We have a crate filled with all the camping gear so it is only a matter of packing a few clothes and bedding and we are all set. DH did forget the tent pegs though and had to drive home again and get them lol.

Not much chance for retail therapy because the kids will be with us, but I am going to go to a big second hand shop there and hopefully they have some maternity clothes. There are no shops in Wanganui that sell maternity clothing except Pumpkin Patch and I don't want to pay a lot for clothes that I am sooooo not wearing again!! Getting pretty desperate though - I am down to two pairs of pants that fit, and one of them has popped the button and are now held up with a safety pin lol

[Ginger]

Arte - did you find out the gender? I'm dying here!!!! I'm guessing boy!!!

[Artechim]

LOL, scan is tomorrow Ginger. I am guessing boy too.

[Ginger]

I'm so excited! Will you tell us or are you keeping it secret?
I can help you with names

[Artechim]

Ginger, if I find out I will tell you. I have a girls name that I am happy with, but completely stuck for boys. I would love to have my grandfathers name as a middle name because he is one of my favorite people in the world - but his name is Gordon. Not sure how that will work.

[Cassius2]

I like that idea for the middle name, i like middle names for that reason, that you get to put in a special person's name for your kid. wish DH would of let me give the girls a middle name...even though it would mean a four barrel name haha.

MD: what did you end up doing today? the weather here has been just gorgeous, so we just soaked up the sunshine in the park and had some yummo coffee and pizza at brunettis.

AFM: well, we had a great long weekend! went to a small town about an hour out of melbourne called Maldon. the claim to fame for that town is the easter fair (the longest running fair in oz!). so we went along to watch the parade (gorgeous!) and watched the great egg toss. almost got done by some eggs lol.
and today was just sublime what with the sunshine and perfect temps. so we headed out to carlton for some coffee and book shopping. bumped into friends at the thomas the tank engine table and then made our way home. then friends came by and we headed to the park where we rigged up a flying fox for the kids and made a cubby house out of branches and had a wee little picnic. had a great time and marta LOVED the flying fox haha little daredevil lol.