Babies born~April 16th-30th 2009 #2

[berrme]

lol at being eaten out of house and home, Megan. It costs me a fortune to feed my boys already... I am dreading them being teenagers. Byron devoured a whole lamb shank for dinner the other night and asked for another one! I think we have about 6 more months before Edward catches up and I have to start buying whole cows at a time.

Cass, I weighed Edward the other day too and we are up to 10.8kg. He is 77cm tall. Certainly a round little fella. It isn't stopping hime in the mobility stakes though. He is now walking easily between tables etc that are about 6 metres apart. He has even started standing by himself in the middle of the yard. It was ages after he started walking before Byron didn't need to pull up on things. It is scary, but yes Megan, it is really lovely and exciting to watch him toddling. You can't help but feel proud of how clever they are when they do something new.
Edward slept through to 5am last night for the first time in ages. We had a couple of nights of just one wake up at about 2 before that so hopefully we are going to get a bit more sleep again. It was starting to do my head in getting up 3 or 4 times a night. Sleep deprivation really isn't good for a person.
The boys start Daycare on Monday, I start work on Wednesday, so I will have 2 child free days! I am not sure what I am going to do with myself. Maybe catch up on some more sleep before I go back to work.
DH turns 30 today. Only 12 weeks till I turn 30 too. It is strange how an age that seemed so old when I was a teenager doesn't feel very old at all when you get there yourself. We are having a bit of a daytime gathering on Sunday which should be good. Kids really change the plans you make for parties etc. Night things are just too hard. Anyway, I have to go and do some more shopping for the last of his gifts so we can give them all to him tonight.

Enjoy your weekends.

[Ozziehoffy]

I think we have about 6 more months before Edward catches up and I have to start buying whole cows at a time.

It was starting to do my head in getting up 3 or 4 times a night. Sleep deprivation really isn't good for a person.

... whole cow... ahahaha that seriously made me crack up. I hear ya though.

Sleep deprivation and I know each other all too well, personally I have a very strong DISLIKE for sleep deprivation and I wish that it'd keep to itself instead of annoying me lol. Elijah is a bit hit and miss but in the past week has stretched a few times to about 5 hours in one hit then back to about 2 or 3 after that wake up. Hopefully we are on the way to some better sleeping - PLEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASE!!! OooOooh Edward is going to be a tall boy huh. So cute

Megan, both Oskar and Elijah just love pasta too! Elijah really has surprised me with how well babies really do and can handle "normal" solids..... man I could've saved myself so much time by not cooking up huge pots of veg and then pureeing and freezing it for Oskar... OMG I wish I knew lol.

Elijah got his second tooth on Friday.... exactly 9 months old! Funny thing, Oskar got his very first tooth when he was 8 months exactly lol. Don't get gummy smiles anymore. Oh he's as cheeky as too, and laughs when playing on his own now which then cracks me up. He still loves to give his mummy big around the neck cuddles though I love them, he lays his head on my shoulder and has his little arms around me... just beautiful

Mel, I second the catch up on sleep Oooooooooor watch a dvd in PEACE! Relax, you deserve it. Enjoy.

[berrme]

Wow, I have been soooo busy. I don't know what I was thinking going back to work.

The boys are good. Edward is almost running now, it still blows me away. He just never stops moving either, he just runs walks from one end of the house to the other because he can. He now has 7 teeth and I think number 8 is on the way. Hopefully once this one is through we can have a break and catch up on some sleep before the next round of teeth make their appearance.
He has been coping really well with daycare. He didn't even cry at drop off time for the first couple of weeks. We had drop off tears this week, but he is fine once I am gone... sleeping, eating and drinking like he is supposed to. The principal has found me somewhere to express at work, apparently I am leading the way... noone else has ever put in a formal request. I could have just used the toilets but then I would have had to tip the milk out. I think I would cry if I had to waste so much milk.
Byron has not coped so well with daycare. Every morning so far he has had to be pried off my legs, and he has screamed and carried on. He starts to cry again as soon as he sees me in the afternoon too. The carers say he is fine during the day, but he has started wetting his pants again. Not every time, but enough for hime to have been sent home in spare daycare pants twice so far. I guess he will settle down.
We have had our first case of gastro already. Byron was up vomiting all Thursday night, then Clive and I were nauseous and couldn't eat all day Friday. Edward seems to have missed out, thank goodness. Hopefully it won't happen too often.

We pulled out the floor coverings in our kitchen and lounge/dining areas last weekend. We have been talking about getting the floors polished for so long, we figured we would give it a go. It trurned out to be much easier than we were anticipating and we did all 3 rooms in about 6 hours. It looks so much better already! Now we just have to organise the sanding and polishing.
We got our new car too!! We got a new Hyundai i30 wagon. It is the 2010 model so has curtain airbags and all the extra safety stuff. It is just wide enough for 3 baby seats so should be fine when we do have bub 3, otherwise we will just upgrade to something bigger in a couple of years time.

Anyway, better go, Byron wants me to play trains.
Hope everyone is well.

[SareBear]

Wow, our babies are growing up too fast!

It is fun though watching Ollie make new discoveries everyday. He's standing up on his own now, I think most of the time he doesn't even realise that he's not holding on anymore.

We're doing swimming lessons and gymbaroo this term, gymbaroo was a christmas pressie from my mum and it's great. He slept so well that afternoon too!

We've had a rough week though, I had surgery on Friday, nothing major but because of the anaesthetic I couldn't feed Ollie for 24 hours. He was good though and had a bottle no worries, I won't take the easy breastfeeds in the middle of the night for granted anymore though that's for sure.

And today, we had to say goodbye to our pussy cat Otto. He was truly the most loving, clever, special little guy. He was like a teddy bear at night time, such a cuddly kitty. It was the saddest day

[Ozziehoffy]

Mel.... I can't believe that Edward is running around lol... Elijah still is yet to crawl ahahahaha. He gets up on his knees but then faceplants lol. He will hold the side of things and pull himself up on his knees. He can move across the floor a bit by lifting his bum up and onto one foot and a knee and swivel around so he kinda gets around a little until he's just over it lol. Lots of teeth too, wtg little man!! Bummer about the gastro... I dread that awful thing! Oskar is at kindy one day a week now and he's just loving it! He had his first full day last week and omg I loved it too lol. I got to have a coffee and cake IN PEACE - was absolutely DIVINE! How do you like the new car?? Did you get diesel or petrol? Andy is looking at them as a possibility on a novated lease... he has that one or the VW Golf diesel in mind. Oh and good on you for "leading the way" .... I can't believe no one else has ever put in a request, seems strange huh! Good for you

Sarah, Ollie is adorably cute, love the pic. Elijah loves his swimming too, goes off! Oh hope you're healing well..... I have to get a thingy cut off my hand but doc said only wouldn't be able to feed for a couple of hours after?? It's apparently under general, but not sure yet. I need to see the specialist first and get all the proper details. Good to hear that he was ok and did feed. Yeah, I can't say I'm a fan of still feeding overnight but I do have to say it's the fastest way to get him back to sleep and therefore my preferred method for me! about Otto. I saw that on FB. It's very sad Hope you are feeling a bit better.

Elijah is still a lazy log haha. 4th tooth almost through now and he's just so funny. He pretends to be coy lol. He's more daddy's boy than Oskar was, which for me is just lovely sometimes cos I do get to hand over to daddy yay. He LOVES LOVES LOVES food. He eats anything you give him. Even had a beef, cheese, spices and garlic pide the other day. It wasn't hot but was a little spicy and he just loved it lol.. it's a turkish bread thing with a filling baked in it. We still have night wake ups, but I'm hopeful that one day this will stop hahahaha right??? Yes, yes it will! I hope soon cos sleep deprivation is NOT good look lol.

[berrme]

Cass, lucky you having an almost 3 year old who isn't throwing tantrums at drop off time! Byron is getting better, but he is still a PITA about me leaving. He is at least starting to tell me he had fun while I was gone.
Edward had a shocking night last night. We had been back to 1 early morning feed for quite a while so I think tooth 8 must be pretty close. He really is a terrible sleeper compared to Byron, and feeds much more than Byron did at this age. I think he will still wean happily... he is always trying to steal Byron's cups of milk and seemed to think cows milk was good the couple of times he has managed to drink some. I need to wean once he is 12 months so I can get AF back... can't get pregnant again without it.
I just hope Edward starts sleeping through the night properly soon, he is certainly no teensy thing in need of extra sustanance! He could do it for the first 4 months of his life, I don't know why he can't now.
I love my car! It is great. I got the petrol version. We decided in the end that we don't actually do enough driving to justify the extra $2500 for the diesel... it would take us 10 years to use enough petrol. I know people with Golfs and they love them too, but you can't get a wagon in the golf.
Better go, Edward was asleep but Byron decided to scream when he toy did the wrong thing and now they are both awake again.

[Ozziehoffy]

Mel, omg these two boys are similar with bad sleeping!! Elijah doesn't need fattening up either lol. Oh Oskar screams and wakes Elijah up all the time, do you think this is partly why they're bad sleepers??

Lol @ you and AF... yay though, will be great to go through the journey with you again We'll go the diesel as Andy drives about 100km return a day to work. So, we figured it would be a better choice.

So, today this is what happened to me and I'm still feeling rather angry... *pasting it from boohoo thread*

To the lady who thought it was ok to judge me and look at me as though I was neglecting my child and then tell me it was disgusting... YOU had no right to, nor did you even have any idea as to the day I was having or the activity immediately prior to your nasty and higher than thou attitude towards me. For your information, my son had been misbehaving and had just gotten in trouble – hence the tears! You then heard him say I need to go to the toilet about 30 seconds later WHILST I was scanning an object at the price check point which is then when YOU popped out from behind the scanner and decided to butt in! You looked at him and said “oh you poor little thing” and I said, no, not poor little thing, he’s just been in trouble. You cut me off and and said, he really needs to go to the toilet. I said that’s the first time he’s said it and I’ll take him in a minute when I leave here. You then looked at me with a very disapproving look and said I have 4 sons and he REALLY needs to go to the toilet! I said and I’m going to take him, I know what I’m doing!! I walked away and you started following me and shook your head and said “it’s disgusting” so I turned around and yelled at you that I was taking him and to LEAVE ME ALONE!! Oh boy lady, did you **** me off! I was NOT neglecting him, he was crying because HE HAD BEEN IN TROUBLE, not because he was busting to wee! Yes, he said he needed to go to the toilet, but that was NOT why he was crying you interfering cow! You don’t know what he is like and how long he can hold it or anything. Keep your comments to yourself. You really made me angry... I was having a bad day as it was so thank you very much for your input and for making my day HORRIBLE!

You know what gets me... this lady has no idea that so many days I fight just to keep it together and that I haven't slept a full night in about 2 years and that on average it's 2 or 3 times a night that I'm up (that's a good night lol) so that makes it hard enough to start the day with a toddler who is well... 2 lol. Not to mention a 16 yr old who acts 2. Throw into the mix one 10 month old teething baby. How does she know that her actions weren't the last straw for me and pushed me over the edge?? People really need to be more careful what they say and how they judge like that.... one thing to think it but a completely different thing to verbalise it to the person.

[iandh]

Hi everyone!
I'm new to BB so thought I'd join the thread and say hi!
We had little Isaac on the 19th April, 2009.
And little Holly on the 3rd July, 2010.

[Megan]

Welcome to BB
I am Mum to Noah, born 8th April, 2009 (but I post in this here because no one posts in the April 1-15 thread!)
It is pretty quiet in here these days.
Looking forward to hearing about your little ones

[berrme]

Hi and welcome iandh,
I am Melanie. I have 2 boys; Edward was born April 16 2009, Byron was born February 13 2007.
It has been quieter in here this year, but if you post you will generally spur the rest of us on to post too.

[nellnell]

Welcome iandh (I'm guessing thats for Issac and Holly)

I'm nell and my DS was born on 26th April 2009 and I also have a DD born in June 2007.
You certainly have your hands full with a 15month old and 4 week old.

Mel - Way to go. That's awesome that you want to change your career and do something new. It would be great doing your exercise while you were getting paid to do it, rather than having to fit it into your day. I think I read a post about you not being happy at work. How is it all going now? I've certainly found that work is not my priority now that I have my beautiful kids and I'm becoming increasingly frustrated with the education system and our role and responsibilities. It seems to be growing each and every day. I'd love to get out too but the cost of retraining in something else, then starting out at the bottom of the pay scale again.

Megan - how's the gym going?

[iandh]

Hi girls!
Thanks for the warm welcome!
I'll tell you a little about myself....
I live in Brisbane, I'm 35 years old. I've been married for 2 years. We have 2 babies - Isaac 15 months and Holly 5 weeks. Before we had babies we lived in Winton (Outback QLD) where i was teaching.
I look forward to getting to know you all
Hope you are all having a lovely day!
Meg

[berrme]

iandh, I am in Brisbane too, near Chermside.

Nell, I am certainly not enjoying teaching like I used to. Just like you said, they just keep giving us more and more to do on top of planning and teaching and I just feel overwhelmed. That combined with my wanting to just be home with the boys makes it pretty painful. Even if I don't end up doing the PT training I won't be going back to teach for a number of years after the next bub.
Do you think you will really go for the half marathon? It is just sooo much further than the 10km runs I have been doing. I wish there was something in between. My trainer did her first marathon last weekend... I just can't imagine how painful it must be to run 42 kms!

Anyway... we had the rest of our floors polished over the last school holidays, so the whole house is now timber floors. I went and bought a big shaggy rug for the lounge this morning and the boys have been rolling all over it ever since. I would probably lie on it too if I was smaller.
I took Edward's measurements for the first time in ages and he is now 13kg and 83cm tall. I checked Byron's red book and they are almost exactly the same size at the same age. Lucky their faces aren't any more similar or we wouldn't be able to tell who was who in their photos. It is hard enough anyway... Edward is usually wearing Byron's hand-me-downs, so they are even dressed the same.

Better go, I have LOTS of washing to do. Geez little boys go through a lot of clothes each week!! Hope you are all well.