Mel, that dress was gorgeous, can't believe you danced!!!! Yay on lots of movement and hoping Becca's OK in her toddler bed ...
DG - I've discovered mylanta effervescent tabs, they taste OK and seem to work. Alongside with berry quickeze chewys!!!!
Kel - yay on clothes from your mum, how are you settling in, are you getting to know any of the ladies / families in the area yet?
Well I don't know about your munchkins, but Pip's language skills have improved almost out of sight in the past 2-3 weeks. Not sure why, we haven't been doing anything out of the ordinary. So cute though, we're singing songs each night before bed, he was trying to get me to sing a tractor song tonight????
If I've any cravings, it's for ice-cream cones. Bowl of ice-cream is OK, but I just NEED cones!!!!
Hope everyone's doing OK, looked like Kris was doing a huge clean-out today, I can't believe the energy she has!
Hey all... thought i would bump us up again. So quiet in here. I think I am just trying to escape by coming on here. Livs tantrums drive me batty. I am tired and want to sleep. Rebecca has done well with 1 week of bed! Olivia had a massive nightmare last night. Took an hour to stop her screaming/thrashing and hitting. Shes cranky today!
Hope youre all well
I am around, just been busy with having Damien away for a fwe days and having to do it all on my own. I so hate it! I would be a terrible single mum. The kids were good mostly though and I handled it better than last time. Hoping he doesn't have to go anywhere for a while now though!
Mel, we are having tanties here too. They usually aren't too bad, but sometimes she has a doozy. I just send her to her room and tell her she can come out when she finishes carrying on! I can't stand her screaming and the attitude she has sometimes either. Lately my kids have been in destructo mode. Just destroying stuff and making a mess in general.
I'm trying to be organised and treat being home as my 'job' because I am finding I think that I have heaps of time and think I will do stuff later and it never gets done. I have dishes pile up for two days and clothes in piles everywhere when I think like that, so I try to make sure I do tasks every day before anything else I feel better for it and feel like I have achieved something if the house is at least tidy. I think I might be trying to be too perfect though. I need to find a balance. I just went off at Damien for not helping today but he has, just not like I wanted him to. He looked after the kids and took them to the park. Let me sleep in and rest with a bit of time alone. But he didn't do any house work. I just want him to walk a day in my shoes. Totally do what I do for one day. But he just can't seem to fathom the time factor and being organised. He said he'd cook dinner, got snags out for dinner. But there was only 5 in the packet for 2 adults and 2 kids (who luuurrve snags!) so I said I didn't want any. I came into the kitchen at 5pm and they were wtill sitting ont he kitchen bench. The oven wasn't on for the oven chips he wanted to cook with them and they take about 25mins in our oven. He had nothing else prepared. So I did it, I cooked dinner and it was ready at 5.45. Dinner is normally 5.15/5.30 for the kids. So then everything was late. I was trying to sort out the kids toys in the playroom and pack them up since they had been out on the floor for a few days. I went nuts at him and he got cranky at me. Then went and started washing the dishes. But it was time for the kids to have a bath. He just has the worst timing. Now it's nearly 7.10 and almost 30mins past Liams bed time. But you know what. I'm not going to nag. I'm not going to say anything. Mainly because I'm stressing myself out and I am getting a mega headache. But he has no idea. He told me he can't look after the kids and clean stuff.....well buddy welcome to my ****ing day. That's what I do all day every day. Clean cook and look after kids. Adn on top of that now I'm making a baby too! No it's not easy. Yes it's monotonous and boring some days. Yes I'm tired like I've never been tired before. But I do it on time most days. The kids are happy and healthy. Because that's what I do....
Arrgg, sorry...just needed to get that out. He's making me crazy, but I'm feeling guilty because he is so good to me. He loves me to death. I know that. He would do anything for me. BUt he just has no idea!!! Plus i'm pg and irrational!
Hi to everyone else. Hope you're all well, as well as your bubs and bus in tums!
Kel- hope youre doing ok. I hear you about your job! I hear you about everything youre saying. Just some big hugs.
Kaz- where are you? I just looked at your ticker and you should be due for your morph scan.... so are you finding out and will you be telling???
Kris- hows it all going?
Mel and Jen... hi
As for us... all is good here in la la land! Rebecca has been in her bed for 2 weeks and the only thing that is a nightmare is getting her to sleep! On the odd occassion she will get up during the night, but is easily resettled (touch wood I havent just jinxed myself). Bed time is hard because Olivia is a bit needy and needs to have someone lay with her to go to sleep. She only takes 5 minutes to get to sleep, but if Rebecca is awake, then she will climb on the bed and jump on us and wriggle and just be a pain! If I try and sit with Becca to get her to settle, then Olivia will constantly come over to 'help'. So now its taking 2 of us to get them to sleep. Tonight Adam showed his magic and showed me how he counts to them til they fall asleep. I can understand why... he has such a deep soothing voice that I started to drift off and then he went to get me up and both girls were asleep!
Tomorrow I have my diabetes test. Hopefully I should be ok. Although I am finding that I have a huge sweet tooth this pregnancy. I cant help myself. Suprisingly I have not gained as much as I had with the girls.... I am mostly carrying out front, with the girls I carried all around.
Ok enough of me....
Hi ladies! We've been out and about a lot with school starting back this week
Mel, we envision the same sort of problems in getting both boys to sleep in the same room. Jr is our adventurous one and I reckon he'll want to play and wake Ben up as he's dozing off. As it is, Ben goes to bed before Jr most nights and Jr goes into his room and yells at him to "WAKE UP!" Oh dear!
How did the GD test go?
Kel, if I looked at looking after the house as a job right now, I'd be out on my backside I've been so unwell that the house looks terrible. I even went to visit a friend today because she said she was going to drop in and I couldn't bare to let anybody into our house right now
I read about Lil and the loo on FB! I need some tips and advice as we're still having poo issues with Ben. In fact, I just took his pooey nappy off him after he came and asked me for one so he could do a poo. Clearly it's not an understanding or physical problem, I just don't know the best way to go about it...
Kaz, Kris and Jen - HI!
AFM: MS seems to have tapered off although I'm having terrible digestive problems. Not heartburn, just indigestion. No matter what I eat, or how much, it just sits in my gut in a lump. So far today I've only had a green apple, which is the only thing I seem to be able to digest without issue I'm so over it!
The boys are doing great, Ben's back at school and Jared has had a word explosion. The stuff that he comes up with is pretty amazing! He's due for his 18 month shots, but I forgot to book him in, so I guess next week will have to do
This "I want..I want I wat..... Bull crap is driving me insane and I am going to scream at everyone!!!
If I say ok, then its stil i want i want until she gets it.... gggrrrr...... blooming roses!
Breath! hhmmmmmmmmmmmm
Ok that said! GD test... I havent heard anything so am assuming all went well, however I did get a letter in the mail from the birth centre saying my vitamin d is low and I have to take suppliments and get some sun. Am assuming this means more blood tests down the track!
Rebecca is still driving us batty with bed time. She hasnt had a sleep today because she can get out and will stand at her door banging. Yesterday she came out of the room, lais on the elmo couch and fell asleep in fromt of the tv. We went out last night and got home at 920... Olivia was asleep by 930 and we were still struggling with Becca at 10! GGGrrr!
Dh is just put off his apprentice as there is no work. So we are in limbo.....
Mel, how is Bec going in her bed now? I hope she's got it together! I have been putting Liam on the lounge with Lily to have his day sleeps for the past 3 days. He's doing really well and falls asleep within about 20mins. I just can't rock him to sleep anymore, he's getting too heavy and my back is getting pretty sore with the pg already! I hope you're having a better day today. I'm haveing a pretty ordinary one with Damien called into work again early this morning.
Lily went through an I want stage a few weeks ago which was driving me nuts too. I just refused to answer her until she asked nicely, now all I need to do is say 'Pardon' in a particular tone and give her a look and she says 'Excuse me mummy may I have....' LOL! Takes a bit to get them into the habbit though.
So have you got bubs names sorted yet?? We have changed our girls name, we are going with Emily Louise for a girl, and Dylan Matthew or Dylan James for a boy (at the moment, it's already changed a few times, lol!) I am absolutely loving Emily for a girl though. Finding out the sex....well I'm about 70% sold on the fact that we will. Damien really wants to and it will make buying stuff for bubs easier, but I did love the feeling of not knowing with Lil. I have a feeling it's a girl, I have been right with all of my pg, even my angels. Lil is still telling me she is going to have a sister too she told me the other day- 'no more boys ok mummy!' LOL, like I can choose, hehe! But so cute! I cna't believe you're in your 3rd trimester!! I feel like this pg is dragging, being almost 15weeks.
Dis Mel, we have issssews with getting our kids to sleep too. They're in the same room too and I have to put Liam to bed first and then Lily or they just yell at and play with each other and get into hysterics and fits of laughter. I put Li to bed at between 6.45 and 7pm, I have to lay with him, for about 20-30mins. Lily is great and will watch tv for that time, and usually doesn't move a muscle, lol! Then I put Lil to bed the same way. Has been this way since Liam was born, though I'm going to have to try to teach them to go to bed by themselves before the baby comes because I have no idea how I would manage to do that sort of routine with 3 kids on my own...and if I'm bf'ing this bub as well as I did with Liam, then it will make it all the more difficult...
LOL, my house goes through stages, with my moods. Last week I was really motivated and did really well keeping everything clean and tidy, clothes washed, dishes washed, floors vacced furniture polished.....but today and yesterday I had not so great days and the house reflects that- the dishwasher is still full and the dishes are piling up on the benches, there is a machine full of washed clothes in the laundry, plus two baskets of clean clothes on my loungeroom floor, plus a line of washed clothes outside, the dining table has weetbix stuck to it from a breakfast food fight the kids had (oh joy!)......I'm sure you get the picture....! It's not pretty! It stressed me to have a messy/dirty house, but some days I'm just so over everything I just can't pick myself up to do it. Sometimes my funk lasts for a week or two with me just doing the minimal stuff I have to to be hygenic, then sometimes I am the clean freak from hell and the place shines. I am a clean freak at heart, I used to clean the house every week from top to bottom before I had the kids, but I just can't keep that up now I am getting back into it now the kids are older and my clean periods last longer than the messy ones, but I can see as I get bigger and things get harder and then when baby comes, things will go down hill agian!
Well, I am going ok. Up and down days. I have had a few days of some back pain, hard to bend over, tough to pick up Liam, stuff like that though I have been doing a fair bit around the house, but still it's frustrating knowing that it is just going to get worse I iwll be a cripple by the end of the pg! I don't think my back would hold out for another one even if I wanted to try! Other than that I have been pretty moody and sensitive. Though I think that's a mixture of a bit of the fact of the move and the stress of being home 24/7 with the kids with no real outlets for me, and just the hormones and stuff! I expected it though, I do get moody with my hormones! Today is not a great day. DH was supposed to have 3 days off starting today but he was called into work this morning at 6am! And he's still not home and called to say it's unlikely he would be home anytime soon. Sooo sux. We had planned to go on a day trip and do a bit of exploring of the area, a bit of light bushwalking, go out to some pub in the middle of nowhere that is supposed to be good...just some good family time and get out of town, but that's out the window now I'm not even sure we'll get the groceries done...
Ok, I'm off I should do something constructive while the kidlets sleep....or have a coffee and eat some chocolate.....mmm decisions!
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I've been so unwell that the house looks terrible. I even went to visit a friend today because she said she was going to drop in and I couldn't bare to let anybody into our house right now 
I'm so over it!
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