Long time no post!! and just a short note as I have to get some sleep...loving the country but we have a mouse in the house which is freaking me out so have been sleeping awfully!
Kids are all well! Jayden has started walking - he's growing up way too fast!! He's gorgeous but WOW he's been a difficult baby!! Ethans going through terrible twos but he is just so gorgeous - he's talking really well and we're just in transition for him to drop day sleeps...Dylan is growing up and is just such a beautiful boy - he's so affectionate...poor little thing is missing Louis so much now that he's at school! OMG I have a boy at school - CRAZY!!! He's loving it though and is settling in really well!
A big hello to you all!!! Hope you're all going well with your new little bubbas!! Very exciting!!
I must say I'm looking forward to nearly being at the end of my reproduction stage - lol...Will be weaning Jayden when he turns 1 - he's got his first tooth and has started biting a bit so maybe I'll even start weaning a bit sooner!!!! So by April I will officially have my body back after 6 years and 3 months!!!
Look forward to chatting with you all in here a bit more regularly now that my life has settled down a little...
Good to hear from you Kristie... I have been keeping up with you on FB. I hear you about the mouse! We have one I can hear in the wall next to my side of the bed and the worst thing is I found mouse poo in our wardrobe... time for the trap! Glad Louis got a spot on the bus too. Hows Dylan going at kinder? Glad youre getting your boobs back after such a long time!
Omg...Michael put traps down last night and caught 2 under our tallboy! GROSS!!!
Dylan starts kinder next Friday...although he did do a term and a half of 3yo kinder last year in Cranbourne...he did well but is used of Louis and Ethan picking up his slack so took a little time to get used to having to pack up right on time etc...He's looking forward to starting again soon though!
MIchael and I went out for dinner last night for Valentines day - was sooo nice to head out! Jayden slept a little better as well which is nice - he's second tooth is almost through so hopefully he settles down soon...Anyway, hope you all had a good weekend! Chat soon!
Hey all, Im just in here for a vent. I have possibly had the worst week and today tops it, but who knows if tomorrow will be any better. Olivia has developed an aversion of going to the toilet for a poo. She now associates it with pain, so is pacing, screaming clingy. She has poo oozing out of her bum and walks around saying its ouchy. Anyone want to give me some tips? I dont know how to change her mind set... its only started this week
there's a laxative to make it softer - one of the ladies at work used it with her daughter, and combined it with star charts. Did she have constipation at all?
Kris - sounds lovely - wish we did something like that!
Am giving her lactulose and prunes and loads of water. It makes her poo but its the whole getting her to sit on the toilet thats the problem. I dont think she was constipated at all. Maybe she was... maybe she has a bit of a tear... I cant see anything at all. Her poos appear soft when she does them
Mel - you poor thing! I hope things have settled down now? I have no idea what you can do really...poor little thing...I guess I would just be persisting and offering rewards...
Kaz - How are you going? How's life with 2 little bubba's! I hope you're getting rest and sleep!
As for us, we had a great day yesterday at the seymour expo - Louis went on a camel ride and they had a big toy story jumping castle...was a huge day though and we all (me included) fell asleep on the way home! LOL!
Kids are going well...we've started playgroup up here and the ladies seem pretty nice! It's been crazy with Louis starting school - I pretty much have my own homework every night with all the notes to fill in etc...lol...It will certainly be crazy with all of them in school/kinder!
Dylan started kinder on Friday - just a half an hour with me...his teacher seems really nice and the kinder is great! He goes on his own on Friday for 2 1/2 hours but that's it...next year they have 2 x 5 1/2 hour sessions so that will be pretty full on! Good preperation for school though I suppose!
Ok, better get some stuff done I suppose! It's been gorgeous weather up here but we had a cool morning this morning...waiting for the sun to come out - it's meant to be 24 though so should turn out nice...waiting to get some washing off the line so I can do more - it is certainly never ending and Louis was so tired he wet the bed last night so I think I'll have to do a load in the dryer as well...I hate doing that but I only have a temporary clothes line at the moment so can only fit out about 1 load at a time...
Anyway, I'm just rambling now...lots of love to you all xoxo chat soon!
OMG girls, I just saw this when i went into today's posts and didn't realise you were all still around!! I will have to do a read up and see how you are all going
Yep we are still here Iona... theres about 5 of us left.... Me, Kristie, Kaz, Kellie, Mel and occassionally Jen... thats 6!
Hows your pregnancy going? Hows Luke?
Hi Kristie! You sound like youre having a ball up there. Busy times ahead for you whn all your little men start school/kinder!
We are doing ok.... had a better day with Olivia yesterday. Shes been having lactulose daily over the weekend and yesterday she just couldnt hold on so had a poo. She was so excited that it didnt hurt (me too) so she sat on the toilet and finished it off so all her poos could have a poo party!!! Hopefully this means the end of it all. I have lost the plot with her so many times this weekend and I havent shown my good side. I have been very awful and made her cry and also made myself cry. But I was so angry with her. Part of it was also her testing her limits with me, at the moment everything is no i dont want to or you do it. So when she didnt want to go to the loo she would get our attention and then as soon as she had it she was off again and just wouldnt listen to anything we had to say.
I really needed to take a step away from her this weekend. I would never hurt her but she made my blood boil. Luckily we came through it alive! I hated this weekend and I really hope that there arent too many like it!
Anyway they are at day care today. Amy is home with me and shes unsettled as all get up and go... thankfully shes trying to sleep with the occassional scream thrown in. Rebecca is fine.... poor little mite gets left out in the shadow of Olivias poor behaviour and Amy needing to be cared for so I make sure that we try and spend quality time with her.
Oh and my weight loss sux big time. I have been riding 4 days a week and eating really well only to loose 100gms again this week. Not happy. I spoke to the gp about it but he said to wait til AF arrives and if my weight hasnt budged after that then we will address it. Still not back on the pill..... just trying to toss up what I want to do... another baby or getting my tubes tied?!?!?
Mel, sounds like a shocker of a weekend. Hope things improve this week, sounds like they are on the way up already I'm pretty sure that the pushing the limits thing is an age thing. Ben has been getting on my nerves lately too, and the fights between him and Jared are going up a notch. They don't even really fight, one will just hit the other for no reason! The joy of boys I guess. I actually think Jared is the instigator a lot of times and really hate telling Ben "You should know better". Sometimes I forget that he's still only three. He's also had a big adjustment with Josh arriving on the scene.
Kris, sounds like a fun day out. I know what you mean about 'homework' I'm the vice president at the pre school so between notes for Ben and the few things they ask me to do, I have my homework to do
Kaz, how's your newest little man going? Does Pip adore him? I'm finding Ben to be a BIG help at times with Josh, although I rarely ask him for help. He volunteers a lot so I let him help, but I don't want to put pressure on him to help too much.
Us: Well we just had my 6 week check and Josh's first vax. Neither of us were particularily thrilled with it all, but we survived. I'm taking the two little boys the clinic tomorrow, we're overdue for Jared's 2 year check and I want to see how much Josh weighs now. I'm guessing around 5.5 - 6kgs already. My boys tend to chunk up quickly since they are mega pigs, although Josh doesn't feed as frequently as the other two did.
Ben is doing okay. He's learning to write at school and sounds out some three letter words which continues to amaze me. Montessori is just perfect for him and he's really thriving. We're discussing what to do about school though, whether to send him private or public. He'll do kindy at Montessori (I think you call it Prep in Vic, it's the year before 1st grade) and then go straight into 1st grade. The primary school near us isn't too bad, but the attached High School is pretty awful. We're considering sending him to an Anglican K-12 school instead, but we just don't know at this stage. We have to decide soon so we can make sure we're on the waiting lists - it freaks me out that we have to do all this already!
I hear you on the blood boiling Mel - I am clenching my fists with Pip a lot - he's just been sent to bed with no story and no teeth clean cause he's just being naughty. That's good news on the poos this weekend - from talking with my friend, the fear of hurting was causing her daughter to hold on - I do hope it's not an attention thing, for your sake.
Jen, that sounds great with Ben! I can't believe he's writing and spelling! I just am spending all my time with Will, and Trev's looking after Pip, which means that Pip is watching waaaay too much TV. Pip's offering to help, and Will is getting loved to death by Pip - what is it with them touching the blasted soft spots on the head????
We've got Pip in 3-yr-old Kinder this year, then he'll do 4-yr-old Kinder, then Prep, then school. So Prep's in 2012 for us - the cut-off for being 5 for Prep is May 1 down here, and given he's April 26, I'd rather keep him back a little. Least it means that when he's 18, so will the other school kids in his class. We're starting to phone around for schools, there's a catholic primary school about 100m from us that we'll check out, and there's a private boys school which is good for technical, not so much for pure maths etc - but we'll put his name down at a few high schools so we can have the choice when we find out his strengths.
Hi.....Have not been around for ages but seeing a few of you on FB I thought it was time I came back in and said hello...Congrats to all who have had new babies very exciting. How is everyone finding there 3 y.o behaviour? James is killing me...He has gone from being a sweet, quite, shy boy to now refusing to go to bed (still sleeping in my bed) to not listening to a thing I say and his new thing is to show his doodle all the time...Driving me insane...I never remember Natasha being anything like this....
Von - Pip is currently running in and out of his bedroom with every excuse to not sleep, and he's way overtired!!!!! I tried sleeping with him once, all that happened was that I fell asleep and he climbed over me to get out
OMG Kaz and Von you guys are making me feel so much better, unfortunately it's because your boys are playing up too! Yep, Ben has changed a lot too. We still have good days, but sometimes I wonder where that sweet little boy has gone.
Von, I hear you on the penis thing. Ben has started just walking around holding it. We ask him why and sometimes he says it's because it's tired No idea where that came from! He went through a phase where he was hitting it to make it go hard, so at least now he's just holding it. We thought he was going to himself some damage. I'm pretty sure he did it because it was the only way he knew how to make it hard which felt good. He doesn't do it TOO much in public because we've drilled into him that it's private but he's still learning. Fun times!
Jen, that's too funny. DH is peeing himself laughing! The only thing Pip is doing is *not* touching his "bits" when going to the loo so he doesn't have to wash his hands. Dunno where that came from! So what he does is pull down his pants and rest his penis on the porcelain (ughs!) - although he did drop the toilet seat on his penis the other day!!!! Was the lesson learnt? Only for 10 mins or so
Oh Kaz, I am ....that's so hilarious that Pip won't hold his penis to pee, bahaha, and then dropped the toilet seat on it, omg!!! Poor little man, ouch, but it's sooo funny! Though it's gross to think if he goes to a public toilet and does it, but I'm sure you tell him not to!
And Mel, Liam makes himself hard too... DH is mortified that he does it "already", being only 2 1/2, but I know it's totally noraml. If a little confronting to see your 2yo walking around the house with an erection...ick! But hey boys will be boys right?? Now I have another to look forward to doing it as well!
And I'm with the rest of you too, Lily is pushing boundaries she hasn't tried to test before. She's being a right little b!tch some days, and is spending more and more time in her bedroom in trouble. I sent her in there this morning and called her to come out so I could talk to her and she said 'No I won't, I'm reading my books'. Fat lot of good that did then hey? Seh's backchatting like she thinks she 13 and is hitting and snatching off Liam all day. It's driving me insane and all I do all day is yell at them from the chair while I feed Caelan. Little *****s know if I'm feeding him, I will try not to have to get up to them.
But then, some days she is a little ray of sunshine and I am so totally in love with her, like yesterday when I walked past her bedroom, I said (to noone in particular) "omg, what a mess!!" next time I walked past it, it was immaculately clean again. She did it all herself, put everything where it's supposed to go and even tried to make her bed. Awww, my precious girl! I have to try to remember these moments when she's rummaging throught the fridge getting out the yogo even though I have told her not to 5 times and she know's I'm feeding the baby and she might get away with it if she goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on............................about it long enough. Then screams to my face 'NO I WON'T!!!' when I tell ehr to put it back or I will smack her AND she will stay in her room for the rest of the arvo.
Von, welcome back, so good to see you here again!! We are still ahving to sleep with Liam too. It's not easy when I am sleeping with DS2 and DH is on night shifts. Makes for a terribly sleepless night for me. I have just had 5 nights of DH on night shift and I think I have had on average maybe 4hrs broken sleep each night, if that. One night I think it was only 2. OMG, sooooo tired!
Iona, yep we're still around!! Don't post so much as we used to, but we all still catch up when we can! Would Love to hear how you're going!
Ok I know I've missed people, but my little man is calling me....
Kaz-That’s why DH has to lie with James until he falls asleep …
That is sooo funny holding it because it is tired…At least Ben gave you an answer I get “because”
Kellie-I don’t know how you do it when Dh is on night shift….My dh went out one night and I nearly had a nervous breakdown lol..
Well this has been one of the most painful posts ever…I have been getting bitten by our new addition Benson…I never knew puppies were like having twin toddlers in the house….
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I'm pretty sure that the pushing the limits thing is an age thing. Ben has been getting on my nerves lately too, and the fights between him and Jared are going up a notch. They don't even really fight, one will just hit the other for no reason! The joy of boys I guess. I actually think Jared is the instigator a lot of times and really hate telling Ben "You should know better". Sometimes I forget that he's still only three. He's also had a big adjustment with Josh arriving on the scene.
I'm the vice president at the pre school so between notes for Ben and the few things they ask me to do, I have my homework to do
Jen, that's too funny. DH is peeing himself laughing! The only thing Pip is doing is *not* touching his "bits" when going to the loo so he doesn't have to wash his hands. Dunno where that came from! So what he does is pull down his pants and rest his penis on the porcelain (ughs!) - although he did drop the toilet seat on his penis the other day!!!! Was the lesson learnt? Only for 10 mins or so
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