Babies born~July 1st-15th 2009 #3

Hi everyone

Sorry :redface: I hardly every get to come in here anymore :( Happy birthday to everyone that I missed and I am so glad to read that everyone is doing well

So a bit of an update. Thank you for the birthday wishes. Grace had a lovely birthday and family birthday party but came down that night with Croup. It was horrible and she was so bad for about a week, got better and then got worse again. She seems to be past the worst of it now though. All I can say is thank goodness it was school holidays so we could be home with her the whole time.

Along with the croup Grace broke her teething necklace, and then two days later cut her first two teeth :doh: but it is fixed now and her top two teeth are just about to cut now, so finally she'll be able to bite things poperly :lol: We also had a milestone today. Grace has been walking holding our hands for months and I have been getting a bit stressed about her not walking on her own but last night we were out with a baby the same age who was walking so I told her 'look at that baby, she can walk, how about you try too' so she did :D I was so proud. She spent the rest of the evening following the baby around. Then this afternoon she walked to me at daycare and then used her walker, then walked away from it :leap: so happy

Grace started daycare, 4 days a week, and love it. The carers said she is such an easy baby and so happy all the time. I'm so glad she is doing well but I still wish I was home with her more often. Ok, Lumpy is wanting cuddles so I'll hope to read how you are all going soon :)

:hug: for poor Ash, hope he is better soon! Just think of all the immunity he is building though...lol.

We've changed playgroups, going to one which is much nicer and not so chaotic.
Hayley is turning into such a funny little thing...she knows a few noises that animals make- "ooh ooh ahh ahh" for a monkey, for an elephant she sticks her arm straight up in the air (like it's a trunk), growls for a tiger, "uhh uhh" for a dog barking, and "uck uck" for a duck. It's so funny! She now knows when to make the "quack quack" when we sing 5 Little Ducks (when the mother duck quacks). And this afternoon she pinched a packet of shortbread cream biscuits off the table, pulled the biscuits out and stuffed one in her mouth :rolleyes: not what I would have wanted her to eat, but I wasn't going to take it off her cause that would only end in tears! I'm sure one won't hurt her. Lol.

We "interviewed" a baby sitter today, DF wanted to go to a show on Friday night, but he didn't like the babysitter (I thought she was fine!) so I dunno what is going to happen now...i was looking forward to a night out without a baby attached :( that's a whole other thread though!

Better go, someone needs to have a bottle & go to bed...DF was supposed to be taking her for a bit so I could finish cleaning up the kitchen, guess that isn't going to be happening now :angry:

hi everyone. i havent been on here for so long. hope everyone enjoyed their little ones 1st bday. Anton is is growning into a big boy already in size 2 clothes but is lazy too he still isnt crawling he just rolls all over the place. at the min im getting ready to move and im also got another bundle of joy on the way due on 1 feb 2011

Congraulations Jess! Good luck with the move, you must have your hands full!

It's been a while since I posted :redface: ...

I am working 4 days, Pie is still at FDC two days but has started long daycare the other two - and I freakin HATE it :(

I will give it a few weeks & then I think we will reassess just how much we need my income. We originally thought we needed it but I am wondering if we can make a few cutbacks, or I might look for another job :dunno: we will see.

hope everyone is well, it's just amazing seeing all these babies grow up so fast!

wow, it seems like forever since i posted!

congrats jess :)

in a bit of a rush so i won't do personals, but i promise to keep more up to date from now on!!

i can't believe all our babies are 1 now. and then it got to be 13 months so quickly. it sort of seems as though i spent so much time focussing on the first year that now time is just flying past!

corey started walking a few weeks ago. he still crawls but chooses to walk probably 75% of the time now. he still gets pretty upset if i leave the room - i'm not sure when to expect this phase to stop? i know he's still small - i have it in my head that the sep anxiety starts to slow at 18 months?

his sleeping is still horrendous. joys! but i've started seeing a personal trainer to try & get fit & lose some weight because i figured no point putting life on hold till he sleeps better- because at this stage it doesn't seem like it will ever happen :lol:

hope everyone & their bubs are well :hug: let's get this thread back on the first page!!

hi all
another 'not very often poster' LOL! i keep meaning to get in here and post but i dont get much time to myself... i do read and see how you all are going. congrats Jess! wow a full load for you! tonight i have some time DH is away for work and DS1 is at the gparents so it is just me and J at home. feels relaxing!!!
J is doing great, crawling well, lots of cruising... i think he is still a way off walking... lots of babbling and actions like doing stars for twinkle twinkle - SO CUTE! his sleep is a bit better than it was and we are not feeding onight at all unless he is sick
i am also tryong to get back intoshape - joined the gym a few weeks back and so far been quite motivated... havent lost any weightbut think i have lost cms maybe and i am def feeling fitter, prob need to control food a bit better
anyway will try to keep up a bit better and then personals will be a bit more meaningful; xxx

Hi all, :hello:
I wont do personals because there's just too much to catch up on! As others have said I keep meaning to come in too, I'm flat out trying to keep up with the new posts in general (my phone is soo slow :wall:). I have been reading though. :hug:

Congrats Jess :) hope you have a h&h 9 months.

AFU nothing much has changed. DS is becoming very vocal. Everyone is "Daddad" although he knows who Dad is if you ask him he still refers to everyone else as dad too. Lol. He says car ("ca") and sometimes dog ("dgn" - like diggin without the vowels lol).
He's been pushing up into a standing position from the floor a fair bit but never actually stands he kind of leans forwards and holds his balance for a minute then falls forward again. ITMS?
He's slowly learning the actions to a few songs although very rarely does them- twinkle twinkle, he knows the open and closing of hands an kiss blowing parts of open shut them, screams at the appropriate moments for row, row, row your boat and claps for clap, clap, clap your hands.
He's pretty quick at doing laps of the coffee table these days. I should count them one day he just goes round and round for ages and thinks it's hilarious. Along with alot of other random things lately, he's been laughing so much at anything and everything, he has the kind of laugh where you cant help but laugh too which makes him laugh more, which in turn makes us laugh again because he has no idea what he's laughing at. :rofl: it just goes on and on...
He's started crawling around in circles doing seemingly aimless and definately pointless laps of objects in the room and back and forth repeatedly over things- ripped up pieces of news paper, the mat that goes under his high chair, a doormat in an office the other day, a ramp at the doctors today... Why? I have no idea but apparently it's very funny because he laughs the whole time. :lol:

I guess he is doing more new stuff than I thought- unless I already told you all this already lol.

Enough drivel from me :p hope everyone is well.

been a while since a post in here :lol:

We've been going ok, although I'm starting to get really sick of the 'groundhog day' feeling..not even weekends are different :( Trouble is there isn't much to do around here, especially if it's yucky weather which it has been most days lately. Bring on sunny spring days! I'm hoping things might get a little easier when she starts walking, which I know won't be for a while yet but it's keeping me going..lol.

Hayley has been so cranky the last couple of days..I've been getting cranky back at her which I know doesn't help but I feel like I'll explode otherwise :wall: Not sure if it's to do with her teeth or not (her fifth tooth, an eye tooth has just come through and the other top one isn't far away), as she can be quite happy and nice when she wants to be, when she doesn't or things don't go the way she wants she chucks a tantrum, so maybe it's just the stage she is at. It's very tiring though!

She's learnt a few new things, she puts her hands on her head at the start of head, shoulders, knees & toes which is quite funny to watch. She's started wanting to walk holding our hands. My back is so sore tonight because we did a few laps of the house, in and out of the kitchen, down the hallway and into the spare room...I don't think she wanted to go anywhere in particular she just wanted to walk! I guess it gives them a whole different perspective than from crawling around on the ground.

I think that's about it...hope everyone is going well!

Hey ss :) I know what you mean about groundhog day. It's the same here, the only difference is that on weekends MIL is here to irritate me too. :rolleyes:
are you still going to the new playgroup you liked? Sorry if I missed something.
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Isaac's new words:
- "guck" (truck)
- "ochk" (sock)- only said this once though.
- "go!" (when I say "ready set...", and often when I dont lol)
- "do" like in doctor (for dog instead of dgn)
- "goh" (gone) along with :dunno: hand actions. Soo cute!

He also knows where his nose is, which talking about ALWAYS results in a deep excavation exercise :lol:. He also knows head when he's not too busy sticking his finger as far up his nose, as possible. :rolleyes: he knows where our eyes are and likes trying to claw them out but refuses to point to his own.

That's all I can think of for now, sorry if it sounds like I'm showing him off, I'm just so proud, not to mention REALLY relieved that he knows all this stuff! It's so nice to not be stressing every 5 mins about whether or not he's developing "normally" *big sigh of relief*

Wow Heva, that's an awesome list of words! I thought we had 'dog' the other day (dod) but it hasnt' been repeated so :dunno:
Lots of mum & dad still but in a babling way... although I think she knows who people are, if you ask her to take something to mum or dad or savvy (DD1) she will do it.

Storm IKWYM, she has become a real toddler, horrible to take out to the shops as she just wants to walk around. It's ok if you have an extra person to follow her, but I can't get anything done on my own! Lol at the head & shouldres, that must be so cute :)

Hello everyone, I'm not sure if I've posted in here before, if not then Hi I'm Kezzabird mum to twins Jennifer and Suzanna born 9th July 09, I was in the Belly buddies thread, but not really been on here much since, I've been soooooo busy!!!! :rolleyes:

Loving every minute of it though, the girls are amazing and make me laugh every day, they are so cheeky and get up to mischief as soon as my back is turned. They aren't walking yet, but are up on all fours crawling and pulling themselves up. Jennifer has started to say a few words, but Suzanna just babbles. I'm sure she is talking in her own little way :D

Anyway, I will try and pop in every now and then to see how you are all going, I still find it hard to believe that they are 13 months old :o I'm sure you guys feel the same.

heva - what a clever little man! and so you should be proud, isaac sounds like he's going great guns!

ss_storm - how are you going? i get the groundhog day thing sometimes too. i think the walking does help - i've noticed that corey is just that bit more inclined to do his own thing now. even if it does mean that he's emptying a cupboard in the kitchen & wandering around the house with a wooden spoon :lol:

kezzabird - it's great to hear from you! i'm sure you've posted once or twice before but not for ages so it's awesome to hear how your girls are going :)

afm, something finally clicked in my brain (bit of a slow learner :lol:) - we took DS to the footy yesterday & we were in a bar/food area and he was desperate to walk over to a mum who had her crawling baby on the floor. she said she was happy for him to come over so he walks over & goes straight to give the mum a hug. he is just so affectionate. it takes me longer than it should to do the grocery shopping because he's playing hide & seek with other shoppers or they're talking to him etc. i was thinking how much i love his affectionate nature & how social he is. then i realised that it's probably the same character traits that make him wake up so often overnight & can make him a very cuddly (i.e. clingy!) baby...so you take the bad (well, not bad but less desirable!!) with the good. argh, i hope that makes sense!

annnyways...he's on the go all the time now & other than the mum & dad words/sounds, his first word is "more" :lol: he still likes his food!

Awww Sloane, that's an awesome trait to have & a great way of looking at it, what a beautiful boy you have :)

naww Sloane I think that's gorgeous! What a lovely snuggly boy :) I love grocery shopping atm cause she is just so damn cute! Except when she pulls all the price tags off the shelf! We're trying to teach Hayley to kiss atm, we say "kiss kiss" then make a kissing noise. DF got her doing it and kissing his face, but then he came out to show me and she wouldn't do anything! Lol.

Heather- Isaac knows heaps! What a clever boy :) Yeah we're still going to the playgroup, there aren't any others around so I don't want to leave and then not have anything :lol: It's not too bad, but I still feel like I don't really fit in...I just don't have/can't think of anything to say to them :redface: I guess it's a bit harder in that most of the kids are 2+ so can't really talk baby/young toddler stuff with them..

Fleur- are you still expressing for Pie? You've done such an awesome job, you should be so proud of yourself! Aren't the tantrums awful! DD chucked one in Officeworks last week, I was looking at archive boxes and think she wanted to get down as she was leaning down and starting to get whingy. so I put her on the ground and she just threw herself face down and started screaming...I just grabbed a pack of the boxes and raced out as fast as I could :redface:

Today was a bit better, probably helped by the fact it took the majority of the morning to have brekky, have a shower and get dressed etc...we're a bit slow some mornings! And that was even with Hayley waking up at 6.30. Lol! She had a ball looking through the Petbarn catalogue today, gooing and gahing at all the photos of the animals in it. She was flicking back and forth through it for about half an hour! Have stuck some photos on the fridge for her to look at too, she loves playing with the magnets but I haven't been able to find any proper magnets for kids that are 'safe' for under 3's. Have a couple of pics of our dog, one of her & the dog sitting on a picnic rug and one of me & her, she loves pointing at everyone, and going "woof woof" at the dog. She can also say moo for a cow, although it's more like ooooo.

Yep still pumping :D
i'm actually trying to wean now, I have finally had enough of the pump :rofl: Arlea isn't that fussed on anything but breast milk, so I am mixing it with cow's milk trying to get her used to it gradually. I think it's working :crossfingers:

Great work Fleur! You won't know yourself not having to drag a pump with you everywhere you go :lol:
Hayley is almost on straight cow's milk now, down to one scoop of formula now and should only have a few scoops left in the tin. Once that's gone, that is it!

Well we've had a busy end to the week...Hayley started clapping properly today! She did a little clap yesterday when she was on her changetable and I raced her out so she could show daddy but do you think she would do it again! :shakehead: But tonight we had clapping on request so I think she's got it now. I thought she was never going to do it! Even got it on video :D

She also had a few seconds this afternoon standing all by herself. I was on the phone to mum, sitting on the floor and Hayley was standing up behind me. I could feel her holding onto me but every so often she would let go then grab back onto me again. I turned around to see what she was doing and she was there with her knees bent standing up without holding onto anything! Then she grabbed my free hand and started walking off..lol. Didn't last long though because she got so out of balance she was practically swinging around with the arm i had hold of and eventually plonked onto the floor. She didn't even hit the floor hard, there was no bang but she burst into tears anyway :rolleyes:
All she's been wanting to do lately is walk holding our hands, so a bit more practice and she will be off! Half the time she doesn't even know where she wants to go though and takes two steps forwards then quickly turns around and takes a few steps the other way, then turns around again...lol

She's learned a new animal noise. DF taught her the "bok bok bok" for a chicken, sounds more like a sheep going ba ba ba though. She's also saying something that sounds like "who's that". We say "who's that" to her when we're looking in the mirror, or looking at photos we have on the fridge so I think she might have picked up on that. She yelled it out when DF was on the phone the other day, was so funny we both cracked up laughing! SOunds kinda like "oo da", so I don't know if she is trying to say "who's that" or I'm making it out to be more than it is :dunno:

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so I don't know if she is trying to say "who's that" or I'm making it out to be more than it is :dunno:

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I have exactly the same thing going on here ATM ;)

I think we have 'hello' and maybe 'dog' (mumum & dadad as well)
The rest are sounds that make us say that make us say 'what was that? did she just say...?' lol.

Sounds like Hayley will be on the move very soon!

Hayley sounds like she's on par with my girls, they are doing the exact same thing with the wanting to walk with hands thing, and when I try to put them down on the floor for them to crawl they put their feet down to walk. They are also walking with a little ride on/walk along toy all by themselves, so I guess it's a matter of getting their balance and off they'll go. God help me when they do! :o Only Jennifer is saying words though, she say's "ello" and "hiya" as clear as a bell. She also calls our dog and her big brother. The dog is called Mash and she calls "Ma" and big brother is called "Alex" we get "ala" it's very cute! But we're still waiting for Suzanna to say anything recognizable, she babbles like she thinks she's talking, but nothing that you can make out. We are also getting a lot of pointing at things and what sounds like "what's that?" in a high pitched "huh?" going on.

We've all just got over a terrible bug, we had it over the weekend, Alex came home from school with it on Thursday, followed by me Friday night, then Suzanna Saturday morning, then Jennifer Saturday evening, then lastly OH late Saturday night.:rolleyes: So I've been spending the last couple of days de-germing the household, after our yukky weekend! I've gone through a whole 2lt bottle of disinfectant and boil washed all the bed sheets..........be gone nasty bug, be gone!!:pray:

oh no Kezzabird :( Hope the bug is well and truly gone, must have been awful! Sounds like you need 4 hands too...lol. My back gets sore so quickly holding her little hands while she stumbles around everywhere, would be twice as bad with twins!

I had a little spending spree on Ebay last week, got her some ball pit balls, and a pretty pink princess tent/cubby. She had sooo much fun playing with the balls in the tent it was hilarious!

bit of a woohoo- finished the last tin of formula tonight!! She's down to 1/4 formula, 3/4 cows milk, so starting tomorrow (or maybe tonight if she won't go back to sleep when she wakes up at some ungodly hour) she will be on full cow's milk. Yay no more buying formula! I don't know if it's related, but she had two quite runny poos today with lots of bread seeds in them. i thought maybe it was the cow's milk, but she's been having that ratio of milk for a few weeks now. thank god they weren't in the bath like she has been doing lately :rolleyes:

God - our babies are growing up so fast!
Teaghan is running, talking - the newest is telling everyone off with the finger pointing and saying "Don't Do It! Brat!" It's very cute...
I babysat a friends 4mth old daughter last night and Teaghan had to help with everything - feeding her, wiping her bottom, burping her and putting her to sleep.. Quite the little Mummy I have!

So sorry I have been MIA. So much going on with the ex trying to get custody of DS and trying to prove I am an unfit mother - good luck to him - and getting child protective services involved. It's taken it's toll even though we are doing the right thing, there is procedures to follow etc and it's been really hard..

yikes - i found us about to slip to page 3!! eeek!

i can't believe how long it's been since i posted in there :redface: but after all the recent crap, i felt the need to come back & reconnect with my baby buddies :hug:

berry sweet - i never got around to saying - but i love the new username! sounds like teaghan is a gorgeous little girl! sorry to hear about the problems with your ex. hope it's all sorted out now, or at least improving :hug:

argh, DS has woken up....HI everyone! come back & chat! :lol:

I keep meaning to post but just get sidetracked...I should do it more often because it's really my only record of DD's milestones! Terrible I know, but we were never given a baby book as a pressie and I didn't buy one. I probably would have only filled out a few pages and that would have been it! Might have to make my own...one day...lol.

Will be back later tonight with an update ;)

:doh: me too, I don't post in here on my phone because it takes too long and I often lose my posts on it (damn thing gives me the absolute s****) and now I'm on the computer I can't because DF wants me to come and watch some crappy TV show with him. :wall:

Hope everyone is well, I promise I read all your posts in here and stalk you all on FB though - well those that I have on FB! lol

didn't get back in to post last night...Hayley is back to doing the waking up only an hour or two after she's been put to bed again :wall: Last night, geez Hayley don't you know Tuesday nights I MUST watch Packed to the Rafters?!? Lol. She woke up about three times before I even made it to bed..so guess who came with me :rolleyes: I think it's her teeth, she's getting her first molar (I didn't even know it was on the way until she opened her mouth one day and I saw a bit of white far back in her mouth!) and looks like her bottom eye teeth are on their way as well.
DF is going on his "she needs to sleep in her own bed" rampage again...a couple of nights ago she woke up at about 10.30 screaming (don't know if she had a bad dream or it was just her teeth still) and didn't go back to sleep until after 1...nothing would work, I took her to bed with me and she just wriggled around and didn't even look like going to sleep, so I came back out to the loungeroom and just sat her on the floor. She was quite happy playing with her taggie block and crawling around...then DF came and picked her up and she screamed for about 30 mins straight..she kept putting her arms out and squirming like she wanted to come to me but he wouldn't let her :( said she needs to learn she doesn't always get what she wants..like WTF??? Eventually I managed to get him to give her to me, she was nearly sick a couple of times, then went back to bed with her and she finally fell asleep :cry:

Today she took her first couple of steps all by herself! So exciting, still gonna be ages before she is actually walking though! She still hates standing on her own and will only do it for a few seconds at a time. we'll get there though! So yep at 14 months and 3 weeks we finally have her first independent steps :cheer:

She also knows where her head, ears and toes are, and where my nose is. We're going to 'Little Big Day Out' in Wagga tomorrow, its more for 2-6 year olds, but I'm sure we'll have fun anyway. It's organised by the council and they have stalls showing all the different council departments. I'm sure Hayley's favourite will be the animal shelter one...they bring in some puppies and kittens :) She is going to be a real animal lover I think!

Better go...we've just finished dinner and are going to go for a quick walk before bath and bed time :)

i found it! okay, DP actually found it for me. i was looking for this thread earlier today but just couldn't see it :redface:

sooooo....how is everyone going? i am amazed every day by the big personality corey has & how quickly they learn :)

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sooooo....how is everyone going? i am amazed every day by the big personality corey has & how quickly they learn :)

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Oh man... personality? :lol: It's her nickname at both FDC & LDC, Miss Personality :)

Well, we're having major tantrums atm, I keep telling myself it's just frustration on her part, that her thought process is a bit ahead of her communication right now.. that's where a lot of them come from. And of course when she doesn't get her own way we have tantrums too, but I find those less frustrating, we just let her get it out... when she's trying to tell us something and loses it because we don't understand, that is harder.

And she's becoming a bit of an actress too, if she gets told off she will hang her head, pout (she's very good at turning her mouth down) and hold her hand to her head until she gets a cuddle. Sometimes she will do it for no apparent reason... and I've seen her do it once whenshe fell over, she wasn't hurt but she spotted her sister & acted sad until she got a cuddle. And the other day a woman in the supermarket called her 'gorgeous'... and got the same sad pouty look (she kind of hangs her head & looks up at you out of the corner of her eye) funny as, I have no idea what was so bad about that!

Ahh she's super entertaining right now, so much fun & leaning SO much every day it's scary... but awesome :D

Hi ladies!

Fleur it's so funny, I keep going to type Jasp! Arlea sounds so cute! Ash has also embraced the power or the tantrum. We've only had three real ones so far, but OMG they were full on. I kid you not an hour of throwing himself on the floor and complete dramatics. The first time I thought there was something physically wrong with him and was set to rush him off to the doctor, but the minute we ran out the front door it all stopped. I thought I knew what a tantrum was, but after that I discovered that I had know idea until then.

We've just gotten back from 3 weeks in the US visiting DH's family. Ash handled all the travel really well and had a lovely time. It was amazing we didnt have one tantrum the entire time we were away, but sure enough within 24 Hours of getting home they started again. We're also having some sleep issues, part of it is jet lag I think, he's also gotten very used to having us rock him to sleep because that is what we had to do while we were away. Hopefully it will all sort itself out in the next week or so though cos he has two very weary parents right now...

It's been lovely watching him transform into a true toddler oveer the last couple of months, he's so much fun and so amazed by the world around him, it's really giving me a new appreciation of the simple things iykwim. His language is just starting to develop, we've probably got about eight or nine everyday words now with no and uhoh being the favorites, but every day he seems to mimic something new.

Hope everyone is we'll. I've missed our little catchups in here :hug:

Hey everyone! How has everyone been?

Sophie is doing amazing and turned 2 about a month ago. It is hard to believe that it has been 2 years already.

In fact..we are now working on our seond addition in the family. :)

Anyone elso out there working on their next baby?

Hi There
I think Miss E and Sloane and Ryatha and BekZ are all pg with their next bubs!!! I wonder if you will all be in the same belly buddies??
I hope everyone is well...

Hi there!

Good to hear from you Jess, I've often wondered how you're doing... There are quite a few of us who are pregnant again, funny how the timing works isn't it! Sloan and I are in a Belly Buddies group with Leckert, so three from our group - I still can't get over the conincidence! And I think Bekz and Ryatha are probably about as far along as you.

It's hard to believe our little ones are 2 isn't it. It seems like yesterday that we were all chattering away here with anticipation. Oh how time flies.

Take care x

Growing #2 here not quite sure of my dates but at the moment I'm hanging out in both April threads.

I'm still surprised at how fast time has gone and how quickly Blake's grown - everything's "mine" now :lol:

Leckert- Sophie is totally the same way..Sadly, she has also learned "GO Away" and thinks its really funny to tell everyone that..even strangers :(

Miss E- Im doing great1 How about you? Im so jealous you guys are all in a belly buddies group together...I think Ryatha is in one of mine. Im hanging out in end of january group and beginning on feb group.

MamPan- How are you?

Argh I am so jealous of all these new pregnancies!!!
Teaghan has hit terrible twos - go away and shut up are her faves at the moment.
Every day she has me in awe though - the things she does, understands and says amaze me...

How is everyone else?

Im doing good berrysweet! Im approaching my 2nd baby shortly so im excited about that!

We've got the "I don't need to sleep" thing happening here night bedtime can be drama filled as ds won't drop off without a fight and the biting at cc


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