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Was so great to meet you guys last week!!! So sorry I was sooo late!
We had a huge weekend and headed to fairy park on Sunday - was lots of fun!
Boys are well..not much really happening at the moment other than the usual! Have had a bit of a shopping spree this week so just as well dh has been told he's getting a pay rise in the new year - LOL!
I am so jealous of your meet up. I wish some of you lived on the Gold Coast. I hope you all had a good time.
It is definitely hard to meet people in a new city, and feel so jealous when i see groups of mums together. I have met a couple of people, i need to give it more time.
Ben's birthday in a couple of weeks and don't really have anyone to invite apart from one mum I have met and my mother in law. I suppose that is ok.
Hello,
I'm sorry i couldnt make it last week i was so bummed but i didnt want to get you all sick, feeling a bit better this week, had a headache everyday though and we all still have coughs. Trying to rest as much as possible but a lil hard when i have so much to do, my sister gets married tomorrow :O its come so quick. Got my hair done then spray tan last night and tonight i gotta go get my nails done, never had them done before so im quite excited.
Back to the bubs....lol. Robyn, dont worry to much, its his first birthday, he wont even remember it, maybe you could ask you local council for a playgroup directory. I need to start looking into some here, charli needs friends her own age i feel bad cause lys had her cousins but charli has no1
This morning i caught alyssa hurting charli, i was not happy and yelled at her big time, charli didnt cry but still what she was doing was just mean, then 5 minutes later charli was telling alyssa off and she smacked her so alyssa smacked her back
The fighting has already begun
Lys had her first transition day at school the other day, went well except the parents info session was held in the library and every 2nd parent had a pram so it was very squishy and charli didnt wanna keep still (cause i couldnt take the pram in...was just too hard) then to top it all off alyssa left her hat there so i gotta go in and get it, hopefully they still have it. Got her uniform list too It's soooo expensive, we are gonna be so poor and thats not even including her books or school fee's yet
Oh and Charli is starting to drink out of a straw cup which means in then next 2 months we'll prob get rid of the bottle and then the dummy by the time shes 18mths.
Well i better go, not long before charli wakes up then we have to go shopping for some undies for her....to go under her dress tomorrow
Kristie - it wasgreat to meet you too. Piper came home & told DH all about her little friends. I think she has a thing for Dylan! haha!
Kirra - What a spew you couldn'rt make it. Hope you feel beter soon. Have fun at your sisters wedding. It's such a long day! How cute with Alyssa starting school. I can't imagine what it will be like when Pip starts! We got confirmation of her 3 yr old kinder placement yesterday. Bloody fees! And uniforms! Although they are optional. Just lucky tht my sister sent her boys to the same one & kept a ouple of t-shirts & a hat for us so that's a start! That's good that Charli is drinking from a straw. That's what Lily uses for water & will use for her afternoon feed when I cut out the boob feed in the afternoon in a week or two.
What is with the tinies fighting! Piper & Lily do too! More so if Piper takes what Lily is playing with & vice versa! Critters!
Robyn - Hope you are well! It would be hard being in a new city, but at least with Ben it gives you a excuse to go out & about to meet new people. Speak to your MCHN about any groups. I take the girls to Playgroup & have met some friends there. While we have friends here, we were the first to have a baby so had no one in the same position as us so it was great to meet other people with kids. Although we won't go next year as Pip will be in kinda. I thought it would be nice to use kinder time as 'Mum & Lily' time so we can do something together, just the 2 of us! I may go back the yar after when she's a little older!
Lily started her swimming lessons on Tuesday. She was so sute. Very happy to be in the water until the submerging begAN! Not a fan! She didn't scream & carry on or anything but she just didn't like t! It didn't help that she swallowed half the pool! Fot the rest ofthe lesson she was very cuddly & shivery! Pooor Bubs. Lucky I've done this before or I would have been mush & taken her straight out of the pool! To bad for lttle her Mumma is a hard arse! hahaha! She'll get the hang of it. I remember Pip took to the submerging right away! She loves it! She was always the demonstrator baby! hahaha!
Piper had her first dress rehersal for dancing yesterday. She was so cute in her make up & costume! We'll have a rehersal at the theatre in a few weeks. Hope she goes ok on the stage with all the lights!
Ooohhhhh, our babies are all going to be 1 soon! Oh, were Shells girls first? Happy Belated Birthday Girls!
I Logan after that? I think Kylie said his birthday was on the 2nd? And if my memory serves me well(I could just look at everyones signatures, but lets test my old brain! hahah!), then Ethan on the 7th, Lily & Ben on the 9th & Charli on the 11th? How did I do? hahaha
Ok, better go back to Mumy duty. We were meant to go to the beach today but its a wash out. Damn weather!
Robyn - Bugger you haven't met many people yet - I would suggest to join a local playgroup or even check up in belly belly if there's anyone having meet ups in your area!! It just takes a bit of time sometimes...xo
Kirra - How exciting your sister got married - checked out a few photos on facebook - you looked gorgeous!!
I go to the woodbine playgroup - it's been pretty good!! The kids enjoy themselves!
I hear you on the fighting...although it hasn't started too much with Ethan yet but Louis and Dylan do it all day long...they'll be playing and then crying, playing and then crying - drives me crazy! It's nice when Louis has kinder because they have a break from each other...I've started seperating them in different rooms now when they do it too much! Luckily they don't really hurt each much though...
Wow - how exciting for Alyssa to be starting school! Bugger at all the expenses though - I think the government have a thing now where they give you some money when the kids start school??? Might be worth looking into???
How cute charli drinking from a straw cup - Ethan can do it too now but I haven't bought him one yet...he's drinking out of the boys tupperware cups at the moment the cheeky little thing!!
Natasha - LOL at PIper and Dylan...very cute!! Yeah at Lily starting swimming - Ethan doesn't like submerging either...I only do it once or twice for the session...How exciting Piper is getting ready for her dance concert!! Louis wants to do classes next year!!!!
Ooh Happy Birthday to Logan!! I'm hopeless at remembering dates!!!!
What a busy time we've had!! We headed up to the IL's on Sunday and had a great time in their new pool!! The kids did so well swimming! They were so tired and feral though from not sleeping enough...
Halloween was great - the kids loved going trick or treating and got quite a few lollies - it was a bit quiet with it being the long weekend though...
Ethan has 2 more teeth so 6 in total now!! I didn't even notice until I had a look on Sunday...whoops!! He's getting so close to walking but still prefers crawling...He's starting to sing little songs now which is so super cute as well! He gives his big brothers kisses and hugs too which is nice!
As for me, I'm well, just super tired and have been feeling a bit of nausea again which seems weird...I have my scan on Friday so am very excited to find out the gender of bubs!!
I had an infected wisdom tooth last week which hurt sooo much - I had heaps of panadeine but bubs has been kicking around so hopefully all is well...
So, we've got Ethans 1st birthday on Saturday and I've done nothing yet to get ready!! Will probably head shopping tomorrow night without the kids to get his party decorations...I have all his presents and he got one early already - one of those chunky plastic climbing things and slides for outside - he loves it!!
Well, one more feed to go and he's weaned - will probably finish up in a couple more days...I hardly have any milk left anyway...I think I'm going to miss it though but he keeps accidentally biting me...OUCH!! Plus, I'll have to do it all again soon anyway! LOL!!!!!!
How funny, I was just thinking this orning that I really should come on here becase I've been so slack & then I saw a notification in my inbox! Must be my psycic powers! hahaha!
Glad to hear that everyone is well - especially the preggies!
Kylie - great poo incident. I'm waitig for that to happen with Liy as she has started to take her nappy off! She's ok with her itti bitti's because she can't undo the snaps but her mii lala's have velcro. SHe's been getting her chubby knee stuckin the bars(? sounds like a prison!) of her cot - she stands up & wedges her knee in there. So, yesteday I heard her cying & thought that must be it, & it was - so I went oer to hlp her out & almost sliped on a puddle of wee! Her nappy was off, shews nude & her cot was dry so she must have wee'd while she was standing up! hehe!
Kristie - good luck with the van! hehe! 'Soccor Mom'! ha! Have you loked at the Prado's & other 4x4 type's - a lotof them are 7 seaters. Even Joel's 91(or is it 95? I dunno, !) is a 7 seater. And most second hand ones have been put on gas already. At least then yo uescape the van scenario. Or you could always embrace it & get a Tarago
Kirra - (hmmm, I feel let out not haing a name that starts with 'K'! Well, at least my last name does! haha!) - How great that Lys loves school! Good luck with the parking!
Well, my girl are great. Lily is always busiy running around & getting into mischeif. She opens the sliding door & justgoes outside, climbs up things like Evel Kinevel, sings & dresses up! Such fun! She loves her 'Sissy' & is always giving us kisses! The best thing is that she LOVES put stuff away & cleaning up! Lets hope that she keeps that up! Her little feet are finally growing a little & she has a pair o real shoes(still a size 3 though!).
I can't believe that Lily will be 15 months tomorow! How time has flown!
Pip is a lot more cheeky than usual. Is it a 3 year old girl thing? She'sanswering back & carrying on. Last nght she was being so cheeky that she kept being sent o he rom & was there so long in the end that it was time for her to actually go to bed! She has her first kinder session on Friday which she can't wait for(only half a session though) & the we are off to Emerald for a weekend away for my 30th! What an old bag. We come home on Sunday, my actual birthday.
I've been back at work for a month & I can safely say that I hate being ther as much as I thought I would! But I have to suck it up because I haveto go or else we'd be homeless! Still working on getting Joel to agree to having number 3 - you know what theysay, persistence pays off! hahaha!
Ok everyone, enjoy the heat. I'm of to veg befoe gtting ready for workno sewing for me today - I'm takinga day of there! )
I havn't been on this forum before, even though I've been checking out belly belly since my little person (now nearly 15 months...!! Wow!) was in my belly ... belly!
We've just had our first day at our steiner playgroup, which was pretty cool, we're still booby snacking, and my daughter has just recovered froma horriblebout of teething!
How's the teething going? Lily has been suffering on & off with all 4 eyeteeth these last few weeks. I can see them, they are nearly through! She's a bob monster too! That's all she wants lately, even not at her usual times! She pulls at my top & says, 'bees, bees' for boobies! cheeky thng!
Hi Tine I am thankful charli isn't a 'bad' teether, gets sooky but not too bad. She has only 5 teeth..... how many does your lil one have?
Natasha- LOL @ Lily pee'ing on the floor, Charli does it ALL the time, but its cause i let her have nappy free time all the time. Last time i didnt know she'd pee'd and my nephew stepped in it, then he came and told me someone had spilt something.....when i told him what it was it was hilarious watching him rip his sock off.
Well i better go, charli has my phone listening to her fav song... Jet "that girls a genius' she sings along 'oh oh oh oh' so cute, but no doubt she's getting into the menu's and changing my settings :s
Enjoy yet another warm day hopefully all u interstate ladies have got nicer weather....
Finna is currently sporting seven teeth... there's more struggling to get through but happily they are giving it a rest at the moment! We use homeopathic teething powder and an amber teething necklace, and these did the trick nicely for the first four teeth, but the last 3 have been more of a drama...
Haha, yes, Finna does the peeing on the floor thing too, after her bath ... a few times she peed and then immediately slipped over on it, so I've learned not to let her have nappy free time on the tiled floor!
Hi ladies, Just thought I would give our thread a little bump!!! I hope you are all great and our toddlers are doing well. I can't believe they are all 19 months now Logan is doing well, keeping me busy that's for sure - running around, talking heaps and feeding himself really well. We are just painting the spare room for him so that he can get a new bedroom before this next baby arrives it will have his big boy bed in it - but not for him to sleep in straight away. I can't believe that I only have 8 weeks to go now, time flies by so quickly.
Anyway I hope to hear how you are all doing soon xxx
Thanks for the reply - don't worry, it's hard to find a moment to sit down and type anything... slackness is probably just busyness :-)
Thanks, yes the teething has settled ... it sometimes just takes so long! She seems to be getting one at a time at the moment, making the process very long and slow! But she's back to her happy self now, and even slept almost all night (she may have woken for boobies once last night, but I don't remember...!!) last night!! Yay!
Lily sounds cute! Four teeth at once ... crikey!
Finna also requests boobies wherever we are, but she clearly says 'boobs!' and pulls my clothing aside to get at them! I've grown a thick skin!
Kirra - How exciting Alyssa starting school - what a bugger with the parking - seems to be an issue at lots of schools around here! I'm very grateful that we'll be able to walk - it's only about 300m so would make no sense driving the car!! Also when the boys are older they can walk themselves - LOL!!
Charli sounds like such a little character! It's such a fun age for that!
Ethan only has 6 teeth - he got them all before he was 1 and hasn't had any since! LOL!
Natasha - Glad the girls are well! LOL on Pip's attitude - I certainly have it with Louis and Dylan at times...
Bugger about being back at work...good luck on talking your dh in to no.3 though!! I hope he agrees - I know how much you'd love another bubba!
Tine - Welcome! Glad the teething has now settled down for you...
My second 2 boys have done the breath holding and pass out tantrums...normally over and done with very quickly but gives you a big fright that's for sure!!! We're going to have very strong willed kids I think!
As for sibling fighting - I've certainly got lots of it here and I can only expect it to get worse - LOL! My mum freaks out but I think it's just natural for them to annoy each other. I'm always making them say sorry for something and cuddles and kisses. They're not usually violent with each other - more just snatching toys etc...
We've bought a new car!! Don't get it until next week some time but I'm very excited! I put the link on facebook if anyone feels like having a look! I LOVE it!! Never thought I'd say that about a van but it's go so many extra's that it feels like we'll be driving a luxury car! LOL! Very spoilt I am...bit of a stress getting a loan and having to pay for the thing though but we'll be fine!
Ethan's going well - starting to use lots more words and definitely getting into lots of mischief - the most annoying thing is when he throws his food and plate and placemat off the table - drives me crazy!!!!!!
Anyway, better go - got to take Louis to his sports class...luckily dh is home from work today so I don't have to drag them all out!! Chat later!
Hi everyone
Wow it looks like i have missed so much.
Kristee - exciting about your new car. I suppose you are going to need a bigger one to get all these boys around to there activites. I know the feeling re the plate etc going on the floor, very frustrating especially when you have just mopped the floors.
Hi Tine.
Ben seems to have a lot of teeth at the moment. His back ones are coming up now, we just give him pamol now. He gets so upset and it keeps him up at night, and us, so pamol has been our saviour.
We are having issues with him at the moment where if i tell him off for something, like climbing onto the table or getting into dangerous positions, he then runs to dad for a cuddle. So then dad and i have words cause it makes me look like the bad person. So he is now not picking him up and trying to reinforce why he is being told off!
Anyway, does anyone have a childrens table and chair set. We are going looking this weekend, just wondered if anyone had one. Don't really want to spend all weekend looking for one.
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which means in then next 2 months we'll prob get rid of the bottle and then the dummy by the time shes 18mths.
Hi!!
I am thankful charli isn't a 'bad' teether, gets sooky but not too bad. She has only 5 teeth..... how many does your lil one have?
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