Georgi - Have fun in Sydney. I hope the FS appointment goes well. I keep thinking of seeing a podiatrist now myself, because I have back and knee problems which I think are caused by my feet possibly. Where do you get orthotics for your shoes from?
belfie - Great to hear the PG is going well. With everyone getting PG around me I've started dreaming that I am PG! It's made me realise how much I do want another little one. But think it'll still have to wait till next year cos I'd have to get myself off the meds. Sorry to hear that X's allergies are even worse now. Here's hoping he does grow out of them.
Zarava - Poor Ava going through all those tests but what a brave girl she is. And good to hear that she seems to have grown out of her allergies. I've been so paranoid with giving M nuts but finally gave her some recently and she was fine. So it looks like M doesn't have any allergies which is a relief. So sorry about your brother and I can imagine how worried you must have been when Ava was the same age. Such an awful thing to happen.
Katones - Congrats on the weight loss and good luck with the IVF. As always Jack sounds like he's doing so well.
csab - Congrats V on your first steps. How's V doing with her walking now? M is walking really well now.
Sami - Good to hear Z is doing well.
Amanda - Congratulations.
Hello to anyone I've missed. That's as far back as I can manage for now. I have been reading, just haven't had time to post. I'm back at work the two days but I have to do work other days too, which doesn't leave me as much time as before. Plus M keeps refusing to have her second nap. Which leaves me a lot less time to do things.
M is doing well. She still throws tantrums but not as badly as when she was sick with a cold. At first she seemed to like CC but now she cries if she thinks she's going there. She's not sleeping well there but she is eating well and she does play. But with the lack of sleep she's so tired and miserable at the end of the day and so clingy to me. Then she doesn't want to go to bed at night and screams. It's awful. And she even is afraid of her own dad now cos he's the one who takes her to CC, which makes poor DH very upset! I'm feeling so guilty about going back to work now.
But saying that I am enjoying being back at work and having that time out. I don't necessarily enjoy my job all the time, but I just enjoy the time away. Actually I feel like two days is a bit much for me right now, but I don't think they would have taken me on for only one day. I think having the two days in a row is very exhausting but at the same time I get them out of the way and then have five days in a row off. It's just hard also with all the extra work I have to do outside of work time, plus of course all the usual housework.
I did feel a bit off the first few days, but seem to be doing better with the travel and working again now. I think my body has to get used to it, especially with my illness. I have had a few times when I thought I might have been about to have an attack but luckily nothing happened. So I'm hoping I continue to be attack free!
M had a follow up paed appointment and he's really happy with her growth but does want to see her again in a few months. She now weighs 7.9 kgs, so not quite the 8 I was hoping for but nearly there. We have finally turned her car seat around though. I was hoping it would make her a better traveller but she STILL hates being in the car.
It's been so quiet in here, just popping in to see how everyone is, about to head to bed and hoping Z sleeps til about 4ish
Well i have booked my 2 nights away in Hervey Bay, i am so so excited, i think it will be nice to be just Z and I and Ava will love being with daddy... he is taking her to moomba i think, his cousin is getting the presidential suite @ crown... he will relax there with them aswell.
Ava is going well, she DOES NOT STOP, she is such a full on little girl and a climber, she climbed into the trampoline when i wasn't looking (never thought she could so didn't think about it), then the other day feeding Z i walk out and she is in the middle of the dining table she has figured out how to undo the child locks on the cupboard aswell.
She loves talking on the phone, she climbed onto the computer desk and hit redial and was talking to my mum, her fave thing at the moment is to says SHOES constantly and bring me her shoes, she also said LIGHT and pointed at the light.
She is getting quite good at knowing what we want from her, we ask her for iggle piggle and she finds him, same with mickey or upsy daisy, also if i ask her to get her drink... it amazes me how clever these little people are getting...
Her molars are still moving but not through yet... damn teeth
Well i hope everyone is well, i feel great and am enjoying being home with both girls, even if it does get a little full on at times.
Zarava - When are you going to Hervey Bay? I'm sure you'll have a great time there. Maya also loves talking on the phone. She's always pretending she's talking on the phone. She also loves showing everyone her shoes. She loves shoes. Typical woman! LOL Yeah I can't get over just how much they understand now! I can't wait till I can understand M some more.
I've had a tough couple of weeks. M is so much more clingy now that she is going to CC and is upset with her dad being anywhere near her (cos he's the one who drops her off). And I'm left feeling guilty for my poor DH who is so upset all the time cos M won't go near him and bawls if he's in sight. And M wants to be with me everywhere I go.
She is starting to sleep a bit longer at CC and having more settled periods there, so I'm hoping it won't be too much longer till she's happy there. It's just so hard with her crying any time DH goes near her. I then have two upset people to deal with a lot of the time.
On top of that I got a cold, which is never fun! But thankfully I'm nearly over it now.
By this time next week i will have spent my first night in Hervey Bay with Z
It's exciting but scary, our flight leaves at like 6 so poor DP and A have to be up extra early for a drive to drop Z and i off at the airport, told DP he should bring A in and let her see the planes but he said he's dropping us off and going back home to bed
Does anyone elses child have an obsession with the toilet? A is insane, if ppl leave the door open she tries cleaning it with the toilet brush!
So we have lost 3 dummies to the toilet in the last 2 weeks as people just can't seem to figure out to shut the door behind them and at $13 for 2 i'm over it.
So she lost her last one yesterday, we THINK it went in the toilet although we couldn't see it, asked DP to get some on the way home from work as i was not dragging Z out in the heat just cos A was a PITA
I got A to bed WITHOUT a dummy last night, no screaming, no arguing nothing.. could help she was awake from 11:30 in the morn til 8:00pm, i just gave her a bottle and a cuddle and off she went... she has not had night time milk since just after she was 1!
Then the poor girl woke at 12:00 with a temp of 39, gave nurofen, cold water and cold face cloth and in bed with us, temp was down with nurofen but back up to 38.8 this morn and i don't know why!
She had a tiny spew before bed last night but didn't seem out of sorts, her teeth have been sore but she has NEVER had this high a temp with teething.
Sorry bout my long post.... got her watching ITNG and hopign this temp stays down and making sure she keeps down food & fluids.. seems ok so far!
Well as most of you know I'm expecting number 6, it has been a big shock and am still getting use to the idea, I have my dating scan on Thursday this week so will know when this little one is due, I'm think end of Oct again.....which means I've got three kids birthday in one month and also have a Sept and Nov birthdays.......extremely busy time of the year for use.
Julian is getting so big now and is talking and trying to have convosations with anyone that will listen, I'm still b/fing him and am tossing up wether I'm going to tandem feed or not. It's weird only having two of the boys home now that school is back and I'll be having Cody starting Prep next year so it will only be Julian and the new baby home.
Zarava yep Julian loves washing stuff in the toilet and use the dunny brush as well as putting loo paper in there as well, oh the fasination with the toilet.
Ok off to do lunch for the hungry hoards, talk later.
Zarava - Ava might have a virus. Hopefully she'll get better soon. So your trip is next weekend? So exciting. I hope you have a great time.
Amanda - Congrats again.
to everyone else. Hope everyone is OK.
I've moved M to one nap a day cos I was struggling to get her to have her second nap anyway and she talked for an hour before going to sleep at her first nap time. Now I put her in bed an hour later every day and she sleeps for usually 2 hours, sometimes less sometimes more. Then I keep her up till bed time and she goes to bed now around 7-7.30 instead of 8-9pm. It also means she's up earlier at 7.30am which works better with day care. Though she still will sometimes sleep till 8-8.30 so I can have my sleep ins.
Sometimes she is quite grumpy towards the end of the day and probably does need a quick second nap sometimes, but I can't be bothered fighting with her and she prob won't sleep anyway!
M is getting more teeth including some back teeth now. She doesn't seem too fussed by them most of the time.
I had a dream last night that there was a BB ball and you all came in gorgeous dresses and we all met each other.
im needing confirmation w the drs but we should b expecting a new member too! and yip it'd b an Oct baby by calculations. D is still bf'ing ive never thought we'd last this long tbh
we've been super busy these last weeks getting our factory ready. As you may or may not remembr DP is a panelbeater n its been his dream to own his own shop. Well here we are putting everything we have into it, breaking our accounts. Just pray everything's smooth sailing from this pt forward...
teru - Have you confirmed the pregnancy? How's the shop preparation going?
Hi to everyone else. Hope you and your LO are all well!
I'm home today from work cos poor M is very sick. She was odd for a couple of days - not eating as much, grisly and suddenly crying for no reason at times. Then yesterday she slept for three hours at nap time and woke screaming. So I went to get her and realised she was burning up, took temp and she had a fever of 39.2. She's never really had much of a fever before. This is probably the sickest she's ever been. She's so lethargic, which is so unlike her! She keeps lying down and shoving her thumb in her mouth for rests. And she wouldn't eat anything until I finally worked out she'll eat toast with butter. I took her to the doctors and he said that her throat is red raw and must be killing her. So I've been giving her panadol and ibuprofen (swapping between them), which makes her a bit happier but still not herself. Poor girl.
Last week I had a shocking two days at work. On Thursday I had to leave home at 7am and didn't get home till 8pm, doing classes in the morning and then PT interviews in the afternoon and evening. My last interview was a very rude mother, who was rude to her daughter and rude to me. So I left feeling frustrated after that and then was upset cos I didn't see Maya ALL DAY! That was tough. I saw her on Weds night and then didn't see her till Friday afternoon. And Friday was tough cos it was swim sports that got all rained out so we had to come up with new things to do that the kids all whinged about all day long. We were giving them options like watching videos and playing games but they wanted us to let them go home. gee you'd think they'd rather do work!
M seems to be adjusting to CC but now that she'll miss this week I dunno how it'll effect next week? Thurs she is still finding difficult probably cos of the long time away from CC in between, but Fridays she is doing somewhat better. But it's good to see some progress there.
So sorry about your brother and I can imagine how worried you must have been when Ava was the same age. Such an awful thing to happen.
How's V doing with her walking now? M is walking really well now.
That's as far back as I can manage for now. I have been reading, just haven't had time to post. I'm back at work the two days but I have to do work other days too, which doesn't leave me as much time as before. Plus M keeps refusing to have her second nap.
Which leaves me a lot less time to do things.
She's not sleeping well there but she is eating well and she does play. But with the lack of sleep she's so tired and miserable at the end of the day and so clingy to me. Then she doesn't want to go to bed at night and screams. It's awful. And she even is afraid of her own dad now cos he's the one who takes her to CC, which makes poor DH very upset! I'm feeling so guilty about going back to work now.
he will relax there with them aswell.
she has figured out how to undo the child locks on the cupboard aswell. 
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