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Better day so far...lets wait until DH gets home tho and see where my mood ends up hehe
Rainy - you poor thing with the mastitis. Hope it gets cleared up really quickly for you. :pray:
PAP - Have an awesome first day of mat leave!!! Have a bit of 'me' time before getting too carried away lol
Hi Girls,
Just a quick one from me.
Pink was awesome last night. Also slight change of plans for America trip. We are now going on the 12th Aug (our wedding anni) and be back on 25 Aug and we are taking the kids and going to disney again. Woo hoo
Hello to eveyone
BBL
well my little neice is doing well.. looks like she will be out of nicu today and just to the nursery on the ward which is great for her and mum :) mums trying very hard to establish b/f so it will be great being able to have her at her bedside come feed time too.. also we will be able to see her without glass between us which is very exciting!!
supa - my mum was happy for me when i told her we were preg.. and she does help us out alot including financially.. dhs dad on the other hand reacted with "oh god".. hes very much all about money so he sees it from that point of view which i spose is fair enough coz financially we will struggle..
Hey everyone. So sorry for nto being aroung much. It seems just as I get everything *done* on here that I need to do, I get called away by one of the kids and don't get back to posting in here.
Noni, great to hear that your niece is doing so well. I know how you feel - when my sister had Leiah and nearly lost her that first weekend she was born was just awful and I was so torn about whether I should go to melb and see her jic she didn't make it kwim?
Leanne, glad to hear you had a great time, although I find it hard to imagine that anyone could see her and have a crap time ROFL.
Kate, so where is the mood-O-meter sitting now? ;)
Ooooh PP, so what is on the menu for tonight?
G, I hope you've been to the Dr and gotten some abs by now. It will still suck for the next day or so till they kick in fully :hug: Don't worry about L not being settled at daycare, if you really feel he's not ready, pull him out and just try again later on.
Supa, I wouldn't worry about your Mum - it's your life to live and if you want another baby then go for it. You are not asking her to support you financially etc so she's really got no place commenting on it.
BBL
hello girls!
Rainy: oh no! hope you got to the GP today. that totally sux, not to mention needing to be a mumma to two little 'uns at the same time!
Noni: awesome progress for your niece! and it'll be great for your sis to get that special time with her to try to establish b/f.
Kate: sooo, how's it hangin'? te he he! bad moods can be fun though...
PP: man, busy busy busy! we had a dinner party the other night. i cooked and surprisingly it was yummo! we had spinach egg pasta with a ragu of epplant, capsicum, onion etc with cream and then followed by baked osso bucco in a tomato and wine sauce with toasty melted mozzarella on top (and then i cheated with dessert as i am craptacular and bought local italian sweets from the baker LOL!). soo yummo!
Leanne: AUGUST??!! that is so soon!!! should be so amazing though. so jello!
AFM: all good here. leila though woke at 4am with the smelliest poo (seems to be her theme lately...maybe i should do a poo party theme LOL!). so that was dramatic and shocking to face. but then she went back to sleep until 7.30!!! so stoked to get that extra bit in!
had a great time at MG today. lovely bunch of chickies and the kidlets are doing alot more interactive play.
other news is that the swine flu has hit our kindy. the Dept of Health assures us that we are at no big risk, but i am, well, cynical at best. what should i do? financially and time wise it would be great to keep her in, but emotionally and health-wise i would feel B.A.D if she got sick.....ARRGHHHH!
LOL....mood-o-meter has swung back to happy for now. He took me out to lunch and charmed me into forgetting my bad mood. ;)
Clare - bugger about the piggy flu...have they got a vaccination for that yet? S was fine after having the normal flu vac this year.
Sherie - We know that you have a lot on with running a household and helping to keep us BBers in line online. I give you props for doing as well as you do :clap:
Noni - Great news about bubs!
Lee - I'm going to join in the Jello of Lee club!
Clare, oh no on the oinking! If it were me (&all other things being equal) I'd err on the side of caution and keep her out for week --- by that stage there will be more info on who else at the kindy has caught it, kwim?
Rainy - hope your'e feeling much better, fast.
Noni - that must be such a relief!
Ah trill you are such a busy lady!! :hug: Think about you every day even when you're not posting. x
PP - ok well lovely mumma you just make sure you get plenty of resting/chilling out/recreation time in now while you can...or have you forgotten the first few frantic months already LOL?!
Supa - pinata great idea, but I think I'll wait a couple of years...they can be a bit of work to assemble, kwim?
AFM - another round of chemo today - feeling fine but exhausted. Missy E in care tomorrow so I'll be able to rest if I'm not a crazy steroid lady by then. But I have lots of birthday prezzies to wrap up for the impending double birthday...! How excitement.
Hi Girls,
Kate- glad your Mood o meter has swung back to happy.
MD:hug:hope you get to rest tomorrow.
Clare: oh no on the swine flu at kindy. lol on the poo party
Noni- glad your niece is doing well.
Supa-:hug:
AFM: All 3 of my babies seem to have a cold. If it doesnt rain it pours... Jordy came home from Daycare on Friday with 1 massive live nit in his hair and no eggs so I guess he got it from someone at school that day. We book our trip and are going to vegas first for 4 days then to anaheim for the rest.
Well better go hello to
Clare - I wouldnt be sending M if swine flu was on the loose at daycare. I am too worried about it all. It might be a bit of an inconvenience, but its better than her being unwell.
Rainy - Oh no what a rough trot your going through with L & daycare & mastitis. Rest up & get well. Dont feel bad about L & daycare, at least you have made the responsible decision that he isnt ready instead of forcing him. Give yourselves both a bit more time.
Leemar - Oh awesome, the kids will love it. You guys are going to have a ball! As for the nits, wow sneaky little bugger they are fast arent they? Really I guess I should be checking M's hair each day after care to make sure no little nit has made his way into her hair! They are terrible to get rid of.
MD - How many more chemo rounds do you have? Rest up tomorrow.
Supa - Dont let your mum worry you, its your life. I was a tad worried about telling my dad as he is into money etc like Noni's DH's dad as well, but I told him & mum & he was happy for us & said he is happy if I am happy. I am sure your mum would feel the same way? Do whats right for you. Bring on the babies!!!
So jealous of you all going to the pink concert!! Now who is going to BRITNEY!?
Girls feeling a bit down about things at the moment. I am so darn tired from this pregnancy which isnt helping. We had about a month of fantastic sleep with M, she was sleeping through & seemed to have forgotten about her midnight bottle. Well things have changed yet again & all wk she has been waking at all hrs crying for a bottle. So I am so tired that I just give it to her even though she keeps waking & crying after it, I know I am undoing all that work to get her off the darn thing. DH has been so helpful he knows how tired I am, but he is going to work each day like a zombie. & it doesnt help when I speak to other mums from mums group who all have toddlers sleeping through the night.....I continually wonder what I am doing wrong? Last night I was in tears asking DH that question. Maybe I am just being emotional lol. I am also getting frustrated at the fact that I cant keep her in her toddler bed lol, how silly does that sound? I dont know, just feeling like such an incompetent mummy atm!
I think I may have put two & two together, my theory (haha) is that she is maybe going through a growth spurt. Its just clicked to me that she has been eating heaps, eating all her dinner, all her brekky, & then still asking for more.
MM glad you made the connection, I was about to say "maybe she's hungry"...try fitting in some extra snacks or add some higher energy density food to what she's already eating (eg like grate some cheese onto her dinner) and see if that helps? xxx
hi everyone
i hope our sweet rainy is feeling better today.
clare - i would keep her out, but check with the kindy the extent and what they are doing. there seems to be a real risk but also a lot of 'hysteria' iykwim? hope the little oinks stay away from miss L.
sherie - good to see you, we missed you!
mm - think it is so normal to feel that way sometimes, esp when you are preg and have a toddler - it si exhausting the pregnancy the second time around isnt it. hope you are feeling better today. dont beat yourself up about the bottle in the night, we do what we can! but i agree with what you are thinking - beef up her food a bit maybe? N has been expecially hungry lately - has up to 3 serves of lunch at kindy, has extra afternoon and morning tea and double the dinner he used to have (plus a treat after). he is unstoppable on the food front at the moment esp in the evenings.. (bfast not such a huge deal here - never has been). i find bananas quite good, i sometimes give him one as soon as i get him from kindy as he has a full on tantrum if dinner isnt ready when he gets home. i also grate cheese on his dinner a lot of the time and add things like lentils, some lsa mix and slow burn carbs too when i can. hope it settles a bit fo ryou soon (says she whose little one is a night waker from way back, but he doesnt eat in the night!!).
afm all is well. mat leave going well but i am still on the go... just need to get my list ticked and i can relax lol! i hope i do get some feet up time, i need it! N is acting up at the moment, he has obv caught onto the baby thing... the capsule is in car (yay!), the clothes were on the line, bassinette in our room - so he is v aware and not happy.... being clingy, moody etc etc - normal toddler stuff but also asking a lot about the baby... ie pointed to clothesline and said 'baby clothes - no', basinette - baby bed, not noah etc etc. hmmmm...
PP it will take him a little while to adjust, but you will be surprised that once bubs is finally here, how blase they can be about it at this age - it's like "meh, that's nice" and off they go again. Naturally they all have their moments where they feel totally put out, but it all works out.
H :hug: we are struggling here with sleep too again. It was going great for a while, and if he did wake, I would pop the dummy back in and he was fine. But now it's on for young and old and he has been ending up in our bed the past four nights and he simply refuses to stay in his cot to go to bed at night and will just keep climbing out. So I dim the lights in the loungeroom, turn the telly down low and lay him on his fold out lounge with his pillow and a blanket and he is out like a light in 10mins. So his issue is both developmental and also cutting his last eye tooth as well. And then all of that for you is made worse by being pg!
MD, how did you go overnight? I hope Crazy Steroid Lady hasn't made an appearance today :hug: each one you have means there are less to go. It's so exciting about the partys coming up, but I am having enough trouble what to buy for Paige's 5th birthday next friday! we have no idea what to get her as they really don't need anymore toys. We were thinking of a bookshelf, but it is so hard to find the *perfect* one!
Leanne, I hope the kids aren't sick for too long.
Clare, I would have been very unimpressed at a 4am poo! I hope that was a once off LOL. Tricky to know what to do about this swine flu. The southern area health service (which encompasses where we are) has the highest number of cases in NSW, so it's only a matter of time before it gets to our town.
Oh, those of you who are finding tea sets a huge hit, you should look into getting a little timber fruit set that they can 'cut' - they are already in two halves and join with velcro, but they have a little knife so they can pretend to cut their fruit - kids love them.
Things have been so busy here - had a dentist appt yesterday (yay! only two more to go :rolleyes: ) school sports carnival was today, but I can't go because Paige is having Special Person's day at preschool tomorrow and it's her last year before big school and all that, then on Friday Lindsay has an opthamologist check up for his eyes and then Saturday is auskick. But I have had a productive morning so far - got my tupperware I had ordered from a friend and now I almost have a pantry that looks like the catalogue PMSL! But I am a few short, so I have been making a list of what I need. All of this is with DH's blessing too because the mice are so bad here it's only a matter of time before they work out how to get into the top shelves of the pantry :( I am totally over mice! We have been catching 3 a night and the other night I had to wash an entire drawer full of clothes as they had pooed all through it! As if I don't have enough washing to do already! Anyway, DH has been really good about it and knows that I am doing nearly twice as much cleaning because of the mice, so if the house doesn't *look* tidy, he knows that I might have moved all the furniture and vacuumed all the mice poo from under them (and inside them - seriously it's never bloody ending) and cleaned out cupboards to make sure they are mouse proof and just didn't get around to picking up all the toys on the floor. Everyone around here is having the same trouble. He said tht even on the tractor at night, there are dozens of them in the paddocks.
I also brought a little sewing machine too - Dh has been taking the mickey out of me for years about not having one (what sort of wife are you - not having a sewing machine! <- all in fun of course) and Target had some little Brother brand ones on sale for half price at $164!! so for the little bit of sewing that I would do, I can justify that much, but not a full price one kwim? I am not really into sewing - I can do it but it's always been a chore. So I have a few little projects in the pipeline to do now that I have it.
Trill, bummer about the mice. We have them here to and I have been thinking of you! So far I just hear them scuttling about in the roof and the cat has taken up permanent position looking between the fridge and the dishwasher. Also one of them must have died in the roof because DH cut a small hole in the ceiling to put in the extractor fan in the kitchen and I keep smelling that rancid reek of something dead.
We went to the fieldays over the weekend, it was crammed full of farm supplies - you and your DH should offer to speak at the 'farming in Australia' tent next year and see if you can write off the trip as tax lol
Been reading but not posting, BIL was here and he makes it hard to get on to the computer for more than a few seconds (as well as using nearly 20Gig of internet in 3 days!)
Toilet training - we bring out the potty after bathtime but he has only gone in it once - he usually sits for 5 seconds then jumps up again and says 'just farts'
Sleeping - OMG why won't he just sleep through the flipping night! I am so sick of being woken 2-3 times every night, I just wanna sleep!!!!
Kate, you are welcome. My idea for them was to ice some arrowroot biscuits green (like leaves) and put a ladybird on each one
Clare, bummer about the house AGAIN! I am frustrated and it isn't even me! Must be really annoying for you both
MD, hope that the chemo treats you nicely.
W is my supermarket helper now, I give him a list of a few things to remind me about and he does. He also tells me what not to buy - "don't need juice! Got some at home" lol And he says the adorable 'William luffs mum (or dad)" or "Mum luffs William very much"
He is also pretending and using his imagination a lot more now which is adorable. He rides his little truck along, then gets off, makes a waving gestures and noises saying "open the gate", gets back on the truck, rides though, gets back off, "shut the gate" and then "going to work". Very cute.
Sorry to everyone I have missed
hi everyone
sherie- that mouse problem sounds bad! do you have any cats? that should sort it out. my golden retriever is a great mouser too lol
md- how you feeling today hun? hope you're getting lots of rest, long hot showers and cups of tea
arte- how's w going in his toddler bed? does he love it?
pap- what colour clothes did you hang on the line? pmsl!! just kidding!! how exciting
don't worry, noah will just adore his little one. lewis squeals in delight when he first sees jimmy in the mornings.
mm- i remember being soooo exhausted at your stage of the pg and lewis was waking constantly, it's sooo hard. do you have a nanna nap in the arvos ever when m is asleep?
leanne- i totally agree that when it rains it pors. always seems to be the way doesn't it?
your trip sounds awesome, lucky girl
well i'm feeling heaps better today. the abs kicked in almost instantly thankfully..yesterday was a rough day! it's sooo hard being sick when you've got kids isn't it? not like back in the day where you'd just call in sick and then lie on the couch watching days of our lives and snoozing.
rang up and spoke to the daycare director today and she agreed with my decision to pull lewis out. she said to call her in a few months and she'd slot him back in if we wanted
Rainy, so glad the abs worked straight away. It is definitely no fun being sick with kids, they don't let you slob around in your pajamas feeling sorry for yourself. Forgot to say good call on pulling L from care, I would do the same if that happened to us.
W likes his bed, but I still sleep in there every night with him. I would like to get back to my own bed sometime but don't know how when he is still waking 2-3 times a night. It is far to cold to get up and go to his room.
I don't know how I will get by if I get any more tired, W only has a day nap maybe once a week now.
It is adorable that L is so happy to see J in the mornings!
oh arte, i know that tiredness,i was so exhausted
what a pita he doesn't have a daysleep at all. that was my saviour when i was pg.
are you going to start sneaking out of his bed?
i'm not one to give any advice on this topic anyway lol, cos i sleep with both the bl88dy ratbags!
feeling really good about my decision to pull him outta care. there's no urgency- we're aiming to get him in 3yo kinder in jan 2011, so we'll just keep going how we are in the meantime.
Far out, I wish I didn't sleep with him but I don't think I could drag myself out of bed and go to his room down the hall in zero-ish temps several times a night. We should have just left him in our bed- now DH sleeps alone in a king bed, William has 3/4 of his king single and I have a little strip that leaves my bum hanging over the edge most nights lol
The rotting smell in the kitchen is getting worse, I have to hold my breath when I go in there and it doesn't do a lot for the appetite!