Babies Born~September 2007 #51

mm- the mb fits through standard doorways so it's ok, you need to get someone to hold the door open for you though cos you can't fit next to it iykwim? which can be a pita, but it's ok. i don't take it to the supermarket. we just put lewis in the trolley seat and jimmy in sling. i refuse to go to the supermarket by myself these days. i make dh come with me :)
are you going to make the cake yourself?

arte- the no caffiene has been a good thing. i still have the odd coffee/coke if i'm out to lunch or something but never everyday or at home.
what little presents have you got for W so far?

Rainy: :o with the P&Ts! the poor mum musta been beserko with fear!

Arte; what have you got for W so far?

here we have a '****-horse' (whatever you call em these days LOL!), a FP animal friends, a 'barbie' luggage set...DD chose it and would NOT let go :rolleyes:, and an etch-sketch thingy. the big items i want to get her are a kitchen set...but maybe that will wait for xmas...

OMG Clare, you must tell me what a '****-horse' is!!! My mind is boggling between something rather rude and a giant chicken-horse hybrid!

So far we have got a replica chainsaw, a new wheelbarrow, a few cheapo trucks (must have trailers!) and will get him a trailer for his good sandpit tractor (Fun Ho brand, lasts forever) and a few other bits and bobs. Not going too overboard because we just got the trampoline and swing set in the sales last month.

:rofl: like a rocking horse! ya dirty bird. ;)

i just spat my dry ginger everywhere Arte!!!

Thanks Ladies...I'll try to not let her dinner eating habits bother me. She still gets her bottle of milk at night before bed so is getting something in her tummy at least.

Hi to everyone...too tired for personals tonight. Got no memory staying power. :doh:

PMSL Arte!!! We arent going o/board with pressies either, we have a play gym on layby and she will get a couple of small pressies on the side.

Rainy - Yep will attempt to make the cake, will give it a couple of trials prior to the day though. Thats scary about the P&T prams I always thought they were great.

Kate - Yes at least she has milk in her belly & if she was starving I'm sure she wouldnt go to sleep at night or she'd wake up wanting something to eat.

Well its been chatty in here today and even though I just read most of it I really cant remember anything that was said but I am sure there was something I wanted to reply to......... its gone will have to come back and read again later.

Ahhh I need advice...its an in law thing & seeing as you girls know the history, I figured you would all understand...

I've started M in daycare for Friday half days while I am at uni, and its expensive, I couldnt get her into an occassional care. Its $50 for a half day & thats even with the child care benefit taken out of it. Now each month we are paying almost $800 for childcare and even more on a 5 wk month, so its not cheap thats for sure, its our biggest expense after the mortgage. My wage covers it, but I am now only working for about $400 a month which makes it all seem not worthwhile iykwim. Mind you I do like working & the adult conversation, keeps me sane. Anyway. The in laws have offered to come up each Friday for a few hrs to watch M while I am at uni, they live an hr and a half away yet they are happy to come up. I've been ummming & ahhhing because it would be great money wise, thats a $200 a mth saving, & it would also be good for them to see her & vice versa. The only thing is I am liking that I can go pick M up from daycare, bring her home she has a nice arvo nap & I get my uni homework etc done while she naps & while its fresh in my mind. The in laws would probably hang around, I cant really kick them out can I after having driven all that way, & I wont get a chance to do my h/work. I am also very worried about going back to square one with the MIL taking over iykwim? Am I just being over dramatic about it all???? If its saving us $200 a month that is pretty good right? Just dont know if I can handle it every Friday lol.

arte- lewis has one of those chainsaws and is obsessed with it! has been known to sleep with it in his arms...W will love it!

mm-hhhmmmm,hard one....what does maddie like best? i mean, does she enjoy her day at cc with the other kids or would she enjoy some one on one with grandma and pa? would they hang around all arvo do you reckon or be keen to head home- beat the traffic kinda thing?
personally, i think it's great for kids to have one on one time with a family member- but not when the family member is a complete pita overbearing immature nightmare like your mil...so this is what makes it a hard decision. what does dh think?

Could you compromise and do every second Friday? That would save you some money, plus you slowly get to re-introduce the IL's back into things kwim? I just think that with them being so far away and having to drive that distance every Friday that 1 it will become a burden on them after a while and then the whinging will start the moment you say anything that you don't like about what they are doing with M etc and 2, if they get held up in traffic for any reason - roadworks, car accident, bad weather or even if they are sick then you are left in the lurch, running late and no one to look after M. I totally get that while financially you aren't a great deal better off by working it's what you need to do - I have a few friends that are in the same position as you are and it's OK to feel like you want to work for what you *get* while you're out of the home.

Arte, I do like your mental picture ROFL. But no, that's not what it is, it's a Hobby Horse - you know, the stick with a horses head on the end and sometimes they even have wheels at the other end of the stick. Kids go crazy over them. Alister is bigtime into matchbox and hotwheels cars and trucks ATM and plays with them for ages. Lindsay has a little case that he can put them in when we go somewhere and so naturally Someone Else had to get one too while we were away cause he took a shine to Lindsay's LOL.

LOL Oz, I felt like that too last night - too rushed to have time to think properly.

We've got big things for Alister, mainly because I want to cut down the amount of crap that is inside, so the big ride on tractor will be for outside.

MM- i'm pretty stubborn. :p And i don't like relying on other people. So i would pay the child care just because i know it is hassle free with no strings attached. It's not forever, just while you study. And maybe a position will come up in occasional care? But that's just me. ;)

Preg- If he gets the job, it takes about 3 months to organise visa etc. So not for a while. I love the suit J has on in the september bubs pics, (which, by the way, i just worked out how to add pics too. lol) is it a seed one? Has an animal appliqued on the front.

Rainy- Woohoo, can i go on the peewee 50???? We're almost better..... pencil in next week. ;). That P&T story is horrifying! I took the MB for a big walk the other day, it is nice and sturdy. As long as you don't have to lift it in and out of the car all the time it is great.


Arte- We wont be having a party here either i don't think. We have no idea where we'll be living at this stage. No doubt i'll make a cake and have an impromptu thing. I think Lu will be happy with a room full of balloons and her crazy uncle. Has W asked about the goat again?

Trill- how was A today?

Fine today Ange, thanks for asking :) Just a chesty cough now, but he's refusing to have a bottle because I think he knows it will make him cough and then throw up - he threw up again last night just after he went to bed because of coughing, so I got him out in time before he did it in bed LOL.

Quick thinking saves a load of washing eh??? Poor little guy. He's had more than his fair share of spewing i'd say. Do any of the kids have ventolin for their cough?

No, none of them have had it for the croup - when Lindsay first got it at 10mths one Dr prescribed ventolin to use with the nebuliser and it did bugger all, and I had to use a puffer (left over from when Paige was really sick last year) with Erin before I could get the script filled and it didn't make much of a difference to her at all. The redipred steriod is the best for it. if they don't have croup they aren't wheezy at all though, just a bit chesty.

I used to get croup as a baby, but i also have asthma, so the ventolin was great. Touch wood the girls haven't had croup yet, but Lu does have a cough relieved by ventolin. i guess it's good they don't need ventolin, but crap that you don't have anything to relieve the cough.

OMG Clare I had the same ****-horse moment that Arte did! I haven't ever heard it before (except in the rhyme)...Ya wanna watch who you announce the getting of the ****-horse to!! LOL

MM - Could you organise the ILs to do a day other than Friday - would they have M for the whole day...that could save more money but avoid the awkward afternoon issues. Otherwise you could just take them up on the offer but explain how important that nap time is for getting your study done...along the lines of yes please but I would need you to leave by X o'clock. Which might sound a bit rude but politeness is not going to help you in the long run, kwim? BTW I hear you with the CC fees grief - we are paying more than that a month and I'm not even bringing in any income right now (*insert slow choking noise*). On the bright side, it's already factored into our budget so when I go back to work it'll just seem like a gain.

MM what sort of cake are you going to do? I've got some plastic ITNG figurines so I think UD and IP will make an appearance on the cake. Still got a bit of time to dream it all up.

Rainy our pram tipped over like that once (DH balanced one too many parcels on the handle when we were at a fair). Fortunately tho because it's an emma, the suspension/padding/etc everything is so sturdy and well made Missy E was very well cushioned. I was hysterical, but she was fine. Rotten that the other pram tips like that with only one child in - that's obviously a very bad design.

I haven't even thought about the cake yet!.... off to ponder that...