Babies born~September 2007 #55

[Ginger]

hi girls

after thinking that L was dropping his day sleep, he's started having it again every day. he really can't do without it.

MP- well done on the weight loss. as you can probably tell, i've fallen off the wagon a bit! not putting any on, but not losing any either. i've decided that instead of dieting, i'm going to increase my exercise and see if that makes me feel a little better. i just love my food too much! and over the holidays my SIL and i just loved sitting my the river at night with a glass of wine or 2! so lovely.
we won't be moving for a while yet, need to do a lot of work on this house before it goes on the market, which is very hard to do with 2 small children. planning to sell in march 2011. everyone please cross their fingers there are no bushfires over the next couple of fire seasons!!!

md- i know, i agree that melb is much better than sydney (sorry sydney-siders). i love melb and would stay here forever if i could,....but....there is a whole heap of reasons why sydney is starting to appeal. we are still very much in discussions about the whole thing. i honestly don't think we make a 100% definite decision until the end of next year. lots to think about..and no doubt i'll be coming on here all the time asking for all your opinions all the time!!!!

clare-enjoy your day trip. you should come out to the dandenongs one day, it's soooo pretty you won't want to leave.

oz- have you tried putting L to bed later? i put L to bed at 9.30pm now most nights so that i can get a sleep-in.

so what are people getting the kids for xmas this year? i haven't done any xmas shopping yet! looks like my kids will be getting ange's play-gym for their xmas present LOL

[Cassius2]

Hi girls!

Oz: Hot, still nights are hard huh? and so true, L always wakes a bit earlier if it is hot...

G: ohhh i would LOVE to go up there for a day trip! i'll try and wrangle DH for next weekend...

that is good news about L going back for day sleeps again...i really think miss L also still needs them.

AFM: well we ended up doing a lovely round trip up through whittlesea and kinglake, back through hurstbridge and then stopped off at a friends house in heidelberg! so heaps of driving! i have to add that the bakery at kinglake makes a mean coffee and pepper steak pie! no wonder it was packed out! and they provide toys for the kidlets...of course the most exciting thing for all of them though was the ramp LOL!
we also got to see MEGA huge kangaroos...leila was yelling out: 'ROO ROO ROO!!' til they all scampered away LOL!

[Artechim]

Ginger, OMG about #3!!! You got clucky again when L was about J's age too lol - should we be expecting an announcement soon?

Ange, hope all is going well with the shifting and with your brother

MM, W has been hit and miss with day naps for about the last 6 months. Sometimes he will go for a week with none, other times he has one every day. The health nurse said they sometimes look like they are dropping naps around the two year mark and then pick them back up and continue for a while longer.

Clare, sounds like your day trip was fun. You are soooo wrong about Jacob, it is Edward all the way!!! I don't think I will watch the movies though, I hate it when they don't stick to the book eg every Stephen King novel-turned-movie.

MP, sleep is o.k here - A was doing all nighters until the last few days but I think she is having the 12 week growth spurt. W was also doing all night, but he has started waking up at least once and occasional night tantrums again.

MD, H sounds so much like me as a kid lol

I am soooo sick of tantrums. I am glad every one else is getting them too - I was starting to wonder what massive f-up we had made to have such a terror of a kid. I am about ready to declare the first pancake a write-off and try harder next time lol. Seriously, it is bad. I have to force myself to spend any time with him because I know that it is all going to go south very quickly anyway.

We went to Taupo yesterday which is 1.5 hours away. W purposely squealed and yelled until A woke, so I sat squished in the back to keep her happy, then he had a massive tanty which made her cry so we had to pull over and wait it out. Then I was supposed to be clothes shopping but quickly came to the depressing realisation that I am too fat to fit anything decent. I ended up crying in a dressing room when the size 16 pants wouldn't even fit on my thigh. I have no idea where to get fat clothes from that don't look like a floral tent. Then on the way home there was a repeat of the trip up - took us an hour to travel what should have taken 20 minutes. Every time I got A to sleep and back in the car seat W would wake her up and she would cry again. In the end () we gave up and drove the last 10 minutes with me holding A.

[*noni*e*]

Arte - hugs.. Sorry u had such a rough time.. Im finding it much harder this time round to lose the weight too.. Oh and tanties I don't believe how horrible A can be sometimes!! I often find myself feeling like she's awful and W is easy which is horrible and I try not to but it just ends up feeling that way..
As for day sleeps ashas still having them.. Every now and then she dosnt sleep and its awful! She still reallu needs a sleep! Sleep has become a nightmare here coz its been a few hot weeks and some days she's been allowed to lay on the lounge to fall asleep coz its just been too hot so now there's lots of tanties at bedtime anyway enough winging!!
Hope everyone had a great weekend!! We put the chrisi tree up early hehe

[~Kate~]

Hi all

Just thought I'd pop in and catch up. Tough luck on the catch up tho...chatterboxes

I had a quick skim but have forgotten most so will endeavour to stay caught up...goodness I am so tired but when ever I go to bed I can't fall asleep, then S gets up with the sun. Too little sleep makes mummy cranky. DH is away working again so no break there, so thank god for MIL. She took S this weekend for me and I didn't get her back til this arvo...missed her like crazy (until she walked up the stairs and promptly cracked a tanty for some unknown reason. Ahhh...sweet toddlerdom!

[Ginger]

hi girls

arte- i had to laugh at your pancake comment! i always love the first pancake cos it's so buttery that it's disgusting, dh always writes it off LOL
no don't be expecting any announcement from here anytime soon. it's still very much being used as leverage by dh to get us to move to sydney, as well as many other promises which are starting to sound very appealing to me, i must admit. i wouldn't even attempt to ttc#3 until j's 3rd b'day anyway, i need some sleep!
um, as for fat clothes, i'm totally still in the leggings phase. you can't go wrong with black leggings and loose tops/dresses i reckon.
is W trying to wake A up on purpose?

good news is i'm making an appointment today to go to a day spa with my friend next sat for some pampering. can't wait!!


oh ......and guess who crawls???????

[Artechim]

Congrats to Clare for the winning photo entry!!!! Love it!!

Ginger, wow on the crawling! These second babies are growing way too fast! Yes, W wakes A up on purpose, he squeals, looks to see if it has worked and then goes again. Very frustrating. Yay for the spa. I have never been to any sort of pampering thing.

MD, did you get some pumpkins? There is something that I keep meaning to say/ask but every time I sit down at the comp I can't remember what it is. I guess it will come to me eventually (and be weeks late and irrelevant lol)

I have realised that all W's Christmas presents are Cars merchandise lol. Might get him some duplo or something but I keep having pangs of guilt for buying into the commercialism of Christmas - buying things for the sake of buying things iykwim?

[Cassius2]

You are soooo wrong about Jacob, it is Edward all the way!!! I don't think I will watch the movies though, I hate it when they don't stick to the book eg every Stephen King novel-turned-movie.

Arte: i am with you really. as far as the original text of the books go, i will always be team Edward. it's just that Rob Pattison who plays edward in the films is skin crawlingly gross. and he plays the character as morbidly depressed, so any dialogue between him and bella is painful. so i needed to have an outlet for a girly crush and honed in on the buff Jacob LOL!

that car trip sounded horrendous! and shopping for clothes afer that kind of trip was soo not going to end well babe lol!

G: three is a nice gap! (at least this is what i am trying to tell myself LOL!).

oh darn it, i forgot everything else! oh oh, but i did win the monthly photo comp!! how cool is that?!

[Cassius2]

ok, did another skim...

G: so so jealous of the spa! i always say that i want to go and never do! you guys have nice ones around there huh?!

Kate: ohh i hate it too when i have moments of insomnia! then i only seem to fall asleep a couple of hours before DD wakes up.... chamomile and honey can be nice for that...

Noni: he he! we also put up our tree! i was impatient lol!

[Ginger]

wow what a great pic clare. what was the theme of the competition?

[Cassius2]

the theme this month was 'landscape'. we had a few from our italy trip to choose from, but i remember Jaz mentioning that she like the light and colour of this one when it was on FB...so thought that there might be something in it LOL!