Oz, we are just giving him normal kids multivitamins. I usually consider vitamins to be a giant con, but he really eats bugger all so I wouldn't be surprised if he is deficient in something.
MD, hope the blood supply sorts itself out quickly. How are the girls doing? I am sure your DH is doing a good job of keeping the wheels turning while you are away.
Ginger, I am not dreading the trip so much with the dvd player, I hope it works.
Clare, forgot to say poor L - that face injury sounded very ouchy.
That makes me wonder - how much are your kids eating? On an average day W eats:
half a cup of cereal
half of an apple/banana
chocolate chips off the top of a muesli bar
marmite cruskit
and dinner is anything from half a chicken nugget to 1.5cups rice/pasta, depending on his mood.
Amelia is doing really well. She just about hyperventilated with excitement when W was waving a peice of toast around the other day lol - she is super interested in anything we are eating.
She is around the 90th percentile for her height and weight, she can reach the ground in the Jumperoo and she loves it.
W has been walking around breastfeeding his glowbug, very cute! Better go, he has just told me that our christmas tree 'fell' down yet again lol
MD: ah yeah, I prolly wouldnt give too many details to the extended fam either. In fact, i only just yesterday told mum the details of resus moment in teh middle of the night at the hossy when i had the tonsilitis and blood toxicity thang happening. i guess it is a way of ensuring that we dont need to 'look after' their emotion and turmoil while we are needing to focus on our own ITMS. sending lots and lots of good strong and healthy blood flow vibes your way!!
Arte: Dont know if you wanna hear this but Leila eats like a horse. for brekkie she'll have a bowl of cereal, a tub of yoghurt and a slice of nutter toast (peanut butter on toast). then she'll have a morning tea snack of crackers or fruit. Lunch is a full hot meal usually along with a sandwich and some more fruit or a muesli bar. Afternoon tea is a muesli or fruit bar and Dinner is a plate of whatever we are eating along with some yoghurt chaser... but she is tiny. only in the 25th% on the charts, so i figure she just has a mega fast metabolism and most probably just goes straight through her lol!
Noni: sounds like you are on the mend...have you got multivitamins or some kind of probiotic that you can take to help boost your system after the gastro?
well, i would say Lewis sits somewhere inbetween William and Leila on the eating stakes LOL some days he definitely eats more than others, and sometimes it depends what the food on offer is iykwim? like, he can put away a whole happy meal no worries whatsoever but will pick the cheese out of a salad sandwhich and leave the rest- cheeky bugger!
he has a habit of eating the tops off crumpets, cheese and bacon rolls etc. ie. only eating the good stuff. very annoying.
having a quiet home day around here today. gotta go to a xmas dinner for dh's work tonight- leaving L with dad but taking J.
well Falguni will be happy to know that it looks as though we're staying right here in the hills for a few more years. i think that dh began to realise that the grass may be greener but it's just as hard to mow iykwim? and began to realise how good we have it here. i tell you what, some of the absolute dumps in sydney that we were looking at on the internet for 750k really gave us some perspective on how good we've got it!
I'm away for a week and what happens? You better all get chatting again cos I'm going home tomorrow. New boob starting to look like one, good colour now, not going to turn blue and drop off haha.
That's good because I would hate to think that you are doomed to spend the rest of your life walking around in circles from only having one counterweight Seriously though, it's super wonderful to hear that you are heading home and that the boobenheimer looks like it is supposed to look. I had a tear in my eye knowing that we are going to have you around for a long time yet and that the outcome was the best possible one to get
As for me, well it just never stops around here! I am finally caught up on Avs. Uni is all set to go for next year and the kids are great.
MD: ooohhhh home time!!!!! so so stoked that your booby is healing! what a relief this must be! big phat hugs xx
and you're right, it has been awful quiet lately...hope that's because everyone is busy doing chrissy shopping...
BTW...where is JaZmum?
G: did you read in the paper today that they reckon house prices are going to just get worse (ie more exxy) for the next 3 years at least...urghhh, this means that sydney will get even crazier...if that's possible! so glad that we are no longer in the market.
Sherie: are you excited about going to uni next year? it's for a Bach of Ed isnt it? arghh cannae remember!
AFM: well Dh is coming home tomorrow! YIPEEEEE! have missed him like crazy..which i think is really nice IYKWIM...and we have been calling everyday and chatting for ages: which is a miracle for DH in itself, he really doesnt like phones.
Leila and i went to the rally "walk against warming" yesterday. we had a blast! so many people, it was really fun and friendly and loads and loads of families were part of it. and today we went visiting friends and ate lots of cake...so all good! leila is now having a nanna nap and i will follow shortly.
hope everyone is having a lovely day!
Clare it is a Bachelor of Ed (Primary) - I am really looking forward to it. I guess you will have a pretty good reunion with DH?
Someone said something about the washing I had to do on the trip? It wasn't that bad at all as our cabin had a washing machine so I did a few loads to stay on top of it so all I had to wash when we got home were the swimmers and towels because the kids had a swim while I was packing up. It was wonderful to get away. PP, if you want another weekend away I highly recommend Merry Beach - not that much further up the coast from batemans bay and so tranquil. We had no phone coverage unless we walked up the hill and it was nice not to have that link kwim? The kids had a ball - pool to the back of us and beach to the front of us. A didn't like the ocean much though LOL but had a ball making sandcastles. We are planning on going back in March/April next year with friends and staying longer.
Did a bit of shopping in BB on the way back through - spent a bomb at the surf shop on the corner Cally. Brought new havaiana's for A and the tiniest pair of speedos plus some shirts for the kids.
Took A and P to the Bananas in Pyjamas show on Friday and he HATED it! totally freaked him out. he was fine while they had the crowd warmer out - a woman dressed in mrs claus clothes but every now and then a banana would pop his head out and wave at the kids and every time he did it A would freak out and start screaming to go home. He was terrified of them. I think because they were so tall and I don't think he was expecting that kwim? he was OK by the end of the show and we got to 'meet' one but he wouldn't get too close to him.
Seriously though, it's super wonderful to hear that you are heading home and that the boobenheimer looks like it is supposed to look. I had a tear in my eye knowing that we are going to have you around for a long time yet and that the outcome was the best possible one to get 
so so stoked that your booby is healing! what a relief this must be! big phat hugs xx
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