Mp - sounds like things are a bit crazy at your place, I really don't know how you do it. Fingers crossed that J doesn't have whooping cough. No, we didn't get the car.
Noni - how is Asha going? poor little thing, scratching like that.
Clare - sounds like you had a very fun day.
Arte - very impressed that W got to this age without a scraped knee, I can't recall how many we have had here.
MM - so glad the grommets have made a difference. Isn't it great when they get that language explosion? K just chatters away all the time now, sometimes I wish she would be a little bit more quiet...
Well we are having big successes with sleeps. 3 weeks ago, she refused to have a day nap at home, took 30 minutes to get off to sleep at night and would end up in the spare bed with one of us in the middle of the night. Bedtime is great now, put her down, walk out and she's asleep in 5 minutes. She's had heaps of naps this week too without any fusses. I don't know how much of that though is because she is so zonked from not sleeping at 1am. We have put our feet down and no more spare bed sleeping, but she's not really getting the hint on it. We did resort to putting a gate across her door to keep her in her room - she can still see the spare bed from her door and we are taking it in turns. Tonight she is clutching a pair of DH's shorts and has a photo of DH and I stuck on the wall looking down at her. I think she is waking up scared of something, but it seems to happen about 4 times and it is every night so I really don't know. I do know that DH and I are going crazy though if we don't get it sorted soon!!
We are doing intensive swimming this fortnight too. 2nd lesson today and she has progressed so much. Yesterday I had tears when I made her put her head under water - today she was sitting on the steps and deliberately sliding down to the next level and putting her face under - such a difference! We also went swimming twice in Canberra last week so I think after these holidays she is going to just love the water.
DH wanted me to ask everyone how much whinging they get every day. We have had a lot lately where there is just nothing that seems to satisfy her. She is also very particular about things we do. We were having a babychino this morning and I passed her a fruit bar. She wanted me to open it, but I had my hands full so DH did it. It is her favourite sort of bar and she just chucked a complete wobbly because the wrong person opened it, ie throwing it across the table like it was contaminated waste!! He ended up taking her outside and I'm not sure what he did, but she was in a better mood when she came back. Dh thinks we have at least a solid hour of whinging every day. I'm tempted to get some multivitamins for her though after everyone's comments on them.
OH lordy Cally! The whinging does my head in some days LOL. We get that too - god help you if the wrong person does it, or you dont let him do it himself. Like last night he woke up and ask for a 'bot-bot' of all things! he hasn't had one for weeks. So I ask him what he wants in it, milk or water and he says no to both. I ask him again and I get louder NO's to both. So he starts sooking. I get back into bed saying 'fine, go without then' LOL - mind you it was 2.30am and then he starts sulking and says 'milk' so I get a small bottle of milk for him and then it's too cold so I warmed it up a bit more and then he's off to sleep again!
Noni, I saw your FB update and glad to hear it isn't cp. FWIW, it's possible that she is the only one with the bites - the other night L got attacked by mozzies at night and had 30-odd bites that turned into huge welts from scratching so I had to dose him with phenergan to settle them and stop the itching. But the other kids were fine. Mind you A looks like a junkie sratching at the inside of his arms all the time from the mozzie bites he already had ROFL. So I have been putting winter pj's on him to stop them and the house smells like chinese opium den from the mozzie coils.
MP, that is a lot for you to deal with I hope he is on the mend soon, poor bubby boy.
We start swimming lessons too on Monday and I have no idea how he will go as he likes to do his own thing in the pool , but seeing the other kids do stuff too will probably make him do it too kwim?
so i went to another medical centre lol, id called ahead and they told me no need to make an appt as long as i got there before 5.30, i got there at 5.20 and they told me the dr wasnt taking any more patients grrr boy was i mad!! luckily a paediatrition who works in the same centre felt sorry for me and took a look at her. she said she was pretty sure it was just bites, deffinately not cp or anything nasty or contagious. she said to keep going with the anti bacterial cream coz she could tell she was itching alot and to give her an anti histamine to help with the itching. ive also stripped her bed, even tho i slept in it and never got bitten u never know, so stripped that off and sprayed the matress with a naturegaurd bug killer, waited a few hours with the fan on and window open and then re made the bed with fresh sheets, blankets and pillow cases etc.. i alsop sprayed some natural mozzie reppellant on her (just an oil i got from avon) that helps keep mozzies away and gave her a dose of zyrtec so hopefully that all helps!
trill - when asha gets mozzie bited they usually end up in huge welts too from the scratching.. she actually has a few scars already from scratching bites!! im worried these will scar too poor chicken
winging - we get huuge winging sessions here! asha drives me crazy with her iiiimmm huuunnnggryyy, or im sick i need medicine.. lol cant wait till she learns im bored hahahahaha!!!
Noni: relief that it isn't CP!! but wow, didnt realise that she had such an aversion to bites! my cousin is the same, they always got really big and itchy and she also ended up with scars from some of them. poor wee thing, hopefully it will clear soon. could they be sandflies? do you get them there? we had them bad up in north qld and they itch really bad...
Cally: ooh yeah baby! we get doozers of whingeing. pretty much one major crack up each day. some days she can go on and off all day....oh the joy lol! and yep, Leila can crack over particular things as well. if it's the wrong spoon, wrong nappy (yep, they are all the same i would of though lol!), if the dog looks at her when she doesnt want her to look at her LOL! and so on and so forth....ya gotta laugh...or clench your teeth really really tight ROFL!
how often is the swim intensive? like everyday?
Sherie: good on you for getting him into swimming. it is a thing i really want to get Leila into. she LOVES water and with us living so close to a creek i *think* it could be a smart move JIC IYKWIM. also she just has no fear, which although good at times when it comes to water i am a bit freaked out!
AFM: all good here. Today is Leila's first day back at kindy feel a bit sad as it is the beginning of a new year/new chapter in her life and there is always sadness at lovely memories being left behind (i always get nostalgic on her first day lol!). she is in a bigger room this year with a few more kids (but she knows them all as they played alot together last year). i reckon she will love it once she is settled as there are two levels in the room and lots and lots and lots of dress-ups, cubby houses, dolls, paints etc etc. and her carer from last year followed the group so not too scary and new.
Clare - yes, swimming is every afternoon. It's good as it fills in the time, so this week is flying by. DH and I both hopped in with her yesterday which was good. They're not structured classes as such, there is a bit of direction from a teacher, but she has two others she is teaching so just gives us a bit of direction every now and then. Good in a way as we can focus on what she is interested in each day. K is also moving up to the next room this year. She has been doing things with them already, but she will be able to do more. Hopefully watching them all use the toilet will give her a bit of a push along too....
Noni - so glad that it is only bites. We took K to the hospy last year for sand fly bites, they can look really bad (and super itchy, she had some Claratyne syrup for them).
Cally - Yep you can add M to the list of endless whinging about nothing. Some days it just drives us up the wall!
Trill - GL with swimming lessons, something I want to do with M as well.
Noni - Thats a relief that it isnt pox.
MP - Oh poor J I hope its not whooping cough. Yuck poor thing. I missed that you are going to NZ, lucky you! GL with the move sounds exciting.
Clare - Hope L enjoys her first day at kindy, yep I know what you mean I get teary at this sort of stuff too lol. I'm still in denial that they will be 3 this yr, how is that possible!!???
Sorry I haven't been around much. Rory was home for Christmas so we spent as much time together as we could and then I headed to mums on Boxing Day and her internet/computer played up so I only had facebook mobile access. That was painful hehe.
I'm sorry for being such a slacker but please know that I am thinking of you all and hope that everyone had a fantastic christmas watching the kids open their pressies and actually be really into it this year. Sarah was spoilt of course and loved everything she got.
I've been fairly unwell still...just that constant queasy feeling. Slowly getting better tho but not fast enough for my liking.
Sarah is once again whinging around my feet so better find out what is wrong this time in her dramatic little life lol.
Hugs to all
Last edited by ~Kate~; January 7th, 2010 at 04:21 PM.
so I warmed it up a bit more and then he's off to sleep again!
from the mozzie coils.
I hope he is on the mend soon, poor bubby boy.
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