i swear they have some sort of subliminal hold on kids....everytime a maccas ad comes on L will stop what he's doing and stare at the tv. he has the biggest tantrums now when i go past our local one..not good! i blame DH LOL
lol asha dosnt like mcdonalds.. when we go past it she says "no donalds" no lie!! lol
ughhh its been a crappy week here.. sorry i havnt been on just been so stressed i feel like im gonna bust!! asha split her head open in her first serious injury, we had to take her to get it glued.. poor dh freaked out and i had to keep sending him off to get me things because he was working her up.. i just grabbed billys burp towell and chucked it straight on, shes on abs now cause she went head first into a brick retaining wall so not the cleanest and then the towell not the cleanest thing either but hey it did the job.. ughhh then the other night billy wouldnt stop winging and we couldnt figure out what was wrong with him.. ended up getting him out of bed and tried to settle him for ages till i spotted his toes were purple! i looked down and he had hair wrapped really tightly around 2 of his toes and it was so tight we needed scissors to get it off!! i kept thinking about waking up with two of his toes laying at the end of his cot! god!! but wait theres more lol!! the next morning i got out of bed to the smoke alarm going off!! i ran out to the loungeroom where asha was watching tv and the house was filled with really thick black smoke! i went round the corner to the kitchen and there was a fire on the stove! dh must have knocked the stove and turned it on getting ready for work coz its really touchy.. there was formula spilt and the plastic bottle sterilizer really close as well so that went up too.. managed to put the fire out with a towell and turn everything off etc etc.. sooo glad we have a smoke alarm coz by the time the smoke would have got to me at the other end of the house the whole kitchen would have been on fire atleast and asha was in that end of the house by herself i still feel a bit in shock.. cant sleep properly and cant stop checking the stove lol..
anyway so thats been my crazy week, hope everyones having a better time than we are atm!!
xxx
Noni, jeepers, talk about a cracking start to the year (excuse the pun LOL)...no seriously :hugs: you musta been beside yourself with all that blood. Good to hear they can use glue tho...gosh you deserve a holiday after all that AND THEN the kitchen???!!! I reckon it would be a good week for Tattslotto...after all that you deserve a lucky break! Does your kitchen still smell burnt or did you get rid of it all?
I'm loving the idea of our Sept 07 babies matchmaking get together ROFL...even tho we can speculate I'm pretty sure they would surprise us all. It's kinda weird, we have really close family friends whose eldest son is the same age as DD1 - they have always got on like best friends - even from early babyhood when kids don't usually even pay attention to each other - I do sometimes wonder how that will go in a couple of years when they're all hormonal - if it'll just be like bro/sis/old friend or if it'll turn awkward. I hope not.
Missy E does love her chippies but TBH I think she likes the fish n chip shop ones better than McD's so she often suggests we go to the 'chipsy shop' LOL.
Cally - yay for your new car...only one more sleep!
Cass... for your meltdown...you will be fine...this time you know (from prior experience) that you *will* come out the otherside, you've done it once you can do it again. BTW you can get Big Love season 1 and 2 on DVD...your pub library might have copies (mine does).
Hey! It's been ages since I've posted. I'm still so busy you'd have no idea it was the holidays at all!
Noni, you poor thing, that would have given you a real fright on all 3 counts.
Swimming is going great. He is doing really well and likes to go under the water which is awesome because the other 3 hated to do that. He did have a meltdown yesterday though about 10mins into the lesson so we just left. No point making him stay while he's carrying on like that because it's not fair to the other kids in the group. And then he didn't wake till 8.20 today so I think he'd just hit his wall and was overtired. But today's lesson was great and he let the instructor sit him on the bottom of the big pool to get a dive stick. He takes a huge breath and holds his nose and away he goes LOL.
LOL at the macca's addicts. He is really *meh* with it because we only see it when we go somewhere that has one so we aren't driving past them all the time and if we do go to one, he's not that fussed about it. He eats his burger and chips, but he doesn't carry on about it, so long as he gets hot chips he's fine LOL
wow! noni, Thank goodness for smoke detectors is all i can say! how bloody scarey!
trill- lewis had a meltdown like that yesterday at the park and so i just left and came home and he had a massive sleep so i think he may have been overtired too. sometimes i forget how young they still are iykwim? and how tired they can get. A sounds like a great little swimmer now.
well lewis finally got his maccas lunch today and absolutely loved it! LOL
Sherie: aw, sounds like A is having a blast with the classes! i totally agree that if he isnt up for the class one day no point in forcing the point. we'd be doing the same...
also, i have got piccies of Leila playing under the airplane in west wyalong! Have been trying to put them on FB but the darn site is really playing up for me ATM...but thought it was cool when you mentioned that you live nearish there! next time i am sooo organising better and we can meet up!
MD: thanks babe. means alot to hear that xx
Noni: holey moley babe! what a crazy week! i agree with MD...go and get a tattslotto ticket lol!
G: can i have your friends baby? LOL! that said, my mate had a *slight* premmie and she was similar...until she hit her 'full term' dates...then it was all action stations LOL! mmmm now i want chicken nuggets lol.
AFM: well, my freakout escalated and ended up getting DH to call our psychologist (the one who helped me through the PND last time). am feeling a million times better after seeing her and she advised me to avoid a hospital birth (due to the birth trauma of last time) as visiting it the other day is what set me off (classic PTSD apparently...yay for me lol). so it looks like homebirth for me! feel HEAPS better after this laid out, can breathe again!
Leila has been great lately and seems to be getting used to (and loving) her new Big Girl room at kindy. we have *issues* when trying to drag her home lol! we arrived on friday and she had set up all the dollies outside at the table and was cooking dinner for them...a lovely sand and pine cone concotion...lucky dollies LOL!
Oz I saw that video of Z and OMG how gorgeous is she! I loved hearing L talk in the backround too, very cute!
Clare that is wonderful news about the hb and I'm really glad that you are OK now and how awesome you got a pic of her under the plane! We drive past it every single time we go to town and A always tells me it's there - just like the other three always did before him ROFL.
Cass, glad you called in your supports when you needed to...big gold star for you! Not surprised to hear visiting the hospital was a trigger...I visited the hospy when I was pg with E (wanted DH to know his way around) and they showed us the labour ward - the room was the same layout, same colour, same sort of chair etc in the corner as 1st time and I just wigged right out - that was after 9 years mind you - classic PTSD stuff alright. This birth will be sooo different.
Trill - wow at how much A is doing with his swimming lessons!
Oz - boring weekend here too...were supposed to be going out to some greek festival but can't be bothered sitting in the car all the way there LOL. I should be out scouring the city for a celebrity sighting with my new idol Lance Armstong (I'm reading his book right now and ta-dah! he appears in Adelaide) LOL.
Clare - good on you for getting on top of that straight away.
Oz - we got a Mitsubishi 380. Our old car was a Magna. It's a couple of years old, but it's got heaps more features than the old one (climate control, outside temp sensor, cruise control, bluetooth, airbags....) DH was in the back this morning (to poke Miss K in case she fell asleep) and said it was very roomy back there.
Macca's - K still hasn't been so has no idea, but she can spot parks left, right and centre when we are out and about!
Well Miss K has come down with an absolutely shocking cough. The end of last week I was only saying to DH that I think we should take her to the doctor as she had been coughing from a slight cold in October and it still hasn't gotten better (had a bit, but you wouldn't say she had been cough free). Well she came down really bad yesterday and apparently spent most of last night coughing. It hasn't even eased during they day like they normally do. Dh is a bit worried about it because he thinks there is a bit of a wheeze to it, so I will try and get her into the doctor tomorrow.
Got out and did a bit of gardening today. A tidy up and got rid of those things that are really struggling. We are about to hit Level 4 water restrictions here and I only want to focus on keeping my absolute faves alive. Generally the garden isn't doing too bad though as it is mostly natives. The lawn is suffering, but the area where Miss K plays and the washing rinse water goes has a tinge of green to it.
clare- congrats on the homebirth, i saw something on the news about sunshine hospital having a homebirth program running. do you know anything about that? or would you just hire your own midwife?
we're having a quiet weekend. tried to go to a shopping centre yesterday and i think dh was completely shocked at how crazy lewis actually is- let's just say we left without having lunch!
G: so i am guessing L shopping centres dont float L's boat? or is it the opposite and he just lurves them and runs amok?! we find food courts to be impossible with Leila, but can manage ok-ish (as long as she is restrained in a pram lol) in other parts. we went to doncaster the other day and she was suprisingly ok as usually enclosed big spaces send her bonkers, but i am guessing that because this was sooo big she didnt notice the walls lol!
Cally: oh dear! i hope that katie will be better soon. the poor wee poppet! we are thinking of putting in a whole bunch of natives in our garden too. the water restrictions are just making it impossible to do much else really.
MD: mmmm but the greek festival would of had greek food no? mmmmmmmmmmmm!
oh and yeah i saw on the news that Lancey boy was in rad-elaide! that is pretty cool...apart from the fact that he got pipped at the post...
Sherie: ha ha that is so funny! after we stopped there everytime we saw a plane (suprisingly popular in country townships!) Leila would scream out 'plane mumma plaaaannnnneeee!). and of course being the lead up to xmas they all had santas hanging outta them lol!
Oz: yeah am feeling pretty stoked that this bubba might be born in this house! will have to redecorate to fit in the birth pool, but i'll leave that to DH lol!
Hope everyone is well and had a lovely weekend! here in melb it is FREEZING! in ugg boots and jumpers....so so sexy rrraarrr lol!
Clare, well done for talking to someone about it. This time is going to be so different for you! This time you know that you might just be a fast baker, so it won't be such a shock if bub decides to come a bit earlier. This time your DH won't leave town and you won't be in labour alone. This time your bub will born without uncaring medical staff waving injections at you. This time there will be no scares after the birth. This time you will enjoy the sweet newborn cuddles and the early baby days and remember them fondly. This time you won't be organising a wedding while looking after a newborn. And this time, you have all the lovely ladies from Sept 07 here for support xx
I have had some rough patches over the last couple of years and sometimes I may not have been the best parent I could be, but until yesterday I had never felt like I was a bad mother and that I was doing a terrible job.
For a while now, I have been seeing that W had what looked like plaque between his front teeth, so I have tried a few times to brush them really well to get rid of it. But yesterday I had a proper look and it is tooth decay! In his two top front teeth there is a white patch on either tooth and between them is a black spot that is the start of a hole! I am so disgusted in myself! I can't believe I let this happen. I have to wait until the dentists reopen to find out what (if anything) can be done about it. I have googled and it is classic of Baby Bottle Tooth Decay - from having bottles to go to sleep with and then insufficient brushing of teeth. We were only brushing them at night and mostly just supervised W doing it instead of doing it ourselves. So stupid! What made me think that a 2 year old could do a good enough job I have let him down. What kind of mother lets her two year old have rotten teeth???
Arte - aw, you made me tear up with that beautiful message for Cassius.
And you are not a bad mother - I hate cleaning K's teeth and DH doesn't do it. We have only just started doing it twice a day, although that is not me brushing it, it is K sucking the toothpaste off the toothbrush. I probably give her teeth a good clean less than twice a week. And we don't even have fluoride here yet! I hate having to hold her down for it, she always ends up in tears and goes running off to DH afterwards (probably why he doesn't like doing it). The only thing that works sometimes is going through all the foods she has eaten that day and pretending they are in various parts of her mouth (ooh, I see a craisin back there, ah, there's some yogurt on the other side, we better get that).
Cass - I have really come around to native plants, my rule is pretty flowers and not spiky/*****ly!
Oh Arte, big hugs darl...no definitely not a bad mother!!! I know how hard the sleeping thing has been for you, the bottles were part of a coping mechanism that preserved your sanity in the depths of it all. We only brush once a day and DH does it (too much squirming for me tired & sore) so I have no idea how thorough he is or not. Wait and see what the dentist says - it's actually pretty common...fortunately it's milk teeth so there's time to redeem the situation before any permanent teeth come in.
After pulling out loads of really mangey & dry looking natives when we first moved to this house, I can say they are def growing on me...in particular I like some of the grasses, the kangaroo paws (esp in the reds & pinks) and I do love some the grevilleas...the birds etc really love them too. But you can't just neglect them totally or you end up with a mangey dry looking garden.
Cass - don't you be speaking ill about Lanceyboy. He's all about the long game, not the individual race...see now I'm an expert on cycle racing since I read his book PMSL.
Ginger, probably a good thing for DH to see a slice of your daily life...I think mine understood more esp the week when I was in hospy - there's been a lot less criticism of my parenting style since then LOL.
Well today is DH's first day back at work, I'm trying to get back into the swing of things...still not functioning fully but making progress. I feel like I'm plugging back into 'real life'.
Last edited by AnyDream; January 18th, 2010 at 09:39 PM.
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i still feel a bit in shock.. cant sleep properly and cant stop checking the stove lol..
Noni wow that some week you have had. I am glad everyone is ok though. Lets hope thats your bad luck all done now.
holey moley babe! what a crazy week! i agree with MD...go and get a tattslotto ticket lol!
I have let him down. What kind of mother lets her two year old have rotten teeth???
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