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J is more clingy than L, i hope that means he's gonna be a super smartie :) we could do with some brains in this family LOL
cally- i'm so jealous of you living only 400m from the beach, i would be swimming all the time in summer! you're so lucky, it's very relaxing being near water i think.
mp- what is your new house like? do you love it?
md- feeling a little better today, boob is still really sore though. recovery seems to be taking a lot longer this time than last time i had it. thanks for checking up on me, makes me feel loved :) fingers crossed this is my last time of having it.
L started soccer yesterday morning and loved it! he didn't really understand it all, but had a great time anyway. look out beckham
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Just popped on quickly to say a huge thank you to Arte - I had a parcel full of goodies arrive on my doorstep this morning all the way from Arte in NZ!! Thankyou so much!!!!! :hug:
I am off for my ultrasound this arvo and all of a sudden I am very nervous!!
MD - As for the furniture, back to square one. Not taking the Jarrah bed. Just keeping the toddler bed awhile longer and getting a new white single down the track.
Ginger - So sorry to hear you are suffering mastitis again. :(
Hope you are all well xox
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Good luck with the US MM - will be thinking of you. :hug:
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goodluck today MM :hug: hope that it goes AOK.
G: glad to hear the mastitis is clearing up. wow, i didnt realise you could get it still (was under the misguided impression it was a newborn thang! :redface:).
MP: good luck for the Big Move!
AFM: all ok here. my mum is visiting again YAY!! we took the day off today and drove down the penninsula and swam in the ocean....with DOLPHINS! ha ha! such a lovely suprise!
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MD, I think there is a link between clingyness and advanced speech. Social interaction and speech/comprehension are on different sides of the brain and it seems that he is very dominant on one side and the social side has been a lot slower to develop. I had a dream about you the other night - you went on a secret weekend trip to NZ and went to Bluff of all places (the arse of the South Island)!
MM, your welcome. Hope your ultrasound went well.
MP, good luck with all the shifting. Yay for N sleeping through! It has been a long time coming! And glad that J doesn't have asthma. Do you have it in your family? I think I remember N having similar problems?
Ginger, bummer about the mastitis again. That sucks. The soccer sounds cool. They have indoor soccer here that we will start W in later this year.
Cally, lol about the fence. My DH is the same - if I ask him about something I am nagging, but then if I don't say anything and it doesn't get done he complains that I should have reminded him! Bedtimes are ok-ish. Still taking about half an hour of me sitting in there but we will get there eventually. How are yours going?
Clare, how is the pregnancy going? Much morning sickness? Cool about the dolphins!
We went camping last night and it was a success! Apparently enough time has passed for us to forget last times spectacular failure lol. W had a great time, went to bed alright(ish) and both of them only had one wake up.
And after my complaints about NZ's boring wildlife...
We left the veranda part of the tent open and a possum came in during the night and shat on a plate!
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Arte - LOL bl00dy possum!! Where do you go camping, near to your house or is it a trek and a half? Thanks again for the goodies!!
Clare - How nice! Bet your mum is excited about number 2.
Ultrasound all good, my tube looks as it should and the Dr said there is no reason why I cant fall pregnant naturally. Its good to have that reassurance because I was beginning to lose it a bit.
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yah Hayley!!!! that's great news :)
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MM - I'm so excited for you...give it some time sweetie :hug: .
Arte that's funny, I have been thinking over the last few days about holidays - not that its in our immed plans - but we do have close friends right at the bottom of the south island. My NZ geography is sketchy - but when I looked up Bluff it's kinda in the spot more or less where I was thinking my friends were. *insert spooky music* I'd say that's an auspicious omen wouldn't you :D!
Clare what a lovely surprise blessing the dolphins were! And what a precious moment to share with your mum!! Dunno why but i feel kinda inspired at how good life can be. :D
Speaking of which - week two of DD1 back at school and all the old problems tumbling back in on us. DD1's impression of the new teach is that she's harsh and that she 'shouts at people' when they get things wrong. Which is bringing up all of DD1's insecurities & negative self talk about learning. *sigh* I'm going to see the teacher this afternoon but it's very hard because she needs to concentrate on engaging H and not criticising her - but H tends to wiggle around doing things and I just know in me waters this is going to aggravate this teacher who is very no-nonsense. Difficult because all her favorite friends are in this class - socially it is perfect - but I just wonder if this year with this teacher is going to be a complete and utter disaster. ARGH I hate this!!! AND when I try to talk to H about keeping up the positive self talk, she thinks I"m criticising her. :cry: I'm damned if i do nothing and I'm damned if I do something. And we've only got 2 years of primary left before I have to abandon her into the clutches of high school which is a very scary thought!!!
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MM - great news on the US, so glad that everything looks good.
Clare - wow, dolphins, that would be awesome. We get some in our little bay a bit, last year we had heaps of whales and I had my first sighting ever which was great.
MD - how did your visit with the teacher go?
Arte - so impressed you go camping with the littlies, I bet W has a ball.
Ginger - it is relaxing being near water, we drive along a major river each day on the way to work and it's always interesting, there's always something happening.
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MD that is a worry. I can understand your dilemma, if it werent for her friends being in the class you could ask to have her moved to the other teachers room. Why does H feel insecure about herself? Does she think she is unable to do certain things, scared of failure etc? Sorry I dont want to pry into it, but my mum went through similar with my youngest sister, she has anxiety and always tells herself she is going to fail before she has even tried. A counsellor told my mum these things need to be straightened out early, not meaning to send you into a worry but just so you know & can save yourself the heartache.
Got some op shop scores today, a fisher price booster seat for the table which is going to grandmas house, a Dora dvd & a carton of the pretend eggs which M is loving to bits, she loves anything to do with chickens & eggs due to collecting them with her nanna down on the 'farm'.
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H that is great news that your tube is fine - lets hope that very soon you are pg again!
MD, L's teacher this year is a first year out grad and he wasn't sure about her at first (mind you I have known her since was was 12 because her mother was my editor at the newspaper I worked at) so I told him to give her a chance and that he would have to let himself get used to her. Maybe H is affronted by her teaching style because she just isn't used to it? I'm sure that the teacher wouldn't be picking on her or the other children, but maybe they have just not had a teacher like that so they have been taken by surprise by her kwim? Either way I hope you are able to connect with H and get her through this :hug: Plus one thing I notice with the kids as they progress through the grades is that the higher up they get, the less molly-coddled they are by their teachers. They are marked harsher in reports and schoolwork and are expected to think for themselves a lot more. Of course the alternative is that she really is a harridan and in that case you would have to meet with her to sort it out. So I hope the meeting went well with her.
You might have noticed that I have stepped down from doing the avs because I just don't have time! the time I spend on them each week is time that I need to dedicate to uni now so I had to let it go.
Things are good here - A has made the transition to sharing a room with L quite well - no sleep regression as yet (touch wood!) and I have only had to go in there once and I think that was only because he was cold. he calls it 'my room' and tells the girls to get out 'my room' and it's hilarious - he is like a 3ft tall sargeant general ROFL. It has been bliss just having him at home - I don't hear a peep out of him now except for when he asks for something and I have to admit that I wish the kids were at school a lot longer than they are ;) because as soon as they come home the squealing starts because they are hassling him :rolleyes: And I can't believe how much I get done in a day now only having 1 at home! every single one of my washing baskets are empty, clothes are all in drawers and all the ironing is done! I even sorted the pantry out. So my plan of attack is to hook in and get all the housework done in the morning so I can do uni in the afternoon until the others are home and then get back into it once they are in bed.
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Wow Trill, you are very good at getting things done with little people underfoot, I can't imagine doing all of that and uni!
MM - well done on the op shop finds
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hi everyone - man it has gone quiet in here! hope everyone is well!
trill - i am impressed with what you can get done with A underfoot. I dont get a lot done when N is here!!
cally - how does the new furtniture look? i am thinking what we will get for the new house - we are underfirnished for a house of the size...though $$ will be a bit tight for a while so i guess my shopping will have to be curbed for a bit
i wonder how falguni is - have you moved yet love? sorry i am a bit out of the loop
clare - how are you feeling?
MM - yay for the healthy tube.. soon it will be your turn i am sure honey!
arte - v impressed with your camping - i didnt think you woud be trying that for a while but glad you enjoyed it
afm all is well - madly getting things ready now... they are packing the house on monday! i have veen cleaning things out, ordering things ready and soooo much organisation to do. but we are def over the worst of it. we are moving into serviced appts for mon and tue (while DH still at work) and then doing a little road trip to beechworth and healesville on the way down... then fri we are in! cant wait!
had a paed appt for J on tue (have i told you all this) - he is v happy with him which is great, we had been a bit worried about a few things. he still isnt rolling from back to front.. hmmm.. doing loads of floor time to encourage that! and unlike N he REALLY isnt into solids.. takes maybe a spoon here and there... i am not too worried about that though, i guess it will all happen. i just have to also accept he may bnnot be a big eater like N which will kill me as i love cookig for N and i want boys to LOVE MAMAS COOKING! LOL
N is great, was trying to get him into J's kindy but they have room only in the older room. i think he would love it socially and for speech etc but not sure re climbing etc. his current kindy think he would be great... anyway will take hin for a play and see... in the meantime i am quite hppy and excited about the one i have him in, i am just nervous as it is used more for a break for mums not for working mums - so i will be like the worst mum in the block iykwim...
anyway just wanted to say hello and see how everyone was...
anyone heard from noni?
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Well I am going to join in the chorus of people who are impressed with Trill's productiveness. Although I will admit Missy E is getting better at self-directed play so I'm getting larger chunks of non-interrupted time - some days anyway LOL.
Trill, how many subjects are you doing - a fulltime or a parttime load? I've still got a couple of weeks to decide if I'm going to do a subject in Semester 1 or not...still undecided although I'm signing up for a rehabilitive exercise program which is a bit of a drive away so that's likely to chew up a fair bit of time, at least for a couple of months. The hydrotherapy one was full (they only have 11 places, wtf??) but i'm on the waiting list, so the world is spared from seeing me in my bathers for a while longer LOL. Am all gee'd up to get back into the healthy eating & exercise - just need a bit of help with it.
MP - good luck with your move, I know better than anyone what a busy time it is. Isn't it nice tho when you're moving to somewhere you've wanted to be for a long time? :)
Clare how are you going sweetie, I was thinking of you yesterday when I read something in the newspaper about morning sickness.
MM - Well done with your op shop bargains...I had an awesome oppy trip where we got a gorgeous painted wooden cradle for $7 - was just about to shell out $50 buying one brand new - so can't complain about that! Thanks for you words re H - it does worry me when she gets into a negative frame of mind but sometimes I think she just does it to hook me in too. She got over it by that afternoon but I'm not going to let her get away with it. I told her how I got those 2 essays done lasgt year in the middle of chemo by getting up every am and telling myself "I CAN do this". I left out the bit about having a personal cheer squad and an endless supply of m&ms LOL. There's a fantastic set of affirmation cards for Teens that I'll be ordering for her birthday this year.
Well all went well with the Teacher the other day. We chatted for well over half an hour and I'm satisfied I've given her a useful window in DD's personality and it also appears DD has made an early favorable impression. There's nothing worse than the teacher taking an instant dislike to your child (BTDT). And I took DD out for an icecream after school by ourselves and she seemed to have taken the positive messages on board by then. But gosh, some days it's hard work.
Gosh look at me I've written a novel. Again. Sorry.
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Don't you dare apologise for writing a novel! LOL I love it :) It's great to hear that the meeting went well and that H made a good first impression - and why wouldn't she, she's a great kid! I just hope that H can see that sometimes it might not be all cookies and cream when it comes to school, but tomorrow is a new day and she can start all over again kwim. That's pretty ordinary about only having 11 places? You would think they could at least run a second class instead of keeping a waiting list. I always use board shorts now to hide the legs when I swim LOL. I'm only doing a part time load which should be about 20hrs per week which I think I can handle. It is two subjects though.
PP, that's great that the worst of the packing is done with. I can't even contemplate us ever moving! And don't worry - they will turn into teen boys before you know it and eat you out of house and home LOL.
Cally, that's only the plan - I have no idea if I can stick to it LOL. It's pretty easy to get stuff done because he amuses himself. no doubt there will be days when I can't get anything done but so far so good!
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MD, wish I had some words of wisdom for you about the H situation but I am sure you are doing the best you can. Glad the meeting with the teacher went well. How much you care shines though in your post and made me realise how little effort my mum put into us kids - had I ever had a problem with a teacher she would have just told me to get over it. I am a bit p!ssed at her atm because she stopped by on her way though the other day and referred to A as an 'it' (A started crying when mum was holding her and she said "it doesn't like me". So disrespectful.
MP, sounds like you are busy with the move. I hate moving! You won't be the worst mum on the block! People have to work.
Trill, good luck with your workload this year. I think that if it was just W at home that I would have some free time to do some study, he is quite good at playing by himself now. I plan to retrain when A is at kindy so I have another 2.5 years to figure out what I want to do lol
MM, that is great news about the scan.
W has started using all the correct pronouns, I, me, my etc. DH took him to a friends house the other day and the guy thought W was 5 because he speaks better than their 4 year old!
He seems to have hit a new level of independence - must do everything for himself. He was trying to fix something the other day and I offered to do it for him and he turned around so I couldn't get it and said "it'll be easier for me to do it"! He was doing really well at dressing himself but we made a big deal of how he was a big boy and it turned him right off it and now he won't make an effort at all.
We went to a birthday party today but as I was getting lunch he packed a massive tanty because the pasta had tuna in it (and he likes tuna!), so we had to leave. It was really hot though and he refused to take off his jersey so he was probably uncomfortable and he can only take so much of lots of people at the best of times.
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Arte - yeah I don't think my mum would ever even have *known* if I had a problem with a teacher, mind you I was such a little goodie 2 shoes and meek and invisible to 90% of the school population so a problem was a fairly remote possibility LOL.
I'm pretty floored though by your Mum's comment. Did she think she was being funny???? (*scratches head*) Did you say something or did you just stare at her stonily??
Trill - 20 hours is the same load as I would have with 2 subjects, although I'm happy to chug along at the one subject (10 hours) rate. Although tbh I have never given each subj the full 10 hours except around assignments & exam times...work smarter not harder I say. Concentrate on your reading & notetaking skills and you will save yourself a lot of time and hassle.
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MD, no, she wasn't being funny - it is just how she is. I was too shocked to say anything at the time. She also referred to me as an 'it', but I can let that slide. She also refers to W as 'the boy' sometimes, not in an affectionate way but more as an object of inconvenience. She can be cold and I tend that way too - I make quite an effort to make sure I tell my children that I love them because it sucks growing up wondering what makes you so unlikeable that even your parents don't care. She was never really big on talking to us, never asked how school was or how an exam went or took an interest in anything. I starved myself to 39kg once and she didn't even notice! Sorry for the rant, I am just so annoyed at her - I won't let her treat my children like they are less worthy than her stupid dogs.
