Woohoo! DH has taken W out for a bushwalk and A is asleep - my first kid free time in 3 months!!
Oz, L sounds adorable with Z! W doesn't really do anything to make A laugh, but he gives her lots of cuddles and she grabs him and squeezes and has a huge grin. So adorable. WTG on the commando crawling. A flops around like a fish out of water on her belly but she is walking around holding fingers now.
MP, N sounds like he is going great with his letters! I gave up with W when he went though his feral tantruming couple of months but he is more civil these days so I might start trying again. Gardens are not winter proof here.
Noni, one of the bubs in my Sept 09 group had bronchiolitis and they were told the same about asthma, then her DH (after 10 years of togetherness) told her that he had chronic asthma as a child - apparently he never thought to mention it! Glad you are feeling better. Where are you moving to?
Ginger, are you going to FB the pics of L asleep in all his gear? Cute! How is J's sleeping now?
A has hit that adorable age of babbling and smiles that makes you clucky for another. She is lots of fun atm. Now she has realised that she can go places (holding hands), she is off exploring - usually to see the dog, to follow W or to look in his room.
We are off to visit the IL's in a couple of weeks which I am actually looking forward to. I know that holidays with kids aren't really holidays but I am feeling so burnt out atm and I know they will entertain W. Since he won't have naps, it is 13 hours of two year old every day with no break. So far this year DH has taken him out for a couple of afternoons and I have had two grocery shopping days with A, but no time to do anything relaxing/fun. I think when we are down south I will go up to Dunedin for a day, visit all the nostalgic places from my uni days and meet up with an old friend who lives there so that will be nice.
i'm so sorry Trill to hear of J's passing. big hugs to you and your mum xoxo
thanks for your advice re: the kinder situation. i sent of the application form to the local feeder one for next year. i really hope he gets a spot. they seem like a lovely bunch who run it- they even run the local chestnut festival every year to raise money for it, which we usually always go to anyway, so i thought it seemed like a good fit iykwim? i just really hope he gets in now b/c a lot of the surrounding suburbs ones (i have heard through friends) have no places available and huge waiting lists. cross your fingers for me girls!
i'm glad some of you girls think your #2 bubs is an angel because mine is the devil!!! i think J was sent to us to cure us of our cluckiness for another once and for all. lucky he's such a spunky little rockstar, because he's trouble with a capital T!
Thanks for your support everyone It means so much.
G, if this is your feeder kinder/school for your area, they will have to give him a place. But good idea to get the forms in. I will do it with our preschool around his birthday because they don't take enrollments for the following year till October/November but you can put them on the waiting list so they have a rough idea of how many they will have coming.
Oh and LOL at J curing your cluckiness. I bet that will change once he's older and not as bad. E was a shocking 2nd child too ROFL and it didn't stop me from wanting more
Arte: woot woooo! nothing like some kidlet free time! hope you got time to have a cuppa and a flake out on the couch lol!
and the holiday sounds like something the Dr ordered! although Dunedin....brrrrrrr! LOL! i guess all of NZ is cold though in the winter lol.
G: all my fingers and toes are crossed for L getting a spot. when do you find out?
Suz: wtg with C! you gotta love those days when they tucker themselves out so wholeheartedly. this happens whenever we take DD to the childrens farm or swimming. good way to rebalance the crabbiness.
Oz: i had the braces for *just* under two years. they were meant to be on until june, but my teeth were well-behaved, so got to have them off sooner. have to say that i am despising the retainers though. i guess it is something to get used to...atm i have to wear them 24 hours a day
AFM: our cat caught a mouse today and being a phat kat, she just had it wriggling alive in her mouth with obviously NO intention of ending the poor things terror with a quick bite to the neck. so i had to go into steve irwin mode and extract the poor wee thing from her mouth. put it into a container and just stared at it for a bit. DH came home with DD and we showed her, which she loved. and i know that i am bad, but then i made DH drop it off at the bushes by the railway station LOL! we are experiencing some *issues* with mice since the neighbours took off their roof for the reno's. the mice have moved next door...ie our place lol. do you guys have tips for setting up traps in the roof? i can't use bait as we have animals, and dont want DD to get fingers cut off...
cass- eeewwww that mouse story is gross! did you kill it before you dropped it in the bushes? i ahve no idea about traps, that sort of stuff is dh's department. we have giant bush rats here- they kinda look like bilbys LOL it's the main reason why dh is letting me get a cat cos i convinced him that she'll keep them under control. i'm not too convinced she actually will though
trill- oh i didn't know that the kinder had to accept you. that's good to know. i know a lot of the girls in my MG have been rejected form their local one as they just don't have enough physical room at the centre to accept them all so i wonder how that works?
oh great so you reckon i'll get the cluck again when J is bigger? i don't know, i think he may have scarred me for life! i know that his newborn phase definitely scarred dh LOL he still talks about it. dh and J have really connected a lot lately though. they seem to have a secret special code and they pull faces and make noises together and crack each other up. i don't really understand it all- i think it's secret mens business.
so is E still a shocker or is she much better these days? i'm wondering if there's hope for me!
G: nah, the wee mouse's life was spared. i think when it is a one on one kinda thang you get the chance to look them in the eye and connect..so she lives....albeit amongst the rubbish bins of train-dom lol. i remember not feeling ANY connection when we had mouse plague when we lived in the country though LOL!
G, E will be a shocker till the day she dies LOL. Way to many of her personality genes came from her fathers side of the family. MIL reckons she is so much like her MIL (DH's grandmother) and she used to call her the Devil Incarnate, so there isn't much hope for E. However I reckon had E been an only child she would be easier to handle. And I'm used to parenting her now, so she does seem easier to manage kwim? If you are entering L into Kinder for an actual Kinder program that will follow onto school, I'm pretty sure they have to take him. that is going by threads I've seen on here anyway.
Cass, I can look the little bugger square in the eye and then snap their neck myself LOL. We've got some atm too, it's just that time of year that they tend to come inside and I have one persistent little bugger who wont be so gracious as to get into the trap, so we have stare-downs late at night. If you just put the poison in the roof cavity, your pets will be fine. We put poison in the roof for the rats all the time and we've not had a problem with our dog at all. Traps in the roof would be a PITA because you would have to check and reset them everyday so someone would have to be prepared to be up there every day. You'd be best to get DH up there during the day to see if he can see any signs of daylight and block where they could be getting in. Mice only need a gap of 8mm to get into your house. You can get the traps like a box, where they can get in but they aren't killed so you can release them again. I set my old faithful traps behind the lounges in the loungeroom, or down behind the stove - depends on where they are hanging out as to where I put the traps. The kids have never worried about touching them and I have them far enough out of reach anyway so they can't get to them. We have even had poison in the house too - under the stove and fridge and again never had a problem with the kids, but if you have inside pets it wouldn't be a great idea.
Arte, I hope your trip away goes off without a hitch so you can keep your plans. I love the idea of it. I'm hoping to get to Floriade again this year on my own, possibly with just A. I love getting away and having a weekend to myself.
Suz, that's great that nighttimes are a bit better in your house now Makes a huge difference to how you feel at the end of the day too I reckon. Uni is easy to manage atm - I have 3 at school already so only A at home during the week so he's easy to work around. I'm hoping to go fulltime once he is at school too.
Oh, I brought one of those 'wee targets' today to put on the toilet bowl for A. I'm hoping that a bit of fun will increase his awareness of the whole TT caper. Not standing to wee was a big thing we had to deal with when L was TT, and he was 5.5 before he was confident enough to stand up to wee. He had an incident while he was trying to do it once and it really upset and embarrassed him, so he preferred to sit - safer that way LOL.
Arrrggghhh mice! There was one sitting out on my deck this afternoon! And the cat is VERY interested in the gap by the fridge, so I assume that we have some visitors inside. Last year we threw some bait behind the fridge and oven and it seemed to sort them out.
Trill, W has just discovered the art of peeing while standing up - he refused to go in the potty before DH took him on a bushwalk today because "I want to do it in the forest!" lol
Ginger, the boys sound very cute together!
MD, how are you?
Kid free time didn't last - Miss '20 minute naps are cool' didn't oblige. She is a terrible day sleeper, will usually do a 45 minute and two 20 minute naps in the day. But she has pulled off a couple of two hour naps in the past few weeks so I am hoping she will drop one in exchange for two longer ones. I live in hope....
It means so much.
Makes a huge difference to how you feel at the end of the day too I reckon. Uni is easy to manage atm - I have 3 at school already so only A at home during the week so he's easy to work around. I'm hoping to go fulltime once he is at school too.
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