Cally: yeah, but that's the prob with the bug. it is a bassinette for the first 5-6 months...so if i wanted to use it for bubba then DD couldn't at all IYKWIM and vice versa.
although i do have an umbrella stroller that i bought in italy that could do the trick!! hmmmm you are onto something babe!
Cally your trip away sounds wonderful! Well done on the TTing progression, we seem to have stalled, DD doesn't want to go back to nappies and still asks to go to the toilet sometimes but there has also been toilet refusal and some accidents. Can't go backwards but not going forwards either LOL.
LP - so good to see you back here again - I think the mystery members are mostly ppl who were here before but there have been a few name changes, I'm sure you'll work it out if you hang around a bit more .
Noni, we "found" our local playland recently, and spent a lovely morning there last week. Lucky for me i have DD1 to chaperone Missy E on the big kid's equipment (I sure can't climb in there to rescue her LOL) but often the bigger girls are happy to help the little cutes just because they're cute.
Trill - You're probably not reading this but I've been keeping you and your family in my thoughts. xxx
Arte - wow on the cinema excursion, sounds like the boys will have to get out together a little more often.
Jazah - I too feel so sad for Michelle, it's just the most unthinkable thing isn't it?
AFM - well we've had an exciting weekend contemplating decorating possibilities, starting with Missy E's room - it's time for some colour! Fuelled by a trip to ikea for a big girl's bed, first we need to get the glue off the ceiling (long story) and give it a coat of texture paint, then we can do the walls. I've got the sample pots... PINK and my inner feminist isn't even cringing . We had (another) enormous clean out and rearrange of DD1s bedroom, so much more space and she's got like a chillout space with a lounge in there now...I woulda loved a room like that at her age!
MD: ooohhh i am so jealous of the room makeovers. we sooo need to go out and get DD a big girl bed, and i too am hoping to whip out the pink for around her fireplace. the room needs a lift of some sort, so am thinking colour.
MD we are thinking DD's room needs some colour. I am in the middle of some home made deco's. I keep meaning to ask you are your BB's all healed from the op now?
Cass I wore DD for a while and had L in the umbrella stroller. We bought the Strider Plus and while a little exxy I absolutely love it.
Jazah I had a cry while reading that thread too, so sad.
LP so good to hear from you!!
Cally sounds like you had a wonderful trip and I am insanely jealous of your 8.30 sleep in lol.
Arte I cant believe W watched almost all the movie. It sounds like he had a very nice day.
Noni L loves the play centre too, we should probably go more often.
AFM not much happening here. Our backyard is being landscaped this week so we are stuck inside. L seems to have picked up "Go away" and is using it when he is angry or doesn't want to do something, its very frustrating. Its morning tea time and L is standing next to me with his bowl and puppy dog eyes lol.
Thanks for asking Oz, yes new BB is healed - still get the occasional shooting pain but I think that's nerves sorta reconnecting, scars are starting to fade a bit. The BB has dropped and looks more like the other one, in fact if it keeps dropping my lovely surgeon will hafta give it a lift LOL. Still too swollen under the arm to try to wear a normal bra just yet though. Psychologically, I'm starting to get past it, I can *sometimes* take a shower etc without even thinking about it, but mostly I still stare in the mirror a lot. My back is a bit of a mess, I have a nasty rash near the surgical site, bit ouchy, and there's a lot of fluid build up behind my shoulder, so I've had to start doing lymphodema massage so I dont' end up with an elephant lady arm. I guess it will all eventually just seem part of the 'normal' way my body feels but lots of weird senstations still.
Oz: ooohh landscaping sounds fun!! we are needing to put some hardwearing lawn in. we were thinking of going the fake grass route, but the space is too big and i *think* it could look less than nice. friends have it for their small courtyardy garden, but ours is a bit too big...so real grass all the way.
what are you guys doing?! let me live vicariously!
the strider looks awesome, but we tried it out and because DH and i are both shorties we look a tad silly having to peer over the top LOL!...gosh we are embarrasingly short lol.
MD: will you have to use a pressure thingy for the fluid? (i'm just remembering a mate of mine who had it for the legs when she was post op...).
AFM: we are pretty fine and dandy. had the midwife over and Leila was 'helping' with the stethascope and doppler. she totally gets this serious 'big girl' face on...so funny. now she has decided that she is a midwife LOL! even got the pen and paper out to write down my details lol.
Yay for landscaping ... I've got our new "landscaped" garden fully planned out but we're more than just a bit tight financially at the moment so it's either going to happen frustratingly in little itty bitty stages or not at all...I would love men in trucks to come and do it all for us LOL not going to happen any time soon. There's a place around the corner where they've been doing their front yard for the last 2 months - every weekend something else happens, and it's getting to the looking-awesome stage, so it can be done. The fake grass is a great concept Cass but we asked one of our neighbours who had a little itty bit done and it cost him a fortune. We see him out there every coupla weeks vaccuuming it with his blower-vac
Cass, hopefully will get all the new lymph channels going with the self massage etc, but i will probably need a sleeve & glove fitted for plane flights. TBH it was such a massive thing to have done I think my body is still recovering...a few more months and it will have gone back to more of a state of equilibrium I think.
Our backyard isn't level and we want to get a tramp for L. Originally the plan was for my dad and uncle to come and help DH do it but its just to big of a job so we bit the bullet and are paying the professionals. We are also having BIL build us a huge deck in the next couple of months. Its all very exciting and very expensive lol.
oz: hmmmm mebbe i should check it out again...i'm so used to the height etc of the bug that i guess it just feels weird to push something different around...baby bunting here i come!
MD: so true. i keep forgetting that this whole surgery thang was only a short while ago. all i can say from my brief liquidising lymphnode experience was that those buggers are amazing things and can do ALOT of healing, so i guess, like you said, it is just a matter of time
yeah when found out how much fake lawn actually costs i had a conniption. couldnt believe it. oh, and apparently you are not allowed to call it 'astroturf' anymore...it's 'synthetic grass'. ppl get tetchy about it...i was told to make the faux par at the shops...
hey everyone,
plodding along here, seems like we are finally recovering from the sickness, William still has a cough but the dr says he will prob have that for weeks poor little man.. Hes starting to pull himself up on to his knees now so the fun begins lol he pulled himself up on the back of a ride on toy that Asha was on and pulled her hair!! she was not impressed haha! Hes doing better with food at a bbq i gave him a corn cob to chew on and he really liked it and did well with that as well as hes up to eating pretty much a whole tin of those heinz custards at lunch time..
Asha is a real challenge atm, yesterday she tipped out half a pack of laundry powder, smashed a toothbrush holder in the bathroom, climbed into the cot with William at nap time and tipped out his whole bottle grrr i could go on and on lol, as well as that shes still not sleeping through, she wakes up crying and even once she comes in with us it takes a while for her to settle...
Am very jelous of all this make over and decorating stuff!! cant wait till we have our own place lol one day!!
cassius - how cute leila wants to be a midwife =)
cally - yeh hoping to move somewhere with better public transport and closer to shops and parks etc too..
md - glad your starting to heal and recover xxx Asha wasnt worried at all in the big kids part of the playland lol just me but yeh the bigger girls especially are happy to help out most the boys are too busy running around like a tornado from what ive seen haha!!
Hello everyone! All the renovations/decorating/landscaping sounds fabulous! Both the boys have gorgeous rooms at our place but I am in the zone of decorating our room and also adding some nice touches to their rooms. Noah has the nicest room in the house… Jacob’s is perfect for a bub but wonder how he will like having a smaller room next to ours later on down the track. It’s a nice room but Noah’s is HUGE and overlooks the back yard. Lucky duck! LP – good to see you. Been ages. How are your nieces getting along? All is well here – frantic as always. On the upside I am looking to get a nanny/housekeeper a couple of afternoons a week – she can do house stuff and then pick the boys up… will mean shorter days for them at kindy and less stress for us. I guess I will need it over the yrs too when they are at school… it feels weird that I can have that (ie I thought that was for older ppl LOL) til I realise I am that person now. A woman, in a full on job with 2 kids. Ummm how did that happen??? N is having a sleep over at my mums this weekend… just for a night. It wont exactly be a rest for us as we have J but I think it will be good for them both! I am also keen to give J some more 2 on 1 time with us so that will give him that opp. I find N really dominates when he is around. J had a terrible night last night – up for about 3-4 hours… he is off to the dr in an hour, sounded like a sore throat. He has no teeth yet so I think he may be getting some too. I started J at gymbaroo on Monday and he loved it! He is still not crawling and is prob a while off but he rolls around a lot more than N did I think. His solids are going wel – finger foods only the little monkey so try9ing to work out what I give him so he gets some volume of food. My stewed pears with vanilla are a winner. As are salmon steaks and tajines!!! Funny boy! I also made amazing meatballs the last 2 weeks (once w bbq sauce and once w tomato) and he loved them. N on the other hand is so distracted it is hard to get much into him… Cally – your days in HBT sound amazing. So funny 8.30am is a sleep in! I hear you on not packing a bag of snacks/nappies etc…. I laugh every time I look in my handbag at work – full of crackers, nappies,wipes etc. glamour!
Noni, DH and I have been married for 18 years and have only lived in our own house for 5 of those years (4 of which we were totally broke LOL) so I well and truly hear you on being jealous of the decorating stuff. You can achieve a lot with your soft furnishings, rugs, lamps (to create mood) and Jeepers I wish someone had told me about the removable picture hooks 20 years ago!!! I'm also loving the new generation of wall stickers (that actually peel off - because they never used to) so needless to say Missy E will have a much nicer bedroom than DD1 did at that age. Not that DD1 remembers!
Glad that you're making progress with the solids, if he enjoyed the corn perhaps concentrate a bit more on giving him fingerfoods ala BLS when he first gets up and full of energy, kwim?
MP perhaps the boys will prefer to share a room when they're a bit older, I reckon they will be best buddies, it's fun to have bunk beds or whatever with your sibling - just so long as they each have their own designated space within the room it can work quite well. I'm totally in love with the idea of having a nanny-housekeeper, if you're able to I think you should give it a try. You will know it's working when you're less stressed and enjoying your time at home more than when you're dashing about to get stuff done, kwim?
Cass - I'm LOLing at your astroturf faux pas. Terribly funny that people are so precious about it.
Mp - nanny/housekeeper sounds great. Getting a cleaner to come round to our place has made such a difference to DH and I and made the working fulltime thing a lot easier to manage. Although the tidy up the night before is a bit painful sometimes - always seem to coincide with parent teacher nights at DH's school!
Clare - could you astroturf () a small bit and turn the rest into gardens?
Md - our backyard has happned bit by bit and it is a bit frustrating. One more thing to do (modify the garden edging near my beautiful new keep Miss K in the backyard fence) and then we are all finished except for more plants. DH has been there for almost 7 years. The plan for the next place is to do it at the beginning, but seeing as DH has some pretty wild plans for the house I think the landscaping may have to wait a little bit there too.
Cally, your holiday sounds fantastic! I didn't realise it was kid-free, that would have been relaxing! Are you moving?
MP, the nanny/housekeeper sounds like a good idea, it will take a bit of the load off you and your DH. You do well to manage with your busy job and the boys. I also find there isn't much time for just A, but she seems to compensate on her own - she often stays up for an hour or so after W has gone to bed to play with DH and I.
MD, I was thinking of painting A's room pink, but I can't go through with it! I just can't! So eventually when I get around to doing it I think we will go with a neutral room colour and girl it up with some wall stickers etc.
Noni, glad that W is starting to eat for you. Must be tough with A getting into everything. W isn't too bad for that, he did pull over a chair and break into the cupboard the other day to look for goodies but found the vitamins first so I caught him sneaking one of them lol
Oz, your new deck/yard sounds exciting! Is that the same BIL that had the accident? Is he o.k now?
Clare, my kids have both hated the pram. W barely sits in it and I end up with a walking kid pushing an empty pram so when A came along I didn't bother getting a good double. I got an el-cheapo second (or forth) hand one for $60 for walking to the shop and when we are in the city I sling A and W walks. A will only last a few minutes in a pram so I am finding clothes shopping impossible. I was wondering for ages what you meant about W being able to see the movie - the seats are terraced so everyone can see and then I realised you probably meant people in front. LOL, that just isn't an issue in small towns.
He is doing really well with TT, hasn't had a nappy on for a month now. He has gone as long as a week with no accidents, he was getting lazy for a bit and I forced a nappy back on him which seems to have cured that lol He is very keen to stand up to pee now so I am trying to get him to use the real toilet rather than the potty for that.
In hindsight the dragon movie may have been a bit scary. He had slept though every night for a week until he saw it and since then he has woken every night. And the other day he came running out of the bathroom like a bat out of hell and shut the door behind him and looked at me with a very serious expression and said "There are dragons in there" lol
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You're probably not reading this but I've been keeping you and your family in my thoughts. xxx
. We had (another) enormous clean out and rearrange of DD1s bedroom, so much more space and she's got like a chillout space with a lounge in there now...I woulda loved a room like that at her age!
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mebbe i should check it out again...i'm so used to the height etc of the bug that i guess it just feels weird to push something different around...baby bunting here i come!
) a small bit and turn the rest into gardens?
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