Trill - i'm so sorry for your loss. Praying for strength for you while you help your Mum through this dificult time.
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Trill - i'm so sorry for your loss. Praying for strength for you while you help your Mum through this dificult time.
Quick post while both boys are asleep and I'm having a cup of tea *pinches self to make sure she's not dreaming*
Our play date with our Mother's Group was this morning. One of those kiddy places with the ball pits. C had a great time and only got a little testy when some older boys started getting rough in the ball pit. I hauled him out for a pre-emptive calm down/time out, just as the baby chinos arrived. He played for a while longer then started to look tired so we had a sandwich and left. Straight to bed when we got home with minimal fuss. This time it was one of the boys C bit last week that was the biter, biting one of the girls. All the extra sleep definitely helped.
MP - I'm not game to even go into Country Road, let alone try anything on! Well done N! Letters are slowly getting an interest here. Hope the cold passes without any of you getting too sick.
Ozstar - Thanks for the tip. Before next outing we'll have a chat about biting. The sleep is making a difference.
Noni - C did the same when we started solids, stopped gaining weight (but didn't lose any). He was also really active so the nurses told me not to worry about it. With all the stress you've had it would be good for you to get out with W, how about story time at your local library, or a play group?
Arte - I love W's question, so cute. You have a real little thinker there.
Cass - Go the extra big stickers for poos, anything to keep L interested :D
Hi to everyone else :hello: Hope you're all having a great day.
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.
ETA Suz, yay for no biting!
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 :hug: 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 ;)
Hi girls!
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 :o
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.
tell me more about the 'wee target' trill. is it called wee man?
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....
ah Sherie you're a champ! that info is great! my main concern with poison is the kats. they tend to hang out on the neighbours roof which is lower than ours but connected and i am concerned that that might be how they are catching the mousies (ie through tiny holes as they come and go iykwim).
i so dont want traps with live mice! i want the snappy snap ones lol. nice and quick. i *think* i will force DH into the back roof (they are above the toilet and i'm guessing in the space above the kitchen). hopefully we'll stamp out too much of a mouse house overtake. cannae stand having to hide my food.
Arte: Leila is a fan of standing up to wee...a *slight* quirk of all her best friends being boys LOL! bit annoying though as it means i have to take all her pants shoes etc off for her to wee under a tree.
Hi Beautiful Ladies!
Big BIG enormously HUGE congrats to all of you who have had more bubba's!!! Scarlet is still an only child and ATM staying that way ~ DP and i have just moved to a little country town to be closer to my family as he's off to the mines in W.A soon - 13 days on, 9 days off. I am going to be SO freaking lonely! It's a bit overwhelming but i'm sure it'll be fine. I'm studying Youth work and community service, I've joined every club and class i can think of so far to distract myself ~ I'm even an AVON lady.. or most recently "The AVON Chick", LOL
Hi to everyone i haven't met yet :)
Scarlet is doing very well, We're fully toilet trained & can count to 10 (bar the number 4 which she doesn't like at all & is replaced with an extra 3!...1..2..3..3..5...6.7..8..9..10 *insert massive amounts of cheering and clapping*)..
Tantrums are pretty wild right now but we're working on it!
Can't wait to catch up and hear how all your littlies are Xo
hey everyone..
lp - good to see you on, well done with the tt and counting =)
cassius - lol thats cute that she wants to stand up i thought we would get the same thing with Asha when she saw daddy but not yet..
oz - Asha still goes to daycare 2 days a week thankfully =)
mp - no havnt looked into the councelling side of things yet, i just dont feel ready, but i do think its something we may need down the track..
ended up going to an indoor playland the other day with my bil sil and niece as well as the two kids.. Asha had the best time, William was quite entertained too but i couldnt believe some of the things Asha was doing lol.. she wanted to play with the bigger kids so she was in on the big equipment, must admit i got a bit nervous when i saw her so high up, even tho its all netted in so u cant fall lol... we are going to have her birthday party there, its quite reasonably priced for everything they include and its something different since hers and Williams parties are only a month and a half apart..
anyways i best be off and hang my washing, hope everyones having a great weekend =)
Welcome back LP! Long time no see! That sounds like a hard shift that your DH is on.
Noni, glad you all had a good time at the playcentre.
We had a William day today - went down to the 'city' and took him to the park, then DH took him to the movies to see How to train your dragon and to another park to drive a kids electric jeep. He had a great time. The movie went well, he stayed until 5 minutes from the end when he had to go to the toilet and it wasn't worth going back in. Back at home he was running around being a dragon and breathing fire lol
Hi everyone,
just a quickie from the Jazah - i read a thread written by Michelle71, and i've been crying and feel so sad for her and her littlies. :( will go and give my dh a big squeeze and watch some tv with him.
lp - sooooo excited to see you back!! I've been wondering how you've been. (was it you who was doing some artwork?)
Hope to catch up tomorrow - H hasn't been having her day sleeps for the past week :o , but hopefully gymnastics in the morning will tire her out ;)
have a good sleep everyone
Ahh, caught up after 10 days off!!
Trill - sorry to hear about J. Congratulations on the uni score and your very well behaved kids.
Cass - yay, more pink!! And awesome news on the braces, I still remember eating my first vegemite sandwich after getting my braces off, I felt like my teeth were razor sharp the way they cut through the bread!
Arte - sorry, not much help here on inside activities. The things that keep DD the busiest are dealing with her dolls. Putting them to bed, changing their nappies, reading them stories. She is also really into packing her bags and going off on trips at the moment (ie swimming, shopping, work).
LP - welcome back, missed you!
Suz - welcome, nice to have another Canberran in the thread after all the others abandoned me (MP, MD, Cass....) Glad there were no more biting incidents, we had one on Friday night, can still see the mark on my arm....
Noni - good to have you back, was wondering how things were going with you. Are you moving somewhere with some better public transport for you??
Well DD has headed off to childcare today in her undies. We haven't been brave enough to take her out and about in them yet, maybe on the weekend. Only one accident at home, she seems to really like wearing them now. On the weekend, we progressed to the toilet instead of the potty which makes it a bit easier (for us!). There does seem to be a lot of frequency to it though - I thought I went to the toilet a lot but she can go 4 or more times in between my visits!!
Dh and I had a wonderful 4 days in Hobart. The first morning we slept in until 8:30!!! (Helped by the last two mornings being 5am starts and a late night for mum's surprise 60th - which was very successful). We both ate far too much and the scales were groaning when we hopped on! So nice to be able to get out and about without having to pack bags of snacks and entertainment too!! Was very good to get back home and see DD, I don't think she missed us at all, far too busy with her cousin and going on picnics, to the pool - my dad even took her to the zoo all by himself and when they got home she climbed onto his lap and said 'cuddle for Pa'. He was so proud, must have told us the story 10 times!!
Well better get back and do some more work - must have had a good break from work, I looked at my desk and thought someone had been messing with all my stuff until I remembered I spent two hours on my last day tidying up!
Hi girls!
Sherie: just wondering how you are holding up and to let you know that i am thinking of you xx
Cally: oh wow! that trip sounds like a lot of fun! i am sooo ready for a bit of kidlet free time to wake up in my own time LOL!
we have been sending DD off to kindy as well with undies. she loves it! but the last two times she has had accidents..bummer! hopefully she'll get back on track...:pray:
Arte: that is so cool that W sat through the film! i am really wanting to take leila to see a movie, but not sure if she will be able to sit still long enough lol! how did W go with actually seeing the movie (i'm thinking of the chair height etc)?
Noni: i have taken L to a playcentre thingy once too and almost pooped my pants watching her go on the 'big kids' part LOL! it really tuckerst 'em out though doesnt it? L loves it.
LP: oh wow! that is alot of activities LOL! it's a great way to meet people though...it's a great idea to build up community networks if DH is going to be away. when my DH commuted weekly to wollongong from melbourne i really loved having people i could just 'pop in' on and visit or organise things to do with IYKWIM. helps make the time go faster til DH arrives home!
AFM: all good here. have been working massive today and now am totally flaked. nothing like a deadline to make you dance lol.
DH and i are thinking of getting a double pram...what do you guys reckon? we would be going 2nd hand as we still have the bug and it will have a toddler board, but i am thinking for long daytrips, shopping centres etc...or will DD be ok considering she will be 3??? argghhhh! dont know what to do!!