Babies born~September 2007 #60

Trill, glad A got a spot at preschool, it was a bit iffy there for a bit wasn't it?

Cass, lol at the preg girl chick fight! My DH's favourite teacher, the guy that inspired him to learn guitar and is probably the reason that he became a chemist was outed a few years back for shagging one of his student - a 15 year old at that. DH was gutted!

This is the third night in a row that A has gone to bed at 10.30pm. I seriously drew the short straw with sleep problems. That girl just doesn't seem to need any! She has two naps during the day, usually 20-40 minutes each and then sleeps around 10-11 hours at night with half a dozen resettles. I am thinking of putting her in a big bed, I think I might have more luck getting her into bed at the start of the night - atm I feed her to sleep in the lounge and then she wakes when I try to put her in the cot = up for another 3-4 hours. Sooooo not having any more kids! Every time I start to think maybe we have yet another patch when one or the other or both just won't go to sleep! Good birth control lol

Quick Cass and Cally, check your email!!!

I'm practically fainting from hyperventilation here...efjay scored tickets BUT THERE IS NO EMAIL in my inbox! I rang my friend and nearly turned blue from not breathing while she switched on her computer and waited and waited while her dialup emails downloaded...nothing there either.

yeah nothing here either MD :cry: i am devastated. i could do an Oprah 'ugly' cry...in fact i might....

sherie: that is awesome that A got the spot! and i guess if another day does turn up you can be in with a chance to swap it over?

AFM: sick baby in da house. needless to say i am tiiiireedddd. had to give her her first paracetamol dosage today...boo hoo.

Hugs Cass...I'm holding out hope that they're doing it progressively so as not to swamp the server or something...?

Go to bed chickie, I hope the panadol does its work and you get a good nights sleep.

Trill - yay for getting A a place...it sounds like that end of the week will be really busy, maybe if you ask there may be a place on a different day closer to the time. Miss E can't start next year, because of not being able to start school until 2013.

Arte - you really are doing it tough with the sleeping :hug:.

Well it seems like teacher-student liaisons are pretty big..there was one at our school too, it all came out when the student got pregnant, can't remember what subject he taught, but it was a catholic school so I think there was a hasty wedding. I did end up meeting the student concerned about 3 or 4 years later, when she was a washed up single mother desperately trying to scrape her patchy education together and make a go of uni (not very well sadly). No one's a winner.

It will all work out fine with the preschool day, and he'll be another 6 months older by then too so it wont be a drama as such. Just have to make sure the first half of the week isn't busy.

Fingers crossed you get some tickets MD.

Arte, I hope putting her into a bed helps you out :hug:

Cass, how was M overnight? I hope it was just a passing thing, poor little mite.

Well we never had any big teacher scandals like that at our school. By the time I'd finished yr12 in '95 there hadn't even been a teen pg at school for 10 years. But then we were only a tiny Central School (K-12) so we just didn't have that type of exposure kwim? But in West Wyalong, the next town to us, there was a teen pg every year and there was a teacher that was sleeping with some of the students while his wife who also worked at the school was totally oblivious. The closest we came to scandal was when the teacher we had in yrs 11 and 12 for PE married one of the girls in my class when they'd hooked up about 18 months after we'd all left school. I still think it's weird mainly because they were polar opposites in the things they liked etc.

You old bag Trill, i finished in '95 too. ;)

Cass- Did you get any sleep?

MD- Bummer on the tickets, don't give up hope yet, people might not claim them and then they will do a second round offer.

Our dodgy biology teacher had an affair with the dux of the school who is now a GP. He was disgusting. She was obviously in need of a little lovin! :spew: It all came out the year after we finished.

See, we never even had any sleazy teachers. Most of them were all local anyway, and the only ones that came in as 'fresh meat' were pretty good. The PE teacher was good because he loved Pearl Jam and he was only first year out too, so not a lot older than us and he was good to get along with. One of the other ones was a science/woodwork teacher and he was pretty highly strung but still OK and the other one was married with a baby on the way and he was an absolute gentleman. He was one of those blokes that you could imagine taking off his coat and laying it across the mud for a woman to walk across so her dress didn't get muddy.

OH and how's DH's form - last night I boiled some eggs to mash for sandwiches for him and the kids today and I knew he'd made himself egg sandwiches because I got up to go to the loo when he was up getting ready for work and saw him making them, but when I get up to get the kids ready for school and go to get the egg out, there was no egg. They weren't anywhere in the fridge, so I looked in the beer fridge to see if he'd put it in there - not there either. So I rang him at work and asked him what he'd done with it because it was 6 eggs worth of mashed egg, so not a small amount LOL and he'd taken it with him! He'd had a total brain fart and just put the container in his crib-bag as well as his egg sandwiches and took it to work. Force of habit I suppose because it was a rock'n'serve tupperware container that I often put leftovers in for his lunch and he said he was a bit tired this morning and just wasn't thinking. So the kids had to take crappy old vegemite sandwiches LOL.

Trill and JM, you old farts!!! I started high school in 1995!

My school was rather scandel free too. We did have a biology and english teacher (both female) hook up, they were two of my favourite teachers and made a nice couple.

Trill, bummer about your DH stealing the eggs. My DH did that with a container of fudge - W was upset when I went to get him a promised piece and realised that DH had taken then entire container. Seriously, who takes 30 pieces of fudge to work?

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Trill and JM, you old farts!!! I started high school in 1995!

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Man, I finished in 93, feeling seriously old here guys!

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Seriously, who takes 30 pieces of fudge to work?

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My DH would so do that and totally on purpose!

My sister, niece and BIL are coming down next weekend - will be fun! Expected 29 degrees so we can spend lots of time playing at the beach.

Cass - hope M is feeling a bit better today and you got some sleep last night.

MD - my email didn't pop up until 1:36 am

hey girls!

currently devo'd over here as Oprah has rejected me. she doesnt know what she is missing lol.

MD: commiserations babe xx

i *think* Isadora is the baby of our group?? i graduated from highschool in 2000. and i think Isa was the year or maybe two after me??? i'm the baby in our IRL MG too, which sometimes makes it feel weird as they all have quite 'big people' careers and the big paychecks that go with it lol. i'm just jealous cause my good friend from MG has a bang and olufsen TV. but i could never pay $20,000 for a tv lol.

Cally: ohhh that weather sounds delicious! i'm coming too :lol:

Arte: 30 pieces :o that is insane lol.

$20k for a TV!!!! I am speechless! And that brand must be way too out of our range because I haven't even heard of it lol

Cally, weren't you a year behind MP?

Started in 95!!! Geees Arte, way to make me feel old :p

20k for a TV????:o I don't think I'd pay that even if I could afford it! That's crazy.

i know ha ha! DH and i were walking down collins st. here in melb and i saw the TV that my friend had and i was like "oh that is a cool tv (well you know as far as tvs go), so DH is like "let's have a look" so we walk in totally naive like and start browsing around. the chick comes up to ask if we need help and DH casually asks how much for the TV, she said they start at $20k, but they also have a floor model that they could do for $15k for us if we bought it that day bahahahahahaha! yeah, as if lol.

Stop whining ya bunch of springies!!!

I graduated in 1988 - and NO I do not use "anti-ageing" creams (they contain estriols :o) NOR do I need to. OK???

Jayz, Cass, I'm not even sure I'll spend that much on our next car?!!

ETA - re the eggs and fudge...DD1 once took a whole container of chocolate covered strawberries to school...thought she'd hit the jackpot when she opened her lunchbox that day :rofl:

1988, ok you win MD. :p

trill- taking the egg mix to work made me laugh, it sounds like something i would do. totally not thinking

sorry you girls didn't get your oprah tix :(

i think i was class of 94 so i'm an old bag too.

md- what are esdriols? i use anti wrinkle eye cream but now you have me worried

leo is a lunatic and is completely besotted with lewis. follows him everywhere. cutest thing ever.

Ginger, that is cute about Leo and Lewis

I am guessing that Esdriols are some sort of estrogen derivative? MD, are you more careful with BPA products now? It is an estrogen analogue and is in sooo many things it is scary. DH went to a conference about it held by the guy that was in charge of the epidemiology of the mad cow disease in Britian. Aside from the plastic that is in the public eye, it is inside most cans of food (as a plastic liner), fiberglass, make-up... the list goes on. In the last couple of generations the average penis size has been getting smaller and male fertility rates are down - 'they' are attributing it to the over exposure of males to all the BPA - basically they are living in an environment that is showering them in estrogen. Also the the skyrocketing rates of hormone driven cancers. Fly spray also has something really nasty in it but I can't remember what.

LOL MD, your DD must have thought she had the best mum in the world to get chocolate strawberries for lunch!

Yes, it is undisclosed inclusion of estrogens or estrogen-like substances. Which is a bit of a worry if you've had hormone-sensitive cancer or if you're at risk of it.

Arte, I'm trying to reduce exposure across the board, using glass or stainless steel where possible instead of plastic. I don't use a lot of cosmetics or makeup at the best of times, but I'm switching over where possible to low-chemical varieties. I can't help the food can linings (esp for staples like tomatoes etc) but I guess there is value in choosing more fresh produce generally and less processed items, without getting crazy strict where it hampers your lifestyle in other ways. It has to be do-able, kwim?