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wow arte- that's great to hear. i'm a little worried about how L will react when i go to leave him next year. everytime i drive past the kinder he points and says he wants to go there to play with the boys so i hope that's a good sign! LOL
trill- when do you start your first lot of teaching rounds?
i forgot to tell you all that J has self-weaned. it's been nearly 2 weeks now. so after 3 years i am no longer a breastfeeding mumma!
I bet you have mixed feelings about it G :hug:
I do my first prac in Semester 2 next year, so anytime between August and October. I'm planning on doing it in August though.
oh wow! how exciting!!! and A will be a whole lot older by then too which will be good. i found rounds to be soooo tiring! i was exhausted every night.
feeling ok about the bfing, the time was right- we were both ready iykwim? i'm just glad he did it himself and i didn't have to go through a super hard weaning process that some of my friends have gone through. bit worried that i might gain some weight too cos i'm still crazy hungry but not using up the calories anymore.
guys L is still not pooing on the toilet. any tips for me?
G, no tips for toilet poo apart from bribery but I am sure you have already tried that. Does he have a potty or the big toilet? OMG I can't wait for A to wean, I am sooo looking forward to it!
This morning W came into the bathroom when I was in the shower and told me that A was chewing on a money but she was alright because he got it out of her mouth for her - apparently all my nagging about not letting her have coins has paid off - WTG William!
G you have done an awesome job BF. I wish I had poo tips for you, my L still wont poo on the toilet either.
Arte thats great that you didn't have any trouble with W at kindy.
Trill do you have a particular grade you would like to teach? Sorry if thats a silly question.
Cass sounds like things have been a little rough. Hopefully she gets through this wonder week and starts to settle.
Bust day here, my baby girl is the big one!! She has a cold though so has been a little miserable. She now owns more jewelery then I do lol. Well I can hear tears in the toy room so best be off.
Hiya ladies.
congratulations/commisserations G on weaning J...I'm glad it happened easily & when the time was right for both of you :hug:.
Arte, awesome tip about the waterslide LOL. That's fantastic to hear about Kindy. My tip, work up slowly to the longer stays.
Trill, that's amazing that your prac is coming up, how time is flying!
Happy birthday to Zoe - far out I can't believe she is ONE already! Hope her cold clears up quickly.
Well I've had the first time by myself in weeks and weeks and I feel nearly normal again. Not that I pampered myself...spent a lot of time on phone to Centrelink, sorting paperwork, doing paperwork etc, not the chillaxiest day ever LOL. Happy to say that after 2 visits E is much more settled at the FDC lady than she was at the CC centre. She is still making a fuss (and is happy to tell me allllll about it LOL), but she's happier generally.
I'm glad that E is more settled now. It must make you feel a whole lot better as well :hug:
Far out Oz! That year has gone super quick! Happy Birthday to Zoe!
G, Bribery LOL. If that hasn't been working, ply him with loads of food and drink that will make him poo and then watch for the signs that he's about to do one. Or even just pop him on the loo and ask him if he can try to squeeze one out ROFL - gross I know but it might work.
I am excited by getting to do prac next year, but ****ting myself at the same time LOL. I will be fine, but it will make it all real that this is what I'm going to do kwim?
Hi everyone
Just popping in to say hi. I've been a slack baby buddy, but finding time to scratch myself is a bit tricky at the moment. (thankfully i don't have too many itches lol)
Hope you're all happy and healthy. I hope to catch up one day soon. Miss you guys :(
md- glad to hear that E is happier at FDC. yah!!!! i think you need a true pamper day ie. pedicure day! no c'link involved LOL
trill- i'm sure you'll love your prac and be even more convinced that you've chosen the right path. i remember getting so attached to some of the kids and thinking 'i can't wait till i have my OWN class' iykwim?
i forgot to tell you all that as part of the festival of L's birthday that never seems to end, we went to the melb museum the other day and all i can say is 'wow'!!! what a fantastic day out! they actually have a dinosaur exhibition on at the moment so L absolutely loved it. melb girls you have to get along to see it!
We miss you too Patoots!
Trill, I'm sure the prac will only confirm what you already know and can feel in your bones, this is sooooo RIGHT for you! You are hitting your stride, babe!
Me on the other hand - prac confirmed the bleeding obvious - I was never and should never have contemplated teaching carpet rats. Adults, on the other hand...well that's why I *love* being in library - so much of it is about sharing knowledge and imparting valuable skills so that people are empowered to help themselves. Well in my library it is, anyway LOL.
ETA - speaking of which, episode one of series 3 of The LIbrarians was on last night. That show is freakin hilarious!
I need to catch up on iView tonight - we had rain last night and ****ty weather always makes the ABC go fuzzy, so I couldn't watch it. I love it too.
Hey Jaz, how is the home business coming along? I see it's keeping you super busy.
hi girls!!
MD: i know! i was laughing sooo hard last night. love that show. i used to go to a baby rhyme time with the chick who plays 'dawn'. i had to stop myself from staring at her lol!
G: no real poo tips from us either...just that we harped on about how awesome it is to do poos on the toilet and we would discuss at length all the kids we knew that did poos on toilets ha ha ha! eventually she just went one day and we made a big song and dance and brought the Extra Special stickers...
J man has weaned! wow! i agree that it seems sooo much better when they wean themselves in a timely fashion lol. leila did the same...although her parting 'punch' of my boob that morning was a bit rough lol.
Oz: happy birthday to miss z!!! all these babies are growing so fast!!
Patoots: great to hear from you! i LOVE LOVE LOVE your stuff!! i drool over it whenever i am on FB lol.
Sherie: ooohh aahhh! how exciting about the teaching prac! i remember that one of mum's friends did her prac in my class when i was a kid, it was pretty cool.
AFM: more mastitis. ahh well! on stronger ABs now and hopefully getting into the RWH breastfeeding clinic in the coming days. we had a lovely day yesterday visiting friends, leila and her son (who is the same age) were playing 'house' and they had a baby...this baby has a trachea doovalacky thingy (this is the family with the special needs baby) on and apparently they were pretending to suction their baby the same way that my friend does with her baby lol. they dont miss a beat these kids! Leila also helped herself to their bathtub as we dont have one at home (:(), so she was living it up in a big bubble bath. she was soo tuckered out that we were only allowed to read short stories as she told us she was sooo tired lol.
cass- sorry to hear about the mastitis. it is the worst isn't it? i had it 5 times with J..have to say that is one thing that i'm glad i'll never get again.
another poo in the spiderman undies this morning......
poor spiderman lol!
yeah the mastitis is *interesting*. this is the second bout in as many weeks....BUT the good news is that i have a spot at the BF clinic at the RWH. a whole day with the LC should make me feel that we are doing the best we can...i have suspicions that this is an attachment issue as Marta is a hard and fast feeder and tuckers herself out quickly and gets a bit lazy on the old boob.
We were pulled up yesterday at kindy as they are a bit worried about Ls emotional outbursts...she had 3 massive ones yesterday (very unlike her!). but they reckon it is new baby stuff (they see it all the time) but they thought i should just know and keep tabs on it with them...now i am paranoid!! she has been quick to meltdown lately, but i figured it was an age thing...but mebbe not...like this morning she cracked it big time when her umbrella was left in the house as opposed to coming in the car with her :dunno:
hmmmmm, will have to rip out the robin barker tomes and see what she reckons lol!
Cass, it is more than likely just adjustment stuff, but it could be her personality too. E was exactly the same - she is a very emotional girl and has a very very short fuse. And A has moments when things have to be *just so* and will let you know if you get it wrong LOL. Fingers crossed the day stay works for you too!
G, we have had poo in the Spidermans too LOL. Thankfully not many though because its gross. It's funny when he has done it because it makes him gag as I'm taking them off and I say to him 'well how do you think I feel?' ROFL.
Cass - we don't have a new baby but can also have meltdowns for minor things (like if I wear my winter dressing gown instead of the summer one like this morning) or if we can't find a particular pair of pink leggings (even though we have another pair EXACTLY the same)
girls i think i may have really upset him when he did a poo in the spidermans cos now he is completely refusing to wear undies at all. he is screaming at me everytime i pull undies out of the drawer and going and getting nappies. it's like we're going completely backwards here. it's really upsetting me cos i want him TTd before he starts kinder in feb :(
Ginger, maybe go back to nappies for a bit and start again? He will probably not want to wee in the nappies anyway....I don't know. It is a hard call. Feb is still a long time away, I am sure that he will get the hang of it before then :hugs:
Clare, lots of meltdowns about minor things here too. I notice with W that if he is worried about something else then it is likely to manifest as a meltdown about something trivial later - I have been asking him if he is actually upset about the sandwich filling etc or if there is something else he is upset about and often there is. I know W was much younger when A came along, but after a few weeks when DH went back to work and we started our new normal he had a terrible patch (read months) of tantrums. Ahhhh the memories lol.
Trill, I am sure you have said but what sort of teacher are you going to be? Early childhood, primary, high school?
Kindy again today. I left for half an hour again. Apparently he sooked for the first 10 minutes and then was fine so next week we are going to try leaving for longer - I think after he is over the initial 'mum is gone' then it doesn't matter how long I am away for. And in the morning the kids all sit on the mat and sing the national anthem and do some of the haka actions - OMG it is adorable! Love it!