MD, I think I am about right with the assignment - I got 65% in the last one but luckily we had the chance to replace it with a (multichoice!!) quiz and I got a really good mark so went with that. I am expecting a low pass for this one. But never mind, I will still pass the course, just not a top grade. Do you really think A is cute? Sometimes I think she is a bit funny looking, but I can see a lot of me in her and it makes it hard to tell.
Trill, I forgot to say Yay for nighttime undies! W is still a bit hit and miss overnight so I leave him in pull-ups unless he specifically asks for undies. And cool that you have heaps of hay, sounds like you have had a good spring so far.
Cass, M is sleeping better than A!! Far out, she is still waking 4-6 times at night. W also BFs dolls lol, he did it at music one day and had no idea that all the other mums were watching him.
We went to a trip to Wanganui today to have lunch (McD's as usual ) and then the swimming pool. W loves the hydro-slide and I had a turn today for the first time and then we took A down as well and she thought it was fantastic.
Trill - well done on A getting through the night with jocks on. We are so far away from that - she is wet at midnight when she comes in to visit us. You should have mentioned the whales earlier and come to visit us - they were hanging around here for about a month, only 10m off the rocks. I got a bit over them by the end of their visit!
Re gender playing - K seems to know who is a girl and who is a boy. She definitely leans towards the girly playing, lots of putting babies to bed and feeding them. With her train set, the trains seem to pick children up from school and then take them to swimming lessons. Still completely lego obsessed though. The money we save on halfprice childcare in the holidays seems to be spent fairly easily by DH supporting their common obsession.
Well we are back in the swing of things here. Had a lovely week off last week, got a heap of bargains up in Canberra, K got to have cuddles with a 4mth old baby which she just loved and I got to spend some time in the garden. K has planted some capsicums and some petunias that she is going to look after. The capsicums will be interesting, I put a heap of compost in the hole with them, but our soil is still pretty bad so they may do nothing at all.
hi girls
ended up going to the zoo yesterday and the boys had an absolute ball. they are so tired today from it! L has not stopped talking about the baby elephant, he loved it so much.
had to go and buy a new toy box this morning to cope with the toy overload we now seem to have here! dh is looking forward to doing a cull tonight LOL
bbl to talk more, just onto my 5th load of washing for the day
oh quick question for everyone- if you had the choice of kinder days (need to pick 2 days) out of monday, wed and fri what would you choose?
bbl for more catch up! xoxoxo
G, I'd pick Wed and Fri without a doubt. Not that there is many, but if you ever have a long weekend the holiday is always on the Monday, so they miss out on that day and you pay for it regardless ROFL. I also think that hving the mid-week is better too because if you are the type to have a busy weekend, you don't want an overtired kid to start the weekend and you don't want an overtired kid to go to Kinder. We had E in Monday preschool as a 3yo and it wasn't too bad, but when it was P's turn, she did Fridays and it worked out so much better. A will be doing Friday too.
thanks for your input ladies- i was thinking exactly the same thing- i definitely want the wednesday but i was unsure about whether to choose mon or fri.
seems like it's wed and fri then!!!!
eta- tried to give you both rep points but it seems i have to spread the love!!! must be loving you two too much LOL
yeah i'd go the wednesday and friday. mondays suck cause they are usually done over with public hols and staff development days...
not much to report here other than HORROR day at the inn. thankfully Leila was at kindy today as poor Marta just went beserko the WHOLE day. she is finally asleep after struggling and being one unhappy munchkin since 10.30am. have noooooo idea what was going on with her today. i am putting it down to 'one of those freaky newborn moments' lol. DH is soooooo getting the snip after today
yeah i'd go the wednesday and friday. mondays suck cause they are usually done over with public hols and staff development days...
not much to report here other than HORROR day at the inn. thankfully Leila was at kindy today as poor Marta just went beserko the WHOLE day. she is finally asleep after struggling and being one unhappy munchkin since 10.30am. have noooooo idea what was going on with her today. i am putting it down to 'one of those freaky newborn moments' lol. DH is soooooo getting the snip after today
Clare, that sounds rough! I am very fortunate I think to have never had to deal with random crying for no reason. My kids were both charming newborns, I didn't have problems until the sleep went out the window after the 12 week growth spurt lol. Have you considered the usual suspects for BF - cabbage, chocolate, beans, lentils (my personal demon - last time DH served them up I thought I was going to die from the pain the next day!). I hope it was just a freak thing, I surely know that I couldn't handle a whole day of crying baby :hugs:
mwah thanks girls! glad to know that i am not crazy for finding yesterday tricky lol! felt like a bad mum that i couldnt settle her or get her what she wanted. thankfully she slept well last night only waking at 11pm for a quick 10 min feed and then again at 3.30 for the same. but again today she is hard to settle. sooo tired and yet completely aware that she is being 'abandoned' in the cot lol. ahhh we had it sooo good there for 5 weeks! only now is she realising the lay of the land and protesting lol!
...and here i was waiting for NEXT week to be bad...being the 6 week wonder week!
G: thanks for the offer of the HAB! we have been given a close carrier by our neighbour and i *think* that is really similar?? it works a treat and yep, we totally used it yesterday!! it only lasted an hour before she cracked it, but i think i brought it out too late IYKWIM and she was already to far gone. poor wee poppet. i now have her in my ring sling and she fast asleep!!! that it lasts bahahahaha!
Arte: we seem to breed active babies in this house lol! there is a reason why i love toddlers lol! although i reckon Marta is WAY cute, i am sooo ready for a time machine to take me to a year from now lol.
sorry for the me post (again...). just feeling a wee bit rattled! this too shall pass, this too shall pass
Yes Arte, I really think A is cute! I love that last batch of photos because she's that little bit older and more facial expression/personality coming into the pics now. I've gotta say I'm a little envious about the swimming too, had a bit of a splash on our very last day in QLD and decided my desire to enjoy being in water will forever more outweigh my loathing of wearing bathers in public. Water slide...hmmm can never decide if I love or hate them on account of the way I always end up snorting chloriney water LOL.
Cally, wow at having the whales so close for such a long time! Good luck with the capsicums, I have never managed to get good ones out of my garden, I suspect i don't feed them enough as they are always thin and bitter. And small. My sugar snap peas are taking off like crazy so i recommend them. Not long to wait. We're only just getting brussels sprouts now and I planted them back in Apr? May? Zen veggie patch.
G, I saw some pics of your baby elephant this morning - awww tooo cute! Agree with Trill, best to avoid the Mondays. I'm about to change my working days around, to work on mondays for the same-but-opposite reason . <-- What is wrong with this winkie anyway???
Cass, my favorite piece of new baby advice ever was this: it's NORMAL for baby's to have an unsettled patch every day, and an unsettled day every week. It's nothing you're doing wrong, it's just the way it is. Helps keep things in perspective a bit
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md- the baby elephants were just the cutest things ever. lewis loved them so much- i think they reminded him of the baby out of ice age 3 LOL
cass- glad to hear the sling is working its magic. don't know if you remember, but i actually took jimmy to a pediatrition when he was a nb cos i was convinced there was something wrong with him. i just couldn't understand all the unexplained crying- 10 times worse than L ever was. turns out he was perfectly healthy and just loved a good whinge i think! i promise it will pass and get better. it is quite hard when you are sort of expecting them to be the same as their older sibling but they are totally their own little person with their own little quirks iykwim?
MD, take a kid on the slide with you - then they get the face full of water and you are sweet lol
Today was W's very first official day of Kindy! I left him for about 20mins to go to the supermarket and he was fine, so I think we will be able to slowly increase the time I am gone and he will stay by himself! We are doing Wed and Fri mornings for now, might do some more days later when he is more settled. We have been going for visits for the last 4-5 months anyway, but now he is a big Kindy boy
Arte thats great he's happy to stay on his own. It will be good for you to have the break from him. Which reminds me though, I need to call our preschool about A's enrollment for next year too.
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) and then the swimming pool. W loves the hydro-slide and I had a turn today for the first time and then we took A down as well and she thought it was fantastic.
that it lasts bahahahaha!
. <-- What is wrong with this winkie anyway???
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