Baby Born ~ September 2007 # 73

[Artechim]

Day something in DH's hometown. I can't keep track of the days anymore lol. We had DH's granny's birthday yesterday which was the inspiration for the trip. Followed by a suicide hoax by BIL on FB - threat, countdown etc so when we saw it half an hour after 'times up' they raced around there to find him sitting at the frigging computer acting like nothing had happened #****edinthehead

However, the kids are having an absolutely fantastic time with the IL's. W has been amazing for the whole trip. I barely know he is around because he is so well behaved! His confidence is soaring so hopefully that carries over for the start of school.

[Trillian]

Fingers crossed he does Arte! Your BIL is a total Douche. I have plenty of sympathy and patience for people with depression and mental illness, but crap like that is just not cool. That's just being downright manipulative! If I were his family and gone around there expecting the worst I would have kicked his damn ass for finding him sitting at a computer.

MD, I have trouble with sleep rhythms over summer too so I can only imagine how much worse it would be for you

So saturday night was brilliant! I didn't get a pic of the big man because he was only there for a short time - he drove up from melb that day and had to go back that night and by the time I got the camera after his speech he was gone. it was a fantastic speech though, I haven't laughed that hard in ages! A lot rude and a bit crude at times, but so brutally honest - the man calls a spade a goddamned shovel But I tell you what, you think I'm passionate about the cause, well I have nothing on him! He's such a perfect ambassador for the sheep industry.

Oh and I can't believe that I forgot to say this but someone had a visit from the tooth fairy on Tuesday night! Not sure if any of you would remember me telling you about his front tooth that went black after a fall at the pool last year? Well he got a gum boil just above it and it was starting to annoy him so I had a dentist appointment on tuesday anyway and took him along. Dentist confirmed that's what it was and had to pull the tooth out. So the poor kid is sitting there completely still while he jams a gigantic needle in his mouth to numb it and then didn't even flinch while it was pulled out. So the tooth fairy brought him $5 for his trouble. Funny thing was that out of all of them, he's the only one that has insisted that he leave his tooth under his pillow for the tooth fairy LOL. The others all left theirs on the kitchen sink in a glass of water. Then the tooth fairy has to come back again TONIGHT because the tooth directly below that one came out today! Little turd was opening a bottle with his teeth and it came out root and all. He won't be getting $5 from the tooth fairy again though. That was a one time only deal So he will look like the Turtle Man for quite a while as I don't think his adult teeth are even close to coming through.

[Ginger]

wtf????

[AnyDream]

Whatty? Whatty what? Ginger did we miss something??

ETA
No, I don't think the online thing would work because she's got no idea what size she is or how things fit. It was a stab-in-the-dark kind of thing even picking things to take into the change room. Also, when she gets the clothes home, she doesn't ever spend any time trying things on, seeing what they look like with other things, choosing what looks good together. They just get lobbed into the jungle of a closet, then whenever she has to actually pick something to wear other than the 3 tshirts and 2 shorts that she wears every. single. day. there is histrionics because she hasn't got the first clue about any of it. I do try every now and again to talk her through choosing, but TBH I can't deal with all the dark looks and snappy/rude comments that go with it.

But mostly I just don't understand it because you would think that being taken shopping by someone who loves you who is going to buy whatever you think is nice would be a good thing.

[Trillian]

there was a spammer telling Cally she was lucky she didn't have to worry about stationery

[Ginger]

it's so weird md! i loved shopping when i was young (still do a little please take this with love, but do you think she might have some body issues going on?

[Cally]

there was a spammer telling Cally she was lucky she didn't have to worry about stationery

Wonder why I was so special!

MD - are there any funky aunts or family friends that could help out with the clothes?

[Artechim]

School holidays are too long. And I just realised that I was out by a month somehow with my course and the major assignment is due in only 3 weeks and I haven't started and the exam is three weeks after that. Not sure why I thought it was all a month later.

[AnyDream]

Arte, that's what I call The School Holiday Effect. There's some kind of warp in the time-space continuum that swallows up an entire month of your existence while seeming on the outside to be a perfectly normal fortnight. . Good luck with it all.

Cally, of course you're special. You should be asking why you wouldn't get special spammy attention!!
DD1 does go shopping with her grandma once each holidays but usually comes home with one thing that not's really the right size LOL.

Ginger - thanks for your suggestion (received with love), but I really think it's the actual opposite - it's been care factor zero with her appearance for a long time, now she cares but she has to learn how. But really it's just more of the same inattention, poor listening etc that has plagued us all along, and tbh I just don't have the cognitive energy for it anymore.

Both kidlets back at school now - though Miss E was heartbroken to be wearing her summer uniform because the uniform shop had run out of the right size in shirts .