October 07 babies!

Gosh was a bad night for most of us then!

I really do think Laurens is teething though, she is really dribbly which kinda looks funny on a toddler, they look to old to dribble lol!

A big hit in this house is her Fisher Price teaset. Laurens plays for hours with hers. I fill the teapot with water and she pours it into the little cups and then drinks from the little teacups. Its so cute! Another big hit is feeding her plastic animals pieces of bread or feeding her baby a bottle!

Today she has patted my boobs twice and said "baby", WTF, where on earth do these children learn such things lol!!

Too cute Kabe

Sorry to hear most of you had a bad night

Rex is really into his motorbikes Riding his trike and playing with all his different motorbikes and cars.....also painting. He will paint for hours if I let him....oh and puzzels, can't get enough of them. We also spend about an hour a day reading books....its a great activity that the 3 of us can do together

I know what you mean Peachy, I can read some of Rex's books word for word without even looking at the pages!

Eva also loves drawing, but is terrible for drawing on EVERYTHING, so has to be really closely supervised. Often ends in me taking her crayons/felts off her

Eva loves books too, but is much more interested in the pictures, than listening to the story .

What are their fav books? Eva loves books with flaps or things she can move. Her current favs are;
- The Cat in the Hat Big Flap Book
- Cows in the Kitchen
-The Ladybird Goes Home

Yep, pop ups and flaps here too. She is pretty good with pop ups now after a couple were destroyed early on

Her favs are -
- The Big Old Bear Who Swallowed a Fly
- the 'countdown' series of books which subtract a character each page and then have a pop up page at the end (Ten Tiny Tadpoles, Ten Chirpy Chicks etc)
- and she still adores those square books you got in the bounty packs on birth (we have 'puppies', 'baby animals', trucks, and 'kittens') - they were a fantastic free gift!

Babyg - what fantastic news about your friend and your niece on the way! It'll be lovely for Carys too, I imagine.

Sorry to hear about these rough nights! I hope everyone is better and sleeps well tonight.

HP was pretty good, although now I'm hanging out for the next installment. Tala woke up 10 mins before we got home and was very happy to see his nana, but also very sleepy so that was good. It's crazy how he'll sleep just fine when we're home doing nothing, but as soon as we go out he wakes up. It's like he knows there is someone fun to play with waiting in the lounge.

Tala loves to read all sorts of books. The other day I went into his room after his nap to find him with one arm around his 'Lamby' toy reading a book to it. So cute. He loves to play with little animals, dinosaurs, cars, trucks, his baby doll, duplo, puzzles, train set - you name it! He happily plays independently, though when I'm in the kitchen he'll pull stuff out of the cupboards or get spoons, bowls and things to join in.

Kabe - Gabrielle draws on everything too - floor, walls, herself, anything - quite a pain but supervised she has lotsa fun with it. I wanna get a tea set now - that sounds so cute!

Same with the books MM - not able to sit and enjoy a story but she loves the pictures, Gosh there are lotsa book kids in here which is cool :) Gabrielle does love books just not in the conventional way - she loves to pull them all of the shelf lol and names everything she sees in the piccys.

MM its your due date tomorrow!!! Wow! I hope you feel better soon. Hope you get some time out and a good nights sleep before baby brother comes into the world :)

Posted some piccys in photo thread finally - they came out quite small though - also on FB

Welcome yesnomayb! I'm also from Lower Hutt

What's your little girls name?

Welcome yesnomayb!

Well after today's dramas, I am looking forward to bed tonight! Had the arvo off while Mum looked after Lauren, so I decided to head into our business and help DH out! Have only just got home and thoroughly enjoyed the time out, albeit "working"! Was nice to chat to adults for the afternoon and got heaps of work done for DH, he is so busy and has barely been home all week. He's done 13 + hour days all week and is still there now

Heading to coffee group tomorrow and then Mum is having Lauren again for the arvo so I can have a break again. Its so hard when DH has to work such long hours as it means I get no help around here or with Lauren! Oh well looking forward to or family holiday in eeekkk 42 days!!

Welcome yesnomayb - good luck with TTC #3!! How exciting, how old is your first child?

Happy due date tomorrow MM! Hope the cold magically disappears and converts to labour

I bet your DH was thrilled to have some help around work Peachy - watch out, he'll start to get used to it Where are you guys going on holiday?

Congrats on your friend's bubs arrival Bel! Was it actually supposed to be a girl or was that just wishful thinking on your part? Hope you get a better night out of your two tonight.