October ’06 Toddlers

Hi everyone!

Thats great about the scan Anna.

Andie, sorry that your attempts to help Rueben have menat u had to stop bf. What are u gonna do about not seeing a Paed til June? Thats ages! Can u see one privately any quicker? How stressful. Cute about Ella's prep-talk!

Congrtas on the new job Nat. Sounds great. Doubt there will be a sibling for Isla anytime soon, so u definalty not alone there!

Danni, yay for james and the TT, thats great. Is;a is still along way off yet. Trying not to stress about it tho. No idea what to do about the sleeping on the floor thing. Can u keep his door open? We only shut the door if isla comes out, then we give her a warning that we will shut it if she comes out again. hardly ever have to shut it at all now. She is well used to sleeping with noise tho, and wont go to sleep if its dead quiet.

Hi Emma! Have missed u in here,..then we u come back I go awol for a week, lol! Any lans for Chiaras birthday? I wanna invite myself and need to book flights! Lol!

So last wed we went away to Matarangi on the coromandel,..got back last night. Was bridesmaid at my friends wedding on Sat. We stayed at my auntys house, and my parents met us there for the weekend too, and looked after isla while we were at the wedding. It all went great and we had a fab time!

Anyone else now getting up at the crack of dawn thanks to daylight savings?! I knew we would be in for 5.30am starts again,...and lucky us the first morning was the night after the wedding when we were out to the small hrs and hungover,..oh the joys! Lol!

Gonna have a quiet week catching up on washing and housework. Gotta choose taps ect for new bathroom which should be getting done in the next few weeks, yay! Im working Easter sun/mon, and we have my nieces 2nd birthday party on sat.

Hope everyone has a good week!

I'm wanting to set up a Easter egg hunt for Brenna and her cousin Ava, just keep forgetting to ring my SIL to ask her if she wants to do it!
IL's are coming over for tea tonight so I've been busing in the kitchen making a lemon merangue pie - what a domestic goddess! (There's flour everywhere and I can't be arsed cleaning it just yet so I'm on here instead lol)

I can't remember if I've posted this already... we had our anatomy scan on Mon and it was great! Everything is looking wonderful and we've decided to keep it a surprise.

J is finishing my hot water cupboard that he started building me 3 years ago ( I think he's finally had enough of the nagging lol) so now I'll have a nice warm place to finish off drying my clothes in winter.

That's great about swapping the appt Andie. What a relief!!

Hope everyone else is having a nice wknd

And I'd forgotten to say what my guess was! Girl, I'm thinking     and I'm going for... 7lb9 (what did Brenna weigh in at? I might change my guess!). Yay about the hot water cupboard - niiiice. Almost as nice sounding as Lemon Meringue (go, you good thing, you).

I am going to say boy and reckon he will be 7lb 10oz.

I'm with you on the nice easy birth bet! Anna do you think you'll do a waterbirth again?

Reuben saw our Paed and the wheels are in motion for his Neocate    ...and he's already at the upper limit for reflux meds so that's as good as that gets (shhhit) ...and next time Ella has a hospital appointment it'll be for her food challenge for dairy - woo-hoo!!! I'm having a good week 'cause I finally bought new pants (been waiting to see if I'd regain my usual weight after losing it once Reuben was born before I shelled out for new pants. But that Farmers sale got the better of me and now I own pants that fit properly - niiiice).

Did everyone have a nice Easter? I was recovering from that blardy virus for most of it but it was great that Jono could be around to look after the kids, 'cause I kept having to go to bed! We don't normally see so much of each-other over the weekends so it was lovely to feel all very 'family-ish'.

I'd say don't put yourself under any pressure Kellz regarding TT. Brenna still wears a nappy for bed and doing poos and I'm not going to try and rush her - I've figured she'll do it when she's ready.

That's great about the appt Andie and yay for shopping.

We took Brenna up to AKL zoo today and she loved it! I'm shattered now though and Jeremy is asleep on the couch snoring! lol

Hi girls,

It has been ages since my last post. I have been lurking but not writing.

We are all pretty good at the moment. We have all been sick recently with tummy bugs, colds etc etc but all seems to be good right now.

Kellz I also wouldn't stress about the TT. We have only just started and I think it is going to take a while until Ollie is properly trained. I have been getting a bit of pressure from both my mum and mother in law but I don't care - Ollie will do it in his own time - at the end they all catch up anyways and I also think that the parent has to be ready before you start.

Andie I am pleased that you are finally getting over your bug - it is awful feeling like you have no energy - yay for DH being around to help you out!

Anna - cool that you went up to the Auckland zoo - I have never been before must make the trip some time :) can't believe that you are already over 20 weeks - where has the time gone?

I hear that Emma is off to Sydney visiting her parents - how exciting!!!!

Kath sounds like you had a nice relaxing easter and were able to get out and about. Going for walks is always so refreshing isn't it?

We are off to the Gold Coast at the end of May for a 10 day break - can't wait! I think Ollie is going to have a blast as we are going to take him to Sea World and Australia Zoo - he is really into animals at the moment.

How is everyone finding their children's behaviour at this age? I am finding Ollie quite a challenge some days as he throws a lot of tantrums!! He is generally pretty good. Is everyone's little ones still having afternoon naps?? Some days I struggle to get Ollie down and he just doesn't sleep so I leave him to play with his toys.

Ollie is starting a preschool next term on a Thursday so I am really looking forward to that. He already goes to a local community creche on a Friday and he loves it so going to the preschool will also be good for him and it also means I get to have more quality time with Sebastien.

Speaking of Sebastien he is a little monkey! He is growing up so quickly. You realise when you have your second child that they grow up so much quicker than when you have the first one because you have so much more time for your first child. It makes me soo sad!! He is great though and such an opposite looking boy to Ollie. They are going to be great playmates when they get older. He has his 9 month check up next week will be interesting to see how much he weighes. He was 9.2 kgs at 6 months so he must be well over 10 kgs!!

Sorry if I have missed anyone else and waves to you all.

What a good idea about the audio book Kath! Brenna still goes to bed each afternoon for about an hour but would only fall asleep about once a month. At least it means she has a bit of down time. Yes, behaviour here is a battle too. She seems to go through phases where she doesn't want to doa thing we say to then being a lovely thing...I keep telling Jeremy that it's her age, not her personality behaving like that. It makes me feel better to think of it like that otherwise I find myself getting very frustrated with her...ah the joy of 2 year olds!

Brenna does about 11 1/2 - 12 hours at night so they're about the same for a 24 hour period

Gremlins do 7pm til 7am (with 1-2 wake ups most nights) and are not having a day sleep regularly, just a nap the odd day if they are really tired and occasionally they crash out in the car if we've been out.

Sounds like most of the Oct kidlets are taking their time with the TTing which is a relief - my mum is like yours Martine, keeps telling me they should be TTed by now . Mind you, I will confess that part of it is laziness, I think only the past couple of weeks that they've actually been ready but I've done nothing about it. Sienna will wee on the toilet if you put her on it, but Mercedes is still flat out refusing to even put knickers on.

We haven't been too bad tantrum-wise here lately, but they have their moments, believe me!

I survived the flight over with the four of them, the gremlins were great, they played really nicely, it was lil miss that was hard work and wanted to climb everywhere.

We're taking them to the beach tomorrow which will be cool, they love the beach.