December 2007 Mummies

Yip, toilet humour is a hit here. Mac wets himself any time someone farts. DH is not helping with the whole "pull my finger" joke (yes, I have a very mature husband )

OMG Anna, your MIL must be an amazing woman! A family friend lost her husband when her kids were 1 and 3, although it wasn't an accident, it was cancer. She always impresses me with how she can refer to him naturally for her kids yet it's never awkward. But gosh, not finding his body for 8 weeks?! That would have been so hard for closure.

We have toilet humour here - it's hilarious! My dad loves it because he's the main man in Jack's life when DH is away and that sort of stuff is his parenting style (he brought us up learning to belch the alphabet).

We are doing OK here but am going to have to book Ava into the doc. She's been ill for 4 days, not eating, drinking half a bottle and is now not waking much (she wakes, but she's tired within the hour). It was viral, as we all had it, but I think hers may now be a chest infection. We shall see. I feel bad because I'm working all week and can't turn the money down as we're saving really hard for our kitchen, car and my holiday - need all the help we can get so MIL has the kids all week this week! (Oh probably didn't mention Jack's sick too, he is in a down-cycle so he's struggling with fevers and sleepiness, but they usually only last 2 weeks max so he should be better next week).

I think we may be the only house without the toilet humour. But Elise loves to 'hide' & jump out or to sneak up on people ... she's actually pretty good at sneaking too!

Madison's birthday went well. First birthday cake I've ever made - will have to put pics up on FB at some stage

Elise has chicken pox at the moment, so that's fun

She's been a big cuddly grizzly bum! She's started being a bit better now, However, because of being sick she now refuses to stay in bed & won't sleep until 11pm! I am so sick of her. Hopefully if Madison gets them she is her normal self

At least on a positive note she stayed dry all day & told me she needed the potty

Chicken pox look so disgusting once they've scabed over, but at least her chin looks a lot better

That sounds so miserable Lisha. Hope it goes away soon. We've been ok here sof ar. Fingers crossed it continues.

And hugs from us too Kirstyn. At least she's not suffering any longer

How's everyone else going? We were doing so well with this thread but we seem to have disappeared again!

So sorry to hear about your Gran Kirstyn .

And bummer about the viral infection Lisha ETA and Emz - just read your post too .  We all have colds, but its not too bad.  I'm just annoyed cause I know it'll take me ages to shake it as I'm so sleep deprived.  Freaking out we'll catch swine flu next .

Other than that we're good Sally .  I've been trying to wean myself off OhBaby a bit, as seem to spend too much time on the net.  Have been listening to lots of new music instead.  So cute, Jimmy sometimes runs up to DH's 'ta-ta' (won't call it guitar?) and strums along and tries to sing to something that's blaring out of the speakers.  Neither of us can play a single instrument (the guitar is a recent TM purchase) but I'm really keen for the kids to learn if they show an interest.  My brother plays bass in a band in Melbourne and it looks like heaps of fun.

Hope you're doing OK Emz.  Can't believe that army guy was from Feilding too.  Chantel is right, bad things come in threes, so that better be it for the town.  I went to high school with Chantel (we were in the same year) ...you guys know each other from antenatal class right?

Loving all the new photos of the boys on FB Peanut and Sally.  Scary how they grow up so fast huh?  Leah is already rolling over from back to front ... want her to stay a baby for a wee bit longer.  She is definitely our last - DH had the snip last week.  We had to drive an hour south of here for the operation, was the most bizarre thing to drive into the wilderness for that sort of thing hahaha!

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That sounds really lovely Kirstyn. And yes very hard to explain death to kids, Jack was only 11 months when my grandad died so he wanted to poke him to wake him up

Anna, yeah I know Chantel through AN class and also we used to work together (she's still a SAHM but I'm back at the law firm). Small world eh?

You aren't driving down are you Sally???!! Long way! How long are you down here for?

Yeah Sally that would have been a long drive LOL hope the flight goes well, even though you probably will get this after you fly.

I managed to get up & read a poem for Gran on behalf of the grandkids. Surprised myself actually. Broke down watching the slide show with the song "Hallelujah", then when I helped Elise put a teddy bear in the coffin & then again when was pall bearing. Can't believe a week has gone by without her already!

My sister has her 21st next Monday, so that will be bittersweet. But we've got her a pandora charm bracelet with a charm that will hopefully remind her a little of Gran

anyway, enough of my crappy week! Hope you are all having good times & we are off to see my Nana tomorrow