July/August 07 Toddlers

Nikki I have put all the kids into private kindy - for that very reason that public kindy starts in the afternoon!  Privately I can pick and choose the days I want the kids in, and start them off in morning kindy and increase it as they get older.  So by the time they're almost at school they're going 4 times a week.  Public kindy doesn't take them til they're well over 3 yrs as well.  They only close over xmas/new years too, not every school holiday.

 

Ooh that's cool you're feeling clucky, jessica!  do you think you'll have another baby? 

 

oh better go, Ava's calling out, she needs to go to bed. 

That's cool you're planning on having a 3rd Jessica.  Aren't you as well Nikki??

 

Jett's second morning at kindy today.  He gets soo excited to be going, and again just ran off to play as soon as he got inside.  When I went to pick him up afterwards (and Gia as she goes at the same time) I laughed when I saw him - he had blue paint all through his hair.  I think he used the paint brush to paint his hair instead of the paper.

 

Hope the kids are starting to settle in now Jessica.  It's hard when they get all out of sorts when there's change.

 

Well time to pick rico up from school - the days just go so fast.  And I have 2 sleeping children so I have to wake them all for a 1 min drive there and back.  Such a pain!

That is sooo cool Jessica - congrats!  Oooh wonder what you'll have this time?  Exciting!

 

I'll come back and update on Jett tomorrow, for now I need to go to bed!

I was wondering how I missed so many posts on 'Jakes' thread then I was wondering why different people were posting I forgot that while he's technically a July baby he was due in June and thats where I normally post!!!

Since I'm here - CONGRATS Jessica!!! I'm looking forward to when we start TTC #3. H&H pregnancy vibes hun

Well done Jett! He sounds like a real character. Change of plans already to the UK trip, we have decided that we can't commit at this stage as our business is having a slow year and we predict another one next year too, so we'll wait until things improve. In the meantime though, DH has agreed for me to go see my Sister dragon boat racing in Sydney at the end of October and then go to Melbourne from there to go to Oaks Day at Melbourne Cup! So I quickly booked my flights before he could change his mind. I will be away for a week and he will stay home with Jaymie.

Exciting lulu that you get to go to Sydney and Melbourne!  Whoop whoop!!

 

Wow go Jake!  What a pro with TT day and night!! Hmm, well TBH, going from 2-3 kids, to 3-4 kids was much the same.  There was only 22 months between Gia and Jett and I had a PPH after giving birth with Jett so that knocked me back for six, took me a long time to recover with having 3 pre-schoolers to care for.   There is 2 yrs 4 months between Jett and Ava, but he's a lot more difficult than what Gia was when Jett was born.  It's much of a muchness.  I think it all depends on the age gap as to how you will find it.  Very cool you're planning on having another child though!

 

 

Well hello there Mel!  Nice to hear from you.  Sounds like Bree is doing great!!

 

Jett has taken off in the TT department.  He tells me when he needs to go, or just goes by himself.  The other day he'd just been wee's and the next thing I hear him calling out and he's back on the toilet doing poo's!!  I was soo happy to have him do that on his own, as he hasn't been good in that area, either going in his undies, or waiting til he has a nappy on at night.

 

Jessica, how is the pregnancy going for you?  As much as I'm envious of ones going on to have more children, i don't miss or envy being pregnant!

 

Any other toddlers still having a day sleep?  Jett does most days, he either falls asleep himself, or I put him to bed after lunch when I need the break.

 

Happy 3rd birthdays to Jake, Astin and Bella!!  Wow, 3 years old aye, it's gone so fast!  Still another month til Jett is 3, so I'll savour saying he's 2 til then.

Hi everyone!

Hi Mel! Glad to hear Bree is doing well!

Well, Kylahs birthday was a hit, cant believe i have a three year old.

As you are all probably aware I left my partner a couple months back. Been long and hard and I still miss him like crazy but I know I have done the right thing.
I am struggling with him and seeing Kylah, he still cannot yet see past him and me, and see that she is more important. He is all about hurting me and so far its only hurting Kylah. I have just got lawyer and I am hoping that will make him wake up and see what is best for her.

I handed in my application for Midwifery yesterday,with everything that has been going on I never thought i would make it. Writing 2000 words is really hard!! But, I passed all my Pre-Health classes with A's except one i got a B. I am finishing off the last one now which is maths.

Work is still good, I love my job and it will be sad to go, I am now in Formal Complaints. It is challenging, but also pretty cool.

Right back to Kylah, she is so grown up. She talks like a big kid. I love the random things she comes out with. She is currently into tinkerbell, and buzz lightyear!

Hope everyone else is well.

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fanstastic news, congrats Nikki, good month for a baby - I am thinking Feb is not ideal - I prefered being preg with my winter babies
have not found being preg quite so cruisy this time, but i guess it is just having 2 kids to run after but I am really excited about number 3. The birthing centre here now has a birthing pool, rather than just the bath so I am hoping that a water birth may make things a little easier.
Am really enjoying both of the kids, such characters and I love seeing them playing together - usually nicely.
Lachie is all sorted with TT, nighttime really surprised me, just said he didn't need nappies and that was that, 2 accidents in the last three or four months. He has got quite clingy recently, which he has not been before so I am guessing now that he understands more and it is probably tied up with baby coming. But I love the conversations and the things that he comes out with
Tessa is a crack up, but I have discovered what tantrums are like - something Lachie never did, she is the princess of throwing herself on the floor - DH blames it on her being female! She is my blue eyed girl with curls - totally her fathers daughter.
I hope that you have a smooth preg Nikki, what are you going to do in terms of MW etc - after last time?

Hello girls!!  I was thinking of reviving this thread again a few days back, and came on now to see you've already done so Nikki - thank you!

 

And again,.... congrats on #3!  So exciting! 

 

Jess, not long for you now - wow!  That's crazy, but really for you I'm sure it hasn't gone so fast.  Hope all goes well with the birth, and yay for birthing centre having a pool now!  Can't wait to hear if it's a boy or girl.

 

Jett is doing really well.  Fully TT now, and has been for a couple of months!  Regarding nappies at night, sometimes Dh would forget to put a nappy on him when putting him to bed, but he'd never wet.  So after I discovered that, I just stopped putting him in nighttime nappies and he's never had an accident.  So good to just have one in nappies!

 

Speech is really coming along.  We got a new SLT as the other one went on maternity leave.  The new one is tougher and after the 2nd visit she said that she wondered if he was just being lazy, and that because he can't talk well, he'd lost confidence in talking at all.  All so true and something I've thought ALL along but didn't want to think that and be hard on him if there was more too it.  Since then I have been hard on him and making him say words instead of allowing him to sign or make sounds regarding what he's talking about, i.e. when talking about a dog he'll say woof woof, but now I say to him he has to say 'dog', and give him HEAPS of praise and high 5's when he says words.  Which is making him come out with words all on his own, for instance Gia found a yoyo yesterday which has been in hiding for a long time, and once he got his hands on it, everything was "yoyo, yoyo!"  He knows it all, it's just getting him to say the words.  No sentences though.. but I'm happy with his progress.  Will see the SLT in Feb and I know she'll notice a huge inprovement!

 

Well better leave it there, time to put kids to bed!