August and Sept ’08 Mums and Bubs

Henna79 wrote: Alex is surprising me all the time these days. His imagination is kicking in and he quite often pretends he is someone else or something else, his car is turned into a police car or similar most of the time or he is just off shopping in it (he loves to buy me choc choc and chips). I got him a scooter that he couldn't ride and just 5 mins ago he goes past me on the thing just cruising along . He sure is changing and growing up so much more these days. Beau is home on Tuesday after a 4 week stint so we are counting down the days. He is home for 8 weeks though as he is on holiday now so looking forward to lots of fun times. RIght better go someone has found his scissors

Aw he sounds like lots of fun!

Charli has found her imagination too, it's so cute! Amazing to think how much their little brains have changed in the last year. Her favourite imaginary game is to pull a pretend baby out of her tummy- she cuddles it and hand it to us (oh so carefully!) and puts it to bed and stuff She would make such a great big sister!

Leanne, so glad to hear that things are going well! I sent you a PM with my name for facebook too

Hi ladies!
Just wanted to send out sum online love to all our chch familys in our group. hope ur all ok!!!
thinking of you.
be strong, keep safe.
xxxxx
big loves!!!!

It's been ages, but I see that I'm not the only one who's been tied up elsewhere! I can't believe Dylan is 2mths old Leanne - must be that long since I was last on here!! Interesting about Ethan & dyspraxia. I had a dyspraxic boy in my first classroom, it was fascinating (and yet challenging at times) to work out how his brain worked and teach him accordingly. It sounds like ppl around you are on-to-it as far as help, great to hear that an OT & speech therapist are on board.

Lol, 'gentle' is a key key key word in our house too! I can't believe how fast Kaitlyn is growing, I feel almost sad to see my baby growing up already. As of last week, she's now on the move commando style and that seems to have helped with the interaction between them. Bethany just doesn't seem to know her own strength sometimes! It was so sweet seeing her get protective of her lil sis at playgroup the other week.

Amelia - Bethany is touch-&-go toilet trained. She has a week or so of no accidents then 'forgets' for a day or so (or more) and will even do #2s in her undies. Not fun. We tried undies overnight but after a week of 2 loads of washing every day just of bedding, she's back in nappy pants at night time. She wasn't waking when she wet, so by the time morning came EVERYTHING was thoroughly soaked. I decided I'd rather she slept in & stayed dry than started waking once the weather got colder!

I absolutely love seeing what new things my girls come up with every day. Kaitlyn is saying all sorts of words/sounds and a few signs, and Bethany is a wonderful mini-mummy when it comes to helping her learn new things. So cute. It's amazing how resilient babies are - things that should upset Kaitlyn (like a face full of water in the bath or a thump on the head with a toy) make her crack up!! Better than the opposite lol.

Love to chch mums, I can't even imagine what you've been through, it must be so hard. I hope you and your loved ones are all ok.

Must go...
Kristy :)

Edited for typos :P

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Hey Amelia, do you remember Lydia (littlekiwis) from the old sept08 thread? She posts in the oct08 thread now, but she and Jo (jojames, also oct08 thread) both live in Tauranga I think. Hope that helps? Wow a big move - I have to say that I LOVE Tauranga though, good choice! And of course if you ever make it up to good 'ole Aucks, it would be lovely to meet you! (I'm sure we could put you guys up if you needed somewhere to stay :) All the best with the next little while, so glad you're all ok, please do keep us informed x

Hey Heather, haven't heard from you in a while, how are you and Alex doing? The move and everything gone smoothly? Just thought I'd send some hugs your way xx

JoJames wrote: Hey Amelia, I'm from oct 08 as Kristy said, if you move up here feel free to message me or Lydia, we love new friends and you're welcome to hang out with us.

thankyou JoJames, Kristy and Heather...if we do move I would love to take you up on those offers!

heather yay that is so great that the move went well :-) and that you are so busy! I love being busy You know with the biting and rough play, had anyone mentioned about testosterone boosts to you? In our coffee group we've noticed that all the boys have hit the phase around 2 1/2 where they get a boost of confidence and aggression and the plunket nurse said that happens with boys as they get a kick of testosterone, which is often why biting and hitting and stuff comes up as an issue round this time.

Well things are getting back to a 'new normal' here in chch. DH has found a bit of work but it's a bit up in the air at the moment- not really sure of days or how many weeks he's got work for. There's still so much pain here though- we know 3 people who have lost friends and 2 of them lost babies- plus about 10 who lost their houses and too many to count who've lost their jobs so it's very sad all round Still we are alive and that's the most important thing

Charli-Rose has slept a whole night in her bed now (1st one since the quake) and has fallen asleep at about8pm two nights in a row so things are looking up on the front- so proud of her!!!

Hey all thought I would pop in and say Hi and let you know that we are all fine in shaky town! Glad to see all our babies are growing up into wonderful little people. Kade is TT except for number twos we still have issues with them. Kade is talking a lot it is amazing what he comes out with!! He is also attending day care as I am back at work for now but will be finishing this year to stay home! Hope you all have a lovely easter!

Congratulations Becky, how exciting having twins and it will be a good age gap having a 3 year old and two babies.

I started toilet training Ethan last week and at first he was quite keen on sitting on the toilet and by day 6 had done a wee in the toilet although still hadn't told me he needed to go so were changing the pull ups just as regularly as if there were normal nappies. He is able to say the word toilet as repeated it when I taught it to him along with the baby sign (ear pulling) so that was encouraging as he is still quite behind with his speech although has improved heaps lately, saying several two word phrases now. Yesterday afternoon however Ethan threw a wobbly and refused to sit on the toilet and did the same today so I've given him a day off and am going to try again tomorrow but if he still refuses then I guess he's just not ready yet and I'll put him back in nappies until later in the year.

Dylan has entered a new level of alertness and thinks that now he is 3 months old he doesn't need to nap, he was up until last week really good at self settling for his naps although never at night time but now he doesn't want to self settle for any sleeps and after several attempts I end up feeding him to sleep! Apart from this, hes doing really well, sleeping 9 hour stretches some nights and is doing lots of "talking" at the moment, its very cute to listen to. I'm definetely enjoying this stage of babyhood a lot more the second time around being more relaxed!

Hi all, long time no hear as well.

Sounds like everyone is doing well and Becky - Congrats on the twins to be - ID or fraternal - I hope the pregnancy is going well for you and you have good support on hand. It's just the best with 2 at once.

Boys are well, not t/t until summer, one's ready but the other isn't but I'd rather wait until they are both are more than ready so we don't have any stress - been told by most twin mums that waiting until they are 3 then it's less stressfull for all and hopefully should be able to to tackle it in a few weeks.

Work is going great, thinking in a few years we'll go for no. 3.

Happy winter guys

hey becky have you had your scan? did you end up finding out the genders?

hope everyone is keeping warm and healthy during winter! Charli-Rose had been so sick this year, we are thinking of giving her some iron supplements as she never eats meat and maybe that's why she's always getting sick. We brought some and it had a giraffe on it so she's very excited about it (as her 'best friend' is a giraffe ) Just waiting for her to finish her antibiotics before starting it.

Lea, how is the TT-ing going now? Wow Dylan is almost 5 months already!

And Heather hows the TT-ing going with Alex?

We're still fluffing round trying to decide whether we are staying in chch or moving up to Tauranga. Charli does NOT like the shakes at all, and doesn't sleep for months after each one and they reckon there will be more big shakes in the next year so just trying to figure out what's best for everyone