August 2010 babies!

Mez & Azza... Moving back to Auckland. DH's new job is in Manukau, so probably looking at either Karaka again or out East... Howick/ Bucklands Beach... etc..

Jade... thats terrible about your hernia. Do you know how long you need to wait until you can try again?

We are still really 50/50 wheather to wait until I finish uni (2.5 years) or get preggy now, and continue Uni once I have another bub....
2.5 years, will just be a very large age gap... 5 years.... Im sure once we are back and settled, we will know what to do.


BTW... earthquakes and flooding Auckland weather..... what on earth are we coming back to!!!!!!!!!!

Oh wow, its been great seeing this thread active again. Awesome to hear you are coming back Mealza. The weather gods seems to be acting up lately. We've had some minus 8-10 degrees lately and our pipes froze up. So went all day yesterday and until about 4pm today with NO water. Man that sucks!! All good now, but hopefully we've seen the last of the really bad frosts.

We've decided to have a combined 2nd birthday party with Harpers little girlfriend. She was born 2 days after him and as we have alot of the same friends and same coffee group we thought that would be easiest. Our sort of them for Harper anyway will be UP. Based on the movie, as he is mad on it at the moment. We were going through a stage where he wanted to watch it every day!! Yes my child is a tv addict (a lot like his mum to be honest). Oh well I guess there could be worse things he could be in to.

Oh Leishamaree I love that idea of not having to clean up after party too! Pity we just don't have anything like Chipmunks in our small town.

And so so jealous of you going to Oz for a week. That sounds awesome. I'm sure you will cope!!

mumoftwins wrote: Mez83 wrote: I think we may be getting more eye teeth here. Poor DH emailed me about the 9 wipe nappy he'd had to deal with lol. Apparently it was all over his pj's and beds haha. Sometimes I like missing out on that when I'm working!!! I would have just chucked the kid in the shower...bugger using that many wipes!! So glad those days are all but over for us!

Me too....but male logic doesn't!

We've never really let h watch tv. He watches a 15 min episode of handy manny a couple of times a week and DH has Cars on sometimes. It's a miracle considering how much tv we watch here! He's just not interested (unless it's Manny. Then he's obsessed!!)

Oh and Mealza...have another baby. 2 people I know have announced pregnancies this week. That's at least 10 people I know. If I'm not allowed one (stoopid DH) you may as well do it!!!!

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So this is probably a stupid, just do whatever you want type of question, but are you guys doing goody bags for the birthday parties? Do we do those in NZ? I can't decide, lol!!

I don't think we will. But the 2 of the 3 birthdays (2yr olds) we've been to so far. Did. The first one, the boys just got a dinky toy, the girls umm cant rmember. The second one, it was just a piece of cake and a balloon.

Goodie bags are fine if you want to do them, just don't fill them up with cheap plastic toys!! (speaking from frustrated experience!)
A piece of cake, stickers, small bottles of bubbles, little packs of crayons etc are much better (IMHO!!) then $2 shop toys.
Or just send each child home with a balloon and some cake

2 weeks 1 day until my baby is 2!! Quietly glad the baby days are behind us now!

Hey guys!

DD2's birthday party is in a couple of weeks - just doing afternoon tea at our house for this one.

Older kids seem to expect party bags but I can't imagine two year olds expecting them. Some of the best party bag things I've seen include playdough (homemade), packs of seeds or sprouts to grow, bubbles, crayons, stickers and most seem to include a lollipop and balloon! At a party last week the big sisiter was upset that there were no party bags. Her Mum explained that little children don't have them, they just have cake!

Most of the stuff sold in bulk at the supermarkets to fill party bags is pricey and breaks easily. I found Moore Wilson's in Wellington had some fantastic party bag fillers that seemed to go down well.

I can't believe that they are all two. My daughter starts part time creche in a fortnight - it seems unbelievable to me!

This week I have had an overwhelming desire for another baby..

Whats wong with me????

Mez - argh, that is a pain!!

I just told Quinn's home daycare provider I am taking him out Thursdays to stay with my Mum, and she was so sad! I felt terrible!! She said she will miss that extra day with him.



Mealza - haha, your biological clock is ringing!!