Due in August 2009

Poor T Jay - that's so not cool, esp when you're his age! Hope the household is coping okay.

oh on a personal note.....i feel like a fat pig
i have made some kinda desert every night this week!!!and havent worked out for nearly 2 wks now.
tomorrow i head back to the gym.....i will suffer.

Mmm.. desert. Hubby and I decided to eat better this year, I swear I'm having hallucinations. I thought I saw squiggle tops in the fridge before... I don't even eat biscuits much!!!

So so so hot here today. Alex had a 14 hour sleep over night then was grumpy at 1pm so went down for another nap and is still asleep.. Growth spurt maybe? Off to the mount tomorrow for the day so hope he's happier!

Seriously contemplating jumping in his paddling pool with an icey cold beer...

I didn't realise you were a teach Aquarius. It is something I've always toyed with...

lol...I don;t think people would turn up to an aerobics class with me taking it. My body is no inspiration, however it has always been a secret dream to be one...

Oh no to chicken pox, especially in the school holidays.

Fab Weekend with MC, her DH and Ryan. Unfortunately both Ry and Leah caught the grump bug. I think they were both back in bed at 9am this morning after waking up 6:30/7am.

Righo- night night ladies. DF is home after 5 days away.......

Aquarius...it is so bad in adults. I had a raging fever for 4 days and my friends who visited said I looked like I was on deaths door. I was the sickest I've ever been in my life. It is aweful in adults. HAve you been to do doc with him? I developed viral pnuemonia as well which is really common in adults with chicken pox and needed antibiotics and anti-viral meds.

We are just home from almost a week away with the inlaws. I'm shattered though as we had to share a room with Ash and that did not go well at all.

Ash is taking 2 to 3 hours to settle every evening. I thought it was a nap thing so have pushed her down to 1 nap but she is still doing it. She is 100% happy and fine during the day. Not really sure what is going on but it is tiring.

Managed to flood our entire garage today and hence have spent 8 hours cleaning it out. We had loads of boxes filled with books etc etc in there and they got wet so it's a huge job. Will continue into tomorrow I think.

Oh no Fiona, hope today is better and Ash had a good night last night.

How's T-Jay? Any more cases of the pox in your household Aquarius.

A is at daycare today, hubby is working and I'm.... cleaning the oven. HATE that job. Joys of moving. THis time next week we'll be starting to move in though... can't wait.

Sorry Aquarius...I see you were talking about your 5 year old, not your husband.

Sleep is not a happening thing here. I'm confused. Ash is great all day. She'd happily take 2 naps but we're pushing her to 1 as she seems to settle better at night with just 1. However, she is still often taking ages to go to sleep at night. Then most nights she is waking and we go in about 8 times...first, water, second bottle of milk, 3rd pamol, 4th and 5th resettle, 6th time another 200mls formula. Then she will usually settle but is up at 6am for the day.

She is still not really eating.   She LOVES to play with food but NEVER and I mean NEVER eats a whole meal i.e. she'd never eat a meal the size of her fist.

I've tried cutting the formula down and most days that goes relatively ok but then she will wake and want it at night. Most days she has 2 bottles in the day....after breakfast and after dinner. But with the settling issues etc we find she ends up having a min ot 600mls a day and often up to 1 litre of formula (most of that at night...like tonight she had 200mls at bedtime and 500mls between 1am and 3am).

I'm not sure how to manage it as I have no reserves to cope with being kept awake at night. As you know I haven't had good sleep in so many years and it is starting to really concern me.

Are your littlies still having bottles of milk? Or are you all onto cups now?

Ryan still has bottles of milk but like GG they are real hit or miss. He'll often really want one in the morning but usually just plays with his one at night. Every once in awhile he'll have one during the night but this is usually when he's sick or has been up crying for awhile and is genuinely thirsty. He would have around 100-150mls most days.

Do you think she might have something wrong with her gut perhaps that's not making her happy to eat? Maybe IBS or something like that. I've no idea.

Ryan's vocab is pretty sparse. We have ma, arf arf (or a panting noise) for dog, grunt grunt noise for a pig, duck, uh oh, a mimic sound of a sing song version of hello, then he will sign for drink, potty, shower/bath. That's about it. BUT he has a tremendous 'listening vocabulary' as my Mom called it and I loved that phrase! He knows exactly what you are asking him to do most of the time and LOVES to show me where things are or go get things and bring them to me when I ask. He has also started jumping which is about the cutest thing in the entire world. MUST get a video!

Ryan has a mixture of cups. I always have a straw sippy cup floating around but he loves to drink out of a big person's cup but half the time wants to play with it and I end up with a big puddle of water on the carpet...

*hugs* Fiona, but I agree GG, I REALLY think you need to tough on her now, no milk at night, period, she CAN go without it, she just knows she is going to get it if she carries on crying.
I KNOW how hard the crying at night is, as Bella is still a shocking night sleeper and Im often up and down settling her, the other night she was awake every hoour, but I refuse to give her milk, I'll offer water and if she is thirsty she will drink it.

I think Ashley needs less milk, as all the milk and formula will be filling her tiny tummy, and then she doesnt want food, so I think the night time milk needs to stop, so like GG said, in the morning she is actually hungry and will want to eat something.
Milk is very filling, and their tummys are very small still.
Plunket said to me that Bella and even caden only need like, a couple of peas, one small carrot and a little bit of meat for dinner, and for breakfast fruit and toast etc, but they dont need huge portions, so even if ash eats a little bit and often it will be fine, but the milk definitely needs to be cut down I think.

Bella has one bottle a day, maybe two if shes quite unsettled, and sometimes she doesnt even want a bottle(she has milk on her cereal though)

I dont mean to sound....bossy or brutal either, but tats my honest opinion hun *hugs*

Apparently girls are more advanced at language skills and fine motor skills whereas boys go for the big, messy stuff I guess LOL

Ha! a couple of peas, a small carrot and a bit of meat?!! I laugh because as you know I am raising The Hulk and watched him plow through 4 shrimp, 4 slices of deli ham, 1 piece of sushi, a handful of blueberries and a whole pikelet last night.

And, ahhhh, the big boy bed. Ryan so desparately wants to go into it but inevitably you hear the pitter patter of little feet after about 2 minutes. We are basically putting him in there for his nap and seeing how it goes. Eventually I put him in the cot. Only because he is so keen on it, not cause I"m in a hurry!

Oh, and Ryan is OBSESSED with the toilet. He just learned the sign for it and off we go to have a look, sit on it and flush it, then go wash our hands. I would love to think this actually means something but it's all a bit of fun at the moment. But hopefully it just means he has learned all the bits and now just needs to learn what to do with it LOL!