July 2010 babies!

Hey ladies,

Hope you're all well. Nothing much happening in our neck of the woods, still trying to unpack the house, but my wee "helpers" are more of a hindrance so it keeps getting ignored.

Lexi asked for the potty today and actually did wees in it. Yay!

I've got the girls on iron supplements at the mo and I think it's making a difference to their appetites which is encouraging.

Mia is still resisting day sleeps, seems to be day on, day off which is a total pain, and she's still a complete mare when she misses one, losing the plot over silly things - like she can't get her sock off. Hopefully this "phase" finishes soon!

We've had great progress with sleeping (knock on wood) using (among other tactics) a sleep training clock. Took them a couple of weeks to cotton on but they are now staying in bed till the "sun is awake".

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Hibiscus, I listed it in my CV - saw no point in not being upfront about it This is how I did it (thought it shows a bit of my humour/personality):

Jul 2010 – present Stay-at-home Mum [employer]Joshua Fergus: Christchurch, NZ Everything from carer, nurse, educator and chef to musician, photographer, janitor and handyman, including a myriad of parenting tasks that slot in between.

I didn't let on, til late in the interviewing/hiring process that I was a single mum... didn't want them thinking possible negatives about what I could or could not handle.

I think being 'out of work' due to parenting is a lot different than being unemployed. Though in saying that, I was very conscious of getting back into my line of work (comms) reasonably quickly so as I didn't loose touch with what was going on in the industry.

Iit's past 2 pm and I can still hear my girls chatting in their cots. They are supposed to have their afternoon sleep! This has been going on since the weekend. I don't know why. They had to go down at 11am not so long ago because they got so tired. Today we had an activity in the morning and were only home at 12.30, then lunch, nappies etc. but they have been playing around for an hour in their cots now. Two days ago I put them down at 12 and they mucked around for an hour before falling asleep. So i put them down half an hour later yesterday and it took them 1.5 hours before they fell asleep!

Angie, I think it's really cool how you wrote that. To be honest I would've been too scared to be as 'informal' in my CV, but I guess you have to do something different if you want to stand out from the crowd. Especially if your field is communication. And your employers obviously liked it too!

Danda, it's a pain when the one who wakes up first wakes the other one up when they're calling out, isn't it? Usually I have one grumpy child in that situation.

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It has been super quiet.

My girls ditched their bedtime bottle so long ago I can't even remember how old they were. It had turned into a complete battle with them running around and like you Hibiscus, milk going everywhere.

Now they only have milk first thing in the morning.

Lexi has been sick since Fri night with temps and runny bum, temps settled yesterday but she was miserable so took her to the Dr and she has tonsillitis. Poor poppet.
Last night was the first night she made it through the night since Fri and of course tag team - Mia was up from 2.30am - 5.30am.

Portia is on the bottle now, three times a day, just the same as Milla was. Plunket may maon about her not having enough food etc and yes at times she does not eat knowing she will get a bottle anyway, but I talked to my GP about and she said, dont worry about it, its a whole food, and its not like she will be on a bottle at school, which is so true. as long as they are eating , especially iron rich foods it wont do them any harm

Josh still has milk in his straw cup before bed, anywhere from 150-200ml, though he is getting more and more disinterested so looks like he could be 'weaning' himself from it - I'm not worried he's still on milk before bed and to be honest stopped listening to what 'I should be doing' in regards to food milestones (or however you want to describe it) a wee while ago... whatever works and all that

Oh no, tonsillitis, can you see it (red throat or anything)? Is she refusing to eat (but that would't be very indicative for you guys, I guess... )?

I know you ladies will appreciate this... (though it happened for Nan and not me)

Today, Josh let Nan know he'd just done a poo (pretty much a first ) and then later on in the day she put him on the potty and suggested he go wees and he did!!

Seems like things are starting to click for Josh about the sensations associated with toileting, yay!

(oh and we seem to have attempts at more words these days too)

That's so cute Trina, DD staking her claim.
I have a picture book of a little elephant who's trying to dress himself and the 'both legs down one hole issue' gets covered there, very useful, lol.

Yay on the going potty success Josh, and I found once the words started coming, there's no stopping!

Hibiscus, we do milk while doing stories, and then he sits still and just drinks and listens (we have one of those little couches from the warehouse thats his 'milk and story' couch) then teeth then bed