March/April '05 Thread #4

[sophieandhannah]

That picture is too cute.  What a little love bug!
Hannah

[Arwyn's mom]

Nikki... what a cutie pie!

Cathy... OMG, how scary about the tree!!! I don't blame DH for yelling at the cat... scary moments make people yell to deal with the stress. Glad Carter is doing well.

Traci... good advice given to you... will be trying some of them myself.  :roll:

Great chat tonight ladies!!! Looking forward to it again already!!

[mickymuscles]

hi girls!
i loved the chat tonight! i've missed you all and there is NO WAY i can get caught up on all the posts....i just had to go check out Karen's DH....woo hooo!!!  HOTTIE!!   

Bec: ROTFLMAO at Helle's x-mas photo with santa!!! laughing for her screaming and for santa sitting like "get this child off me!" look

ok...i also just checked my e-mail from dh ....too funny gotta post it on here...he'd kill me but oh, well...gotta share with my friends!
 
mickymuscles@hotmail.com   Messenger: Offline 
   
 

Subject :  you are a hottie...and don't you forget it!
 
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hey hottie!  i just thought i would drop you a line to remind you that you are hot.  when you have a chance, could you send me some more pics of jackson and yourself.  this would be greatly appreciated.  some naughty pictures of yourself would be GREATLY appreciated.  i would send you some naughty pictures of myself, but i do not have a camera.  anyways, i will talk to you soon.  i miss you both a lot.  hugs and kisses...love dad.

[Erin M]

Ladies-
Hi!  I'm in Buffalo at the ILs, so nice of you to wonder.  We got here the 27th, and DH's grandma, 2 sisters, MIL, FIL, and MIL's sister's family was here (husband +2 girls) were all here.  Then the following day, MIL's brother and his family (wife + 1 girl) arrived - 15 of us in a 4 bedroom house that night!....MIL's sister and family left the following day and MIL's brother is still here (he's only a few years older than DH and we're all very close, so we've really been enjoying the time).  Anyway, have finally managed to grab some computer time and spent some serious time catching up -
Ankie, Cathy - very scary, glad to hear all is well
Kate - I took Katie to the ped for her first cold b/c it seemed to go on for a bit, turned out to be nothing, I've only taken her back since when she had the ridiculously high fever and ear infection.  As long as Ryan's acting himself, I wouldn't worry too much. 

Hello to everyone else!  Must get to bed now - Katie's done pretty well the past few nights here, been waking a bit as she has another cold    and possibly another tooth on its way (Traci - we pretty much keep the same routine during teething, she's been teething on and off since September and I'd hate to think where we'd be if we'd deviated since then - I still give Katie time to settle and give pain meds if she's up multiple times).  We are looking forward to heading home tomorrow.  (Wish I had 600 count sheets!).  Will catch up more then!

[Nikki~Nathan&Danielle]

LMAO Micky!  What a sweetie, you're his MILF huh?  :wink:

Hi Erin.

Sorry I was on chat for probably less than a minute, DH ended up taking the kids to the park and I decided to be domestic goddess and whip up a gourmet meal - I very rarely get out a cookbook and try new things.

[becca24]

LMAO Micky!  What a sweetie, you're his MILF huh?  :wink:

LOL that's what I was going to say!

Great chat today ladies! It was moving so fast, hard to keep up but sooo funny  :lol:  Anyone dropping in must have thought OMG these girls are talking about waxing their hoo hoo's WTF !!

Cathy - I figured out in the chat that your tree must have fallen on Carter but I had no idea it was a REAL tree  :shock:  Holy Crap and that electricity would have FREAKED me out big time !!   :shock:   :shock:

Traci - I usually help Halle tip the sippy cup up but she has just started to do it herself. She gets heaps of air too, I will have to fill it up more.

Nikki - Cute photo of D, her her is pretty long ! I am sure Halle would pull hers out if I tried that. If I put a hat on her now she just pulls it straight off!! I will have to figure something out before we go away next week as we will be outside a fair bit.
 
Teething - to be honest, Halle is such a challenge most days, I have not noticed any difference with teething  :? She has 5 teeth now and the 6th is almost through.

It was sooo hot here today ladies - 41oC which according to my recently download converter is 105.8oF - Bloody Hot in other words. This arvo we got out in Halle's new wading pool she got for Christmas and squirted each other with the hose. It was so funny seeing Halle try to grab the water !! It is suppose to be hotter tomorrow  :roll:  It sucks because you can't do much outside and I go a bit nutty inside all day.

 

[Judy]

Cathy what a scary story with the tree and the sparks!!  Holy Cow!!!  You'll have to write that one down so you can tell Carter about it years and years from now (when he asks why you never get Christmas trees )  I'd have been barking at dh like it was his fault.

[Richelle]

Hi Ladies,

Chat was fun but I lost my connection  :cry: , that explaining the abrupt departure!! 

Cathy - that is some scary business with the tree but Judy is right you should write it down to tell Carter later.

Nikki - How cute is Danielle, OMG, adorable - I call Sophie umbrella head when I put her pony in!

Bec - UGHHHHHHH is it humid as well?  Disgusting, the summers here get really hot with %100 humidity and we too get stuck inside or in a pool.  I use hats with chin straps or Sophie pulls hers off too.  I put it on, tie it up and she tries a few times to pull it off then seems to forget about it.  She never pulls out her pony or really squirms when I put it in either, strange...

Micky - You MILF!

Traci and Ankie - How were your nights? 

Happy New Year to all the Southern Hemisphere!

What is everyone doing?  We are just chillin', we are going for brunch tomorrow!

[albertasweetpea]

Hey all!!  Happy New Year!! Wow...2006 already. Doesn't seem like that long ago that everyone was all hyped on the Y2K thing.  I can't believe I missed out on chat yesterday...duh. I wasn't doing anything either as Aaron brought home a new 42" plasma TV so was reading the 500 page instruction manual for 3 hours!! Sheeeeeeesh I coulda be chatting with my buds.
Aaron is having a few friends over tonight so Mason, Molly and I are just going over to my Mom's for a sleepover. That way I won't feel bad going to bed early and being a party-pooper!! :roll:  I've never really been big into new year celebrations anyways, so no biggie!


Hannah - very cute about Brendan talking to Sophie, telling her he has to go to school. I know Mason feels like he misses alot of things when he is not here too, it's tough sometimes still.

Richelle - my MIL bought us some high count sheets a few months back. Not sure the number but they do feel heavenly!! So soft and silky, I love getting into a nice, freshly laundered bed!

Ankie - :shock: How awful for all of you to have that happen to your little angel!! Thank goodness she is OK. I'm sure you are watching the gate like a hawk now.

Nikki - wonderful way you dealt with Nathan and the accidental ripping of Danielle's book. You are such a patient, loving Mommy!  Love the picture of D with the little pigtail on the top of her head.

Cathy - :shock: OMG!! Poor Carter, poor you, poor DH...poor cat!!  I would have been freaking out for sure, with the lights and sparks etc..So glad all turned out well.

Micky - very cute of DH. It is so nice to know you still got it!!  Did you send the naughty pics?? LOL   :lol:


Also got Andrea, Richelle and Holly's Christmas cards and pics yesterday!! So lovely, all of them. Better late than never!  Andrea, DH thinks Taylor and Molly look alike too, the cheeks he said! How "tall" is she? How much does she weigh? Molly is 26 inches, weighed 17 lb, 14 oz at the doctor last week.

[mickymuscles]

hi girls!

so a little update on our trip to California....jack did so well with all the schleping about, tons of visitors, hot weather, etc.!!  He loved walking in the sand and getting his feet wet in the ocean.  I'll post some pics once i download them from the camera.  My sister also organized a little mini luau for Jack's early-one year birthday.  It's supposed to be goodluck.  My other sister was supposed to dance (tahitian/hawaiian) but she chickened out.  I was looking forward to seeing her dance but there is no way to force a rock to dance!  :roll:   Jack is making leaps and bounds with moving now that his casts are off.  He is all about being on his belly now.  Everytime I sit him on the ground he leans forward...balances for a few seconds on his knees and then is on his belly pushing himself backwards.  He still hasn't figured out how to sit up on his own yet tho.....i'm sure that will be soon enough especially now that he has figured out how to get on to his belly and that he can bend his knees.    He is also trying to start to pull himself up.  For the first week after getting the casts off his right foot seemed to be quite tender and he wouldn't weight-bear on it at all but in the last two days he has finally started to use his right foot again.
I told you all on the chat last night about my sister being a delusional pre-mom.  (She's due end of Feb.)  I loved that Jack proved me right near the end of the trip.  He was being schleped around the whole vacation, sleeping in the carseat, etc. but the only thing I was strick about was him having his morning nap at home and being home so he could go to bed for the night.  One of the first incidences was my sister slamed a closet door in her office (on the other side of the wall was Jack's head while he was napping).  And I kindof gave her a look like  :shock: .  She said to me " You are going to have to get him used to noises" I said "No I'm not, how do you like having a door slammed right by your ear when you are trying to sleep?"  Then she goes on to say "well, our baby is going to have to be used to noise and going out to places because it's just not our lifestyle to stay at home"  And I kindof look at her like  :roll:  whatever.  Then she says "I'm sure she might be miserable from it but I'm not going to be a homebody"  And I kind of  chuckled and said "I can't wait for her to show up!" Well, on the night of the luau it was at my sister's IL's place and my sis said "can't you just put him down at IL's place?"  I said "NO, he won't sleep there and they don't have a crib or a packnplay so he'll roll off their bed"  She said " can't you just put him in the carseat to sleep?" I said "NO!"  She said "You know, your not always going to be at someones house that has a crib and your going to have to get Jack use to sleeping in different places!"  :twisted:  :twisted:   I think my head started spinning around at this point....I can't remember  :twisted:   But I told her something to the effect that "she was completely delusional and that I was going to laugh my a$$ off at her when she calls me crying! And that she was in for rude awakening in Feb. and I'd be surprised if her and her DH cope at all with the baby!"  :evil:   At which point my other sister and mom butted in with "so.....it sure is nice weather today!"  :roll:     I feel bad but I really hope that she doesn't get some easy angel baby!  She's the only person that i'd wish a "Jack" on!.   Anyways, after that she pretty much dropped it and Jack had a couple of melt-downs on cue with when he should have been home napping (poor peanut) but in my head I was like "SEE-I told you so!" and then on one of the last days (by this time Jack is totally wiped and overtired) he started crying when he saw my BIL in the morning, was crabby and miserable in the am right after he got up, and just was miserable.  They both were like "what's wrong with him?"  I said "HE'S TIRED!!!!"  :x  :roll:   I put him down for his morning nap, he slept for 2 hours (unheard-of!) and woke all smiles!  I JUST CAN'T WAIT!!!!
Thanks for letting me rant!  I've been dying to tell you all about how delusional they both are!!  OOOOHHH, there are going to be doozy stories from her I can just imagine!  :lol:

[Nikki~Nathan&Danielle]

Micky, it is so hard when you're on this side of having had a baby and hearing your friends/family make comments like that - just try not to fume over it too much and just know that she will understand soon enough.  And just hope she doesn't have an angel baby!  :wink:  If Danielle was my first child I would wonder why other mums complained how hard having a baby was - fortunately Nathan made me well aware what it was all about.  One lady in our mothes group had an angel who slept throught the night at 10days old and thought we were all wacko for thinking we had problems - she's NEVER had to baby proof her house even and her dd is now 2.5yrs old!  Coffee group at her house is quite stressful. 
Nathan too had to be home for naps or meltdown, Danielle doesn't.  I also used to get the "he needs to get used to noise" comments.  Grrrrr.  :twisted:   Very cool that Jackson is getting into using his legs so quickly, sounds like he's making up for lost time really well.

A very uneventful NYE here last night, early night for us.  Danielle is 9mths old today!  We've got two bbq's today, so will leave home about 12.30pm for the kids to have a nap in the car on the way, then leave that one about 3pm for D to have another car nap on the way to #2 and then home by the kids bedtime.  Doesn't look like it'll be too hot today either, a nice 23 deg.  DH is home with us this week, but I'm kind of dredding it, Nathan is such a handful when DH is home.

[Judy]

Oh Good for you Micky!!!!!  Way to tell your sister the way things are!! I can just see it - she's going to get an angel baby!!  People like that never seem to get the touchy ones.  I so hear you - I've had FOUR touchy babies.

Bec I finished that article.  I really did like it.  I see the book is not available here in Canada at this point.  There were a few things I didn't necessarily agree with but hey, I'm no authority and really it's all about taking pieces of this and that that work for each of us.  She had an example of a toddler playing with mom's computer and she suggested not giving timeout which I agree with but she suggested holding the child until they came to understand the point of not touching mom's computer.  This seemed a bit controlling to me - to hold them against their will... I would probably try to just interest them in something else or give them time to use the computer themselves.  We've just purchased a cheapy pc from dh's work that surprisingly is WAY faster than our own...so we've set them both up and the girls can play games and type away on the 'old' one.

[kq]

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Chat was a blast everyone!
Pity you couldn't stay, Nikki. Danielle is gorgeous!!!! Happy 9 months to her! Sounds like you have got it all planned out for today. Sigh, I wish Sam would go to timed naps! Oh well!

Micky, thanks for compliment on dh! LOL on that e-mail!!!! As for your sister, I totally emphatise. Mine has a lo due in June and has asked me why I "live in fear" by keeping to a routine. We went round for mum's for New Year's eve lunch yesterday and Sam would not go down for nap#1 and was CRRANKY!!! Dh suggested we take him to mum's as he was so that they knew that he is not always happy and smiley and only is so because of the routine. I fed him so he would get an am nap and he did great! Almost wish that I could do as dh suggested but felt soo bad for my little tired baby!

Judy, keep up the parenting tips. We have an old pc that we were going to give away but might keep it to set it up for Sam when he is a little older.

Richelle, after chat yesterday, I am inspired and have made a New Year's resolution...hoo hoo   :wink:

Bec, too hot!! It is a very pleasant 24 degrees here.

Hi Erin! We missed you. Looking forward to when you get back.

BTW, where's Holly? Any ideas, Traci?

We had a very quiet NY's eve. Sam was asleep and after dinner with dh, I went to bed early and dh saw in the NY on his own!  :shock:  :cry: He should have woken me!

OK cannot remember any more! Oh easiest quiche in the world...
Mix together:
2 oz butter
1 1/2 cup milk
3 eggs
1/2 cup self raising flour

Then add:
1 finely chopped onion
2-3 cut up rashers of bacon
1 cup grated cheese

Bake at 180degrees C for 30-40 minutes. That's it!
Have a great day all.

[Nikki~Nathan&Danielle]

suggested holding the child until they came to understand the point of not touching mom's computer. This seemed a bit controlling to me - to hold them against their will

Agree with you there Judy, if fact I found it quite strange of her to suggest this, because it seemed to not tie in with the rest of her message...

OK, all this talk of hoo hoo (I'm kinda guessing what you're all talking about  :wink:) has made me realise I haven't done a "trim" in a VERY long time!  Gosh, for Nathan's birth I got/made DH do it for me! LOL  :lol: In fact was looking for the sissors this morning after my shower and asked DH where they were and he suggested that he'd get the clippers out and do it for me!  :shock:  Needless to say, I'm still looking for the sissors....

Hayley, found another discipline book that my grandmother gave me which I hadn't even looked at  :oops:  and I think the author is the same as one that you got out from the library: Discipline with Shouting and Spanking by Wyckoff is that right?  Well this one is called Getting your Child from No to Yes.  Well, I had a quick look at it and while it give some good dialogue - that's all it is, and doesn't give any solutions on what to do if your child still doesn't do what is requested (it's actually still coming from the same theory of you do what I say which is what I'm personally moving away from) - in fact most discipline books follow this method I've found, I'd be interested in hearing how their first book is.  It talks about "Grandma's rule" - which to me is a very conditional method, the rule is: "When you've done what I've asked you to do, then you're free to do what you want to do" - now I have and actually do still use this form of getting Nathan to do some stuff, because let's face, sometimes things DO have to happen - but I rarely opt for it anymore.

Judy, what are your thoughts on Grandma's Rule?

[Little Bear's Mum]

Goodmorning! Happy NY to you all.

We had a nice evening here, went to a friends house around the corner. About 10 adults and 5 kids (2 sets of twins + Daniel). All the kids (under 18 mnths) had lots of fun as she had some big toys, like the ride in cars/see saws etc that she'd borrowed. Daniel loved the see saw. Anyway, he went off to sleep in a portacot like an angel. No problems, didn't hear from him all night. At about 11.15pm I decided I was ready to go home. Rhys went to another 'party' on the way home that was happening on someone's lawn and I came and put Daniel to bed. Took him a little while to settle, I think the poop didn't help!  And then at midnight I snuck into his room and laid my hand on him to wish him a special happy new year. After all who else would I want to be with (apart from DH) at this time of the year??? And how is this for just wonderful.... he reached out and held my hand and pulled it towards him to cuddle. Aaawwwww it was just the most special NY cuddle ever! So I stood there for about a minute while he cuddled my hand then I snuck it away and he went off to sleep and I went to bed. I rang DH and said H.NY then he came home about 15 mins later. I felt a bit odd going home by myself while DH was around the corner (only about 6 houses away) but after my special moment with Daniel I didn't care.

Enough about me....

Micky, that's excellent news on how Jack's recovery is going. Sounds like he'll be running around in no time!  :wink:

I read the article that I think Bec posted. Really interesting. I keep finding myself saying 'good boy' to Daniel and am now really aware of it, so correct myself and say 'did you enjoy that?' or 'you're clever pulling yourself up like that' etc. Now, what I'd like to know, is do you just model this behaviour for the DH's to pick up on, or should I try to make him read info on this sort of stuff too? He's into reading, but not so much on the baby books, leaves that to me sort of. But I want him to be on track with my thinking. Assuming he agrees with it that is. Judy and Nikki and other experienced mums, what have you done?

Judy, is is scary to think the girls are wanting to be on the computer already? I guess it's just modelling our behaviour really, just like they want to cook or clean! Yeah right!!!

Happy 9 months old Danielle. Wow, it won't be long and we'll all be saying happy 1st birthday.

I loved the chat yesterday, much better with friends to chat to compared with my previous/1st time attempt. I'll have to remember again next week.

DH has just got up so must be time for me to make the coffees. Daniel's doing cot olympics at the moment but will hopefully be asleep any minute.....

Bye for now.