[purple_daisy]

I still don't have mine yet . I might need to keep breastfeeding Lachie until he is20 (that should get me to menopause LOL)

This quote had me in stitches

We've had a busy weekend. We've decided that my zippy little micra (only slightly bigger than a mini) is no longer a suitable car for our family. I have known for ages as when the pram is in the boot I can't even fit one bag of groceries in there. So we spent the weekend looking at station wagons and I think we have settled on a Hyundai i30. So now we are watching the second hand markets and hoping to get a 2-3 year old one. Wish us luck.

What have other people been up to?

[gisses]

Hi All! I am still alive and on the planet, albeit only just!

ChantelM- I hear you about missing your bubba. Next week I go to full time. NOT HAPPY about that. But we need the $$$, so I dont really have a choice. The benefit is that Leah is happy (and sleeps well after her busy days!), so that is a consolation. She is about to go up to the bigger bubbas room, which will be different for her.

Emma_P- Your monkeys are sooo cute with their big blue eyes! Well done on going back to work. I dont know how I manage to get out the door and I only have one! I am ready and calling Leah to crawl towards the garage and all I hear is a giggle and a frantic crawl in the other direction as she wasnts to play and hide from me! I feel so mean I have to strap her in the car and leave!

Brownbear- Toby is so cute, I just want to squish him! (not in a bad way of course) I sometimes struggle with things to do with Leah but I find she is mezmerised if I put her in her high chair and cook something (usually packet mix cakes or muffins). I put Mamy Mozart/Giggle and Hoot CD's on and I dance around the kitchen for her looking like a right royal doof. She loves it- esp as I verbalise everything I am doing: "Mummy is cracking an egg, oops, got eggshell in the cake mix", that sort of thing.

runnybabbit- Yay, TTC! I had to laugh about your comment about sex being like going to the gym. I have to agree with you- sometimes I even get sore muscles! How is Nathan sleeping now??

Small Potatoes-

MummyHayles- How is Ruby?

purple_daisy- Ouch for your AF- has it improved? I loke Hyundai i30- nice choice.

to everyone else!

AFM- Tired/busy/tired/busy!

I am certain Leah is growing one or more Molars! Yup- holy sh1t. I must admit she is a little trooper but we have had some awful nights.

She is getting into so much mischeif at home, always wanting to pull things on top of herself and fling her head back and arms up when she doesnt want to be picked up so you almost drop her!

She has learned to play peek a boo but with a difference- she thinks she is hiding when she covers her hands over her ears- it is such a classic!

On the weekend, we took her to a swing in the park and we took the most gorgeous phone footage of her absolutely loving it! Kicking her feet and squealing- I watch it all the time cause it just makes me laugh.

Oh yeah, I forgot my most important news, I am pregnant!
I tested yesterday and we anticipate I am about 5 weeks but because of the m/c, my cycle went a bit out of whack, so I might need a dating scan. I have no symptoms, which is unusual for me but hey, I'm not complaining! Looks like I will be due late Nov/early dec. Daddy Pig is pretty thrilled although disappointed that he wont be able to ravage his wife 9 times in 13 days for a while! (sorry, TMI!)

I had better get back to work, Leah sends lots of XXXX to her online friends.

LOVE the photos, keep em coming!

Here is one of leah- it is a couple months old as I havent had time to upload any more to snapfish!
http://www4.snapfish.com.au/huggiesau/slid.../otsi=SPIClink/

[runnybabbit]

OMG gisses CONGRATULATIONS! So happy for you!!!

[Small Potatoes]

OMG Gisses that is soooooo exciting

[J.E.T.E]

Omg Gisses congratulations! That is such fantastic news!

[ogglyn]

Congrats gisses!

Brownbear - We go to local playgrounds a fair bit, although with Robin it's still a bit full on as he keeps putting mulch and leaves in his mouth. He is getting a bit better though. We have gone a few times to those indoor playgrounds and he loved it. He climbs up the steps to get into the ball pit, silly thing. And he absolutely loves the bouncy castle. I go to gym two mornings a week and leave them at the gym crèche. It's only 1.5 hours, but I get my workout and they get a few more things thrown into the weekly mix. We also have playgroup and swimming, both once a week. He is not yet formally in a class, but we try take him for a dip when DD has her lesson. Throw in visits with friends and family, birthday parties, etc. and I find the weeks get pretty busy, and they really need quiet downtime at home, too.

Robin is so chatty now. Does little actions with his arms and hands my favourite is when he tries to do the mother duck quack quack with his fingers. He said 'bird' the other day, and 'nana' for banana He also says 'meh' for milk.

No walking yet, though seems very close now. Another thing he's started doing is trying to sort shapes. He knows quite a few of them and goes to put them into correct holes, but his fingers are still a bit clumsy and he hasn't figured out how to keep them out of the hole while he's trying to put the shape in.

He is on one sleep a day now. That second nap was just not happening any more. He's quite happy, and DD was on one sleep at 11.5 months, too.

PS Love the photos! They are all so adorable. Do keep them coming

This post has been edited by ogglyn: 30/03/2012, 09:02 PM

[purple_daisy]

Wow Gisses that is super news. Congrats!

[ChantelM]

Gisses - Congratulations! Good luck with going back to work full time. I know how hard it can be being away from your little one. I find you tend to adjust though, I only occasionally have a sad week when I really miss him.

purple_daisy - Unfortunately I can't go down to 3 days at work. 4 days is pushing it, I've been lucky that my new boss is great about the 4 days and me wanting to spend the other day with my baby. I don't want to push my luck..

AFU - Axel is doing well. He currently has his top two teeth coming through and his gums are extremely swollen. On top of that he is a bit fluey so he has been a bit of a cranky pants. We have had some long nights but I have managed to keep him in his cot which I am happy about. He is back to having a bottle in the middle of the night (most nights) to settle him back to sleep. The last 3 nights though, I have changed his nappy and then given him his bottle in the cot, I go back to bed and then he just goes to sleep when he is finished.

His two favourite words at the moment are 'bye bye' and 'no'. Usually he is saying both completely out of context and tells me 'no' when he does actually want something. LOL

I can't believe my little man is 1 on Anzac Day! The bday list is at about 70 ppl. I have no idea how this happened! I only wanted something little originally.
We have decided to just hire a bbq at the hall and have a sausage sizzle, that way I won't be busy in the kitchen the entire party. I have also hired a ball pit for the littlies. It should be cute!

Runnybabbit - Good luck with TTC. I so agree with DTD to be an exercise routine at the moment, way too tired! LOL. We are definitely not ready to TTC again. I do want to have another bub, just not yet.

Mummyhales - Axel is also on 3 bottles a day now. I also found he is eating much more solids, I was worried he would get dehydrated but I have found he also has more interest in his sippy cup now he is having less bottles.

Walking - Axel is crusining along the furniture and climbing things like a little monkey! He is starting to let go and balance so don't think his walking will be too far off. I am looking forward to him walking so we can go outside more often. He gets extremely frustrated being stuck in the pram.

[ogglyn]

ChantelM - I'm also looking forward to R walking for the same reason. I remember with DD once she was walking lots of things got easier. And it will be sooooo cute! Had me laughing at how Axel uses the word 'no'. I remember when DD started saying it she did the same thing, and we had visitors once and I remember telling them "no doesn't mean no"

R has just started to arch his back when I try and sit him down into high chair or car seat. It's very frustrating as he's is very very heavy. Agh!

He's 11 months tomorrow! We played some funny games today, just the two of us while DH took DD out to the shops. He was trying very hard to get me to chase him, and would go into a hysterical laughter when I did, the whole time crawling away from me as fast as he could manage

This post has been edited by ogglyn: 02/04/2012, 09:52 PM

[runnybabbit]

Chantel Nathan is turning one the day before Anzac Day! We have managed to keep it small -- helps that we just moved to Townsville. My MIL and my parents are all flying in for his birthday, so we will have a full house. We are just going to have a morning tea birthday party, since Nathan usually has an early lunch and then a lunchtime nap these days. So I'm doing a lolly buffet and then we're just doing breads, chips and dips. Very excited about the lolly buffet -- think I have gotten carried away. Made some honeycomb on the weekend and it worked well. We're doing blue and yellow as our colour theme so honeycomb is in the yellow category. Also doing honey joys in blue patty pans. And I've bought 1 kg each of blue and yellow M&M's. Like I said, a little carried away... But OMG 70 people. I think we had 100 at our wedding!

ogglyn Nathan loves being chased, too. He doesn't quite know how to run away yet, so he crawls away, laughing, then usually starts to veer off instead of crawling in a straight line. He finds it hilarious when hubs carries him and pretends to be running away from me while I chase them. Today during dinner I was tickling his feet with his spoon and he was laughing his little head off. We have multiple spoons at dinner so he can pretend to feed me, too, which he thinks is great.

This is such a good age. We are not sleeping much (last night he did 7 to 7.30 with one wakeup for milk at 2.30 and then settled straight back to sleep -- best in months) but he is just so much fun. Apart from the sheer exhaustion I am enjoying him SO much.

They really have their own little personalities, don't they? We were at the park and I put him in one of those bucket seat swings, and he freaked out and started to cry and reach out for me. And next to us was a 14-month-old girl happily swinging away, not scared at all.

That being said, I think Nathan is a bit of a scaredy cat. We were at the animal sanctuary on Sunday, where they have free-ranging kangaroos. One of them was sniffing Nathan's foot while he was in the pram, and he didn't realise at first (was looking off to the side). He turned around to see what was tickling his foot and when he saw the kangaroo standing right there with its face right in the pram, he started and then began to cry. It was actually quite funny. He touched the wombat later on but only very cautiously and with a great deal of suspicion.

Edited for shocking grammar!

This post has been edited by runnybabbit: 02/04/2012, 10:39 PM