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gee a lot has been happening around here! i haven't been into this group for such a long time 
Tiana is doing well and is running around and learning heaps especially from her older brothers..
Who says terrible twos start at two?????? It is no this and no that and sits on the ground when you want to go places, however she is a delight and love having a little girl. My boys are not too bad either
Tiana is doing well and is running around and learning heaps especially from her older brothers..
Who says terrible twos start at two?????? It is no this and no that and sits on the ground when you want to go places, however she is a delight and love having a little girl. My boys are not too bad either
Hello everyone,
just quickly, I have been looking at daycares to put Roman in. I am of course nervous and just wanted to know if anyone had some friendly advice on how it all works out, experiences or comments?
I am attempting to go to full time work and will need him in there from 7am until about 3-4pm. Im hesitant of letting go but i know it has to be done.
How did everyone go with their transition to different routines?
just quickly, I have been looking at daycares to put Roman in. I am of course nervous and just wanted to know if anyone had some friendly advice on how it all works out, experiences or comments?
I am attempting to go to full time work and will need him in there from 7am until about 3-4pm. Im hesitant of letting go but i know it has to be done.
How did everyone go with their transition to different routines?
Hi all
Yeh the terrible two's have already started here too
Nic - They usually try and keep the childs routine the same as home, so it's not too bad. You may find he will love it, only time will tell
Yeh the terrible two's have already started here too
Nic - They usually try and keep the childs routine the same as home, so it's not too bad. You may find he will love it, only time will tell
Pass this test before you have children...i thought this email was funny enough to share 
FOLLOW THESE 14 SIMPLE TESTS BEFORE YOU DECIDE TO HAVE CHILDREN. IF ITS TOO LATE FOR YOU, TRY TO WARN OTHERS:
Test 1 - Preparation
Women: To prepare for pregnancy:-
1. Put on a dressing gown and stick a beanbag down the front.
2. Leave it there.
3. After 9 months remove 5% of the beans.
Men: To prepare for children:-
1. go to a local chemist, tip the contents of your wallet onto the counter and tell the pharmacist to help himself
2. go to the supermarket. Arrange to have your salary paid directly to their head office
3. Go home. Pick up the newspaper and read it for the last time.
Test 2 - Knowledge
Find a couple who are already parents and berate them about their methods of discipline, lack of patience, appallingly low tolerance levels and how they have allowed their children to run wild.
Suggest ways in which they might improve their child's sleeping habits, toilet training, table manners and overall behaviour.
Enjoy it. It will be the last time in your life that you will have all the answers.
Test 3 - Nights
To discover how the nights will feel:
1. Walk around the living room from 5pm to 10pm carrying a wet bag weighing approximately 4 - 6kg, with a radio turned to static (or some other obnoxious sound) playing loudly.
2. At 10pm, put the bag down, set the alarm for midnight and go to sleep.
3. Get up at 11pm and walk the bag around the living room until 1am.
4. Set the alarm for 3am.
5. As you can't get back to sleep, get up at 2am and make a cup of tea.
6. Go to bed at 2.45am.
7. Get up again at 3am when the alarm goes off.
8. Sing songs in the dark until 4am.
9. Put the alarm on for 5am. Get up when it goes off.
10. Make breakfast.
Keep this up for 5 years. LOOK CHEERFUL.
Test 4 - Dressing Small Children
1. Buy a live octopus and a string bag.
2. Attempt to put the octopus into the string bag so that no arms hang out.
Time Allowed: 5 minutes.
Test 5 - Cars
1. Forget the BMW. Buy a practical 5-door wagon.
2. Buy a chocolate ice cream cone and put it in the glove compartment. Leave it there.
3. Get a coin. Insert it into the CD player.
4. Take a box of chocolate biscuits; mash them into the back seat.
5. Run a garden rake along both sides of the car.
Test 6 - Going For a Walk
Wait
Go out the front door
Come back in again
Go out
Come back in again
Go out again
Walk down the front path
Walk back up it
Walk down it again
Walk very slowly down the road for five minutes.
Stop, inspect minutely and ask at least 6 questions about every piece of used chewing gum, dirty tissue and dead insect along the way.
Retrace your steps
Scream that you have had as much as you can stand until the neighbours come out and stare at you.
Give up and go back into the house.
You are now just about ready to try taking a small child for a walk.
Test 7
Repeat everything you say at least 5 times.
Test 8 - Grocery Shopping
1. Go to the local supermarket. Take with you the nearest thing you can find to a pre-school child - a fully grown goat is excellent.
If you intend to have more than one child, take more than one goat.
2. Buy your weekly groceries without letting the goat(s) out of your sight.
3. Pay for everything the goat eats or destroys.
Until you can easily accomplish this, do not even contemplate having children.
Test 9 - Feeding a 1 year-old
1. Hollow out a melon
2. Make a small hole in the side
3. Suspend the melon from the ceiling and swing it side to side
4. Now get a bowl of soggy cornflakes and attempt to spoon them into the swaying melon while pretending to be an aeroplane.
5. Continue until half the cornflakes are gone.
6. Tip the rest into your lap, making sure that a lot of it falls on the floor.
Test 10 - TV
1. Learn the names of every character from the Wiggles, Barney, Teletubbies and Disney.
2. Watch nothing else on television for at least 5 years.
Test 11 - Mess
Can you stand the mess children make? To find out:
1. Smear peanut butter onto the sofa and jam onto the curtains
2. Hide a fish behind the stereo and leave it there all summer.
3. Stick your fingers in the flowerbeds and then rub them on clean walls. Cover the stains with crayon. How does that look?
Test 12 - Long Trips with Toddlers
1. Make a recording of someone shouting 'Mummy' repeatedly.
Important Notes: No more than a 4 second delay between each Mummy. Include occasional crescendo to the level of a supersonic jet.
2. Play this tape in your car, everywhere you go for the next 4 years.
You are now ready to take a long trip with a toddler.
Test 13 - Conversations
1. Start talking to an adult of your choice.
2. Have someone else continually tug on your shirt hem or shirt sleeve while playing the Mummy tape listed above.
You are now ready to have a conversation with an adult while there is a child in the room.
Test 14 - Getting ready for work
1. Pick a day on which you have an important meeting.
2. Put on your finest work attire.
3. Take a cup of cream and put 1 cup of lemon juice in it
4. Stir
5. Dump half of it on your nice silk shirt
6. Saturate a towel with the other half of the mixture
7. Attempt to clean your shirt with the same saturated towel
8. Do not change (you have no time).
9. Go directly to work
You are now ready to have children. ENJOY!!
FOLLOW THESE 14 SIMPLE TESTS BEFORE YOU DECIDE TO HAVE CHILDREN. IF ITS TOO LATE FOR YOU, TRY TO WARN OTHERS:
Test 1 - Preparation
Women: To prepare for pregnancy:-
1. Put on a dressing gown and stick a beanbag down the front.
2. Leave it there.
3. After 9 months remove 5% of the beans.
Men: To prepare for children:-
1. go to a local chemist, tip the contents of your wallet onto the counter and tell the pharmacist to help himself
2. go to the supermarket. Arrange to have your salary paid directly to their head office
3. Go home. Pick up the newspaper and read it for the last time.
Test 2 - Knowledge
Find a couple who are already parents and berate them about their methods of discipline, lack of patience, appallingly low tolerance levels and how they have allowed their children to run wild.
Suggest ways in which they might improve their child's sleeping habits, toilet training, table manners and overall behaviour.
Enjoy it. It will be the last time in your life that you will have all the answers.
Test 3 - Nights
To discover how the nights will feel:
1. Walk around the living room from 5pm to 10pm carrying a wet bag weighing approximately 4 - 6kg, with a radio turned to static (or some other obnoxious sound) playing loudly.
2. At 10pm, put the bag down, set the alarm for midnight and go to sleep.
3. Get up at 11pm and walk the bag around the living room until 1am.
4. Set the alarm for 3am.
5. As you can't get back to sleep, get up at 2am and make a cup of tea.
6. Go to bed at 2.45am.
7. Get up again at 3am when the alarm goes off.
8. Sing songs in the dark until 4am.
9. Put the alarm on for 5am. Get up when it goes off.
10. Make breakfast.
Keep this up for 5 years. LOOK CHEERFUL.
Test 4 - Dressing Small Children
1. Buy a live octopus and a string bag.
2. Attempt to put the octopus into the string bag so that no arms hang out.
Time Allowed: 5 minutes.
Test 5 - Cars
1. Forget the BMW. Buy a practical 5-door wagon.
2. Buy a chocolate ice cream cone and put it in the glove compartment. Leave it there.
3. Get a coin. Insert it into the CD player.
4. Take a box of chocolate biscuits; mash them into the back seat.
5. Run a garden rake along both sides of the car.
Test 6 - Going For a Walk
Wait
Go out the front door
Come back in again
Go out
Come back in again
Go out again
Walk down the front path
Walk back up it
Walk down it again
Walk very slowly down the road for five minutes.
Stop, inspect minutely and ask at least 6 questions about every piece of used chewing gum, dirty tissue and dead insect along the way.
Retrace your steps
Scream that you have had as much as you can stand until the neighbours come out and stare at you.
Give up and go back into the house.
You are now just about ready to try taking a small child for a walk.
Test 7
Repeat everything you say at least 5 times.
Test 8 - Grocery Shopping
1. Go to the local supermarket. Take with you the nearest thing you can find to a pre-school child - a fully grown goat is excellent.
If you intend to have more than one child, take more than one goat.
2. Buy your weekly groceries without letting the goat(s) out of your sight.
3. Pay for everything the goat eats or destroys.
Until you can easily accomplish this, do not even contemplate having children.
Test 9 - Feeding a 1 year-old
1. Hollow out a melon
2. Make a small hole in the side
3. Suspend the melon from the ceiling and swing it side to side
4. Now get a bowl of soggy cornflakes and attempt to spoon them into the swaying melon while pretending to be an aeroplane.
5. Continue until half the cornflakes are gone.
6. Tip the rest into your lap, making sure that a lot of it falls on the floor.
Test 10 - TV
1. Learn the names of every character from the Wiggles, Barney, Teletubbies and Disney.
2. Watch nothing else on television for at least 5 years.
Test 11 - Mess
Can you stand the mess children make? To find out:
1. Smear peanut butter onto the sofa and jam onto the curtains
2. Hide a fish behind the stereo and leave it there all summer.
3. Stick your fingers in the flowerbeds and then rub them on clean walls. Cover the stains with crayon. How does that look?
Test 12 - Long Trips with Toddlers
1. Make a recording of someone shouting 'Mummy' repeatedly.
Important Notes: No more than a 4 second delay between each Mummy. Include occasional crescendo to the level of a supersonic jet.
2. Play this tape in your car, everywhere you go for the next 4 years.
You are now ready to take a long trip with a toddler.
Test 13 - Conversations
1. Start talking to an adult of your choice.
2. Have someone else continually tug on your shirt hem or shirt sleeve while playing the Mummy tape listed above.
You are now ready to have a conversation with an adult while there is a child in the room.
Test 14 - Getting ready for work
1. Pick a day on which you have an important meeting.
2. Put on your finest work attire.
3. Take a cup of cream and put 1 cup of lemon juice in it
4. Stir
5. Dump half of it on your nice silk shirt
6. Saturate a towel with the other half of the mixture
7. Attempt to clean your shirt with the same saturated towel
8. Do not change (you have no time).
9. Go directly to work
You are now ready to have children. ENJOY!!
Everyone. I miss you girls
hi girls gee i feel like it's been ages since i have posted...
well whats been goin on well i have also set a wedding date feb 20th 2010 so not much time to organise we have rushed it as my nan is sick and i want her there
got my dress boys suits are organised celebrant booked reception organised
invites getting made wow still heaps to do we are going ring shopping this week
i am not having brides maids or groomsmen we are just having the day about us and our boys
i cant wait
the twins are driving me a little mad lately all they seem to do is whine..
bring on kiddy free friday i bloody need it
better go the sooking has started
take care
missy
well whats been goin on well i have also set a wedding date feb 20th 2010 so not much time to organise we have rushed it as my nan is sick and i want her there
got my dress boys suits are organised celebrant booked reception organised
invites getting made wow still heaps to do we are going ring shopping this week
i am not having brides maids or groomsmen we are just having the day about us and our boys
i cant wait
the twins are driving me a little mad lately all they seem to do is whine..
bring on kiddy free friday i bloody need it
better go the sooking has started
take care
missy
Sarah and deepest condolences to you at this time. We are all here for you if you need anything Missy Congrats with the wedding date! I bet the boys will look so adorable. Cant wait to see pictures.
Hope everything runs smoothly
Alicia ctoo Hows all your wedding plans going?
Whats new with us- Roman is starting daycare next week he's going to be in there for 4 days. Im pretty excited I think he will really enjoy it.
We are just starting to save for our wedding, I think its going to be early 2011 for us. We will just play it out.
Chris has a large family so we will be doing alot of saving.
We im off to pack, am heading to mollymook to visit my sister and put hair extensions in her hair
nic i would love hair extensions i would love to get some for my hair in the wedding is there much to them ????
Missy- there's 3 kind of ways you can do them- sew in wefts- braided in which Africans are very clever at doing as they can do the tiniest of braids. The hair comes all attached in large pieces and they are sewn in with twine. They go in really tight, I had these for just over a year in and out and I'd have to say although they were my fave they can lead to tension alopaecia ( bald patches from where the hair is pulled so tight it traumitises the shaft if prolonged use -I think I got away just in time)
The other two are micro beads and glue-in. They come in individual strands and are measured up to your own hair 1cm away from the root. Micro beads are heated and then shrunk onto the hair when cooling pressed flat. Glue-in are similiar except you heat the glue and when its cool enough to touch we roll
onto your natural hair until attached.
I did the glue-in's in my sisters hair, I dyed her hair first to match the brown and blonde foils I was putting in and it took me about 7hours altogether to do a full head.
As I did them for her it would probably cost alot more service wise to have it done and depending where you go, but I bought the hair off the internet for about $200 and put it in for her for free ( lucky girl)
You are probably looking around average $700 for any type of extensions.
They last about 2months maybe more depending how well you look after them.
before shot
http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm198/E...s/Simbfore1.jpg
after colour, before extensions
http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm198/E...ourb4extnsn.jpg
During extensions
http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm198/E...immidextnsn.jpg
After
http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm198/E...afterextnsn.jpg
The other two are micro beads and glue-in. They come in individual strands and are measured up to your own hair 1cm away from the root. Micro beads are heated and then shrunk onto the hair when cooling pressed flat. Glue-in are similiar except you heat the glue and when its cool enough to touch we roll
onto your natural hair until attached.
I did the glue-in's in my sisters hair, I dyed her hair first to match the brown and blonde foils I was putting in and it took me about 7hours altogether to do a full head.
As I did them for her it would probably cost alot more service wise to have it done and depending where you go, but I bought the hair off the internet for about $200 and put it in for her for free ( lucky girl)
You are probably looking around average $700 for any type of extensions.
They last about 2months maybe more depending how well you look after them.
before shot
http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm198/E...s/Simbfore1.jpg
after colour, before extensions
http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm198/E...ourb4extnsn.jpg
During extensions
http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm198/E...immidextnsn.jpg
After
http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm198/E...afterextnsn.jpg
Hi guys
I cant believe Roman's first day of pre-school I get the dreaded call...he got bitten by another kid...he is sporting a lovely bruise in the shape of a mouth on his cheek now...to make matters worse he got his first casting Monday for Big W...great timing
I cant believe Roman's first day of pre-school I get the dreaded call...he got bitten by another kid...he is sporting a lovely bruise in the shape of a mouth on his cheek now...to make matters worse he got his first casting Monday for Big W...great timing
hi
hi nic aww i hope roman is ok poor litttle mite hopefully the bruise goes down before monday i had a look at ya picks you did a great job of your sisters hair...
gotta go i will pop in later got a busy day planned
gotta go i will pop in later got a busy day planned
Merry christmas Everyone!
Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas
hope you all had a great xmas and new year 
wats been goin on so quiet in here do we all have lives now or are we all addicted to facebook
wats been goin on so quiet in here do we all have lives now or are we all addicted to facebook
Hi All
Happy New Year!!
We just got back (yesterday) from our trip overseas for Christmas and New Year... had a FANTASTIC time, despite Max coming down with Chicken Pox a few days before we left and Angus deciding he was going to 'try it on' all through the holidays... looks like he is a very willful little boy and/or the 'terrible twos' are making an early appearance.
Hope you are all well
Catch up again soon
Amanda
Happy New Year!!
We just got back (yesterday) from our trip overseas for Christmas and New Year... had a FANTASTIC time, despite Max coming down with Chicken Pox a few days before we left and Angus deciding he was going to 'try it on' all through the holidays... looks like he is a very willful little boy and/or the 'terrible twos' are making an early appearance.
Hope you are all well
Catch up again soon
Amanda
Welcome back Amanda 
Hi all.
Hi all.
welcome back amanda!
gosh Sarah, Natasha is a mini-you! Beautiful new siggy
gosh Sarah, Natasha is a mini-you! Beautiful new siggy
I only just realised that Nic when I found an old picture of me. I'll scan and post it here next week.
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