Sunday, January 30, 2011
This weeks list
Monday - Miles' Music class / Miles' private swim class at home / Miles' hair cut.
Tuesday - Work / nanny for kids
Wednesday - Playgorup back!
thursday - work / day care for kids
friday - Work / Nanny for Greta & Miles' 1st day at Pre School!
Wow what a great weekend. Stayed home and had BBQ's and swimming in the pool. Really enjoyed it, its cheap and simple but such fun - who'd have thought a simple thing like a pool would be so great, but we use it practically every day and have done since September time.. so great.
Greta is having a nap - wow her tantrums are amazing, head bashing on the floor - throwing things, Miles' were and are nothing like that. Jonathan says when we had Miles we got the child for beginers, easy to look after, nice and calm and neat and tidy - now we have the intermediate child - personally i think we have the advanced level child with Greta lol.
Anyway finally sorted the parents accomodation - i think, after having trouble with the place we wanted to put them in saying they could accomodate them then they coldnt then they could again - anyway i THINK we have sorted it now - fingers crossed.
Miles' first day at pre school on Friday, he is going once a week on a Friday. Going with his friend... hopefully be ok there.
Also been talking about doing respite care for kids - we've been thinking about doing fostering for a while - anyway thats a whole other post, just thought id mention it here so it reminds me to do another post about it..
Well best get on and get ready for Miles music class - hmmm bit of a trend here, Miles does so many classes and poor Greta none! i do plan on her starting dance classes around this time next yr when she is 2 and a bit.
x
Tuesday - Work / nanny for kids
Wednesday - Playgorup back!
thursday - work / day care for kids
friday - Work / Nanny for Greta & Miles' 1st day at Pre School!
Wow what a great weekend. Stayed home and had BBQ's and swimming in the pool. Really enjoyed it, its cheap and simple but such fun - who'd have thought a simple thing like a pool would be so great, but we use it practically every day and have done since September time.. so great.
Greta is having a nap - wow her tantrums are amazing, head bashing on the floor - throwing things, Miles' were and are nothing like that. Jonathan says when we had Miles we got the child for beginers, easy to look after, nice and calm and neat and tidy - now we have the intermediate child - personally i think we have the advanced level child with Greta lol.
Anyway finally sorted the parents accomodation - i think, after having trouble with the place we wanted to put them in saying they could accomodate them then they coldnt then they could again - anyway i THINK we have sorted it now - fingers crossed.
Miles' first day at pre school on Friday, he is going once a week on a Friday. Going with his friend... hopefully be ok there.
Also been talking about doing respite care for kids - we've been thinking about doing fostering for a while - anyway thats a whole other post, just thought id mention it here so it reminds me to do another post about it..
Well best get on and get ready for Miles music class - hmmm bit of a trend here, Miles does so many classes and poor Greta none! i do plan on her starting dance classes around this time next yr when she is 2 and a bit.
x
Friday, January 28, 2011
RRSAHM
Just read the lastes update on here http://www.rrsahm.com/ heart breaking, i have now words......
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Happy Australia day!!
...ok so i know it was yesterday but was too busy to post yesterday.
We had all these plans to go to our local shire celbrations like we have been doing for the past 8yrs since we moved here - but well, due to the heat.. usually if we get too hot out there we can just come back home and hide in out aircon, but we don't have air con in the new house - and since we did renovations and over spent by ALOT! we cant afford to put it in - the plan was to do ducted - and thats what we want to do but are just saving up for it now - its such a big house it would take so many units to cool it, so really wanted to do it properly and do ducted.. just got to wait till we can afford to do it!
Anyway i got up and decided to start having a sort out of the kids rooms and before i know it, i was in full on spring clean - in the heart of summer - with no air con.. yes i have gone slightly insane!
So after that i was so hot - decided to take the kids up the local shops to get some BBQ stuff from the butchers - and when i got there it was so lovely and cool, we ended up staying and going to the playcentre they have there - kids had a ball.. Greta is so good for Miles in that she wonders off to play and it makes Miles stray further as he has her as his crutch sort of thing so isnt limited to the places i can fit in with him. So he went on the bouncing castle for the first time EVER - usually he wont go on cos i cant get on and its too far away from me, even if i sit on the edge of it - but i turned around and Greta is on it! She had climbed up a slide one of the other kids had pushed near it and got on!! she's crazy.. so Miles went on it :)
Also the went in the cubby house, and i sat over in the corner on the couch - AHhhhhhhh HEAVEN!
SO then we decided we best get back and hang out with Jonathan as we'd left him home alone and only meant to pop up to the butchers - but he had vac'd the enture house - including the playroom which he hates to do and mopped it too.. and was relaxing in the pool!
So we all jumped in the pool while Jonathan jumped out and got the BBQ going - yes we had been that long it was dinner time!
Had a great BBQ and a couple of beers - well 1 beer, well Jonathan not me, neither of us drink much.
Read Miles a story and off to bed for them both.
Perfect day :) totally not what we had planned, but sometimes it works better when you go with the flow..
Oh Greta woke up a few times as she was so hot - so adjusted the fan in her room and she was ok, then she woke cos Miles woke and started screming, so i rushed into him and he was so so hot and just wanted a drink of water he said - so got him some and brought him into our room as we have the ceiling fan.. and he nodded back off, but Greta woke up with his screaming/cos she was hot and ended up in bed with me for half an hour or so till i took her back to her cot... 2 in the bed is a bit much for anyone! They fight like cat and dog, ALLWAYS hiting and nipping and pulling each others hair - they're worse than 2 boys a swear.. so anyway thats how we all slept.
Cant complain cos they have been both sleeping 12hrs straight since they were a few weeks old, so the odd wake up in the night here and there isnt too bad - well pretty rare really.. but man was in hot - was tossing and turning so no wonder they were waking up too.
Anyway dropped them off at day care this morning and they were both happy as larry - whoever he is - to be there so all good.. Even Miles who i worry about dropping off there, he was quite happy with a litle friend there and 2 of the teachers (hes in the pre shcool room) pandering to him and getting him toast and milk...he LOVES attention.
Greta is always fine, anywhere.
thats all.
3 weeks today till the parents arrive :)
x
We had all these plans to go to our local shire celbrations like we have been doing for the past 8yrs since we moved here - but well, due to the heat.. usually if we get too hot out there we can just come back home and hide in out aircon, but we don't have air con in the new house - and since we did renovations and over spent by ALOT! we cant afford to put it in - the plan was to do ducted - and thats what we want to do but are just saving up for it now - its such a big house it would take so many units to cool it, so really wanted to do it properly and do ducted.. just got to wait till we can afford to do it!
Anyway i got up and decided to start having a sort out of the kids rooms and before i know it, i was in full on spring clean - in the heart of summer - with no air con.. yes i have gone slightly insane!
So after that i was so hot - decided to take the kids up the local shops to get some BBQ stuff from the butchers - and when i got there it was so lovely and cool, we ended up staying and going to the playcentre they have there - kids had a ball.. Greta is so good for Miles in that she wonders off to play and it makes Miles stray further as he has her as his crutch sort of thing so isnt limited to the places i can fit in with him. So he went on the bouncing castle for the first time EVER - usually he wont go on cos i cant get on and its too far away from me, even if i sit on the edge of it - but i turned around and Greta is on it! She had climbed up a slide one of the other kids had pushed near it and got on!! she's crazy.. so Miles went on it :)
Also the went in the cubby house, and i sat over in the corner on the couch - AHhhhhhhh HEAVEN!
SO then we decided we best get back and hang out with Jonathan as we'd left him home alone and only meant to pop up to the butchers - but he had vac'd the enture house - including the playroom which he hates to do and mopped it too.. and was relaxing in the pool!
So we all jumped in the pool while Jonathan jumped out and got the BBQ going - yes we had been that long it was dinner time!
Had a great BBQ and a couple of beers - well 1 beer, well Jonathan not me, neither of us drink much.
Read Miles a story and off to bed for them both.
Perfect day :) totally not what we had planned, but sometimes it works better when you go with the flow..
Oh Greta woke up a few times as she was so hot - so adjusted the fan in her room and she was ok, then she woke cos Miles woke and started screming, so i rushed into him and he was so so hot and just wanted a drink of water he said - so got him some and brought him into our room as we have the ceiling fan.. and he nodded back off, but Greta woke up with his screaming/cos she was hot and ended up in bed with me for half an hour or so till i took her back to her cot... 2 in the bed is a bit much for anyone! They fight like cat and dog, ALLWAYS hiting and nipping and pulling each others hair - they're worse than 2 boys a swear.. so anyway thats how we all slept.
Cant complain cos they have been both sleeping 12hrs straight since they were a few weeks old, so the odd wake up in the night here and there isnt too bad - well pretty rare really.. but man was in hot - was tossing and turning so no wonder they were waking up too.
Anyway dropped them off at day care this morning and they were both happy as larry - whoever he is - to be there so all good.. Even Miles who i worry about dropping off there, he was quite happy with a litle friend there and 2 of the teachers (hes in the pre shcool room) pandering to him and getting him toast and milk...he LOVES attention.
Greta is always fine, anywhere.
thats all.
3 weeks today till the parents arrive :)
x
Monday, January 24, 2011
Such a crappy day today...
... im pretty sure the heat made it worse.
Took Miles to see a Dr about his extreme seperation issues and his inability to cope in a group situation and the good news is that it seems its more me that has the issue that him! Because i realyl struggled with this as a child and adult, and shyness too. Miles has inherited a little of my inability to speak much in groups and extreme clingyness (if thats even a word) but not my shyness, he isnt shy at all.
Anyway the verdict was that he will probably never be the loudest kin in a group but he will adapt and be fine and its mainly me that panders to him and babies him as i had such a hard time of it when i was young and still do now that im trying to desperately do anything i can to make sure he doesnt struggle with it as i do but the reality is that he is nowhere near as bad as me, so the best thing to do is just to stop stressing as im pushing my stress onto him. Yeah, as i said he will never be the loudest in a group, and he is a clingy child, but he isnt me and im stressing so much and trying to stop him struggling as i did/do and am ending up making him worse when he isnt even that bad to start with !
So that was good - ill just try and leave him to make friends himself and not stress about it - also she thought that he played me like a fiddle as i stress so much he will feel lonely or anxious - again, my feelings not his! So he knows if he whines to me or if he says he wants to sit on my knee or whatever then it promotes some reaction on me and i just pander to him - cos of my feelings from when i was a child, and even now to some extent - hmmm guess we are all broken in some way! Anyway he is fine, its mainly me thats desperately trying to compensate for the way i am by making sure he isnt like me, but then he isnt like me i just dont see it ..
Other than that, miles pooped on the floor in JB-Hifi! he then poured nail polish remover all over our rather expensive lounge in the parents snug..... not even meant to be in that room - im sure i would have handled it better but cos i was so so hot and im really struggling with this heat at the moment, i lost my temper and snapped at him. Hate myself for shoulting at him, he is such a sensitive little fellow - God this Motherhood things is so hard sometimes.. im just realyl really struggling with the heat with 2 very clingy kids, i just want to sit down and not be touched and of course they each want me to carry them around and play with them and get them snaks and drinks and thats all perfectly normal but i do have particualrly clingy intense kids who need lots and lots of attention, which is good to know is perfectly normal just hard bloody work - and normalyl im used to it but with this heat ive struggled so much today.
Miles has had 2 time outs on his bed.. then he asked to go to bed at 5.50pm. So i took him but Greta wasnt ready yet so tried to do the story with her crawling around on the floor, she kept screaming cos she wanted to be held (as she has ALL day - well EVERY day really lol) and of course Miles wants one on one time as its his bedtime story so had to sort of shout over her to read.. then she started switching his lamp on and off so i said Greta NO and of course she isnt used to being todl off so she sobbed - oh the joys!
Anyway a tough day, that would have been ok but made so much worse by this awful heat - i just cant cope with it at present.
Quite happy its work tomorrow!
List
Monday - home
Tuesday - work, nanny for the kids
wednesday - Australia Day - off to Wisemans ferry i think
Thursday - work - day care
friday - work, nanny.
Oh on agood note Jonathan bought me a new iPhone 4 and it arrived today :) i never really get any Christmas or birthday pressies from anyone so it was nice to get a gift from him :)
ok over and out for tonight, im so over it today - today has offically SUCKED!
x
Took Miles to see a Dr about his extreme seperation issues and his inability to cope in a group situation and the good news is that it seems its more me that has the issue that him! Because i realyl struggled with this as a child and adult, and shyness too. Miles has inherited a little of my inability to speak much in groups and extreme clingyness (if thats even a word) but not my shyness, he isnt shy at all.
Anyway the verdict was that he will probably never be the loudest kin in a group but he will adapt and be fine and its mainly me that panders to him and babies him as i had such a hard time of it when i was young and still do now that im trying to desperately do anything i can to make sure he doesnt struggle with it as i do but the reality is that he is nowhere near as bad as me, so the best thing to do is just to stop stressing as im pushing my stress onto him. Yeah, as i said he will never be the loudest in a group, and he is a clingy child, but he isnt me and im stressing so much and trying to stop him struggling as i did/do and am ending up making him worse when he isnt even that bad to start with !
So that was good - ill just try and leave him to make friends himself and not stress about it - also she thought that he played me like a fiddle as i stress so much he will feel lonely or anxious - again, my feelings not his! So he knows if he whines to me or if he says he wants to sit on my knee or whatever then it promotes some reaction on me and i just pander to him - cos of my feelings from when i was a child, and even now to some extent - hmmm guess we are all broken in some way! Anyway he is fine, its mainly me thats desperately trying to compensate for the way i am by making sure he isnt like me, but then he isnt like me i just dont see it ..
Other than that, miles pooped on the floor in JB-Hifi! he then poured nail polish remover all over our rather expensive lounge in the parents snug..... not even meant to be in that room - im sure i would have handled it better but cos i was so so hot and im really struggling with this heat at the moment, i lost my temper and snapped at him. Hate myself for shoulting at him, he is such a sensitive little fellow - God this Motherhood things is so hard sometimes.. im just realyl really struggling with the heat with 2 very clingy kids, i just want to sit down and not be touched and of course they each want me to carry them around and play with them and get them snaks and drinks and thats all perfectly normal but i do have particualrly clingy intense kids who need lots and lots of attention, which is good to know is perfectly normal just hard bloody work - and normalyl im used to it but with this heat ive struggled so much today.
Miles has had 2 time outs on his bed.. then he asked to go to bed at 5.50pm. So i took him but Greta wasnt ready yet so tried to do the story with her crawling around on the floor, she kept screaming cos she wanted to be held (as she has ALL day - well EVERY day really lol) and of course Miles wants one on one time as its his bedtime story so had to sort of shout over her to read.. then she started switching his lamp on and off so i said Greta NO and of course she isnt used to being todl off so she sobbed - oh the joys!
Anyway a tough day, that would have been ok but made so much worse by this awful heat - i just cant cope with it at present.
Quite happy its work tomorrow!
List
Monday - home
Tuesday - work, nanny for the kids
wednesday - Australia Day - off to Wisemans ferry i think
Thursday - work - day care
friday - work, nanny.
Oh on agood note Jonathan bought me a new iPhone 4 and it arrived today :) i never really get any Christmas or birthday pressies from anyone so it was nice to get a gift from him :)
ok over and out for tonight, im so over it today - today has offically SUCKED!
x
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Fantastic weekend!
And all we did was stay home and hang out by and in the pool. But it was such fun.
Kids had a sleep in this morning, didn't wake till 8am! Winner - well i woke up to this crunching sound and found Miles sat between the pair of us, he had got up, been in the kitchen and helped himself to soem rice cakes and picked up his wiggles toys and was sat in the middle of us playing with them and eating his rice cakes - just as i was stiring he jumped up and trotted off to the kitchen and came back with a bottle of milk from the fridge and a cup for him and himself and announced Greta was awake - this was 8am so we had a lovely sleep in :)
got up and baked a couple of cakes and cupcakes and an apple crumble. Then of course had a BBQ for dinner - i have grown my own cucumbers, tomatoes, onions and carrots this year - oh and strawberries too - they were so so yummy :) A little anemic looking but tasted so goo.
Spent all weekend round the pool and swimming - i LOVE having our own pool :)
Also popped over to Ikea to return a couple of things i had bought and changed my mind about and pick up a couple of little things - oh and meatballs of course :)
So here are a couple of our great weekend:
Kids had a sleep in this morning, didn't wake till 8am! Winner - well i woke up to this crunching sound and found Miles sat between the pair of us, he had got up, been in the kitchen and helped himself to soem rice cakes and picked up his wiggles toys and was sat in the middle of us playing with them and eating his rice cakes - just as i was stiring he jumped up and trotted off to the kitchen and came back with a bottle of milk from the fridge and a cup for him and himself and announced Greta was awake - this was 8am so we had a lovely sleep in :)
Spent all weekend round the pool and swimming - i LOVE having our own pool :)
Also popped over to Ikea to return a couple of things i had bought and changed my mind about and pick up a couple of little things - oh and meatballs of course :)
So here are a couple of our great weekend:
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Cat Fight
Literally, in my dining room under the table at 5am - another cat from one of the neightbours houses had come into the house - jonathan had gone to bed last and left the door open! Anyway i was woken to cats screaming at each other - so came out to see what was going and on the neighbours cat went running off out the front door and Amber (our cat) was under the dining table. Tried to get her to come out but she was quite shaken, which i was shocked by, i know she is a girl and is petite but man is she a scrapper! We have moved house with her 3 times now and every time she has become top cat in every house and area, taking over the teritory .. so to see another cat in her house and teritory was a bit of a shock. Think it had been a close fought battle which is unusual for her - she usually wins hand down.. mind you he is double her size!
Then i saw blood on the floor! After a magor panic and a very close inspeciton of Amber i conclude that its the other cats bllod as there isnt a scrath on Amber - also lots of whilte fur and Greta is ginger.
So a broken nights sleep... so went back to bed and kids didnt wake till 8am :)
Then i saw blood on the floor! After a magor panic and a very close inspeciton of Amber i conclude that its the other cats bllod as there isnt a scrath on Amber - also lots of whilte fur and Greta is ginger.
So a broken nights sleep... so went back to bed and kids didnt wake till 8am :)
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Iphone 4
My lovely hubby has bought me the new iPhone :) he bought me my first iPhone, the original a few days after they first came out in July 3yrs ago for my 30th birthday - and 3yrs later, after loving my dear old iPhone all this time - he has bought be a belated Christmas pressie, the new iPhone 4 - so so excited!
I hear the camera is better and has a flash - i have a Cannon DSLR but still, its big and bulky so i dont have it to hand all the time so its easy to just grab my phone to take a quick snap while we are out - and of course im obsesed with photographs.
Dropped the kids off this morning on my way to work and Greta was fine, sat in a chair and ate a slice of toast, never batted an eyelid when i said bye to her - Miles on the other hand wen hysterical, clung to me - i sat him down with a slice of toast and made sure he knew what he was doing - but still, i felt so bad - he is definately more of the baby, i worry about him so much more that i do Greta.. she is very different to Miles. I adore my gentle little soul Miles but it breaks my heart to leave him. I went to collect them and Greta was playing in the sand pit having a ball and Miles was sitting at the side on his own... breaks my heart that all the other kids were playing together and he was on is own :(
Anyway they are with their Nanny tomorrow and her 2 daughters so i know he will have a ball there :) one on one he is fine, its just in a group he struggles - and im sure i pander to it more than i should but i dont want to leave him to feel uncomfy so im not sure what im doing is helpful or not... hmmmm not sure.......
Anyway all for now - best get the kids food ready for tomorrow.
x
I hear the camera is better and has a flash - i have a Cannon DSLR but still, its big and bulky so i dont have it to hand all the time so its easy to just grab my phone to take a quick snap while we are out - and of course im obsesed with photographs.
Dropped the kids off this morning on my way to work and Greta was fine, sat in a chair and ate a slice of toast, never batted an eyelid when i said bye to her - Miles on the other hand wen hysterical, clung to me - i sat him down with a slice of toast and made sure he knew what he was doing - but still, i felt so bad - he is definately more of the baby, i worry about him so much more that i do Greta.. she is very different to Miles. I adore my gentle little soul Miles but it breaks my heart to leave him. I went to collect them and Greta was playing in the sand pit having a ball and Miles was sitting at the side on his own... breaks my heart that all the other kids were playing together and he was on is own :(
Anyway they are with their Nanny tomorrow and her 2 daughters so i know he will have a ball there :) one on one he is fine, its just in a group he struggles - and im sure i pander to it more than i should but i dont want to leave him to feel uncomfy so im not sure what im doing is helpful or not... hmmmm not sure.......
Anyway all for now - best get the kids food ready for tomorrow.
x
Sunday, January 16, 2011
this weeks list!
Monday - ikea and home with the kids
Tuesday - work/ nanny for the kids
Wed - home with the kids, taking Greta to get her weighed i think.. if i dont do it today..
Thursday - work/day care for kids
Frid - work/.nanny for kids.
nothing exciting this week.. Re organised Miles'bedroom over the weekend so got some ikea shelving units to sell that we had in there.. he does use them now as we have a play room in this house so they were just sitting there empty and it bugged me so have taken them out and his rom looks much bigger now, he can acutally play in there if he wishes.
So hot today.. wanted to get to Ikea early so Greta could come home and have her nap - shes been asleep for 2 hours now :)
Then had a swim with miles, my face feels a little burnt so home i dont end up with sunburnt face! I put lots of sunscrean on - or sun scream as Miles calls it lol.
Jonathan sent me a link about government paying for 18 weeks maternity leave now - erm yes but i dont want another baby! i told him if he really wants one we will discuss when Greta turns 2 and see how we are feeling then... im kinda 90% against and 10 % for i think jonathan is 60% against and 40% for lol - so see how we go... maybe one of us will change our minds - ive just sold everything now as i was sure i didnt want another then Jonathan keeps saying ooh what would you name it if you had another - hmmmm shut it! lol.
So Miles is totally toilet trained now - but the other day he had the runs.. OMG, he ran to the toilet but never quite made it and ended up getting a good half of it in his undies *vomits!* so so so so gross - i had to scrape it off - OMG well i actually didnt i actually threw them out! Im sorry but how anyone deals with babies in those cloth nappies or whatever they are called but have a very very strong stomach - why the hell you'd want to do that on a daily basis i have no clue - give me disposables any day of the week - bloody gross!
Well i think ive dried off now after our swim - best go and get the Ikea goods out of the car and have a look and getting it set up in Miles' room.
x
Tuesday - work/ nanny for the kids
Wed - home with the kids, taking Greta to get her weighed i think.. if i dont do it today..
Thursday - work/day care for kids
Frid - work/.nanny for kids.
nothing exciting this week.. Re organised Miles'bedroom over the weekend so got some ikea shelving units to sell that we had in there.. he does use them now as we have a play room in this house so they were just sitting there empty and it bugged me so have taken them out and his rom looks much bigger now, he can acutally play in there if he wishes.
So hot today.. wanted to get to Ikea early so Greta could come home and have her nap - shes been asleep for 2 hours now :)
Then had a swim with miles, my face feels a little burnt so home i dont end up with sunburnt face! I put lots of sunscrean on - or sun scream as Miles calls it lol.
Jonathan sent me a link about government paying for 18 weeks maternity leave now - erm yes but i dont want another baby! i told him if he really wants one we will discuss when Greta turns 2 and see how we are feeling then... im kinda 90% against and 10 % for i think jonathan is 60% against and 40% for lol - so see how we go... maybe one of us will change our minds - ive just sold everything now as i was sure i didnt want another then Jonathan keeps saying ooh what would you name it if you had another - hmmmm shut it! lol.
So Miles is totally toilet trained now - but the other day he had the runs.. OMG, he ran to the toilet but never quite made it and ended up getting a good half of it in his undies *vomits!* so so so so gross - i had to scrape it off - OMG well i actually didnt i actually threw them out! Im sorry but how anyone deals with babies in those cloth nappies or whatever they are called but have a very very strong stomach - why the hell you'd want to do that on a daily basis i have no clue - give me disposables any day of the week - bloody gross!
Well i think ive dried off now after our swim - best go and get the Ikea goods out of the car and have a look and getting it set up in Miles' room.
x
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Blogs!
Wow - well... i joined some great blogs a while back and have been an avid follower.. but recently what with returning to work i haven't read any of them and yesterday vowed to get back into at least one of them and chose what i thouht would be a pretty easy and light read http://lplategreenie.blogspot.com/ however i clicked on it and scrolled back through the few posts i'd missed and came to the saddest story i've read in a while now - well apart from the QLD devastatoin - so of course had to read that blog too and now i have an extra blog that i will have to try and keep up with! But just reading through that blog - wow it really puts your life into perspective and i like to think im a positive person anyway and know im damn lucky in life but that really makes me stop myself if i ever think about having a whinge...so so sad.
Anyway, in other news - Disney Live yesterday was great and so so good to go out with just Miles, as we always have Greta with us so he never gets the one on one time anymore - well i know he had it for 2 full yrs till Greta was born but he never gets it now... and he is the most un-jealous (if thats even a word!) kid i know, must get it from his Daddy - i always say he was born without the jealous gene - i remember a few years ago i was going out every weekend with a guy from work and Jonathan would say oh its great you have a friend over here as we were new to Australia - anyway one evening he came to pick me up and met my friend for the first time and said - oh i didnt know he was gay! i couldnt believe that i hadnt told him he was gay - so he thought id been going out every weekend with this straigh gay and didnt even bat an eye lid!
I think id have had something to say if he was going out with a girl every weekend.. Anyway Miles is that same - I can go into a shop and pick something up for Greta and say we are just getting a gift for her today and Miles asks if he can have one and i say no and he just goes oh ok then.
I so wish i was like that but im not. im not a particualarly jealous person but about average i guess - i would have had a fit if my mum had bought my sister a gift in a shop and not me, she'd have had to have bought us one each!
Anyway after all that waffle, we had lunch in the city yesterday then say Disney Live and then came home on a tram and a train and Miles was SO SO good.m he had a ball :)
Going to re-arrange his bedroom today - he has way too many storage units in there and he doesnt need any as we now have a play room, so going to move them to the garage for Jonathan to use..
Hmmm still feels wrong posting about my life with these terrible floods in QLD and so many lives lost :(
Perhaps i should just leave it for a while...
Anyway, in other news - Disney Live yesterday was great and so so good to go out with just Miles, as we always have Greta with us so he never gets the one on one time anymore - well i know he had it for 2 full yrs till Greta was born but he never gets it now... and he is the most un-jealous (if thats even a word!) kid i know, must get it from his Daddy - i always say he was born without the jealous gene - i remember a few years ago i was going out every weekend with a guy from work and Jonathan would say oh its great you have a friend over here as we were new to Australia - anyway one evening he came to pick me up and met my friend for the first time and said - oh i didnt know he was gay! i couldnt believe that i hadnt told him he was gay - so he thought id been going out every weekend with this straigh gay and didnt even bat an eye lid!
I think id have had something to say if he was going out with a girl every weekend.. Anyway Miles is that same - I can go into a shop and pick something up for Greta and say we are just getting a gift for her today and Miles asks if he can have one and i say no and he just goes oh ok then.
I so wish i was like that but im not. im not a particualarly jealous person but about average i guess - i would have had a fit if my mum had bought my sister a gift in a shop and not me, she'd have had to have bought us one each!
Anyway after all that waffle, we had lunch in the city yesterday then say Disney Live and then came home on a tram and a train and Miles was SO SO good.m he had a ball :)
Going to re-arrange his bedroom today - he has way too many storage units in there and he doesnt need any as we now have a play room, so going to move them to the garage for Jonathan to use..
Hmmm still feels wrong posting about my life with these terrible floods in QLD and so many lives lost :(
Perhaps i should just leave it for a while...
Friday, January 14, 2011
Disney Live
Not Disney on ice - Disney on ice isn't on till July - i got them mixed up. So we are going to see Disney live today - but Miles is still excited.
Tired, they woke at 6.15am! Miles woke and had a maor tantrum - must be tired.. Greta is being as adorable as ever, wwell she's just empited the contents of my bag all over the floor to get to a stray packet of rice crackers - so i found her sat on the floor surrounded by the entire contents of my back attempting to open the packet up and her little face broke into a gorgoeus smile when she saw me - so cute :)
Must make an effort to read some blogs i started following, ive not read them in a while now - i just discovered this whole network of blogs i never knew existed! so i started following 5 of so of them and became an avid reader but now with work and the kids and ive also taken on the role of regional coordinator at Playgroup, i dont seem to have the time to breath never mind anything else - ok so i will now randomply choose one in my favourites and start to read it again..... i choose - Greenine in the making! ok so will start to have a read of that one again and that might get me back into reading the others..
all for now, so tired today :(
x
Tired, they woke at 6.15am! Miles woke and had a maor tantrum - must be tired.. Greta is being as adorable as ever, wwell she's just empited the contents of my bag all over the floor to get to a stray packet of rice crackers - so i found her sat on the floor surrounded by the entire contents of my back attempting to open the packet up and her little face broke into a gorgoeus smile when she saw me - so cute :)
Must make an effort to read some blogs i started following, ive not read them in a while now - i just discovered this whole network of blogs i never knew existed! so i started following 5 of so of them and became an avid reader but now with work and the kids and ive also taken on the role of regional coordinator at Playgroup, i dont seem to have the time to breath never mind anything else - ok so i will now randomply choose one in my favourites and start to read it again..... i choose - Greenine in the making! ok so will start to have a read of that one again and that might get me back into reading the others..
all for now, so tired today :(
x
TFI Friday !!!
My last day of work for this week :) i shouldn't complain i only work 3 days a week - but man is it hard getting into a routine - the house is trashed! Ok its not but to me who has a mini neat freak obsession it is.. my cleaning day is a Friday which used to be Miles' day care day and i would put Greta down for her nap and i would clean while she slept - she still sleeps for 4 or 5 hours a day so i always have time to get the house work done but then have to do the vacuuming and the mopping while she is awake - cant vac with Miles at home as he has an issue with the high pitched noises that they make so can't be in the house when its on. Its a pretty big house,4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3 living areas plus 1 dining room and 1 meals room and set on a decent bit of land too - so it so easy task cleaning it!
Anyway ive come home tonight and said i just have to clean it - and made DH help me haha - so just waiting till little ones are fast asleep, they've been in bed since 6.30pm so give them another 15 mins then we will start!
Kids had a good day at their nanny's house today - Miles (for the 2nd time this week) cried when we went to collect him as he had such a lovely day he didnt want to come home did the same yesterday and screamed all everning till bed time - it was bloody hard work with him yesterday - but better today.
So i took a container of leftovers i had for Greta in the freezer and she had that for dinner so that worked well... Was a bit odd getting them home and not eating with them.. normal for Jonathan as he gets home late 5 nights a week anyway so i leave his meal on a plate and he eats about 8pm or whenever he gets in - anway it was a bit odd tonight as im used to eating with the kids, i think its important to eat with them to teach them manners and social skills and how to sit at the table and its just nice the 3 of us sitting and eating together so i got home and stuck the stir fry on that i had left to marinate all day and i served them some up too :0) so they had double dinne tonight haha .. it just felt wrong eating without them - Miles actually asked for 2nds !
I'll try not to make a habit out of it though - perhaps i should wait on those 2 nights and not cook our evening meal till the kids have gone to bed - be nice to sit down and eat with Jonathan, as we only sit together on a weekend when he is home early enough to be there when the 3 of us eat.
Erm what else... oh the pay it forward - i managed to track down the item i wanted on-line so thats good.. when it arrives i will get on with making them with the kids.. they should enjoy helping me make them. Its a great idea, we make a gift for someone and then send it to them and someone else makes a gift for us and sends it to us - really great idea :)
Think im going to take Miles on the train tomorrow - blurrrrrrrrrrr public transport! but he has been nagging to go on a train for weeks now so he will love it im sure..
I tried tell him about the Disney on ice thing but he was so grumpy at leaving his friends house he just wanted to stay there and play all night i think! So he didnt seem to care - i will tell him again tomorrow, sure he will be so excited after a full nights sleep.
Work - well its getting better. Im working with a bunch of Engineers and getting my head around thier jargon and all these complex sums is hard work - ive got one of them to write all the calcs down on each PO for me which is bad i know! i really need to work out how to do the figures myself - thankfully my hubby is a major boffin so i have asked for his help and he has assisted and i think i get it more now.
Trying also to get them to give the work up is hard as the admin manager left a couple yrs ago now so they have had to do the paperwork themselves and become quite attached to it so trying to get them hand id over and never look back lol is hard - but im getting there slowly, ive got a couple of things from them that i think they have handed over now - also hard as im new and not sure what tasks im meant to be doing etc anyway im getting there and its a nice environment and less than a 20 min drive fom home and only 6 mins from their nanny's house.
Jonathan is still looking for another job as he's a bit fed up with being the manager and wants to travel more - as ive said in other posts so see how he goes with that - im sure there will be work in QLD with these terrible floods..
Anyway im playing Words with Friends on the iphone with a couple of the girls from my EB group so best go and take my turn :) its becoming addictive !
Oh and the house work too - all for now.
x
Anyway ive come home tonight and said i just have to clean it - and made DH help me haha - so just waiting till little ones are fast asleep, they've been in bed since 6.30pm so give them another 15 mins then we will start!
Kids had a good day at their nanny's house today - Miles (for the 2nd time this week) cried when we went to collect him as he had such a lovely day he didnt want to come home did the same yesterday and screamed all everning till bed time - it was bloody hard work with him yesterday - but better today.
So i took a container of leftovers i had for Greta in the freezer and she had that for dinner so that worked well... Was a bit odd getting them home and not eating with them.. normal for Jonathan as he gets home late 5 nights a week anyway so i leave his meal on a plate and he eats about 8pm or whenever he gets in - anway it was a bit odd tonight as im used to eating with the kids, i think its important to eat with them to teach them manners and social skills and how to sit at the table and its just nice the 3 of us sitting and eating together so i got home and stuck the stir fry on that i had left to marinate all day and i served them some up too :0) so they had double dinne tonight haha .. it just felt wrong eating without them - Miles actually asked for 2nds !
I'll try not to make a habit out of it though - perhaps i should wait on those 2 nights and not cook our evening meal till the kids have gone to bed - be nice to sit down and eat with Jonathan, as we only sit together on a weekend when he is home early enough to be there when the 3 of us eat.
Erm what else... oh the pay it forward - i managed to track down the item i wanted on-line so thats good.. when it arrives i will get on with making them with the kids.. they should enjoy helping me make them. Its a great idea, we make a gift for someone and then send it to them and someone else makes a gift for us and sends it to us - really great idea :)
Think im going to take Miles on the train tomorrow - blurrrrrrrrrrr public transport! but he has been nagging to go on a train for weeks now so he will love it im sure..
I tried tell him about the Disney on ice thing but he was so grumpy at leaving his friends house he just wanted to stay there and play all night i think! So he didnt seem to care - i will tell him again tomorrow, sure he will be so excited after a full nights sleep.
Work - well its getting better. Im working with a bunch of Engineers and getting my head around thier jargon and all these complex sums is hard work - ive got one of them to write all the calcs down on each PO for me which is bad i know! i really need to work out how to do the figures myself - thankfully my hubby is a major boffin so i have asked for his help and he has assisted and i think i get it more now.
Trying also to get them to give the work up is hard as the admin manager left a couple yrs ago now so they have had to do the paperwork themselves and become quite attached to it so trying to get them hand id over and never look back lol is hard - but im getting there slowly, ive got a couple of things from them that i think they have handed over now - also hard as im new and not sure what tasks im meant to be doing etc anyway im getting there and its a nice environment and less than a 20 min drive fom home and only 6 mins from their nanny's house.
Jonathan is still looking for another job as he's a bit fed up with being the manager and wants to travel more - as ive said in other posts so see how he goes with that - im sure there will be work in QLD with these terrible floods..
Anyway im playing Words with Friends on the iphone with a couple of the girls from my EB group so best go and take my turn :) its becoming addictive !
Oh and the house work too - all for now.
x
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Disney on Ice
SOOOOOOOOOOO excited - i just booked tickets for Miles and I for Saturday.. is it sad that im really looking forward to going to see it! Cinderella :) Miles will enjoy the Mickey Mouse and co bit the best though im sure.. anyway cany wait!
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Pay it forward
So i put a status on FB that said the first 5 people to comment i will hand make you a gift and send it to you sometime in 2011 - well i am CRAP at craft and making things but i managed to come up with a pretty good idea (i think).. but cannot for the life of me find the main item that i need ARGHHHHHHHHHH
On another note, we went up to the shops to collect a canvas i had done of Greta and Miles told me he needed to go for a wee, so off we went to the toilet where he did a wee - then half an hour later in a toy shop he said he needed to do a poo so off we went to find a toilet and he did a poop in the little toilets there :)
So proud of him.
A couple of recent pics of the muchkins:
Seems so terribly selfish posting about my life whith the awful floods in QLD - so so sad, so many lives lost and so many more missing.
I guess Australia was a land that should perhaps never have been inhabited - i mean it needs to burn to regenerate and it needs to flood and also there are areas that are drought ridden but species have learnt to adapt and thrive there - perhaps man was never meant to inhabit this land.......
Still so very very sad for everyone in effected areas.
However life elsewhere goes on as normal.....
So anyway, went up to Rouse hill and typed it into the GPS to make sure i was going the quickest way and it said 13 minutes from my home - thats pretty good i had in my head it was 30 mins or so! I will go going there more often - the kids prefer it as its an outdoor type stlye so we're not stuck inside a shopping centre - my kids HATE being indoors.
So 2 more days to work this week then off for 3 days. Oh and i got paid again !! ive worked 4 days now and been paid $3000, ive no idea what its all for! Its almost a $1000 per day ive been there! but hey, im not complaining!
Anyway the kids are with thie nanny for those 2 days.. She mentioned that as i dont pick them up till 5.10pm and then i dont get home till 5.30pm and Greta (well and miles too) have their dinner usually at 5pm - Miles is fine he can hang on 30 mins extra but Greta starts to get upset ans hungry - so she said to bring a jar of food - so i looked at her and had to explain that i have a MAJOR dislike of baby jar/sachet food and would never in a zillion years give one to my little ones - how to explain this nicely when i know she herself has used them - felt so bad saying erm acutally im not all that keen on the processed baby food crap - ooops! Anyway she understood it think and said i should just bring a meal i have made for her then. obviously she is too old to have meals in the freezer for herself that i make for her now, she just eats the same as us - but i do have a little stash of frozen left overs that i have kept up with in case we have a takeaway or something crap one night, then i can give Greta a good home cooked meal and Miles can have beans on toast or whatever - im not about to feed my kids takeaway meals!
So i'll just pop one of those in the bag and she can have that.
Erm not much else going on - got to source this item i need for the pay it forward - all from me than..
So so humid today. Might go jump in the pool while Greta has her nap.
On another note, we went up to the shops to collect a canvas i had done of Greta and Miles told me he needed to go for a wee, so off we went to the toilet where he did a wee - then half an hour later in a toy shop he said he needed to do a poo so off we went to find a toilet and he did a poop in the little toilets there :)
So proud of him.
A couple of recent pics of the muchkins:
I guess Australia was a land that should perhaps never have been inhabited - i mean it needs to burn to regenerate and it needs to flood and also there are areas that are drought ridden but species have learnt to adapt and thrive there - perhaps man was never meant to inhabit this land.......
Still so very very sad for everyone in effected areas.
However life elsewhere goes on as normal.....
So anyway, went up to Rouse hill and typed it into the GPS to make sure i was going the quickest way and it said 13 minutes from my home - thats pretty good i had in my head it was 30 mins or so! I will go going there more often - the kids prefer it as its an outdoor type stlye so we're not stuck inside a shopping centre - my kids HATE being indoors.
So 2 more days to work this week then off for 3 days. Oh and i got paid again !! ive worked 4 days now and been paid $3000, ive no idea what its all for! Its almost a $1000 per day ive been there! but hey, im not complaining!
Anyway the kids are with thie nanny for those 2 days.. She mentioned that as i dont pick them up till 5.10pm and then i dont get home till 5.30pm and Greta (well and miles too) have their dinner usually at 5pm - Miles is fine he can hang on 30 mins extra but Greta starts to get upset ans hungry - so she said to bring a jar of food - so i looked at her and had to explain that i have a MAJOR dislike of baby jar/sachet food and would never in a zillion years give one to my little ones - how to explain this nicely when i know she herself has used them - felt so bad saying erm acutally im not all that keen on the processed baby food crap - ooops! Anyway she understood it think and said i should just bring a meal i have made for her then. obviously she is too old to have meals in the freezer for herself that i make for her now, she just eats the same as us - but i do have a little stash of frozen left overs that i have kept up with in case we have a takeaway or something crap one night, then i can give Greta a good home cooked meal and Miles can have beans on toast or whatever - im not about to feed my kids takeaway meals!
So i'll just pop one of those in the bag and she can have that.
Erm not much else going on - got to source this item i need for the pay it forward - all from me than..
So so humid today. Might go jump in the pool while Greta has her nap.
Good day at the office!
And i actually mean a good day at the office! I used to joke to Jonathan that looking after the kids full time is my day job and he;s ask if i had a good day at the office - meaning being home with the kids all day.. but as i went back to work (part time) last month i actualyl mean i had a good day at the office.
Had a good chat with the MD or Executive Managing Director as he calls himself... and got a good idea of what they need me to do - i was a bit overshelmed at first as i thought they wanted me to change so much of the way the office ran - and they do to an extend but only the actual office party of it not the entire compnay.. i was about to come back after the christmas break and say look if you want me to shake up this entire company then i want more than you are paying me and i really dont think a part time admin chick can do that its more an MD role - but they are looking to employ a new MD into the place to that and just want me to sptreamline the actual office procedures and set procedures in process and cut back on the double ups and just make the office flow better as well as take on lots of the admin work the managers are doing - i can do that so all good.
Felt like i contributed today rather than just being in the way - so all good.. im getting a handle on the sysems and the purchase ordering and the invoices and accounts so all goo.. Getting my desk into order as well as there wa paperwork everywhere and i like order and everything in its place - just getting my head around the volume an USD v AUD and all the documentation to sending all these parts and powders overseas and working with a bunch of engineers they are all boffins so talk in code a lot- anyway im getting there :)
kids had an awesome time at their nanny's house - and they will go to her house again on Friday when i go to work - usually she will come to us, but her husband who works for Qantas (another engineer!!!) in in France so she wanted me to take the kids there as its easier for her while he is away - so not a problem.
So list for this week:
monday - went to the beach with the kids at Mosman
tuesday - work / kid went to their nanny's
Wednesday - Rouse hill shopping
Thursday - work/ nanny for kids
Friday - work / nanny for kids.
its easier going to work knowing they kids are happy with their nany.. Miles almost runs out the house in a morning eager to get to her house and play with her daughter - Greta has a little trear or two when i hand her over but is over it before i even close the front door - its hard but needs must.. id rather be home with them both till Miles starts school and Greta is at preschool - but another 2 yrs and that will be happening.
I cooked a yummy lasagna yesterday for dinner tonight so just off to warm that up :) just waiting on Jonathan getting home from work.
Miles went to bed with no story tonight - hate it but he was quite naughty and spoke to me in a very aggressive mannar and then started screaming when i asked him to appologise and think how mean it is to speak to someone you love in that way and how he'd like it if mummy snapped at him - so he started to scream.. i said he had till the count of three to stop his screaming and calm down - if he cant then he will go to bed withought a story - so he screamed even louder so was put to bed with no story - about 5 mins later he stopped screaming and asked for a story then,.. so i spent a few minutes explaing he has snapped at me and it wasnt a nice way to treat someone you love and that i dont snap at him and i asked him to stop his noise and if he cant then he wasnt to have a story - he understood and said sorry, but i still couldnt read him a sroty as of course he will think he gets a story no matter what he behaves like.. he understood so all good.
Im sure we will have no more aggressive talk and no more screaming as he will want his bedtime story.
Wathching the terrible floods in QLD.. i have no words, they are shocking - i just hope people realise their lives are far more important than their possesions and property and get the hell out of there to safety.
All for now, my lasagne is warming in the oven so best go see if its ready :)
x
Had a good chat with the MD or Executive Managing Director as he calls himself... and got a good idea of what they need me to do - i was a bit overshelmed at first as i thought they wanted me to change so much of the way the office ran - and they do to an extend but only the actual office party of it not the entire compnay.. i was about to come back after the christmas break and say look if you want me to shake up this entire company then i want more than you are paying me and i really dont think a part time admin chick can do that its more an MD role - but they are looking to employ a new MD into the place to that and just want me to sptreamline the actual office procedures and set procedures in process and cut back on the double ups and just make the office flow better as well as take on lots of the admin work the managers are doing - i can do that so all good.
Felt like i contributed today rather than just being in the way - so all good.. im getting a handle on the sysems and the purchase ordering and the invoices and accounts so all goo.. Getting my desk into order as well as there wa paperwork everywhere and i like order and everything in its place - just getting my head around the volume an USD v AUD and all the documentation to sending all these parts and powders overseas and working with a bunch of engineers they are all boffins so talk in code a lot- anyway im getting there :)
kids had an awesome time at their nanny's house - and they will go to her house again on Friday when i go to work - usually she will come to us, but her husband who works for Qantas (another engineer!!!) in in France so she wanted me to take the kids there as its easier for her while he is away - so not a problem.
So list for this week:
monday - went to the beach with the kids at Mosman
tuesday - work / kid went to their nanny's
Wednesday - Rouse hill shopping
Thursday - work/ nanny for kids
Friday - work / nanny for kids.
its easier going to work knowing they kids are happy with their nany.. Miles almost runs out the house in a morning eager to get to her house and play with her daughter - Greta has a little trear or two when i hand her over but is over it before i even close the front door - its hard but needs must.. id rather be home with them both till Miles starts school and Greta is at preschool - but another 2 yrs and that will be happening.
I cooked a yummy lasagna yesterday for dinner tonight so just off to warm that up :) just waiting on Jonathan getting home from work.
Miles went to bed with no story tonight - hate it but he was quite naughty and spoke to me in a very aggressive mannar and then started screaming when i asked him to appologise and think how mean it is to speak to someone you love in that way and how he'd like it if mummy snapped at him - so he started to scream.. i said he had till the count of three to stop his screaming and calm down - if he cant then he will go to bed withought a story - so he screamed even louder so was put to bed with no story - about 5 mins later he stopped screaming and asked for a story then,.. so i spent a few minutes explaing he has snapped at me and it wasnt a nice way to treat someone you love and that i dont snap at him and i asked him to stop his noise and if he cant then he wasnt to have a story - he understood and said sorry, but i still couldnt read him a sroty as of course he will think he gets a story no matter what he behaves like.. he understood so all good.
Im sure we will have no more aggressive talk and no more screaming as he will want his bedtime story.
Wathching the terrible floods in QLD.. i have no words, they are shocking - i just hope people realise their lives are far more important than their possesions and property and get the hell out of there to safety.
All for now, my lasagne is warming in the oven so best go see if its ready :)
x
Thursday, January 6, 2011
SOOOO Tired
Not sure what is wrong, if i've had a virus or something but im so tired at the moment.
Which isn't helped by the fact that Miles is also tired today. He was playing with his toy kitchen last yesterday before bed and made me a pretend cup of tea.. i asked if it has milk and he said yep, so i said ahh Mummy doesnt have milk in tea so off he went to make another lol.. then he asked if Daddy had milk in his tea and i said yes he does, so he pops one of his litlte cups from his kitchen up on the counter and said thats for daddy. I asked if it was tea with milk and he said no its just a cup of milk!! Ok then.... i said as soon as Daddy gets home, i will tell him you made him some milk.
Took him to bed, which i do on my own pretty much every night now as Jonathan works late mostly now and gets home around 7-8pm. 4 nights a week, comes home a little earlier on a Friday, about 5 -6 pm so usually in time for bathtime.. even though he cant manage to bath both kids so i have to help!!!
Anyway Greta had had a late nap so wasnt ready for bed at her usual 6.30pm so i took Miles and sat Greta in his room and read Miles a couple of stories and Greta went to bed after him at about 6.50pm.
Now jonathan went to the local shopping centre to get a step for Miles to get up to the toilet - he is totally potty trained now :) but was nervous of getting up on the toilet as his little step wasnt high enough for him.. anyway he got home around 9pm and 5 mins later Miles comes walking into the room - J must have woken him. He came in and crawled up onto J's lap and mumbled something - which we discovered in his half asleep state was "Daddy i made you a cup of milk" Bless him, he had wanted to get up and tell him he had made him milk.. So then i took him back to bed. 20 mins later i went into the main bathroom of the hosuse which is next to Miles' bedroom to put the new toilet step in there and as i walked past Miles says " Hi mummy" so no clue how long he had been awake - but he is one sleepy litlte man today.
Greta is also tired, no idea why she was only 20 mins late to bed and got up at her usual time. I had to take jonathan to the station as he had left his motorbike at work as it was raining in the city when he left. Anyway she screamed the entire way home! about 20 mins away. So i tried to hold her hand, but that didnt help - then Miles decided he wanted to hold me hand anyway - so im trying to drive - a manual car!, 1 handed while holding Miles hand - and Greta is still screaming. SO i pull over and hand her a rusks. She goes quiet while she contemplates that so i drive off again - then she decides she doesnt want it and crumple it into the crumbs.
So then i decide to ask Miles to pull funny faces at her as that always makes her laugh - but he is too tired and just wants to hold my hand and cuddle his teddy bear.
Then i think i will switch the radio on and sing to her - she loves me to sing to her..so the only DVD i have to hand is Jonathan Bon Jovi - not exactly lulaby material! anyway she hates it and still screams and Miles is complaining its too loud - she is still screaming the car down. Then Miles decides to start pulling his silly faces at her - and she giggles a couple of times before continuing to scream - by this time we are home almost anyway.
Get her out and give her a HUGE cuddle.. poor little love, i hate hearing her upset. Brought her in and put her to bed.
Im going to go do a little hosueworrk soon, just waiting for her to nod off.
Miles is laying on the lounge in our snug watching handy manny - not sure what to do today as its raining. Was going to take them to the park and take the soccer ball for a kick around and they have a huge sandpit there too thats both kids love - hmm what to do. Might be the indoor play centre - if i can get my house work done quickly.
We are going to Whale beach tomorrow i think - hope the rain stays away.
Miles woke with a totally dry nappy this morning - he is doing so so well at potty training, i am so proud of him. Hes taken to it like a duck to water and LOVES his reward chart that we made for him.
Hope Greta is in a good mood when she wakes, she was in a great mood yesterday and wandered around the hosue and played by herself so well all day - went in and outside and played in the cubby house - she LOVES the cubby house. Miles has never really bothered with it but she spends all day in there. Only thing was if she saw me standing she would literalyl throw herself at my feet and scream to be picked up! But if i was sitting she would be fine and wander and play by herself.
So i sat a lot yesterday lol and sorted clothes and made shopping lists and read library books with Miles..
and played scrabble online with friends :o)
The day before yesterday she was not happy to play by herself and screamed the way through the ENTIRE day, so i spent much of the day with her on my hip - which is cool, she is such an easy baby i cant grumble when she has a bad day - we all do. and snuggles are great :)
here is a pic of her - this is how she spent pretty much the WHOLE day:
She has totally got the hang of standing and cruising the furniture though in the lat couple of days - a pic:
Parents arrive in 5 weeks and 6 days :) CANNOT wait! We are going on a little holiday to Canberra and Merimbula :)
EB catch up is also being arranged for this/next month - always look forward to that :)
Thats all really, hope Greta is asleep so i can go rattle around in the kitchen and clean.
Oh no spoke too soon, she is awake i hear her yelling - best go see if i can settle her to sleep, she is so tired she needs to nap badly!
x
Which isn't helped by the fact that Miles is also tired today. He was playing with his toy kitchen last yesterday before bed and made me a pretend cup of tea.. i asked if it has milk and he said yep, so i said ahh Mummy doesnt have milk in tea so off he went to make another lol.. then he asked if Daddy had milk in his tea and i said yes he does, so he pops one of his litlte cups from his kitchen up on the counter and said thats for daddy. I asked if it was tea with milk and he said no its just a cup of milk!! Ok then.... i said as soon as Daddy gets home, i will tell him you made him some milk.
Took him to bed, which i do on my own pretty much every night now as Jonathan works late mostly now and gets home around 7-8pm. 4 nights a week, comes home a little earlier on a Friday, about 5 -6 pm so usually in time for bathtime.. even though he cant manage to bath both kids so i have to help!!!
Anyway Greta had had a late nap so wasnt ready for bed at her usual 6.30pm so i took Miles and sat Greta in his room and read Miles a couple of stories and Greta went to bed after him at about 6.50pm.
Now jonathan went to the local shopping centre to get a step for Miles to get up to the toilet - he is totally potty trained now :) but was nervous of getting up on the toilet as his little step wasnt high enough for him.. anyway he got home around 9pm and 5 mins later Miles comes walking into the room - J must have woken him. He came in and crawled up onto J's lap and mumbled something - which we discovered in his half asleep state was "Daddy i made you a cup of milk" Bless him, he had wanted to get up and tell him he had made him milk.. So then i took him back to bed. 20 mins later i went into the main bathroom of the hosuse which is next to Miles' bedroom to put the new toilet step in there and as i walked past Miles says " Hi mummy" so no clue how long he had been awake - but he is one sleepy litlte man today.
Greta is also tired, no idea why she was only 20 mins late to bed and got up at her usual time. I had to take jonathan to the station as he had left his motorbike at work as it was raining in the city when he left. Anyway she screamed the entire way home! about 20 mins away. So i tried to hold her hand, but that didnt help - then Miles decided he wanted to hold me hand anyway - so im trying to drive - a manual car!, 1 handed while holding Miles hand - and Greta is still screaming. SO i pull over and hand her a rusks. She goes quiet while she contemplates that so i drive off again - then she decides she doesnt want it and crumple it into the crumbs.
So then i decide to ask Miles to pull funny faces at her as that always makes her laugh - but he is too tired and just wants to hold my hand and cuddle his teddy bear.
Then i think i will switch the radio on and sing to her - she loves me to sing to her..so the only DVD i have to hand is Jonathan Bon Jovi - not exactly lulaby material! anyway she hates it and still screams and Miles is complaining its too loud - she is still screaming the car down. Then Miles decides to start pulling his silly faces at her - and she giggles a couple of times before continuing to scream - by this time we are home almost anyway.
Get her out and give her a HUGE cuddle.. poor little love, i hate hearing her upset. Brought her in and put her to bed.
Im going to go do a little hosueworrk soon, just waiting for her to nod off.
Miles is laying on the lounge in our snug watching handy manny - not sure what to do today as its raining. Was going to take them to the park and take the soccer ball for a kick around and they have a huge sandpit there too thats both kids love - hmm what to do. Might be the indoor play centre - if i can get my house work done quickly.
We are going to Whale beach tomorrow i think - hope the rain stays away.
Miles woke with a totally dry nappy this morning - he is doing so so well at potty training, i am so proud of him. Hes taken to it like a duck to water and LOVES his reward chart that we made for him.
Hope Greta is in a good mood when she wakes, she was in a great mood yesterday and wandered around the hosue and played by herself so well all day - went in and outside and played in the cubby house - she LOVES the cubby house. Miles has never really bothered with it but she spends all day in there. Only thing was if she saw me standing she would literalyl throw herself at my feet and scream to be picked up! But if i was sitting she would be fine and wander and play by herself.
So i sat a lot yesterday lol and sorted clothes and made shopping lists and read library books with Miles..
and played scrabble online with friends :o)
The day before yesterday she was not happy to play by herself and screamed the way through the ENTIRE day, so i spent much of the day with her on my hip - which is cool, she is such an easy baby i cant grumble when she has a bad day - we all do. and snuggles are great :)
here is a pic of her - this is how she spent pretty much the WHOLE day:
Parents arrive in 5 weeks and 6 days :) CANNOT wait! We are going on a little holiday to Canberra and Merimbula :)
EB catch up is also being arranged for this/next month - always look forward to that :)
Thats all really, hope Greta is asleep so i can go rattle around in the kitchen and clean.
Oh no spoke too soon, she is awake i hear her yelling - best go see if i can settle her to sleep, she is so tired she needs to nap badly!
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Monday, January 3, 2011
Jonathan back at work :(
Miles was most upset and asked Daddy to stay home and go to the park with us :( broke both j's and my heart.. but needs must so off he goes.
Hope he will find a job he likes more soon - he is just in charge of about a hundred people and all he does all day long is go to meetings, write reports and manage people doing the work that he wants to be more involved in doing. Its just like a managers role and yeah it pays well but he just sits in his office all day managing people and honestly it would drive me mad - he gets calls from people asking the most stupid question, like they cant think for themselves.. it would drive me INSANE to have to manage those kinds of pointless questions from people every minute of the day.
Before he was the one traveling around managing the building of the hotel or the shopping centre instead of the one sitting in the office managing the people who are managing those builds.. and its annoying the hell out of him.
Hopefully 2011 he can get a new job and do more travel for his work... also means lots of frequent flyer points for us :)
Also Greta is going through an annoying stage at nap times. She has worked out that when we put her in her cot, if she unclips her dummy and throws it out the cot then we hear it fall and know she wont sleep without her dummy and so we will go in there to get it for her. She doesnt cry she is just refusing to go to sleep at nap times and bed times, she simply unclips it and throws it over the cot then sits/stands up and chats to herself till we go in. last night we put her to bed at 6.30pm and she did this till almost 8pm!
She is in her cot meant to be having her nap now but is doing the dummy chuck over and over again - we just keep taking it in turns to go in there and clip it back on and lay her back down, no speaking and no tyt contact, also pop her dolly back in there that she has in her cot and throws out! She is dolly OBSESSED!!
As was her Mummy when i was little :)
She will eventually get it and work out it gets her no-where as we still leave her in her cot till she naps - it just means her naps take forever as it takes up to 2 hours for her to even get to sleep! And i promised Miles we would go to th park today - which he was most confused by as Jonathan took the car to work today so he was bafflled about how we would get to the park.. erm we walk little man lol!!
TT training going well - we can now take our undies on and off. i have moved the potty into the bathroom now and will get him using the toliet by the end of this week.. We have a rewards chart and if he gets 4 stars he gets a reward - i got a few Matchbox cars from Woolies and a packet of crayons and some bubbles so he gets to choose a reward every 4 stars he gets..
Oh there goes the dummy again! I think if this continues any longer than a couple days i will be taking the dummy away - Miles never had one so im not sure about how to do it but im not impressed!!
Ok best go give it back to her - and no doubt her doll too.
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Hope he will find a job he likes more soon - he is just in charge of about a hundred people and all he does all day long is go to meetings, write reports and manage people doing the work that he wants to be more involved in doing. Its just like a managers role and yeah it pays well but he just sits in his office all day managing people and honestly it would drive me mad - he gets calls from people asking the most stupid question, like they cant think for themselves.. it would drive me INSANE to have to manage those kinds of pointless questions from people every minute of the day.
Before he was the one traveling around managing the building of the hotel or the shopping centre instead of the one sitting in the office managing the people who are managing those builds.. and its annoying the hell out of him.
Hopefully 2011 he can get a new job and do more travel for his work... also means lots of frequent flyer points for us :)
Also Greta is going through an annoying stage at nap times. She has worked out that when we put her in her cot, if she unclips her dummy and throws it out the cot then we hear it fall and know she wont sleep without her dummy and so we will go in there to get it for her. She doesnt cry she is just refusing to go to sleep at nap times and bed times, she simply unclips it and throws it over the cot then sits/stands up and chats to herself till we go in. last night we put her to bed at 6.30pm and she did this till almost 8pm!
She is in her cot meant to be having her nap now but is doing the dummy chuck over and over again - we just keep taking it in turns to go in there and clip it back on and lay her back down, no speaking and no tyt contact, also pop her dolly back in there that she has in her cot and throws out! She is dolly OBSESSED!!
As was her Mummy when i was little :)
She will eventually get it and work out it gets her no-where as we still leave her in her cot till she naps - it just means her naps take forever as it takes up to 2 hours for her to even get to sleep! And i promised Miles we would go to th park today - which he was most confused by as Jonathan took the car to work today so he was bafflled about how we would get to the park.. erm we walk little man lol!!
TT training going well - we can now take our undies on and off. i have moved the potty into the bathroom now and will get him using the toliet by the end of this week.. We have a rewards chart and if he gets 4 stars he gets a reward - i got a few Matchbox cars from Woolies and a packet of crayons and some bubbles so he gets to choose a reward every 4 stars he gets..
Oh there goes the dummy again! I think if this continues any longer than a couple days i will be taking the dummy away - Miles never had one so im not sure about how to do it but im not impressed!!
Ok best go give it back to her - and no doubt her doll too.
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Saturday, January 1, 2011
No accidents in 3 days now!
Miles is doing a sterling job with the potty.
I have moved it into the bathroom and he goes in there now. i thought he would stress that the bathroom is too far away from where i am and drag me in there with him but nope he just went and sat on it and pooped or pee'd!
Its great, im saving a fortune in nappies!
I will train Greta - or attempt to towards the end of this year, probably around Christmas time again just after she turns one - although ive read with girls that 22 months is the prime time - but Greta has done everything else late so im sure that will be too bless her.
She bit me this morning, crawled over to me and just bit me. So in a firm voice i said "NO" and sat her on the floor a little distance from me, well she looked at me and sobbed - felt so mean, i didn't yell at her or raise my voice i just said a NO in a firm voice but she howled and the tear ran - needless to say i picked her up and she nuzzled her chin into my neck and had a big cuddle - she loves to cuddle. I guess she is just not used to me telling her off - heaven forbid if i ever get cross and snap at her!! it would be full on major tanty - although i cant see me doing that she's too little... and cute lol! Wuss i know! Well i cant have done too bad a job, Miles is a perfectly behaved little man :)
She slept from 6.30pm - 8.30am! Id say it was the heat that knocked her out but i think its just that she likes to sleep haha. She actually woke while i was speaking to my Mum on the phone - it was her 63rd birthday on New Years Day, so we rang to wish her a Happy Birthday and Miles was chatting to her when Greta yelled Mama, so i went to get her and forget to give her a cup of milk. She usually has a cup with a straw in of milk every morning and i forgot to give it to her - she didnt seem to mind. So we had brekkie and i remembered it. Then i gave it to her afterwards and she usually drinks about half of it in a morning but actually polished the lot off! i think it holds about 80mls - so quite a lot for her. 50mls or so is usually her limit, although he often does 70mls or so in her evening one before bed so i was quite shocked.. she isnt a huge milk fan. Although now we have taken the bottle away - back in Sept, a couple days before she turned 1, she does drink much more from a cup that she did from the bottle.. we threw all the bottles out anyway, i think she was glad to see the back of them! She LOVES her cup and has 3 drinks of milk a day. probably about 150mls in total throughout the day. However she eats like a piglet! We went to a party the other day and there were nibbles on the table - she literally just sat on the table in the middle of all the food and ate for the entire 2.5 hrs we were there! never moved once! I did sit her on the floor at one stage but she cried so i put her back on the table - LOVES to eart - which is new for me as Miles loves to NOT eat haha!
But she is still petite, she is like a little doll - or so EVERYONE tells me. i wonder if she really is petite or if its that she has so much hair she seems older than her 15 months (today!) .. either way she is perfect.. Love having a little girl they are so much fun. Not sure if its having a girl or just her gorgeous personality.. jonathan keeps saying to her that she can't be both pretty and funny - she likes to make us laugh. Adorable.
And a very clever 3 yr old for using his potty - SO PROUD :) It just clicked with him on the 3rd day.
7 weeks till my parents come visit - cant wait!
Im going on a little holiday with them to canberra and marimbula i think.. looking forward to that.
Jonathan is having a lie in. He pretty much gets up to the kids EVERY day, he's an early riser..so on a Sunday he gets up to them, then when i get up - 8am today, he goes and has a couple extra hours. He's a star with them. he gets up at 6.30am or 7am or whenever Miles gets up and looks after him and then gets Greta up and then wakes me about 7.30am so he can get ready for work.
On a Saturday he leaves me till 9.30am - winner :)
Well i only cleaned half the house on Friday and it was 40 *C yesterday so way too hot to finish it off so im goin to finish it off today.
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I have moved it into the bathroom and he goes in there now. i thought he would stress that the bathroom is too far away from where i am and drag me in there with him but nope he just went and sat on it and pooped or pee'd!
Its great, im saving a fortune in nappies!
I will train Greta - or attempt to towards the end of this year, probably around Christmas time again just after she turns one - although ive read with girls that 22 months is the prime time - but Greta has done everything else late so im sure that will be too bless her.
She bit me this morning, crawled over to me and just bit me. So in a firm voice i said "NO" and sat her on the floor a little distance from me, well she looked at me and sobbed - felt so mean, i didn't yell at her or raise my voice i just said a NO in a firm voice but she howled and the tear ran - needless to say i picked her up and she nuzzled her chin into my neck and had a big cuddle - she loves to cuddle. I guess she is just not used to me telling her off - heaven forbid if i ever get cross and snap at her!! it would be full on major tanty - although i cant see me doing that she's too little... and cute lol! Wuss i know! Well i cant have done too bad a job, Miles is a perfectly behaved little man :)
She slept from 6.30pm - 8.30am! Id say it was the heat that knocked her out but i think its just that she likes to sleep haha. She actually woke while i was speaking to my Mum on the phone - it was her 63rd birthday on New Years Day, so we rang to wish her a Happy Birthday and Miles was chatting to her when Greta yelled Mama, so i went to get her and forget to give her a cup of milk. She usually has a cup with a straw in of milk every morning and i forgot to give it to her - she didnt seem to mind. So we had brekkie and i remembered it. Then i gave it to her afterwards and she usually drinks about half of it in a morning but actually polished the lot off! i think it holds about 80mls - so quite a lot for her. 50mls or so is usually her limit, although he often does 70mls or so in her evening one before bed so i was quite shocked.. she isnt a huge milk fan. Although now we have taken the bottle away - back in Sept, a couple days before she turned 1, she does drink much more from a cup that she did from the bottle.. we threw all the bottles out anyway, i think she was glad to see the back of them! She LOVES her cup and has 3 drinks of milk a day. probably about 150mls in total throughout the day. However she eats like a piglet! We went to a party the other day and there were nibbles on the table - she literally just sat on the table in the middle of all the food and ate for the entire 2.5 hrs we were there! never moved once! I did sit her on the floor at one stage but she cried so i put her back on the table - LOVES to eart - which is new for me as Miles loves to NOT eat haha!
But she is still petite, she is like a little doll - or so EVERYONE tells me. i wonder if she really is petite or if its that she has so much hair she seems older than her 15 months (today!) .. either way she is perfect.. Love having a little girl they are so much fun. Not sure if its having a girl or just her gorgeous personality.. jonathan keeps saying to her that she can't be both pretty and funny - she likes to make us laugh. Adorable.
And a very clever 3 yr old for using his potty - SO PROUD :) It just clicked with him on the 3rd day.
7 weeks till my parents come visit - cant wait!
Im going on a little holiday with them to canberra and marimbula i think.. looking forward to that.
Jonathan is having a lie in. He pretty much gets up to the kids EVERY day, he's an early riser..so on a Sunday he gets up to them, then when i get up - 8am today, he goes and has a couple extra hours. He's a star with them. he gets up at 6.30am or 7am or whenever Miles gets up and looks after him and then gets Greta up and then wakes me about 7.30am so he can get ready for work.
On a Saturday he leaves me till 9.30am - winner :)
Well i only cleaned half the house on Friday and it was 40 *C yesterday so way too hot to finish it off so im goin to finish it off today.
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