August-September 2010 Moms

Oh I wish it was rained out! Def would have been better

oh no Robyn, seriously i think i would heve left it sounds just horrible....

You have one saving grace though, if it had been in JHB it would have been rained out... Its miserable here!

OMG Ladies - I had the absolute worst experience yesterday - at a 2nd birthday party
It was an absolute nightmare - everything that you shouldn't do for a kids party

1) They gave us directions with road names, but they needn't have bothered - they should have juts said, turn onto the dirt road, when you see some sheep, turn right, if you see some cows, you've gone too far, when you smell the place, you've arrived at Jeelani Palace - literally between sheep farms!!

2) They paid R1000 to rent this place for kids parties - I wouldn't go there again if you paid me R1000
- there is no door between the car park and the road, so kids can just run onto the dirt road (and be run over by sheep)
- there is no fence around the pool or the trampoline
- the grass was higher then my ankle (couldn't even see my shoes) and it covered big holes in the ground - someone could break their ankle
- the see-saw was broken - no handles, just metal poles sticking out the actual see-saw and the 'tyres' were so hard, it didn't bounce (whiplash anyone??)
- the slide was broken on the one side so children could easily cut their hands open if they held on while sliding (which most parents would want them to do!)
- the jumping castle (which they paid R150 for) was so full of flies, I would only let Dakota jump on the front, holding my hands (don’t touch it, you don't know where it's been!)

3) The party was 12h00-16h30
- we arrived at 12h45 (Dakota slept til 12h15) and there were about 5 people there (a nice small party we thought)
- the mother stayed inside the whole time, supposedly setting up the party inside, the father chatted to his friends, so it was up to the guests to watch the birthday girl (I didn't let Dakota out of my sight!)
- we had to wait til the grandmother brought the cake - she arrived just before 15h00! (not even an apology foer being late!)
- the party was at lunchtime, so we thought there would be food, as in lunch, this is what they catered:
- marshmallows, fizzers, lollipops, sweets, biscuits, cupcakes, mix-a-drink that even DH couldn't drink
- D was so hungry that she literally put anything she could in her mouth - I eventually gave her some popcorn (!!!) and cheese (the cheese was on toothpicks with polony! - yes kids running around with toothpicks!)
- the party 'hall' was a prefab wendy house with some kids tables put together and sweets strewn around the tables
- friends of the family were telling us how this was just one 'oasis' (her words!) hidden around the area (I would rather stay in the desert than this oasis!)
- we were also told how lovely the place was (what, compared to a squatter camp?!)
- there were not enough big plastic chairs for adults and too many kiddies plastic chairs (I tried to sit behind D at the kiddies table, but got stuck and had to climb over to get out (and I just wanted to get out!)
- I eventually took D and sat outside with a bag of popcorn

5) D was given a party pack and plate of eats to take home
- the party pack had the same sweets from the party (fizzer, lollipop, popcorn etc) as well as 3 candy-bracelets (I wouldn't have been able to eat the candy, it was so hard)
- the best part of the party pack (given to children) was the tiny little container with a few sweets (looked and smelled like the coloured sweet part of liquirice allsorts) - I tasted it and Mommy even ate a piece - it was PLAYDOUGH!!!
- please don’t try poison the children you invite to your kids birthday party?!

Ahh, yes, what a wonderful example of a kid's birthday party… FROM HELL!!

hope I haven't left anything off…
Some great lessons for anyone planning a kids party soon

Hey ladies!

Joybaby - good luck with the interviews today. Really hope you get something soon. Fingers and toes crossed for you.

Cols - we will be in Sedgefield for the long weekend and driving into Knysna on the Monday

Hope everyone else doing well.

We are good. I am just super busy with studies and Emily is growing toooooo fast.

Her vocab is crazy - she is talking now, like complete full on, can say anything sentences! Where has my baby gone!?

She has however started smacking through the face when I reprimand her!!! Not sure at ALL how to handle this one!!!

Hi ladies

Sorry for my selfish post. We are with inlaws now and waiting for our internet line to be moved, so I cant really use up their internet.

Just wanted to update that I went for my 12 week scan today and everything looks good! Baby measuring to size except that the head is a week 'bigger'!
Doc says its hereditory so I recon maybe a boy cos DH has a big head, and both me and Kaylee have small heads .
He wont even take a guess at gender until our 16 week scan. That's also when he'll do the detailed scan and take all the bloods etc.
Baby wasnt lying lekker and it was a bit disappointing at first. But I think s/he was just having a nap cos towards the end baby woke up and moved around nicely for us so we could get a clear picture!
Nice strong heartbeat of 154bpm which is a good sign.
Next scan 4 weeks away on 15th May! Hopefully then we'll see gender I was in Edgars today trying to get long sleeve tops for K plus maternity jeans (epic fail) and couldn't even admire the newborn stuff!

We moved in with inlaws over the weekend. Tenants were meant to move in on Monday but they were no show and the deposit never cleared! So now our house is standing empty while we try get tenants! So now back at square one except that we worked our asses off and are with the inlaws.
We brought across so much 'stuff' its going to take me a good week or two to sort through it all! kaylee is loving it though, seeing granny and grandpa so often and she and their jack russell play all the time!

I have an interview with a temping agency tomorrow morning at 8:30am. Not looking forward to the early start! I'm hoping to bring in at least some income while I try get something more permanent.

Anyway I must go, too much online time!
Hope everyone is well!

Hi ladies

Sorry I've been MIA so long! Work is INSANE. I love the new job but I get zero time to myself. By the time I get a moment to myself its 10pm and I am too tired to think.

How are you all? Sorry I'm really out the loop here, I dont even get a chance to read the post emails. I hope you are all doing fabulously and your little ones are amazing angels!

I see we have a couple of pregnant faeries! Congrats to you all We are still "struggling". But hopefully once I settle into my new role properly things'll happen that side

Evan is getting so grown up. He loves singing and his new favourite song - Old Mac Donald. The only part he really gets is ee I ee I O! So he sings that over and over His vocab is coming along and he is learning "mine" which is not nescessarily a good thing but we all go through it.

We are at home today because he has picked up an eye infection Had him @ the Dr this morning for half the medicine cabinet.

Other than that, SIL had her double mastectomy on Thursday. She is being very strong and seems to be ok about it all. Tomorrow she will see her scars for the 1st time. I think it will hit her hard then...

Other than that, house is coming along. Barry is working like a slave on that, and work and studies. We're driving to Knysna next weekend for the LOOONG weekend to go camping - wish us luck! Evan is not as patient about being locked up in a car. I told DH we will have to travel @ night.

Have a stunning day!

Hi ladies

Hope you all had a great weekend

We went to a wedding at Groot Constantia on Sat and then took MIL & FIL to lunch at
Camps Bay on Sun, so D stayed with my parents the whole weekend

She is so cute now - when she finishes her supper, she put her fork & spoon into the bowl
and pushes it to the side - I'm done Ma )
(she still fits in her bumbo seat, so I put the tray on and she feeds herself)

She says her name nicely now - Da-Ko-Ta and she calls Ouma and Oupa (tho my dad is also Oupa now )
And she always calls for Dada (even when I go in and she's just woken up, she still calls for Dada )

Her favourite thing to do at the moment is be a chicken - she tucks her hands under her arms, flaps her elbos and says "cluck cluck" - too cute!!! ( cos she doesn't always say the L in cluck)