August-September 2010 Moms

Hi

Happy Friday - yay !

Joybaby hope K is doing well..... my k never ate purity and I never introduced it ever. I have made home cooked meals every day for her since 6 months.... hard work but worth it

well hope all you guys wanting to lose weight, good luck. I really dont think you all are bad as you say ! you guys are fine just he way you are ! chin up

I never battle with weight even when i was preggies, just carried all in my tummy and only started showing when i was 5.5 - 6 months pregnant and then put on on the scale. when i came out of hospital my clothes was hanging off me, lost everything when tummy was flat when discharged Now I am losing cause of stress but i eat as much a man does - LOL. I actually dont know where all that goes too and I have not been to gym or exercises since I was pregnant with K.... I just dont have the time anyway to gym. too busy running around doing a million things at once. maybe thats where K gets her activness from - ME

same Bzee - poor fayaz. I know my neice had it at 9 months, shame its really not nice.

oh well, back to the grind stone !

Wow Congrats Addo this is great news.

KerryA i am going to the same thing, i can only see my gynae in Mar, hopefully by then i will be preggies.

Robyn congrats to your friends too, lol men can be so competitive hey?

Flowergirl, poor Em, glad she is doing well. Did the paed say you should increase her portions?

Can you believe Fayaz now has chickenpox, the poor boy has been through so much this year. I put calamine all over he now looks like a sangoma its really got him bad but he will recover soon they seem to have stopped coming out.

Oh my word - so many preggy fairies!!! Lovely

We had a few rough days, but it seems as if that is thankfully behind us now!! Em has an Ear, nose, throat infection poor baba. We had her at the ER on Sunday and doctor sent us home with panado, he said that the only thing he could see was a slightly red throat took her to the paed the next day and according to him, the ear was already pretty bad So she is on her first ever course of antibiotics and a strong antihestamine which knocks her out cold! But, she is back to her happy self again - so glad.

Paed is concerned about her weight - she is dropping below her growth curve now. She is 10.30KG's, but above the 95th centile for height! So, because she is so tall, she is expected to at least have reached the 50th centile for weight, but she is slightly below the 25th centile for weight, so he wants to keep an eye on that. Other than that, he is happy with her development and very impressed with her vocab - she was chatting up a storm in the consulting room - funny girl

Joybaby - I know exactly what you mean about the littlies driving us nuts if we stay home with them all day!! I really do not know how my mother does it. I get seriously depressed on the weekends that Braam works because Em gets so clingy and naggy when the 2 of us are alone You should take her to Em for a playdate one day in the week while you are still home!! Em would love that - just tell me when and I can leave work early and meet you there! I also have those shooshoos and clothes for your friend, so we must make a plan to meet up.

As for weight and eating habits - I am seriously demotivated - I try to eat better, but the weight is staying still. I don't really have time to gym now because of my studies, so the most exercise I get is taking Em for a walk at night. I used to gym at work, but it is such a shlep with having to re-do make-up and hair and then it becomes 2 hours away from my desk and I already come in late, leave early and put in 2 hours of study time at work, so REALLY cannot take more advantage than that!! When I get home, I really need to spend time with Em and then once she goes to bed, I have to study - so no time for anything else.

As for Em's eating - we bulk cook and freeze her lunches. Usually stews or pasta's, this week we also tried home-made fishcakes. At supper time, she eats what we eat.

Feeling all down today because it feels like I am not making the progress that I wanted to and I am looking back at last year and just so angry at myself because it feels like I accomplished nothing didn't really progress at work like I could have if I put more effort in, didn't progress in the quest to get my "sexy" back and didn't progress on the house purchase either. So all in all, I feel like it was a year wasted Oh well, that's just my rant for the day........

Hi Ladies

JoyBaby - I'm the same as you, I try to eat well but when I'm bored, I go straight for the chocolate!
And it's so difficult to find time to gym
I managed to get to gym at 16h30 yesterday (left work at 15h50) and did a class
When I got home, DH said I must take it easy, don't over due it so early on etc etc
Mixed messages!!!!!
I'm about pre-preg weight (maybe 3kg's over) but I'm still 10kgs over what I should be
And with no2 coming - there def won't be any time for gym!!!

Our friends told us yesterday that they are expecting no2 as well (she's 4months)
But they really struggled getting preggers - tried for 6 years with no1 and have been trying for 3 years for no2
But we are so happy for them now But they are def going to struggle cos she's just quit her job, plus they just bought 2 new cars...
But it was so cute - DH looked abit 'deflated' after the news and when I asked him what was wrong, he said he wanted to be first to have our second ! sweet

Addo - WOW long time no hear! And a Hefty CONGRATS!!!!

Joybaby - I hear you, Kaelyn is the same, but the last few days she has turned that around,,, she has been chasing our dogs up and down the driveway in the afternoons and playing with her water and sand table while we cook supper.

Kaelyn gets her own plate of whatever is on our plates, just cut up... the only time she gets her own meal is when we eat something like a hot curry or... then i have some mini frozen pizzas for her, i just pop one in the oven for 10 mins. cut all her daytime milk feeds out over the december holiday... she went back to creche and suddenly had two bottles during the day again, but i spoke to her teacher and she has cut one out...

I hear you on the weight issue... i put all the weight i had lost back on when i came back to work and cant seem to find time to excercise either, but DH and i decided that when its too cold for K to play in the pool or with her water table in the afternoons we will start walking her around the block on her trike every evening... that should help. and she loves that...

BabyK - Oh the phantom was excellent! And with K at the godmom it was a real treat to have lunch at a restaurant and actually get to sit and eat it while it was still warm!!! But seriously the phantom was utterly breathtaking!

He is in phsyciatric hospital, he tried to commit suicide and failed, but he is totally uncontactable... not even taking lawyers letters.

So i thought in light of wanting to start TTC i should actually make the dreaded appointment for the annual PAP at the gynea... can you believe the earliest appointment o could get is 30 March? oh my word! Okay look i should have had the appointment last October already, but still! Woah!

anyway i guess DH and i have to behave until then... LOL

Jeanine, thanks for the pics they are awesome! Love the one where John is eating Willem's biscuit, and the boys wouldn't sit together (well without John trying to grab Evan's face). Thanks to you and Cols for supplying the biscuits, John devoured them
And he fell asleep as soon as we got in the car and slept for another 2 hours when we got home! It was really great to see you girls again.

Kerry and Sheryl, we missed you, Kerry how was Phantom? I'd love to see it again. Shoo wee, your crisis sounds hectic, well done on sorting it out. Has the guy done a runner or is he in jail? The nerve of it hey? Sheryl, Kiara is such an advanced little princess, I can't believe she pees in the potty already, that is amazing

Wow, I am very jealous of all the preggy fairies and soon to be preggy fairies. I guess I am probably the only one who is not having another one. But I will live vicariously through all of you Congrats everyone and GOOD LUCK to those ttc or soon to be ttc.

Joybaby, we'll have to do a trip to CT so the girls can meet their future husbands, hehe. Nothing like a little parent meddling hey.

Wow Addo congratulations!!!
Lots of good news all around this month hey!!!

Kerry yikes on that company! But it should teach them a lesson. Not cool for you though!
And YIPEEEEE on your and DH decision to try for #2 now Shew you gave me goosebumps now

Kaylee has been such a handful today Its like she just woke up on the wrong side of bed. I tell you, being home full time without set routine or activities or outings is truely a nightmare. And she is quite a handful when there arent people to entertain her, she doesnt like playing alone.
She is also fast becoming the queen of tantrums, and her favourite is throwing her toys down in anger.
So I dropped her at the daymom for the afternoon so that I can unwind my mind, I feel so tense! Going to bake chocolate brownies as my stress reliever. I am really tempted to sleep but then I know I wont sleep tonight.

Sheryl sorry for not commenting last week.
Sounds like our babas are much alike at this stage. Hehe cute about the gymnast!
Arent they cute though!

As for their eating, does she still eat purity or just home cooked meals? K has decided purity isnt for her anymore, so its a real battle getting her to eat enough. She doesnt want to be fed, only wants to feed herself and then she plays with her food and yep its extremely messy! She also just wants 'tietie' (thanks to daymom) all the time.
She still only weighs under 9kgs so its a real battle. Got her on pediasure now twice a day.

Re weight - its hopeless. I still weigh the same as I did 2 weeks after having K - which is about 40kgs overweight. But I stress eat, and eat from boredom too. I buy salads etc but I go for the bad stuff when I'm stressed (like chocolate brownies).
But exercising about once a week at the moment, wish I could find energy and time for more. But K keeps me so busy, I'm surprised the weight isnt falling off. Unfortunately some of the meds I'm on dont help weight loss either.