Oh wow, you've moved up there!  My FIL lives there, so we've spent a bit of time there over the holidays.  Not in town though, he lives just before you get into town on the Tga side in the new sub division.  Busy little town isn't it! 

While I'm in here, check out this montage of Jett and all his sleeping possies. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYa9us5HaO8&context=C3b80dacADOEgsToPDskLVtA0GYJQ_999NDXzqotH0

Oh wow Candice!!!  Such a bastard of a person/s who burgled you!  Can't believe there are lowlifes doing such things to people of chch!  Disgusting!

I can see how FB can distract you whilst studying.  Good for you with abstaining from it during the week!

Jessica wrote: Brought tears to my eyes, loved that Tom could just come up the stairs and meet his brother - all very intense, so pleased it all went well. Makes me think that maybe I could do it again

Gah dammit - so do I!!! 

Hi Candkids and Candice!

Well done Candice!  Hope you got to relax and enjoy your holidays after all the studying!

Cat - have you some news to share with us?!

Our kids go to school THIS YEAR!!!!!

Wow wow wow Nikki!!!  How frustrating but the end result was amazing!!!  You did it all on your own!!  It is such an amazing feeling huh, when there's no intervention, just you pushing your baby out (albeit fn painful!).  My first birth was horrid with Rico, 2nd was amazing, 3rd amazing again, but Ava's birth was out of this world!  So quick, and even though I had the epi put in (thinking I was in for another long labour) I started pushing her out as soon as I lay back down so the epi hasn't kicked in it so I felt everything!  I think fast labours make you remember it all much more clearly too (well i do). 

Congrats again on your little boy, so glad he didn't make you wait any longer!

Well that's the last of them!  Jett's four today, and it's end of August!!

One year till school girls!!!!

Sorry girls!  I bump the page up then forget to come back myself to reply!

Hi Babe and Lulu!  Great to hear from you both.

Babe are you living in a bus now?  How cool.

I agree Lulu, this age is a good age.  Jett is easier to take places now - to restaurants and to the shops.  He sticks by me and I can almost trust him not to run off.  Still have to keep close tabs on him though.  His speech is coming along nicely now, thankfully!  Still not to where it probably should be for his age, but he's come a long way this year.  I just hope he's up to speed by the time he starts school!  He still LOVES kindy, goes 3 mornings a week till he turns 4 then he'll go for 4 mornings.  He asks to go everyday to kindy, even on the weekend, then gives me this sad face when I say no kindy today.  He's very outgoing and loves putting on shows for everyone.  So he's a lot of fun.

Gah!  Jett's getting back into his Houdini ways.  Three times in a matter of weeks he's escaped the house.  Once was through the front door as the kids left it unlocked, and twice he's jumped out the front bedroom window!  He only goes to the house that's at the front of our driveway, as Rico's made friend's with the boy that lives there and so Jett wants to go and play there too, but still!!  So today a trip to buy window latch thingys is in order.

Jess, how you getting on, any baby yet??

How's the first trimester treating you, Nikki?

So when you go 'over-due', is that over your LMP date, or scan date?

Hi Rackell!  nice to have you pop in!  cathy sounds like she's doing really well.

Hi Lulu!  How cool you've been getting around the place!  Bet it's lots of fun.  I am envious of ones that get away on holiday this time of year.  Just as well we live in a holiday destination and there is plenty going on around town, as we don't get away on holiday.  Usually doesn't bother me, but this year Dh just worked at home in the office for 2 weeks, so that was no fun.  I know he needed to do the work, but just sucks there's no real relaxing with him not being around.

Jessica, not long now!  All the best and can't wait to hear of the news!

How you keeping Nikki??

Hello girls!!  I was thinking of reviving this thread again a few days back, and came on now to see you've already done so Nikki - thank you!

And again,.... congrats on #3!  So exciting! 

Jess, not long for you now - wow!  That's crazy, but really for you I'm sure it hasn't gone so fast.  Hope all goes well with the birth, and yay for birthing centre having a pool now!  Can't wait to hear if it's a boy or girl.

Jett is doing really well.  Fully TT now, and has been for a couple of months!  Regarding nappies at night, sometimes Dh would forget to put a nappy on him when putting him to bed, but he'd never wet.  So after I discovered that, I just stopped putting him in nighttime nappies and he's never had an accident.  So good to just have one in nappies!

Speech is really coming along.  We got a new SLT as the other one went on maternity leave.  The new one is tougher and after the 2nd visit she said that she wondered if he was just being lazy, and that because he can't talk well, he'd lost confidence in talking at all.  All so true and something I've thought ALL along but didn't want to think that and be hard on him if there was more too it.  Since then I have been hard on him and making him say words instead of allowing him to sign or make sounds regarding what he's talking about, i.e. when talking about a dog he'll say woof woof, but now I say to him he has to say 'dog', and give him HEAPS of praise and high 5's when he says words.  Which is making him come out with words all on his own, for instance Gia found a yoyo yesterday which has been in hiding for a long time, and once he got his hands on it, everything was "yoyo, yoyo!"  He knows it all, it's just getting him to say the words.  No sentences though.. but I'm happy with his progress.  Will see the SLT in Feb and I know she'll notice a huge inprovement!

Well better leave it there, time to put kids to bed!

Wow nearly to the end of August, and all our babes will be 3!!!  Hope everyones had a great time celebrating!  Jett is still 2 for a few more days.

From next week he'll be going to kindy 3 mornings a week - Tues, Wed, Thurs!  Yay for 20 free hours, not that I'll be using that many, just 11.  I feel a tad guilty putting him in so often when he's still young, but I thought that with Gia going to school in a couple of months, he won't have her to play with during the day, and I hope going to kindy more often will help with his speech.  We saw his SLT for the last time yesterday, she's due to have her first bub in October and she's not sure if anyone will replace her this year, so if we get another one coming then it won't be til next year.

Well hello there Mel!  Nice to hear from you.  Sounds like Bree is doing great!!

Jett has taken off in the TT department.  He tells me when he needs to go, or just goes by himself.  The other day he'd just been wee's and the next thing I hear him calling out and he's back on the toilet doing poo's!!  I was soo happy to have him do that on his own, as he hasn't been good in that area, either going in his undies, or waiting til he has a nappy on at night.

Jessica, how is the pregnancy going for you?  As much as I'm envious of ones going on to have more children, i don't miss or envy being pregnant!

Any other toddlers still having a day sleep?  Jett does most days, he either falls asleep himself, or I put him to bed after lunch when I need the break.

Happy 3rd birthdays to Jake, Astin and Bella!!  Wow, 3 years old aye, it's gone so fast!  Still another month til Jett is 3, so I'll savour saying he's 2 til then.

I was wondering if the thread was still alive. Thought i might come back and see how all the kiddies are going! Havnt had a proper read yet, just skimmed, but am about to! And i am confused as to whos who now lmao. You guys probably dont really remember me anyways wasnt that popular here haha.

Has everyone gone and had more kids? Good on yas. Me im still on the one. my partner isnt keen on chillens just yet.

Bree is well, non-stop. Talking talking talking. I swear that girl drives me up the wall lol. Shes awesome though, really smart. Shes in undies during the day - so far doing pretty well the odd accident but she generally tells me if she needs to go or just goes and does it herself. :) Night is another story, a bit scared to go there, had a couple nights with no nappy but shes not had a dry one yet so not that keen just yet! haha.

Exciting lulu that you get to go to Sydney and Melbourne!  Whoop whoop!!

Wow go Jake!  What a pro with TT day and night!! Hmm, well TBH, going from 2-3 kids, to 3-4 kids was much the same.  There was only 22 months between Gia and Jett and I had a PPH after giving birth with Jett so that knocked me back for six, took me a long time to recover with having 3 pre-schoolers to care for.   There is 2 yrs 4 months between Jett and Ava, but he's a lot more difficult than what Gia was when Jett was born.  It's much of a muchness.  I think it all depends on the age gap as to how you will find it.  Very cool you're planning on having another child though!

So like, about a week ago I was going to update on Jett.....

I've had him in undie for a week now!!  He doesn't tell me when he needs to use the toilet, I just take him when I think it's time for him to go, and he does go.  Had accidents when it comes to #2 though.  That'll be the tough area.  But Rico was no good at the beginning of TT at doing #2 on the toilet either.  So far only one #1 accident and that was this morning.  So one wee accident in about 10 days.  Well done Jett.  I bought him Spiderman undies as he's soo obessed with SM, so I tell him that SM goes wee's and poo's on the toilet, not in his undies.  Don't know if he gets that part or not.

Speech Therapy is going well.  Slowly but.  He is saying more words and using them regularly thankfully.

He is a lot of fun, and makes us all laugh so much.  I can see he'll do well in musical theatre!  He's so good with his gestures and facial expressions.  Well that's how he communicates with us so I guess he's gotten very good at it!

How's the pregnancy going so far, Jessica?

Hi Babe!  How's Jake these days?

Lulu, how cool you're planning a trip to the UK!!  I'm envious.

Well Ava's just woken after a huge sleep so she'll be very hungry, better go feed her.

That is sooo cool Jessica - congrats!  Oooh wonder what you'll have this time?  Exciting!

I'll come back and update on Jett tomorrow, for now I need to go to bed!

That's cool you're planning on having a 3rd Jessica.  Aren't you as well Nikki??

Jett's second morning at kindy today.  He gets soo excited to be going, and again just ran off to play as soon as he got inside.  When I went to pick him up afterwards (and Gia as she goes at the same time) I laughed when I saw him - he had blue paint all through his hair.  I think he used the paint brush to paint his hair instead of the paper.

Hope the kids are starting to settle in now Jessica.  It's hard when they get all out of sorts when there's change.

Well time to pick rico up from school - the days just go so fast.  And I have 2 sleeping children so I have to wake them all for a 1 min drive there and back.  Such a pain!

Nikki I have put all the kids into private kindy - for that very reason that public kindy starts in the afternoon!  Privately I can pick and choose the days I want the kids in, and start them off in morning kindy and increase it as they get older.  So by the time they're almost at school they're going 4 times a week.  Public kindy doesn't take them til they're well over 3 yrs as well.  They only close over xmas/new years too, not every school holiday.

Ooh that's cool you're feeling clucky, jessica!  do you think you'll have another baby? 

oh better go, Ava's calling out, she needs to go to bed. 

Aww it is Jett's first morning at kindy today.  Can't believe i felt so sad leaving him!  Silly as I've been looking forward to this moment for the last few months!  Being that he knows the place and went for a proper play last week, and we've been talking to him about going today, he was excited and completely comfortable about it all.  As soon as we got in there he took off!  I had to get him back to put his bag in the cubby, then he was off again. I went and gave him a kiss and then he was engrossed in the toys, so I left him too it.  It did feel weird for me, but I'll get used to it.

Sounds like you had a great weekend, lulu!

Jess I love your signature, gorgeous!

Kandice, that's so cute about Kylah and the jammies!  Oh and how's things going pregnancy wise?  Haven't had an update on that in ages!

Well I have to get moving as I'm going to a friend's for morning tea.

Great to hear from you, nikki, Jessica and Kandice!

Sounds like all the kids are doing great!  We've come a long way huh, with probably half of us gone on to have another child!  Who would've thought I'd be one of them.

I see from FB that justme just had a little girl - how cool! 

I took Jett for a kindy visit yesterday.  I knew he'd take to it like a duck to water as he's been in a lot with Rico and Gia going to the same place.  We stayed about an hour and I had to bribe him to leave.  So I know he'll just love being able to spend the whole morning there once a week.  He firstly played outside and loved it out there, climbing and swinging off things, then went inside to the play kitchen.  So he only around a little bit of what there is to play with.  I'm wondering how he'll go when it comes to mat time though.  He doesn't like to be read too, he's happy to read books by himself.  But I know the teachers will encourage him to sit still for mat-time.  I can see him 'arguing' with them about it though, as I know he'll think he can just get up as he likes and go off and play again.  So they'll have to be firm with him on that one.

Well baby needs attention and washing needs to be hung out.  Have a good weekend everyone! 

Oh lulu so nice to hear from you!!!  It's been ages.  How gorgeous is Jaymie!  She totally has your eyes.  I'm sure she was only 1ish when I last saw of pic of her, looking like a baby still.  Now she's a little girl!

Jett was referred to a SLT when he was 2 by plunket.  When he had his 2 yr check plunket nurse asked what words he was saying and he was only saying 'mum' for everything and everyone.  If you asked him to repeat words he could say bubba, dad and nana but never used them.  He's now using mum, dad, nan, nah (for no), ta and tan du(thank you) and he says gok gok for birds, mainly roosters as they go 'cockadoodle do' so his gok gok sounds like cock cock.  We visited a SLT in Oct last year and she said for his age he wasn't a concern for them then, but they'd check back in with me in the new year and he's language development wasn't any better then so they said a SLT would start to visit us in the 2nd term which is now.  Looks like we'll be getting visit every 2 weeks, so hopefully it'll speed his language development up.

Here's a recent pic of Jett

omg Hello anyone??  Haha I had to search out for this thread, it went AWOL!

How is everyone and all the nearly 3 yr olds??????  Crazy they're all nearly three!

I just thought I'd update with Jett.... he's started seeing a speech therapist.  Just once so far and she pretty much was just assessing him.  Sounds positive though, he definitely comprehends everything (which i pretty much knew).  Also he's starting kindy one morning a week from next week.  I'll up the times he goes once he's 3 and I get the 20 free hours.  For now I have to pay $20 for his one morning session.  I know he'll love it!  Not TT yet.  He was having too many accidents so I've kept him in nappies for now.  He surprises me sometimes and puts himself on the toilet after taking his nappy off, and will go toilet before having a bath.  He knows what to do, but think he's a little lazy when he's got undies on.  It's not a novelty when he has to use the toilet EVERYTIME he has to go wee's/poo's.  But we'll get there.  I think I was very lucky to have Rico TT at 2 yrs 3 months and Gia was about the same, though she was out of nappies completely by the time she was 3, Rico was still wearing a night nappy til he went to school.

Anyway that's about all that's happening with Jett that I can think of for now.

Hey everyone

How's everyone doing?

Cat - is your Dh home now?  Hope he's recovery well after the op!

Kandice - how is the pregnancy going?

So I'm still pregnant.  Over it.  Had a very niggly week and seriously would've thought baby would've been here by now!

Oh Jett's having a meltdown, gotta go!

When the gates are closed, he can't get out, but they were open as Dh as been going from the backyard to the front taking tree clippings to the trailor.  Dh had seen Jett out the back and told him many times to go inside, and Dh thoughtt he had.  But jett had snuck past him and gone out the gate and straight out to the street.  I'd not long seen him in the lounge, then Dh came in and asked where Jett was, then started looking for him.  Then me and the IL's went to find him and that's when the ladies came up with drive with him.  He's so quick, and thinks he can just do what he likes!  He doesn't like boundaries and being told not to do something. 

All I think about is little Aisling and how fast that happened with her.  So I know it can happen so fast with any child. 

The good thing is - all the family know what a hundini Jett is, so are very good with keeping an eye on him, and know they can't just think he's in a safe place.  Bascially if you can't see him - you have to go and find out where he is to make sure he's ok!

Yeah Nikki - I was thinking that some of your babies aren't "babies" anymore.  We have Tessa who still is... but James is nearly a toddler - wow!

Hmm, the biting phase.  No idea how to tackle that one.  My kids have been through it but only for a short while and I can't think of how we dealt with it.  I forget things like that so easily these days.

Wow Kandice, another babe due same time as Kylah!  So that'll be a 3 yr difference.. nice.

Ohh #3, Nikki???  haha only 70% against having a 3rd, if you do decide to have another, when will that be?  And don't think about the expenses during their teenage years - way too far away to think about that!  But now you've got me thinking about it and crikey we'll be forking out for 4 kids!