Good Grief, Not yet.

Peter has decided he might just be ready to exit.  I am having adverse reactions to this bit of news. We’re only 31 weeks pregnant, and am resting in hopes of not turning these contractions into full on labour.  He’s also head down and engaged.  He’s already being naughty.  Little punk.

 

In other news, the ‘big kids’ trip to NZ went okay. They were bored for most of the journey, but still had some interesting stories to tell. I’m glad they got to get a taste of their Maori heritage.  I think they are too. I missed them when they were gone. I’m also blissfully happy that they came home, mainly because the jellybean drove me batty with her CONSTANT talking. She even started waking in the middle of the night just to chat. So not into that.  It’s much nicer now she can distribute her talkings to those two as well as me.  Also! She read her first ever word last week.  My Grandma, (such a sweetie) gave me a box of goodies for Peter.  In it was a beautiful blanket with ‘baby’ embroidered on it. JB was showing off, telling her the ‘letters’.  I casually remarked that those letters made a word, and she said “I know that. It says ‘baby’.” :O My baby’s first ever read word was ‘baby’!  Since then she has been ‘writing’ non stop. All sorts of weird words that don’t really exist, but I’m not entirely sure they shouldn’t.

Fingers crossed for at least another six weeks for Peter to remain right where he is. I don’t even have a cot mattress yet!

Blue, Blue, Blue.

I’ve been pretty slack around here again. It’s not that I cant find time, I just ponder whether I have any real news to blog about.  That brings me to the most exciting news.  A few weeks ago we had our routine scan, and we’re expecting a baby boy!!

Introducing ‘Peter Aaron’ in his first ever head shot.

Promoted!

It happened. I was promoted at work ‘officially’ starting my new duties on March 31st.  The first week flew by rather quickly.  I still haven’t actually signed a contract to make it all legal and binding, and aren’t sure when in fact my pay raise will take place, but its a step forward! Yay forward.  I’ve changed depts. too, which is kind of thrilling. It’s all new and shiny ooouuu.  Now that it’s all official i must stop calling people ‘dumb fu*&s’.  It feels good and all, but probably isn’t the best way to earn respect. Just sayin’.

The kids are doing well, Chook nearly broke her arm, well, she in fact fractured it in two places by bending the bone.  She had a half cast for a week, then a pressure bandage for two and was told to not fall over for fear of ‘breaking it properly.’  Didn’t slow her down any though. 

Beanie girl is loving life, she’s enjoyed having the ‘big kids’ home on school break, so she has actually had someone to annoy other than her poor parents.  I took the kids to the circus yesterday, the cheap back yard kind, which really wasn’t fantastic for us adults. It was laughable really.  The kids totally loved it though, so I guess I get some sort of nomination for mother of the year for sitting through such crap! 

The boy turned ten the other day.  10.  The big one oh.  He kept it low key, not wanting a huge party or nothin (have I mentioned how easy this kid is?) he got his bike, and is happy. 

In other news, I’m now 21 weeks pregnant, and feeling it.  Work takes its toll, with me getting tired and cranky (see dumb fu*&s statement).  The good news is I’m slowly getting organised.  And we get to find out the sex on Tuesday.  So thats terribly exciting. 

I really need to update here more. i’ll try harder, I promise!

Should You?

It was raining on Saturday, and Boyo and I had just gotten his hair cut.  We were making a mad dash across the road attempting to get back to the car without getting drenched.  This required some fast moving.  Once we got to the other side, Boyo said

“WAIT!?  Should you be running like this with a baby inside you? “

“Huh? what are you scared its gonna fall out or something?” I replied. 

He was in hysterics for the pretty much the entire afternoon.  It’s nice to know he’s concerned about the monkey growing inside me.

Some Frustrations..

It’s true, I’m uber frustrated about work. See, I’m in this position where I’m filling in for someone in a higher position than I get paid for. I’ve currently been ‘filling in’ for six weeks.  Rumour has it, at some stage, I will be appointed if not this position, then one in a similar place which means a salary increase, and a bonus.  HOWEVER rumour also has it this wont be happening for another four months. That means I will be doing it for less pay, and no bonus for six months. That’s half a year!  More responsibility!  Managing a team of people under me (who currently EARN more than me!) AND!!! to top it all off, in four months, i’ll be nearing eight months pregnant. Why promote someone leaving on maternity leave?! It’s frustrating as heck. *sigh.*

On the up side, I’ve lost weight. Could be all the up chucking of all the eating.  Most likely is, but ya gotta take a positive where you can!  I haven’t been as sick lately, so now that I’m over the whole first trimester I’m hopeful that everything will run a bit smoother.  I still get really tired easily, and working (sometimes) 12 hour days/nights at work isn’t helping.

The boyo and chook started school this year all happy. The boyo got a new teacher for the school, a youngish guy, who seems to be alot of fun.  The chook got an older lady, whom she says is sometimes grumpy but she seems happy enough.  They’ve fallen back into the routine of it all superbly.  The beanie had her first full day at four year old kinder.  We pulled up to the gate and she tried to bail out the car with a ‘thanks, bye mum.’  (as she sees the bigger two do that.)  She was quite put out when i informed her I had to come in and sign her in.  She just keeps getting bigger.

I got locked out of my internet banking on tuesday for not remembering the password. Well, actually, I remember the password just fine, it was the stupid icon pick they make you do that i could not for the life of me remember the order of.  So now I can’t pay my bills! It’s perplexing and something I really need to fix tomorrow.. so ya know, we can continue living in this house, and eating, and ya know, having electricity!

Christmas recap.

Greetings!

Christmas went down seemingly with no real input required from me, besides the whole buying everything, wrapping everything and ya know, doing everything.  The kidlets loved the whole thing. Jelly Bean got pretty much everything she wanted, and then some things she probably never even knew existed.  Chooko scored big, and the boyo got what he wanted too.  Three happy kids = one very happy momma! (but seriously, which kid isn’t happy at christmas?) 

I have discussed the new addition to our family with the children.  JB is looking forward to having a baby sister, for she is convinced it will be a girl. She has emptied her doll cradle and seems to be living with the delusion that the baby will a) fit in there and b) sleep happily in her room with all her crap.  The chook said “What?! another baby?! OMG!! GROSS!! HOW COULD YOU DO THAT?! ” (recently had a very basic discussion with miss chook about the facts of life. sex disgusts her.) And the boy? well, in true boyo form said “Cool.” and went about his merry way. JB asks me nearly every time i walk through the door “So, wheres the baby?” and is frustrated when I continually say “Right where I left it.”  It’s gonna be a long nine months.

I’m sick with this baby.  None of the others caused me this much nausea, and vomiting. I’m racing off the floor at work to throw up, upwards of five times a day.  It’s frustrating to feel this sick. I need to make an appointment with a doctor soon, but am still tossing up locations.  I really need to get a scan done, so we can have a ‘due date’.  I am trying not to worry about the health of this baby.  It wasn’t that long ago that I was being treated for cancer. It’s a little concerning.. even though I was given the all clear. (and told i would probably be sterile. Yeah, right.)

jelly bean wants a birthday party.  With the number jacks. Wish me luck!

Guess my news..

A Month To Go!

Can you believe it? There is only a month to go. CHRISTMAS IS COMING!! It has to be, by far, the best time of the year IMO. I just love it. All of my favourite childhood memories are about christmas. Coming from a family that struggled financially I am grateful and amazed at how wonderful my parents were able to make this time of year.  I try very hard to make it the same for my kidlets.  Family togetherness rocks!

Of course, it isn’t a mean feat for us either, with one meagre wage (trainee wages aren’t great.)  It will definately get better once I get a night DM position, but there’s no guarantee when that will happen.   We’re SUPER busy at work too. This will be my first christmas in retail!  Guess what section I’m in charge of.. you’ll never guess, it’s alot of frustrating fun.. TOYS.  My kids happen to think I have the best job in the whole world.  Beanie is of the opinion all I do all day is ‘play’ with the toys. (if only.)

Got some fundraising to do for Scouts.  We need to come up with $3500 to send the cub scouts on a week long camp come march.  It’s not easy, but we’re all determined to make it work. We live in an area where most people are low income earners, and we want to make it easy for them to give their kids this amazing experience. 

Good Grief! I almost forgot! I WON!! hehehe. There was a car rally at work, where you had to go answer questions all over the place and ‘race’ back to a certain spot.  I WON! I so rock. Well, para helped, and so did The Boyo.  And we volunteered a seat in our car for the ‘boss’s’ son. He’s 12, and everyone else was nervous to take him, he has diabetes (i dont know much about them, but he has the ’super bad’ type.) so I said he could come with us. I’m always nervous about taking other peoples children that I don’t know because I can never predict their behaviour.  He was really very good though. I’m happy to report he was polite, helpful, and right into helping! He also seemed to know his limits regarding the diabetes so that was good too. We did so much running around together that i’m sure he and the boy have become friends. We didn’t see them once we got to the end where a bbq dinner was waiting, they were off on some adventures. 

My sister is here! with my nephews, so I best go.

edited to add : Its almost my birthday! 12/12 WOOH.

Zoo Safari

This happened last weekend. I wasn’t there, EH took all three kids to the werribee open range zoo. They had a blast, unfortunately the only photos he took (typical man) were of the beanie, so the chook and boyo were left to their own devices. This is Jelly Bean ‘meeting’ Melman.

Hello World ~ This is me.

First post in a new blog. It’s exciting stuff, and I hope it all turns out okay. It’s very late (2am) and I just got home from work.  All the kidlets are asleepin’ , hubby too for that matter.  He gave up smoking! (not the children, the husband!) I’m so proud of him for not killing any of the angelmonsters today while I was at work.  This is just a short post to see if everything is working n such. more tomorrow I hope!