Re-using terry flats :)

As most of our friends know, If i can make it myself, fat chance I'll buy it! I have this frugal side of me that makes me attempt just about anything if it means we can save a few $$. So this is the latest in me re-using old things to make something new...
The top is spew cloths (for want of a better term!) for Ande, and the smaller one is cloth wipes for the boys :) I had some other cloth wipes awhile ago, but made these about 3 weeks ago, and they work really well. I'm way too cheap to use disposable wipes... Gosh they cost alot!

In training!

Garrett has been getting SOOO good at helping lately... I did curse the day i brought his chair into the kitchen so he could make his own pizza for lunch, but really, it has given him such independence too... Annoying as it can be, he'll go get his own bikkies (destroying the pantry too!), and he comes in and helps with dinner and lunches too... and last night.... this:

He actually did some really well (I did have to re do some of it tho), but all in all, he did really well :D

So proud of the way he is growing up. He has been so polite lately too! Always saying thankyou... (mind you, you cant prompt him! Such a male, it has to be his own idea!)

Nawwwww... Brothers :)

Garrett is STILL smitten with Ande. Makes me wonder why I ever worried! And :p to all the people who said that he wouldn't, and that it was just novelty - that it would wear off and he'd hate him soon enough... A is just shy of 3 months - and it is still the same.

I love my little boys. I know I was worried about having a boy, and how I'd feel not having a girl... but seriously - I love having all boys. I really truly do.

I was born to be these boys mummy. They are my all... even when G pushes my buttons!

She's a bit Handy, wouldn't you say?

I have a bit of a thing for bags at the moment... Cant decide for the life of me which handbag to use - So i've been making more :D


This one I made as a handbag... Then for what ever reason I have started taking less things with me to the shops, so I made a newer smaller one ;)





Im loving these fabrics tho... Its giving me a chance to be a girly girl, and getting to sew with pretty fabrics and not get in trouble for putting the boys in pinks!

Gosh my heart breaks for him!

My poor little monkey has allergies, again! He was given the all clear a couple of months back... but apparently he isn't!

<< This is when i first noticed it. He started scratching up his arm. Gosh it must have been itchy.

He had been playing in a friends backyard, and hadnt eaten anything out of the blue... So it was baffling me what could have caused such a reaction.

Rang the GP's and got him an appointment asap (which was in an hour...)



This one was from at the GP's office, so an hour after the initial reaction.




These were from when we got home, and after he had taken medication - so 3 hours post reaction.

Poor kid. He was so itchy that he was almost scratching his skin off!

He was such a trooper!

We thought it might have been lime burn, but I decided to keep a food and behaviour diary anyway (other reasons and the fact the GP first thought it was a reaction to something ingested)...

It happened again yesterday afternoon!

I think he is reacting to processed sliced cheese... Poor thing, Its his favourite food right now!

Boo Boys, otherwise known as BOO-iants

Boo-iants, Bekky language for Giants..

Ande has his 2month check up yesterday, so here is the comparison for the boys at the same age...

Ande
Weight: 6.48kg (up 2.47kg on birth)
Length: 59.5cm (Up8.5cm on birth)
HC: 40cm (up 6cm on birth)

Garrett:
Weight: 6.995kg (Up 2.88kg on birth)
Length: 59cm (up 5cm on birth)
HC: 40.5cm (up 5cm on birth)

Ande fitted into a size 1 bonds singlet today too.... oh dear! Thanks Kerry for this singlet too :) Lucky it was the 1 and not a 000 or 00, otherwise he'd never get to wear it!

The Lee update - September '08

Part of the reason for starting this blog was to keep extended family up-to-date with the movements and goings on around here... Please remind me to do an update at least once a month! :D


So where do i begin? Lets start with the boys!


Garrett is now 2 years 4 months old... Crikey how time has flown! He loves doing 'cheers' and often says thank you when he is given something- Although this cant be prompted - he will ignore you! Last time we weighed him (last week) he was about 17/18kg. BIG boy. He is now in size 4-5tops and 3 for bottoms.




Toilet training is still going well, although he has to be pants free for the sensation to click and for him to actually use the potty. Jocks work the same as a nappy, and he gives us no warnings - and refuses to go. So for now - its pants free time at home while he builds up the understanding. Its hot enough here now that he is probably enjoying the nudie time anyway!


Let me see if i can get list all his words (well ones that he actually repeats and arent a one off):


*Dad (and all forms of)
*Mum (and all forms of)
*Ummmm
*Thank you
*Terah (although it doesnt always come out very clearly)
*Dog

*Door
*Keys
*Cheers
*What
*That
*This
*Yes (and all forms of)
*No (and all forms of - including 'NUP'!)

Sure there is more, but i just cant think right now. Ill update this if i do think of more.

He has also said these, but hasnt repeated them since (so could be a fluke)

"Mum, Ande's crying"
"Nissan"
"Hyundai"

One of his favourite games when we are out and about it, is pointing to car's badges and he asks "Whats that", so we tell him the make of the car. It can become very repetitive! Lots of Holdens and Toyotas around here! The time he said Nissan and hyundai, was when he pointed to their symbols on the cars, he got them right too - Daddy was most proud!

Ande is a whole 2 months old now! My how time has flown! He is so adorable. He is grinning and gurgling so much now. He is starting to even like his daddy alittle more - which is making things alot easier on me. For a long time there, Ande only wanted me - and even though that was a massive ego boost, it also made life very hard!

He isn't sleeping through yet, but G still doesnt some nights, so im not really fazed by that. He only wakes for 2 feeds, so its very easy to manage. He has been sleeping in his bassinet again (thanks once again Nanny and Poppy!), so at least for the first couple of hours of the night im getting some deeper sleep.

A is now in 00, even some 0 - and today is in a size 1 singlet! He is just like his brother, growing a the speed of light.

Ande had his 2 month shots yesterday. He coped very well. Only the standard ouch cry, and then that was it. He slept almost all of yesterday, and today he is almost back to normal - except for being alittle warm. Although its supposed to be 33 here today (In the coldest spot of our house is 27 at the moment!), so it could have something to do with that more so than the shots. Im aiming to delay giving him panadol for as long as i possibly can. There was reports not long ago that delaying giving babies panadol until after they are 12months is very beneficial - so that is what we are aiming for. Within in reason - of course! Boobs are great pain relief - so we will be going the natural route first.

I'm very much smitten with my little man. He is mummy's little boy... Makes my heart melt every time i see him!

So - Now onto Jason i suppose?!

He is still rather enjoying his job with Mark, its almost been a year now. He has been out of the sun too, which is a real blessing. He has recently found a new skin cancer tho, and some others have come back, so its off to the Dr. to get them checked again.

Still working away on his cars, although since Ande's arrival, that is on the backburner - again!

Got some more weekend work coming up hopefully - so that will keep him busy ;)

and me?

I've been coping pretty well since Ande's arrival. I guess that our bonding has gotten off to a better start than with Garrett, so that has helped matters.

I've been on a bit of self discovery lately, and been trying to improve my behaviour and thoughts in general. I found myself being alittle nasty towards the end of the pregnancy - so this is something im trying to change.

I have lost alot of weight since having Ande. Hoping to loose more too... just need to get back into exercise now that i can.

That should be it for this month - check in next month to see whats happening!

All we need is love.... love, love. Love is all we need!

Gosh i am so in love it scares me.

I am in love with my husband.
I am in love with my sons.
I am in love with my family.
I am in love with my friends.
I am in love with my life.
I am in love with myself (ahhahahah, well some days I am, and you have to be - hating yourself isnt healthy!)

Its really sad that it takes something so horribly tragic like Dani loosing Josh for me to truly grasp just how lucky i am, and then treasure every moment i have with the people and things that i love.

So what and who do you love?

other than the above, today I am in love with:

Queensland weather - How gorgeous is it to live in the sunshine state? The weather is like being on holidays every day. I open my curtains in the morning to this gorgeous earth that we are on. Blue skies, fresh cut grass - does it get any sweeter?

Cherry coke - I found a shop at the hyperdome today that sells it, along with Dr Pepper and all other assortment of US drinks and lollies... Mmmmmm I love that shop! Too bad its stupidly overpriced! I shake my fist at Coke Australia for stopping production here!

ABC kids - 1 and 2. Its great that I can such quality entertainment on all day in the background. Its great seeing G actually start to interact with the TV, and understand jokes and such!

LCD screen cleaner - Very blessed that it works. Even after the crayon incident, Garrett has still managed to find more things to attack the TV with, and thank goodness - they have come off!

So if anyone actually reads this - tell me - What do you love?

Cheers!

Somethings really amuse me about Garrett's development.

This new stage is one of them. Garrett says "cheers" all the time... Its so funny. This morning he even 'cheer'd the tap (as Jason just filled his bottle up with water out of it). Its so cute to see that he understands what it means. Although last week he did 'cheers' with the washers in the bath as he was sucking on one and i was washing Ande with the other... He has now started to 'cheers' with food too.

Funny little lad he is.

Don't think i have mentioned his self portrait stage either... Gosh this is funny.....

He understands how to use our phones to take a photo. So he does. Only the photos are always of himself - on purpose. I have folders and folders full of these funny photos of Garrett, usually only half of his face tho, or his chest - depending on how far he has tilted the phone.

Such a funny little man. How could you not love him to bits?!

Teeth, who'd have them?

Honestly, who would?

The pregnancy with Ande really stuffed my body around. Its really amazing when you think about it. He needed calcium, i wasn't taking enough in, so it had to come from somewhere..... So it came from my teeth. So instead of him going without - my body plucks it from anywhere it can get it. The wonders of the human body and pregnancy. Only problem now is i have one really bad tooth. I've been having tooth aches since about 24weeks. Thought it was wisdom tooth pain, but its still coming. Although it isn't all the time, so i didn't think it was a cavity... Tried sensitive toothpaste, didn't do anything. I can get away without pain if i don't chew on that side - so that's what I've been doing.

My fear of dentists is really the preventer here! I just don't want to go to one, nor can we really afford to, so i just put up with it... Hmmmm wonder if that is really all that intelligent? Oh well... Its probably just one more thing to leave alone until after Christmas!

The sad thing in all of this? I brush my teeth every day. Jason doesn't, yet I'm the one that has problems! Guess it comes from having no enamel!