I thought i would update you all on the kids because it seems they are growing up WAY to quickly at the moment.

Amy turned 2 less than a month ago and i can safely say Welcome to the terrible 2's. It's like there was a switch over night. She went from this beautiful little lady to the devils sporn over night. The tantrums she throws are almost funny to watch if they didn't happen so often. If she cracks when i say no to something she starts throwing her toys. Of couse she looks through the toybox first to find the heavist object then lets loose and tosses the thing. I can tell you she has an arm on her. If that doesn't relieve the frustration she then tries to pull her hair tie out to throw at me. Scary stuff.

Both the kids have decided that the day isn't complete unless they have fought over atleast 10 toys through out the day but other times they will sit there so beautifully that it makes me wonder why they were fighting in the first place. Amy's sleeping is a little crazy at the moment and she has taken to waking up at 1am every morning for a cry. I will go in there to give her one of the many dummies that are placed around her cot and she never wants it then she cries harder because i have walked out of the room. This usually goes on for atleast 1/2 an hour most nights. I am really hoping she gets out of this habit soon because after 4 years we have finally got Josh to sleep through the night and now Amy wakes up.

Josh is being a little so and so at the moment too. He has decided his favourite saying at the moment is no, i don't want to. I could be asking him anything from packing up toys to eating his lunch and all he comes back with is no i don't want to. It's very frustrating because when hubby gets home from work he will ask Josh once to pack up toys and he will do it straight away. Josh has this little friend at childcare who has older brothers and Josh just thinks the sun shines out of this childs behind but from what i am seeing and hearing this child is nothing but a bully and is getting Josh to do his dirty work for him so he doesn't get into trouble with the carers but Josh will. Josh came up to me on Tuesday morning before we went to childcare and he told me that he had to take one of his matchbox cars to childcare because this boy wants to take it home. The car Josh was going to give him was a expensive matchbox car that lights up and was a present for Josh from santa for giving up his dummies and bottles last year. I asked him why he had to give it to this boy and Josh came back with "mummy, N (the boy) told me i have to let him keep one of my cars because he let me use his car on thursday" so i said to Josh "did N let you keep his car?" Josh said "no, but he told me i had to give him this one" Josh has taken this car to childcare once for show and tell and i guess this kid liked it so much he wanted to keep it. Needless to say i didn't let Josh take the car to childcare and i did speak to his carer about what happened that morning. Luckly for me this carer knows what this boy is like and what sort of child Josh is so she sees right through what is going on. I'm not saying Josh is perfect but i willsay my son is not a bully. Oh well, Josh is only there for a few more weeks then he is off to Kinder and i know for a fact that this boy is staying in the centre so i don't need to worry about that.

Other than all of that Josh and I have been working very well on his math skills this week. We are learning addition and subtraction at the moment. Josh has been able to count unassisted to 30 for about a year now so we are also learning from 30 to 50. It is all going very well and he is really starting to understand adding numbers under 10. This is something i am not forcing him to do but it is something that he came to me about one day. I'm just hoping the way i am teaching him is ok and it's not going to confuse him once he gets to school. He is a smart little cookie so i am hoping i am just giving him a head start. He is also starting to notice words now. He can pick his name out of a whole group of words and he can pick small words like THE, WAY, SEE, THIS etc also big words like MC DONALDS, DISNEY, SUBWAY (i think he watches too much TV lol) He just loves learning. He will ask me all sorts of questions that have me heading to google most of the time. He is not interested in learing how to write but i'm not pushing that, after all he only turned 4 in September. He loves letters too and does know the alphabet and can pick any random letter and tell you a word that starts with that letter. He even has a word for X and it's not X ray.

Anyway i better finish here because i think you would all be sick of me bragging about my boy now.

Hope everyone is well and i hope Janice is resting up and getting ready to join minti again.

Love Juzzy xxoxoxox

Hi all,

The kids are in childcare today and i have finished my cleaning so i thought it was time for another blog even though i still have other stuff that i am ment to be doing.

I got all Josh's enrolement forms for Kinder next year and they have been screaming out for me to fill them out for a few days now so i need to tackle that but it just seems like a huge task. I don't think the allergy form is big enough for me to write everything in so i might just have to write smaller. Then for every allergy he has it brings another 10 questions with it so i think i am going to have to tackle that one another day.

I still need to update the kids books as well. When i found out i was pregnant with Josh i decided to start a diary like i was writing to the baby and when i had him i continued it with everything that happened month to month and if something big happened then i would also write that. So when i found out i was pregnant with Amy i did the same thing but the problem is i haven't really touched them for a few months so i have lots to do today on them.

Amy turned 2 last week and we had the MIL and hubby's brother come over for dinner. As usual Amy got completely spoilt by the MIL and when it came time for her Uncle to hand his present over he made a big deal about how he went and chose this present all by himself (after all he is 35 years old and he should do something for himself) and he thought it was a really good choice and she would love it. So i helped Amy open it and it turned out to be the present that my MIL brought on the weekend before Amy's birthday when i was shopping with her. So i said to the BIL that he didn't buy the present because i was there when his mum purchased it. He came back with the excuse that he chose it out of the catelogue and told his mum to buy that. He is a complete liar because we actually went to buy something completely different but when we got there we realised that it wasn't worth the money they were asking so we got the other thing instead. I am so over his lies, he is 35 years old and it's about time he started acting like it.

Josh lost his voice yesterday which was great for me but very frustrating for him. We are not even sure what was wrong because he said his throat didn't hurt or his chest but he had this horrible dry cough that almost sounded like he was putting on but i knew he wasn't. He woke up completely fine today so i sent him to childcare.

Last time i blogged i said that i had to take Amy to the doctors for a suspected ear infection and to get her asthma checked out. Well she had a double ear infection so she was on antibiotics for that then i spoke to the doctor about the asthma and he checked her over and said that her lungs sound good at the moment. So no ventolin for now but just to keep an eye on it. We also talked about the fact that when Amy cuts a tooth she always ends up with really high temperatures (i'm talking over 40 degrees) and usually vomits. I happened to tell him about the last tooth she cut when i was staying with my sister and i got her up and she was shaking and vomiting. He top lip was quite blue and i thought it was her asthma but now the doctor seems to think that she may have had a febrel convoulsion (sp?) that we didn't see. So now when she cuts the next tooth we have to take her straight to the hospital if her temperature gets above 39 degrees. Very scary but i'm glad i only live about 3 minutes away from a good hospital.

Anyway that's it from me, i must go and send some compliments to a certin member that keeps sending them to me and i don't seem to be returning the favour. (i'm a bad friend :-P)

Love Juzzy xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox

After taking a little break i did return to minti a few days ago. It felt really good to be away and just sort myself out. That little black cloud that sometimes visit my brain decided to visit and mess with me for a while but it's gone now and i'm back and all refreshed.

While away i did realise how much minti does mean to me and all the lovely people i have met through this site really do mean alot to me. So as i sit here on my couch with my laptop warming my knees i sit here proudly and admit "My name is Juzzy and i'm addicted to Minti (and chocolate).

Thank you to all the lovely members that left messages in my last blog. I have finally realised i do belong here. I am planning on being more active from now on.

In other happenings we had a complete break through when it comes to my young man. As some of you know, we have been battling with Josh to do a poo in the toilet for the last year. After trying EVERYTHING and i mean EVERYTHING i finally spoke to his doctor and she simply told me that it wasn't a medical issue and to just ignore it for 3 months and try again. So we ignored it and just put a nappy on him everytime he needed to go. We would ask him if he wanted to try the toilet before we would put the nappy on but he would always say no so we didn't push the issue. Then last week he was in a really good mood and he asked for a nappy and i said to him did he want to try the toilet, he said no first and i said that if i came with him to the toilet and he could show mummy that he was trying and he still couldn't do it then i would give him a nappy. So off to the toilet we went and suprise, suprise he did it. He was so happy with himself that we called Daddy, then 2 of his aunties then grandma to tell them all. He even got a happy meal for dinner that night to show him how proud i was (this is a child that rarely gets takeaway). We had a few hiccups over the next few days as he thought he only had to do it once in the toilet and then he would go back to nappies. But mummy being so strong he now takes himself off to the toilet and calls me when he is done. He has a present coming to him tomorrow as it has been a week since he started and there was promise of a present after a week.

My baby girl turns 2 on Thursday. The last 2 years have flown by and i'm a little bit sad that she is growing up so quickly. We are actually celebrating her birthday tomorrow as Thursdays are very busy in this house and it is usually her childcare day and i would rather her be in childcare where she could play with all the kids than just being at hime with Josh and i doing the same thing that she does on a normal day. Plus daddy doesn't usually get to see the kids on a Thursday as he is at work all day then straight to cricket training after work and doesn't usually get home till after the kids are asleep. Some people don't agree with us doing it like that because they think hubby should just miss cricket but this is a man that has been playing cricket since he was about 8 years old so i would never stop him. I even sent him to cricket the day after i got home from Hospital with Amy (i did send Josh to the MIL's for the day so i got to rest anyway) 

Anyway i must finish here, Amy has a doctors appointment this afternoon for a suspected ear infection and a check up of her Asthma as we have had some breathing issues the last few days. So i must wake her and give her some lunch.

Once again it is good to be back

Love Juzzy xoxoxoxoxox

Hi All,

I have decided to take a break from Minti for a while. I am not going to delete my account or anything like that but i feel i need to get away from here for a while.

I don't want to bag out minti at all as it has been a very helpful site to me but at the moment it just doesn't feel right. I can't even pin point what it is but i don't feel part of the 'minti community' at the moment.

I am so blessed to have ever come across this site and there are some very loving members on here who i will miss but for others i will catch you on facebook.

I will still check in from time to time but for now it is goodbye.

Love Juzzy xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo