Anyway he didn't sleep much yesterday as we were out all day at mum and dads so he only power napped in the car.  We thought he would go to sleep easily, as he was so tired. We put him to bed early but alas it took another 1.5 hrs for him to fall asleep.  This entailed him coming down the stairs several times, us not saying anything and putting back to bed.  We closed the door he cried, we gave another chance then closed the gate (we have a stair gate across his door)  he howled.  He wanted us to be with him but it didn't work and even patting or rocking didn't work.   We soon after all this time have now worked out that it is the broken dummy that is the problem.  Now it has a hole in it he can't suck on it!!!   he soon went to sleep.

This morning H and I were in bed reading stories and I casually mentioned to him that his dummy had a hole in it.  He kept looking at it and putting his finger in the hole LOL   I said one day you may like to put it in the bin as it has a hole in it, it is broken. He thought about that for awhile as we kept reading books, then he suddenly said to me.  Dummy in bin, I said if you want to, it means you wont have it any more.  So he raced over to the bin and threw his dummy out!  What a Momentous Occasion!!  So proud of him that he did it himself.   

We have been talking about getting rid of it and that santa would take it and leave a pressie!  So I guess we don't have to do that now LOL.  Of course Santa will still come!

Our only concern is trying to get him to sleep without it.  I am going to write a Q about self settling!  Hope I get good answers LOL.   

I said to him you are such a good big boy now that you have no dummy.  And it suddenly dawned on me that he is growing up way to quickly, where has my little boy gone???

Just an update really... about a month ago we went to FIJI we stayed on Plantation island and had a ball and I really think H enjoyed himself to.  

We went with all of my family my mum and dad, my 2 sisters and their families as well, all up there was 13 of us.

We spent most of the time swimming at either the pool or the beach.

We went on the Glass bottom boat, saw lots of fish.  I took time out and went to a local market on the other side of the island. 

At night we had H baby sat by one of the locals (2nd last pic) Most of the time the kids went to an early dinner then went off to the kids club while we all ate in peace!  LOL  Henry loved being baby sat.    

As you can see the weather was just perfect.  I got up in the morning and thought what will I wear today, oh yeah my swimmers.  Wore them all day until I got changed for dinner.    Hardly wore shoes at all.   

It was so relaxing, every one had time out one way or another J went fishing, my B-I-L played golf, some went snorkling, and the girls had massages, or pedicures..  It was fantastic having family around even though sometimes they gave me the S**ts..  They were really good and took H for awhile so we could have some time out.   Like wise we did the same with their kids.   

The funny part was on the way back from the island.  It was choppy and the boat was rocking hard. (fall of your seat type stuff) H was sitting on Daddys lap each bump he would say whoaaaaa  whoaaa  and then he started saying "no more boat"  he must have been feeling sick but at least he didn't vomit!!

Would we do it again Hell Yeah!

H has now turned two and had a lovely time.  we had a small party for him and we gave him a train table that he just loves he walks around it with his trains talking to himself.    

H is loving childcare and I can barely say good bye to him now.  He is talking heaps and now says "Mine Mine" LOL we are trying to beak that habbit but I think it comes from childcare.

H has started swimming lessons the first day he cried as he wanted to get in by himself naked.  Needless to say we left with him crying and wondered if we should continue.  We did continue and the next lesson he spent 10min on the stairs in the water still wanting to be on his own.  He soon joined the class but didn't do everything that was asked of him.  He is getting there and we will continue to persist with it.

Hope everyone is well..........

We checked in to our fab self contained unit, which was central to everything then picked up the hire car. That night we went out for dinner. It was half price if you ate b4 6.30pm, bargin.

Anyway that night I woke up and felt a little sick and then vomited. The next day I vomited about 3 more times, so spent the time moping around the unit while the others went to the beach.

H loves the beach, and had ball and the most funny thing was that the japenese tourists loved him as well. They were taking pics and holding his hand and playing with him.

We spent most of the time swimming, walking, and just relaxing. Went to Sea World, and also stumbled apon a market :). Not much to do when H sleeps most of the day from about 11.00 to 1.30pm.

I went to my 20year school reunion what a blast, we all ate and drank too much. It was just nice to see everybody.

The last day there we went to my friends place and had a BBQ. My friends 2 girls loved H and took very good care of him they are only 7 and 5 years old.

Oh, one things H loved to do was go on to the balcony and look down on the traffic, he could do that for hours.

Here is a collection of holiday pics....

We have had to get him up and just let him try and settle himself.  He wonts to be held then dosen't, wont eat...  wont do anything.  So we just leave him with the telly on or we from a distance read to him.  He then plays for a bit then will go to bed with bottle.

Last night he wouldn't do that so we left him crying, then at 10.30pm we went to bed after the visiters had left, then I did the controlled crying.  Went in after 5min then after 10min.  I was going to go in after 15min but he fell asleep. 

It is so heart breaking to hear him cry like that and it really stresses my partner out.  I can ignore it but he can't and gets worked up.  So then I need to try and destress the both of them.  We end up arguing, and I don't think it is healthy for our relationship.

The plan tonight is to put him to bed later start the bath, bottle and bed at about 8pm this will be 7pm pre daylight saving.   Give him nurofen b4 bed and if he crys do the controlled crying thing. 

Tomorrow we will start this at 7.50pm and then the next night 7.40pm until we are at 7pm.  If this fails then I have some lavender oil that I will spray around his room and put a drop on the corner of his sheet. 

Please pray for us and give us plenty of positive vibes that this will work 'cause we can't take it any more!

 Oh thank you to Naomi for her wonderful peice of advice.  We will try it if all else fails.  It can't hurt.

This is what H did..

You can see before pics by clicking here 

and here are the after shots

Hmmm  where did they go?  Well I remember somewhere between 12am and 2am they went missing.  Bubs was awake and I had to sleep in the spare room with him, but did he sleep?  NO!

So I am going to have to waste a beautiful sunny day with trying to get my sanity and sleep back, here's hoping that bubs sleeps well today.  

There is a heaps of other things I would love to do like take bubs to the park and to make some salmon patties. 

Well fingers crossed that they return sooner rather than later!

Love youse all have a great day!

Oh BTW  Thanks to everyone who has sent me tikes.  I really do love the giving and receiving, it sure does make minti a happy place to be.  

I have been on minti and reading everyones blogs, but I am sorry if I haven't replied to them.   I still really do love youse all!

It was trying to download service pack 3 and every time i turned my computer off I stopped it from doing so.  So when I turned it on again it would then start down loading again. 

Anyway he fixed it and it didn't cost very much, so that is another good thing. 

My computer now has another problem with the fan, so I have to take it back to get that fixed.  It shouldn't cost me anything this time as the guy said it you have anymore problems bring it back at no charge!  Wow that1s lucky hey?

Well gotta go have a very busy day ahead of me. 

Love youse all have a fantastic sunday.

We keep a good watch on our usuage and lately it has gone through the roof and we have had to upgrade.  I am not using my computer anymore until it is fixed.  At the moment I am on my partners computer.

I will take my computer tomorrow to a small place that we know will fix it (hopefully anyway).  They have fixed it b4 with other problems that I have had.

So If I am not on Minti much then you will all know why.  It is really pissing my off that this is happening.  I may just go out and buy a laptop!

Anyway there is a programme on telly called TNN I think it is a kids news programme.  They came out to her school to have a look at the kitchen garden and while they were interviewing the teachers about it, my neice and her bestie were in the background snipping the lettues' or something, while they were filming. 

It will be intersting to see how much they show of it.  The show will be on at 11.30am channel 10 today.  She is so excited she rang me up on Sunday to ask if I could tape it for her.  (they don't have a video)

So how cool is this???

This morning bubs gave daddy his present and he loved it (Daddy that is)  This afternoon we may go out for arvo tea and then I am cooking up a big Roast lamb.

H hasn't been well we went to the Doc the other day and he has a throat infection and the begining of an ear infection.  He is now on Antibiotics which is a challange to get into him as he likes to spit it out.   I think tho that most of it is going in.

This morning H decided to wake at 5.30am so I bought him into our bed hoping that he would go back to sleep, no such luck so at 6.30 when he was howling I angrily got up and gave him some breakfast. 

I have just put him down for a nap hoping that he sleeps.  If he does then I will be catching a few zzzzzs myself. 

Hope everyone has a fantastic fathers day.

Love youse all

We gave him panadol when we put him to bed last night and then he had a very restful night, coughing for most of the night, Hence I didn't get any sleep and now feel like a walking zombie.  

So 10am we will see the Doctor, doubt he can do any thing but we will see.

I'm off now to go and get a strong coffee while H watches telly......

Love youse all   Have a fantastic w/end

It may not be so warm but at least the sun is out.... 

I have a fairly good life, I love my son and my partner to bits more than anything in this world.  I am fairly healthy, live a good life.  

I have just been out and about enjoying this lovely glorious weather, I changed my radion station from talk back to rocking good fox fm and turned it up loud, now I am going to go out and enjoy some more of this weather b4 I have to get ready for work.

Hope you enjoy your day!   I am so far!

Love youse all  

I was sleeping and heard noise and then get this loud "come help"  I go in and the lights are on and H had spewed everywhere, all over the carpet, and his bed.   I cleaned the carpet and then my partner did the cot etc....   While I held H.  He was tired and just leaning his head against my shoulder.   Poor bugger.  We gave him a small sip of water and put him back in his cot, he was out like a light.   I though if he wakes up again I will have to sleep with him in the spare bedroom.   He slept until 7am.

Today I think he is still not feeling well.  Not his usual chirpy self.  He has eaten breakfast and morning tea with out spewing!  He is in bed asleep and has been since 10.30am.  This is unusual for him.  

I thought is was all because he spent most of the day outside yesterday.  It was a gorgeous day and the sun was shining.   Still a little cold tho.

My partner reckons he ate something that didn't agree with him.  This I guess seems more likely.

On a lighter note, I went for a massage this morning lovely it was, I nearly fell asleep.  It was a full body one, I declined to have my stomach done eewwww!!!

Hope everyone has a fantastic w/end! 

Tonight however he refused his dinner ate a small amount.  Most on the floor then he started crying and crying.  I got him out of the high chair and couldn't stop him crying.  He was uncontrollable.   I said he is probablly teething.   My partner just looked at me and we both laughed,  we have been saying that for the last 6mths.

My partner said just leave him.  I tried to read him stories and avert his attention.  I put him on the floor and then he spewed. 

My partner thought he might have something stuck in his throat.   I suggested he was tired.  We had words etc.....    I thought something has got to be wrong.  I was getting worried. I suggested he might be in pain lets give panadol.  That suggestion went out the window.

We quickly bathed him and gave him his bottle, only had a small bit.  He was shagged, just out for the count just about poor bugger.

So my question is,  is what we are doing the wrong thing, are we making him so tired that it is all just catching up on him?  AM I A BAD  PARENT for doing this?

during the week he is never dog tired when getting reading for bed at 7pm.  He is however really tired by the time I put him down at 12.15 after lunch.  But then he sleeps for a long time.

Hmmm I do wonder if he is coming down with something.  

Now I have to do a rollover feed at about 10ish 'cause otherwise he will be awake early.   I am preparing myself for a bad night.

Hope everyone has a better night than me.

Love youse all!