Hubby is away for the weekend, it is his yearly trip away with the boys. It is the first time i have done it by myself with the 2 kids so it is going to be very interesting to see how it goes.

We warned Josh that Daddy was going away for a few days. Josh has seperation issues so we need to tell him for a few days in advance. It was so funny when hubby was packing this afternoon Josh was saying that daddy was going to hospital. We couldn't work out why he was saying this until we worked out the last time the bag was used was when i went into hospital to have Amy. I hope he doesn't think that daddy is coming home with another baby.

About 10 minutes after hubby left i had both the kids crying because it was dinner time and i just couldn't get it to them fast enough. But by 6:45 this evening i had 2 sleeping children so i was happy. Not sure what to do with myself now.

I am taking the kids away for a few days on Monday to my sister's house in the country so i guess i can spend the weekend packing for that. It is going to be hard to have the kids by myself for 5 days all up. Oh well i guess hubby owes me big time when he gets home.

Everything else is going fine. Amy is finally better. She is off the ventolin for the moment and Josh is finished the antibiotics so hopefully we can keep them healthy for a few weeks. Amy seems to be teething so we will see how she goes over the next few days.

Anyway best finish, Hope everyone else is well and all the pregnant ladies are keeping well.

Juzzy xoxox

The poor thing now has to have ventoiln for the next week or so and then we see how she is going. The doctor isn't sure if she will develop asthma but they wont call it asthma until she is older. So now we have to keep a very close eye on her for at least the next 24 hours just while she is getting used to the ventolin and it starts to do it's job. She has been coughing a lot tonight but it doesn't sound as scary now.

It is really hard to see her this sick. She is only 7 months old (nearly 8 months). Hopefully she will sleep tonight, she hasn't been sleeping very well the last few nights and she only had about 20 minutes this morning.

On a happier note, Joshua's toilet training is going very well. He has been telling me when he wants to use the toilet and he is actually doing a wee when he goes. So fingers crossed it doesn't take to long for him to get the hang of it. After all we need to save all the money we can to pay for all Amy's medication if she continues to get sick.

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend.

Juzzy

He went a few more times yesterday but he didn't do anything. He is at childcare today and i have asked them to put him on there and we will see how he goes. He is still in nappies but he has his bob the builder jocks and we put them on during the day just after he has been to the toilet but he seems to take them off and runs around the house with nothing on.

So that is my exciting life at the moment. Nothing else is happening (i have a sad life)

Hope everyone is having a wonderful day

xoxox

Nothing much else has happened in the last week. My best friend safely delivered her little girls, Tahlee and Madeleine she named them. Madeleine was just over 3 lb and Tahlee was just over 4 lb.

Hope everyone is having a lovely week

Juzzy xoxo

Amy has finally started rolling over and now she has found that if she rolls she can get anywhere. I left her on her blanket on the floor before and went to wash the dishes and i came back and she was on the other side of the room. She is loving it. I have safely put her in her playcentre for now so she cant get anywhere.

 My best friend is being induced today so i am sitting here next to my phone waiting for a phone call. She is pregnant with twins but they are not due for another 6 weeks but one baby isn't doing so well and it will do better on the "outside" so she was put in this morning. The only thing is i have the flu so i must stay away from the hospital until i am all better but i wont see the babies because they will be in NICU. But i want to see my best friend. These are her first babies after many years of trying and i can't wait to meet them. 

Anyway i better finish here, need to put Amy to bed AGAIN and see if i can catch a nanny nap before i pick up Josh from daycare.

Take Care

Juzzy xoxox

Everything is fine on this end of the computer, the kids are finally well again. We had about a month when someone in the house was sick. Poor Amy seem to cop everything. I had her at the doctors so much that her needles ended up being a month late. I finally said to the doctor that i would bring her in and if she didn't have a temperature then just do them. So he did them on Thursday and my brave little girl didn't even cry. I'm guessing it is because she has such chunky legs that she didn't even feel them.

Joshua is doing very well at the moment. I finally managed to leave him with my mum on Saturday night. It was the first time in Joshua's 2 1/2 years that my mum looked after him. He waved hubby and i off and continued to play until bed time. My mum had no problem putting him to bed and there was no tears at all. I am so happy because now we have another baby sitter and now we can maybe get some sort of social life back. Amy is no problem and can be left with anyone but Josh can only be left with hubbys mum and now my mum.

Joshua has learnt how to count to 15 now. He has been counting to 10 for ages but yesterday when we were counting i decided to go past 10 and he counted with me. I was shocked, i have been counting to 15 for a while but i didn't think he was taking it in. He has got his colours worked out as well he love the colour blue and yellow. I can't wait till we see the peaditrician at the end of the month and she can see how different he is to the last time we saw her and maybe then she can write a different report for him, one that doesn't say that i am the reason for Josh's behaviour problems and i am the reason he doesn't talk.

Anyway better finish here, Amy has woken up and needs a bottle.

Take Care all,

Juzzy xoxox

Amy is teething. Well i'm putting the screaming and the red cheeks down to teething. I haven't been able to put her down today because she just cries. She is actually sleeping at the moment so i have 2 hands back to type.

Nothing exciting is happening in this house at the moment, fingers crossed that Josh's runny nose doesn't turn into a full cold. Amy is so over due for her 6 month needles that we have to keep her healthy until she has them.

I finally wrote another article, well more a story so if you get a chance then please feel free to read it.

Better finish here and go and pick up Josh from childcare. Hope everyone is well.

Juzzy xoxox

On Sunday night we went to the MIL's for dinner. It was great not to have to cook for the day..The kids were great the whole day. They are both very tired at the moment because it has been a big weekend and they have only been having little sleeps here and there. So tonight they were both asleep at 6.30 tonight so hopefully they will sleep all night.

Josh has been complaining today that his ear is sore again so i am hoping he doesn't have another ear infection. I will just have to see how he goes over the next few day.

Better finish here and think of going to bed. Goodnight all

Juzzy xoxox

So first thing this morning i picked up the phone to call the doctors. (i now have it on speed dial) I couldn't get him in till 3:30 this afternoon. Poor Josh now has an ear infection and a throat infection (must have been all the screaming last night). SO he is on antibiotics again.

In the last 2 weeks i have had both the kids at the doctors twice each. I am considering pitching a tent outside the doctors just so i can get in first!! Hopefully this is the last of them getting sick for a while, my kids usually don't get sick that much but when they do, they do it well.

So after only having about 2 hours sleep last night i will be going to bed early tonight because i'm sure by about 1am i will be sharing a single bed with a 16kg  2 year old.

Good night my minti friends, i will check in tomorrow if i'm not sitting in the doctors waiting room. lol

Love Juzzy xoxox

Josh on the other hand has been perfect. He knows that Amy is sick so he has been doing everything i have asked of him, even going to the fridge to get Amy's medicine.... When she has been awake he will sit next to her rocker putting her dummy back in when it falls out.

Must go to bed now it is way past my bedtime. Hope everyone has a lovely night

Juzzy xoxoxox

Amy is 6 months old today and i am just wondering why they grow up so quick. I don't remember Josh growing up so quick but i think because Amy is our last baby i have spent more time enjoying her. I know in about a years time i will want another one but we can't afford another baby so i have to be content with the 2 healthy one we've got.

Better finish here, I can hear Amy waking up and she sounds like she needs a cuddle. Have fun over the next few days and play nice(hehehe)  i will check in if i get a chance.

Love Juzzy xoxox

The poor thing was coughing so much in his sleep on Saturday night that he actually vomited. We nearly took him to the hospital because his temp was going up as well but after a night in our bed he seem to be ok and he actually slept really well. The thing that breaks my heart is when he tells me that his chest hurts and there is nothing i can do for him.  

Anyway i better finish here and get some sleep, the kids were in bed early tonight so there is a good chance that my day will start at about 6am tomorrow.

Also, Thank you to all my lovely minti buddies that visit my lounge. I'm not sure how to put pictures into other peoples lounges but it does put a smile on my face when  i get on and see all the pictures there. I look forward to getting to know you all personally.

Love Juzzy xoxoxox

It was a fantastic day and it was really good to see my grandmother looking so good. We lost my grandfather very unexpectedly in september last year. It was a great shock to the family and a horrible time for everyone. The thing i am really sad about is my grandfather will never know Amy, she was born 6 weeks after he passed away.

Amy just spent the whole day sleeping as usual and i played with my nephews who were also there for the day.

I love my grandparents farm and i basically grew up there. We spent almost every weekend there and all School holidays there when we were kids. We would get up early in the morning and help with the milking (dairy farm) then we would spend the whole day outside and only went inside for lunch and dinner. It is funny now because hubby will ask me about shows and movies that were big when we were growing up and he doesn't understand how i have never seen them because we never watched television when we were on the farm. It would get turned on at night after dinner and only if there was a show that was rated G or PG. I wish kids today knew the joys of the sort of lifestyle we grew up in. Instead of video games and DVD players they should  be playing cops and robbers with all the room in the world. We never had bikes so we always ran everywhere, we used old tree branches with hay string tied to them for guns and never turned into criminals. When we were on the farm we never had lollies and all my grandmother cooking was done by using food that she had grown and our meat came from animals from the farm. We make jokes about how regular we were as kids but it came from the good diet we had as kids.

After talking about all this today i wonder why i don't make more of an effort to make Josh's food fresh instead of taking the easy option and giving him something from the freezer. I stay at home with the kids i should be able to find the time to do some cooking. My grandmother managed to do it and she had 14 kids. At any time on the farm during the holidays there could have been up to about 15 kids staying. I am 1 of 6 kids.

Anyway i could continue all night about the farm and growing up there but i must go to bed now!!!!

Hope everyone has a fantastic week. xoxoxox

It's like on Saturday when Hubby took Josh for his hair cut. I refused to go because Josh justs puts on a song and dance and we end up leaving without his hair being cut. He came home with his hair nice and short and hubby pissing himself laughing because Josh sat on the chair by himself and laughed his way through his hair being cut. So now i have told hubby he can take Josh himself this Saturday for Josh's hearing test because i know he wont co-operate while i am there. (He is having a hearing test because they need to test his hearing before they will give him speech therapy)

Anyway i am just venting. Hope everyone is having a lovely day

xoxoxo

That is one less stress. He had 3 meals today which i am very happy about. In the last 3 weeks he is lucky enough to eat 1 meal a day so you  can imagine how happy i am tonight. He is getting very skinny but we are hoping it is just a growth spurt and he will start eating again soon!!!!

Anyway i must finish here and go to bed. The kids were in bed early tonight so i am guessing Josh will be awake early tomorrow xoxoxox

After writing my blog the other day about full nights of sleep, they are continuing. I am so happy not to be woken up in the middle of the night. Hopefully this is the start of full nights from the 2 year old. I did wake up at 6 this morning to find hubby not in bed, after some confusion i found him on the couch watching golf. What sort of normal person would get up early on the weekend when the kids are sleeping to watch golf???????? I didn't really go back to sleep after that and by 9am i was looking to go back to bed.

Did some work in the backyard today getting ready for hubby to build the cubby house. We had to knock down the old brick bbq that was in the yard goodness me i didn't know it was going to be such a big job. Thankfully it is all finished now and hopefully the cubby will be ready in the next few weeks. I will put some photos up when it is done.

Oh well better be off to bed now and get some sleep, Goodnight everyone

When josh was 18 months old he was sleeping through the night without a problem so we decided to start trying for another baby. We didn't have to try hard and i fell pregnant first try, but when we found out we were having another baby josh decided to start waking up at night again.

I have always told myself that by the time he is about 4 he might sleep through the night. It really doesn't worry me too much because i am happy with only a few hours sleep a night but hubby still needs to work so he needs his sleep but it is a bit hard when you have to share a bed with a big 2 y/o.

Anyway better finish here and pay some attention to the baby

Joshua was again in our bed at 3am and i just felt like going to his bed just so i could get some sleep but i know he would just follow. Oh well, as i keep telling myself tonight may be different.

Hope everyone is having a wonderful day xoxox

I think we must have had a crazy weekend because Josh is having a sleep today which is something he never does at home. He has been crying over nothing this morning so i knew he was going to have a sleep today. He cried this morning when he drew on his hand with texta. It was like the world was coming to an end. It is so hard not to laugh at him when he acts like that!!!!

Amy has started trying to cut out the morning sleep which is a bit hard to take. She is not ready to be cutting it out because she is just so tired but i think she is teething so that may be waking her up. Hopefully once this tooth has come through she will start acting like the little angel she is.

Anyway better finish here Amy has woken up again so i better pay some attention to her while her brother is still asleep.

xoxoxo