Stella’s mysterious infection

After coming back from our trip (that I will post soon) Stella got a high fever. To make matters worse she complained about a tummy ache on her left side of her abdomen. So we took her to our GP. The most worrying thing for me was that we just got back from Indonesia, and [...]

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Beyond our control?

Reading ‘Random Thought‘ that Kelen wrote few weeks ago… I can totally relate to her.  I was laughing when I read that Jayden emptied the content of the vacuum cleaner minutes before they left the house, or how he spilled milk everywhere, but I know how hard it is…  I think I have my fair share of [...]

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Random thoughts

We’ve been busy this term. Monday – Playgroup, Tuesday – Swimming, Wednesday – Gymbaroo, Thursday – Kindermusik and free on Fridays. Every morning I’m always scrambling for time before his lessons and Jayden always managed to make things more difficult somehow. For example, yesterday just before we were about to leave the house, he decided to [...]

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It’s OK Mummy!

After having a tough night, which means sleeping for less than 4 hours… the next day, Jake was as unpredictable as the night before.  He only had one nap, at 10am.  He woke up at 11am and decided that he didn’t want to nap again.  I tried to put him to bed for his second [...]

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Water Babies

I wanted to introduce swimming to Jayden much earlier, but I guess I was just somewhat lazy, and only started taking him to lessons about 5 months ago. He was initially very scared – cried when he had water on his face and clinged on to me like a koala throughout the 30 minutes lesson. [...]

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Baby Jake and his allergies

    My 9 months old son Jake is allergic to (drumroll…..) eggs, dairy and nuts. We first found out that he was allergic to dairy when I bought a tub of baby yoghurt from the supermarket, fed him the yoghurt and ended up in the hospital emergency 40 minutes later.  He had hives all [...]

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From Babbling to Speech

Jayden is such a chatterbox – the only time he stops talking is when he’s sleeping! It’s amazing how much he’s progressed from his first word “Car” at 10 months old. I know… – it’s not mummy or daddy, it’s CAR!  At 14 months, he knew over 100 words and now at 17 months, he [...]

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What did you say??!?!

Recently I read an interesting article in Mother & Baby (April/May 2009) about “Dealing with those %$# swear words.”  I think it’s never too early to know what to do and plan what your response is going to be when that time comes. After all – don’t we all want good-mannered kids. So here are [...]

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