I think Eden is getting Croup again :( I can hear the bounce in her cough. At least the snot is no longer fluoro.

However, whether green snot or croup, she's not able to go back to the gym creche til she's better. I'm not a self motivator at the gym, so the idea of going on my own to work out on my own is pretty much not going to happen. All the classes I want to go to are never after Andrew gets home (and, as mentioned in a previous post, Eden wont take a bottle), or ridiculously early in the morning. Sorry, not doing a Pump class at 5:30am.

I was actually gearing up to go more often. Now she's sick again ! grrr.

Eden also had an allergic reaction to her 8 week (2 months) vaccination, as well as her 16 week (4 month) vaccinations. Different reactions to different vaccines, so they're not sure what she's actually allergic to. So for her 24 week (6 month) vaccinations, we have to go to a special clinic.

birthday cake

ARGH!


Jensen, my lil man, turns FOUR in 2 sleeps. He wants a pirate ship cake.
I sure I can whip up a cake.
Put it into some sort of shape - maybe. 
Ice it - no chance in hell. My icing always fails.


I've found an idea I'm gonna give a whirl, and I know you're not supposed to set yourself up to fail but oh dear, I really hope I can do this! Party is on Saturday, so I'll have to make it Friday. Thursday is the actual birthday, and he'll want a cake for daycare. Thankfully there's only 2 other kids and the daycare lady, so I can make a small cake. And it'll be a packet mix for daycare.


Fingers crossed for me....


I'll take a pic of each of my steps  and blog them as I go.

Ready for uni

I have finally decided to put an effort in for uni. Not that I hadn't been putting in an effort, more like do something to make me feel like I was actually attending uni without actually attending..


I got a laptop.


One that WORKS.


This house now has 4 laptops (all with varying degrees of usefulness) and a desktop, and the only one that actually does what I want is my new laptop. It's not just any old laptop, it's a MacBook!


I swore that I'd never get a Mac, I just can't use it. Andrew's dad has one, and I just can't use it. I transfer photos from my memory stick to his laptop and poof! Flung off to the Mac never never. I can't ever find them.


And here we are.


Anyway, I don't actually go to lectures, as I know they're on lecture capture, and I can listen to them. Also, lectures are on in the afternoon on a Monday, a few hours after Jensen's swimming lesson. There's no way I'm dragging an overtired 3yo (he'll be 4 in 2 sleeps!! eek!) and a 4mth old finding her voice to a lecture. Just wouldn't work. For a start, the swimming wears J out, so I know he'll crash well at bedtime. Instead, if we go to uni, it'll be in the car and then there goes that idea. Plus, any noise they make will get picked up by the lecture capture mic and everyone will just get baby noise. Which is what happened to my recording of the tutorial class the other day. It's my own recording, on my phone, but all I can hear is Eden, and myself saying shhhh! shhh!


Picture of my new laptop to come, as soon as I sync my iPhone to my MacBook. Scary.


Also, I decided it was time too, as not this weekend, but next weekend is the mid-semester exam. Holy moly. I'm scared. I'm not ready. I don't understand. None of this makes sense. Why did I decide to take only 6 months off instead of 12? I know other people with kids and a job can run their household and look after their kids and go to work AND to uni can do it, but I'm failing to see that I can. I have a (almost) 4 year old - who conveniently goes to daycare 3 days a week - and a 4 month old - who is nearly 5 months old and just recently decided to learn to roll, stay awake longer and day-sleep less and wake every 2 hours and not take a bottle of breastmilk from anyone so I can attend lab (which is 5% of my grade).  


I am tired, stressing out about uni (mind you  - this is just ONE subject, next semester it'll be two), never able to keep the house clean or the fridge full of food. There's no time to study coz I'm always cleaning or cooking, or trying to spend time with the kids - they are only little once :). THEN being reminded that I need to go back to work, possibly sooner rather than later. HOW? There's no one to look after either kid when the shift that I'll want to go back for starts at 3 or 4, and the baby wont take a bottle.... I digress, I'll leave that for another rant.

Rolling

Oh wow! Eden rolled for the first time! I thought she'd never get there! But today, she went from being on her back to rolling confidently to her side (not just coz she was distracted by something), to rolling from back, side and then tummy this evening !!

I even caught it on camera. I say camera loosely coz I used my iphone, and was watching Spicks and Specks at the same time so you can hear that in the background!

Not happy with our local Coles Supermarket today.

Eden was screaming, starving and unable to be fed while I was at the supermaker,  and the stupid checkout boy veeeerrrryyy slowly scanned my items. Then put the laundry items in a bag - and added my deli meat and fruit and veg to the same bag. I asked him to put the laundry items in a bag on their own, and he did and he asked if I had any other laundry items. Look at the belt idiot, can you see any other laundry items? I'm the only one at your register and only have the fruit and veg left. THEN, he put my fruit and veg and deli meats into the same bag with a 900g Milo tin. OMG kid. He didn't hurry or make any effort to talk to me or hurry because this baby was SCREAMING in my ear in hysterics. The other customers were looking at me, thankfully in pity - not in "shut your baby up" kind of way. I went to say something about the tin being in with the fruit and veg (and my one very expensive banana - $1.50 for one!), but made a face, sighed and let him pack whatever the hell he wanted to in a bag, I just needed to get out of there.

I did call the manager, but he had this blase attitude. He did apologise, but it sounded insincere and all I got from him was "We'll take him off registers because he knows he needs to pack faster than that".

Pfft.

Back to online shopping again for a while, until I can manage a shopping trip without a crying baby or a whinging kid.

This was only one part of my eventful morning...

I was so ready to move Eden to her own room. Right up until 8:30pm - bedtime...

So, she's sleeping in her basinette beside me. She'll get there one day ;)

Tomorrow, my first lab class for the year!!Just as nervous about what's going to happen in lab as leaving Eden with Mum...