No dairy!

Here is our little man having just eaten some vegemite sandwhiches. He was playing up to Oma showing his handywork to her. He he

Needless to say he loves vegemite sandwiches!

Well our clever boy has now started to crawl properly. He still uses the commando crawl lots but also does a normal crawl, usually when crawling short distances. We get all excited and tell him good boy and he gets a look on his face as if to say what on earth are you one about???

The other night (Thursday I think) he was up for the ENTIRE night.. well apart from about an hour. Dean and I were absolutely knackered only managing about 2hrs sleep each. Oma and Opa where here so that made things even more difficult as they were on our sleepa sofa in the loungeroom so we couldn't come out there like we usually do to settle him.

I took him to the hospital at around 1am and well that was an adventure in itself... Interesting the hospital clientele at that time on a Thursday night! Anyway.. they could find nothing wrong... his ear infection was pretty much cleared up (which by the way he got recently also), no wind, no nothing at all wrong with him that they could tell. Nurophen and mylanta did nothing. I was left feeling rather silly at the hospital.. but the following day I thought about it further...

Here I was thinking he was over his dairy intolerance, or at least pretty much. That evening we had given him some pizza crust thinking there would be no dairy in the pizza base, but it appears ( just confirmed by Pizza Hut a few minutes ago) that the Perfecto Base does have dairy in it. Thin and Pan doesn't. We of course had perfecto as it is my favourite base.

If you have seen Kyan at meal times you know how bad he wants to eat what you do.. and that was the case this time. We had pizza for dinner and of course he wanted some so we gave him the crust. The result was us all being up most of the night.. sadly I guess this means that his dairy intolerance wasn't improving as I had thought.. it must just be because he is breastfeeding less due to being on solids that I am able to have a little more dairy in my diet.

He has also broken out in eczema over the last few days which he hasn't done for ages, so my bet is that it is all related. Bugger!

I was thinking about not entirely weaning him at 12mths and perhaps extending the morning and evening feeds for a bit longer but at this point I might be best weaning him and putting him on soy (hopefully he will show more interest than he has so far!) as the lack of calcium from insufficient dairy is taking it's toll on me, resulting in leg cramps and restless legs syndrome at night time which in turn results in insomnia....

At least he seems to be tolerating the soy ok in his cereal and custard. I was initially worried about giving him soy because I had read that babies with Milk Protien Intolerance often don't tolerate Soy as the protiens are very similar as that of milk.

1000 Members YEAH!

WOW! I am a teeny bit stoked. clikchicdesigns.com has just reached 1000 members.. YEAH! Not bad for just over 2mths... Doing a little happy dance! He he!

Jasmine's Update

Jasmine had an absolutely wonderful Christmas. Her favourite present was her scooter. She had been asking for it for months and thankfully even though most presents were already bought 'Santa' managed to squeeze one more in.

She was on a present opening high and I had to bring her down again... she kept asking if there were more presents to open. Ha ha. She has made a few leaps in development also.

She is no longer having day naps, although does probably need one every 5 days or so to catch up or she becomes absolutely ferral and throws horrible kicking and screaming tantrums which she hasn't done since she was 2. She tries really hard to be good tho because she knows if she is cranky she has to have a day nap.

Just before Christmas she started having dry nappies every night. Since we spent Christmas at Mums and Dad's we kept her in nappies till we got back and then took them off and put her in training pants. Well she has done WONDERFULLY and only had a couple of accidents since. Once was because her Daddy forgot to take her to the toilet before putting her to bed.

I am so glad she is finally completely out of nappies! She started looking like she would be last summer but as soon as the cold whether hit she started wetting the bed every night again so we put her back in nappies again. So hopefully this winter she will stay dry. We now have a half a box of her nappies sitting there, but that is ok, Kyan can make use of them as he is only one size lower than she was. He he I am sure he won't mind the pink for a week or two.

Jasmine got REALLY bored at home when I kept her out of kindy (daycare) for a week. She normally goes 2 days a week and over Christmas I kept her home and she did an aweful lot of winging about being bored. LOL

Next week she starts at real kindy, or 'Pre-Prep'. I think she is going to love it there, it is such a lovely environment. She is going to miss her current friends however as she talks about them all the time. She has two lovely little twin girls as friends at kindy and they all look sooo adorable together!

It is also her 4th Birthday next week! I can't believe it that she is going to be 4 ALREADY! It goes so fast! We are not having a proper party this year, although as far as Jaz knows it is one. Just a bit of play and yummy food and cake at the park, with a couple of her friends and family.

Jasmine also has a nasty cough and a bit of a cold at the moment. It is the same cough as Kyan so I will need to keep an eye on them both me thinks. If Kyan's has gone to his chest (when I take him to the doctor) I will get her to the doctor as well.

UGH! I can't believe how late it is, time for me to get to bed! So much for a couple of quick Blog updates! I had plenty to catch up on!

Gig at the Park

Dean and his band had their gig at the park on the weekend. The article in the Paper made a HUGE difference in attendance and there were a lot of people there enjoying picnics etc while watching the band.

I love being able to take Jaz to see her Daddy play drums. She enjoys being able to dance to the music and Kyan had a lovely time as well soaking in his surroundings. He also enjoyed a few picnic snacks, again despite the fact he wasn't feeling the best.

I was happy to see Dean play wipeout again. I haven't seen him play that song in years, and I always love watching play it as he does a great version of that song. As always it got the crowd going and they loved it.

Update on Kyan

It seems like ages that I have sent an update on the kids and of course it has been a few weeks.

Kyan hasn't been well since Christmas. He had croup over Christmas with some wheezing at night time. It seemed to be improving but then last week it started getting worse again. I took him to the doctor and she thought she saw something on his tonsils but suggested it might be food. She said to give him a course Prednisone for the Wheezing.

Well that night he was very upset and irritable and would not settle for several hours so I took him to the hospital. The doctor saw the spots on his tonsils also and said he thought it was tonsilitus. He has been on penicillan for it and it seems to have been helping although he has also developed a cough. I took him to get that checked on the weekend but his lungs were clear so that is good at least. He was weezing and unsettled again tonight tho so I might take him back to the doctor again in the morning.

He also now has 6 teeth. He got his 6th one just after Christmas. As you can see by the photo he still loves his food and you cannot eat in front of him without sharing it with him. It is rather cute but I am quite dismayed at how much junk he is now ending up eating. Jasmine never had biscuits and things till she was at least 18mths old but with Kyan he cracks it if you don't give him a little nibble of whatever it is you are eating.

Having said that since he has been sick he is right off his vegies.. at least he is still eating fruit and custard. I am now making his custard with soy milk instead of rice milk and he seems to be tolerating it ok. I have also started eating a little more dairy again and (knock wood) he seems to be tolerating that ok as well. YEAH! Dairy here I come! I have sooo missed cheese and Milo and all those yummy dairy things. I even had pizza the other night and no sign of any eczema on him or anything. YAY

Jasmine had a pool party today and had a lovely time. Of course Kyan had to have some of the food and polished off a lovely Home Made Chocolate Chip Biscuit... no wonder he had no interest in his vegies when we got home for lunch!

Anyway, that is Kyan's update.. hopefully he will feel better soon, poor little mite!

Website Upgrades

Finally I have completed the upgrades on clikchicdesigns.com. Phew! It was a lot of hard work but at least it is done now. All appears to be running smoothly and I am very happy with the end result. I think the site is much more user friendly and more easy to navigate. I really want the site to be a warm, friendly and enjoyable place to visit to encourage new members.

I am hoping that over the next 12mths I will able to build it up to the point where I can make enough from it to enable me to stay home a bit longer instead of returning to full time work. The plan is at the moment that I will go back in 12mths time, so I will be working my darndest to get this site going so that I don't have to. I really want to be able to give Kyan the same time at home that Jasmine has had as I think she has really benefited from having me home with her. (I can't believe she is starting prep next year!)

There are very few Australian Digital Scrapbooking communities on the web at the moment so I have managed to get in early, hopefully that will give me a head start. Membership has been growing rapidly, so I think that is a good sign I am on the right track, and after the Christmas slump, sales are slowly starting to increase again, so I think it is time for me to get stuck back into designing again!

We now have a few challenges running, and I have just advertised on the site for more team members so here's hoping we will soon have even more challenges, and crops/chats to get things going even further. If you are interested in joining the clikchicdesigns.com team, check out our ad for new members...

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Summertime and the Music Is Easy

Dean and his band got a write up in the paper today. They are doing a gig in the park next weekend. It is a council funded thing. It is always a nice opportunity to take Jaz to the park so she can see her Daddy play the drums. Last year when we went she had an absolute ball dancing along, so I am sure she will have just as much fun this year.

The story unfortunately is rather poorly written with a few facts a bit mixed up but you get the idea.

I have a ton of catching up to do with blog posts, but am in the middle of boring old bookwork again..not to mention some major site upgrades on clikchicdesigns.com

clikchicdesigns.com - Aussie Top 10! YEAH!

YEAH!

clikchicdesigns.com have reached the 10 Ten in the Australian Top 50 Scrapping sites! Onwards and upwards!

What a fabulous start to 2006!