Three teeth!

I have been meaning to update on Kyan's teething for a while now, but haven't had a chance till now! Well it seems when Kyan got his 'second' tooth it was actually his third! One of his top teeth had come through but because it came out of the front of his gum instead of the bottom, I didn't feel it until after his 'second' tooth came through. (no wonder he was waking every night!)

The top tooth is quite large so it must have been there for a while. It is also quite wide and it looks like he is going to get my big teeth rather than Dean and Jaz's teeny ones. Here's hoping he doesn't have as many dental problems as Dean has either.

I am still hoping Jasmine won't have too many problems, but given that she is already getting fillings at 3yrs old, I don't like my chances. We will have to be really vigilant with taking them both to the dentist regularly to catch any problems as early as possible.

Kyan's has been sleeping through again since his second bottom tooth came through, although his second top tooth seems to be on it's way so that explains why he has started occasional night waking again. After seeing how big the first top tooth is, I am guessing it is going to be nasty!

Growing Up!

Jasmine is just growing up so fast! Little things change every day. She is really becoming a real preschooler now, not that she will be going to pre-school! She is going to 'real' kindy, next year and the year after that is going to prep. I am so not ready for her to go to prep! I really love watching what a lovely little girl she is turning into and I don't really like the thought of not being able to see her as many hours a day! She is such fun to have around, and constantly brings a smile to my face with the little things she comes up with.

I have been very lucky (gives me time to do stuff and catch up on sleep occasionally when Kyan is asleep as well) that she was still having 2hr naps up until recently. At one stage she started looking like she would drop them but then went through a growth spurt and started sleeping for 3hrs or more! Well the past two weeks she has only been having about 2 naps a week. I have been still trying to get her down because she seems so tired, but then after half an hour to an hour she is still in there playing and when she gets up is as happy as till bed time.

The fact she was still having naps was a sanity saver in Kyan's early months, because at least I could catch up on sleep during the day occasionally when Kyan was up a lot at night time.

Thankfully Kyan is now back to sleeping through most nights so I shouldn't need day naps so much anymore. Phew!

Jasmine is having her teeth filled under GA next week. I am so not looking forward to it, taking her to the dentist is bad enough. The nurse at the hospital is calling on Friday to let me know what I have to do in regards to her fasting etc, and I will find out the proceedure then, so that I can try and explain it to her as best I can without scaring the crap out of her! Hopefully I can make it sound like and adventure rather than something to be scared of.

I even rang the gp's office to see if she could have her 4yr old vaccinations done while she was under the GA, because I have a feeling after the GA we are going to have a real fight for her to get her vaccinations done. Unfortunately they can't do it that way tho. Bugger!

We had her orientation day at her new kindy a couple of weeks ago and I think she is going to love it there. The staff are so devoted to the kids and it has such a lovely, caring and homey atmosphere there and the grounds are so great for kids! I think she will get a lot out of it, and it will really stimulate her learning and creativity. I couldn't think of a better way to prepare her for prep.

Two Teef!

At last our little man has gotten his second tooth. It has been looking pretty close the last few days and he was quite cranky yesterday and so I checked this morning and there it was. YAY! Heres to a few weeks (at least) of sleeping through! :-)

Look at that gorgeous smile! Such a happy boy! :-)

Jasmine going to level 2!

Our adorable little swimmer is now able to swim short distances without any floating devices or assitance! We are both sooo proud of her! She absolutely loves her swimming lessons, and coming swimming with me on Kyan's swimming day after his classes has done wonders for her confidance and the extra practice has made a huge difference.

This week was assessment week and she is going up to Level 2 next year! I am soooo proud of her! She has done so well this term!

Latest layout and first toof!

Ok, this is a little late but Kyan got his first tooth on his Opa's birthday! (11 Nov) YAY! The second one is still close to the surface but I am waiting, waiting for it to come through so I can have unbroken nights sleep again.. (I got about two weeks when he was around 6mths and he has been teething ever since!)

Anyway, here is the latest layout, finally another of Kyan. I LOVE this photo! I think I will get this one framed. :-)

Layout in Print!

Well earlier this month my layout titled 'Sleeping' was published in issue 36 of For Keeps Creative Scrapbooking magazine! I was sooo excited to have my first layout in print. I was however a little dissappointed that they cropped my layout! It has lost a bit of impact because of it IMO. It is on page 119 in case you want to have a look at a copy.. they are available in the newsagents right now. The cover looks like this.

Sooo excited.. now if I can only get them to accept a few more submissions! LOL

I can't help myself...

I WAS just going to have an online store and very small webpage maybe to go with it... well I just can't help myself... I have just kept going and going and I now have myself a rather comprehensive website! Not only do I have a store, but I have also added articles, the ability to blog, downloads, a forum AND a gallery!

The idea behind keeping it small was so it didn't take up tooo much time... like I said, I just can't help myself! LOL Oh well, maybe it will become one of the top Australian digiscrapping sites. It would be nice! :-) It is already steady at number 15 on the Australian Top 50 Scrapping website! YEAH!

Cranky Teeth and Happy Teeth!

YAY! Jasmine went to the dentist today and it seems having her bunny rug with her and not allowing her to have lollies, icecream, biscuits and sweets for over a month has worked... oh and I guess the doctors set and strawberry shortcake dolls helped as well! (we offered them last time but it wasn't enough).

She let the dentist tickle (drill) her tooth and she didn't even get upset! She did AMAZINGLY well and was even happy at the end of it! YAY! So one tooth is drilled, and she has to have one more drilled and the fillings put in and she is done. The dentist is going to (hopefully) do that next visit. She is one happy girl getting lots of presents and being able to eat sweets again.

Kyan on the other hand is not so happy. He has been teething for 3mths and for the past mth has been waking every night because of his teeth. Every time they come to the surface and you think oh they are going to come through this time... and then they move back down again! Today however one of the two is starting to protrude although it is still not entirely through as it doesn't feel sharp yet. They look soo sore poor little man and he has been rather cranky the last couple of days.. (moreso than usual) He did sleep through last night but I suspect that was only because he only had 2hrs sleep all day yesterday.

Today he didn't sleep much either so hopefully he will sleep through again tonight. Granted he wanted a breastfeed at 5pm and fell asleep so he hasn't had dinner. Hopefully he will wake for a late dinner otherwise he might wake up hungry.

Anyway... today the big news is teeth! LOL Fingers crossed Kyan's teeth will soon be happy as well!