Getting rid of Dummies

So this post is about pacifiers and not stupid people just so we're on the same subject lol.
Don't want people to think my daughter keeps asking for her favourite stupid person - not that we know any.............

Anyway now that I cleared that up.
We are fast approaching Miss Midgets 3rd birthday (It's in August). Mr D and I have been talking about what to do about a certain dummy that Miss Midget is for lack of a better term addicted to and when to get rid of it.

No I know by writing about this I'm opening a big old can of worms but thats ok. I realise everyone has their own opinions on when to get rid of it and to be honest with you we had thought that we would of gotten rid of it by now.

We've been busy with trying to come up with a exit strategy for dummy for a little while now and basically we have come to the conclusion or at least I have that I need to harden up and not give in when Miss asks for her dummy and distract as much as possible. At the moment we are working on Dummy to be gone around her birthday and have been telling her "When your 3 that makes you a big girl and you don't need your dummy then and we'll have to say good bye to dummy", I think to a degree she understands but I'm also pretty sure she thinks her birthday is ages away.
To help make this good-bye process a little easier we have started with some rules.

1) If it's not bed time, no dummy. This to a degree works as long as Mummy toughens up. It worked last night :). The only time she gets dummy is right before bed time. We used to have this in place but we got a bit relaxed about it and it kind of snowballed. We'll know for next time to stick to our guns.

2) If she has a afternoon sleep at the moment we're (with the help of Nanny P) are in the process of weening her off it. So we're trying to convince her that she doesn't need it at nap time. I have yet to give this one ago myself as we only put it in place yesterday. So ask me again on Sunday evening how this plan is working lol.

Those are our major things we're working through at the moment.
With us working to the goal of it going at 3 that also brings up the debate on the date. Now I'm of the thinking that I don't really want to deal with having no dummy on the day of her birthday. By the time bedtime comes around she will of been running round like a mad thing for most of the day spoilt rotten with toys and sugar. So to me to take dummy away that day would just be plain mean (to me and to her lol).
I also think it needs to be a quiet weekend and we do it on the Saturday or even start on the Friday so that gives us 2 sleep ins up our sleeve to combat the screaming that will go with no dummy.

Yes I know there could be no screaming and it could all go really good. I'd be stoked if it did but with the attachment that Miss Midget has to dummy I'm picking we won't be so lucky.

We have been given so many interesting ideas of how to get rid of dummy. Some I'm not so sure I can go through with but some have been awesome ideas like
- The Dummy Fairy comes and takes it away
- You give your dummy to the Rubbish Bin and then you get to pick out a prize for being such a big girl.
There are a couple of others that were good but I can't remember them of the top of my head.

My daughter has a long history with Dummy.


26/11/09

As some of you know (probably most but I'm pretending people don't know me personally when I write this lol), my daughter was 3 and 1/2 weeks early when she was born. 4lb 4oz. She was just a tiny Midget back then. We stayed in the hospital for 10 days and got to bring her home finally after 10days. I think we lasted maybe 3wks at home before out of pure desperation and lack of sleep (I was having to feed her every 3hrs regardless of if she was sleeping or not because she was so little) and knowing she was not hungry etc we gave her a dummy. This dummy was a magic. I got to sleep and life was good. God forbid you went anywhere without said dummy though or you paid the price. There have been a couple of times where we had to make a emergency stops at the super markets to replace lost or forgotten dummy but we were fine with that as it brought peace and quiet and a happy child.
The dummy has had many names in our house like Gobstopper, Dumdum, Pipe (Mr D's childhood name for it) and d.u.m.m.y (spelling it out so Miss didn't know what we were talking about). It will be the end of era when dummy goes.
Well wish us luck on this new part of the adventure. At least if all goes wrong we still have blankie :)

Random Cat saga

Well those of you whom are friends with me on Facebook would have been hearing a lot about the random cat that turned up at home on Saturday night and has tried to convince everyone it lives here.
Those of you who don't know heres my little story...................
So we had a party on Saturday night and some time during the evening a very friendly black and white fluffy cat turned up. Now our guests thought we'd got a cat as this pretty kitty was making itself right at home. We were having to remove the cat from our house multiple times throughout the evening. At one stage it even tried hoping in the taxi with Mr D's father. It's a very friendly kitty.
When we woke up the next day the cat was still hanging round. No matter how much we tried to convince it otherwise the cat was determined it lived at our house.
We even had Miss Midget saying "Kitty, you don't live here. Go home".
Poor Kitty still didn't give up and over the course of the last few days we have had return visits from this cat. It even decides it's going to snuggle up on the porch swing and sleep in the afternoon sun almost every afternoon since it turned up.

 

Well yesterday I thought this is getting a tad ridiculous and started to feel bad every time I told it to go home (I had to remove it from car yesterday, When I was getting Miss Midget out of the back seat it decided it was going to sit in the front seat. A quick survey round the immediate neighbourhood told me that everyone had had visits from this cat and it didn't live at any of the addresses.
So I rang the SPCA to see if anyone had reported it, I also had a search online to see if anything turned up.
I got 2 phone numbers. One lady thought it might have been hers and got a bit excited as she'd reported her cat missing in August - Yeah it was a long shot to begin with but you never know. When I sent her the photo it turned out not to be hers. So now I feel bad for both Kitty and the lady for getting her hopes up. The other lady hasn't replied to my texts so I'm picking it's not hers.

There are enough neighbourhood cats in my area where I don't think Kitty is going hungry. I think it has been pinching of them. When it comes to see us it's just wanting someone to give it some love and pats.

Have a few people who were nice enough to re-post the photo I put up on Facebook which is cool. I have also rung the local Vets and providing Kitty comes to see me this afternoon we have a date with the Vet to see if it has a micro chip.


I can hear you all going "Why go to so much trouble for a Cat that isn't yours?"
Well to answer that this Kitty is far to friendly to not be someones beloved pet. I know it's got a home and people who love it. I just hope I can find it.


A few of you have said "Why don't you keep it?", Well as much as I would like to we are not really in a position to have a pet at the moment. The thought has crossed my mind multiple times but Mr D and I have talked about it and yeah it's not the right time for a pet at the moment.


Will keep you posted on whats happening with Kitty. I hope I find it's owner. I won't feel so bad when I send it home as I know it will have a home to go to :).

So if you know this Kitty or know someone who is missing a Kitty like this, Please get them to get in contact with me.

Where has the year gone?

Well I just realized we're almost half way through this year.
If anyone knows where the first part of the year has gone please let me know as I'm sure it was only January a blink ago.

Man guess everyone is going to start with their mid year reflections and hopes for the rest of the year.
Not sure I have a lot to reflect on. Well I'm sure I do but not sure I want to do it in a public forum :).

I'm happy and thankful that my little family appear to be on track and that we are all happy and to a degree healthy (Apart of early winter sniffles and coughs - they don't count though).

I'm also thankful I have a pretty cool job that is understanding of my need to spend time with Miss Midget. As well as the fact that I can help out where I can :).

I'm super stoked that my daughter has turned back into her sweet loveable happy self instead of the poor wee poppet we had. It's good to see she's happy and she's enjoying everything again :).
I'm also super stoked she's eating her dinner to a degree again (I really hated her dinner time for a while there, still do but while we're going good I'm thankful :)).

This year has been interesting, starting off at Mum and Dad's and working our way back home. Life is funny what happens. Wouldn't have it any other way though. Learnt far to much to want to change any of it :).

It's also crazy that Miss Midget is going to be turning 3 soon. Lots of plans are going into her birthday present. So the little kitchen area I wanted to make for her has turned into a full on play house out the back. So now to actually start building the thing. This will be the fun part :). Oh and find paint for it :).
Just as we'll we're building it out of pallets so the woods all sorted. Now to see if we can build something like the picture I have stuck in my head (I blame pinterest for all the ideas I have for this thing and also my imagine. In my little picture of it it's got a porch and everything. Poor Mr D, don't think he knows what he's in for yet :)).

Alright guys, well I'm off.

Catch ya later.

D

Busy week

Been a bit quiet on the blogging this week. Mainly because We've been busy at home sorting out the house and trying to find space for everything.

I have some awesome new shelves in Miss Midgets playroom half for her toys and half for a shoe rack. They are doing a great job. A) it makes more room in there for Missy to play and not have a great big toy box in the middle of the floor and B) she can now find 90% of her toys easier. I say 90% because out of the 8 containers we have there are 2 misc ones with stuff in them that doesn't really fit into any of the other categories we have lol. Shes loving the space though.

We have also added some plastic drawers for her to store her puzzles and colouring in books as week which should make the top of her book shelf not so crowded :).
This week we have also been having fun with Miss Midget and her adjusting to the change. After moving back home and then a few other changes the Midget has had to deal with we've had a bit of a battle this week as she hasn't been herself. Slowly getting there though. A lot of TLC from Mummy, Daddy and the extended family and she'll be right in no time (hopefully).

This week my poor little car has gone to the Ding Doctor (Those from Whangarei should get that :)).

It went on Wednesday. It's amazing how one possession can dictate how much independence one has. Yes I know I could walk places and lots of people make do without a car but this is the longest I have been without wheels since I was 19 or 20 and if you've seen the weather in Whangarei lately you'll understand why the Waiwai Express is not a good option especially if Miss Midget is in tow. So looks like it won't be back for the weekend either so it might just be a quiet weekend at home. Not so bad in the scheme of things as I'm sure I have plenty of jobs to do but a pain non the less as there will be no random trips to the super market to get things that are needed etc. So might have to just make a plan and go tomorrow while Elmo is still home.

Mothers Day last Sunday worked out nicely. It was just me and Miss for the day. She was really good for Mummy and we just hung out and did mummy/daughter things and later that day snuggled up on the couch to watch "Dumbo". Later that night so I didn't have to cook we got pizza for dinner. The whole day was lovely. Not so much spoilt (I got spoilt with my present a few days earlier, I get a 1hr long aromatherapy massage at some stage, yay) but we just fun. It was how the day was should be :).

Other than that not a lot is happening. Head down and bum up with work as my training is getting a bit of a overhaul and new schedules are being put in place etc. 

Oh and last blog I promised to tell you about the birthday presents I was making. Well one of them unfortunately hasn't panned out but thats ok as the other one I did went really well. Heres a picture of it :) 

Hope all is well in your world.

xoxox

D 

Quietly thinking

So have been thinking about my dear old blog here.

Am in two minds on whether "The Weeklies" should stay or not? Not sure if anyone actually reads them or not or whether its just me bleating on. In saying that this whole blog is really just me bleating on huh lol.

In all honesty the reason I have this thing is so I get thoughts out of my head and I guess pretend that I have a whole audience to talk to. Yes I can hear some of you now and I thank you family and friends that actually read this blog, It's nice to know people care enough to read it and support me :).

Again it comes back down to where to go from here though. I'm quite happy with writing down my random thoughts and opinions about things I find etc and I guess at the very least 30 of you are happy to read it (Well at least thats the average the stats are telling me. Random fact, the most read post on this blog was my one about "Dear Photograph". It has had 80 so far).

So what do you think? Any thoughts/suggestions. Likes or dislikes? Honesty is always welcome :).

Don't want to bore you

Ok so I'm not going to bore you with a "I'm a sook and I don't like winter" post. This will be my only whinge about the weather - It's been COLD!. Don't worry I knew winter was coming and it's not as if its a surprise but still don't like it  and yes I'll get over it :).


So things that have been happening? Well we're over our nasty tummy bug - YAY.
Miss Midget is pretty much back to normal with regards to eating and behavior. Still getting tired in the afternoons but thats to be expected I guess.
I haven't had a chance really to do anymore unpacking. There are some things that need to go up in the roof for storage before I can really carry on with it as some of the stuff waiting to be unpacked needs to live in the spare room which is quite full at the moment :).

So I swear there is a single bed in there......somewhere.

Other than that not a lot has been happening.
I did manage to have a nice conversation with one of the team behind Snap Guide the other day which was nice. They sent me a message just thanking me for my guides I'd and asked me if I was enjoying it.
Told them about my blog post I'd done at the start of the month and they were pretty stoked that I'd been with them pretty much since day one and had gone to a bit of effort for them :).

Have been working on a few birthday present ideas for a couple of mates. Hopefully have that sorted this week. Will post something after I've given the presents to them so as not to ruin the surprise :).


Alrighty. Will try and put The Weeklies out a little later tonight to :).


Have a good one :).

Spew, Poo and all things tummy bug icky

Ok so sorry about the title, thought it best to warn people about the topic of my conversation before they read this and well yeah thats the first thing that came to mind lol.
So I have been battling a tummy bug since Friday but this tummy bug is sneaky. It makes you think you are well enough to do stuff and then sneaks back up on you and your back to square one.
So Friday I felt a bit yuk by Friday night I felt REALLY yuk. Lost my dinner and was in bed with a grumpy tummy quite early on Friday night :(.

Had hoped that it was a one night only deal. Well it kind of was. Both Tayla and I were fine mostly on Saturday, We had a awesome day catching up with people who came to visit and that was all cool. Saturday night was another story.
It was Missy's turn to have this nasty bug. Poor Poppet didn't know what hit her. So 2 spews, lots of cuddles and a shower later we finally settled down for the night and with the help of good luck we had a good night sleep that night.

Sunday Miss still wasn't herself. The spew had stopped (YAY) and that was all good but she wasn't keen on food. Now this is semi normal for my child. She's fussy anyway and having a dinner time battle is nothing out of the ordinary and She hasn't been complaining of feeling yuk or anything but something wasn't quite right so we just went with it and she went to bed with a little bottle in the hopes this would get me through the night. I didn't push her or anything and she had a relatively good sleep.

Monday we woke up to a rather nasty nappy. Won't go in to details as I'm sure your imagination is working over time now. It has resulted in Me being home from work for the past couple of days while we battle this nasty bug.
I had thought that I had gotten off lightly till last night when my tummy started turning and being nasty. Thank god I was able to go to sleep before I lost my dinner.

So today we are spending it doing quiet indoor things. I am very thankful for the Dolls House that Nanny J gave miss at Christmas as she's now playing quietly with that.
Yesterday I did went on Pinterest and found the recipe for Homemade Pedalyte that a friend had posted (Talk about good timing) and thought it was a good idea to do a Snap Guide for it.
If you want  to see it - click here. The thing with this recipe is if you follow it to the letter it turns out salty which is not helpful when trying to get a 2yr old to drink it. Will keep you posted if I come up with a good variation.
The Pin from Pinterest is here - For those not familiar with Pinterest, click on the picture and it will take you through to the original website where there are 3 recipes. I only used the first recipe as thats what I had in my cupboard at the time.

So hope my little feel sorry for me post has got you thinking "Thank God it's you not me" and with that I'll leave you to it. I know one poppet who has decided she needs to go to bed with bottle and a story.