Emmy's weebles are taking over mermaid's greenhouse!

Firstly here is a brilliant linklovely Father Christmas letters

I have used them for a few years and they are very magical. Don't know if ds is getting too old this year.. am dreading the FC conversation, it will be worse than the sex one

mls my fault it should have read something like this whispers ... cream

Hope everyone has a good weekend.

Big waves to curly who I miss lots, hope you and curlygirl are blooming and happy

sabs are you getting used to juggling work and gorgeous s. Hope it is all settling down after the stress of returning and getting to keep your old/new job.

Still housebond here but have emersed ds in a very deep yummy bath and he is currently basking with a big smile and a snorkel on

Mermaid what is whispers cream? I want some being a hot chocolate addict. It has to be accompanied by a squidgy almond croissant though. Hope your ds is a bit better today.

Barbie ibs is really common & I think it can be well controlled with the right diet.

Louey eeeeeek Tueday, we are all here holding your hand & giving you hairstrokes.

4ever hope your ear is a bit better today.

Blue loving your conversion. You seem to have got it finished really quickly. We are thinking of converting our dining room (which used to be a garage) into a music room/2nd sitting room. Don't quite know how we'd get a sofa in there though as it has the narrowest door ever.

Vjay & Neeko most impressed with your weightloss. I'm going to join you on the Friday weigh-in, I weighed myself & I have a stone to lose to get to my pre-preg weight.

Cupcake sorry to hear about your dh's job, I bet he'll end up with a better one though as that's what happened to me twice when I was made redundant.

Right off out now to coffee shop for naughty hot choc & muffin!

Yes I do poser everything mermaid

4ever poor you, glad you got the antiB's to nip that nasty infection in the bud.

louey glad you are calm now

I'm soooo bored tonight, DH is flying home but won't be back til gone 11!

I can hear fireworks going off and I've got Lazy Mazy lying here sleeping through it all , I was a little worried to see how she'd cope, but she's too lazy to even notice them.

yes and her floor

waves 4ever nasty thing ears, hope you have a cosy weekend.x

well done louey

vjay do you do poser ironing too? maybe that burns extra calories.

right all wrapped up to peek at the fireworks

blue I have just been oggling your garage conversion pictures, positively drooling I am , might leave your profile page open for dh to see , when I get round to it I will take some pictures of ours

Popping in quick, started this post in docs waiting room, i have start of an ear infection - ouch, nipped in the bud with antibio drops, felt all bereft minus biscuit, who stayed at home with daddy, only 4th time i left her!

Just wanted to say bum pants and crap to cupcake about dh job everything crossed for him, sympathise greatly having been made redundant myself this yr, have already bored said enough about that talking of hope ur enjoying several much deserved now! Bless your boy keeping you smiling, toooo cute an image you painted there!

Louey your gp sounds great, hand squeezes and oodles of sand for tuesday, mermaid summed it up beautifully

Poor merman sending him get well soon tummy rubs, the hot choc sounds delish! Incidentally, tis random & belated but did that you know me so well that id still be hoping for that drunken bfp for you! Predictable huh?

Blue on phone but looking forward to seeing decorating pics! So true and sweet and lovely how you described those precious fast moving times from baby to toddler, we spend our whole pregnancies wishing the wks to pass then they finally arrive and we want time to stand still to envelop each second of preciousness!

Love the idea of vjay poser walking! Very much enjoyed the fireworks too ta!

Oop dinner is ready, hope Barbie your suitably pampered, mls hair sniffs to Kitty! Bq breath chill and relax (yea right, at least try tho!) Love to the rest of you, im starving, happy weekends to you all! X x x x x

I'm fine, I've calmed down now. They just sent me into a tizz because I wasn't expecting to have a scan next week. Thank you for the hands I think I will need them. DH is coming (thank god) and he most sensibly said that at least this way I have less time to get worried about it.

mermaid raining here too. Not a lot of fireworks going off yet. Your poor DS. Sounds rubbish, hope he gets better soon

vjay and neeko well done both of you . Break out the ryvita and celebrate .

cupcake positive thinking - he will get another job soon. Surely lots of people need civil engineers?? (My step-dad was one so I know a bit about what they do).

QA cleaning?? What's that . I'm with barbie on the lack of ironing. Actually, I do have a fabby cleaner who is a lifesaver and when she goes back to portugal for the summer, I am in the pits of despair and the house is just the pits.

Right, I've just finished the response to Isaac's statement. Got parent partnership to look at it and they said they could give me a job as it was very good. (Am quite pleased with myself). Whether that will translate into the LEA giving us what we want is a different matter. And the school we went to see this morning is perfect for Isaac and they have 3 places coming up in September so fingers crossed he gets one (in competition with others so no guarantees).

Off to flop on the sofa for the rest of the night. I am sooooo tired

Popping in quick, started this post in docs waiting room, i have start of an ear infection - ouch, nipped in the bud with antibio drops, felt all bereft minus biscuit, who stayed at home with daddy, only 4th time i left her!

Just wanted to say bum pants and crap to cupcake about dh job everything crossed for him, sympathise greatly having been made redundant myself this yr, have already bored said enough about that talking of hope ur enjoying several much deserved now! Bless your boy keeping you smiling, toooo cute an image you painted there!

Louey your gp sounds great, hand squeezes and oodles of sand for tuesday, mermaid summed it up beautifully

Poor merman sending him get well soon tummy rubs, the hot choc sounds delish! Incidentally, tis random & belated but did that you know me so well that id still be hoping for that drunken bfp for you! Predictable huh?

Blue on phone but looking forward to seeing decorating pics! So true and sweet and lovely how you described those precious fast moving times from baby to toddler, we spend our whole pregnancies wishing the wks to pass then they finally arrive and we want time to stand still to envelop each second of preciousness!

Love the idea of vjay poser walking! Very much enjoyed the fireworks too ta!

Oop dinner is ready, hope Barbie your suitably pampered, mls hair sniffs to Kitty! Bq breath chill and relax (yea right, at least try tho!) Love to the rest of you, im starving, happy weekends to you all! X x x x x

Almost forget, louey here's my hand xxxxx

Whhhiiiiiiizzzzzz, crackle, BANG!!!!! do you like my virtual fireworks? ....oooohhhh aaaahhhhh

qa thanks for the Peter Kay clip, that IS me and neeko

cupcake get you, a digestive AND a cup of tea , my kind of girl

mermaid I hope wee merman gets better soon, the poor love

Gotta go, someone has filled his nappy, well heard a whiz and a pop, and yes, here comes the smell

Lol, that was meant to be 'at risk', not a risk

Hi beauts...thanks for all your lovely words :)
louey yep this is the third time in 18 months dh has been 'a risk'...first time he was kept on, then last yr was made redundant the same wk we found out I was pg with ds but thankfully found another job a few weeks later...now here we go again! There are a couple of hopeful looking opportunities in our area he's waiting to hear if he has an interview for but there are so many civil engineers looking for work, it's prob like trying to win the lottery! :(
At least ds is making me laugh... he's knocked down the arch of his playmat, got himself halfway under the coffee table and wrapped himself up in the mat just giggling and blowing raspberries

louey you will be fine. We're all there to hold your hand.

mermaid lol at no microwave big enough to hide your mess I find all sorts of places to dump things then every now and then dh digs out big pile of junk mail/random shopping lists/books and makes this face at me
hope your ds feels better soon!

vjay & neeko woooo gold stars. It is torture not eating nice things! may treat myself to a digestive with my cuppa in a minute as it's friday (ooh I'm living the dream me!)

Happy weekend ladies.

barbie it is raining so damp squibs here.
ibs hmmmm I seem to know quite a few people who suffer with this, stress seems to play a big part. Glad you have your health plan.

There is no microwave big enough to hide my mess.

We have had mugs of proper hot chocolate made with posh chocolate and whispers cream

loey tuesday is when tuesday does and it will be ok.
Sofa, chocolate, feet up, deep breaths.
Repeat after me 'It will be ok' x

cupcake your poor lovely dh what a dreadful upheaval again. Not an easy time is it at the moment, fingers crossed that someone grabs him.

blue savouring every moment is so important you are so right and I love the way you have summed it up.

I am traped at home with a very poorly ds who woke up with an awful temp in the middle of the night, aches everywhere, wobbly can't eat etc. Looks like a small dose of flu.
You know they are really ill when they don't try the can I watch telly on the sofa routine.

bq This is brilliant that you are feeling so sick. You are doing really well.x

louey you too and well done for getting your scan all sorted out. Every day feels like an eternity for you both right now.

well done on the weight loss vjay and neeko I havn't been near the gym this week as been busy with work and being florence but am not hopeful what with scoffing all ds halloween stash.

qa bet you just swept everything into carrier bags and hid them in a cupboard

4ever great pictures of the lil pumpkin Are you getting the hang of solids, time is fair swoshing along.

barbie not long til you have visitors bet you all can't wait. Hope you are managing a bit of sleep and you time mixed in and well done for perservering .x

monkey think you may still be on holiday but thinking of you and hope you are as ok as you can possibly be.x

lbm only just catching up poor little mouse. What a scare for you all. I'm glad you had a lovely holiday to go and recover on.

vjay stop ironing it's friday

Shit shit shit

EPU phoned - have appointment on Tuesday afternoon. I'm absolutely petrified.....

louey @ 'surely she was kicking you in the fanjo by that point?' Yuck to Vom buddies < thats actually a sick face, perhaps we could re assign it to you and BQ for your pregnancy sick face

Well done to vjay and neeko When I read it I couldn't help but think of this Peter Kay clip
But, you are both doing well and it must be so hard to keep it up when you are both running around looking after little ones, the craving for a sugar boost must be difficult at times, maybe that's just me though

cupcake sorry about your DH's job, what a nightmare, will keep fingers crossed that he finds something (even better) soon.

Blue it's no wonder you are savouring every moment with Ben, he looks very squishable and way too cute Sounds like the Emmsy's dance troupe are going to need a big space for dancing

Right, can you tell i am meant to be cleaning? I am doing a pretty good job of avoiding it, but as we have got visitors this afternoon, I should at least make it presentable.

Vjay saunters in in her posing style of walking , thanks blue

cupcake so sorry about your dh's job will he be able to get something else easily? I hope so.

Ok the big weigh-in... I lost a pound, neeko lost 2.75 pounds!!!!!!! HUGE GOLD STAR TO NEEKO we are both following a non-diet , we are cutting out the crap and snacks. I find it hard to not nibble on Ajay's left overs, maybe if I imagine them covered in his drool snot....

Right I'm off to tackle the Everest of ironing that seems to accumulate in just a day these days!
Oh and qa looking forward to cocktail night

cupcake I'm so sorry about your DH - there are so many people going through this at the moment (my sister is going to find out in the next few weeks whether she has a job or not). I take it that it has happened before? Will keep everything crossed that he gets something quickly. Newborns are indeed scrummy so I know exactly what you mean. Its the smell that gets me. Hope J is better at swimming next week - hadn't realised it wasn't his first dip in the pool. Its probably just a blip

blue they made you work, at work??? How very annoying. Don't they know that we go back to work to MN in peace Ben just looks so scrummy in the pics, all cuddly babyness, totally understand why you are cherishing this time with him. Is the garage conversion finished then??

MLS yep I've stopped temping too. Quite liberating really Just get up early to go to the loo now . I'm excited about celebrity although I think the quality of the celebrities has gone downhill in recent years.

QA how lovely of you to think of me with that book. I do feel a bit like a guerilla mum at times . I have picked up one from the library which is pretty good - its just finding the time to read it properly that I struggle with. Loving the apprentice - the woman that got fired last night turned out to be such a bitch - really glad she went.

barbie your plan of bath and beauty pampering sounded divine. Hope you are suitably relaxed and Dolly lets you have a nice nights sleep too. So pleased the teeth are nearly through. Hopefully her sleeping will be more settled after that. And for testing at 27 weeks Surely she was kicking you in the fanjo at that point???

BQ hope you manage to have a good night tonight. I just feel like every day is about 2 days. I've never known time go so slowly. Hope you get a bit of respite soon from the sickness. My proper chucking up usually starts at 6 weeks so I'm expecting it very soon. We can be vom buddies I'm sure you will get all the bumpf next week - I think our GP surgery does things a bit differently (they actually seem quite efficient). I would have got my hospital notes today as well except that they carry notes from a different hospital to the one I want to go to. (I like to be difficult...)

vjay and neeko am looking forward to the weigh in tomorrow

Evening ladies,

Hi MLS! Great to 'see' you...absolutely gorgeous pic of your girls!

louey fab you're getting a scan :)

bq sorry you're (sick face) but at the same time, yippeee!

blue so lovely you're savouring every moment of B's babyhood. I spent a couple of hours with my bf and her newborn today and actually came away feeling really sad that Jude isn't tiny anymore...stupid isn't it as I absolutely love him the age he is but there's something about newborns isn't there!

neeko brilliant about the sleep. J napped for 2.5 hours yesterday which was amazing- I baked and everything (but not for me to eat sadly!!) but then terrible night with lots of waking and crying :( h would have to be the exception to the rule wouldn't he!

Swimming wasn't great- he cried a lot and just wanted me to hold him close rather than at arms length doing the 'swimming'- he's been loads of times and not cried so I'm hoping he'll be ok next week :( my dad didn't get any pics- we were completely thick and forgot he obviously wouldn't be allowed to take pics of a kids swimming class

Some bad news too... the axe has fallen on dh's head yet again :( He's been given 5 weeks notice. Just feel incredibly sad for him. He is bloody good at what he does and hate that we have to go through this again :(

Am off to create a thread about hen parties to cheer myself up...

snort! Vjay - power walk not poser walk !! But then maybe you do swing those hips just so

Hey All

Didn't get the chance to lurk at work yesterday (had to actually work - how annoying ).

Anyway, lovely to have you 'back' MLS and loving all the photos of your sunbeams . Hope you're managing some sleep and Miss K is spacing her feeds out a little.

BTW I changed my name two years back and it gives your the option to "carry your photos over" its just a box you tick on your details page form what I remember....

Neeko - that is GREAT news so sleep perchance to dream... firmly believe in good seep breeds good sleep too. DH is off to Glasgow tomorrow armed with a list and a mission. He loves shopping for pressies especially for his boys .

Vjay - muff? Still poser walking. The rain was horizontal here today so it was car there and back which is appalling as school is 10 mins walk away..

BQ - hope your midwife appointment has you staggering out with lots of bumpf and feeling yucky is good, good, good!

Louey - what a lovely doctor . at your DS2 asking if it was the magical month . I'm like that too . I LOVE December...

Barbie - I hope you had a well deserved and then some pampering yourself day and just s-l-w-e-d down. Hope D's teeth pop through soon x

QA - hope your enjoying your early night and DH free evening . My all time top doing the ations to song is "The Whole of the Moon" by The Waterboys. Had it at my wedding and people had to stand clear as my circling arms were lethal

I'm savouring every day just now, every day Ben is still a baby. He's still bum shuffling like a pro but no strength yet to crawl or stand for any length of time. I'm cherishing him in his babygrows with feet and well everything about this lovely 9-12 month stage as he wil be toddling about before I know it. I just love him to bits (and his big bro of course as he is my PFB .

Away to sniff the top of their heads x

p.s. will post a couple of before and after garage conversion shots...

Ooh gorgeous photos MLS love the one with both your girls You must be so proud.

They do seem to have an amazing knack of picking annoying candidates on the apprentice. I did watch the first couple of series of I'm a celebrity, but then they started getting more obscure and half the time I didn't recognise them, plus the gruesome bug eating, spider touching and scary dark pits full of maggots put off.

I agree with neeko about sleep encouraging sleep, have always found it to be true with DS. Hopefully you're in a for a good night tonight then

QA I'm watching the apprentice, they are not as annoying as last years bunch. Do you watch I'm A Celebrity? It starts in about a week - yay!

BQ booking-in appt... omg such a milestone. I had to cancel three last year so was all emotional when I finally made it this time.

Barbie at you still being used as a dummy! My next-door neighbour used to swaddle her babies with their thumbs in their mouths so that they could self-settle!

Louey glad you are getting an early scan, I bet it's all starting to feel real now hey? So excited for both you & BQ. Have you stopped temping now or are you still tempted to check every morning??!

Neeko you truly are a freak for liking sour satsumas! I hope what you said about having lots of daytime sleep encouraging nighttime sleep as dd2 had a three hour nap today.

MNHQ are onto my disappearing photo's but in the meantime I've added a couple.