April 2014 thread! - still continually supporting one another!

I had that cupcake but it only lasted for a week or so which was strange. It was bloody horrible thought I would end up giving my dinner to the dogs every night.

OMG your ds is starting school next year! That's mad!

I've had tonsillitis and this cold ds had and it's horrible. Feel like crap. But what's worse is h has got it (kind of, he sniffled the other day) so it's the end of the world, he's so ill. He's worse than anyone apparently. He even went to work and went and spoke to his boss about how ill he was

Oh my ds is doing really well, most nights he sleeps through until 5.45, which is a definite improvement! He went bad again when he was poorly but that is too be expected! A couple of days ago he slept until 6.40am! That's the most sleep id had in At least 2 years!

He's not 2 until December! But I like to be organised and spread the cost as he's 2 then it's Christmas and I will have 2!

Can't believe your ds is turning 3 it seems to have gone so quick!

Yes the colours are pretty cheap on e bay if you have a look, just search for directions hair dye, you can get the tubs for £2/3. They're only semi permanent so need re doing every few weeks but they're good for price and colours etc. And anything you don't use you can just pop the lid back on and re use it later.

It's a directions one cupcake, called dark tulip. I bet it won't come out on my hair like that though.

Oh wow go ds1! Has his sleep improved now?

What type of things did you get for ds1 for Christmas/birthdays when he was 2? I know it's very early but I like to spread the cost but have no idea what to get ds for his birthday he loves Thomas the tank engine at the moment but he changes his mind very quickly.

Oooh cupcake, I am just waiting for my due to turn up! Hopefully it comes today because my hair is a mess! It's a washed out pink at the moment. Have attached a pic of the colour I just ordered, it's a purply one.

Yes I think it's just because of my placenta. Although yesterday afternoon I felt her for the first time from the outside

So happy for you cupcake

I have had my hair cut off too, it's a bob but longer at the front iyswim.

I'm 22+3 now, feels really slow here too! Still not feeling much movement have another scan in 2 weeks so I Spose I'll know more then.

Mine is really shory Cupcake - like a boy crop. It can't be dried with a brush because it is so short. I think a quick towel dry will do it.
I have managed to lose 12lbs too so am feeling very happy with myself- thinnest I have been in 8 years. DH has never seen me this thin. (I am still a size 14). TBH he isn't bothered what I weigh as long as I am happy. He's not exactly SlimJim himself. I am sort of straight up and down now - lost some tummy and midriff. Have had to buy some new clothes. Not lots - just jeans and some cropped trousers, a couple of pairs of shorts and a dress. I have plenty of tops that I can wear. New swimming costume - not a bikini. Don't think I will ever wear a bikini.

Will you get full maternity leave and pay at your new job Cupcake? It sounds like something that could turn into a career - is it called phlebotomist (the person who takes the blood)? My old neighbour used to be one.

DS didn't go to bed until after 8 tonight so we are hoping he sleeps late in the morning and we get a lie in.

We are going on holiday on Monday. Can't wait. Am not lookng forward to the journey but once we get there it'll be great.
Two flights - both short. Then a 2 hour drive. PIL's friend have a grandson DS 's age so they will be waiting at the airport with their old car and a car seat and there is stuff in the house for DS. They are doing a shop for us and we'll pay them. Then we've got 3 weeks alone. It's a really rural village. The house has a swimming pool so that will be great for DS. It is walled off so he'll be safe. It isn't far from the coast and from Cognac. I am so looking forward to going again- it is where DH and I spent our first holiday and our honeymoon.
We have made some friends - Guy who owns the vineyard and the big house - and a middle-aged French couple Jacques and Jacquie, and an elderly English ex-pat couple who are like a throwback to the 1950s and very lovely. She is called Bunty and just makes me giggle with stories about being a nurse in the navy after the war. She talks about 'gels' and they are women in their late 80s. They are terribly posh. They will love DS, they haven't met him yet.
It is very peaceful- fields of sunflowers and olive groves and little towns with big rivers slowly flowing through them. We have been talking about it for weeks.
I've had my hair cut really short so I don't have to do anything to it. DH has had his done on a number3 and it just looks like thick grey stubble. The beard has gone too. DS has had a trim!

Fantastic news cupcake well done!

I looked at the Chinese chart for dd1 and ds and it was correct, didn't look this time though. How many weeks are you now ?

Fantastic! Congratulations Cupcake, that is great. Really pleased for you. When do you start? 🌟

Tonight the wailing was because he wanted DH to sleep in his cot with him DH 6ft 1 and 14 stone.

We also had a bit of a tantrum because he wanted one of the sausages on DH's plate at tea, not the one on his plate. Dh swopped the sausage and swopped it back and DS ate it happily!

We have had thunder and lightening and a downpour for about 15 mins this morning. It has cooled everything down but is sunny again now.

DS had waily tantrum because we wouldn't let him in the garden in the storm. Yesterday it was because I stopped him licking a snail he had found out there.

It is so hot tonight!

DS is asleep in his nappy with an elctric fan on in the room. No covers.

DH and I are lying naked, 6 inches apart because he radiates heat, two electric fans, all the bedroom windows open. No bedding except bottom sheet and we have had a cold shower. Same as last night but hotter I think.
Awful.

Just checking for a job update