Blue shoes and nappy-mess [hopeful] (No1 Babies Detective Agency pt3)

p.s sorry for my lack of posting recently - I got a bit down with the whole TTC lark last month and couldn't face MN for a while..

Hi Ready - I'm going ok! Sorry to hear about your traffic nightmare! The roads are always horrible in October and the weather isn't helping is it [toomuch puts her stern annoyed face on]. I know what you mean about the bumps everywhere thing - everywhere I turn at the moment there is a huge bump or a newborn - I'm so jealous!

Hey nomore - The babyshow looks amazing!! I'm definitely up for a jaunt there once we all have fabulous bumps What did your godson's mam tell you was on the to buy and not to buy list - It would be really interesting to find out from people what they think is worth buying and what is a waste of money. Hope you're lucky this month - it sounds as though there are lots of nice events it would coincide with so you never know - fate could play you a nice card this month!

Sybil - how reliable are the persona things? Is there a chance you ovulated but it just didn't pick it up? Sorry to hear about your EDD passing [big hugs]

MT - hi - how are you going? Bless your DS with baby jack - it's amazing what kids pick up isn't it!? I'm intrigued by your neighbours.. how do you "try" for a set of twins?

bellabear - you're floating was very graceful - glad to hear all is well

gilly - hey you! I think you're sounding quite upbeat at the moment rather than negative! How do you find counselling? Is it very expensive? I've always wanted to go but wouldn't know where to start with finding someone. Hols were good thanks! How's the job? Sounds like you're doing some very interesting stuff. Have you fully settled in now?

Everyone else [big wave] I'm loving all of this virtual shopping! Can you imagine what we are going to be like when we actually start buying stuff!!!

Ds likes pink (and red, and blue, and green and purple), and has a doll (my parents, moving house, found one that had belonged to me that's quite reasonable!). Buggy not big, but doesn't collapse very small unless you take the wheels off - quite a long body length, which does make it very sturdy.

I found a really helpful independant baby shop that gave me really good info about prams and seats. I went in and had discussion about buggies so we narrowed it down to 3 before took dh in as he's hopeless about shopping - had to top up his coffee levels even for that.

M&P - style above substance - I think I agree, although a few of the toys that we got from there have been very good and well used (particularly the soft stacking blocks that magnetically connect and have different noises/textures - great for quite a wide age range and different activities)

John Lewis - I always drool when I go there. Luckily (or not) we're not near one so only go very occaisionally when in the locality. Their baby range is really nice - ds had several pairs of dungarees that he wore and wore (nice colours, not just blue) and has also had several tops from there (most, I am ashamed to say, bought 2nd hand on ebay or at NCT sales... ).

Look out for NCT sales though - great way of getting some of the things that you'll need for a few months - alot cheaper and supports NCT too.

gilly - nice to see you back! M&P - whilst lots of things look nice in there, I found that it can be extortionate in price terms - which makes a big difference when you might be getting through 2 or 3 sets of clothes a day at times (sometimes more!) I do like their nursery stuff though.

DS & Baby Jack - yes, rather spooky in terms of timing etc, and no, he didn't know anything about it. We're just playing along - whilst we don't mention Baby Jack unless he does first, we don't ignore it when she does turn up (see having to pick her up off floor in Sainsbury's line earlier)

We do lots of imagination things. At one stage we were having a bit of a struggle getting him to sit on his potty (he would rather wait untill he was really desperate) and we had a game of one of his toys going to the shops and talking about what they were going to buy. Normally it was cakes - had to decide upon colour etc, but sometimes wellies or hats came in.

Favorite toy at the moment - saw car boot pile at friends and bought a toy farm that opens up (like a dolls house) with some animals - he has other animals, and its amazing what they get up to

Is anyone else watching "Flight of the Conchords"?? I'm loving it

Beat this: commenting upon the sun, which had just come out from behind the clouds:
"the sun just said 'scuse me to clouds"

That is sooooo cute I can't wait for all those sweet little things.

I started wallowing very early on in the proceedings with ds - each time I went the + bit got a bit further on than it should have been...

Baby Jack is definitely a sister (or occasionally a brother) - this is what she (he/it) was introduced as. In a very matter-of-fact way.

The really funny thing about Baby Jack is how she (he/it) gets picked up (thumb and two fingers together, and lift!) and held in the palm of one hand. She (he/it) does occasionally get fed as well, but normally ds is too interested in the food to remember Baby Jack at that time.

Our neighbour announced earlier this week that they were considering 'down-sizing' so that they have no mortgage and can go on more holidays, but also trying for another set of twins. Yes, down-sizing and another set of twins, you did read it right. Not sure where they'll put them.... Did contemplate offering to buy some of their garden from them as this is one of the problems, but probably a bit foolish. Not really got time to do what we have (all gardening, including cutting the lawn, is down to me apparently - I think that dh has mown the lawn 1.5 times in 4.5 years, despite me being ill when we moved in and pregnant for 9 months of that time)

Lots of people on this thread this evening!

Hi Bella, hope its still going well!

Tee hee You know you are welcome in here any time, floating or waddling, we don't discriminate

hahaha! Well, on mumsnet at any rate.

oh bugger, I'd already left!