hello hello! Welcome to Monday morning!
Sorry for disappearing for a week - had a crappy week and just felt knackered and shit for most of it. But I've had a lovely weekend with DP and am feeling a (tiny) bit more human today, so that's good!
I too have heaps of housework/decluttering/tidying to do that I keep putting off. I told myself that once I was actually pregnant that would give me the kick up the arse I needed to get on with it - didn't factor in the fact that I would feel knackered and nauseous from the get go! If we stay in our current house (though we are desperate to move) my little office will be the babies room; you can currently do no more than stand in the entrance it's so full of stuff! We had my sister & family to stay recently so everything from DP's office/the spare room was dumped in my office to make space for a double mattress & travel cot! Plus we don't have a shed atm, so all the shed stuff is stored in the house too... is CHAOS! But, we finally put up shelves in the living room yesterday (and they look rather fab if I do say so myself) which we've been meaning to do since we moved here 4 years ago... so we are making progress at least!
Bun "sshh baby" - that's so cute! You'll have to teach him to sing the baby to sleep!! 
How is your toe today - have you seen the GP about it? Hope it's hurting less!
Ghost Your job sounds absolutely fabulous! What a wonderful way to make a living - sounds really varied & interesting!
Useful to know about the iCandy apple btw - was surprised by that as you have the option of fixing the front wheels to straight for precisely that sort of thing - but I guess it might not be terribly practical, if you're in town for example, to have to lock & unlock the wheel whenever you need to push one handed! Another reason why I'll just have to fork out for the all new, all singing, all dancing, icandy strawberry instead I guess.... oh, what a shame...
carlita - "ball of legs" - that's brilliant! Made me laugh - but I do have a somewhat black sense of humour... You do need to have a public profile set up for public photos to show - but you don't actually have to put much info on at all (or none I think, just hit public and leave the info fields blank!) Looking forward to seeing the dungarees - sounds like you're really crafty, must be great being able to make nice things for the baby! :)
piggy - AF like cramps - I get these a lot too - they aren't exactly like my AF cramps, but they're very similar. My AF cramps tended to be in a specific line across my lower abdomen, whereas these are more spread out, but quite intense and hard to ignore. I get them most days atm...
I also have a bit of an issue (WARNING - TMI!) that if I don't go to the loo as soon as I need to (i.e. if i'm stuck on a bus or whatever) then I start getting really bad pain - not sharp, but quite crampy and insistent and enough to make me a bit shaky and weak, that only goes about ten minutes after I finally go to the loo. Usually end up having to have a lie down post wee! I assume it's just that my bladder is squashing my uterus when it's full - but it's bloody horrible. Really looking forward to seeing the obstetrician and getting a scan / checking everything is OK.
Had a teeny tiny almost missable bit of spotting on Saturday AM - just one lot first thing in the morning - nothing since. So took it extra easy on Saturday. My sister had some spotting at around the same point in both her pregnancies, so I'm not worried - but glad I knew it was normal/nothing to worry about!
Aside from that I'm still queasy, but not actually throwing up (though I came close the other day; out to dinner with one of my friends I ate a bit much and the restaurant was really hot and stuffy which was making the nausea worse - then the waiter brought out a fish dish to the next table - I had to run out of the restaurant before I chundered everywhere!! Apparently I went really quite green!) Still really tired too - get a little bit of energy in the morning, but even just going around the supermarket wears me out and I end up napping mid afternoon most days!!
Is funny really - i had thought that I'd be one of those people that just "keeps going" through pregnancy; decorating, going out, working etc - I'm so used to my health/meds causing fatigue & nausea I thought I'd cope fine with it in pregnancy... but somehow it's really different. Instead of powering through it I just want to rest and take it easy and give in to it... knowing there's a life inside me really changes how I feel about pushing myself.. Silly really, but I'm very much rethinking what the next 30+ weeks are going to look like!
Hi cosmic - welcome! Congratulations! :D
:( that in the time I was away mamma came and went - how awful... If you're still reading this mamma, hope you're doing OK.