March 2013 VII: Our little pumpkins are getting fatter

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DHJ80 Congrats on team blue. Is this your first baby?

Myjobis I hope you somehow manage to get the house you want. I can imagine you want to be moved before baby arrives & it definitely makes sense to not pay more rent than is necessary.

Zoey Lucky you having a late sleeping baby. Can you ask him to talk to my boys. All up before 6am this morning - Zzzzz & it's soooo dark then!

My arm was really sore after my flu jab too. Only for a couple of days but felt bruised. Glad I had it though.

Ethel How exciting to have a new hair style put a photo on facebook.

Tramp your breakfast sounded amazing. I always make pancakes or French toast with maple syrup on one weekend morning, everyone loves them. Last week I mashed banana and cinnamon into the egg mix for French toast and it was delicious!

Flowery I hope you ds is Ok. I hate mouth injuries, there is always so much blood & I have a phobia of wobbly teeth (pretty crap thing to have with 3.5 Children!) so always worry that they have lost a tooth!

Manda I hope today is more restful than yesterday, that was a full on day!

I have another night out tonight at a really smart restaurant so god knows what I am going to wear! Probably my old faithful Isabella Oliver black wrap dress which is the only smart maternity thing I own. We have a few smart weddings around Christmas so I have been looking at Tiffany Rose, they have gorgeous dresses. Has anyone bought one from there? Just wondering what the sizing is like.

Have a good weekend all

Gummi sorry, cross posted because it took me so long to type my post! I am rubbish at keeping up to date with photos. I make photobooks on my Mac but the last one finished in Christmas 2010. I have about 2000 more photos to sort through since then... Hope you get all yours done.

Has anyone used Pinterest? I was thinking about making a little collage of my nursery ideas etc? Not sure if you can only use the photos that are up there, or if you can add your own?

Yes, I have an account, although I don't use it anywhere near the way it's meant to be used... You can add pics from any website to it. :)

Cheers Jo Jo, worht thinking about (good while since A levels!). I shall be storing all this up to think through later as really if I were to ever do it I think it wouldn't be until had all intended kiddies and they are school age. Until then I think finances let a lone time would be an issue. Food for thought though. Think I would probably need to speka to a couple of places about what they'd be looking for in a mature student as perhaps (hopefully!) A level results might not be as important for them compared to those fresh from school. I think I've looked before vaguely and I might be able to do a 2 year post grad course rather than 3 years but not sure.

Pink, thanks, think DS is fine, it's just that mouth cuts always looks so grusome and we were not in a typically child friendly pub. The blood gets everywhere once mixed with seliva too! this the unusal nap is probably prompted by his snoty nose rather than cut lip.

flowery if your previous degrees are biology or health care related that might be a good option! I'm not sure where the land lies re none related subjects but its definitely worth asking the question :)

possum whoops I missed your post :( sorry!! Fab I'll try and build it up today as I'm meeting a friend. For lunch tomorrow and haven't had a real Girly lunch that's not education related in ages!!! I fully intend to let the baby talk flow!!

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JoJo I've got a Pinterest account and find it so useful for a central place for all my ideas, I go through the kids boards every few days and pick up a few more ideas and also pin things that I've seen on my travels over the Internet.

NCT nearly new sale was AMAZING! I picked up a dream genii with pillow cover and original packaging for £4!! I saw an angel care monitor in there for £10 and loads of toys and newborn things that I would have snapped up if pay day was recently . I bought a brand new with tags White Company sleeper suit and a baby book of farm animals. I arrived an hour late due to mix up in times but there were loads of people coming out with bags and bags of stuff so the next one I will make sure I'm on time to.

Went to a local pram shop and I think we have picked a pram at last! The BabyStyle Oyster has all the things we wanted in the Uppababy Vista but is half the price and the shop will throw in a nice car seat that clips on to the Oyster frame. So exciting to finally have something decided on :)

Hi just wanted to de-lurk to say you can add your own pictures to pinterest as well. It lets you upload them. I'm hooked to it!

Had my flu jab and arm is sore it don't help I managed to smack it on the car door so it could be that making it sore!! Week at work has caught up with me and am chilling on sofa, DH is making chicken and leek filo pastry pie with home made wedges, followed by meringues with cream and strawberry coils and also bought the biggest box of Thorntons chocolates for this evening I can't wait- I haven't told him the dancing is on yet, lol!

Glad you have picked your pram hermione prams are such hard work as there are so many to choose from it can get a bit confusing to say the least!

zigwig Don't you re-lurk!!! How do you add your own pics?? I've added 5 from the web which is fairly straight forward!!

zoey I had mine this morning, I don't feel sore at all but I havent put pressure through it at all yet. My pregnancy pillow encourages sleep on the left side too... could be a bit ouchie in the morning. Never mind, I'll just have to have a study day :) after my social lunch of course!

Hermione Where was your NCT sale? I'm sure there's one coming up in York soon which I really want to go too though I'm not really sure what else in the big bulk of things I need to buy?!
I have my Moses basket and stand, pram, angelcare baby monitor, baby carrier, some blankets.

I need a cot mobile (no rush), nappy bin, baby bouncer (but a very specific one), bath chair (baby is going straight into the big bath), Other than a stack of nappies and some newborn clothes have I missed anything??

manda how are you feeling today? Better I hope!

ethel how does the hair look?

I'm wearing my new maternity stuff today, and boy does it make me look pregnant... or maybe I just look pregnant now and it doesn't matter what I wear!
I'm loving the whole have a bump and not afraid to thrust it out feeling :)
Think my bloom has turned up too, i generally feel great. Still malting like crazy - but no crazy skin breakouts, no hormonal moments, no stress, just generally quite happy in myself. It's a nice feeling to have and about time too! 23 weeks tomorrow! How long to viability?

Viability is legally 24 weeks but 25 weeks is more like it Hun - my first was born at 28 weeks!
I have pram, car seat, isofix base, cot DS2, blankets, angel are monitor, cot mobile DS2, bouncy chair and a few clothes, bumbo chair, play mat!
My mum is buying the Moses basket for downstairs as my house is 3 story and we are having the swinging crib DH got in our room :) SIL is buying a bath support and I need to start getting more newborn and early clothes and a lot of nappies and toiletries for me like paper pants!! However really don't feel organised at all for some reason, think is because we don't have a name for little man! Oooh and I want a nappy bin this time too as never had one before.

24 weeks jojo

oops, I fell asleep whilst DS was still napping and didn't wake him up until 5.20pm. There will be no early night for me tonight then. Can't believe he slept for over 3 hours and still needed waking.

I can't keep up on who has posted either myjob I've struggled to switch from work to home this weekend never mind store anything else!

Jojo if you go to your main page on pinterest there is a add+ button top right. Click that then go to upload pin and it lets you point to whatever you want on your computer. I haven't tried doing it yet on a mobile but there is probably a way. :-)

JoJo the NCT sale I went to was 20 mins drive away, I'd def recommend going to one. Apparently the ones in posher areas have some really good stuff in them so I'm going to another next month. I was told that they only sell things that you actually need, I'm not sure all the toys were need items but loads of the other stuff was useful.
The one I went to had racks of clothes going from 0 to about 7yrs, maternity clothes, books for children and for parents, reusable nappies, baths inc top and tail baths, loads of other things...most things were 50p-£2 so it was worth just checking out. If you go at opening prepare for a scrum! My friend taught me to just fill the bag they give you with anything that looks good and then find a corner and sort through it, look at the larger items area first (that's where the best bargains are) and then work your way back to the beginning. Oh and they're quite often cash only, if you hate a scrum then I'd go an hour after opening as there's still stuff that's a great bargain but its nowhere near as busy.

zoey yes, it feels a bit of a relief to have decided on one! DH had really fallen for the Bugaboo Chameleon having pushed our friends toddler about town this morning so I had a bit of a job persuading him to like something cheaper! I think we were lucky to find a pram shop with some good sales people in it that weren't pushy but were really knowledgeable

Oh girls loads to comment on but I've read the words paper pants a couple of times, do you seriously find those comfy/useful, I go to primark and buy a packet of theirs for hospital they are only a couple of pounds and I imagine far comfier than paper ones but not to expensive to be thrown out if needs be.
with dd2 the midwife couldn't believe I was putting brand new pants on after my bath and I said £2 for a pack of 5, probably cheaper than paper ones.

I just chucked my maternity ones! Paper + c-section is ouch!

I used paper pants with DS1 and loved them as they were so big everywhere like legs etc so were super comfy and soft :) um I have primark issues so can't actually go in there but I could sent DH but that could be dangerous, lol!!! I have a of a fear of lots do people and pushing/ my personal space and thus don't shop in sales unless you count online which is why I can't do primark!!

DS2 is stood dancing to strictly and repeating the scores, is now shouting 8, lol!! His talking is scary for a 1 year old in the last month alone he as grown up so much and says so much but is like a little sponge repeating stuff!

I too ended up having a cheeky nap that lasted about 3 hours. So we're having dinner a bit late today - chilli con carne, only no chilli or carne so let's call it con. :)

ethel - the drastic hair cut sounds like a great idea. Hope you are now out and about somewhere showing off your fantastic hair.

NCT sales sounds great = how on earth do you find out about such things? Baring in mind the number of kids in SE London there must be a pretty good sale going on somewhere, although I have yet to find it.

Hermione - so the new pram, does it extend as high as an upbaby Vista? I have decided that is what we're going to get, rather than the bugaboo, because i like the fact that the pram doubles up as a carry cot. Seems useful seeing as we're likely to have a few trips to relatives and that saves on a bit of packing. But if there is an identical but cheaper that also sounds interesting. Although I confess it is the height of it that matters most to me and Vista was just that bit better for the tall than the Bugaboo cameleon.

So I was planning to do some baking and have failed miserably, although I could knock together a ginger cake I suppose. My other plan was to tackle the obscenely large ironing pile whilst watcing a movie and do some online shopping adn some organising. Failed again. I have, however, managed to do at least a bit of tidying and a truck load of washing, so ya know, I'm getting there.

We're off to Stratford tomorrow to see friends for lunch. It'll be a long but fun day methinks. For tonight, well I think we need a naff movie. Hope everyone's evenings are going well and fluy jabbed arms aren't too sore.

Aw, my friend had a little boy this afternoon! So chuffed! Can't wait to see him!

Tramp the NCT sales are all listed on their website, there's a section called events near you and Nearly New sales will be listed in there. There'll be loads of good ones near you!
My DH is 6ft 2 and felt that the handle went as high as he'd want it, i think it extended at least as much as the bugaboo we were comparing it against (still not seen an Uppababy in person!) but it was a lot easier to extend. I'm hoping I can compare an Uppababy to an Oyster when we go to John Lewis next. The oyster had height adjusters so you weren't bending down as far to put the car seat or carrycot on too.