Morning! And now the fog has gone it is beautiful here 
cupcake a whole child free day sounds just fab. Hope you had a good time and didn't tire yourself out too much. You will be fine with 2 - its summer, we will (hopefully) have a nicer summer than last year and you can send J out into the garden while you feed. In a relatively short time you will forget what its like to have just 1 as you just adapt. I have bought the Call the Midwife books for my kindle to read on holiday. It was one the best things I've seen on TV recently and as you said the books were better I am really looking forward to it.
barbie you must be up to your eyes in it!! Has Henry sorted out his days from nights yet?
neeko urgh - so sorry you've had sick children too. Although I think puking is worse to deal with Luke is still not right, he went back to school on Friday as his temperature had gone but he is just wiped out. He had a temperature again on Saturday (we were out for the day looking at conservatories) and he has eaten barely anything all weekend. He is asking to go to bed at 5pm and then sleeps until 6.30/7 the next morning. I am hoping he is going to bounce back soon. Boo to your LA for blocking MN. Thank god for smart phones, you can lurk at least 
vjay you have a very dirty mind!!! 
You see, I would never have thought anything naughty about a string of pearls until you mentioned it. Or maybe I'm just too innocent 
Congratulations on 10 years! Hope you had a nice dinner out.
4ever another milestone - glad Summer loved the bed although it must be weird thinking about moving her after all this time. Ours didn't last very long at all in our room, mainly due to the noise they all made. I didn't sleep! Hope your AF got better cos the flooding didn't sound like fun
LBM ooooh you're doing an extension too?? Spill!! We have all the quotes in and we went to see another company on Saturday to have look at the different options. We are getting closer to making a decision I think although we still need to iron out some details. Rather annoyingly DH is away until Wednesday and he hasn't seen the last quote which came today so I'm a bit stuck until he gets back We want to decide in the next week or so and try and get a surveyor round to do the formal plans before we go on holiday. Not sure that's achieveable though. I seem to spend my evenings on t'internet looking at sofas, storage, rugs, fireplaces...
buddha how is E at the moment?? Are you on 2ww?
blue Poor Ben - hope he's recovered 
. we're off to Tenerife for 12 nights (2.5 weeks and counting!) I am hoping that Oscar doesn't start to properly crawl before we go as he's on the verge of it. At the moment, I can pretty much plonk him down and he'll be happy playing for a while. Its all going to change once he starts moving though...Can't believe the daffs are about to flower in Scotland too. Our magnolia tree is just coming out which I think is a record.
sabs your house will be fabby once its done, and you are doing the right thing by waiting until its ready (as frustrating as it must be). Am dreading having building work done while we are still living here.
I'm gutted but I can't do 13th (will send an email too) as we are probably going to my Mum's for a long weekend. However, even if we weren't I don't think I would brave it as like LBM I would have all 3 of them. The idea of getting them all into central london (safely) fills me with dread. Please please please can we do another meet up when the schools are back as I will only have Oscar then. I really want to meet you all.
Waves to all our MIA ladies monkey, strawberry, curly, mls, moon - hope you're all ok x
Must go, lunchtime!!