'October 2009-chattering and on the run, our toddlers are such fun'

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Right ladies, off we trot into the next stage of our gorgeous toddlers lives.

HC
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Hi Twinkle great to hear from you

We have got to spend a day with our Reception Children and that includes getting in the swimming pool with them. My thighs are so big!!!

HC
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P.S. I love Take That more than any of you.

HC I have to spend Monday afternoon with the prep 1s (ds1) being taught circus skills by them !

Your thighs are fine, what are you talking about!

Take That was 100 time better than the best fireworks you have ever seen. I am still buzzing and exhausted from it !

Ooh I ache like a huge aching thing! Ran(mostly jogged) the Aintree Race for Life earlier and it was so hot and muggy. Very relieved to make it round! It's my MILs birthday so we took her for a meal this afternoon and I've just now put Joe to bed. Can't move, think a bath is in order! This was the least prepared I've ever been for a 5k..am now considering whether to do a beach 10k at beginning of September or an 8k with Joe in the buggy at end of Sept.

littlepea Thank you for your lovely words. He is a livewire and a busy adventurous little boy who is very, very mischievous and too clever by half. I have never laughed as much as I have this year, he's hilarious! I generally ignore the looks of pity from people who ask if I ever get a break. Would quite like a houseful of children if they're all as much fun as Joe-will need to get fitter first though! How are you? Loved the FB pics of Faith and Gabe. When do you join your DH here in Merry Old England?

fidelma Happy Anniversary! How was the pipe band? V jealous that you got to see Take That. I've always had a bit of a thing for Howard You are so busy, I bet you're counting down the days to your holiday.

Right must go get that bath as my legs are screaming-big kiss to everyone MWAH! X

Argh-forgot to say twinklegreen Lovely to hear from you, hope all is going well with the house

Saw your status update earlier about RFL HT, well done you! Sounds exhausting... The thought of running anywhere makes me come out in a cold sweat x

Oh, and hoping to move in next month :)

Just bouncing in for a minute to pass around cake to celebrate -- tonight is my last injection of treatment and the doctor said I could stop taking the pills or I could continue until Tuesday if i wanted to/it made me feel better to. I'm going to carry on with the pills until next week but I'm on the downslide and I can FINALLY see the light at the end of the tunnel!

Scout go girl go

HT great run. I hope you have recovered.

Schools Off (I think)

Hello all!
twinklegreen hello you! good luck with the move, what an accomplishment :)

Scout fabulous news, well done and hope that you feel much better and manage to get some weight back on quickly x

fidelma woudl LOVE to see Take that, your sport days sounds mad

HC I'm sure your thights are fine!!! Enjoy the pool :)

HT sounds like you never has a boring day with Joe, I bet he'll be really popular at school; and therefore very successful in life . Well done for the run, I've been running in the heat/humiditiy and agree, it really is quite hard work. A beach 10k sounds like fun, but I run with A in her pushchair, didn't know you could race like that?! I've decided to stop running in the '2 week wait'; paranoid that I'm bouncing all that precious genetic material around :o Can't remember when I stopped running when pg, I think when my boob wouldn't fit into my sports bra!

MAJOR deadline today; submitting 70,000 words of my PhD to my thesis supervisor for the last revision before final submission to faculty (Sept). Have a month to write up another 30,000, man am I bored of writing!

Iggly hello...?

PPM where are you? tried to friend you on FB like you suggested, but you've rejected me! :) Anyway, if you're lurking, hope you and F and well!

Calypso, you might be interested in the Tommy's baby races if you like running with A in her buggy and can get to Windsor -am thinking of running the Cardiff one with Joseph. What buggy do you use?
I'm guessing by now you have met your deadline? and enjoy the weekend!

Scout Thats great news, really happy for you

littlepea Are you packing yet? Hope you are all ok

Enjoying the lovely weather here. Joe is stickering every surface in sight so all our interior doors now have puffy stickers of planes, cars, trucks etc. I wound up back at A & E this morrning, in excruciating pain with my wrist. Still no signs of fracture 3 weeks on but still swelling. I got a row for not wearing my splint all the time and have to now totally rest that arm. With Joe? Ha! Next step MRI It will sort itself out.

Big wave to all x

We are off to the West cost of Scotland tomorrow. 2 cars packed.
6 x trainers
6 x wellies
6 x crocs
6 x full wetsuits
6 x shortie wet siuts
6 x goggles
bread machine (best shop, a ferry away to tobermory (balamory)on Mull)
So food for 6 very hungry Fidelma's for 2 weeks OMG!
6 hot water bottles (don't go anywhere without them)
flasks and water bottles
torches
binoculars
candles
First aid/medicine
6 bags of clothes for the Scottish weather ie. carriben sun or arctic conditions and lots of rain!
towels and face cloths for 6
nappies etc.
a bag of cars for the boys
Books for 6 although dd1 has just bought herself a Kindle[gasp]
art kit (needed in case of wet days)
monopoly (our own version that I bought dh a few years ago) great gift
cludo
scrabble (perhaps I will learn to spell!)
cards
maths books for dc 1,2,3 (slightly pushy parent)
rounders gear
football
rugby ball
buckets and spades
boogie boards
wine..................
looking forward to comming home for a rest..........
see you all in 2 weeks (unless I can get mn/fb on dhs phone as mine has now been missing in action for at least 3-4 weeks)
bing,bong,bing
(will try to remember the freezer stuff and the dc tomorrow)
excited XXxxxx

Have a lovely holiday fidelma

Hope everyone's ok :)

Well I seem to be 'back' on mumsnet! Must be because house build is almost done

Hi all

fidelma-try and rest on your hols.

Scout-great news.

twinkle-so excited about your house, all the work is so worth it.

Was meant to be sports day this afternoon but was cancelled due to rain. Rescheduled for 18th July.

Went away in the caravan last weekend and was fab apart from Matthew being poorly. He is better now though.

Better wake him up so I can do the school run. Tonight me and DH are going to the (nearly) local bike night so am hoping it won't rain as we are child free for once and want to enjoy it in the pubs.

Big wave to all!

HC
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Love these:

[hsmile] [hgrin] [hwink] [hbiscuit] shame there is no [hwine]

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Yes there should definitely be a h

Hello everyone [hgrin] xx

Hello all!
Its so quiet on here, I hope its because we're all having so much fun?!
Lovely to see you twinklegreen

scout you must be all done with your treatment now? well done and congrats!

HC & HT are you both alright?

Iggly can only meet on the 26th July for lunch - do you still have that spare?

littlepea hope G is doing well

fidelma back from hols yet?

I'm alright, 9 weeks until my thesis is due for submission and I'm doing nothing but writing writing writing, very bored I am! Also had a gazillion couple of BFPs this week, but AF due tomorrow or Saturday so won't think about getting excited until Sunday at the earliest. I've convinced myself its a chemical pg so not to be too disappointed, but temp seem relatively high this morning so maybe, just maybe...

Someone post some news, I'm sooooo bored at my desk and I've only been here an hour!
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Hello ladies just saw this on active convos!

calypso what day is the 26th? Am so busy at workbi dint know whether I'm coming or going. Doing four days a week plus evenings and weekends when W sleeps

HT I saw the pics from your run - how do you find the time to train? I do miss running - will start again when DC2 sleeps through (so could be a while )

scout, that's fab news!!! Can't believe the time has passed! How are you feeling now?

I've got the 20 week scan next week so hopefully baby will cooperate and flash their bits for us... William is in a really funny mood at the moment - not sure why. Takes ages to go to sleep at night, very grumpy in the mornings (might be hunger though). Not sure what that's all about

How's everyone else? Am on the train to work - boo!

Hi all

Calypso-that sounds like a +ive to me but will keep everything crossed for you.

Iggly-gosh, 20 weeks already. Where does the time go?

My 101 year old grandma has just been diagnosed with cervical cancer which is a huge blow as I always thought she would die of old age.

School still doing lots of things to raise money but being a tad short it is getting tedious. Don't want the girls to suffer in any way. 1 more week at school then the pressure is off-phew!

Big wave!

HC
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HC So sorry to hear this, what a shock. Are they looking at treating it or more along the lines of palliative care because of her age?

Calypso Thinking of you and keeping fingers and toes crossed. Your FB status updates about Brad Pitt/zombies/thesis have made me laugh.

Iggly Good luck for scan, come back and tell us how it all goes!

littlepea How are things-have you moved yet> Hope you've got things sorted ok with school now

fidelma Hope you are having a fab holiday

twink How are things with you?

Not much time to post at the moment as Joe has dropped his afternoon nap. I was upset for all of 5 minutes and then realised how much more freedom it gives me. He had first haircut 2 days ago and he looks like a proper litle boy now Our bedime battles have become a thing of the past, although he still wakes at 5am (always has unless unwell) so I'm a bit shattered at the moment, long old day. He's had really bad night terrors the past few nights though. The summer programme is out for our local Surestart centre and there's far more on than I expected so I'm really pleased. We spend a lot of time there!

I finally saw a doctor about my arm after finding what I though was a lump in armpit. Tests reveal I have a torn tricep and tennis elbow/tendonitis, it seems from picking up Joe. Lots of soft tissue damage &bswelling in upper arm. Have been advised to rest it completely(ha!), not pick him up on tha side at all (double ha!) and under no cirumstances push the buggy as the repetitive motion is the worst thing I can do. I laughed in her face at that one-one or the other yes bu not both. Now waiting on a course of physio.

HC sad prognosis for your grandmother, how shocking, I hope that she is comfortable and everyone can visit her easily x

HT your arm/wrist sounds very painful, I can imagine its next to impossible to completely rest it though! My MiL supposed to wear a splint support for exactly the same thing but hates it; can't garden and do the enormous patchwork quilt project she's undertaken for Annalise- both of which probably induced it! I'm at Joe dropping his nap, I get soooo much done when A is asleep, would miss it terribly! Hope you can enjoy all the things you can no go out and do :) Shame about the weather... Any more news on moving away?

Iggly good luck with the scan, very exciting! And the 26th is next Tuesday - any good?

Hello to everyone else - lurking? AWOL? :)

So no period still, day 33 of a 29-30 day cycle, tons of BFPs (but not a single other symptom), I'm wondering if I've willed myself into a pseudo-pregnant state :o
My mum has been staying her and looking after A whilst I work full time but she leaves on Wednesday morning, wondering if I should tell her (I'll be c4+6) by then, won't see her again until Sept.

Seeing HP at the IMAX tonight [hgrin]

HC shame about your gm.My 87 gm is having to move to London to be with my dad.(Disaster waiting to happen)

HT Oh no your arm poor you {hugs}

Calypso your are pregnant CONGRATULATIONS !!!!!!!!!!!

Twinkle Hi to you and congratulations on getting the house done.

We have had the best holiday ever.House on the beach, facing West to the setting sun, over looking Eigg,Muck,Rum and Skye. One day there were over 12 dolphins in the bay,leeping and twisting infront of our eyes for 30 mins.The best wildlife experience I have ever had.Also seals,lizzards,snake and alot of sheep!!!!

We met the local fisherman a few times a week to collect our fresh lobsters and crayfish (my idea of a good night)

the girls got on so well,,alot of giggling,swimming in the sea,fishing,collecting shells,painting and making bread in the bread machine which was hit and miss.you either got the best loaf ever or a congeled mass!

The boys also got on really well with Tom making Connor laugh. Connor loved looking for jellybabies in the sea (jellyfish).Tom swam with his wet suit on and Connor got braver ever day with his paddling.Shouting out NAKED BOY! They loved our day trips to Balamory.(I can't get that B tune out of my head)

My dh and I both managed to relax and put down work and the responsibilities of home.Giving us time to enjoy our family.Sadly the girls were full of energy and were up almost as late as us most nights

We are all now back home and the 2 cars are unpacked,I am back to too much clutter and stuff to deal with, the veg in the poly tunnel is boalting away,and everything seems to have growen about 2 feet.Oh well at least I have lots of fresh veg and flowers from the garden.The children are all happy to be back in there own little (and large) beds Me to, if only I could stop dh snoring?

Hi all

Welcome home fidelma-sounded like fun but why oh why do they have to stay up later when on holiday. My girls are the same and end up reading me a bedtime story,

Calypso-what is your due date then? Hope I will be joining you one day. FIL gave DH a lecture about Matthew needing a brother right infront of all my family at DD1's 8th B'Day family party on Sunday. Oh, the shame! Big congratulations BTW.

HT-how difficult for you, how on earth can you rest it? I go to our Surestart Centre 4 days a week and I love every minute of it. We can more or less do what we like in there and happily put things on the walls and look after the garden. Today we blew up balloons and covered with flour and water soaked newspaper strips. They are going to turn into piggy banks.

Hi to everyone else

My grandma isn't going to have any treatment as she, my mum and the lady from the home feel it is not the right thing to do. She has probably had it about 5 years so may have spread around her body and all treatment will more than likely be too much for her. The McMillan nurse will come to the home and give her all the help she needs. She has asked to see the girls so will be going in the hols.

Next week is another week at the Beach Hut so hoping this horrid rain will clear off! Then not long until our Spanish Holiday, really must start getting things ready for it.

Oh, Marmalade wants his tea so must dash. Laters.......

HC
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hC Im so sorry about your GM, is she feeling good in herself?

Iggly cant wait for your scan! Any thoughts on the sex??

Fidelma really you could do with another holiday to get over that one! lol...sounds like it was fun

HT hope you are feeling better x

Calypso congrats!!! Told you it wouldnt take long!

DS1 has ADHD now on top of his ASD, poor wee thing, he is going to be going onto meds, we have been told it would be better for him if we put our move of for a year. So DH is in England alone....is someone trying to tell us something?? lol....

Hope you are all well, and hi to anyone else out there