*~*~* August 2010 *~*~* where does the time go?

[CherryPie3]

Only 5 spaces left on the old thread - wonder how long it'll take us to fill ths one up?

Happy chatting :)

I'm back just for the scones, yum yum, thanks Maiden.

I know what you mean about getting relationship with DH back on an even keel. Me and DH originally planned to start ttc ages ago, but due to work stress and not spending much 'us time', we were arguing all the time over the silliest little thing. So it's taken us a while to get back to some sort of normalacy, not that it is ever quite the same with a LO. But we have now managed to stop biting off each other's head and started having some quality time together again. I'm hoping that if we have 2 LOs close together then they will grow up and fly the coup near each other then DH and I can have our lives back again. My theory but will prob get DCs that want to live at home and sponge off live happily with parents

Can we please not talk about wine?? I'm struggling majorly with the inability to drink until December..

Girls loved nursery which was a bonus for me as now I get time off without the guilt as they want to go so much.

No I haven't found out the sex didn't any of the times I think I'd freak out if I found out it was a boy anyway!
Difference this time I am enjoying tea when all three previous pregnancies I couldn't bear it.. So???

We got tillys feet measured today too. 3.5 she is also quite little. Didn't buy her any they are astronomical £32 a pair in Clarks you must ve kidding! They had toddler boots in there for £55!
I think the most I've ever spent is £50 on my own boots! Right must go take the kids to the loo- anything to save wet beds :-/

Got T's 13 month jabs tomorrow. I've taken the day off work as I wouldn't have been able to settle if I'd not been with him. I know he would have been in safe hands with my DM, but I'm the worrier. Hope everyone is well. How are the pg ones amongst us, hope morning sickness is keeping at bay. Take care all xx

Dogwalker Hope T's jabs go OK and you enjoy the lovely weather - a walk in the park and an icecream in this weather is surely the order of the day. Hope your weekend erm "activities" went well and you'll telling us about your BFP soon!

Got some more fab shoes for F off ebay - these cute little trainers and Mummy would kill for these in her size shoes

Nursery is going well, they say she is like a different baby - no crying when I drop her off - she actually tries to unbuckle her car seat as we pull into the car park and reaches out to her keyworker when we arrive (thanks for the lift mummy, but I don't need your services now). She cries a bit when I pick her up (she runs towards me with her arms outstretched, crying, like they've had her locked in the broom cupboard all day - which they assure me they haven't...) but when I peek through the window before I go in, she's happily playing with toys/other children. It really has been the making of her - she is so much more outgoing at our Tumble Tots groups that we go to once a week and Rhyme Time that my mum takes her to on the day she looks after her.

I did laugh the other day when I dropped her off, as her KW took her into the room I heard her saying "Mabel, Ava, Edie, Felicity's here..." it sounded like she was taking her into the day room of an old people's home and they were going to have a round of bridge and a coffee morning! It's a bit of a contrast to the other groups we go to - my local Surestart centre is in a fairly low socio economic area, but the mums are (mostly) lovely - all their kids are called Harley, Lennon, Savannah, Harrison, Tai' Chi - I know this because in case they forget they have the names tattooed on the inside of their wrists or on the side of their foot - if they are particularly forgetful they have their dates of birth as well. The dad's have the names on their necks... I tell DH that if he really loves F he will get it done also ...

All in all, I would say she is a much happier toddler than she was being a baby if that makes sense! She bit the end off a purple crayon last night (and promptly chewed it up and swallowed it), had to tell the nursery today if she had a poo with purple bits in, don't worry, it's not some tropical disease...

Maiden those shoes are lovely, shame you can't get the red ones as they look oh so cute.

T cried after his jabs, but then brightened up as I took him and my DM to Bournemouth. Never been there before and thankfully it wasn't too packed. It was a lovely day and T ate his weight in ice cream
So glad F is enjoying Nursery. T goes once a week and he started off crying but now he's like F and holds his arms out for his KW and I'm forgotten instantly as he enters the door. I'm glad because at least I know he's enjoying it. When DH finally moves over here next year after his 6 months away, we will put T in nursery full time, I just can't risk it as I can't be sure to make the 6pm closure time (I've had to work past 7pm on 4 occassions since being back at work, can't have him left on the doorstep can I???).
Hope everyone is ok and all the DCs are doing well. Take care xx

That's great the little ones are enjoying nursery. Glad T's jabs went ok, J had his 3 weeks ago and no ill effects so hopefully T won't either.

I have an exciting announcement to make. J slept through the WHOLE NIGHT last night for the first time ever!!! I really hope he does it again [praying emoticon]

Big whoop whoop whoop, for Marzi, congrats and welcome back to the land of the living, now that you've had a good night sleep. Did J repeat the sleep through, I hope so and long may it continue.

Hope everyone is well and looking forward to a scorcher of a weekend. I'm off to a christening, which makes me think oops, I should really get T's organised. We did try but at the church where DH and I married they only do christenings every 3rd Sunday of the month and DH couldn't get back from Germany and now he goes away for 6 months, so will have to wait til he gets back next May.

Lovely lovely sunshine! Marzi long may the zzzzs continue, it's a new and brighter world when they sleep through! How are the prego ladies amongst us? Looking forward to hearing news of your arrivals soon - Caz should be first, so very very happy for her. And I have to admit, I am so frigging broody, I cannot wait to be prego again - fingers crossed - we plan to TTC at the end of the year. First I have a dodgy mole to contend with. I think it first appeared in pregnancy, just a tiny dark freckle on my right calf but I noticed it had 2 colours so doc sent me to a dermatologist who whipped it off. Turns out it's a bad 'un with mischief afoot so it's being treated as a borderline early melanoma and I have to have a wider excision around the area in a fortnight. Bugger. But hopefully that will be the end of it and we can get on with making a little brother or sister for S ( I dreamt last night I had a baby boy at 7 lbs 9 - ahhh!)

I've been back at work for a month now, 4 days a week and really enjoying though I admit, enjoying earning again most of all. S loves nursery so thankfully no issues on that front.

You might remember that she and I took a little jaunt to see my brother in Texas last month and if that flight wasn't challenging enough, we're now booked to go to a wedding in New Zealand at the end of Jan - 26 hour flight with a 1.5 year old, we must be nuts. Thinking of buying a Boba sling for walks - anyone got any experience of these? Can use them up to 45 lbs apparently.

Wow, New Zealand! You are brave :)
Good job you got the mole checked out quickly, I hope the bigger excision sorts it all.

dogwalker it will be nice for T that he's old enough to enjoy his christening

Well he slept through again on friday night but not last night. He did sleep in til 7.40 though so we had a nice weekend lie in :)

Wahey Marzi! Bloody brilliant on the sleep front. I can't tell you how much more normal I've felt since E started sleeping through. Not that he sleeps through every night, mind ;)

How was Texas, LCR? Must have been bloody hot! Eli was a hell of a challenge on the way to San Francisco back in May, and we're off to NYC in December, and I'm absolutely dreading it. But New Zealand??? Mwhahaha! You're a nutter :) And very good luck with the excision. Hope it all goes well.

Well, our news here is that we've put in an offer on a flat and it has been accepted, and there's no chain either side so... keeping fingers and toes crossed... we may be free of our evil landlord sooner than we thought! We're moving about a mile and half away, to Peckham , which keeps us near enough to all the things and people we know and love, and we'll have a nice place with a surprisingly big garden, so perhaps things have worked out for the best? Hopefully! I will miss our house though, and our little neighbourhood.

Eli has taken a few more steps, but is still very much a crawler. He's also hilarious, laughing loads, he sticks everything on his head and cracks up (including food, toys, books, shoes, pens, phones, bowls...) he likes being chased round the front room... he's awesome, basically. And I'm hating being back at work as a result! (but that's another story).

Hope you all enjoyed this magical weather. xx

Great news about the flat nat, i really hope it goes through. We're so loving having a garden now - wish we could have moved in at the beginning of summer. We had the paddling pool out on saturday which J loved! He'd been playing in it for ages, then we took him nside to get dry and dressed but we forgot to shut the back door so a few minutes later he sneaked out and climbed straight in, clothes, nappy and all

Hi all, I've got news.....DH and I are on our 1st cycle of ttc, I had it all planned military style, so that I could get pg just before he goes away for 6 months, so that he will be back before the LO is born. Well I didn't leave much room for error, couldn't start ttc too early, but YAH on first time of trying I got a BFP, due date 16 June 2012. I am so excited and a little brother or sister for T .

wow dogwalker that so fantastic!
so glad it is all going to plan x

Congrats dogwalker amazing news, so excited for you!!

Huge congrats Dogwalker!

Any news on the flat Nat, Move day etc. Hope it's all going smoothly.

Hello ladies!

Congratulations dog :)

Well I've had a hell of a month. I'm not sure who follows my blog here, but if you do you'll already know! I threatened prem-labour again, this time at 32+2, so a week later than with Belle. It was the absolute last thing we needed that week in the run up to reaching the same point that Belle died (32+4), I was a hysterical mess and convinced myself it was a warning sign that we were going to lose Xander too. However Xander coped much better with it all and his heart rate remained stable, unlike Belle who had dipped a lot through the whole nearly going into labour episode.

He seems much stronger than Belle. I don't think she ever moved very much at all in hindsight. Xander is always so active, (although he has quiet days which have me in bits) and still giving me massive boots now. I don't know what he was trying to do yesterday for example but my stomach was all over the place, and it hurt!! Belle was never this busy, but being my first I had nothing to compare it to.

Anyway, I've reached complete meltdown points in the last few weeks, and spent over a week in hospital before I felt "safe" enough to go home at all. I'm still very anxious but we've been going back and fore the hospital every day the last couple of weeks for daily close monitoring and it finally feels like we are on the home stretch.

I'm almost daring to believe Xander will be coming home. Today I'm 35+1 and they are inducing me at 36! (Tuesday morning) In 6 days his journey to the outside world will be beginning! Although since the threatened prem-labour this time I've been having constant 'pre-labour' symptoms and pain, so the hospital keep saying there is still potential for me to go on my own before then! (Although I just think I'm stuck in latent phase now and hope the pessary will just nudge me over into the real thing next week!)

I hope I'm back next week sometime with a happy birth announcement! I'm also hoping he doesn't make me wait 5 days for the induction to work like his sister did!

wow caz, can't believe it's so soon! Sorry it's been so stressful and scary but it sounds like the hospital are looking after you well. Will be praying for you and Xander and look forward to the birth announcement! xxx

Oh CazandBelle so glad that you and Xander are doing well and that he's a strong one. Wow not long then, I'm so happy for you and will be thinking of you next Tuesday. Please update us as soon as you can. Wonderful news, so happy for you, take care xx

Hi CazandBelle, yes I've been following your blog, it's superb and I think it will be something you will treasure in the years to come, both the heartbreakingly sad parts and the lighter moments.

Roll on next Tueday, we'll excuse you if your blog is a little late that day... Best of luck honey, I know Belle will be looking down on the three of you. Remember to think "opening flower" and "breathing the baby out" thoughts (then demand lots of drugs! ) x

I tried to post a whole long thing yesterday and it vanished into the ether - first things first, congratulations on those newly pregnant, still pregnant (way to go Caz and Xander) and enjoying final sleeping through moments of bliss. Since I lasted posted, I've turned 30 (!) had a couple of parties and a lot of cake, enjoyed the sun and experienced true carnage volunteering at an NCT sale. E did well with her jabs (although I nearly cried this time) but is still not walking. She is, however, tall enough to reach the door handle, which she finds very interesting. Am praying it will be a while before she figures out how to open it... She's done some horrendously early starts recently (4.45am the other day and I still had to go to work) which is not much fun. She is getting much better at being put to bed by Daddy without crying mournfully for a big mouthful of boob, so I now finally feel I can occasionally go out before she's down.

Other than that, I am just craving sleep at the moment. Mmmm, zzzz.....

Caz fantastic to hear from you. I cannot imagine how anxious you must have been feeling over the last few weeks as you approached 32 weeks, but it sounds like Xander is a strong little man. I will be thinking of you so very much on Tuesday - GOOD LUCK!!!!

And congrats Dogwalker talk about well planned!!! Amazing! June next year, eh? Such a nice time to have a baby, I reckon. Brilliant news!

One of my friends had a little boy yesterday morning - can't wait to meet him. Everyone I know seems to be pregnant at the mo - am most jealous!!

No more news on the flat front. Paperwork and surveys and lots of annoying requests from the bank/solicitors. Because my DH and I have different last names, they want to see our marriage certificate. a) is this 1952? b) we can't find our marriage certificate Dunno what we're going to do...

Congrats dogwalker! It feels a bit surreal falling pg first time of trying doesn't it?!
We had that with our first two- hence the small gap. Never thought it could happen twice but it did.

Good luck Caz. Always thinking of you and wishing you all the luck in the world.

All going ok here I'm 31 weeks now and now the girls are at nursery time is flying in a blur of picking up/dropping off/ ballet/ swim lessons etc so this baby will be here before we know it.

All three plus me have horrid coughs & Tilly is wheezing again. Doctor today at ten.
I'm only awake now as she woke up coughing & crying.
Been doing a good bit of middle of night sky+ catching up..

Hope everyone is well.

Have got absolutely everything that is crossable crossed for Caz today. Oh that moment when she gets to hold Alexander and hear him cry for the first time is going to be so emotional for her, it makes me and at the same time.

Held my friend's 5 day old baby girl yesterday, not a hint of broodiness, though F wasn't impressed and kept trying to grab the baby's feet! The little madam got my makeup bag this morning and experimented with my lipsticks - aaargh!

My thoughts are too with CazandBelle today, Cant wait to hear from her. That first magical moment when she holds him, Maiden, it makes me feel the same.