All the best for tomorrow Indith, keep those legs crossed! Do you have far to travel, or is it close to home?
Lovely to hear your DD finally cooperated with the scan Kayz, how sweet to have a little girl joining the family 
. Friends of mine had their 3rd DC last year, a little girl. Their DS (middle child) wasn?t happy to hear he was going to have another sister, and his father?s argument that when he was 18 he?d have a house full of 21 year old girls and 16 year old girls visiting his sisters and he would be in his element didn?t go down well with a toddler!
I have been following this talk of reading with fascination (and keeping well out, as it is beyond me ? I don?t even know which system DDs pre-school/school uses, although I should find out). I?m confused already, as DD has come home having learnt the alphabet song (ay, bee, cee, dee etc) but then points out ?eh? for her name and ?muh? for Mummy etc ? so I don?t even know which version of letters to use with her. She has always loved books, but now she?s taken to either describing the pictures or memorising the books and reciting them back to me ? it?s lovely to see her so involved, but I?m not convinced it will actually help her to read, as she thinks she?s reading at the moment. I?ll have to have a chat with school at some point to find out more. I can?t actually remember how I learnt to read myself, in order to pass that on (which is probably good, as it will be horrendously out of date now, I?m sure), but I do remember learning to write ? we had ?roll and write?, where there was a marble and the letter was on a slight tilt so that the marble rolled round it in the way you should write it. I loved playing with all the letters and copying them. Does anyone else remember those? Now numbers, I am looking forward to helping her with and I did push her quite a bit to spot the right numbers on her advent calendar. She does make me laugh, as there is a dressing up area in her classroom, and more often than not she is Snow White when I pick her up and the rest of the class are all in normal uniform ? last week she was sat earnestly joining in a group discussion when I arrived, yet again in the full regalia and looking so out of place but so happy 
Hurrah for pants LadyT (O's, not yours, although I'm sure your pants deserve a hurrah too!) ? we used bribery for DD, and have had to return to it for hand washing now, as she?s got bored of all of that
How is your sister doing this week Spot? I hope she and the baby are still there and getting lots of rest
Does DS1 feel like he is behind the rest of the class Vaj, or is it just his teacher?s comments? I hate him to be aware that he's behind 
. From what you tell us, he seems such a bright little thing, surely he?ll catch up. And he gained so much from seeing his family that it outweighs a couple of weeks of schooling at this age
Those side effects sound tough to deal with Trace, how is the tiredness that you were struggling with at first? And can you feel any difference your mood yet? (although with all that going on, I doubt I?d be able to). Any news on a second viewing?
Glad you?re all well again Jolly, but a bit of sleep would help too, wouldn?t it? I remember being really chuffed that DD starting sleeping through about 6 weeks before I went back to work and then being really dischuffed when she stopped again after a couple of weeks at work. I hoped it was maybe something to do with having a different routine etc, but suspect it was just because she can be a little so and so if she wants! But if J has always been so good, I bet it?s just the after effects of the bug
I have been happily browsing cookery books, as I?ve decided (assuming nothing or nobody else crops up) that DD and I are going to make the gooiest, stickiest chocolate cake for my birthday this weekend. But I have given myself massive chocolate cravings now from looking at all the pictures and the only chocs we have in the house are chocolate raisins, far too healthy and disappointing for what I need right now!