Hi everyone!
Trib well done for making THE decision re your work. It must have been a relief but atthe same time very frustrating as it is a career you wanted to do and no one wants to go when its the people rather than the job being a pain.
Floozie Hope all went well with your DS. [hugs].
NoHun Woohoo! Frankfurt- that will be great 
. I agree with you on the passport front, DD looks really annoyed in hers! Sorry it must be frustrating and stressful. Your capsule wardrobe sounds good and Amazon deliver to Germany . I know you have tonnes of friends but if you need anything sending to you thats hard to find in Germany, just let me know and I'll happily despatch.
HJ ooh chickenpox, you have my sympathy. I can thoroughly recommend Virasoothe- much better than calamine. The other thing is aqueous calamine, but we found virasoothe to be best (on Amazon). There's a pic of DD on my FB of a spotty baby in a spotty nappy . She still has a purple scar above her lip. Also I recommend Balneum for the bath. That really works.
BP your DD sounds cute
I've had a great 3 weeks off with DH and DD and have gone back to work today with a very bad back still and a cold! Day nurse is the best! (An advantage of stopping bfing).
On the massively negative side though, DD is poorly. She's staying with DH oop north at the moment as she was sick on Friday (and has never been sick before) then a high temp on Saturday, ok yesterday then diarrhea (which is why she's stayed with DH) that reached its zenith today and he ended up taking her to A&E as the local docs would not see her. Fortunately they say she's ok as her temp and blood pressure are fine and she's still got wet nappies. He's going to try and get as much dioralyte into her as he can. She was up 3 times last night twice with a dirty nappies. On Friday night when she was sick, I went to her and she passed me one of her teddies and said 'here, have this' when I was clearing out her bedding. Its making me curse the end of bfing as that would have been good for fluids and may even have headed this bug off at the pass. I was all set to go home but DH has persuaded me to stay at work 
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I am off next week to where DH has just got back from for a week. Its really pants timing as DH starts work that week so DD will be staying with my parents.
On the words front, DD talks ALL the time when not ill and its mostly unintelligible but obviously means something to her as she uses intonation and you can tell when she's asking a question and she'll repeat exactly the same thing. She's just recently learnt Mama but says it with her top teeth on her lower lip like Vama and still prefers to call me Dada. She can say Daddy but says it in a really sing song Daday. She can say Who's that, here, have this, whats that, the name of one of the dogs, Auntie (then my name) after being with her cousins too much, her cm's name and her dog's name and thats about it.
Sorry for blathering on!