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PacificDogwood · 10/02/2012 22:44

I hope nobody minds, but I went and started a new thread Blush.

Sorry, headgirls!

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RubyLovesMayMay · 19/07/2012 15:47

Manda I'm just looking into getting a double. I like the look of the Vibe but the Phil and Teds are a bit or a lot out of my price range. I'd prefer a tandem for bus use and have seen a couple on gumtree second hand I'm interested in. I tried to start a thread in pushchairs but it didn't really take off I reckon they're all going to be quite heavy esp the Graco Quattro Duo that I've seen, it looks HUGE but has everything I think I'll need. I also live on the first floor so thats something to consider.

I reckon I'll have to go to shops and try them out but I've prepared myself for the fact that I'll be carting a lorry around with the two of them in, but anything is better than being confined to the house on the 3 days Amaya isn't at nursery.

Amaya is also the same with Ezra, shes constantly sat in front of him, shoving his dummy in his mouth at every opportunity or trying to wipe his face. Whenever he dribbles or is sick she says "Mummy, he's spilling it!" It's very cute but I'm forever trying to get her to back off just a little.

Ezra is talking to me now Grin he is ever so chatty and wriggly and cute. He had a nuclear kidney test on Monday and they put a canula in his hand, then his foot before finally putting it in other his hand to successfully find his tiny little vein, and he was so brave, bless him.

Anyway, I'm off to go and get my lunch (I know, at 3:45pm!) while Ezra is chillin.

Hugs to everyone

MandaHugNKiss · 09/08/2012 19:28

This here thread is a ghost town!

Whatcha all doin'? Let me live vicariously considering how often I am sat indoors! Well, except for this weekend when I have to trek to N.Ireland for a wedding (luckily without James... although I'm having TERRIBLE wobbles about it all, I've only spent two single nights away from him when in hospital and those times he was with his Dad... this time it'll be two nights in a row, and not with either of us Sad PLus I keep having anxious thoughts about leaving him an orphan if the plane crashes! Madness Confused )

EarnestDullard · 11/08/2012 09:53

Hope you have a lovely weekend Manda :)

I'm mainly popping in to remind everyone about the Birmingham meetup one week today! Planned venue is Birmingham Botanical Gardens; more details on FB, or PM me.

Hope everyone's doing well. I noticed there's now a Due in March 2013 antenatal thread; can't believe it's been 3 years since we were in that position.

SiameseIfYouPlease · 11/08/2012 10:11

Which position? The one at the start or the one at the end ;)

FlipFantasia · 14/08/2012 21:06

Hi ladies

Real life has been so hectic that I've had practically no time for MN!

Hope everyone is well - am so jealous of those meeting up in Birmingham this weekend. So wish I could join you, but have friends visiting from Scotland (and rather guiltily I'm actually wishing we could just spend the weekend doing moving stuff - just back from a wedding in Cyprus and off to another wedding in Colorado next week and then Sept is crammed so this weekend is our last free weekend until we move and we've got loads to do!!). I'll keep an eye on FB for photos.

Interesting to read the double buggy discussions. Due to our tiny flat and tiny car, we've just stuck with the sling and our trusty maclaren quest. For the sling, we use the ergo - used it with the newborn insert until about a month ago. We had the maclaren serviced - new wheels and raincover and bits and bobs - so it feels all new again at a fraction of the cost. This week we've started using the lascal buggy board as well. DS quite likes the buggy board but is a pretty good walker, even with all the hills around us in north London!

The move stuff is starting to get quite stressful. We're actually moving and in just over a month will be gone from London. Which makes me Sad and Shock but also [excited] - I'll miss my friends and the loveliness of our life here but at the same time we're ready for this move and it'll be great to have family close at hand (and have NYC on our doorstep).

Right, need to help DH move stuff out of the cellar - time to ramp up the decluttering!

simplysarahandco · 20/08/2012 19:34

FLip= life sounds so so busy! slow down a bit x u will end up doign yourself in!

Meet up on sat was brill so good to get together with the ladies and running toddlers! how grown up they all are now! scary x

MummyElk · 04/09/2012 08:10

Hello everyone - i KNOW i'm a bad person and apologies for that. I can tell you all the usual boring stuff (relentless year, etc etc) but I think everyone's year has been busy so please just accept my apologies and I HAVE lurked, so am more or less up to date, i thiiink.... Hmm
Glad everyone is good and potty training is going well. DD2 is there with it too, she more or less did it herself in the end (think i was holding out for a bit longer, tbh, couldn't quite face it midst house move/unpacking etc). I think she might even be ready to do the nights too but i REALLY cannot be arsed with that so, again, holding out [bad parent alert]
we are expecting dc3 in december, rocky start earlier this year meant our initial september baby wasn't meant to be, but am excited about december and the new addition to our family. DD1 convinced it's a boy. I am too, tbh. no actual EVIDENCE, mind.
most of you will know this from my copious facebook postings but anyway, thought i should drop in.
Was so sorry to miss the meet up - hopefully make the next one when life is calmer.
Good luck those moving(flip)/watching relatives move (missp) it's stressful either way but worth it in the end
And I should publicly thank rkd for her lovely fbk message which has totally put my mind at rest about home births. I still think of that brilliant labour thread of hers, not sure my DH is up to MrRKD's excellent updates, but still. Happy memories - doesn't march 2010 seem a long time ago now... ....

BlueyDragon · 09/09/2012 03:55

[posting from the MM2010 naughty step, where I have been sent for Not Posting, Not Attending Meets and Failure To Keep Up. I am enjoying my 37 21 minutes on here]

Actually, not got masses to say. Alex is nowhere near potty trained although he did allow himself to be taken to the potty the other night when he announced he was doing a poo (he wasn't, it was a wee - he was doing that little boy shiver thing that I never knew about - am I the only one who didn't know this?) and got a few dribbles in. Tis a start... We've moved a bit from major meltdowns to quite aggressive behaviour - hitting DD and talking in this really determined voice. He does have quite a lot to stand up to as DD is bossy articulate and directive, but I can only describe him as being testosterone fuelled at the mo. and growing like a weed - his new PJs are size 3-4 (Next) because he is out of 2-3 year old stuff! And he's no more chunky than your average 2 year old, but he's tall and solid. Bless him.

Life seems to be moving on apace for everyone here - how are all the new babies and/or house moves?

MandaHugNKiss · 09/09/2012 18:21

Ah, bluey it's funny you should mention house moves as we should be exchanging this week (fingers crossed - it's already taken an age to get this far due to a massive backlog at the council for The Searches). Got to almost gut the place and start from scratch and I think I must be in denial about what we are about to embark on (although won't be living in it at the same time so that's a bonus!) as I'm not feeling the least bit phased. definitely denial then. I'm so good at it!

All I bumped into PD in chat and she says to say hello to the thread... so, er, hello from her!

simplysarahandco · 10/09/2012 20:45

Lovely to read ur news ELk- great to see u guys posting in here, March 2012 was an age ago wasnt it! Life just takes over and the months pass by in a flash,

Hope everyone is coping with life and managing all that we hve to manage, x

All good here, Rosie started school and is loving it, Elliott got his first day at nursery tomorrow- (he is not potty trained tho- had a very good start, but he went back so reverted back to nappies, he just wont tell me he needs to go- only after he had done it! grrrrr!) he will do it when he is ready! he will do it when he is ready!

Nothing much else to add,

miss the chats we used to have x

BlueyDragon · 13/09/2012 22:26

Manda, did you exchange yet?

MandaHugNKiss · 13/09/2012 23:06

Did we 'ell as like.

Now there is some hold up with Enquiries. Our solicitor claims she Made Enquiries weeks ago and as yet has only had some of the answers, faxed, no hard copy. Their solicitor, according to the estate agent, says they have faxed all the answers but there was something or other missing from the info from our solicitor... which she denies. During this whole long drawn out process, the vendors had to go back to court for a stay of execution - the house was due to be repossessed. I believe the second date they were given to complete by is the 23rd Sept. Ten days. And solicitors are farting around blaming each other for things not being resolved yet. Argh! Any advice about arses up rockets ways to encourage resolution?

And... if you ever do blog, remember to link me woman!

scooby26 · 16/09/2012 22:09

Greetings all... Long time no post- apologies. I may have a vvvv faint line.....

MandaHugNKiss · 17/09/2012 14:04

Wonderful news scoob - congratulations! How will this affect work?! Grin

Arcadie · 17/09/2012 14:38

Woooohooooooo Scoobs! Well done you. Big congrats and enjoy the nervous buzz of excitement that comes with remembering your news. not that I miss that part at all

scooby26 · 17/09/2012 16:34

Thanksmanda and arcadie it's extremely early days but work is yet again rearing it's head- my current role is unworkable from jan due to change of shift pattern so id applied for something else which is 'out n about' interview is this week. Area is rough so of I got it I'd have to tell them at some point to stay desk bound- cant imagine they will happy..... Oh wot to do.... Can't really pull out without reason either....

simplysarahandco · 20/09/2012 14:13

WOW- congrats scooby, hope work prob sorts x :)

hey to one and all lurking out their x

FlipFantasia · 21/09/2012 22:47

Well ladies, tonight's our last night in the UK...we're moving to the US tomorrow! I can't believe it's finally rolled around - was so strange watching all of our possessions being driven away in the shipping container yesterday. At this stage we don't know where we'll be living when we'll be reunited with them. But we have a month in Manhattan to find a place to live...

Scoobie congratulations! Hope it all goes well for you.

Manda hope the house purchase is going well.

Big waves to everyone else. Sorry for the flying visit but have to repack our suitcases - the temporary flat we're in is a tip and I really don't want to spend tomorrow morning packing when we could be at the park!

MandaHugNKiss · 21/09/2012 23:37

Flip! Nooooo, donnnn't goooooooooooooooo Look, ok, you can go; just so long as I have an open invitation to come visit as I've been to NYC 3 times and all 3 times I had children with me. I want to do a grown up, no children visit... even if it's literally a weekend. A month to sort out where to live, eh? just as soon as you've settled and have worked out the really good stuff we could do, give me a shout and I'll hop over It's my birthday in just under two months... just sayin' Grin

What an adventure! May it not be too fraught with angst and full of fun and laughter. At least we won't miss you here, as it were, given that t'internet knows no phyisical barriers.

(as for the house we FINALLY exchanged today. Have been given next Fri (28th) as our completion date)

BlueyDragon · 22/09/2012 19:21

Can we have a MMMM in NYC? Flip, you have got space for all of us as long as we don't bring DCs? I've never been to NYC... Good luck with the move and I have heard that they even have the Interweb in America so you still know where to find us Smile.

Congrats, scooby, and I hope the work thing comes good for you.

Manda, yay for exchange but I bet you're foot to the floor for completion on Friday. I hope you've got lots of help. Is it still in London or are you headed for the burbs?

EarnestDullard · 23/09/2012 16:40

Huge congrats scooby, hope you're feeling well and that the work situation gets sorted.

Flip all the very best for the move and the future, do pop back when you can and keep us updated on life across the pond :)

Good luck with your move too Manda, hope it all goes smoothly.

38w here and just waiting, waiting, waiting. Had a good few BHs and some low-level cramping over the past week, but this LO seems comfortable for the time being. I'd be quite happy for things to kick off ASAP, I think I'll panic a bit when it actually does happen though!

Hope everyone else is well x

simplysarahandco · 24/09/2012 09:44

good luck with the move - yeah im up for a mmm in nyc x x x:) how nice would that be.............

..........................ok back from my daydream of child free days and coffee shops and shopping, oh and great company too..........................

Good luck for completion date next week- hooray glad your finally getting there.

Earnest- wow any time now, good luck and hope lo doesnt keep u waiting too much longer,

MandaHugNKiss · 24/09/2012 14:25

bluey Well, although I have a SW postcode, technically in London, I'm literally on the border with Richmond (a five minute walk and you're in TW9) so I'm sorta, kinda already in the 'Burbs. Definitely more 'Burbs than Big Smoke here.

I want to stay here - indeed, whilst my older two were growing up I chose location over space and they have shared a room all their life (hardly ideal but where the space is, I don't want to go!). They're happy to finally be getting their own rooms (we're going from a two bedroom flat to a four bedroom house) but as DD is 18 in March it's all come a little late for them!

However, I've had to relent. We simply need more room, much more room! We're going only not quite 15 mins in a car but I don't like the area (my Dad lived there most of my life until recently and DF is from there (in fact, the house is down the same road as his Mum! That's a whole other thread in itself - she's lovely and all, and I'm hoping it will mean more babysitting a closer relationship with DS2&3 but, yeah, MiL a few steps down the road wouldn't work for everyone!) so I do know it well) but the plan is to come back this way in a few years when the older two will have left/be on their way to leaving so we'll need less room again. I know; best laid plans and all that, but that is the plan.

BMI No freaking way!! 38 weeks?! Are you sure because it only seems like five minutes ago you got your bfp and it definitely seems like about three minutes ago that you discovered it's DD2 on the way... 38 weeks. 38?! Lots of positive labour vibes your way I've been pondering becoming a doula. Not right now, but near future but probably not needed as second babies tend to be so much easier!

sarah It's a beautiful daydream, eh? Grin No pressure, flip but get somewhere massive that will accommodate us all, hmmkay?

RubyLovesMayMay · 26/09/2012 18:34

Hi Guys,

Im going to update properly, later, hopefully if I get a chance.

Looks like its house moving season on the thread Smile we're moving up north at the end of next month. Dead excited!

Anyway, DD is fighting me for the laptop Hmm so Im off

Hope everyone is well though

x x

simplysarahandco · 26/09/2012 20:34

wow another house mover x hmmm wonder if mike would like a move...... hahah