April 2011 - We understand no but we choose to ignore it.

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Welcome Aprilites

Not really, just looks snazzy......!

Backpacks are very on trend this season (so my friend who's a buyer for a high end store) tells me.

Oh exciting news green Name yet?

Presumably not the kind we have though, but those drawstring top & cheese wire strap things the kids are using that I had in 1993

Like this but not as cool.

There are some seriously nice bags on that site though.

Oh dear...

God are hose back on trend? I still have mine for my school days I. The loft!

I love bags, I have taken 6 with me this weekend because I couldn't decide which on went with my dress best. I know it's bad I have 6 bags that go with one dress! Fat girls friend though, a bag!

Ooh, I love those but they do just cut your arms off if there's more than a pencil in it.....can't do links on my phone but Amazon - Eastpak Provider are the ones I'm looking at.....Boldbox Red and Paisley Blossom are the two I'm dithering between......

The trendier 15yo's I teach had them before the holidays.

Don't know if that translates to grown ups though.

Apparently they need to be square in shape to fit with the fashionistas...

My friend is tres fashionable though - think fashion week style outfits. I'm a jeans and converse girl, so I take her tips with a pinch of salt!

Ooh, excited, my mum says I never got round to telling her what I wanted for my birthday (in Feb!) so she's going to buy the funky-but-ridiculously-expensive one for me!

Hope today's going well, Green.

Oh excellent daisy

We've been to the lolibop festival. Not impressed by lack no show of peppa or mr tumble

Congratulations Green!

On the name tape/sticker front I highly recommend Easy2name. They do stickers which survive the dishwasher, and are also great for sticking onto the insides of shoes. I confess that I do sew name tapes into DS1's uniform.

I did have sew on ones last year, but that novelty wore off pretty quickly! I wanted something longer lasting than iron-on ones but quicker than sew so I could just pop one on when we got new bits, etc.

These clip on ones seem great for both those criteria.

Got a bunch of stickers too, for shoes, drinks bottles etc.

We're just waiting to be picked up to go home now Can't wait. Will announce name once I've told my mum, even though she made the birth announcement and put first puck on Facebook before we could.

Yay! Home time!

Will you have the same moment of quiet wonder that you do with the first?

Same about the fb. I expect she's dead excited though!

*shame

Baby Anna and I are home now. M seems very pleased I'm back, as is DH. M seems accepting of the new addition to the family. Especially as Anna bought her some happyland characters I'm sore but better than at this stage last time. just got to try not to do too much...
Feeding going well. A seems to know what to do.

Love love LOVE the name Anna. Would have been on my list if a family member hadn`t got in first. Glad you're both doing well

I'm glad the Happyland bribe has worked with M too. Clever baby Anna to buy her big sis a pressie

Beautiful name, simple elegant and timeless, good choice green.

Glad you are home, just remember not to do too much. Just sit and snuggle your girls and be waited on :o

So happy for you green, and love the name. Send more pics when you can. She's a beauty x

Green that is lovely that you are home and all happy

My SIL had her baby yesterday morning - 7 hour first labour! We went for a quick visit this afternoon, baby is just beautiful and the DS's loved seeing her

Is it a full moon? My friend is in labour too, it's stop start, but she's been admitted for an infection. Babies everywhere!

Anna is a lovely name firefly

I didn't realise you were going to ba an aunty Ali, what a great excuse to go out and do some baby shopping

The boys have been at my sister's for two days and a night, we've just picked them up and they're in bed. They're exhausted but had a great time and

Dh and I walked along the Southbank (holding hands, not a small child's hand or a buggy!), mooched round the Tate Modern then had a late lunch at Wahaca. OMG the food was to die for - great flavours and really fresh tasting. We then went to Westfield in Stratford and done a bit of shopping. Oh, and we saw Sid and Andy from CBeebies in Westfield and got a picture of them. We were chatting to them and they asked where our kids were. So we explained that they weren't with us, they must have thought we were slightly odd asking for a photo when our kids weren't there....

Today we went out for lunch again then went to see the new Alan Partridge film. If you are an Alan Partridge fan you must go, it is hilarious. I laughed from start to finish.

You met Sid and Andy?! I'm actually jealous!

We've just finished watching series 2 of Game of Thrones. Having missed it all on tv, we've got to wait till February for series 3 to come out on DVD.

Good job I've got to go back to work in a fortnight!

Winter is coming .........