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

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Welcome Aprilites

I've got a week off work this week, and the girls are both still going to nursery every morning. I cant tell you how much I'm looking forward to it.

at Daisy! It's a thin gold band with two pearls in a twist. From eBay an antique jewellers

The ring sounds lovely ecuse. Dh never got round to getting engaged so I just wear my wedding band. I think I missed a jewellery opportunity!

Did you have a good week firefly?

We have just finished day two of the summer holidays and we're all still alive and talking to each other. Ds3 threw a curve ball this morning though. He was playing in the garden and decided he couldn't be bothered to go to the toilet so poo'd on the grass instead . He realised he had done something wrong so covered it in grass, then ran over it with his scooter (????) I think after realised he was making the problem worse so came and told me what had happened. There were lots of, 'but why?' from me. And ds2 witnessed the whole thing and didn't think of coming to tell me.

ILTMIMI that just gave me an actual LOL! I lost it at the part where he ran over it with his scooter. I appreciate that's probably way funnier for me to read than you to clean up...

Was quote a good week. Had a pedicure and got some gardening done. Could have done without baby A getting a n intermittent sickness bug and having to keeo her home on Wednesday. then Dh not eell over the weekend so I've been doing more. I even had to bath M for the first time ever! DH is the bath king in this house. he did it after my c-secs and it's been his job since

I'm glad you liked the poo story ecuse . I later found out that ds3 was being a dog, hence pooing in the garden. I have a feeling ds2 may have been somewhat encouraging in the full on role play

Bathing has always been dh's job too. It's only been this past year or so that I've been doing it, and I find it a real chore. It's the time of the day when the boys are EVIL!

We are off to France shortly. We're taking the trailer tent and the boys are stupidly excited. I have mixed feelings. It's going to be great, but knackering.

Helllooooo! Anybody around?

How are the wedding plans going ecuse?

We're trying potty training again. Or should that be carpet cleaning? She's just so stubborn, but I know she can do it. Just got to get some wee in the potty or toilet....

Hello hello. It's not going too badly, thanks green although I am having to keep my mum on a firm leash. She is VERY excited. And retired, so has no concept of being BUSY and having to prioritise. Can't understand why I have not yet looked at the 35 links she sent me to possibly hair accessories a week after she's sent the email. I am very churlish
Chose a dress last weekend, though. I am having this one and J is wearing this for flower girling. She is SUPER excited and keeps twirling in it, and inviting all and sundry to "our wedding party".

How's potty action today?

We're now on day 4? and still no wee on potty or toilet. poo only because DH was there at the right moment to catch it. This resulted in a very upset 3 year old even though we praised her. She was pleased to get stickers but didn't seem to link the two events. I think she's scared of weeing/pooing in the potty or toilet. I can only compare it to using grim festival portaloos when it takes a while to relax to be able to go.
I'm reluctant to give up though as she's not demanded a nappy back on. If anyone has any ideas... we've tried counting to 50, bubbles, holding hands. both potty and toilet with child seat. Bribery sadly doesn't seem to work.

Very exciting ecuse!

Green I used to give F my phone to get him to sit for long enough. He'd watch funny cat videos or tractors until he produced.

Made him much more enthusiastic about the process.

We're trying to have dry night nappies at the moment. V hit & miss, but we'll keep trying till September.

I'm going to try sitting both of them on potties in front of the Tree Fu Tom this afternoon. Would anyone like to place bets on which one produces first and how long it'll take?

Baby A is 1 tomorrow! She took her first few steps at the weekend and is getting more confident in standing on her own.

Lovely dresses ecuse.

Where has my week off work gone? One morning left and I feel I've done nothing. Only a week in work, then another off though. Have got the girls out of nursery that week though so work will feel like a rest afterwards!

Happy birthday Baby A!

F has a new amusing/worrying thing: "later, tomorrow, I'm going to have my baby sister, she's called Zoe"

Oh really? I think you might be waiting longer than tomorrow! (His grasp of earlier/later is tenuous)

I've no idea where 'Zoe' has come from either!

Still, ttc#2 is pencilled in for next summer.

Zoe it is then - even if F does have rather a long wait on his hands!

How's the potty training going firefly? Hope you've had some progress.

I managed to get stuck in the middle of the school uniform section in M&S today. After escaping, I was struck by the fact that it'll be us this time next year - gulp. We chose her lunchbox for preschool earlier this week and that was enough for me!

Fab dresses ecuse. Are you managing to sneak a honeymoon in post wedding or will you not have the chance before the baby arrives?

Omg it's all changed.

This looks weird. I'm not sure I like it. I feel all disoriented.

I've never liked the mobile site - it's the app all the way for me, so I'm blissfully ignorant about all the changes!

Thanks, ladies! Yes, we're having three nights away at a boutique hotel in Rye whilst my mum has J. In fact, she's having her for 4 nights and we've got a night at home to recover the day after the wedding before heading off. Very excited at the prospect of doing NOTHING for a few days. We were thinking of a European city break and then thought we're probably going to be KNACKERED after the wedding, and I will be nearly 7 months pregnant and not up for the sort of all-day-wandering-and-cocktail-drinking that is the backbone of any decent city break. So we decided to go somewhere where the whole point was to sit around doing not much and relaxing, rather than going somewhere we felt we should Make The Most Of It and then feel guilty for not

I use the app rather than mobile site so haven't seen the change yet, but shall check it out (as the Android app is, frankly, shit)

13 Baby Zoe is a cute idea. You know you're going to have to call it that whatever now?

Had a scan yesterday and took J along, she was SO EXCITED to see an "x-ray of the baby". She has decided she's having a little sister whose name will be Baby Alexander (as per Peppa Pig). She will not be dissuaded.

Just a quick wave from the midst of house extension and kitchen installation. Nerves shattered from drilling and all those little glitches that seem like the end of the world at the time...... Lovely to be distracted by all this talk of weddings and baby sister premonitions....

Damn Peppa Pig - DD was also convinced that her little sister was going to be called Baby Alexander. Needless to say, she isn't. However we did buy her a new teddy which was promptly christened Baby Alexander instead

The boutique hotel option sounds fabulous. It's not The George is it? I've looked at it longingly on Mr and Mrs Smith a few times if so but it's a bit of a trek from us, so have never been.

It is The George! And so have I. Figured this was a good occasion to splash out.

DP is angling to call the baby Alexander/dra anyway quite independently so he is using her as backup to his plan. I'm on the fence - neither love nor hate it. Like it more for a boy than a girl.

Daisy - sending moral support and . Jealous - our kitchen is rubbish and needs doing but we don't have the time, energy or money and it's hard to see when we ever will... I'll be on mat leave soon and then when I go back to work DP is giving up work to be a SAHD so we will be skint for the foreseeable (but I won't have to do the "oh shit I'm late for the nursery AAARRGH" dash across London, which is definitely worth being skint for)

I'm going to have to look up the hotel. how I dream of childfree weekends away now .
I'm afraid we gave up with the potty training. she was holding it all day, refusing to go on the potty or toilet then wetting herself when she was off. if we put her back on part way through weeing she'd stop. I started worrying about water infections and nothing was improving after a week so we went back to nappies. hopefully she'll think about it over the next few weeks and decide to do it herself (I'm hoping).
baby A is getting her top teeth through. its been a rubbish week for sleep

Definitely an excuse to splash out ecuse. Enjoy every minute of it - and tell me if it's worth the journey down south after (if we ever get another child free weekend again!).

Sounds like you needed some over the weekend firefly. Hope it's been sleep filled and less stressful!

Lovely dresses ecuse Of course I had to google the hotel, it looks fab. I could defo do with a night in a hotel at the moment! I think you've been wise not to do a city break. Dh and I went to Paris when I was 28 weeks pg and while being on my feet walking around most of the day was ok at the time, I was wiped out when I got back home.

I can't believe baby A is one already

I feel your pain with the potty training firefly. I bloody hated it with ds2, it seriously got me down. You'll get there x

We had a great time in France and saw lots of great sights; Mont San Michael, Fougeres, Dinan, St Malo - they were all beautiful and what we hoped for. The weather wasn't that warm, but that's ok with me as we are more a sightseeing family rather than a sitting by the pool family

Helloooooooooooo?!?!?! Have we all been sucked into the new school year vortex?! Hope no news is good news....

Insomnia. I definitely remember this during later pregnancy - anyone have it during 2ww?! Feeling really weird.....

We're still here - and yes, no news is good news.

DD1 has started nursery at the 'big' school now and seems to be getting on ok and baby TCG and I are settling into a nice little daytime routine. I started at our first baby group with her today, which she seemed to enjoy. I'm so much more lazy than I was first time round though. She's six months now and I'm sure I was out and about at groups at about 8 weeks last time

I don't remember any insomnia during the 2ww Daisy but I did feel a bit odd, particularly first time round when I somehow just knew that I was pregnant. Does that mean you're in the 2ww at the moment? Fingers crossed for you if so.

ecuse - I loved the few wedding pics I saw on FB. You looked fab and DD was a gorgeous little bridesmaid :) Hope you had a brilliant day.

Um, well I WAS in the 2ww.....looks like insomnia IS an early pregnancy symptom......

Bit shellshocked.

Very glad to hear your two are both thriving, Twentieth, if all goes well I plan to be very lazy with no 2...... Is it nice having two?!