May 07: The one where we celebrate LG&T's completed family

[NimChimpsky]

Morning all.

Especially LG&T and India.

I will be requiring lengthy cuddles.

I shall be singing Hush Little Baby for the duration.

Yay well done MrsJB - thats brilliant

India Rose looks beautiful.

TYG - sounds like you are doing really well and the nanny time sounds good.

Being stuck at home with DD2 and the boys all last week helped me catch up with a bit of washing but thats about it! She wanted to go back to school today and is a lot better but paperwork for tonsilectomy (sp?) said two weeks off so I am sticking to it - although she may go back later this week if she gets on my nerves too much

Hello to everyone else, better go as DD2 wants breakfast!

Oh, and well done Mrs JB - I daren't even get on the scales. Have definitely put weight on since having L which realy isn't the idea is it?

He still b/fs 4 times a day but I compensate with chocolate digestives!

Is anyone doing CP for the day? Not sure whether to visit or not yet.

Well done Mrs JB. I haven't been back to WW since just before the wedding I really must go this week and hear the bad news

I might do CP for the day (if no one minds me gatecrashing) - remind me again when and where please.

Sherwood Forest 7th / 8th Feb

Cant wait! Now have to work out what to take. At least i have a maclaren twin so that i dont have to worry about a whingy J who doesnt want to walk!

Ooh - that's not too far from me. Are you able to just buy a day pass to get in then ?

She looks adorable LG&T.

Wow TYG, you sound super laid back and organised.

MrsJB at the weight loss in 2 weeks, take it steady old girl. How does the running feel? I did 10k this morning and it felt good, I am feeling it a bit now though and am just off to yoga for an hour while J is asleep, that might limber me up a bit.

Enjoy the studying today April.

And Abby, you sound so very organised, I just don't know how you manage it all. Total respect.

TMAM is refusing to acknowledge the existence of any possible meet ups.

TMAM - Do you have the iPhone 3G? If you do, do you know that you can download applications for it (they cost between £1.50 and £7) which tracks your run for you using the GPS. Give you your speed, distance, pace etc and can map it for you on the iPhone maps. Doesn't work with the old version though. I'm thinking of upgrading...

So is it just us staying over at CP then? If so, then maybe I could take your spare room AM? Or if anyone else wants to stay over and share, then I could book something.

TYG how many of you are coming?

Hopefully me on my own! Will have to speak to DH when he gets back though. Might be me plus babies.

this is the villa type that i have booked. Pink is going to have the room downstairs, Jack will have one of the twin rooms and i will share the double with Ella (lucky me).

Have just called CP and they said that you can push the twin beds together and still get a cot in the room.

Cool, there is plenty of room if you do bring them

Bah humbug we are so poor right now that buying food is our priority but will be at CP in spirit.

LG&T she is beautiful love a chunky one she looks just like L did lots of cheeks to squish.

Sky glad to hear the DD is doing better.

TYG I would love a bit of me time, glad you enjoyed it.

All this talk of running is making me feel quite unfit. Our local council is offering 3months free swimming at the mo might have to pluck up the courage and put a cossie on.

Good morning everyone!!

Life is good here in the US. Although I wish people would just shut up about the inaguration tomorrow. I'm really getting sick of it. Just do it and get it done already. We don't need a week of reports about what Obama is doing and where he's going, and what his wife might wear. Is there nothing more exciting in the news (besidis that awesome plane crash story) Have you all heard about the plane that crashed into the Hudson River and everyone survived with not major injuries?

MKG, that pilot is a hero, what an amazing brave thing to be able to do. Everyone was very lucky he got out of bed that day.

TMAM, don't worry about me, it's a normal loss for me for the first few weeks, it will slow down. 1-2lb per week I'm happy with. The running is still rather more walking and jogging, not much sprinting going on. BUT, yesterday I was able to stick to the minute run and push a few more steps. Still doing 1 minute run, 2 minute walk (fast). Aiming to increase the run bit by bit. I really am very fat and unfit at the moment, 1 minute is a bloody LONNNNNNNNNNNNG time. I really enjoyed it yesterday though, it was time for my self, headphones on, ipod playing, A says he'll download me the rocky music... 10k jesus..... how long does that take you? I'll NEVER manage that!

I think it's great that the pilot has spoken about anything yet. The only thing we've heard is that a passenger that was on the same boat as him thanked him for his good work and he said something like, "I thought it was going to be worse". Very humble. A few minutes more in that water and we would have had a different story.

has= has not

It's amazing what that pilot did and a miracle they all survived. A fantastic job was done by the ferry men too. What a hero.

MKG, sympathies for OOD, Obsessive Obama Disorder. That's what they are calling it here, because, I'm telling you this nation is even more obsessed by your President than Americans are. He is one of us. They are all sooooooo proud. I hope they don't feel too let down in the future....

Dd sounds like she has bounced back pretty well SKY. Did she start eating again without any fuss?

I can honestly tell you MrsJB, I too could only walk one minute run one minute at the beginning and that was only last October! It doesn't take long to get into the running does it SOH/Chimpsky? Soon you too can be running 10k It takes me about an hour and 10, because there are so many bloody hills here. I try for an hour, but just can't do it yet.... I am aiming for a half marathon in a wildlife conservancy in a couple of months time, but I'm not convinced I can really manage 21ks!

Don't even get me started TYG on the bloody iphone saga. It was bought in Oz so that it could be unlocked (they have anti competition laws that prevent phones from being tied to a single network). The SIM wouldn't work here, the firmware download needed to unlock it wouldn't download because we are on an outdated 'broadband' connection, in the meantime I had bonded with it big time and was getting really excited, yes it is a 3G one. So it has gone back to Oz to be unlocked proper and will come back to dh via the colleague that bought it, when they meet in the States in April for a meeting So now I have to wait until then. To cheer myself up I may go and buy myself a new handbag

But the good news is that we have booked our flights to the UK for the summer for a month! We will go to Greece to visit my mum, then have rented a house in Somerset for 2 weeks at vast expense. So, let's get planning a meet-up.

The other good news is that I am officially allowed to start looking for a house or a plot of land to buy here. I may finally live in a place of my own after 10 years of living in other people's houses.

The pilot is awesome my best friend lives in Weehawken NJ and she said when it happened she went to the end of her block and you can see out over the Hudson she said it was v v surreal exp watching a plane float down the hudson.

MKG how are you feeling is everyone over the snot fest? Not long to go now till another bubba are you ready?

Oh yay gin had her baby..Congratulations my darling!
Cant wait to meet her..

When you are settled I will come down one Tuesday or Friday (I work funny days now so sometimes have a Tues off)Much love to you.Is the birth story anywhere so I can get caught up?

Congrats to fourlittlefeet too.

Hi to everyone else..I cant get on much at the moment as am frantic at work and much on at home-we are decluttering and decorating (and doing it all ourselves now DH has come clean re his cash situation, rather than having the decorator)Trying to strip and sand and paint whilst minding two little varmintslovely girls is NOT a good look I can tell you!

DH passed his exams!!He got 70%, 65% and an unheard of (so he tells me ) 85% so things are on the up and up.Feb will be a write off as he will be at college every spare hour and revising the rest for his final paper on 3rd March.Am keeping it all crossed, but thank Goodness he passed the rest..

Again so sorry re CP AM.

PJ..90210, 90210..Not long now!!

An odd thing has happened in our house.Lily has turned into the angelic child one reads about and sees at toddlers group playing happily, hugging her Mum, sleeping and eating on request.Its amazing.
Mae on the other hand has gone from being my cheerful, eating, sleeping, happy daughter to being, well, Lily (previous incarnation).She has tantrums (longer and louder than ANY of L's ever were, she would get a gold medal in tantrumming, L would only have got the silver in comparison), she is awake all night,she will not eat.Dear God.Ive got another one..>>horrified emoticon

Our local council is also offering the swimming for free.I got my costume out the other day.It had a hole in an umentionable place.I put it away.

I am booked to do something called aerobics with flair with my friend though.The mind boggles

Aerobics with flair?

Everyone is decluttering. I am trying to declutter my mind. Ohhhmmmmmmmmmm

I will be back around from the 19th July to Aug 6th.

I think it might involve some kind of modern dance?
I fell asleep last time I did yoga.Everyone else was doing the down facing dog when I woke up.I couldnt do it so i didnt go back.Plus everyone looked down on me coz I didnt have my own yoga mat.

All this talk of weight loss. I went tonight and I'd lost another two so I'm very chuffed. I am eating chocolate and drinking wine now though because we had some great news today - dh got onto the gtp teaching course he wantd. He desperately wants to be a primary teacher (don't ask me why!!) and has been going to lots of really tough interviews. He's had to do time in schools, teach lessons and do presentations. It's really hard to get on because there are so many applications. I'm so, so proud of him, he really deserves it. it means he will start the course in September and you learn on the job whilst being paid and unqualified teacher wage. It takes a year and then he will be able to look for a job.
TMAM, I am wetting myself at the the thought that I am organised. I do what I have to do but things often get just left round here. I always do all my school work and stuff with the kids but the housework often suffers. Dh has said we can get a cleaner so I'm v excited. it's just for 2 hours a fortnight so nothing major but it will help a bit - this is from the bloke who owns a cleaning company!!

That's wonderful news Abby. I have so much respect for people who have the guts to change careers and especially to something so difficult! Fab news on the weight loss too.

Scoot, I'm really sorry that M is giving you hassle. She's had a good teacher, I guess. Thank goodness L has grown out of it! Hopefully M will be a short sharp monstrous period and get it over with. Come to think of it, A is being a monkey at the moment. She still needs a nap in the day, but she resists it until it's quite late, then it's hard to get her to bed. I might have to make bedtime later in order to keep the nap, or sack the nap and make a 6pm bedtime. Will try out a few permutations and see how we go. She's worked out how much fun it is to run away whilst getting dressed, or lie down on the path when I'm trying to get her and O in the car. She's not having a tantrum, she's just lying there on the pavement laughing her head off at me trying to get her up. I do have to laugh sometimes, but I think the novelty may wear off with me before it does with her.

All the talk of running... I was inspired. Went out tonight for the first time in absolutely ages. Managed 4.5km in 32 minutes, which isn't too bad, all things considered. I lay the exercise mat on the dressing room floor before I left in order to do some crunches. Obviously I am on here instead, avoiding said room. No, no, I'm going. I will do it.