Aug 08 - odds on this one won't last as long

[dizzydixies]

new thread ladies

wonder why this one won't last as long

dizz is on irish soil!!

Miamla do you have a bedside cot? I think it would be a good investment as he's only your first and you know you like co-sleeping.

Sorry, by that I mean one with a side that goes right under or over the cot so the mattresses are the same height and he's right beside you.

Morning!! NO SLEEP IN THIS HOUSE!! WTF!!!! We all are congested so I just ate a bowl of chicken soup (for breakfast) and shared it with Reese who couldn't get enough of it.

I will try to take your suggestions and relax and have fun Saturday night. Sazzles can attest I'm a bit high strung so that may be a little difficult. But I will try.

Cyteen I was a tomboy too. I grew up on a farm so kinda hard not to be.

Must run. We are soooooo late this morning.

Have a splendid day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have to decide what colour to do the baby's room - I was hoping to do it a tourquoisy colour but I am limited by the curtain fabric available.

So if you feel like a little bit of Changing Rooms - go over here and tell me which of the fabrics you like best.

At the moment I like the pink and cream stripe the most or the green and yellow version of it - in this pic
If I chose one of those what colour would you choose for the wall - only going to do one wall in colour.
Though I was just looking at Miamla's pics on her profile and am wondering if I could do something like that.

I definately like the idea of mixing spots and stripes.

Also what colour in the kitchen - it is only about 7 metres square, has north and east facing windows and double doors into south facing sitting room.

Ooh Cyteen, you've just reminded me how much fun it is to push/pull a baby around the floor in a laundry basket! They love it.

All this daytime showering is confusing to me, I'm an evening bath girl myself (in used bathwater usually). At the mo Kurt will roll around the lounge floor by himself quite happily for ages, but I think the playpen is going to get cracked open soon.

Steaky I like that green, orange, yellow and pink rainbowy one best Gives you lots of options for the walls.

Have just googled my house and am relieved to see it looks quite smart, lawn mowed and hedge trimmed - must have been taken last year when my dad last did it!

Its packing carnage here.
How can we have collected so much more stuff in just 4 months?

Apart from you know, me bringing back loads of clothes from the UK, people giving the baby loads of stuff, us buying stuff, I mean apart from all that - where has it come from? And more importanly where am I going to put it all so DH doesn't accuse me of being a demented hoarder?

Nah, tis already full with his head.

LOL!

Have cheered up now, you'll all be pleased to hear - a walk in the sunshine (to Sainburys ) and a lovely long lunch with DS did the trick. He ate loads, the little piglet - sushi rice rolls, half my tuna sandwich and a whole banana - all the while doing a little excited dance in his highchair [melt]

On the subject of wanting a bit of myself back, I had a meeting with HR yesterday about returning to work and found myself unreasonably excited about it. Today they have sent me details of when my SMP runs out - end of this month - that's a little bit too soon for me, however much I'd like the chance to go to the toilet on my own now and again. Think I'll still angle for start of June and do a month of AML, hopefully that'll give us time to get DS settled into nursery...

i like the pink,blue,yellow stripey one in this shot but my favourite is
the one almost out of shot, right at the bottom

buckets our bed's pretty huge (6' by 7'), and the room's only slightly bigger so i'm not sure a bedside cot would fit

oooh are the bunnies back?

oh yeah!!!

steak out of interest, how much are those fabrics p/m? i'm just curious as to how prices compare in France to here

Glad you feeling better.

Blimey your lil one has quite an appetite. Izzy likes the food but is far from getting through a whole nana.

Though she got v excited by pizza the other day, much more so than by courgette.

Miamla - of course the fabrics I liked I couldn't find a price, but most other curtain fabric was around 20 euros a metre.

Notions are very much overpriced.

Got to go, lil one is not finding BBC radio 2 and watching mummy type very stimulating.

i guess for curtaining that's not bad

re the notions.. i'm happy to post some over to you. there's a market near me that sells things ridiculously cheap 20p for a zip as an example!

Steaky I commented on the fabrics out of Flickr. Tough choices!!

I forgot to mention earlier that my neighbor's daughter had her baby a few days ago. She's the one that was seeing the same OB/GYN as me. Well I've been waiting and waiting on word of her birth because I wanted "theory" about this doc to be just a crazy fluke. Unfortunately, he Csectioned her too.....failure to progress.....same reason..... When her dad called to tell me I had to fight back tears to give my congrats. Ladies I really really really believe this doctor is a csection maniac. I took my csection recover book and a white muslin blanket over yesterday. She's not home from the hospital yet, though.

TS thank you very much m'dear.

What is this chap's csection rate? I read somewhere that anything higher than 25% could be considered high. In Spain the national rate is 30%, it was one of the things I was very worried about. Can you change doctors?

TS Why don't you send him a 2nd hand copy of Sheila Kitzinger inscribed with a special message from you that he doesn't have a 100% rate for satisfied customers? Might shock him into actually reading it and getting a different perspective on things.

BUNNIES?!?!?!? love them love them love them

what I'm not loving is the rain in sodding Ireland

VG if you could have a word and make it stop please I'd be grateful

Here's one

Miamla - if you were closer I would offer you the Brio bedside cot we have here but don't use because we have a new one from the IL's. ( how did I end up with 3 cots??? 1 broken, 1 in our room, 1 in her room)

Will catch up in a bit and I'll be Back

Whoops, that was Australian Ebay

I luuuurve the bunnies