Oooooh Dog! - almost impossible but not impossible!!!
MissJ don't you believe it, first thing DD did when we brought her home was a huge wee fountain and we both said in chorus 'I thought girls weren't supposed to do that!'. According to my midwife lots of girls do it when they are newborn (mainly due to hormonal swelling iyswim) although not as many as boys obviously. She is a lot better now, but still quite impressive - for a girl!
Am absolutely knackered. Spent the morning dismantling the furniture in what is supposed to be dd's room and sorting through the things that were still in there but didn't belong to her. I'm quite proud of myself really, managed to dismantle a huge 6 and a half foot tall corner unit single handedly, as well as a desk and several bookcases. Then this afternoon I have had a huge Tesco order delivered and it has taken me an hour and a half to unpack and put it all away. Still have to go back upstairs and do more sorting as I put all dds belongings on our bed to make room for manouvre in her room.
My Mum has given us some money to buy new furniture for dd as she had to comfort me through floods of tears yesterday about having such a shabby house and not being able to afford to do anything about it. I was particularly upset that the beautiful baby's room I had always wanted to plan and decorate was now never going to happen, I never got one with the boys either for various reasons and won't get the chance again. So we are leaving the boys with Mum and going out furniture shopping tomorrow. I have also chosen a wallpaper just to go on the chimney breast, which is very small, and have gone with a baby paper ( this is it ) as this is my only chance and at least with it just being the chimney breast we will be able to paper over it easily to make the room more grown up later on. I am sticking with my pale pink and green shabby chic room, as planned when I was pregnant and am really looking forward to getting stuck in and decorating it.
Mum also gave us the money to buy bunkbeds for the boys, so we are thinking of moving them into our room at the back of the house now the boiler has been removed from it and letting them choose their new decor. It will be better for them as there will be no traffic noise and no bright sun in the morning to wake them up too early. It will also be better for the neighbours, as the boys' room will be one room away from them rather than being right against the party wall. I haven't discussed it with the boys yet though, they'll probably flatly refuse to move, knowing them.
Anyway I'd better get on if we are going to be able to get into our bed tonight - only came on line to check out a problem with our Tesco order (missing bag of shopping).