June 2007 - Terrible Twos, oh yes, but their cuteness more than makes up for it :0)

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aaargh, that snuck up on us didn't it?

Hope rabbit and g-pig are OK, Ria!

Haircut for me this morning Then met DH and Jamlet and we looked in charity shops, went for a pub lunch and then to a car boot/table top sale. 2 jigsaws, a dolls' push chair, a little (and rather manky) doll, 3 Tweenies and a couple of books fo Jamlet - total cost = £3.80. And £2 for some old Viz annuals for DH. So all round.

Just dropping in to say hi and for a bit of advice really. Will read and catch up later.

One for you buggy gurus. Which is the best travel system? Or single buggy?

NO ITS NOT FOR ME!!!!!!!

Thanks ladies. Hope you all well. xx

Oh, another thing I wanted to mention - in this months 'She' magazine (the one with Emma Bunton on the front) is a diet. Now, normally I wouldn't even look at a diet in a mag (being a loyal WW fan), but this one was talking about cravings and the like. I've done it for 4 days, I've lost 6 pounds and feel great and no cravings. I don't feel that I've deprived myself, although I am missing bread a bit.

It is a wheat-free, caffine free plan, and I do have a few squares of Green and Blacks a day, but its really not been hard. And with that weight-loss, its really easy to keep it up.

www.theharcombediet.com/index.asp is the website if you are interested.

Actually, ignore that website. It makes it look more complicated. Have a look at the magazine article, its simplifies it.

hi foxy, I might have a look at that mag. (am a bit jaded with SW, again. No idea on buggies, sorry.

good bargains jammy.

well, the bloody pets will live to see another day!

Can't help re pushchairs Foxy,sorry.

Jamlet said Poo!!!!!

grr. had just got baggins to sleep and DH came in from work, banging, stomping and jangling, and came upstairs to tell me about his evening and ask where DS1&2 were. Bagginsis now on the sofa wide awake.

foxy, depends what your mate is after in a pram!

Personally I would steer clear of travel systems as most people I know with one ditch it for a lightweight buggy as soon as the bub is old enough, and leaving them in the car seat and transferring from car to top of pram is a no-no these days.

I would go for a lightweight one that is suitable from birth, and I couldn't rate the Baby Jogger City Mini highly enough. I have just had the double and it was fab (even for a side by side!!) or the MacLaren Techno XT.

If she is planning on another soonish though, then definately a P&T or the new Obaby version of the P&T (much much cheaper!)

I love Maclarens.

I agree about travel systems but having said that we bought a Graco one when expecting DD and it has proved useful for DS. I didn't know you shouldn't transfer from car to top of pram....I did with DS and it saved waking him if out for relatively short trips. Mind you, the minute he was 3 months old he was in the Quest if I wasn't using the double.

Gonna be hot today.....about to go and fill up paddling pool for after lunch

Yay for Jamlet saying poo ....DD said "oh my god" this morning totally unprompted

It's OK for short trips norty, but a lot of people use it as an alternative to the pram as a regular thing and it isn't good for their backs.

DD has got a nasty cut and graze next to her eye. Not sure what happened but she fell out of the swing and the seat was left haging upside down. She was munching on a breadstick, ones with a flattened end so quite pointy on the corners and I think that scraped up her face. 5mm further over and it would have been her eye, poor thing. It seems very superficial though so hopefully wont leave a scar. she won't leave it alone though and after four attempts at putting a strip of dressing on it we gave up. Her hair keeps sticking in it though and bumble scratched her earlier and made it bleed again.

I am (almost) back in the land of the living and ate a bit yesterday inlcuding some well roasted and then BBQ'd for flavour chicken for dinner last night and even a couple of glasses of wine. Still got a bit of diahorrea but I was able to leave the house for a few hours yesterday..woohoo. sis and her family were here and stayed over so it was great to catch up with her and her DH. She has lost a shedload of weight and looked fab; as has my big big sis. I never thought I'd see the day when I was the fattest of my sisters as I've always been the skinny one! It's given me an added incentive to keep to the straight and slimming world narrow!!

Right, housework awaits and we have a second wave of visitors coming this afternoon!

We braved Ikea this morning. It wasn't so bad as we got there early so had had breakfast and a play and gotmost of our shopping by the time the store opened properly. Jamlet loved it! She had a particularly good time in the bed section, playing on beds and opening drawers

DH has put together the storage unit we got for keeping her toys in, and I have pulled all the toys out from the corner ready to put the new unit in - the whole floor is now covered with toys . Just hope they all fit in the new storage and that because it's got drawers we can get to the bit we want without having to take everything off the top first.

jammy, though IME, the toys just evolve so they are more than the space available to

Yes, kind of a reverse tardis effect.

phew, glad it's not just me! Don't evny you trying to move with it sputnik. How's it going?

but am in awe Jammy, of a nice trip to IKEA! Does such a thing exist?

pheeee----ew, I'm bloody knackered. Just waved bye to my old uni friend and his partner . Had a fantastic afternoon and evening with them catching up and hearing about life down under. Would love to get out and visit them sometime, but with five of us it's going to cost a bloody fortune!

Not only did I not realise that next week is the last official week of the school hols and that DS's swimming class is all next week, DH has only gone and booked him in for the 8.45-9.15 class (cheers Mr Daisy ). I'm glad we just checked that out or I would have been turning up the following week when all the summer activities are over! Of course just because we have another full week after this one, doesn't mean everyone does...durr.

Not really moving as we are keeping the current house and leaving lots of stuff here, luckily, as new one is pretty small.
But we have given DCs the bigger bedroom in hope they will play more in there and hopefully toys will be more in there too. Have put loads of storage it seems but will probably still not be enough.

Actually was discussing with DH about this shelf thing with wheely-out draw bit underneath in the living room which we are moving to the new house. Currently full of toys which will go in DC's room. Neither of us could actually think what we would put in it. But DH will probably fill it with cables and dead transformers.

I have been going through our stuff actually, as I reckon if I don't do it now it will sit here for the next 10 years. We have so much crap, enough stationary to last a lifetime, interesting rocks, a ton of cookware from MIL (could kit out 3 houses). And why is it I have not bought a pen for about 15 years yet we must have about 300? Neither of us actually writes anything by hand either.

Not to mention DH's childhood coin collection , box of stuff my friend left me to look after before emigrating 15 years ago but I can't throw out because it has her daughter's childhood artwork in it. Drawer load of old cameras, none worth anything. What do I do with this crap?

Plus enough wires and cables to stretch 2 times round planet earth, should you choose to.

oh, sputnik, lol lol lol . Your house sounds like a mirror image of mine, but for dead transformers transpose my unfinished knitting projects!!

ditto the cables and the stationery though.

and the toys, OMG the toys. My childless friends were a bit incredulous at how many toys we have!

DD was soooo cute today. After wondering where Mummy's friends were all day, and echoing me with the directions when I was on the phone to them earlier, whenever they arrived she clammed up and got all shy and cuddled into Daddy for ages. when she finally needed to get off DH's lap and venture out of the living room, and past the guests, she went over to my friend, leant over and said, randomly "I watched Primeval at ten o'clock" then scuttled out the door. DF was just sitting there thinking "WTF?" and DS1 bless him got to stay up late to have dinner with the grown ups and was a real star...he toddled off to be quite the thing at 9pm. But, that's two late nights in a row (it was after eleven when he and his cousins settled last night), so there will be hell to pay tomorrow.

reet, off to bed ready for our ealry morning swimming session

Hello Ladies!

Guess what I got today?
I got a Mamas and Papas gift card and teddy!
Thank you all so much, it was unexpected and very much appreciated!
I love their clothes and things for babies but could never justify the cost!

As soon as I am allowed to drive, I am off to Westfield to spend it up right nice!

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

MPW. Glad the postman is bringing you something nice, all I get from mine is bills and dull stuff. Have fun spending (when you get a chance to) and let us know what you get

fury. enjoy!

think of it as practice for the new term daisy

well, I had Dsis's curry last night (some one left her freezer open, so she had to offload the stuff). up in the night with tummy ache, and then sick this morning (though the sick could have been the slug slime on the playmobil tree I used to poke a slug out of the conservatory last night), feel quite rough and now in any way like ironing and finding enough clothes to pack.

DH went off to York again last night, but at least he is home tonight

I'm going to the post office later hopefully, sorry I didn't manage it before norty and daisy.

my house is much like that too, though baggins has this morning broken DMs childhood suitcase. DS1 uses my uncles national service suitcase for storing stuff in, then there's the books, clothes for nearly everyone to grow into (one way or another). I did have a massive cull in the loft, but the stuff actually in the house is mad. Of course I would help myself if I stopped going to boot sales and charity shops, and if I could say "no" when other people are decluttering!

Yay for lovely post . Enjoy spending it MPW

Ria, are you OK? Don't worry about the post office if you are poorly.

I am still "hot to trot" although the cramps have gone thankfully. Ventured out today as had to take DS1 swimming so we went for school shoes and I was determined to buy him non-Clark's shoes....his scrawny little feet had other ideas though and everything I tried on him were like boats. So, off to Clark's we went and he is only an E fitting. They had ONE pair in the whole shop and they were £36 . they only had pumps in an F fitting so we ended up buying the bigger size and then putting insoles in them as apparently they have no way of ordering sizes in specially or getting them from another store . Never again!

also had to go to the bank as our bathroom chappie wanted cash.....very nervy carrying that amount of money around, especially with DS1 shouting about it, very loudly!!

first official day of my diet and I have done well so far, but can feel my resolve starting to crumble and the mini mars bars are calling me!