Impressed by your gardening hopefully and debi! I tend to be too much of a wuss to go out in the cold and damp to garden - I'm proud of having used the washing line twice this weekend! . But have grown potatoes two years (second year was an accident - didn't dig them all up first year!), and we have a lovely cherry tree which has been pruned to sensible size and more branching after 20 years neglect. And we now know they're edible so will try to get them all before the birds do.
A hasn't screamed nearly as much last couple nights - I think he's been waking but only just, so he gets scared by anything after an initial being OK. So desnotted him as much as possible before bedtime. I was getting worried mostly because he was hurling himself about so much he was hitting his head on the wall of the cot. But tonight he woke, I cuddled him until he calmed down and decided to reach for his milk and then dummy, and then he was asleep as I lay him down again.
Have managed to get him to walk up to 5 yards in a direction of my choosing! We went out for sunday lunch today and he was lovely for 1 1/2 courses in his highchair, but then tried to climb out (no straps) so we then had to take it in turns to walk about with him and make sure he wasn't in the way. Or stealing cake off people at the coffee tables!
He wants to go outside all the time, so keeps going up to doors with glass in and thumping on them and trying the handles. And stropping. His ability to focus on one issue for hours will I'm sure be useful when he's older. He's fishing everything out of bins all over the house so I've put them up on high shelves or got rid of them, and I'm checking the recycling and putting the bags outside even when not very full. He likes picking objects up and walking off with them, so I find everything everywhere. There are not enough high shelves in the universe!!!
But he can touch his or my nose, mouth, chin and tummy on request, and helps unload the washing machine (followed by trying to reload it, and then concluding that wet pants must belong in the nappy bucket). I tried to get him to pass me clothes pegs but no joy - and he can take them apart in under 5 seconds. Today's trick was pulling all the laundry off the radiator racks and giving it to me to fold up. Shame it wasn't dry! I've started getting him to do a token bit of tidying toys into a box before bed - maybe he'll grow up to be tidier than me?
becaroo sounds like an OK plan - anything is supposed to be less stressful than buying and selling at the same time. And you could always get a really short mortgage like for 10 years. But don't underestimate how much work it is doing up somewhere, especially whn you have kids so one of you has to mind them and the other do DIY without an extra pair of hands...
ION, blood test results came back, apparently everything normal but one, which the receptionist couldn't tell me about so seeing doc on Friday. Doubt I'm pregnant though (tested the day before!), although seem to be getting SPD pains at night which is not good.