Issy's graduates (Bella, Blue, Head, Jumping, Irish, Wasabi, Girl, Sunny) here to give advice and swap tips

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Ta da!

Hope this shakes a few of us out of where we're languishing these days .

Let this be the one-stop shop into everything that is the crazy, wonderful, sleep and sanity deprived world of bringing up baby

Just read your messages and realise that as per I have forgotten to respond to half of your stuff.

BabyG does fall back to sleep with boob assistance after the wake up. Let us pray that once it's withdrawn he will too. I can not start the day at 5:30 properly.

wasabi so sorry that your house has been full of lurgy. That makes life very tiring indeed. I hope you are tucking into lots of clinky drinks or whatever your tipple of choice is ce soir.

head i am in your camp so far with the babyproofing - well I stand and lean against the cupboards that must not be opened, but those that shouldn't been seem to be as he can play with the trays and the biscuits and crackers and dishwasher for hours it seems.

blue have a fab fab time tomorrow and on xmas day if we don't see you again before then. Sounds like it is all very well under control. I rolled out my test batch of mince pies this morning and they were actually really nice if a bit wonky looking

wasabi G is EXACTLY the same with the spoon. Rice pudding or yoghurt he grabs the spoon out of my hand really forcefully and shoves it in. everything else is by hand.

Gah there is obviously more but I have yet to wrap one present as had to audit first which has taken all this time.

At least I know where I am now ?!?

blue i realised the facebook gaffe. off to ask you to be my fwend now. And head as you will see tis basically a disorganised shrine to Baby G...

Still here, just wanted to do big post before I'm seduced by Bailey's and can only muster a couple of lines

DH had his work afternoon/night out. Came home at 9pm, bed at 9.30pm, he is snoring like a trooper, waiting for him to go into deep sleep before I go in and open the window slide in beside him.

I'm from the minimilst school of babyproofing too. Deffy to socket covers but we only had stair gate at top with Isaac, tho' Ben does seem a more curious wee soul. Don't want to have to drill holes in kitchen drawers so just make sure I'm ALWAYS in the kitchen when he is mooching about

Thanks for all the good b'day wishes for my wee fella, mwah to you all xx

Happy Birthday Ben!!! I hope you have a lovely day and get lots of lovely presents.

bella I very nearly ignored your friend request thinking "who is this person?" :o Off to accept now.

Oh wow - posts are like buses - none for ages and then loads at once.

Bella I think I've added you as a friend - I saw that Head and Blue were your friends so sent a cryptic message to the person I think you are. If it's not you then they are going to think I am a major weirdo.

Blue I said it on FB but happy birthday to Benjamin - can't believe he's one already. I too bought goose fat today can't wait for the dinner on Saturday.

wasabi hope your night out went ok. at you choking back tears for F being Joseph that's so cool.

Jumping I second third the hope that you get some rest over the Christmas holidays. You seem to be coping so well with everything that gets thrown at you you deserve a restful time of it.

Sunny hope all is well chez vous?

Head I LOL'd at your panic buying on FB - brilliant, fourth cousin twice removed????? I leanred Silent night in German for my Junior Cert (GCSE stage) so Aoife might be joining Luca in a singsong in years to come
P.S. Th last few lines of your post form last night has made me get a tear in my eye - we've all done so well considering what we've all been through to get here. [soppy}

I had a night out with my college girls and boys last weekend (we do a secret santa and meet up every year for CHristmas sine we left college 7 years ago yikes) It was my firstnight of proper drinking since I got pregnant and I had a blast. G&T's all round and the best bit, didn't get too drunk, and wasn't hungover the next day. Aoife had to make do with a bottle though

I will admit that I love wrapping presents - I love thinking abotu who the present is for and then thinking about them opening hteir present and loving whatever it is. I love giving presents in general so Christmas is a brilliant time of year for me {grin]

Christmas cake done, mince pies done, dessert for christmas day waiting to be put together. Sponge fingers soaked in baileys and then layered with chocolate and brandy cream. Yum yum

Ladies just quickly before Aoife goes into a meltdown - thanks for all the advice, good wishes and laughs over the year - we've nearly been at this for two years now - between ttc and baby threads. {grin} Happy Chriwtmas to you and I'll see you on the other side

once again sorry for my spelling and grammar - that'll be my MN resolution

Happy Birthday Francesca!! Have a wonderful day x

Happy Hogmanay everyone, be back later for catch up x

Happy Birthday Francesca - my Goodness the year really has flown.

Happy New Years Eve (Hogmanay) Ladies - here's to another year of fun and games - and hopefully a meeting between cyber cousins and their mammies

Aoife is lying on her playgym having great fun screaming at the animals and we are getting ready for a party in my sisters for New Years.

Talk to you all on the other side.

Happy Birthday Frankie!!!!!!!!

Will catch up soon too xxx

Thanks so much for your birthday wishes for Francesca, we had a lovely day. Will post more when it's not so late xx (naughty me supposed to be getting an early night!)

Happy 2011 everyone, may this year be a vintage one

Back at work today so time for a wee post.

Had a lovely Christmas break, my Christmas dinner was a huge success, all food hot and on the table at the same time . My roast tatties and veg were delicious if I do say so myself . Had a wee moment to myself as we were all tucking in as a year earlier I had been sitting feeding Benjamin thinking how great it would be if we could convert garage and host Christmas and ta da - it came to pass..

Had a quiet Hogmanay, stayed up til 12.30am supping Baileys and feeling very thankful for a great year gone by..

So 2011.... Well I'm 40 in May, so starting to think about partay or probably just nice meal out.. We're off abroad in June so DH and me are on a health kick to fit back into our honeymoon summer clothes . New regime includes boys having dinner at MIL every Wed so I can go to gym straight from work rather than dash home to get dinner on totally stressed.

Ben started nursery today so been feeling wobbly all day. He had a few settling in session which didn't go well so I went with him on Wed/Thurs and just stayed so he could get used to his surroundings whilst having the security of me bein there trying to blend in to wall. He cried sore when I left this morning but spoke to his keyworker at 11.30am and he was chatting away, had had snack, nap and playing with the trains. CAN'T wait to pick him up tonight.. I'm sure he grown to love his 'nursery day Fridays' as Isaac calls them and I can take a wee sneaky Friday off now and again to gut the house/sort the garden/sneak off through to Glasgow..

Not had a drink since NYE so looking forward to our usual Friday night wine with new series of Grey's Anatomy and series 4 of 'The Wire'. Man, I am easy please

Head - glad Frankie had a lovely b'day! What was her favourite present?

Rogue - loved your Xmas photos of Aoife . How was your first Xmas 'en famille'? Hope the NI water debacle didn't affect you too badly

wasabi - how was your Crimbo? Lots of lazing around with Freds and Clara I hope!

jumping - saw your post on FB, how's it all working out? You were so very stressed these past few months trying to juggle everything. As I said Ffion will be delighted .

Bella - how were the festivities with the blended extended? What's the latest on your three-day return?

Sunny - Happy 2011 to you and your gorgeous girls x

Roll on spring x

Dear dear ladies

Happy 2011! :) So much has happened this past year, hasn't it just flown by. Happy belated birthday to Frankie too :)

It is with great sadness that I'm afraid I'm going to depart this thread for a while. Made some big decisions over the christmas hols and I'm not taking on my next work contract. I was only going to be paid for 12 hours a week, with the hope of finding bits and pieces to top it up, but the childcare costs (particularly in the school hols), settling Ffion with a new childminder etc., and the fact I just can't be as flexible as the work demands made me decide that the juggling is just not worth it (both financially and emotionally). I was indeed finding myself getting pretty stressed trying to get through work deadlines when they always seem to clash with when the kids are poorly/childcare falls apart/school plays etc. are on. Plus I felt mentally torn thinking about work while looking after/organising my household (which was barely organised at all) and kiddies. I think until the 3 of them are at school (or F is at least at preschool)- unless someone makes me a very simple straightforward part-time longer-term job offer- I'm going to stay at home. DD1 has had a few blips were her health that also remind me how much I need to focus on them.
Bit of a scary decision for someone who has never taken more than 6 months maternity leave in 6 years and but already feeling like a weight has lifted from my shoulders, especially knowing how clingy etc. F has been and unsettled at childminder...

Anyhow the knock on is of course no money- DH does not earn a lot (his company suffered- still suffer- since the recession) and we had poured all our savings into the house over the past year just to keep it liveable in. We're now trying to juggle overdrafts etc. and it's a bit scary, so I've chopped the broadband, my contact lens deal, the basic sky package we had and shopping as much as possible at Lidl, no treats for kids etc., and no trip to see my family in Englad for a second year :( :( (we couldn't afford it last year either).. Many people survive on less but sadly like so many we took out our mortgage when DH earnt more, so it's now taking quite a chunk of our income...However we completely love our house, it is our "forever home" so we still feel it was the right move..
Anyways- I will not have much access at all to the internet, and if truth be told I've found it increasingly difficult to find time for mumsnet (especially since not working!!). Hopefully things will get easier in a few months then I may get online again more. I am still being asked to do the odd bit of teaching work which if I can juggle it without having to pay childcare would be great (much of it is marking and online course delivery) and help the financial situation a bit.

Sorry a me me me post after so long a silence, I do think of you all a lot and am so incredibly grateful of the support and sounding board you have provided over the past 18+ months. I hope to be able to check in on the thread occassionally and fb too

Much love and happiness to you all, and those gorgeous precious babies! xxx

OH Jumping I saw your FB post and thought this would be the end result. You obviously have to do what is right for you and your family and we will all miss you so much but will see you when you get a chance to come on and let us know how things are.

Much love to all of the Jumping household and hope DD1's health worries don't get too much worse too soon.

No time to do proper post. G just gone down and limited time to get stuff done before I have to crack on with supper.

Happy New Year Everybody!

Jumping I think you're an incredible woman and a hinspiration. I am relieved that you have taken this decision even though obviously money will be so tight because 3 kids is a lot and you are only one person! I hope that something more steady comes along when the time is right. I will miss you a lot on this thread but hope that we will meet up one day or at least stay in touch albeit in a much more sporadic fashion.

My important if somewhat fluffy good news is that Mr G started walking last week. Very sweet. He found it hilariously funny. He is still getting to grips with how to get back up again if he is not near something to pull up on when he falls but he has managed it a couple of times.

I am back at work next week. I'm getting a bit nervous now. The nanny is going to start settling in tomorrow. I have lucked out with her as she is a trained pro but not through an agency and she comes with a daughter one afternoon a week so she is the same price as a childminder but comes to me and will be mostly without other children. I feel very lucky there. I know G will be all right but similarly I know he will be pretty pissed off for a bit, but what can I do. He has had the most PFB time up until now so I am sure he will be able to dig deep and come out the other side.

blue it sounds like Benji is having a bit of a time too. I hope that passes quickly. Someone once said that 1 was a bit of a nightmare age to start childcare. but what can you do eh? Also I feel quite lucky to be able to contract out as the patience I have for singing nursery rhymes and stacking boxes is seriously limited mean mummy!

Anyway the even more irrelevant news is that at LAST he has started going 7- 7. WOOO WOOOOOOO. I have no idea why. Whether it's more milk or more exercise or just cos he felt like it. I don't really care cos it is ace. I still wake up early and lie in bed waiting for him to wake but that won't last. Soon I will be waking up with stress about work. :) (sorry )

This also means that I have at last given up breastfeeding. He really couldn't have cared less but I gave him a cheeky one this arvo because he had hurt himself at seemed a bit out of sorts and because I wanted a 'last' one. He bit me hard so that's probably quite a fitting end quite frankly!

Anyhoooo sorry to be a bit me and a bit 'lite'

big hugs to you jumping good luck with everything. you are brilliant xx

ps I didn't meant that I thought that you should be a SAHM just that even you are only human. mind you compared to me you are superhuman!!

back to me again. Sorry.

Just had day one of settling in with the new nanny and am finding it all really hard. Feeling very tearful indeed. I had no idea that this bit could be so hard. I think it is as much the fact that this year is coming to an end. It has been such a magical time. I am so lucky to have been able to spend the whole year with George but now it is back to the real world - it is at last time to exit our little bubble.

poor mr g though he hardly spent any time away from me really. oh dear. have the whole of the sahara in my eye.

will sign off. just needed to share...xxxxx

Bella c'mere and let me give you a hug and a hair stroke, and a gentle shoulder punch of it will be OK...

You will find your flow, your new routine and will always have last year to look back on and cherish. G man will love having a new adventure and new peeople to see and deal with and the smile you get when you come home to him after work, well it makes it all OK. Even better when they can run towards you...

My mantra is working days make me cherish my mummy days even more.

Will do proper catch up at work on Friday x

jumping xxx

Thanks very much blue
Apart from waking up at 4:30 (me not him) and not being able to get back to sleep I am feeling much better today. I will really enjoy my day with the little man. It's so true I will cherish those days more and probably do more with them and be less boring. It's just a weird sensation walking out of your house and leaving your baby with someone you have met twice. And of course change is always difficult. Still there are good things ahead, like moving out at last and he will be fine. And yes it is true about the memories. I spent a good half hour last night indulging myself by looking back through all the pics and little videos. That was like the non fattening equivalent of munching through a whole box of choccies :)

Hi Bella here's another hug I'm sure I will be a complete basketcase when I have to go back to work so will be looking for some hugs myself then. It's not for about 5 months still though.

Hope the nanny is going well for you and yay for Mr G walking That's brilliant

How's the gym going Blue - I too am on a bid to fit bck into honeymoon clothes - we'll see how that goes. To that end my sisters, my mam and I are going to a Zymba class and I'm going to go back to yoga too.

Well news from me - Christmas was great very quiet but happy enough.

My Dad is all better but now we have another thing to think about - there is a possibility that his cancer is caused by a defective gene and so he is going for tests in 6 months to see. If so we will all have to be tested - apparently this defective gene causes men to have colon (my Dad) and liver cancer (my Uncle) and women to have uterine cancer (My paternal grandmother). I'm not getting too worried about it there's no point to it as far as I'm concerned. If and when we have to deal with it we will. I did say to DH that we would have to hurry up and complete our family just in case

BIL still has his health worries - think he is going for a second opinion so watch thi space for that.

Aoife is doing absolutely fabulously. She is 12 lb 11 oz as of her 4 month check. SHe is rolling around and grabbing things and is just a delightful child all round. Smiles at everyone who looks at her.

The other day I was eating my breakfast - toast - and Aoife was on my lap. I turned away for a sec to get my cup of tea and next thing I knew the toast was in her hands getting the life sucked out of it So we have started on solids - just some carrots and melon so far but we wil lhave sweet potato for dinner tomorrow and see how that goes down. She's great at eating as well. I'm going to have such a hard baby next time around aren't I? Or else she will be a horrible toddler

We have her Christening in 3 weeks, so I am motoring on to get my house finished before I have people in for that. My bedroom is currently being painted, the halway carpet is ordered and coming next week (hopeful emoticon) and the banister is being stripped. That part is painstakingly slow so hopefully will get at it this weekend and finish it.

Oh and DH found out today that he passed his accountancy exam so he now only has 4 left and then he will be a fully fledged accountant. Wahey [proud as punch emoticon] It also means we get to ttc sooner rather than later - oh yes have decided to go again assp. I figure that if we leave it for more than a yeat it might take us another yeat to conceive again and I would like to have my babies close together if possible. So watch this space ladies.

Head hope you get your nanny situation sorted out. It's annoying when people have you at their mercy so to speak.

wasabi how are things with you all?

Sunny hope Christmas and New Year went well with you all.

hello all,

Farewell jumping good luck with everything. Very tough decision you've made there, but I bet you won't regret it for one minute. They're only children for such a short time! I hope the money situation picks up soon so we can see you back on here real soon. In the mean time, get yourself to the local library to log on and say hello to us :o

Bella aw, poor you. Leaving your baby for the first time is horrible, really tough. It really does get better though. I'm very of your nanny, that sounds like the most perfect arrangement. I hope settling in (for both of you) continues to be successful!

Well done for G-man doing 7-7, that's brilliant! Francesca usually does something similar now, with the odd whimper during the night. She does occasionally chuck me a curve ball and has a shocker of a night. I too have pretty much given up bfing... I made it to a year with her. I have given her the occasional boob snack now, but there's very little left. I haven't fed her now for about 2 days and the boobs are a teeny bit sore so if she wakes up tonight she might get lucky, but otherwise I guess it'll settle down. I was dreading it, giving up feeding my last baby is a bit emotional, but I'm going to treat myself to some nice new bras to cheer myself up!

rogue such good news about your dad, but that's very worrying about the genetic link. I suppose it's much better to know now when you're all well so you can keep an eye on things and should problems occur you can catch them really early. I hope your BiL gets some good news too.

Wow at Aoife and her hungry chops! :o Enjoy weaning, all those lovely purees to make :o Good luck with ttc... I'd love another but dh has said absolutely not. Mind you, we're not using any contraception... :o

A baby at 40 isn't funny! :o

Blue glad you had a lovely Christmas and New Year, how's Ben doing at nursery now? I hope he's settling a bit more. I'm impressed at the health kick, I'm trying to do low carbs and succeeding about 50% of the time. I've got a long way to fit in my honeymoon holiday clothes :o

My news... well not had the best week. Our nany came back from Christmas on the 6th to tell us she was handing her notice in. I only work 3 days a week (which is as near as dammit full time - 36 hours a week) so we only need her for those three days. She has looked for work for the other days but couldn't find anything, so she can't afford to keep working for us. She's been offered another job which is also three days a week but they're paying her much more than we can afford.

I was a bit hacked off really because she didn't give us even a clue there was a problem, if she had I could have asked around to see if anyone I knew needed a nanny share. Anyway it was presented to us as a fait accompli, but she said she'd work to the end of the month (she's still on probation so she only has to give a week's notice). Yesterday she rang up to tell me Friday would be her last day as her new employers want her to start on the 17th. My mum and dad are away on holiday until early Feb so I'm stuffed for childcare. We can't afford an emergency nanny, so I'm going to have to use up all my annual leave to look after them. I do understand her situation, she lives alone and can't afford her mortgage, I'm just annoyed at the way she's handled it. Just leaving us in the lurch like that.

Still, that said, I'm quite looking forward to being off with the kids next week. We're going to see some friends we don't normally get to see because her off days don't co-incide with mine and I'm going to take the children swimming one day too.

I'd better get back to work now :o I hope everyone's well, big January hugs to everyone xxx

Thanks for the hugs guys. I start tomorrow so do feel a bit like I am going over the top or something. It's quite an odd feeling, but quite adrenalin filled which is just as well as I still have stuff to do.

irish loving that you got such an Angel baby but will she be able to make a decent cuppa? for me a shit cup of tea is absolutely a dealbreaker. I hope she doesn't let you down there. That would be tragic.

Clever your DH, he must be thrilled xx

head I am so sorry to hear about your nanny. That is really rubbish. You are in the lurch and you have to go through the whole finding someone and settling in thing again. Such a hassle. I hope you find someone much nicer than her very soon.

G's nanny is very sweet with him so all good there until she leaves me! For now, because I am a pretend Italian Mamma I am preparing all the food. Nothing like giving yourself extra jobs, eh? Oh and we are moving house in a month or so. It's going to be a busy time.

G is now waking more like 6:20 but actually that's nice as then we can have a bit of quality time together before I leave for work. He is in a great mood first thing and noone else is around so it can be our little special time or somefink :)

I have been told that my desk is in a room with two other people. I know which one it is too so basically I will have no private phone calls and no private computer use. Not sure how I will cope with that. Will probably actually have to do work or something. Nah. got my iphone innit!?! phewwwwwwwwww

Anyway off to cook the 87th dish of the day.

Hi blue and wasabi and jumping and sunny - have you left us too?

I feel like this thread is like the end of the party. Just a few people dancing around and the odd balloon wafting by...I was always one of the last to leave :o

x

oh and now that I have stopped bf my boobs have all but vanished. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Gutted gutted gutted. I looked so much better before. To be honest weird though it sounds I looked better with the preg weight. I am quite slim again now but not in a round way in a droppy way. bum included. I went clothes shoppind and discovered that I have to really clench my butt cheeks or else it just looks totally flat.
I will have to do 1000 butt clenches a day and buy some implants I think (bra ones not the real deal obviously!

witter witter

Still here Balla - just busy at work and not managing sneaky MN time - tsk!

Promise big catch up post tomorrow.

Good luck being back in the saddle so to speak. briefcase? check. withering look to be called upon when required? check. clenched in bum? check..

I see you and rasie you re: slim but saggy! My bum clenches are in full force these days at the gym. Whee does it all go? SOUTH that's where

Head - saw your nanny debacle on fb - grrr. . Really hope it works out soon but enjoy your sneaky time off too.

Be back to finish, knackered zzzz

Catch up as promised . Just come out of a challenging meeting so need some down time to clear my brain.

Bella - hope today went OK and you get a huge return cuddle from G-man. Where are you moving to? Leafy suburbs a la Primrose hill/Hampstead Heath?? They always look lovely on the telly .

Head - how are things with finding a new nanny ? hope you're enjoying meeting up with your friends. It is tricky isn't it when your days off don't coincide! It gets worse when you have to factor in school run etc. In fact I'm having a Friday wine night at mine next month to catch up with everyone sans kids as its getting harder and harder to meet up during the week. Oh and don't think you can mention having another without it being repeated . My ship has well and truly sailed, though do tease DH by bringing it up just to see his face go white and his limbs sart shaking

Rogue - love reading all about Aoife. You may just have a chilled out human being there . Come back to when she is 15 for a full update . So exciting to think you are thinking of adding to your brood That's what angel babies are here for, they're employed by mothe rnature to ensure we have more. The amount of times i've heard friends say if they had had their second first they would have been an only child!! Not my second though as he is adorable .

Glad your Dad is better and agree there is no point worrying about genetic link. Cancer is so random and can affect us all no point in worrying unduly. all we can do is try to be healthy, live well and hope we avoid it...

What is Aoife wearing for her Christening? The irish family robe? There is nothing like an event being hosted at home to give you a good kick up the arse to get the decorating done! My wine night in has already prompted me to get new pictures up and new candles in.

Jumping - if you're lurking in cyber space, hope everything is slotting into place with you being at home. Everything is just so expensive I go from being terrified DH and me are going to lose our jobs to accepting there is nothing we can do. We don't have huge debt other than mortgage but I do worry we don't have enough for rainy day.. We switched to variable rate mortgage last year and of course interest rates are starting to sneak up... . I'm trying to be frugal as much as I can and am good at spending very little during the week, make pack lunch for work etc...

Anyway, loved your bit about your home being your 'forever' home' . You have such a lovely family, all ruddy cheeks and long walks in the woods, cherish them x

wasabi - you are officially MIA missy! We need an 2011 update or do you just sit January out in the huff

Sunny - hey incase your lurking aussi.

Not much news from me other than my new gym routine is going well (off to spin after work) and Benjy has settled into nursery . I dropped him off on Friday and they gave me a poster with photos of him from the week before with the caption "my first day at nursery". It was a lovely thing for them to do and its up behind my desk so I can take sneaky peeks.

We're on holiday countdown too and I've already ear marked some gorgeous (and cheap!) summer clothes for the boys for meandering around Majorca in .

eeek, time to go and get my flabby backside into my old maternity trews. Yes my old velvet-chavvy-katie-price-like joggers are now my gym trews. Make do and mend

ha! Saggy bottoms my arse (ha! see what I did there? :o) I'm waaaay worse than you lot and I'm 40 too so doubly cursed However, I'm doing fatkins (or as close as I can get) now so am hopeful of a bit of weight loss in the next few weeks.

Blue I'm very impressed with the gyming. Having a holiday is a very good incentive. Glad to hear Ben's doing so well at nursery. That was lovely of them to do a poster for you, it's obviously a really nice nursery. I've never heard of a nursery doing that.

Bella well done on all your cooking! I've been doing loads too with all my time off. Feels good when you've got a freezer full of little portions of food. Glad to hear G is doing so well with his nanny. But bah to being in an office where you can't mn all day long or make soppy calls to G ("say hello to mummy, say hellooooooo, mummy loves you mwah mwah mwah!)

I'm always the last to leave a party too... always there when the lights go on and everyone can see my make up sliding off my face! :o Looks like it's just you me and Blue for the forseeable.

My hunt for a nanny begins once again Got three people coming next week. I'm hopeful but my mum and dad are back from their holiday on the 31st so they can do all some of the childcare :o dh said we should take our time chosing a nanny carefully, as every day we're looking is a day we're not paying (he's such a tighty). It actually would help us to have a month off from paying a nanny. Feeling rather brassic!

That's it from us really.... I'm off again next week, quite enjoying my enforced holiday, we've been to see friends we can't usually see because of nursery clashes etc.

Big hello to all those MIA wasabi Rogue and sunny

xx

Blimey, rogue you're not MIA at all, however my brain is :o

bella forgot to add, my boobs are huge still and I stopped bfing at least 2 weeks ago. They're so big I even contemplated a pg test But I'm sure it's because I'm a bit premenstrual... really.... I'm sure it's that.... got to be...

head oh my god my first reaction to your last post was "damn if she's preg again then i'm going to get pregnant too!!" That is taking the fear of missing out a bit too far isn't it lucky you with the big boobs still if it isn't. DP is being very nice about it but I must confess to some secret fantasising about trying out that injection. i mean obviously i wouldn't, but...
I do feel really lucky with this nanny. G is so happy with her. I am already worried about her leaving us. I want her to be part of the family forever more. The only complaint I have so far is that she doesn't mix up the pasta with the sauce but then she is not as italian as I am so that's hardly her fault
blue that is SO sweet of your nursery to do that. L the nanny tried to send me a picture of G is in a fireman's helmet that he took a shine to at a playgroup but it didn't go through. i love the idea of a photo a day though so that i can have secret bonding with him. By Friday I have to say I was desperate to get home and reconnect. WHat with all the settling in I felt like our relationship was drifting and that we needed some 'us' time :) such a freakshow i know

I need to find some time to exercise but can't quite work out when. I think I might try to take up yogging again when the evenings get lighter. Spin is hardcore. You go girl.

It is Mr G's birthday on Monday. Gulp. My little man! it makes me very emotional to think about it. Not least because this past week while DP has been away on business I have in fact re read the thread about our pregnancies well from quite early on anyway. Quite a weird thing to do I know but really quite amazing. I had a few tears I don't mind telling you. To be honest it moved me so much that I feel a renewed need to suggest a meet up. I know that head offered but I am happy to host too or at least to have a couple of you to stay over since we move in a few weeks WOOO WOOOOOOOOOOO.
It is not primrose hill blue but the SW London wishes-it-was equivalent, SUnny Bar nes. It is where I grew up and it's very pretty but I think if I wasn't from there I would find it a bit twee. Good for minor celeb spotting mind you :)
rogue forgot to say before good luck with TTC round 2! Good for you for being up for trying again already. I really couldn't be arsed (not until head mentioned it anyway!) And keep us posted re the weaning. Once she's ready willing and able I would definitely introduce some finger foods. best thing this lot ever told me to do
Right well will sign off again
Hi to anyone lurking.
Poor old G man has his first temperature. On his birthday weekend and everyfink. it's so unfair. He was so upset earlier and his little cheeks went all red. He started to crawl weirdly this week. he looks like he got shot in one leg when he does it but at least when he falls over I don't have to pick him up anymore.

Right then you lot. adios for now.
wasabi i hope you are ok and awol for good reasons not horrid ones. Ditto you sunny xx