Back from Spain and finally caught up with thread....not sure how much I will remember now though....
I can get to Colchester most days during the week LaT so can either liaise with JKS and MM or come on a different day to distract you for a bit? I'll have Mia in tow for sure (although not sure how much of a playmate she will be for Daniel!), and possibly Tamara for Sabela, depending on what day it is. How are you doing? You must be all over the place - don't be too hard on yourself, you're an amazing mum ((((hugs)))). Btw, I emailed you about putting Daniel down for sleeps before I read this thread...
Glad the fireworks went well Gingeme - this is the first year in 18 years we're not having a fireworks party and I'm feeling v :( about it. We've got a friends wedding on Sunday and I don't think its worth having one next weekend as its far too late....How annoying about the schools- hope you get it sorted soon. what are you doing with them during the day at the moment? Or is 'snail world' keeping them busy? We've got looaaaads of snails in my garden (they keep eating everything), you can have all of them if you like :)
Have you had another scan yet Mixedmama? Was so 
for you about the rude sonographer...please don't worry about it, I'm sure everything is fine - and you looked beautifully pregnant when I saw you, not small at all :)
How you feeling JKS? Glad the appointments went well. Sorry I've not been in touch about visiting, zomehow each day/week/month just disappears without me ever managing to get as much done as I had hoped....
Ari gets about 30-40 mins homework a week, Simpson, plus 2 reading books every night, and some extra Hebrew language reading at weekends. So, quite a lot, but usually managable - at the moment he seems to be enjoying it so its not too much of a chore, but I can see how it could easily ramp up from here. The good thing is that the school set all the homework on Monday, to be returned by Friday, so we can balance out when he does it against swimming, art club, park visits, playdates etc. Great news about Molly - I think we started/stopped and re-started both Ari and Tamara when we did tt, as they just didn't quite get it/care enough the first time, but then did about 2 weeks later 
Maybe it just takes them a bit of time to internalise the whole idea?
Spain was nice, not brilliant but good to have a change of scene and there was a reasonable amount of sun. To be honest, that was about all I was hoping for! We had hoped to meet up with MrsMc but she picked up the D&V bug so we gave her a wide berth :) Turns out that travelling with an exclusively bf baby is surprisingly easy, especially now I have finally cracked my fear of feeding in public spaces....lucky as Easyjet and the beath both featured several times!!! Unfortunately Ari was very ill (high fever, bad cough, ear/nose/throat infection) so he and T (who were sharing a room) didn't sleep well.....we were up about 4 times every night and it was never for the baby! 
So we did come home a bit more tired than when we started....
Right, time to feed Mia...