January & February Mummies 2008

Wow thats a big grocery bill! I just did ours this morning (although it did include nappies) and lucky I do it online because it took copious amounts of taking things out and trying to find cheaper alternatives to come anywhere near our budget .. although we did have things for the party on Saturday so at least those are one off costs

Julia from now on *I* shall be doing the shopping online. Can't believe it!

Funny, it's the opposite in this house - DH does the shopping, and spends less than I would. It's the same with my parents, my dad always does the grocery shopping too!

Well mw appointment went well, baby is already engaged D2! Mw said 'wow he's right down there'. Explains the pressure I have down there. We figured the bit of show was from when I ran and everything loosened up and baby probably got further down too. So I'm only measuring 28 weeks although I'm 30, cos he's so far down. He has been since the beginning though, must be a 2nd baby thing.

Glad Daniel had a great bday V! Grr at the ILs, glad you won't be feeling guilty anymore

I'm getting stuff ready for party time on Sat morning too Julia - guttered we couldn't come to Issy's, hope you all have a fab time! We've got 12 or 14 kids aged between 2 and 5 coming (all Harry's little friends who he loves playing with) and just having morning tea. I made a cool little drumkit to go on his cake, I'm very proud!

We haven't introduced lollies or any other drink other than water to Daniel ( aren't we mean) his birthday cake had quite a bit of icing on it, the peice daddy gave him yest didn't have any icing on it. I just gave him a piece and he just handed me the left over bit minus all the icing :) he is terrible drinking from a cup but discovered his cousins fizzy drink and managed to nearly polish it all off without spilling any.
Ashlee needs some of Ollies hair :)
Liz Ashlee was engaged at 32 weeks for me she put pressur on my siatic (so) nerve which meant some mornings (oncei got moving it got better) dh used to have to practically carry my weight while I got moving. Doctor told me I'd have to have physio once she was born but it cured immediately after she was born.

Love the scan pics Charly They're so clear! Even if it is another little bobble head then you know it'll be a really cute one. I'm looking at the heart-rate on your FB ones and thinking "hmmm, girl!". Livvy's was always over 160bpm.

JC, we're the opposite here. We've been having stinking hot days for a few weeks and it's finally raining today. A welcome relief. Just wish the rain would stay and cool everything down rather than stop and start. Poor Amy won't hear the end of it from Sophie when they're older if she toilet trains before her. Yay for Sophie doing so well though. Oh man, how on earth do you keep a toddler from getting sand in a cast? Would those plastic covers for the shower work with sand too?

I'm glad you're feeling much better Liz and things seem to have settled. Hope bub doesn't move any further down for a while, that must be quite uncomfortable. I wish DP would make me pancakes one morning. I was desperate for some on the weekend so went to McD's and got some hotcakes

LOL at getting clucky again Bobbie. Funny how quickly you forget all the bad things once you have a few good days. It must be some inbuilt mummy thing so we don't stop at 1 child

Livvy is back in cloth now too unless we go out and sposies at night time. Trying to cut down our expenses as well. Wow, DP goes silly when he does the shopping alone too and comes back with hardly any of the essentials.

Aw Verena that's really stink of the IL's. Livvy's ones failed to acknowledge her birthday also. Only 2 out of DP's 8 immediate family members even text to wish her happy birthday let alone send a card or call to talk to her. Daniel did well to finish his first fizzy drink. Livvy would take a sip and scrunch her face up for ages. She helped DP finish his McD's coke the other day but he said it'd lost most of it's fizz and was quite watered down. Scary how easily they take to junk food eh?

LB, Ollie could probably work any type of haircut, he's such a cutie. All the best for your x-rays

Had cg this morning and it was so hot. Had to sunscreen the kids and everything and then it started raining on our way home. Livvy thankfully went down for a nap with minimal fuss. I feel quite knackered after all the sweating there. I had to wear pants for the first time in 3 days and I was so hot.

lilfatty wrote: Freesia wrote: I had to wear pants for the first time in 3 days and I was so hot. The first thing that sprung to mind was Freesia wondering around literally without pants on for the last three days ..

Lol and in England, pants are undies!!

Aww poor Freesia .. that is one thing I dont miss about being pg!

Although im freezing .. Ive put a hoody on and have the heater turned on, all the boys are looking at me funny.

Lol Freesia I often run around in undies too, on warm days, although I've been getting a bit nervous about that lately since my neighbor's DH often pops over to use our wireless internet now, and doesn't usually knock. Which I don't mind about, I just have to be more aware and not run around in undies

DH is pretty good with grocery shopping, except he always gets hash browns and chips, and a packet of fruit jubes. Which we can't afford. But other than that he's pretty controlled But last time he went grocery shopping was months ago. I usually ditch him with the kids at some stage and do the shopping, it's a nice break

X-rays went okay I guess, the hospital gowns are horrible as usual! I hate standing/lying there with my back/bum/legs showing to the world, lol. The x-rays have been marked Urgent, so hopefully the results are back with my Dr for my appointment on Monday.

Ollie got up on all fours today and managed to do a few little crawls, proper ones! He looked so impressed with himself. He's been commando crawling for a week or so, gosh he's going to be zooming along once he gets the hang of proper crawling.

Haha JC, I'm sure the sight of you in your undies would be rather a good story for 50 eight year olds to go home and tell their parents

YAAAAAAAY for the dry undies, that's awesome! Go Soph and Amy!! Good job Mummy

Where are you going tomorrow JC?

Oh wait, you already said that, didn't you? Sorry, I'm not a thinker atm! Gosh, trying to keep sand out of a cast will be a mission.

Is it a long weekend this weekend?