***started this post yesterday (I think) so hopefully I'll finished it today.***
Kitty Love--I missed the snake stories, but I can totally appreciate your love for them (the snakes, not the stories). That boa at the vets sounds amazing--I almost want one now! My dad always made a bee-line for the snake house at the Toronto Zoo--which is an awesome zoo--and even told us to leave him there because he loved looking at them. He loved only the monkeys more, and I think that was because he loved to watch them throw their poo.
As for J and the guitar--yup, he's obsessed with it! We gave him a ukulele for his first birthday, and he has played it every day since. He calls it his "'tar." He also loves to listen to guitar music, and tells me everyday to put 'tar on. Luckily, our favourite musician is a guitarist, so it's not so bad, but I'm beginning to think we need a new favourite musician, because there is only so much you can hear of even your favourite musician.
Is Blake showing any special interest in anything yet? I love how their obsessions can start so young (and then be tossed aside overnight...). And if he watches you singing and dancing for such a long time, he must really like it!
Has it been determined if you can go out yet this summer? Do you and OH take turns staying in, or is it basically on you? In other words, are you also entirely housebound in the summer?
Oh dear, the tickling comment. I really think I wrote that out wrong.
Claire, I honestly wasn't critiquing you, or think you're torturing L, just in case you read what I wrote and thought WTF? I think all of the tickling we've been doing is fine. I think it was more along the lines of that deadly tickling I received from that baby sitter that they're referring to. But I
honestly think we're all okay. Especially with raspberries,
Kitty. I'm pretty certain that our kids are not in hysterics--the bad kind--when we tickle them. I tickle J all the time and so does OH.
Re: TTC--do you know the story of our beloved thread member Rowan? She and her OH went out for the first time after Martha was born, got a bit tipsy, and bam, Michael was conceived. And it took 3 years to have Martha, I understand. Why did it take so long to conceive B? (I also had trouble conceiving--it was a four year wait for J.) You're lucky your cycle is so regular, too. Hopefully it'll make things easier. Are you going to be doing the temping and the ovulation kits and all that other stuff, or are you going to "just let it happen"?
Claire--I'm sorry about your hand! Does the disease affect only the hand, or other areas, too? In my case, I'm pretty certain the procedure is just a lap. But mine will "reconnect"--would yours grow back, too? I was worried at first about what type of (and length of) recovery I'd need until I came across forums where people said they felt like they'd been run over by a truck for around 2-3 days, and then they were fine (and pain free!). How bad is your hand? My mother has very bad osteoarthritis, and I know how she suffers with her hands. Can you do everything you need to do with your hand, or do you need help at times?
Storm--I came to my senses after the show came to an end, and am back to my original stance: no more babies. Though, I must say, I loved being pregnant, once I had the anti-nausea meds and made it to the second trimester. And because J came 2 weeks early, I never hit the "get him out of me!!!!" stage. But I also had no pregnancy problems like you did; I really hope it's better this time for you. Every pregnancy is different, right?
I guess now you have 1 day left in the 2WW! I really hope that heartburn means something! Baby dust to you! I also stopped testing during the 2WW. It was such a waste of tests and BFNs always resulted in heartache so in the end, I just waited. The only time I tested early in the last year of TTC was just before I called to finalize our IVF treatment at the clinic in Ontario, where I was to start a cycle in 6 days. I thought it would be irresponsible for me to finish up these plans with the doctor and nurses and receptionist without making sure that I was not pregnant from the last IUI. But I so completely believed that I was not that after I dunked an internet cheapie into a cup of pee, I left it on the counter, not bothering to see if anything came up. I hated looking at snow white tests. I then phoned the clinic without even looking at it, which totally defeated the point of doing the test in the first place. It was only
after everything was finalized on the phone that OH said, "It's pink."
But I can totally appreciate how different it must be this time around. Ah, to TTC without the same obsessiveness as last time! You made me laugh when you wrote about the impossibility of not moving for 3 minutes to take your temp! I've also totally forgotten--how old are you again? It always makes my heart happy when people our age try for even more!
The house for L idea sounds wonderful! And where you intend to put it sounds so lovely. I'm certain she'll love it. I know I would have gone crazy for a house hidden in the bushes.
Totally crazy over it. But what's the issue with the mortgage? And at which house will the toy house go--yours or your dad's?
Kosh--Im so glad that you have stopped passing stones! As for the dancing music, the first one is just OH noodling on the guitar, and the second is the most annoying song ever, Here Comes Santa, which just happened to be playing when he decided to start his dance. He also does this head banging thing, like Gael, but its from side-to-side while he keeps his eyes on you and has this little impish smile (he tried to incorporate it into his Santa dance, but hes not very good at multitasking).
Re: eating at the same time. No, we don't. OH's cooking is horrible and he also has celiac, so he makes his own meals. And I'm so awful with cooking that we just defrost a previously frozen meal for me. We used to eat together in front of the TV (well, laptop screen), but I can't remember the last time we did that. It's just always been "our way." OH (or DH--we are married) likes to eat late, and J doesn't seem to mind eating on his own, either. He is far less inhibited and far less distracted this way, and it's easier on us because we don't have to wait through interminable dinners while J practices using cutlery. And at our dinner parties, which only ever consist of my husband's family, we do all eat together. I sometimes do feel guilty about J eating alone, until I realized that we are always there, anyway, puttering around the kitchen, talking to each other and J.
Re: testing (for everyone)--Huh. Thats a lot of us who didnt test before AF. Do you think it was because of patience derived of age (HA!), or simply that wed been at it for so long that BFNs were too depressing to look at? I knew for me it was the latter, and the fact that I was running out of tests. I ordered OPKs online, and they always threw in a few pg tests, too, but not many. We called them Internet Cheapies on my other forum, or, ICs. Does BnB have a similar name and short form for them?
Okay, I know I've missed people, but I've got to finally post this.
). He had wet himself and was soaked in pee. OH changed him and gave him Advil and rocked him for about 45 min. We haven't had a night like this one in a while. And I was so tired from all my working out yesterday!! Talking about working out, have you gone back to the Zumba DVD storm?
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I don't trust the weather report. It said today would be nice, well so far it is raining 
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he took his first steps a while ago bt in the last couple of weeks has become much more confident. he seems so proud of himself! 
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YAY! I know you dread pregnancy but there is a little baby in there growing and you'll get to take it home and keep it at the end! So for that I am doing the 
