Good morning ladies.
Sorry for having been MIA. Was too tired to respond much after all the cleaning I had to do lol
Storm Poor little L and her eye infection! How horrible that she picks up something all the time. But I do wonder at other parents taking their children to nursery even when they are ill. But I guess they don't have much of a choice if they are working
I am so glad you got something to help the nausea! Let's hope that in two weeks you won't need it any more! Or that they give you some more if you do!
Over here the housing market has slowed too but house prices are still rising. I bought my flat for 100k but that was 20 years ago and now it is worth 5 times as much. Sounds great but isn't cause it obviously means that anything larger will be correspondingly more expensive too
Btw I had dreams of losses all the time during the pregnancy. I guess it is always a fear in the back of our mind and that is why we dream about it.
And your pic with your mum was very touching. I am so sorry for your loss my lovely.
Borboleta I loved your pics of T! He is such a handsome little chap
As for you, you look amazing! So lovely! And the pic with your DH and your FIL is super sweet! I think you should frame this for your DH and your FIL
And yes my parents are still married but live a separate life more or less. I don't so much have a bad relationship with my father as no relationship. Sadly my father is extremely selfish in certain aspects. He pursues what interests him with vigour and passion. But his two children do not interest him and haven't since we were small. He used to just appease his bad conscience with money. He was always more than generous with material things when we were younger but always very stingy with his time and his attention. And since he had an 8-fold by-pass surgery 7 years ago, it has become much much worse. Also, he has never been faithful to my mother and now has horrible mistresses that are much younger than me. It is hard to respect him because of that, especially also as he gives them sooooo much money that he put his company in jeopardy and my brother who recently bought the company from him is struggling to fix things and has to work way too hard. Sorry to vent on that but having seen my father just now makes everything fresh again and it makes me sad and bitter.
I do imagine my boys as teenagers and I always have this thought: I so hope they will be happy
We see boys in the park riding their scooters and skate boards and my OH always says, that will be our boys in a few years
Are scooters really popular over there too? Seems all children have them over here. They do look like fun
I haven't seen Superman yet but the guy who plays him was in The Tudors and I thought then he was eye candy too
Charlie hows the baby proofing going and is S on the move now? How exciting!
And how are you feeling? Are you definitely on the mend now or still very tired?
Kosh the thought that your boy knows his body parts does make me smile! And your word for penis is cute! I wish my OH wasn't so uptight and we could make one up too lol. And when you say count the screws, does he count already??
Btw I am sure all the other ladies agree, we would love to see a newer pic of Gael! I bet he is gorgeous!
And after you mentioned it, I looked on youtube for Pocoyo Gangnam style! Hilarious! My OH and I laughed soo much! So cute!
And I agree with Sabrina, I would have called the police if my neighbours had played music that loudly and that late! How inconsiderate
Sabrina sorry Finn is biting still. Dominic is back to it too. He bit poor Sebastian on the cheek again and harder even this time! It was really red and raised. Poor Sebastian cried soo much too!
Sabrina and
Clio I think calling it penis is fine for a boy but if we are then to stick to the correct words, wouldn't we then have to call girl bits vulva? My mind baulks at a child saying vulva lol.
Clio ahhh to have a basement to dump stuff into! I would rather have that even than a dressing room lol
You are right that there are a lot of industries that kids don't get told about but I am guessing that this is cause it would be harder to illustrate cutely?
I am glad you said gender equal rather than gender neutral. I do think that the genders are equal but I always wondered why gender should have become almost politically incorrect. And are all their differences really just nurture and not also partly nature? One example is hunting, so few women like to hunt and I have that down because women are by nature more nurturing and men are by nature more hunter/gatherers. Do you think this is wrong? Cause if it is then a lot of psychology that I thought results from that would probably be wrong also. I really have to think about this in more depth. Hm.
As for your question about our LOs moving all the time. No I cannot say they do. Dominic more than Sebastian but both like to sit on my lap together and watch tv. Sebastian leans against my chest with his legs over the arm of the armchair and Dominic sits on my knees. Dominic isn't very cuddly on the whole but he does like to relax and wake up a bit on me after a nap. Then he is very quiet and just looks around while suckling on his dummy and fingering his muslin. So sweet!
As for which journals I follow, one of them is by a young woman who was the first to stalk my own journal and I returned the favour. She suffered two losses during this time but is now 31 weeks pregnant with a rainbow girl
The next lady I found through that first journal. She too is a sweetie (she lives in Quebec btw) and also had two losses but is very upbeat and funny and just amazingly strong really in the face of some tough trials. She is now 9 weeks pregnant
And a third one is a mad scientist lady who has one little girl already and is now 14 weeks pregnant with triplets! They were quads at first but one little bean didn't make it. It is very fascinating and she has gazillion of stalkers as you can imagine lol. Then there are a couple of twin mummy journals too. On the whole I enjoy all these journals but I suppose apart from the triplet pregnancy there nothing that is downright fascinating. Just all really nice ladies who I felt attracted to for various reasons
ETA OH and of course another journal I follow is by creatingpeace who used to be part of this thread
Claire we will definitely have to set up a meeting outside your Chelsea & Westminster schedule then! If we get a summer after all, it would be lovely if for example you could come to our local park and we can have coffee there at some point maybe?
Leeze how lovely that sleep is finally improving! And I know how I used to wish for 5 hour blocks of sleep. But once you get it, your body still doesn't know how to be grateful cause of course you are still tired as it just isn't enough, even though it is better than it was. But hopefully Kia is on the road to permanently improving now
I briefly dreamt of you last night btw. We were both out pushing our buggies, Kia was asleep and looking cute and peaceful and you said you were ttc too now. That was all. Odd huh?
Hope all other ladies are ok?
Kitty how are you and Blake?
Rowan you are probably too busy to drop in even. And poor
Jules the same.
I am sure I left out half of what I should have commented on, but there is so much I missed that my post would get too long again.
As for us: Well as mentioned, my parents were here and mum is staying on till Tuesday. My dad was ok I guess but no help will be forthcoming from him. He no longer has the company to dip into and the money he does have is going to be spent on himself, on houses for his mistresses and his passion for hunting. I know he has helped me enough with all my studies etc and of course with this flat (though I had half of what it cost left to me from a great-uncle and aunt and he would have had to spend more for rented accommodation for me during my studies). But when he boasts that he has shot a 12 pointer stag in New Zealand and that that one shot cost him £35k then I feel a bit upset, especially as the New Zealand hunt was one of 4 that year, though the other 3 were in Africa where he probably spent even more to kill other animals
I honestly don't get it, that anyone would enjoy killing magnificent animals so much that they would fork out those sums. Especially as there are two little grand-kids that surely are more worthy of help? But please know that I do not feel entitled to his money. I do not. I just know how I would feel if I were in that position. Ah well, rant over.
Hugs to all
I know the area exactly where you live. I use to live over the river in Wandsworth and worked at Charing Cross Hospital, so passed by every day. Very nice part of London right by the Thames. I'd love to come for a coffee in your park, you're only 2 stops on the train from me, let me know what you think, or message me on FB. Like i think Clio once mentioned, i too love your posts as i know what everyone's up to thanks to your detailed replies 
> Now i know Sophia is only 7 months so this means nothing to her yet, but it's attitude like that, that scare me about having a daughter...in that being pretty is all that matters as you're a girl!! 
sorry that's my gender rant over!!
she a talented girl and i remember her when she was Thiagos age kicking the ball around, it was even evident at that age that she was good with the ball! but women's sport, another gender divide! but i know that women's soccer in the states is much more high profile than it is here which is great. 
but she rolls and rolls. We have stored away lots of thing as well as a BIG charity shop deposit in order to create Sophia's corner for all of her things. So she has her little office as i call it in our living room! she keeps herself busy rummaging through her bits and pieces. Her favourite things to do is open the mystery shoe box with lots of bit and bobs in it that change every day and attempting to chase the ball, the cat, a car on all fours, it's not a very fast chase at the mo! Sophia has almost said cat, she is trying to but she hasn't quite got the T yet, so charlie is ca for the moment 
Oh wow. I agree, that's incomprehensible. And it's so...
I can see why you would find this unfair!
