congratulations Pips! so pleased for you
Heidi, fx Lily stays put a little longer for Mommy and that she does a little somersault. just wondering, how do you manage bedrest with Caylee around?
jelr, sorry to hear about your difficult night with Natasha, glad she dropped off before your nerves weren't totally frayed. we have broken nights, to some degree, pretty much every night, and I blame our one-bed flat. it's getting unbearable, actually, I cannot wait to move, it's increasingly stressful. Adam needs his own room now because we all need an unbroken night. I couldn't tell you the last time he slept all night in his cot, so long ago. he goes to bed alone no bother (at night and for naps in the day), he sleeps anything from 2-4 hours, and if he wakes before we've gone up to bed, he'll be resettled ok. problem is if he sees us in bed he will NOT settle back down in his cot. it's right next to the bed, he is inches from us but that's not good enough. so because we need to sleep we do the easiest thing in the moment and bring him in with us. I am ok with co-sleeping now because he's big enough that I don't worry about smothering him, but it's just the whole palaver every single night... I've amost wondered about just having him in with us the whole night and not bothering with the cot, but that's not the way I wanted to go with it, but while we are in the same living situation I don't see that it's going to improve.
if I really thought some degree of controlled crying would help I might consider it for in a few months time, but I don't know if we could do it, simply because WE need sleep; even though the long-term result would hopefully be more and better sleep for all, the short-term stress would be - stressful and yuck, and I know me and C would need to be on exactly the same page to commit to doing it, and we aren't. He doesn't like always sleeping shoved into the wall, but he isn't prepared to deal with Adam screaming all night either.
He sleeps grand as soon as he is in bed with us. I don't blame him, so nice and cosy and comfy with mummy and daddy, and I do love waking up with him there... just would love some more sleep myself.
Boothh, yay for Jesse standing! Adam has been doing the same for the last 10 days or so, and is now taking steps a lot more often. it's so cute!
Cleck, so pleased Emma had a great party! where are the pics?
afu - we went to Bluewater today and finally I bought Adam a birthday present - a V-Tech camera. he is obsessed with my camera (well, he is obsessed with all my gadgets but he already has a little plastic phone and I am not getting him a toy laptop because I do my best to discourage him from touching mine and I don't know if it'd send a mixed message and confuse him!) and C is a photographer, and I saw it in Boots and thought, ah, baby has to have a present to open on his birthday morning. he can play with it on the way over to C's sister for the party.
he will have lots of presents, I am sure, but we aren't getting him a lot of stuff till we know what he already has, because we really don't have room for too many big items - I want him to have a ride-on toy but he might get one from someone else, so I have to wait. it's hard because I've chosen things I like and would like him to have and I'm sure he won't get them. oh well. am sure he'll love his presents! we had to buy him a little Leapfrog singing aeroplane today as well, he grabbed hold of something else (a Leapfrog night time teddy thing) and took a huge fancy to it (but we weren't sure if it was the box he really loved) but didn't want to buy it as we thought it was a bit young for him now, and it was £15, so we took it from him and to stop the screaming gave him the aeroplane, which was only £5, and he was pacified, but then screamed the place down when we tried to take THAT... so gave in and bought it. fair play to him, he's been enjoying it all the rest of today. only thing is it sings the alphabet song and it's ANNOYING. it's recorded with an English accent, which is understandable, but it means when they get to the end it says "double you, ex, y and ZED" rather than "ZEE", which I know is them doing it the British way rather than American but now it doesn't rhyme and it really really REALLY jars.
just coming back on here to try and make it all seem a bit real. Getting nausea already when with Sam I didn't till 6 or7 weeks so fingers crossed it's a good sign, only 10 or 11 dpo I think today so still early days. Will be happier once I've got my digi's through the post and it say pregnant in clear black and white. Due date 18th April 
I just can not get over how cute he is. I want a Jesse of my very own haha. 
xxxxxx
That camera you bought him is cute!
for wedding getting so close. Exciting.
good to be back in here.
