Mid-August Testers

[NotNic]

Good luck Bex! Will be watching your chart.

 

[NotNic]

Here you go. I think this is the clearest of the three.

 

[snowflakes120]

Awe. Look at the lil' pumpkin! It's a good pic! Not much planned for my birthday. Hubby told me like 2 weeks ago he got me something but won't tell me despite me asking over and over again! We usually do a dinner and we planned on doing that tomorrow while MIL is in town so we can go without Kellan but I have the worst cold known to man and can't taste anything at the moment so we are going to play it by ear. What about you?

I'm chart stalking too Bex!

How is your SD doing Hands? Any new news?

 

[NotNic]

Baby has crossed its feet and looks like its doing the Steps 'Tragedy' dance We had a fantastic head profile pic at the 12wk scan with F (I'm still a bit bitter ) Perhaps you should go out for ice cream instead or maybe the movies. Do something special the two of you.

My birthday appears to have been downgraded by OH again. Months ago he promised to take me and F to the coast on the sunday and do a dinner for the two of us out on the Saturday, but then the kids he coaches end up in a Rugby Cup Final. When we realised they stood a chance of being in the final we swapped our days, and then cancelled it so we would just do dinner and I would see my sisters instead. Now he is being very stroppy about having F for a bit tomorrow, hasn't booked a table for dinner and seems to be a right mizzog. I've gone to bed early because I can't be dealing with his paddy! Bex I hope you're having an early night for a different reason

 

[InHisHands]

She is still failing all her classes and now put a guilt trip on her mom saying because of her punishment she felt like committing suicide so now her mom is afraid to ground her for her grades. Oy veh. Enough about SD... just appears to be a hopeless situation.

Tonight, hubby and I are going to a homeschooling event to learn more about it. Our plan A is a private school, but homeschooling will be plan B.

Have you guys thought about whether you will be sending kiddos to public, private, or home school?

 

[NotNic]

Yep. It will be a local primary school until F is 11 (public). Demand for a good school is tough so we made sure we were in the catchment area for a good one before we bought our house. Plan B is the local Free School
(An independently run school, that doesn't have to follow the syllabus guidelines set by the education authority). At 11 we hope that he will get into a grammar school. There are two fantastic ones in walking distance from our house. To get in he would have to pass a test when he's 10. If he doesn't pass then its the local comprehensive for him, though OH has been doing sport coaching and one of the things he's considering is becoming a sports teacher st a private school. If that does happen then we may consider sending him privately but its not something we can currently afford.

 

[NotNic]

Happy birthday Snow!! Xx

 

[Srbjbex]

Hands- there is a lovely primary school in our village so elliot will go there until 11. Then we are in the catchment for a very good comprehensive (public) school in solihull so after that he will go there. We were a bit like nic and when we bought our house we bought somewhere where we knew had good schools, and why we are only moving round the corner!. I t means houses are more expensive so I guess you always pay for education one way or another!

Nic - your little monkey looks fab!

Snow- happy birthday! Hope you get spoilt! Xxxx

 

[snowflakes120]

Nic - Happiest of birthdays too!! That stinks about your coastal weekend getaway but congrats to hubby on making finals! Hopefully he makes it up to you! And I had to look up a few of your British words there! Stroppy, Mizzog & Paddy! Baby Girl had her legs crossed too at her ankles.

Hands - Hope the homeschooling event went well the other night! We will def be moved out our current home before Kellan starts school. Our main reason for moving is because the assigned public school for our area is horrendous. I could never send him there. Ever. We are saving now for the 20% down payment for a new house. We are hoping to move around Fall of 2015. But we will see. The area we will move to has wonderful highly rated public schools. We have also debated on sending the kids to our private Catholic school. We are pretty sure, they will attend preschool at our Catholic church.

Bex - Girl, you start BDing yet? How are you feeling this cycle! I see you are doing OPK's this cycle. I'll be watching for your +! I hope this is it and you have a Christmas baby!

 

[NotNic]

Oops, sorry Snow! Mizzog would have been the only one I would have thought you might not know! Didnt even realise the other two were British slang. :doh:

We did end up going out for a nice meal on Saturday and the boys won yesterday. OH told them they had to win otherwise he'd be in big trouble when he got home The weather has been wonderful here today. I've been enjoying my cup of coffee out in the sunshine, tanning my shins. F and OH got me some beautiful tulips and birthday cake and im opening my cards tonight. It's my mum's birthday today too, so we're celebrating on Easter Sunday with a family meal when we're going to announce our news. I feel this one needs an in the tummy name but I haven't found one yet. Any suggestions?

Hope you are feeling better and are enjoying your day.

Anyone have plans for Easter? Xx

 

[InHisHands]

Nic - not sure if I would be any good on name suggestions. How about Pop? Pip and Pop? hahahaha... seriously don't listen to me. I always called Dexter either "Dexter, Pumpkin, or Buddy" while he was in my tummy.

I'm excited that you are going to share the news. I'm so excited for you. I know a lady at my work who found out if she was going to be having a boy or girl right before easter, so she revealed the gender in only one of the eggs and made her family go on an easter egg hunt. HAHAHA

Snow - Sounds like you guys are making the right move when it comes to the house. Around here, there is only one district and it sucks. Besides hubby hopes to go on a long 1 to 3 year missionary trip at some point with us. - at which point I would have to homeschool. However, I still prefer Dex to go to a private school in the meantime if we can afford it.

Just a few more weeks till you can start feeling Babs Bunny kicking you. How exciting. Have you went out and bought girl things yet?

Bex - I loved using OPKs while trying. I was able to relax a bit more knowing that I wouldn't be missing out.

How does it feel to have a 18 month old? Its a bit of a shocker how quickly they grow.

 

[Srbjbex]

Nic - Happy Birthday to you too! Completely forgot you and Snow were the same day!! Oops, sorry chick! Also, I've never heard the word mizzog before either, must be a southern phrase! Haha!! Stroppy and paddy are words I use on a daily basis, mainly to describe Elliot!

Snow - we managed a cheeky BD this morning and before that we were Thursday so yep, we are now fully up and running! No ov cramps yet though so expecting ov to be a bit later this week.

No major Easter plans. My sis is coming to visit good Friday (and we get to meet her new boyfriend for the first time! exciting!) then I am (annoyingly) on a hen do on Easter sunday. Who organises a hen for Easter Sunday?!?! but that interrupts us doing anything major over the rest of the Easter break. We are going to the spa in Bath so it should be nice and relaxing at least.

 

[InHisHands]

What on earth is a hen do? Please tell me it isn't a chicken hair salon!

 

[Srbjbex]

Hahahaha! Love it hands!

I Think you guys would say bachelorette.....but that might be just what they say in 'friends' etc !

 

[Srbjbex]

In the uk, girls have hen nights and the boys have stag nights as a last night of freedom before getting married. Although realistically they are often a month or so before the wedding!

 

[NotNic]

I feel like we're teaching lots of british-isms this week! Mizzog is a miserable person, being a mizz is someone who is miserable or in a mood and having a mizz on means having a miserable expression on your face! I think it's quite an old phrase

I agree Easter Sunday is a strange day for a do. The Spa is lovely though.

Snow how was the rest of your day?

Good luck Bex!

 

[snowflakes120]

Hey girls. I am actually feeling quite mizzog at the moment. I did know hen night but I think that Hands has a good creative idea! We do call them bachlorettes and where I grew up we called the boys a stag but here in the South they call it a bachelor party for the guys.

Hands - That stinks that all the schools aren't that great by you. But it sounds like homeshcooling would be you guys best option - when moves are possible and such. I thought I was feeling things last week but haven't felt anything in awhile so it prolly wasn't baby and likely just gas. Ha! I did buy 1 sleeper at Gap the other day only cause it was on sale but don't have the real excitement like I did with Kellan. I think it is because we are so worried about these tests. I hope I can start to get excited and stuff in a few weeks. I hate to be so down and out about this pregnancy the whole time - I hope so confidence will come back and I can enjoy it a bit.

Nic - Rest of my day was good. I was able to spend time with the baby. We ordered take out and I fell asleep on the couch at 9 after watching antiques roadshow. Hope you had a good rest of your birthday too. Hmm. Names for little one inside. We are still doing pumpkin. It just kinda stuck with October baby. Easter plans include my grandparents coming in from SC and my uncle from about 2 hrs away in NC. I am cooking but don't really have a menu planned yet - I need to do it soon. I feel so disorganized as to what I am doing these days. I feel like I am just floating around.

Bex - I see a +!!! Get it girl!! Time to BD through the Easter weekend! Hubby has to catch your Easter egg! A spa day will be nice to relax. Sure could use that!

We are having horrible times feeding Kellan the past 2 weeks or so. He deliberately hits the spoon. We are having to distract him really bad to get him to eat. He wants to eat but for some reason is hitting the spoon and food goes flying all over the place and he has it all in his hair and just a general mess everywhere. Daycare said yesterday the food was flying on other babies - I feel horrible but visually picturing it makes me laugh. We do a good bit of foods off our plate. So we decided that school will be starting him on their meals. Today is the first day and I am super nervous. We think he is hitting the spoon because he wants more independence and wants to feed himself. It makes sense so onto big boy foods for him. It makes me sad hes growing up so fast. We are thinking about transitioning him from bottles to sippies for his formula bottles soon. And then milk starts at a year. Just so much change and he's getting so big.

 

[InHisHands]

Snow - BINGO! You got it girl... he is hitting the spoon because he totally wants to be more independent... Go Kellan! We always gave Dex his own spoon and fork while trying to help feed him with ours if he needed it. Finger foods will be good too for a while. He's letting you know that he's turning the Big 1 soon. It's hard to believe how many changes they go through in a few months around his age. Walking, drinking milk from a cup, and feeding themselves (dex took to dipping sauces at 11 months and he still loves dunking things). It all makes life a lot easier though.. so hang in there through the transition period.

Bex -- forget the hen salon! Stay home with hubby... whoohoooo!!!! hahaha I have never been to a bachelorette party, but I surely can't imagine having one on Easter weekend. Not very good timing at all. Tell hubby that you've hidden an egg and its his turn to find it.

Snow - I love your easter egg comment. Makes me think of Bex's egg all decorated out in bright pale easter colors. HAHAHA what a visual. It would make it easier to find though, im sure.


Nic - Keep translating for me. I need help. It's like trying to speak to my husband sometimes.. I swear we speak a different language sometimes. He's from deep south Louisiana where they miss speak about every other word. Poor Dexter is going to have a speech impediment. I just know it! hahahaha


AFU - Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers. A wild fire broke out in the mountains near our house. It has been burning for 2 days now, about 400 acres destroyed and they haven't been able to contain any of it. Some have already gotten pre evacuation notices. *sighs*

This was the view last night:

 

[NotNic]

Hands that's very scary and so early in the season. Stay safe Hands Family xxx

Off to work today and my tummy is sticking out. Not a bump yet, but not a flat stomach either. Tummy needs to stay contained for a few more weeks! I'm submitting my paperwork for returning full time today starting in 10-ish days. My next appointment is my 16wk which because of bank hols won't happen until I'm 17wks. At that one I get my official paperwork for HR so really hope to hold out that long. I need to chase my next scan date too. After all the stress in my team, and me being pushed into returning FT I'd like to do at least a month FT before I say anything.

 

[Srbjbex]

Hands that looks very scary!! I thought the picture looked like a volcano at first! Stay safe please

Nic - I'm sure you're not as big as you think you are, I think I look pg all the time now I have my 'mummy tummy' after having Elliot. Plus just remember that no matter how 'obvious' it is, you don't need to say anything at all until much later, they can assume all they like!

Snow - LOVE your 'Easter egg' comment!!! hehehe, lets hope there's a bit of magic for us in there. We BD'd mon morn, last night, having tonight off, then again on Thursday night is the plan. Come on eggy!!!!!!!!!!!!