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They keep a fridge in your old room? He should be under the floorboards on a mission!

And you haven't taken one round to your parents' yet to sort out their noisy cricket problem? Shame on you.

I just tried it. Singing "DUNC, DUNC, SUPER DUNC" doesn't make you inebriated at all. Lies. It's all lies!

The cry of many a P&Ber. You should go and find the nocturnal thread if you're staying up.

And here.

Happy birthday Muggy. See, I know mine's a day late too but mine should count because it isn't my birthday today and you haven't wished me a happy birthday on time. Hope you had a good day yesterday. Happy birthday to everyone celebrating theirs today too.

Congratulations Phoenix. Lots of Grandad Phoenix stories to be littering the forum soon then.

Oh heck, it's that time of year isn't it!? I'd not bother this year but the GCs are already beating me to it and I can't have that! I guess I'll be off to the garden centre myself this weekend and then out in the garden to sort it all out while it's sunny and warmish.

Aye, I'm wavering now, trying to remember if we do get that first photo free and pay for any others we want or whether we have to pay for the lot. Only two and a half years since I had my last but I just can't remember well enough. I do seem to think we had to pay for the lot, but maybe I'm wrong. Any other folk out there had babies in England recently and know the position?

Awwwwwwwwwww, that's very sweet of you, honey. You'll be on the first train south tomorrow then, yeah?

:lol: You'd run a mile if anyone so much as joked about that in your direction! Edit: Mopatop - a virtual baby? Now there's a thought. Bet the virtual birth and virtual sleepless nights would beat the real ones hands down.

Are you my ex-husband? He's getting married this year (possibly) and your posts sound about as literate as his would... My children have been asking for another baby, I guess that's me off the hook.

Do you have to pay for the scan photos up there? We do now. Didn't when I had Sam but by the time I was pregnant with Scott I had to pay for it if I wanted to take pics with me. and Ayrgirl - the jellybean shaped blobs on Reina's scan?

Where's Ayrgirl and why hasn't she answered? Has Reina just eaten a few too many Jellybeans? Seriously Reina - that first photo is amazingly clear around the eyes! Fab stuff. Almost makes me want to do it all again. Almost!

You STILL haven't taken him? We had Scott up at Baltic Broadwood in the middle of January when he was just five weeks old. Three layers of clothes, snowsuit, popped him in Moby wrap sling thingy, fastened my coat around us both and off we went. Snug as a bug - he never even noticed. I swear I've only just regained feeling in my feet from that match - it was peeing down and bloody freezing!!! Imagine that. : Such a lovely welcome home at the end of the day, that. Out of interest, why do you attribute the differences in your children to being due to their gender? I've heard so many times people say how different boys and girls are. I can't help but feel it's a little strange. My children are all different. When I had one boy and one girl people would look at the differences between them and put it down to the boy/girl thing. I used to make a point of asking them about it. I guess I just feel that my small family isn't really a big enough random population sample to make that distinction. I found my first two children did things the opposite way round to yours with touching things - it was my daughter who tried to rile me by getting to everything she shouldn't and my son who didn't touch when he knew not to. I love seeing how different they all are. Enjoy it! Hope you're still feeling well just now.

Ah. Didn't realise it was three door. I got on great with my Yaris until my second child was a few months old, but mine was a five door model (the car, not the baby!). I see now why changing your car was the way forward. No more P&B babies arrived yet? It must've been a week or so since the last one.

Haven't stuck my nose in here for ages. Congrats to Half a Person . Why can't people just present options and realise it's not their baby so a. they shouldn't be making the decisions and b. they shouldn't be implementing them!? Grrrrrrr. : Cheers Rowan! That's the first of me seeing that. Over-inflated ego time in my house just now then. How's it going SD? Baby mentioned a growth spurt and let you know about it yet? As a rule if a baby wasn't pooing much even in the first week I'd be wanting to know more. Tiny babies may well not show discomfort if the reason for not pooing isn't down to a blockage or similar. It *may* turn out to be absolutely fine but I'd be looking very carefully at what was happening. Talking through things certainly wouldn't be harmful and there's the potential that no output = need more input, ie baby might need feeding more frequently/effectively. Breastfed babies often poo more frequently than formula fed babies - certainly a mum's early milk contains a laxative effect so although some babies only produce a few in a day other parents find that their breastfed baby might poo at every feed time. Happy days . Would a new car seat not have been cheaper? I've started doing antenatal courses now (was only doing individual classes until recently) and my first two sets of parents had their babies last week. That's about as close as I come to having any baby news.

I've hurt my little finger playing Guitar Hero! On the plus side, I've just completed it on Medium level. It's incredibly hard!

The trouble with these books is that the babies haven't read them! I made an arse of myself recently with my son's year 2 homework (also primary school - he's 6 years old). Aye, he's gorgeous! Congratulations SD. A little belated but this is the first of me seeing this thread for a while. Me too, but you have an excuse!

Having had more than the odd family-related rant on here, I sympathise. The conscience is a real pain in the arse sometimes isn't it!? Edit: Don't go signing any more leases or anything else! Let the buggers fend for themselves.

I didn't do their classes when pregnant myself but have been to the odd one or two since. I believe the NCT's Specialist Workers running those classes are pretty well informed and provide great classes. Especially the ones near to where I live. A very personal decision. I had one with my first and swore never again. Chose home births after that rather than hospital too so that the epidural wasn't even an option. I was early with all three of mine. Ooooooh - I've never read that but could be worth getting for the branch library for the cost it'll be. I was a little paranoid about that before my 12 week scan with my first too!

Why don't you make a curry from scratch then? It really isn't that difficult. I think recipes for it were posted in a thread somewhere here a while back? What's a munchy box? Again...? When was the due date? I assume you've passed it already? :lol:

I'm off to buy my earlies later this week, so I'll be chitting them by the weekend with any luck. Haven't really planned what I'll be planting this year, but the kids enjoyed growing the carrots last year so they'll be on the cards again. I forgot all about the swedes and sprouts being out there. Wonder how they're doing?! Most of their leaves got attacked by slugs last year so I'm not convinced there's going to be anything at all happened under the soil but I'll have to go out there at some point and empty the trugs anyway. I need to be more vigilant against the slugs and snails this year. There was one great big fat slug out there last year - so full with my plants that it could barely move. Just you wait Mr Slug!...

Should've joined us on our wide awake threads. That was the point at which I gave it up too. Enough was enough. Too sad.

Right there! That! I can't bear it! "Credit crunch" my arse. Bloody stupid bloody phrase, that is! Whoever invented it wants shooting. Stopped watching it years ago for that very reason. Went to my friend's this afternoon to say goodbye as she's away after the weekend - moving out there for good. No doubt I'll speak to her more on MSN this way than I have done in person the last year anyway.