Well, it was my turn to be up early with the boys - I can’t complain, Max seems to be sleeping through now and Zack didn’t wake til 8am. I got both changed and dressed and there began our quest - Day Two of Potty Training the Toddler.

He had an accident almost straight away - he did tell me he needed but just couldn’t hold on in time for me to get him into the bathroom for his potty. No problems, we just cleaned him up and popped on some freshy undies and trousers. He’s been on the potty 6 times today and only one minor accident during that time.  He’s even done some poos in there… I was tempted to take a picture for you but I figured there are lotsa people who do that already

We finally got the front garden cut today - a combo of J trying to get our ickle flymo to work, which got us most of the middle done, and our neighbour who had one of those uber strimmers for major gardening, he seemed pretty happy to help us out and did right around the edges for which I’m sooo grateful, we’d never have got it done otherwise!

Zack was outside all afternoon, came in around 4.30pm, had some food, decided to go to his room and was fast asleep on his bed 5 minutes later. Bless him he was totally shattered. I’m gonna regret leaving him there at 6am tomorrow, but there was no point in waking him - he was totally gone!

This evening the cat-lady came and went over all the ‘advice’ for taking care of the cat, inspected the back garden etc.  The main thing she kept saying over and over again was “MUST NOT BE LEFT OUTSIDE UNSUPERVISED!”. I nodded and agreed to it but for goodness sake - it’s a cat, they’re MEANT to be allowed outside aren’t they?? It’s what they DO! Just not for the first month or so to make sure he knows where home is…

SO! That means I get to pick up lil Gizmo tomorrow - YAAAAAAAAAY!!!!! /happydance SQUEEEEEEE *jumps around like a happy-mad-woman*! Gotta go pick up a litter tray etc tomorrow morning before I go down to get him. Can you tell I’m excited? CAN YOU?? I’m gonna keep the name Gizmo, my brother had a cat named Gizmo once, so it’ll always remind me of him, since I don’t get to see him much. (The brother, I can’t really remember the cat).

I’m gonna have more camera-fodder! Ahem, I meant… a new wonderful addition to our family, of course!

Signed up for Plurk this
morning, oh what a silly
thing to do - great fun!

I saw that all the cool kids were doing it and thought I’d jump on the bandwagon this morning so I signed up for Plurk. Didn’t *really* think I’d bother that much about it, but 2 hours after I first logged on I was still there, chatting away. How the h3ll am I supposed to make time for ANOTHER (micro-)blogging addiction?!

SO anyhoo, if you haven’t found me yet, or haven’t even given it a try, go on - you just might like it! Oh, and feel free to add me to your list!

We did THE SHOP this afternoon. You know the one… the monthly UBER SHOP OF DOOM that makes you want to never see a grocery store again? Especially when you wait til AFTER the baby has his nap and end up being stuck there during prime-shopping-time, right after the schools are out. GAAAH. I don’t even want to look at the receipt, I have a feeling Zack put some extra things in there… and so it begins *sigh*. At least he didn’t have too much of a meltdown til we were at the checkout. Why is it always at the checkout? Huh?

I PLURKED about that when I got back… it was fun. You should go check it out, and I should get paid for this blurb, seriously!

J made dinner tonight (chicken fajita’s) and Zack actually ASKED to go to bed early cause he was sleepy :O

Max was asleep by 6.30pm, Zack was out by 7pm, and J was glued to his pc for a night of raiding on Warcraft (I know that sounds sucky to some people but I understand live the obsession… what do you think I’ve been doing in the evenings lately?!) - nice evening all in all.

So now it’s time for a (relatively) early night for me - oh, did I mention that MAX SLEPT THROUGH AGAIN last night? No? Well he did - WOOT!! I’m hoping he’ll do it again tonight… time will tell n all that

Yay it’s the weekend!!

The past week I have only just remembered to post with half an hour to go until I would technically ‘miss’ a day.  So silly as then I end up rushing what I’m writing and don’t remember everything I’ve wanted to say!

We’ve had a lazy day here. Took Zack out in the garden and he and next door’s lil boy wanted to go out the back to the communal garden that we share with all the other flat in our area. What did I see when we went out there? Two bin bags had been ripped open and their contents (including a bin-ful of Max’s nappies, an old TV that had been bashed and broken into pieces, and various other rubbishy things) were all over the pathway between our bedroom window and what would have been next door’s kitchen.

Come to think of it I should have taken before and after pictures, but I was kind of busy keeping the boys away from it all while deciding how I could go about cleaning it up. I ended up getting on old clothes, finding a pair of gardening gloves and pulling two of the wheelie-bins out the back to put all the rubbish into. Really hope I don’t have to do that again anytime soon, but one of the women who lives up the stairs came down to help me out and swept the paving once I’d finished clearing away the rubbish so even if the two of us can keep at it, hopefully the place will be a bit cleaner and nicer for everyone who lives here.

One of Zack’s new phrases is “Oh FINE then” when I ask him (usually repeatedly) to do something like tidy up his toys, eat his dinner, pretty much anything to be honest. He has gone past the ‘cute’-terrible-two’s and is definitely moving into the obnoxious toddler that I often want to shut in a (padded) cupboard. This is usually when I bring out something that he’s been asking for over and over and OVER again, for him to then say “This is BO-ring…”. I don’t *really* want to ring his neck… honest… it’s just that when he starts shouting mummymummymummymummy repeatedly, in my ear, for no reason other than he wants to annoy me (or so it would seem), well, those of you who have toddlers can imagine I’m sure

Luckily Max has been being pretty totally and utterly cute, including sleeping til past 8am for the past few nights, maybe waking at 4am for half a feed and then back asleep for longer - long may that last!! PLEASE let it last!

I’ve had a couple of perkier days (get yr mind above it those who thought I meant bewbs… if you want them go here!) which has been pretty nice, feeling more relaxed and like myself. I wonder if the fact that I’ve not been doing the night-feeds has anything to do with that?

J seems to be ok, but whenever I try to bring up the “so, what’s happening, how are you feeling about work etc” type conversation it seems to be steered away from that topic, or just stopped short. I know you don’t really want to think about it honey but we do need to sit down and talk about this stuff to come up with a game-plan or something. And by we, I do mean BOTH of us, ok? *huggles*

Oooh and did I tell you about my new phone? My contract was up for renewal and as I’m happy with the service I was happy to just keep going with what I have already. With that they gave me an upgrade completely free, so I now have a Sony Ericsson K850i. Seems pretty good so far and I’m enjoying playing with the camera, I’ll post some videos and pics from it when I manage to get around to figuring out how to get them from the phone to the laptop!

…when you’re broody as hell.

First of all, just so you (my parents) don’t get all worked up (sorry but it’s true! ) I am NOT pregnant and I am NOT INTENDING to get pregnant in ANY way, shape or form. I PROMISE.  So you really, REALLY don’t need to tell me that it’s a bad idea - I already KNOW that!

Ok, disclaimer out of the way.

So, let’s start with a list of the bloggers I know of who are preggers at the moment (lucky b!tchs!!!)…

There’s Laura from Oraeley who’s due date is today - come on Carly, make everyone jealous of your mummy by coming out ON TIME!!!!!

Then there’s the OTHER Laura, from Synchronization of Us, you’ll get your sexing scan soon sweety ((hugs)).

Fern from Not Nigella is also up the duff (don’t you just love that phrase? ).

Then there’s Taz, Veronica, and now RACHAEL from Antithete has decided to join the cool kids and has announced her pregnancy too.

Now, come ON girls! This is just! not! fair!

I already have a real LIVE new baby up the stairs from me (and ohhhhh she is SOOOO CUUUUUUTE!!!), so I really DON’T NEED THIS NOW!!

I must NOT be broody.  Do you know WHY? Cause I can’t handle the pregnancies.  I am one of those people who actually enjoys the giving birth (not when I’m in it, obviously), and isn’t too fussed about the after-effects, new baby etc… I can deal with all that. What I can’t deal with is even the thought of going through the pain I had during my pg with Max again. SPD is EVIL to me. I *should* have been on crutches for the last couple of months of Max’s pregnancy, but I decided what was the point since I couldn’t really GO anywhere anyway. I was housebound, with a toddler, in extreme pain, and I couldn’t move without crying. Really, it was THAT sore.

I don’t EVER want to go through that pain again, so much so that I will settle with having my two boys, who I love to pieces and am SO lucky to have. I just wish there was a way to pass my uber fertility to someone else who would WILL make a great daddy one day.

So, no more kids for me, even though I would love to have them, I just couldn’t do that again. It wouldn’t be fair on J, on the boys, or on my body. It does hurt a little though, to know that I won’t be having any more. Especially when I see so many all around these days…

Mind you, they do say… “never say never”… don’t they?

Don’t feel well… I was in bed fast asleep by 9pm last night cause I just wasn’t feeling right. Not a cold, or stomach bug or anything, the closest I can come to describing it is similar to the SPD pain I used to get, but more of a dull ache rather than excruciating pain. Still feel a bit icky, so here’s a filler…

I keep thinking about taking a proper ‘break’ from the blog, but I just can’t tear myself away from putting up something, even a filler, every day. I’m almost a full 5 months through Blog365 - it’d be stupid to ruin it now,right? Right??