babyblog

Illness

Harry caught a nasty cough / virus last week which made him cough so hard he threw up..... he's still snotty and fragile. Dad then caught it. I then caught it. Now Tab has caught it.... arghh.

Lack of updates

Due to Dad visiting and being a bit busy plus RSI really bugging me at the moment.

Life is good. Bought the RV/Caravan, yay. It is sitting in a storage place 15 mins away from home until G gets some practise at reversing it !! We go away for the first time next w/e and I can't wait........ working on buying all the bits & bobs that we need to go in it!

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Tab is well, bum shuffling around and going from sitting to her belly..... still not properly crawling but getting there. Slowly detoxing the dairy from her system and things seem a little bit better on the constipation front. Not great, but she's not so uncomfortable and things are improving.

Dylan appeared in 'High School Musical' yesterday - SO PROUD OF HIM. It was excellent. Will attempt to upload video & photo's at some point. Zac Efron in the making there!

Harry is an Imp! Loving having his Grandad here despite having a nasty cough and cold.... having a fine time playing 'Grandadbusters' -a game they've invented!

RV Shopping

So we're becoming rednecks and buying a "Travel Trailer" for the Americans reading this ....... "Caravan" to you Brits.

It's hard to go on holiday with 3 kids - well it's not hard, but it's expensive. We really need 2 hotel rooms now going anywhere which means $$$$. Let alone flights anywhere.

We've also always enjoyed going away for weekends in the past but that's become more problematic since Tab was born - again from a logistical and financial perspective.

I have good memories of caravan holidays as a kid and I think our kids will LOVE it.... there are a million billion campsites within a few hours of here on beaches, on lakes, in mountains etc. It's also not quite like it was when we were kids - you now have all the electrics, water, waste!, tv, etc hooked up from the park that you go to...... the caravans are HUGE in comparison...etc.

We have found one with a bedroom one end which has 4 bunks - perfect for the kids. There is an adult bed the other end plus loads of dining / sitting space etc.

Got to figure out if we can park the thing on our drive now before we take the plunge!!

Where did katie.com go?

To answer all the queries in one place.... the short answer is, I sold it.

The longer answer is complicated, but basically I haven't really used it properly since the book situation happened. It is only very recently, some years after the whole debacle, that I felt safe enough to put my personal content on the front page and I was quite apprehensive of doing so at all.

I hadn't even used it for email in years because of my inbox being flooded with junk and spam and stories of rape.

It's weird though. Some part of my online identity is tied to that situation, like it or not, because it was such a big deal. I 'fought the good fight' for it and I feel some sense of achievement in that. But at the same time, it interfered with my enjoyment of using Katie.com for the purpose it was intended. However proud I felt to own a first name .com it was always marred by the book thing.

It's bittersweet to give it up.

We have movement!

Tab decided yesterday that it was time to learn to crawl -completely out of the blue! She goes backwards! I don't think it'll be long before she goes forwards though...... babyproofing HERE WE COME. OMG this house is a baby nightmare in terms of small chokable dangerous things....arghhh.