babyblog

What to write about?

My mother told me off yesterday for only ever writing about medical type stuff on here! Thing is, I find it quite hard sometimes to know what to write about. I find that the more complicated stuff there is going on in my life (and one would think, the more to write about), the less I want to write about it so I fill up entries with inane snippets of things, mostly related to what it's like to be however many weeks (18 weeks!!) pregnant.

I don't like to write about things which are too personal. I don't like to write too much about things which are happening here unless they're done and dusted, for privacy reasons. I don't feel comfortable writing about my relationship with G or my friends (because they read it)....basically I guess this is not a personal diary and if anyone is reading it expecting to know what is going on in our lives they will be given a very sanitised very tiny weeny window into 10 seconds of a day, if that!

So I apologise if anyone else is bored by what I'm writing... LOL. I'm just trying to focus on it being a pregnancy diary at the moment because there's too much else to write about that I can't or won't write about, so I do apologise if it's tedious! If you want to know more about us, give me a ring, email me, or IM me :)

That said, I'm going to write now about the utterly thrilling topic of potty training again!

Harry is mastering it like a pro, I'm so proud of him. We did 2 mornings last week and then we've done 2 again this week and he's absolutely got that if he needs a wee, he goes to the potty and does it...... then shouts I DID IT!!!!!! and is extremely proud of himself! We have yet to experience the poo situation but today I'm determined he is not going to nap nor put anything on so I think the inevitability is that we are going to experience a poo at some point today! The only concerns that I have of this training so far are that he has no experience of wearing underwear (he's walking around with no pants on) nor being further than 2 feet from the potty.... but I suppose those things will come. Oh and the fact that occasionally he thinks he has to sit on it for 2 hrs at a time incase he wee's! Today he went downstairs and then got very concerned that he didn't have the potty with him and cried I WANT POTTY, but to be fair when I brought it down to him he immediately sat on it and did a wee :) In other news, his vocabulary has come on absolutely dramatically in the last couple of weeks. He is incredibly chatty.

Dylan is approaching his 8th birthday next week (8?!?! how did that happen) and is excited about his party. We've rented a party venue full of giant inflatable bouncing type structures and he's invited a bunch of friends from school and cubs. Incidentally I'm cross with said because only half of the 30 which we invited have bothered to respond. How rude! Anyway at least he has 17 coming, all of whom are the ones he is closest to, so that's good... although I had to chase by email to get most of those to answer me. People really are crap. G's cupboard is currently full of pressies that have arrived for D..... I hope he enjoys his birthday this year, it's hard to get presents for him so soon after Christmas but I think he'll be pleased with a loot of new games for his Nintendo and books and similar.

Pregnancy wise, the 'fat shelf' above my belly button continues to grow by the inch every day while the expected bump in the lower region continues to stay exactly the same as it was on day 1. It's extremely bizarre. I have another scan in a couple of weeks - fingers crossed the baby is growing as she should be! I have no reason to assume otherwise but I can't help but be slightly paranoid especially as my health issues can lead to this exact problem. I'm stilly really not feeling much, if any, movement. I feel a little I think, on rare occasions, but still not a great deal. The placenta position explains this but it's unnerving nonetheless. Especially when you consider that I could feel Harry bumping around from 12 wks onwards.

G meanwhile is continuing to work on the doorways downstairs. He's made great progress but there's still 3 or 4 more to do (out of 9) and those are the trickier ones as they're not 'standard' size. Once they are done we can focus on ripping out the contents and walls in the hot tub room and getting the drywallers in to convert it into a real room. Then the 'library' can be temporarily moved in there so that we can convert the room which it is currently in, into the nursery :) As this pregnancy is flying past at an enormous rate of knots I am freaking out that it won't be done in time!