24 weeks!!

Well I am 24 weeks today!!! And wow is it a hot day !!! Very hot! Me and Chloe walked onto town to get some more elastic as I have more material to make more nappies!!! This is becoming slightly addictive!!! I have made one more nappy which is pictured below .. quite impressed really and managed to make the wings crossover!!

Both kids are enjoying the hot weather .. out in the garden most of the day .. we went to Warminster Park yesterday which I will do as another post and add some pictures to it! Anyway since its so hot I am gonna leave it here and find a way to cool down .. heat is not good for this pregnant lady!

Nappies I made!

Heres the nappies I made .. the green one being the first attempt!! Not bad really .. I didn't have any white thread so thats hy you can see the stitching on the velcro .. the first one took a little whicle because was trying towork out the sewing machine and get it all right .. but now have figured it .. the red one took a matter of hours stopping and starting as had Chloe to see to while doing it!!! But yes .. I am quite pleased with them :) I have ordered 3 different fabrics which are waterproof and also a big lot of fleece from ebay to make some more!!! I am enjoying this nappy making thing!!!

Ready to sew ...

The nappy pieces all cut up and pinned together. 3 soaker pads which are 3 layers of towel pinned together. Will then sew the 6 pieces together .. will have to unpin the green fleece from the jersey material to sew the soaker pad to the green fleece. Pin it back together round the edges, sew round the edges leaving a top edge open to turn in the right side out. Sew the elastic where it needs to be . Turn the right way .. stitch the top .. then add the velcro when it arrives!!! Hopefully for a first attempt it will turn out ok!!! We shall see I guess ...

Making Cloth nappies ..

I have decided to have a go at making my own .. I have seen many tutorials online so thought why not!! They seem easy enough to do!!! Anyway I have the materials .. just waiting on sew on velcro to arrive from ebay. I have a sewing machine my mum gave me but it doesn't seem to work properly .. so shes bringing me hers tomorrow to borrow!! Looking forward to it!! Will make them up and then when the velcro arrives just add it to the nappy!! They will be non waterproof ones so will need a wrap with them!! So can't wait to get making!! I will be back later with pics of the mall cut out and ready to sew together!!!

My ENTIRE stash !!!

My ENTIRE nappy stash so far. We have : 18 newborn prefolds and 20 cotton bottoms wraps up to 11lbs. Then there is 21 birth to potty nappies ( 5 being wonderoos) and 1 medium fuzzibunz. 3 tots bots wraps size 2 and 2 tots bots bamboozles size 2. spare inserts (each nappy has 2 inserts so all in all there is 44 inserts and the green and white pile is my homemade fleece liners and there is 36 of those ...

Cloth nappies!!!

Heres a picture of all my cloth nappies, outers, inserts and wraps!! I will make them all up and then take a photo of my stash. I will also add the newborn prefolds to it so I take a picture of my whole stash!!! Then they can be put away til November!!!

Scan pictures!!

Here are our scan pictures to date .. the first picture is our very first scan at 13 weeks. The second and third pictures are our 20 week scan pictures :)

Another update!

Well yet again I have failed at keeping this updated!!!! I really must attempt to at least get a entry in every few nights!!!

Anyway, back with news .. am currently 22 weeks pregnant with our third baby. Baby is due 15th November but will make its appearance between 31st october and 7th November as I'm being induced at 38 weeks due to loosing our first baby at 39 weeks.

So yes, currently 22 weeks. We don't know the gender of baby due to a stubborn husband not wanting to know!!! So we are having a surprise. Pregnancy so far has been good, although the first few months I kept feeling dizzy/lightheaded but that seemed to have subsided at about 14/15 weeks. But if its hot I do still feel a bit off from time to time. Tired is a normal thing for me now .. I seem to be tired all day long but then that comes with being pregnant and running around after a 2 year old all day!

Both other kiddies are fine. Chloe is now potty trained in the day .. she has been for about 3 weeks now. Shes doing really well .. although we do have the odd accidant every now and then if shes too envolved in playing and forgets she needs the loo.

Ryan is ok ... hes been diagnosed as asthmatic so hes got inhalers to do. He has 2 puffs of one morning and night and a nasal spray (1 spray each nostil) every morning. He has another inhaler that he can take up to 4 times a day if he has a bad day with it. But luckily he hasn't had a bad day yet! He has a school trip on Monday coming (18th), they are going to Farmer Palmers.

Other than that its been pretty normal days, housework, school runs, shopping etc!!! So thats it for now!!

Another Update :)

Weeeell .. am now completely tablet free .. no longer being treated for Anxiety!!! YAY!!!! I have been of the tablets for about 2 months now and things are going great!!!

Both the kids are fine... Ryans doing well at school and Chloe is changing and becming so much more independant everyday ... we are starting to potty train her on Monday. We have tried before but she just wasn't ready and was getting herself in a right pickle over having an accidant on the floor poor girl :(

The weather is also begining to get better .. its not as cold anymore, we have had some lovely warm sunny weather which has been lovely!!! But the last 2/3 days its been cloudy and wet .. although not cold.

Chloe will be turning 2 in 10 days time !!!! Can't believe our baby will be 2 .. time has gone so fast!!! So we are preparing for her birthday!!!!

Can't think of anything else to update on as its not really exciting stuff other than the day to day housework and such like!!!!

Be back soon .....

Update on the Anxiety.

Last week (Tuesday I think it was) I had to go back to the doctors for a check up with my anxiety and also to get more tablets, she seemed happy with me and pleased that I am doing ok although she has decided to take me off the tablets slowly. So I am to take the tablets every other day for a month. I'm not really sure as to what will happen after that month. Maybe I will just come off them completely or take them every 2 days for a little bit .. who knows !!!

So far so good on tablets every other day, I have had to shove the thought of "well I haven't had a tablet last night so today will be a bad day" to the back of my mind otherwise I'll be going crazy!! But I have been totally fine .. no anxiety attacks so thats a good thing !!!
Hopefully we have no set backs as I want to get rid of this and just get on with day to day things !!!

But yeah .. so far so good!!!

Christmas Day

Christmas day was FAB !!! We all had a really good time. Tradition for us is the kids open stuff from Santa first and then things from family and friends we open in the afternoon after dinner :)

Once again ...

Its been ages since my last update !!!

First off I hope everyone had a wonderful christmas and new year !?!

I guess a fair bit has happened since last time .. nothing major .. just been busy with the usual day to day things, housework, childcare had a bit of anxiety issues which the doctor seems to have bought out a very mild case of depression.

Also the run up to christmas is always busy .. making sure we have all the prezzies and the decs up and sorted out whos going where and when !! Major manic time !!!

My dad came down for christmas so that was good .. both the kids were excited that he got down .. especially after all the bad snowfall in certian places.

Well update on the Anxiety .. I had a numb arm in september (end of) time .. which was caused by a trapped nerve .. this was diagnosed by a doctor but it still sent me into a state of panic. I went on for a few days and then it went as my dad was down (End of August) .. so was busy and not thinking about it for a week .. he then went back and about a week later it all came back a bit worse .. so admitted to Jon think there was something wrong and hated feeling like this so went back to the docs .. she put me on a course of anti depressants and am still taking one a day now .. now christmas and new year is out of the way I am now starting to take them every other day .. to come off of them. I feel much better although am worried if it will happen again if I am not taking them every day .. which is no problem .. I just have to start taking them every day again if I start to feel off. And then if that does happen I guess we will discuss where we go from there!!! I have my fingers MAJORLY crossed that it doesn't reoccur.

Both the kids are fine .. Ryan is still enjoying school as he always does .. hes doing really well with his work at school and think his favourite lesson is maths .. he has a real head for numbers, he gets that from his dad though!!! Reading he also enjoys and is doing really well with that and moving up stages really quick!! Drawing is another thing he enjoys .. he is FOREVER drawing lorries, shops, dairys and maps !!! The paper is never ending !!!!

Chloe is growing up VERY quick .. she is very independant .. much more so than Ryan was at her age, she understands a lot of simple instructions and says a ton of words and strings sentances together!! She is a right character and is always making us all laugh!!
She will be 21 months old on January 10th .. we are in the process of toliet training her, she is doing very well, no accidants in her pants but we are yet to get anything on the toilet .. shes cheeky and holds it in til nap time when she has her nappy on and then from then she will hold it in til shes in the bath .. tonight I am hoping to catch her while she has a wee and whip her out to finish on the toilet .. I think once she has done it once on the loo she will cotton on quick that is what she is meant to do !! Today is day 4 so it is still quite early .. but at least we haven't had accidants in her pants I guess!!!

Right well mummy duties is calling .. need to sort washing.

I will be back with Christmas pictures !!!!