Does anyone blog anymore!?

Right well I was considering setting up another blog - reasons I won't go into at the moment but then I though why bother with another one with another theme when I can't blog on my own one!!!

So thats when I thought I would look at all the other blogs I read and low and behold no one else has posted for a while- should I continue with this or not. I would like to continue as I am sure it will be lovely for the girls to look back on when they are older and see what they did when- thats if blogs are still going then!!! Something else will be the craze then!

So a lot has happened since my last blog, birthdays, Christmas, a wedding, more birthdays and I am pregnant again with baby number 3. Morning sickness this time around has been something else, although my tastebuds are back now which is good, I was barely eating the first 8 weeks I knew I was pregnant. It hasn't helped that I have had cold after cold after cold plus tummy bugs and all sorts of other viruses. My bump seems to have grown quickly this time too, I am astonished at how big I am for 16 weeks! Maternity clothes and everything!! I wonder if the different things happening will mean its a boy?? Who knows (bets can be taken now- we won't be finding out) I would like it to be a boy as it would sort of complete the family, nice for the girls to have a little brother they can boss about! I am not bothered obviously if its a girls and its not like we haven't got any clothes for a girl! Only time will tell I suppose.

So Millie started walking over Christmas and seems like she has walked forever now, she loves being able to follow Martha around and Martha loves having someone to boss around too! They both love playing together and most of the time I can leave them to do so without worrying about them. I am not sure who leads who astray the most as you can tell Martha bosses Millie around from what she is saying but then I think if Millie is doing something that Martha thinks is a good idea she will just copy. Like last night when I left them upstairs playing, I should have known they were too quiet. When I did go upstairs they had plastered themselves in sudocrem and half the room. I managed to stay quite calm about it all- no point shouting and screaming about it- me and my sister were the same and no harm was done really.

There are loads of other things that have happened since my last post but seeing as my blogs do tend to go a bit I am not going to even attempt to go into all the things.

Liams sister Lisa got married in February and we all had a lovely day, both Martha and Millie were bridesmaids and loved every minute of it, Millie spent most of the day going round kissing people. How cute!

Martha and Millie have both had chicken pox the last few weeks, Millies spots still a bit scaby but Marthas are fading more and more each day.

Millie not talking a lot more than my last post but we are trying our best to encourage her, I think its worse because we know what Martha could say by this age, give it another month and at Millies age Martha could pretty much count to 10 in English and Welsh.

My Welsh classes are still going well, since the start of the year though I have done the bare minimum needed for class but now I am feeling better I know I need to get my head down a bit more. Plus I am sitting an exam that goes with the course in June.

We have booked a holiday to France for a couple of weeks at the end of May, its creeping up on us slowly, well quite quickly actually- I think 3 weeks today we are there. We have had some lovely weather recently so hopefully it will stay nice while we are away. We had okish weather last year in France and the year before in Devon well what can I say it was horrible- thirs time lucky?

So I am going to leave it there for now but I might just spur some of you other bloggers out there to post again soon!!?? Who knows when I will be on here next but hopefully not in 6 months time and a bit before then!

Cuddles

All my favourite friends!

First steps

Changes

Its only been a month since I last posted on here but even in that short space of time things change. Millie can now say Mum finally, only taken her 13 months- I think Martha does all her talking for her, Martha picked up words a lot quicker but they are all different aren't they. She is also standing on her own now but then she comes down onto all fours, I think she might wait till she is steady on her feet to walk. Martha was somewhere between 16 and 17 months before she walked and when she went she was steady I am hoping Millie will do the same, not sure I am ready for the bumping into everything and falling over!!! She has been terrorising Martha lately, they both want what the other one wants and if its Millie wanting something then she goes straight for Marthas hair and pulls it hard. I tell her she isn't to pull hair but the little cheeky one thinks its hilarious!!! Poor Martha!! Martha was sitting in her chair the other day and Millie climbed up next to her and then pulled her hair for her to get off!!! She has also pushed Martha off the couch!! Its fair to say Millie is definitely her own little person now and definitely knows her own mind. Its funny cos when Millie was born I sort of forgot she would grow to do the things Martha does. Now its lovely she is becoming more and more independent and they do play together lovely most of the time. Well I think Martha bosses Millie around!! All good fun!

All the birthdays have come and gone and now I need to decide what we are going to do about Marthas 3rd birthday?? There is a soft play place we could hire out but not sure if i should just invite a couple of her friends over!!! Well got a few weeks to decide!

Welsh is gonig well, it is quite intense but its fair to say I am at a bit of an advantage on some of the other people in the class, there are a few English people learning and there is a girl from Hong Kong!! I think that this will help me a bit as it will mean there will be times it has to go slower for the others and therefore its a bit gentler. I had some friends over yesterday afternoon and one of them was speaking in welsh to her daughter and I understood what she said- I was so pleased. I think hearing Welsh around and about will be great but will need the confidence to actually speak it! Anyway got Welsh again tomorrow morning so have to go and do my homework! Its like being in school again!!! Hope to sort out my September pics and put them up soon.

Just a beautiful girl!!!

Birthday cakes

A mixed bag!

Well that was a long few days!!! But busy too!
So lets start with my health problems. I had some more tests not long after I had posted on here, one of which was a cancer test, I was given the name of it as the doc I was dealing with was away during the time I had had the tests so that I could ask the receptionist about the results. Unless you know the names of specific tests they don't know anything. Anyway its a ca125 which is for ovarian cancer. I had thought that it probably wasn't that serious as my pain had gone away and come back- guessing that if it was something like cancer that I wouldn't have got better?? I did a bit of research on the internet and apparantly the test can show high for a number of reasons including having your period or anything gynaecological. So well anway results come through and receptionist says doc wants to speak to me about them, guessing they weren't clear, this was a tues pm, next day I could speak to her was Thursday, so a couple of worrying days even though I didn't think its that serious. Basically the results came back borderline, the doctor spoke to the lab and said the same as what I had already read on the interent that they can be high for anything but she also said that if it was likely to be cancer then it would be sky high. The next week I had another ultrasound scan where they scanned lots of my organs- all clear. So then it was a case of waiting for appointments with the specialists. I saw the general specialist in the middle of August and he said he was quite worried about the levels showing high in my blood but pointed out that its just an indicator showing something is wrong but not what. He suspected that he might need to do a laparoscomy and initial thoughts were that he would end up taking my appendix out. However he lay me down and was able to induce pain which led him to believe that it was most likely a ruptured rectus abdominus (stomach muscle). He still wants me to see the gynacologist and he has said if the pain persists he would still perform a laparoscomy. He said that normally these things take 12 -18 months to heal, if this is the same thing I had when I was in hospital before I had Millie then I am down 12 months already. I am not convinced as my periods are all over the place and also I do have pain the other side sometimes. I wish I had thought of these things whilst I was there to ask him but thats typical I suppose. So where are we, well pain is a lot lot better and sometimes I feel a niggle and then other times it can be quite painful and then other times nothing. I am now waiting for the appointment for the gyny. Watch this space!!
So what else is news, well Millie was 1 yesterday!!! Can't believe its been a whole year since she was born, so much has happened and she is really starting to blossom into a little monkey!! She is so cheeky. So is crawling, cruising and climbing!! Martha was never a climber so this is something new to us, eyes in the back of our heads are needed- if anyone knows where we can get these let us know! We did have a little get together with some of the family yesterday but she had a shared party with one of her little friends last week.
Millie has recently got into sucking the tag on her blanket when she is in her cot and using it like a dummy. I have decided enough is enough and have taken it away from her- she now looks for taggies on anything and everything!! It takes her seconds to find a tag on a toy now and starts sucking it- I am glad I didn't go with the dummy when she little as I am convinced she would have been a thumb sucker like Martha! Speaking of which the dentist has said we need to encourage her to stop!! Easier said than done! We are currently trying with the star charts but its hard going and doesn't seem to be working- anyone know of a good way of stopping a child sucking their thumb. There are times when she tries really hard and then others when she doesn't at all- ike when she is tired and needs a good ol suck!! Its so infuriating as I can see the way her teeth are forming and if something is not done sooner rather than later I know she will need some form of dentist/ orthadontic work.
Liam worked from home a couple of weeks during the school holidays which was lovely for all of us. The first week he did it felt like a week, however the second time it felt like a month and was sad seeing him go back to work last Tuesday after the bank holiday weekend. Martha has also found it harder this time and asked for Daddy quite a few times. She has started back a cylch though so at least that occupied her a little more. She was mostly good going last week apart from the first day hen she cried. There were a lot of children crying there last week when I was leaving so not sure how long she will last being good for. I do have a friend (who Martha knows) who is starting work there tomorrow so that might help her. Fingers crossed.
We have started the run of 1st birthdays a couple of weeks ago and have been to 2, one was shared with Millie. We have another 3 to come of the the next few weeks and also my grans 90th next weekend and a wedding at the start of Oct. So all in all a busy few weeks ahead for us all. I wasn't going to do anything major for Martha with her friends this year but with all these parties she keeps asking when hers is!? Will have to see nearer the time.
For Millies shared birthday party Liam made her a cake, I too then made one for her this weekend. I must say we did very well. We did have a mould but aside from that I think we did a very good job! I think I might continue in the future too! Will see. Speaking of hobbies I am going to start learning Welsh, I was able to drop it when I was in my first year of secondary school, something I deeply regret now but hindsight is a wonderful thing. With Martha going to a welsh school and quite a number of people in the area speaking Welsh I think it will be a great benefit. I would have started this time last year but wasn't able to. Be careful if I do well I might blog in Welsh! I think thats enough for now and will put some pics up later on.