Wanna buy a house?

2-bed in Morden, Surrey at a very reasonable price, well situated for commuters, near local schools and amenities... uh... it's actually a really nice house and if it was big enough and could magically be transported up here, we'd live in it instead... but we need a 3-4bed place that isn't 600 miles away... so BUY THIS HOUSE! Please <3

Taylor's sleep is all kindsa screwey at the moment, these blasted canines are taking their sweet time to come all the way through after popping up one after the other within a fortnight of the first. He is a velcro baby when he wakes in the night, so we're trying all the tricks in the book to stop him from waking in the middle of the night in the first place, but you can't put him on IV painkillers for when the teeth decide to randomly hurt, now, can you.

Littlest is growing well and looking very cute already:

MonkeyMinion was dancing around all over the place so the sonographer had to work really hard to measure everything she needed to! It was quite bizarre to see the movement on the screen and feel it at the same time, I'd forgotten that weirdness!

Halfway there!

We are at the 20 week mark today, only another 20 weeks to go!

This is a busy month, really. Private scan at the start of the month (many pictures, that was so cool), and in the coming week I have to take my wee man to the docs for his next round of jabs as well as get my 16w checkup (yes you read that right, apparently I slipped through the cracks over Xmas and new year), and then in the one day the week after we have a dentist appointment for hubby, our anomaly scan AND Taylor's 1 year checkup (2 months late because of again, slipping through the cracks, but hey).

Taylor has had a tummy bug over the last week or so, it started last Saturday. He's mostly fine but has been left with a slight lactose intolerance (which is common in small people after a tummy bug, I did not know that). Hopefully it's a temporary thing, but if not there are many different milk substitutes on the market and I'm sure we can sneak calcium into his diet through non-dairy means. Hubby also got hit with the bug and had to take 2 days off work. Pregnant lady with the duff immune system got some tummy cramps (which felt a lot like early labour) and lost her appetite for 2 days but was just peachy overall, thanks very much.

Now though, I have had a sore throat for 4 days and am starting to feel rather hard done by.

Oh the irony...

The pregnant lady with the weakened immune system was the only one in the household not to be floored by the sickness bug our toddler picked up at a local kiddies get-together last week.

He had full-blown sickness and squits, hubby was off work for two days with the same bug, and what did I get? Reduced appetite for 2 days and some stomach and back cramps... that's IT!

Smug on the one hand, nursemaid/hazmat cleaning lady on the other. Hmmmm.

Toddler is back to normal now, eating properly and generally being a little nonsense, and I think hubby will be back to work without having to worry about the location/occupancy of the nearest loo.

Just in time for me to get another cold. Joy.

A rose by any other name...

We were so jammy. We had names lined up for both girl and boy possibilities.

As soon as we learned that the Minion was a boy minion though, the names no longer fit. They just seemed... wrong, somehow.

Well, crap.

So we've spent the last 5 days poring over various websites, asking friends and strangers for names that are "similar to [this] but not quite, y'know?" and other such vague questions.

We might have a winner. We are trialling it until the anomaly scan later on this month and if it seems to fit him then, well... I for one will be breathing a HUGE sigh of relief.

well and truly outnumbered.

So the lounge will be renamed the "Man Cave" and the toilet is now the "Little Boy's Room". Come June we will be a household of 3 men and a little lady.

Welp, their girlfriends had better be warned, if I can't see them as daughter material then they just ain't gonna be good enough. If they prefer boyfriends, then hopefully one of them will at least have hair long enough to braid. I have an itch to scratch, y'know.

I have a couple of craft projects on the go at the moment, which will give me plenty of time to work out exactly what I'll be making for our little Minion in terms of a blankie - which I have set aside pretty much the whole of May to make. I'll finish off their stool then as well - rainforest frogs, I think... with either a bright green or light blue base.

Halloween is already planned - Troll can be a Jawa and Minion will be the Ewok this year. Sorted. Christmas though... Santa and an elf? Still working on that.

Ideas on a postcard please ;)