Hi everyone,
Just thought I would pop in and say a huge HI!!!!
Kass - How's the pg treating you. Livvy loves coming and rubbing my belly and looking at the ultrasound photos. Are you starting to feel better about your and Annabelle's connection?
Sangie - Best of luck with your scan tomorrow. I'm sure your bubba is going to be perfect and you're going to love seeing bubby. An elmo party sounds fantastic. I have no idea what I'm going to do for Livvy. We'll have a joint party again. I'll do this for a few more years until she understands it better plus hopefully it will distract from it being my 30th. We'll probably do the same kind of thing as you. Lunch/arvo tea at home.
D - How you feeling gorgeous? Getting the nursery all organised? Have you decided if you are going to move M into his own room or not?
Ash - I'm so jealous that Blake is toilet trained. Olivia isn't even close to it. Looks like next summer it will be unless she decides she wants to earlier.
Tan - Hope Izzy is feeling better soon? Another cold or something a little more?? How is James going?
Shell - Hope everything is going well for you.
As for us nothing real exciting going on. Like all the other todders Livvy is growing up so damn quickly I just can't keep up with her. She is finally starting to get clear words at long last. She has always been babbling but no really clear words. I have to admit this is a huge relief as I was really starting to worry. She has settled really well into her bed and just loves it. We have taken the cot out of her room and put it in the nursery and she couldn't care less. We are having huge problems with her biting when she doesn't get her own way or what she wants. Time out doesn't seem to be helping but we'll perserve and stick with it. Fingers crossed she grows out of it soon. She is back at swimming and loving it if she gets to swim with daddy, mummy not so much, LOL!!! Apart from that she is just an active gorgeous little toddler filling my days with chasing her around, LOL!! I am loving it I must admit!!!
This pg is going really slowly!! I guess cause we already have everything and it is already dumped in the nursery. I'm getting quite a belly on me and no-one can believe I'm only 23 weeks. I think I'm going to have another biggie. Our 20 week scan went brilliantly and bubba is growing perfectly and is healthy YAY!!!! We didn't find out the sex but the baby did a leg spread and I'm positive I didn't see anything but Dave swears he saw some dangling bits. God we have no idea what we were looking it, LOL!! I keep watching it to see if I can pick but nope not getting any closer, LOL!! We have started talking about names but we aren't getting very far at all. This poor little bugger isn't going to have a name anytime soon. Thank God we still have heaps of time.
I'm going shopping for some curtains (hopefully cheap ones ) because our ducted heating is getting put in tomorrow so I need to help it out a little bit and cover our huge windows with some half decent window coverings but the budget isn't huge.
On a side note do you guys use a budget at all? I've got all our expenses and income written down but I don't know how to implement it and stick to it. How do I get my grocery bill down too? I struggle especially since I'm an average cook ans struggle to make things from scratch. I always seem to have forgotten something. We are incredibly lucky that our income exceeds our expenses but I want to save as much as we possibly can. Any tips ladies? I don't know what I'm doing wrong .

I had better go and do some housework. The sheets needs to be changed desperately and I have to rewash all my clothes on the lines as smoke haze came over last night and it all stinks of smoke now, bugger!! Looks like the tumble dryer
I'll pop in a bit more and avoid the other threads.

Have a great day ladies,
Dan.