I Am A Washing Machine

Hmmm, well they tell you that when you have a child you have lots of clothes to wash, though I'd never really realised just how many of my clothes that would involve. I don't think I'd really thought about how much more regularly we should hoover, like after every meal! (and notice I only say should) Also a few wise people dropped hints that we should get a dishwasher but unfortunately we ignored them (we'd just retiled the kitchen floor and couldn't really face ripping it up again to remove the radiator to make room for a dishwasher).
Anyhow, the other day I noticed the big difference with the amount of dishes I was washing, look at them:
I now know why they make kids stuff in bright colours, it's to cheer you up while you're doing your endless rounds of dishes. See when we move house, we're getting a dishwasher.


We've been told by a few people how intelligent Naomi is (you can see it in her eyes you know) and normally I'd agree like the proud little mum I am. I mean the other day I even found her playing the xbox, caught in the act or what. However, before the more eagle eyed of you start panicing and think she's playing an 18 game, Naomi is not as intelligent as she looks and whilst she may have thought she was playing the xbox like daddy, she was actually watching 'that 70s show' like mummy. What a disappointment that must have been, though it may have explained why none of the people were going in the direction she was wanting them to.

Food, not so glorious food

No picture today as I'm at work and not at all organised. I just thought you might like to know that the sandwich of choice for this pregnancy appears to be a blt with mayonnaise (not home made mayonnaise of course, another of those stupid 'foods to avoid' things) on a white roll (it has salad in it, is that not healthy enough for you). The sandwich of choice for the last pregnancy was beef and salad cream (no salad) on a white roll.

So, I'm curious to know, does this mean that I'm going to have a boy or a girl, does it count as eating healthier, does it signify anything important at all or just mean that I'm craving salt again?

Other interesting fact is that I discovered on Tuesday that if I lie on my belly on a hard floor I can feel the baby move. I'm just trying to prepare it for later when there's no room to move in there!

And lastly I thought I should give you an update on Naomi's swimming lessons. She is absolutely loving swimming (and bathtime) at the moment which is fantastic to see. She kicks with excitement the whole time we're in the pool apart from when she's supposed to kick. This is resulting in me getting a bruised belly and again, her sibling being prepared for later life. The coolest 'trick' we've learnt recently (though she's not too sure of it yet) is for Naomi to go on my back and hold on to my neck whilst I swim across the pool! We took her to Leith Waterworld the other week with her cousins and she spent 1/2 hour entertaining the life guards with her jumping into the pool trick (more like toppling in after a lot of excited arm waving). She's also perfecting her royal wave much to people's amusement.

Hmmm, lunch time is over and still 1/4 of a blt left, since when did I eat so slow?

*Useful tip to the QM of first week at camp, always keep some of the leftover breakfast bacon in the fridge as you never know when you may find yourself faced with a very grumpy, heavily pregnant person demanding a blt NOW.

**You may wonder why I am going to be camping when 8 months pregnant, well unfortunately, a few years ago, someone camped right up until they went into labour so in my dad's eyes I have no excuse.

You may remember us talking about a new utensil that we'd found in our kitchen. Later on, we also mentioned that we'd found a handy stand for it, despite its apparent lack of purpose.

Well, it turns out that said utensil is mobile. It turned up in my mum's kitchen the other day, and she managed what we hadn't. Well done to Mum for finding out what the utensil does.

It's a good job we know she can do that. She hadn't let on to us yet. We're working on getting her to do the dishes too; it'll be cheaper than a dish-washer.

Actually, it's interesting to note the cable going into her back. I feel slightly foolish, because we never even thought to plug her in.