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Hello!

Well Evan is nearly 3 months old now, so perhaps its time I blogged! They are actually both asleep at the same time which is rare, so I have a few minutes, in between all the washing, tidying etc. Evan is a real cutey which some of you may have seen on my Facebook site. He smiles and even laughs sometimes which is very funny! He only wakes up once a night now, but madam Megan has been insistent on waking at 5am recently, which is not fun! So I should be asleep right now if I had any sense!

Megan is being very amusing at the moment and talks constantly! She loves Evan very much and likes to share her toys. I'm sure that wont last! She likes to sing nursery rhymes in the car and likes to make cups of tea for everyone! We are also potty training her at the moment, as she kept taking her nappy off every time she did a wee! So we couldn't delay it any longer. She's doing very well so far, as long as I remind her to go!

Our antenatal group is starting to get a bit rowdy around peoples houses, with 5 two year olds, so we have started taking them to a toddler group instead. But it is still hard to have a conversation with your friends so I think I'll have to start a monthly girls night down the pub so we can actually talk to each other!!

Duncan is starting a new job near Chiswick next month, so that will be exciting. And they are sending us on a short break to Barcelona for 3 nights! He goes to a conference and I go sightseeing round the lovely architecture! Can't wait! And the kids stay with the grandparents! Hope they still want to look after them when we get back!!

Better go now. Baby to feed and toddler to amuse! Perhaps I could train M to feed E! Then I could get stuff done!! Ta ta for now!

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Baby Evan has arrived!

After a few days deliberating, we have decided to call him Evan Mark Hughes. (yes there is some welsh family on Duncan's side). We are all doing well and enjoying having a new baby in the house again. He has been very good, apart from a bit of wind now and then. My milk supply is so forthcoming it is causing him to gulp down too much air! Megan is loving having a new brother but can be a bit heavy handed with him now and then!

If you are interested in hearing about my short labour then read on! At about 7.30pm on Halloween I was reading Megan a bedtime story and was getting the odd twinge. By 8pm she was asleep and I new that the baby was on its way so I got the tens machine on and sat on the fitball! Then I got Duncan to get all the bags together and tried to take my mind off it by watching some football! Within an hour the contractions were 5mins apart so we decided to go to the hospital. We had to drop Megan off at Mum's on the way because Mum had gone dancing with the car and without her mobile! By the time we got to the hospital they were coming every few minutes. Luckily the hospital was quiet so we got a home from home room but the midwife didn't seem to be in any hurry because my waters hadn't broken! So by the time she'd faffed around a bit the contractions were coming once or twice a minute. She got me on to the bed to check how far dilated I was and said that I could start pushing now! So I did, and in two pushes he was out!! It sounds easy, but the pain was intense! I did get some gas and air but not a lot!
He fed for quite a while afterwards then we got our tea and toast but no jam! Disappointing!
Evan had lots of dark hair and looked a lot like Megan did when she was born. He is gorgeous! And I was right about him being a boy!

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It's A Boy!

After a labour lasting less than 2 hours, (and just 10 minutes after arriving at hospital!), Katy gave birth to a baby boy at 9:59 last night. Name yet to be decided - he has a full head of hair, (though sadly he does appear to have my hairline), and weighed in at 8lb 3oz.

Both Mother and Baby are doing well.

2 weeks to go!

I can't stop eating chocolate! Hope it doesn't do any permanent damage to the baby!! I got given a lot for my brithday, plus a huge chocolate cake, which Megan is doing her best to help me with. But even she is getting fed up with it and finding it more fun to put dabs of chocolate all over her face instead!!

I know I havent posted for a while, so havent mentioned M's birthday. She had a lovely time and got lots of presents but we didnt have an official party as such, because she had a group one with my antenatal friends. I also made her a train cake out of swiss rolls and trucks with smarties in them! See, art college wasnt' a total waste of time!!

I went out for two dinners for my birthday (greedy!) plus I'm going out again this saturday with the girls so being big doesn't seem to be hindering my appetite luckily!

My tens maachine has now arrived so I'm ready! Just need the car seat down from the loft and we're set! Getting excited! But the double buggy hasnt arrived yet. Any day now apparently!

I have just eaten 4 chocolates while writing this!! Naughty!

8 weeks to go!

Well the new bed for Megan is going down well, touch wood! She has been going to bed much easier, even too early sometimes! And has slept much better, but now I've said this the opposite will probably happen!

I think I've found most of the baby stuff that I'd stashed away in the loft, so we are nearly ready. Just need to clear out some more junk from the spare room. We've got a desk which I could get rid of on 'freecycle' but I keep forgetting my yahoo ID & password! Wrote it down somewhere!

Saw an article at the weekend about outsourcing all your little jobs that need doing to other people in india etc, sounds tempting, wish someone could read my mind so that they can do my ocado shopping for me and know what i need!

Megan is learning so many words at the moment it's amazing! She even said 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, when she was coming down the stairs! And she can just about put a whole sentence together. And she is starting to colour in inside the lines! Very clever girl!

2 months to go!

Only 10wks left before the baby comes! Not very ready yet, but there's still plenty of time isn't there!! Megan is very excited and kisses and cuddles my bump all the time! At the moment Duncan has persuaded her to call it Bazooka!! Rest assured this will not be it's name!

Megan has been kindly getting us ready for our sleepless nights, by refusing to go to bed before 8.30 and waking up at about 4 or 5 in the morning! We are contemplating converting her cot into a bed so that it's easier to comfort her back to sleep if she wakes, and she might like her bed more. But then she could fall out, so you can't win either way!

Grey hair!

Okay, I must be getting old! I found a grey hair this morning! And pulled it out pretty sharpish! Gah!
We got back from our hols in the lakes on friday. We had a great week but it took us 10hrs to get home because of the floods!! Not fun! Luckily we had plenty of snacks in the car! 'Be prepared' think that's the girl guides motto!
Megan got her first visit to the sea at Morecombe on the way up. And we saw lots of animals at various farms, as well as boat trips, swimming and an aquarium. I was a bit worried about our first family holiday but it went better than expected. Although it wasn't very relaxing, it was good to spend time together.
I'm now 24wks preggers and alls well. The baby seems to kick alot more than Megan did. But my memory is hazy!

July already!

Well i'm 21weeks now and my stomach measures 39in which is nearly a metre round!! And I've put on about 7kg! I feel so big and I've still got over 4months to go!

Megan is getting into her testing faze! If you say 'no' she does it anyway and smiles! She wants to do everything herself and she is always going on about seeing the baby and or all her friends! Obviously playing nicely at home with mummy and the play-doh is not interesting enough! And then there is the tantrums interspersed with angelic cute behaviour! I didn't quite believe a friend who said that it gets harder as they get older! But perhaps I've just forgotten how bad sleep deprivations is!! Still, won't be long till I'm reminded! Lets see if I can avoid a nervous breakdown with no sleep and a screaming 2 year old!!! Ok that's my pregnant winge out of the way!

June already!

Megan is getting quite funny these days. She picks up new words everyday and chatters on endlessly about whats going on around her as well as who she's going to see. She loves playing with the babies at nursery and likes play with her doll a lot. She also loves drawing, purple is still her favourite colour! She can do the actions to her favourite songs - wind the bobbin, row row, twinkle twinkle and wheels on the bus! She's not too keen on getting her hands dirty but she likes to clean and tidy! I've already trained her to put dirty clothes in the washing machine, shame she's not strong enough to turn it on!

20months

Megan had a great afternoon at Zoe's 1st birthday party today. They had a bouncy castle, a playhouse in the corner of the garden, a paddling pool and plenty of sausages and cake! Her favourite things!! She did end up very wet and started copying the older kids/adults when a water fight ensued! So mummy got a bit wet too!