Off on holiday!!

Just a quick blog before we're off to Devon in the morning.
I'm nearly all packed up apart from what we have to pack in the morning.
Unfortunately I managed to tred on an old rusty nail while going back and forth down side ally to car but have checked and am up to date on my tetnus until 2012!
Oliver had his second set of injections today, abi got really upset bless her but the nurse gave her some sweets and she was soon ok!
Oliver did his best ever night last night lets hope it continues - he went to bed at 8pm woke at 4.58am had a bottle then went back down till 8.30am!! He now weights 11lb 1oz!! just hit the 5kg mark! What a little porker!
Right better get on so much to do and think about. Won't be able to blog from devon but promise to blog when we get back

Frogs and more family time

Oliver filling out his moses basket

My arm after having my contraceptive implant fitted
The frog Abi and I found doing the gardening
Abi Asleep in car on way back from Ed's Grandmas
Oliver on his play mat (see the blured legs he was so excited he was kicking her legs)
Oliver in his big boy cot!
Chubby boy

We've had another nice week the summer holidays have just flown by I can't believe its 2 weeks till ed goes back to work!!
Monday I had clinic and Ed had Abi and Oliver.
Tuesday Abi and I went to see Milkshake live at the cliffs Pavilion (see previous separate post)
Wednesday Ed was in work and I spent the day sorting out all the things that had sold on ebay and parceling them up getting them to post office etc - so far we have made £500 selling stuff on ebay :-) I'm addicted now ed thinks he'll come home one day and the house will be empty LOL Then we all slept for 3 hours in the afternoon till Ed came home. In the evening I had puppy training
Thursday Ed was at work again as the A level results came out Mum came with me into town in the morning to sort a few bits then I met Beccy and Eleanor in the afternoon at the park we let the girls use up some energy for an hour!
On Friday we dropped off mine and Olivers repeat prescriptions ready for Holiday and then went off to Southend again but this time to see Ed's grandma. We had a Toby Carvery lunch which was lovely.
Today I had a really lazy morning I just couldn't be bothered to do anything but finally kicked myself into gear and had quite a proactive afternoon doing some gardening with abi finding the frog! Doing 2 loads of washing and cleaning my bathroom so am feeling pleased all be it shattered this evening.

Milkshake Live

Noddy and Tessie Bear
Fifi and Bumble
Rupert Bear
Peppa Pig and George
Ashton and Eleanor sharing a pushchair
Noddy and Rupert Bear


Unfortunately the photos haven't come out that well. But we went off to Southend on Tuesday to see Milkshake Live Milkshake is the cbbc of channel 5.
I was a bit dubious of taking abi to theatre as Abi isn't even 3, but I took her booster seat that we use at our kitchen table for her to sit on and she could see it and absolutely loved it. I'm interested in booking up for the christmas panto as she loved it so much and I LOVED the panto as a child.

Butterflies, Spiders and family time

Unfortunatley I don't have time for a full blog but I've uploaded some photos of what we've been up to to keep you all going :-)
The first pic is the massive spider Ed caught in our hall :S

Alton Towers 28/07-30/07/2008

My gorgeous boy fast asleep
Ed and Mike on Oblivion front row far left
Brian and Ed coming off Spin Ball Whizzer
Brian on the test your strength

Ed and Mike on Spin Ball Whizzer - you can make out their arms in the air
Ed playing golf trying to win the car!
Mike and Ed trying to dress Oliver
Ed, Brian and Mike back row coming off Nemisis
Oliver asleep in his pram how he stayed the whole time at Alton Towers - What a star!!

On Monday 28th off we headed to Alton Towers! Abi had the choice of comning with us or staying with my mum but she chose to stay with her Nana - which was probably the best option as Alton Towers is aimed at bigger children hence us going :P
So Brian Mike Ed Oliver and I headed off. We stopped for lunch at the harvester but only having some salad as it was way too hot to eat 31 degrees and SO humid we were all looking forward to the 3 1/2 hour journey just to be in the Air conditioned car!
When we arrived at the premier travel in we all showered then went to the pub garden next door for a nice cold drink!
We had a chinese buffet for dinner which was so scrummy and there was the biggest chocolate fountain i've ever seen!!
Ed came back to the room with me to bath Oliver and Oliver and I went to bed as I was shattered but Ed went back out for some more drinks - he didnt get back to the room till gone midnight but I was so sound asleep I didn't even hear him!
We got up and got everything ready for the day and met Brian and Mike in at breakfast - who hadn't been able to sleep at all so had already had their breakfast.
Shortly after we headed off to the park for our first day, it was brilliant - the weather was good around 24 degrees and alot less humid and Oliver was a star sleeping the whole day in his pram only waking ever 3 hours for a feed! As we had the dissabled wrist bands we didn't have to que for any rides which meant we had done all the rides on the first day some even 2 or 3 times! I'm not a great lover of water rides so refused to go on the water rapids but Ed, Mike and Brian insisted that you don't get that wet well I wish i'd taken a picture but it was to wet to get my camera out!!just as they got on the ride the heavens opened with the biggest terenchal thunderstorm i've seen in a long time! They came off the ride like complete drowned rats! I can't think of anything worse than having to stay in wet clothes all day myself - but did find it very amuzing seen as they were asuring me that you don't get wet!! LOL
That night by the time we got back to the hotel and had a shower it was gone 9pm by the time we got down for dinner far too late I had a nice started of cured meats Olives sun dried tomatos bread and oil as I couldn't face a main meal. It was really nice. We had a nice evening and finally fell into our beds at around midnight!
We set our alarms for 7 but Oliver woke at around 5.55am fed and settled again at around 6.20 and we both fell back to sleep waking with the alarm feeling really rough as really we shouldn't have gone back to sleep should have just got showered and ready after feeding Oliver.
We had to pack everything up as you have to vacate the room by 10am so had to pack up the car before heading to the park again.
We had a much more relaxed day only going on the things that we wanted rather than doing everything again. Then we stopped for lunch and then the men went off to the crazy golf and Oliver and I went back to the car for a sleep before the drive home.
We arived home to find it was still humid i went striaght round to pick up abi who was watering my mums garden in just her knickers! It was so lovely to see her i'd missed her SO much. She had had a lovely time though going swimming, to the park for picnics making and playing with PlayDough and going shopping with Nana - she was so full of it we didn't get her into bed till 9pm but it was so lovely to have her back!
It was a lovely few days away but so tiring - have needed another break to get over it!