The Wellyboots Tribe Step Forth - again!!

Mood: A lot happier!!

Paul was going to go to Chester today to get all the baby-bits (I simply couldn't face an hour on the bus - each way -), but then my friend offered me a lift in her car, so that was a much better option than another grueling day of schooling. Not exactly a feet-up with coffee and cake day, but hey, nice all the same and did include a MaccyD's!

I needed to get all those 'special' and 'essential' bits that a baby and a birth require - like a teddy bear! I had intended to get one of THESE (Ellie has the cow), but I ended up with one from HERE. We buy a special 'birth' teddy for each child and it was my turn to choose - it was a tough choice in this shop! But I decided on this one. 

It's really gorgeous - baby safe and the same kind of 'feel' as the TY pluffies . I could have added a voice message (my own or pre-recorded), or a lullaby, but I decided 'silence is golden' and having just listened to the choices on the website I think I made the right choice!!

Then a trip to Boots for all the essential 'mother and baby' bits. When I was tidying I found a £10 voucher I was given when I was expecting Ellie, so that came in handy!

Paul, meanwhile, had the best day of school imaginable - of course!! Jacob had all his morning work completed by 11.30am and Joel just after the playgroup run. Hardly any errors. His 'quick write' on "Donkey" was fantastic - the most imaginitive & descriptive piece of work he has ever done! And after lunch when Paul sent them back to the table they went - no fuss - and knuckled down to wrok together to create a very nice little mini-book ("A Menagerie of gods") for our Egypt project! So tell me - is it just me?!! Fortunatly, P. has seen the rest of the week 'in action' too, so he was aware that today was exceptional (and exceptional days do happen for me occasionally too!). Jacob has managed to get through the whole day without losing any of his priviledges at all. Joel has managed to loose his PS1 time, but that's all.

I must admit though (and Paul agrees) that when Jacob got up this morning I could tell he was in a good frame of mind and when the first thing he greeted me with,when I got home, was "I've got no crosses on my chart today" - huge grin on his face -  bless him - I could see how pleased he was with himself and I was equally so of course - I just secretly wished he'd do it more often for me!! P. says he has actually said to Jake that it would be nice if he could be like today for me more often too and that if he can do it for Daddy, he can do it for Mummy too - too right!! P. also said that there were a couple of wobbly moments during maths where Jake almost lost it (when he 'got stuck' with the word "each" - a conceptual word he really struggles with for some reason), but he recovered himself well, when on other occassions that might have been the start of a down-hill spiral of excessive-behaviour.

Anyway, now the boys are at club and P. is cooking tea. He has also been shopping today (taking Ellie with him), bought me chocolate and flowers (he said Ellie made him buy the flowers!!), cleaned off the ground-sheet (bed-protector) for under the sheet when I'm in labour, tumble-dried the nappies, etc, etc, and I've done nought of any significance around the house at all today. I'm feeling a little guilty and a little spoilt!

Oh I also bought myself some 'Bohemian' soap and a 'Therapy' massage bar from HERE in Chester - YUM!! So not only has Paul spoilt me today, but I spoilt myself to - so I should be feeling better!!

I still feel 'ready-to-pop' so watch this space..!

My sister-in-law (Esther for those who know the Hampton clan) had a baby boy on Monday evening - Josiah Daniel (so that's 'Josiah' out for us then - one of our top-picks!!). She was planning her third home-birth but had BP problems right at the end. Eventually she was induced, but it all went fine and she's home and happy.  It means though, that Paul's Mum & Dad will be back up this end of the country this weekend to visit Esther and co. (having been here a fortnight ago for Paul's commissioning and their holiday), so if I could have a baby by then too it would be handy for them and save them yet another trip (all the way from Portsmouth) in the not-too-distant future.