Week 17

It's been a fortnight since my last post, which is a little bad, but what the hell :)

Day by day we're slowly getting there, every 24 hours is a step closer to February 10 next year (the twins official birthday).

As I said last time, it gets increasingly difficult not to get excited but I'm trying to avoid until we get past the magical 24 week point in the plan - after that all bets are off!

The past couple of weeks we've been studying the fine work of SuperNanny Jo Frost in an effort to pick up some handy hints on controlling children. Days of scrutinising her tv show have yielded the following tidbits:

* Try not to live in a council house - almost all of the shows involve one
* Do not give your kids "showbiz" names - invariably, kids with silly or unusual names are more prone to being "lively" and unpredictable ie bastards.
* Make sure you don't live in a bungalow (otherwise, where do you put the naughty step????)

However, the biggest lesson seems to be, don't let them get out of control in the first place....

Anyways, mostly, everything is quiet in the house. Squeaker is 17 today!!! and we'll have a small kitten party featuring tuna and fish breath later on and we're off to my mum and dad's at the weekend for our last visit before the twins arrive. We were going to spend Xmas up there but Elly is already getting to the point where it's uncomfortable to sleep/move/sit down and Xmas is just too close to Birth Day for comfort.

To be honest, it's lovely that it is so quiet, no news is good news as they say and right now if there's no news it means the kids are busy growing - keep going little ones, February will be here soon!