The Day I almost lost my Schmidts or IF I HAVE TO TELL YOU ONE MORE TIME

It's been coming for a few weeks now , I can feel it during the days and mostly one the weekends ...
I want some time to myself !
I want to sit somewhere and read or scrapbook or pee by myself , without having to shout at a child to stop whatever they doing or else , keeping peace when all hell breaks lose over a toy or when Mr Gadget aka DH is doing important stuff on the computer like moving our movie collection on to a Hard drive or checking FB .

Could somebody please explain to me why his stuff is so much more important than 5 minutes to myself ? I remember when I was pregnant with Stinky , he promised me to get up with him during the night or early before he had to get to work , the help with cooking and taking Stinky off me so I can rest .

Fast forward to almost 3 years later , Miss Maus joined us now and I get up with 2 Kids early in the morning and during the night , Mr Gadget's cooking is happening maybe once or twice a month ( and then I have to take the Kids because he needs to concentrate ) and alone time happens when I have a snooze at lunch on the weekend ( while Miss Maus is asleep too and Mr Stinky too ) and that only because I'm incisting on it .

So u can imagine how happy I am to be moving closer to my Family ( free Babysitters ) , already got told by them that they will take them off my Hands and I can have *gasp* time alone .

But for now I'm still in Italy , trying to get my Kids to listen to me , not throw Toys or take the House apart mostly on my own .
While my outings into the World away for Peppa Pig and Thomas are the weekly Toddler group and Food shopping .

Anyhow about losing my schmidts , I just keep imagining what I do when I get out ALONE and how Mr Gadget would struggle and it puts a smile on my face 

New Title , nearly new Year

Right , so last time I left here was just before Miss Maus Birthday and now it's Christmas , let me tell you what happend inbetween .

Ok Abbie's Birthday Party was canceled and pushed back a week because Ben had Croup , scary stuff . For those of you´who haven't encountered it let me explain .
Ben couldn't breath properly , it was more w wheezing and the cough OMG it was more like barking and he couldn't catch his breath . After a lovely morning spend at the Hospital , my Baby was allowed home with some Steroids Juice but he was extremly contagious , so no Party .

The Party was lush , my little Girl had so many People come out and celebrate with her , there where Ballons and Cake and loads of yummy Food . Abbie had a pile of presents and is now the proud Doll Mama to quite a few Babies .

In November my Next Door Neighbour and good Friend moved back to the UK , sniff sniff , really do miss her . She had a good Bye Party  and I nearly made her cry with a Card from all of us wishing them the Best Journey and new Life back in England .
And when it came time to say Good bye for real , we cried .... a lot .

On our Move back to Germany , we are not going in January , we are going in April ... need I say more ?
Any way this gives me more time to see some Italy , like downtown Naples , Amalfi Coast and some other stuff . Just need to get DH round to seeing it my way , he is not the most adventures Guy , rather sits at home plays on the Xbox .

Right so now we are at Christmas time , we did it all , baked Cookies , watched the Movies , wraped Presents and seen Santa ( not the best Pictures , who am I kidding they are crap . Ben screamed , Abbie didn't look at the Photografer and 5 Pics and we were done . Not even 5 frecking minutes and it was over )
On the 24th we are having German Christmas ( Potatoe Salad and Sausage ) and on the 25th presents in the Morning and Christmas Dinner at ours , for 8 Grownups and 6 Kids ... yeah I must be crazy . Thankfully everybody is pitching in and bringing some food otherwise I would go nuts trying to do it all .

Little Round up form the Kids

Ben : 2 1/2 Years , talking a lot and constantly ( Where is this or That ? What was that ?)
Gonna start potty training soon , He is telling me when has to poo and pee .
Getting a bit fussy with what he eats , if he doesn't eat , I don't force him . Trust me I tried but the screaming was more than I could handel , so if he doen't want to eat before Bed he goes to Bed with no food . And has a Huge Breakfast in the morning LOL

Abbie : 1 year and 2 month , saying a couple of words , not quite walking yet after a few steeps she drops down and crawls the rest .
Decided she doesn't want to be feed anymore , she is feeding herself , with her fingers for now ( spoon is going everywhere but her mouth )
Loves Animals , Cats , Dogs you name it , some don't even run off and let her stroke/poke them LOL

 

Shopping and Party Fever

Today was 75 % off already reduced Clothes , I was in haven :)
Stocked up with tons of cute little Girl clothes size 2 & 3 for Miss Maus , now FX she is not gonna outgrow them before she can wear them .
I just love shopping for Kids clothes , I can spend hour ( much to the dislike of my Babies and Husband ) looking at Tops and trousers and my all time Favourite PJs .
Ben has tons of cute ones , Firetrucks , Dinos , Thomas ones . I would like to get him some onies again , he is still wearing Nappies so there would be no problem with going potty during the night .

I was gonna get some for Abbie's Birthday but at the moment there are none in her size , we mostly shop for clothes in the American Shops here . The Italian Sizes are funny , smaller than normal adn it's hard to find soemthing that I like . Oh well there is always Ebay ... oh Honey , I will be on the computer for a while

Ok Party fever , I can't belive that my Baby Girl will be 1 soon . It's Party planning central here , got the Plates , Cups , Tablecloth and Napkins all with multicoloured Polka dots , Party Loot Bags with stripes and a 1 on them , Party Favours ( armbands , wistles , airplanes and some sweets ) .
Nearly done the Mealplan and got most of her Presents and a few small ones for Ben .

Just one Couple hasn't responded yet if they are coming or not ( they have a Boy age 4 , who plays with Ben and the Guy works with DH ) I invited them because I could not invite them , if that makes sence ?
The Boy is diagnosed with ADHD and boy sometimes he can be a handful , he is really ruff with Ben sometimes , like he really wants to hurt him . He pushes and hits , gets him ina  chokehold and his Parents are not watching him all the time . He runs riot when he is here and if DH and I don't keep an eye on him , he goes exploring through the whole house ( it's at a point now where we block of the stairs so he can't go up )
So to be honest I wouldn' be sad if they didn't come , there is a few things with the Parents going on too , basicly I don't like being lied to . Tell me the truth even if it hurts , not too much to ask I think .

Nearly 1

Abbie is nearly 1 years old , hard to believe , she is still so little .
Miss Maus got tooth # 5 coming through , she is standing holding on to things and is walking along sofas or her walker .
Bit of a picky eater , still has 3 bottles a day with her meals , has a nap for 2 hours during the day .
Is waving and saying bye bye , no and Mama & Daddy , loves to play with her Brother and things that she shouldn't .
We have cuddles after breakfast every morning till Ben wakes up and before she does to sleep .
I am so in love with her , I can't stop kissing and cuddeling her , luckiely she is happy to get kisses .

Ben is nearly 2 1/2 years old , my little Boy is getting so big .
Sometimes I look at him and I can't believe how tall he is , how smart and how well he is talking .
What happend to my Baby ? He is playing outside every day with his Friends , eats pretty much anything and he is talking so much ( and u can understand him )
I think he is ready to go to kindergarten , when we are in Toddlergroup , he doesn't bother with me at all , goes off and plays with the Kids , sits down for snack time and craft time and is rather upset when it's time to go home .

I love being a Mama of 2 , I do wish we could make it three but DH is really against it . I know I keep going on about that but it plays on my mind . Before Ben and Abbie when I seen somebody wishing for # 2 or 3 I always thought , come on u already have a child , be happy with that . My wish is stronger than urs , I don't have any yet but it's diffrent now . I know what it feels like to hold ur newborn , how it feels like to feel ur baby move in you .

I want to feel that again , I want to raise another child but I could never trick my DH , I want him to be excited too , not resentful .

And right now I should concentrate on getting healthier ( aka slim down ) , wait to hera the Pap test results and see what is happening with DH muscle Biopsy .

That Autum Feeling

If you ask me which is my favourite Season , I would say Christmas . But latley I starting to love Autum , the weather is nice , it's Abbie's first Birthday in October , Halloween is coming and the Food is getting richer again ( Stew , Soup and Roasts yummy )

There is so much I want to do with Ben , collecting Leaves , decorate Pumpkins and make Costumes ( he will be Thomas the Tank Engine ) .
Spend the last warm Days outside , playing and bbqing with Friends

Abbie is getting so big , she started to pull herself up and tries to take a few steps , while holding on to her toys . She waves byebye and hello and even says Byebye and Hi .
She loves her big Brothers toys ( Trains , Cars and his books ) , DH and I always said we wouldn't spoil our Kids , that went out a long time ago . Now we say that it wil stop once they excepting toys and sweets , if it became the norm . So far when we say no , he mostly excepts it .

Getting excited to move next year , so much to do before though , Abbie's Passport , get the Cats ready for moveing and there is a lot DH will have to do , like apply for the new place .

And now Baby Spam

Little Rant

Ok so we are moving again in January , no problem , even though it has been onlky 6 month by then we"ve been in this House BUT whatever .
The posting Order said Bielefeld , Germany , HUGE YAY , close to my Family but not that close , big City with loads of things to do , Buses and Taxie's .

That was last week , fastfoword to today , DH told me that the Squadron where he will work is moving to Guetersloh :{
All I said was they better move us to right to the new place because I will not start doing this moving every couple of month thing again .
While in Italy I moved to 3 diffrent houses and I have enough of packing . All I want is a home for a couple of years , even 2 years would be fine by me , just let me have some peace before sending me packing again .

Abbie 10 month and Ben 27 month

Ben is really into his puzzles at the moment and I don't mean Baby ones , oh no 3+ years ones :)
No Idea where he got it from , defendly not from me , I don't have the patience .

Mouse is still Zombie crawling but can get up into sitting by herself , started to try to pull herself up and finnaly eating food with bits in ( without pucking )

DH and I had a talk about #3 , I'm game and he is not :(
First he said he would get the snip but now he wants to wait till we move before going in , ok Buster so u don't want any more Kids but still leave room for erroer every month .
So I'm going to have an IUI fitted , it's better for me than the Pill ( keep forgetting ) Depo shot ( made me sick ) and don't really fancy the ring or femdom . And Condoms are just a pain , because DH like to wait a bit before putting it on .

Apart from that same old here , quite nice for a change