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Hi everyone. Back from South Africa - had a great time, loved seeing penguins on the beach and the safari best. House is in complete chaos still - will be lovely when its finished but so much to do. Dad has knocked down the bathroom we wanted taken out and done on downstairs sockets. Boiler has been fixed and gas fire - both dangerous before sorted. Downstairs lights don't work and upstairs sockets don't work. Just ordered new kitchen but just found out won't be delivered until 28 May - argh. Dampproofers are in at the moment so lounge and kitchen diner are a complete worksite and we have no heating or hot water. Will go to my parents on Friday for the weekend with the kids. DH's Dad has a heart operation which he may well not survive on Monday so DH is off to France. We have a massive restructuring going on at my work - only two people in my team are safe and thankfully I'm one of them. The rest are obviously not at all happy esp as it looks like some people's jobs have been abolished, they will be offered other jobs but probably not in London. Our Head of Team has not been offered his post and has been shortlisted for a post in another team so that post will be advertised and I could apply for that as I'm the one below his grade. Not sure yet, have increased my days to 4 shorter days from 3 shorter days from 1 June. Nick and Sophie start their new nursery next week though things are all a bit up in the air at the moment as it depends if DH's Dad survives the operation. Mum said kids weer fine with her and kept going round hand in hand together. MamaGoose - Glad to hear Chloe is happy and quiet - can't beleive she's 3 months either. DB - Hope school is going well. DDT - Sounds like Jaxon will be walking soon. Kari - Nick is still on a bottle too, its quite common over here for kids to be on bottles at this age. We'll get Nick off the bottle soon but at the moment I'm focussing on getting him settled in the new nursery and new house. I think a lot of people go cold turkey, with Sophie I did it over a few days by persuading her that big girls drink out of glasses just like Mummy and insisting she had a glass. Also one tip I saw online was a cup with their name on it - Sophie loved that and said it says Sophie. Also glittery glasses, anything exciting helps or getting her to choose a cup may help. Good luck, its normally just hard for a few days I think.

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