Day 250 - Dress Rehersal

Maddie had her dance dress rehearsal today, and after a mad dash around the house to find her ears we got there just in the nick of time. I stayed outside while she went through to her routine with the kids that showed up and apparently she behaved fantastically which gives me hope for next weekend as I wont be going backstage with her. I didn't have much luck tying her hair back, but I didn't use the hairspray today, I still think she looks pretty cute and now I know other classes have costume envy too. 

Day 249 - Specialist Again

Today was another appointment with Doctor Devine, my fertility specialist to discuss what's going on, and future action that we will need to take. I forgot to go have this test done, which tests the quantity and quality of my eggs, so I am using it as my picture today, it is truly amazing what medicine can do.  As I only had the trigger shot on the 28th, it is too early to see if this cycle worked, but if it didn't, day two of my next cycle I will start daily Gonal-F injections to stimulate follicle growth. The doctor said we were lucky to have fallen pregnant with Maddie without help as I would be lucky to be able to ovulate on my own a couple of times a year. If we didn't know how lucky we were to manage to get Maddie through the 41.5 weeks of a troubled pregnancy we certainly do now.

Day 248 - Key Troubles

I have always had troubles with losing my keys and today's experience was probably the worst one to date. I spent 2.5 hours frantically looking for my car keys so that we could go to dance class this afternoon, before I found them hidden by one of the cats. The cats like to hide the spoon for their food in their cage so most days I have to look for it, and thankfully today was no exception as when I was looking for that, I found my car key hidden inside one of their beds. I really need to be more careful with my car key, and should look for the cats toys before I go out and buy more, as chances are they have just stashed them away.

Day 247 - Stage One Finished - Deck

The top of the deck was finished yesterday, and oh my gosh do I love it. I have swept it so many times today and Maddie spent ages out there happily playing while I finished painting the back wall. I am so loving the colours and how tidy it all looks that I have to keep going out there to look at it. 

Day 246 - Hummer Feeding

The kids got to feed Hummer the Giraffe at the zoo today, which must be Maddie's favourite thing to do there. She even had to stand back and supervise while Hugh had his turn after her, but I suspect that was more so in case the kids would get a second turn at feeding him. She sure does love Hummer and even eats carrots now. 

While we were at the zoo, Rob finished the deck off, I cant wait to get out there and paint the walls around it tomorrow, it looks so awesome. 

Day 245 - Deck

Rob came over bright and early again today to make a start on the deck, which has to be the most time consuming, back breaking job there is. I am a little excited by the deck and love it even more than the extension. I even said that we should have just made a massive deck instead of the extension, but then I wouldn't be gaining more storage room, an ensuite and a shoe cupboard. I cant wait to see the deck finished. Rob has made it a little bit bigger to cover the unipiers that we positioned too far out and once the stairs are on all the ones in this area will be hidden. We have a lot of landscape work to do before we are ready for stairs and the decks sides to be put on though.

Day 244 - Internal Access

Now that we are at lock up stage, we decided to make it possible to walk from the exisiting house into the extension. It is the coolest thing ever to be able to do, and walking through it all makes the house seem huge! This little hole is the perfect height for me, but anyone taller will need to duck, which is pretty much everyone else on earth, but we don't want to go too much higher as the air con until is still attached. With the framing up for the little room, it seems like its a pretty good size so we are all pretty happy with everything going on at the moment.