The new crib arrived today, it’s still in pieces and will be for a while.
I’m nearly 29 weeks pregnant, and the first 2 trimesters have been a breeze.
This week, in trimester 3, the elastic has snapped and it’s kicked my arse. I can’t walk without wheezing. My ribs are SORE. I swear one of them has broken a rib. Or popped it out.
I tried to get in the car the other day, and I couldn’t fit behind the wheel. It’s depressing.
But, I’ve gotten this far, and haven’t stabbed my husband or thrown anything at him. It’s a big win.
I haven’t packed a bag yet for the hospital yet. I think I’m going to be pregnant forever. 
I opened the notes program on my iPhone, for what I thought was the first time.
I attach screenshots of what I found. Written on Jan 5, at 1:37 a.m.
Should I be scared?
I’m disappointed. Steve has let me down. (Punishment for me putting him on my Death List last year? I still maintain that having a liver transplant is cheating…).
Yesterday saw the launch of the highly anticipated iPad, a new shiny device that isn’t the game changer that people were hoping for. In fact, the new piece of Apple gear has seemingly been met with a universal “meh”.
No one – including me – seems to get what it’s for. It’s ultimately a giant sized iPod touch.
It allegedly fills the gap between the smart phone (iphone) and the laptop.
Is that gap actually there? For me, possibly.
I own an iPhone and a Mac Book Pro.
For music on the go, I have my iPhone.
For video, I have youtube on the iPhone for watching quick vids on the go. For DVDs, TV shows, movies… well I watch those on the Mac at home. I don’t feel the need to sit and watch movies on the go.
If I’m out and about and need to jot down ideas… that’s where I could see the use of a tablet. Or for taking down notes in a meeting. I don’t want to sit and type while someone else is talking. I want to write notes on a screen, making them searchable later. I don’t want to lug my laptop around. I can’t make notes on my iPhone because the touch keys are terrible.
I had a row with it yesterday, because I wanted to press X and it kept displaying Z or C. I hate touch keys. HATE them. So I can’t see me sitting down typing anything at length on an iPad. I want to write.
But it does iBooks! I still have an original iBook at home… you know, one of the first white ones. I also have lots of real books. And when I don’t want to carry a hardback around with me, I use my Sony e-Reader. It’s not perfect. But I dont see the iPad as a threat to that or to the Kindle either. The advantage existing ereaders have is the e-ink technology. Without backlighting or refresh rates, my Sony is actually very comfortable to read. I couldn’t read for long on my laptop, iphone or even an iPad.
I’m possibly a publishers dream. I’ll buy the hardback of a book. And if there’s a limited edition out there I’ll buy that too. And then I’ll buy the paperback when it comes out. And then I’ll also buy the audio book. And then I’ll buy the ebook too. But even I think buying an iBook version on top of all that would be pushing it. Sorry.
So far, I haven’t seen anything about the device that I’d actually want. In the mean time, I’ll use my other gadgets for making notes on the go – a pen and a Moleskine notebook!
It’s been a while since I added to the blog, things have been busy.
I’m 27 weeks pregnant today, and to the shock and horror of a lot of people, I went ice skating.
Now, yes, I accept this is risky. But it’s not like it’s only the 5th time in my life that I’ve been skating. I was a competition level skater in my youth, and so I can actually skate. I know how to skate and – more importantly – unlike most amateur skaters, I KNOW HOW TO FALL. Which sounds scary. Surely, everyone knows how to fall on ice. And yet, there are ways to fall to protect yourself, to fall and not injure yourself. Without this knowledge, I certainly would have not stepped onto the ice.
I introduced my daughter to the ice this morning. She has her very first skates, and took to it like the proverbial duck to water. She was cautious at first, and then picked up speed. Yes, she took a few tumbles, but she loved every second.
Indigo will be skating every Saturday now, and with ballet on a Monday, my little baby girl is developing her very own social life.
Barney continues to make progress, he’s allowed out of the hospital for short periods; we use it for going on “dates” for banana milkshakes in a diner. He’s getting a little stronger each day, and his medical team are increasingly positive – not only about his short term health, but also for his long term recovery.
My to do list is growing by the day, like my stomach. Last pregnancy, I took it super easy after the mid-term scares, and so had a lot of time, sat on my ass, not doing very much.
This time, it feels like I’ll be on the go right up until I spawn.
Is carrying twins easier this time round? Yes – for sure. I still feel just as tired and achy as the last time, but I’m not as… scared. I’m not as worried, I don’t question every symptom and wonder whether it’s normal. I have an acceptance that very little about a twin pregnancy is normal, and so I don’t fixate on the little things.
And in the meantime, while I’m still on the go, my reading pile is growing…
After 5 kids, baby showers get kinda tedious. And people start to resent the idea of going to yet another shower.
The fact is, Noah and Phoebe will come into this world, and will have everything they ever need.
Thankfully, they have older twin siblings, so there’s very little we need to buy. We have diaper service, so we get diapers brought to us weekly.
Other children are not so lucky.
We’d like to take this opportunity to announce that we’re putting our baby shower online, and should anyone with to contribute, any donations made will be split between 3 charities.
One charity is Leukemia Research, a cause close to our hearts right now.
Another charity will be for children who aren’t lucky enough to be born into families who can provide everything they need.
The third charity will be selected by the winner of our online Baby Shower Game – Baby Birthday Betting Pool!
If you wish to donate, via PayPal, click the button below.
Baby Birthday Betting Pool!
Yes, it’s the KatCave’s First Ever Giveaway!
I’m now 26 weeks pregnant, with twins. While they are officially due around April 23, they could actually arrive at any time!
And so, we’ve set up a betting pool… when will they arrive? What will they weigh?
Whoever is closest will win TWO IPOD NANOS.
Second place gets 2 x iPod Shuffles.
Click below to enter your guesses!
Can’t see the banner? Go to: http://www.expectnet.com/games/CavadinoArmy2 to record your guesses!
Closing date will be March 1 2010.
I fucking hate hormones.
No one else I know is pregnant with twins right now, and I feel so damn alone. All my friends are not pregnant, and I feel like the trailer-trash kid who can’t keep her legs crossed.
I hate the aloneness.
Last time, I had a group of great guys all going through the same thing. And now I’m going through it again and I feel so… isolated. Like a freakshow, a specimen, a guinea pig.
I’m 25.5 weeks pregnant, and I should think myself lucky it’s only just hit me now.
It’s gonna pass, right?
13 months old, and we’re slowly making sense of the words coming out of the twins.
Evangeline is way ahead. I’m Mamoo. RH is Boboo. Singe is Singe (French for Monkey). Banane the dog is Bananananananana. She starts shouting him and seemingly can’t stop.
Joe is a boy of few syllables. I’m Oo. RH is Oo. Banane the dog is simply “Chien” (French for dog).
It’s exciting, and weird, to see them developing side by side, and at different rates.
Twins rock 
What is the ultimate role of the Apple Tablet? – from MacRumors
The much-rumored Apple Tablet computer seems to ben getting even closer… and I’m possibly one of the few people totally excited by it! That is, if it turns out to be what I hope it is…
I want something I can make notes on. It’s difficult to sit on the phone and type on my macbook, and I can’t type so well on my iPhone. My macbook is fantastic and portable, but I don’t want to cart that around with my graphics table just to give me a handwriting option.
I guess, what I’m hoping for, should a tablet ever be launched, is a digital notebook. Something smaller than my laptop, bigger than my iPhone.
Something that will unlock the potential of Circus Ponies Notebook software, which I adore. Something I can pull out of my handbag, and start scribbling notes.
Maybe I want something that just doesn’t exist, and may never exist. Either way, the Apple event rumored to be on Jan 26 2010 will have me on the edge of my seat…
1 – Let someone else have JKDN, the millstone round my neck
2 – Complete work on the Twin Bible Website – all content edited
3 – Complete edit of Twin Bible Manuscript
4 – See Barney make a full recovery
5 – Finish first draft of novel
6 – Read a book a week for a whole year and write reviews
7 – Pop out healthy babies
8 – Discover at least 12 new bands
9 – Learn to play guitar. Properly.
10 – Start to learn Spanish. If only because the upside down question marks and exclamation marks are pleasing to the eye.
It’s January 1, and I’ve already completed a task. This makes me happy.
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