Things i didnt know.......part 1

I was just thinking about a great post that i could do but then decided i would have to split it in to 2 posts.

I was folding the washing and it got me thinking, there is so may things i didn't know until i moved out (i have now moved back in but i still know them lol). The next was the things i didn't know until i had a baby.

My First post will be on the things i didn't know until i moved out. So here goes.

The things i didn't know until i moved out:

• How to fold a fitted sheet. That's right i had no idea, my mom always did all the washing and putting away so i had no idea how to fold them, I don't think Adam knows and hes lived on his own for year lol. I'm sure i will teach him one day. If you don't know how to do it here is my way of doing it.

First take a fitted sheet (i don't iron them as they get stretched across the bed anyway)

Fold it in half and put the 2 corners inside each other.

Fold again so all 4 corners are inside each other.

Now you have a rectangle. just fold as you would with a flat sheet.

And there you go a nice neat folded fitted sheet.

• The price of food!! I understand that when my mom went shopping it would cost a fair bit but she was buying for 4 adults, i thought buying for 2 would be half the price....think again. I had to resist piling my trolley full of cakes and nice things and remember the important things like loo roll and cleaner. it was hard but i managed.
• The cost of electricity. So i was always leaving lights on and that sort of thing at home not realising that they cost so much, once i was in charge of paying for it i was damn sure i wasn't leaving anything on when i left the house. we had a boiler that had to be turned on for an hour before using the hot water and my dad said why didn't i just leave it on then it would only have to keep the water hot and not heat the whole thing, thinking well my dad should know i did it, IT DOUBLED MY ELECTRIC BILL IN A MONTH!!!!! I knew i wouldn't be doing that again.
• Timing is everything. Whether it is the timing you put the washer on for or the timing of making sure all the parts of the Sunday dinner were done at the same time, or making sure i left the house on time to get the bus to my moms ready to go to work, it was hard but i survived, just about lol.
• How dirty a bathroom can really get. I never realised that by brushing my hair over the sink and brushing my teeth that the sink is a mess, then there is the toilet. Fair enough i must give it to him Adam does put the lid down but i caught him on numerous occasions pour the toilet cleaner into the toilet and not wait but flush the toilet, bit pointless really it wouldn't have time to clean anything.
• How hard it really is to keep on top of the washing when you don't have a tumble dryer. When it came to changing the bed clothes we would have a sheet over the airier then the duvet cover over one door a top sheet over another then pillow cases over the shower screen, I have always lived with a tumble dryer at home so this was a wake up call for me, Then when it was just a normal load of washing it takes ages to dry, normally i would stick it in the dryer for about 30 minutes and then its all done but no it could take over a day to dry indoors its crazy.
• I really didn't know just how much i can squeeze into a freezer. Every time i went shopping i would go with my mom then store it all in her freezer until Adam picked me up after work, he would stare at the bags and look at me as if to say i would love to see where you are going to put it all but every time i managed to fit it all in. He now wonders how much stuff i really do carry in my handbag (well nappy bag now but you get what i mean).

Come back to see my 'Things i didn't know until i had a baby' post.

Little worrier i am.

Well, since Charlotte was born i have noticed a tiny spot on her bottom, i thought it was just a spot, babies get them all the time so i ignored it. at 2 weeks old i took her to get it checked out at the doctors as i had found another one on her ear and 2 small spots on her back, the one on her bum was getting bigger. The doc told me they were hemangiomas which are a type of birthmark. he told me there was no problem with them and if i was worried then to take pictures to see how they change and to go back. this was her bottom at 4 weeks old.

This looks bad enough but this is what it looked like in the last picture i took at 12 weeks.

That's just over 2cm now and is bulging too. The doc said there is nothing we can do as she is still small and they are not causing her problems. here are the pictures of her ear and her back at 12 weeks.

You can see that the 2 small spots on her back have now joined and are now a line and is raised and the one on her ear bulges just above where you would have earrings not too clear on the picture.
I started to notice a mark next to Charlotte's eye at the top of her nose and thought she had knocked herself so i decided to keep an eye on it. This first picture is taken at 12 weeks when i realised the lump wasn't a bump and was getting bigger but she wasn't bothered by it so i took her back to the docs and he told me to go back in 2 weeks to see how it had changed.

Now this is what it was like the night before i took her back to the doctors so 2 weeks difference.

Since then it has only been a few days but it is looking more bruised. The doctor only took one look at it and signed a referral form, he wants her to see a pediatricians then possibly have a scan to see what it is, he thinks it may be another type of hemangioma under the skin but not certain.

I know this sounds a little bit vain but i did want some pictures done of us 3 but wondered if we should have them done with a lump on her face, not so much a problem for me but when she is older she may not be too happy that we had pictures taken of her looking like that but now I'm thinking am i going to regret not having the pictures done, i don't know what to do.

Anyway don't want to make this such a depressing post so here are a few pictures that i am loving right now.

14 weeks old and still looking so tiny in her 0-3 month pjs

Charlotte's new bear snowsuit which we are calling charly-bear and her new dolly, i think it is the bright colours that she loves.

The infamous jumperoo that should cost around £100 but i won it on eBay for £36 but the guy sold it us for  just £20 because it was dirty and needed a new spring in the battery pack, this is why one section behind her is missing because daddy is fixing it for her. One of the best buys.

Me and Charlotte reading 'One mole digging a hole'

Me Charlotte and Mimi were having a PJ and movie night while my mom and dad were at the movies

Vogue colour pack keep reading for explanation.

I ordered Charlotte's pram earlier this year while i was still pregnant and as i didn't know she was a she i had to pick a colour that could be used for both a boy and a girl so i picked claret. I got the colour pack and i also ordered the apron too ready for the cold weather. Well I had to get my mom to go and see if the pram had arrived while i was in hospital. She picked up the pram on the Friday that i had Charlotte and the apron wasn't n the shop they were waiting for it to be delivered, well i wasn't too bothered as i had the carry cot but 3 months on and i still don't have the apron, Josie in the shop keeps ringing and it hasn't been sent. Last week i popped in to see if it was in, Josie had rang while i was out and left a message saying it wasn't in yet but they had the new vogue pack in if i wanted to see it. There are 4 new packs in the vogue collection, they are all black and white (i say white but it is more of a creamy white so not so bright which is good. There is a stripy one, a spotty one an Aztec one and a rose one, and i fell in love with the rose one, Josie got this one in for me to look at, i think she knew i was going to get it if i saw it. I did of course and the picture above just shows how awesome it looks.

One last point i have to write about because i just have to. It is 2 and half months till Christmas and i have already got most of Charlotte's gifts and most of them are leapfrog. I didn't want too many toys that didn't teach her anything so leapfrog as a must for me. Next time i will share the pictures but i just haven't taken them yet.