Look who's arrived!!!

On Monday morning at 2oclock we got woken up by Sophie's boyfriend Joe to tell us Sophie's waters had broken in bed so me and Noel shot out of bed and went downstairs to see Sophie i said we had better ring the hospital so when Sophie was on the phone to the midwife she was asking if she was having contractions and sophie said no i don't think so at this point i noticed sophie was having a contraction so i said yep you are which was quite funny. anyway, i went to run Sophie a bath and get the last bits sorted for her hospital bag so that when she got ready she could head in to the hospital so when she got there she had a pain relief injection which made her really sick and her blood pressure shot up so she decided to use the gas and air which didn't really do anything so she was in alot of pain so opted for an epidural which made her relax more so after a 16 hour labour little Daisy Mae made her way into the world weighing in at 7lb 1oz and she's absolutely gorgeous, i can't even begin to put into words just how it feels to become a Nana it's just the most amazing feeling and i am loving it. I feel totally blessed to have what we have and i couldn't be prouder. Welcoming her into our family has been lovely all of her Aunties and Uncles lover her so much and i just know she's going to be spoilt rotten and in just a few more weeks we will be welcoming our new addition into the family how can our life get any better we are so very lucky
Welcome to the family Daisy Mae xx

Weekly pregnancy update 34 weeks!

Well i'm now 34 weeks with #16 and i'm feeling good apart from still not sleeping that well and heartburn is really starting to move up a gear but it's not to unbearable, i have my midwife appointment on Wednesday so i will get to find out if he is still breech and to be honest i really cant tell although i'm still getting kicks very low down i have been getting more kicks at the side and top of my bump so maybe just maybe he will have been a good boy and turned, i have been doing lot's of things to try and get him to turn this week I've been on all fours and iv'e had an ice pack on the top of my bump which he didn't like to much and was moving like crazy.
This week i have to make the decision whether to change hospitals because my hospital that i'm booked at are been very very funny about filming anything there and it's making me wonder if they have a problem with me or just big families in general and after a comment that one of the midwife's made about our family and big families in general it really has made me feel so angry to the point that i really feel like i need to put a massive complaint in it was totally unprofessional of her and for someone in a position of trust like that i just feel like i really don't want to give birth there anymore so i am going to look into transferring.
Sophie is now 38+2 so not long now well she could come any day now really and i think she's really starting to feel fed up with been pregnant and just wants it over with now.

We also picked up Sophie's pram for her this week which was a nice surprise for her when we walked through the door with it it took her a while to realise what it was as it was in a box
Here it is and Sophie loves it x

What a busy week!

This week i've been trying to get organised for the children going back to school so i've had to buy 9 school uniforms and 9 pairs of school shoes plus lunch boxes and PE kits it's just never ending , i went to matalan for all the uniforms and Ellie was so funny the woman on the checkout said the total and Ellie looked at me and said oh mummy that's alot of money the woman behind the counter found it so funny bless her Ellie is always the one to come out with things like that she's so funny so i think we are finally organised for them going back to school now which is good for me because i usually leave it till the very last minute, Luke and Millie are going to high school this time and they are so excited about it i just hope it lasts i think it's great that they are in the same year and they have each other they often get asked if there twins.I think they are more than ready to go back to school now with the constant play fighting and paddys that have been going on this week i feel like i've been constantly having to use the time out step and i very rarely have to use that one but have felt myself constantly saying right time out and it's mostly been Katie and Josh the little monkeys that have been sat on it.
  we made some cupcakes the other day that they really enjoyed doing and they did look pretty good and tasted even better we were very chuffed with them
yum yum
So this week we have also decorated Josh and Max's new bedroom after having a bit of a change around of rooms and this was what we found when we went to took the children in at night
it was a bit like how many children can you fit in a bed it was so funny they had all gone and got in Millie and Katies room so there was 6 of them in here with 3 in each bed it was so sweet it just goes to show just how much they absolutely love each others company and really hate been on there own i sometimes think we could get away with living in alot smaller house, we have all these rooms but some don't even get used it's crazy and this week little.
  Oscar has got another tooth so he now has 2 teeth on the bottom i don't think it's going to be long before he starts crawling because he's getting up on all fours now but just isn't going anywhere i think he much prefers to just roll everywhere because he can get from one side of the lounge to the other in record time im suprised he doesn't go dizzy because i do just watchimg him roll.
The children found a big cardboard box the other day so thought it would be fun to get in it and go down the stairs it was so funny i tried to take a picture of Katie coming down in it but she was so fast by the time the camera had responded to it she was at the bottom of the stairs anyway hubby decided to have a go because he's such a big kid
 Me and sophie were laughing so much im suprised we didn't go into labour he really cracks me up sometimes i think i actually have 16 children already.

Weekly pregnancy update 33 weeks

My weekly pregnancy update with #16 well this week i've been feeling so uncomfortable and just huge, he still feels breech because i'm still getting all the movements down the bottom and my ribs are so painful which i think is because his head is there i just feel like he's put on so much weight this week and his movements are getting so uncomfortable, the heat is really bothering me too i just can't seem to get comfy i think out of all of my pregnancies this one has been the most uncomfortable which i'm putting down to that fact that the little monkey is breech i've been doing the exercises to try to get him to move i even tried sitting with a bag of frozen peas on the top of my bump lol they where freezing but nothing seems to be working so far but i'm just going to carry on doing what i'm doing and hope he does turn but i know i've still got a few weeks so i'm not to worried yet, i'm also finding that i get breathless really quickly and by the time i've got up to the top floor of the house i feel like i need oxygen he's really squashing my lungs i've got my midwife appointment next week so i will get to find out if he is still breech on the plus side i am sleeping a bit better with the thanks to tonic water as disgusting as it is it really does seem to work.
 my bump pic at 31+1
We have just decorated the nursery this weekend which was fun all the children helped out and Max even built Caspers cot with a little help from daddy he was so chuffed bless him that he had managed to do it.





The pictures of Oscar and Casper's new nursery now all we need is little Casper..

What we've been up to this week

This week has been lovely, we took the children to Happy mount park which is just down the road from where we live they had so much fun it was a lovely day so they got to play in the water part which has lot's of water fountains i was stood watching the children playing not realising i was stood on one when it went off i got absolutely soaked much to the amusement of the children it was very funny Max didn't want to come out when it was time to go they loved it so much.

Josh having fun in the water

Tillie and her big sister Millie having fun 

Eating there ice creams.

My mum and dad have had Ellie Aimee and Josh for the weekend and it was so quite we have definitely found out who the noisy ones are in the house, but it was so strange not having them at home and the rest of the children really missed them.This week Oscar has learnt quite a few new things he has learnt to clap his hands he got so excited when i got all excited it was a proud mummy moment and now claps his hands all the time and we have also got our first tooth it's on the bottom left and bless him he hasn't cried or been up during the night at all he's been so good he really is such a chilled out little boy.

Filming for 16 kids and counting this week has been very full on and i'm feeling shattered and wondering if we will do the next programme because it has been so exhausting with such long filming  days but for now i'm just enjoying a few days off till more filming this weekend 

Weekly pregnancy update!

I'm now 32 weeks pregnant with #16 and everything is going along smoothly, i had my midwife appointment this week and his growth is still just above the middle line which is great and my BP is fine i've always had low blood pressure so i've been lucky to never have any problems with it. She checked his position and as i thought he has gone back to being breech so i've been trying some different excerises to try to get him to turn but hes just not budging, however, she did say he's got about 4 weeks to go head down and if he hasnt then they will try to turn him round which i really don't want because ive heard it's very painful but given the choice between  that and a c section then i will go for trying to turn him. The midwife did find this funny on my notes

she said she had never seen one with so many children on it she was amazed. My flour craving is just getting silly i wake up in the morning and i just want to eat flour lol i can't get enough of it but im trying not to eat as much because im not sure if it's causing my restless legs to be even worse because im really suffering with it and no matter what i try nothing is working. Today i've been walking round like a zomby because i didn't get to sleep till about 2.30 then Josh woke up at 6.45 so i had just a few hours sleep and it's starting to catch up with me, i've had my grumpy tired head on today, the children have been loving feeling him kicking and Luke sat for ages the other night poking Casper and watching him kick him back it was lovely then max was sat outside in the sunshine with me and he was giving Casper lot's of kisses and kept saying when you coming out Casper and singing him nursery rhymes one things for sure he's going to be so loved when he's finally here we all can't wait to meet him here is a picture of little Max and Aimee giving him a kiss it was so sweet

Planning our 20th wedding anniversary get away!

On the 26th September 1992 i married the man of my dreams i was just 17 and Noel was 21 never did i dream that 20 years on we would have 15 nearly 16 children and our first grandchild would be on the way. In February of this year we decided that we really wanted to renew our wedding vows we didn't know where  but just knew that we wanted to do it later on in the year, then we found out i was pregnant so it meant that we would be aiming for the beginning of December so we have been trying to plan it for months now and there have been times when i've thought it's just not going to happen but this last month we have been researching like crazy and have short listed a few destinations which are:-
Florida
Mexico
Cuba
Dubia
And the Dominican Republic we have now finally decided on where we will be going to renew our vows all i will say is it's one of those destinations but my lips are going to remain tightly sealed well that's the plan anyway let's just see if i can manage it but it's just perfect for us all and i cant wait to do it all over again and especially with all of our children and our new grandaughter to celebrate it with us i just know it's going to be such an amazing day and one that we will all never forget the children are all so excited and Ellie,Aimee and Josh keep saying when are you getting married again mummy the girls have been looking at dresses that they really like so we are going to be busy with all the planning now and dress buying and getting the suits for the boy's im so excited.