"Today a colleague told me her daughter (who is new to the school) asked her, 'Who is the one that is really skinny but also pregnant and it just doesn't work?'" Cool I am appalled that she deemed it acceptable to pass it on! It's not like you're sporting a bump as some kind of fashion statement! (Incidentally, I'm not looking forward to becoming obviously pregnant because of the fact that I know people will think it acceptable to comment on my appearance. Why do people think it becomes acceptable to make such personal comments just because a person is pregnant!?)
Welcome Madwife. I don't object to MWs as long as they are not phoning up by husband with threats I can't have a home birth or frightening by child into thinking her baby sibling will die during birth. Since you are unlikely to do either of those I think you're safe. 
becca my inlaws wrote our car off last year and I felt really sad about it as it was my first car. (Though as it turns out it's been a good thing as we would've needed a new car to fit this baby in!)
JK, if your children sign the card then I think you should be able to collect them - before we were married, DH used to collect parcels for me by me doing that and we didn't even have the same address.
Teddy, that sounds very frustrating with your son's school. They are supposed to provide a suitable education and refusing to do so on the grounds that he is behaving badly because they aren't is outrageous! Also, if interaction with another child is making his behaviour worse then it is the school's responsibility to be keeping them separate as much as possible! I always made sure to arrange children in the classroom in a way that minimised those interactions that lead to a downward spiral of behaviour - I think it's a basic part of classroom management and really isn't difficult.
Teddy, I think feeling movements can be affected by where your placenta is - third time I felt movements two weeks later than the previous time which I think was because of an anterior placenta and I have a friend who said at her anomaly scan with either her third or fourth (I forget which), she could see the baby moving like crazy on the screen but still couldn't feel a thing.
Edamame I would have thought traditionally a child to unmarried parents would have had their mother's surname. I think it used to be the case that the father couldn't even be put on the birth certificate unless married to the mother. I know my something like four or five greats grandfather had his mother's surname due to his parents not being married.