August 2008: in which we undoubtedly welcome Miniest Oops!

[CaptainCaveman]

come on in and make yourselves at home....

i didn't give you all an update of my little trip down south. had a really lovely time. it was at the parents' house of my friend who was at birth of DS. was very strange being back there with DS and with all other friends and their babies. Her parents' house was always the party house because her parents went away alot. Lots of memories of many drunken nights kept flooding back as i was chasing DS round the house/garden/veg patch.....
Anyhow, where was i? oh yes... so we had a lovely eve on wednesday despite DS wanting to stay up with us and not wanting to go to bed. He eventually gave in at 9.30 purely because he was so shattered! There were two black labs there and he had a great time chasing them, throwing balls at for them etc. when one of the dogs sat down by our feet begging for food, DS ran over and sat next to him under the table! DS was really unsettled during the night so i was up pretty much every hour with him. At one point he soaked his nappy,pyjamas blanket etc so he came into bed with me. on one of the occasions i must have moved funny because when it was time to get up, i couldn't. hips,pelvis were so sore. i had visions of having to shout for my friends to get me up but figured that 6am was a little early to disturb them. I'd already childproofed room and brought a bag of toys to bed with us so fortunately DS played happily while i tried to sort out what to do. i moved really slowly and eventually got up but was in so much pain. so we 'popped' downstairs, gave DS some fruit for breakfast and as soon as all friends were up, they loaded car for me and i left. all i wanted to do was to get home which was a shame because it would have been nice spending longer with them. Got home here (after a painful long drive) and didn't think i was going to be able to get out the car. took it slowly, forced DS to walk in by himself. Fortunately i was cunning enough to go straight to kitchen,prepared lunch,drinks for day and then didn't move off the sofa all day. what i hadn't remembered to do was to bring the nappy bag in from the car, so i literally cried when DS needed changing.
DH was meant to be out last night but i confessed about what a bad state i was in and he cancelled plans and came home.
so, didn't mean to tell you all the bad stuff, what i was going to say was one of my friends brought her little 6week old daughter to meet us. she only weighs 8lb7 now and was so lovely. DS was quite taken by her and kept kissing her!

right, i'd better go and do something useful, haven't really been very productive today at all but i can at least walk which is always a good start!

its ok poppy, i forgive you!

I thought of another casting:

no1 - Famke Janssen

Am in the uni library, trying not to fall asleep as I read about cyborgs and feminism....zzzzzzzz.

who on earth is Famke Janssen?? i am hopeless on actresses! off to google!

oi cyteen!! get off mn and do your library work!

fully appreciate that i'm part of a kettle calling pot black scenario here

ooh, she's pretty... still have no idea who she is though!

poppy, yes, I took 4 goes as well, or 5 if you count the one where I went to the wrong test centre.

But I am going to have to drive now because we have made a decision about where to send DS to nursery starting next March. We are going to send him to the school that we both liked the best, with the nursery that we both liked the best. It's a bit far from home, so I will have to drive (only about 10 minutes), but this will be good practice! 3 hours a day. Wow. What will I do with myself? And you know something, after all this dithering it feels like the right decision.

Nice morning today, we went to see a friend who has a playroom in her basement.

I quite like America Ferrera as Ugly Betty anyway. She is nice. I like people who are nice.

skimmed only...
will read after beach...
just noting...
billie piper should be buckets
and the dark haired chick (kristin davis..i think) from sitc should be albs

casting is vital!

so many crossed posts - hello MrsM hope you are a bit better now

oh yes, and hots - I have some friends and relatives round your neck of the woods so would be fab to meet up somewhere near you. Also the drive should be OK for me as I have done it before. hurrah! do you want to suggest a place and date now for the diary?

oh and crispy, you are the second person to call me calm. I told DH, he was

and hots do you think that our ginormous blonde toddlers will do some kind of mutual recognition thing? what with both being so tall?

Hey, congratulations to the oops household, and what a beautiful name too.
Will catch up really soon, hope you are all well.
Miss you all.

Famke is gorgeous, but i'm a little confused.
Have to go wake up two sleepy children or they will be up all night!

i cannot think of any good cast name ... ts nicked my elizabeth shue so i am stuffed!!

dd1 has made me buy a load of things for party bags for bil 40th birthday bbq on sunday.. tried to explain to her that it wasn't her birthday but she wasn't buying it!!

dh at the cricket and will be home late steaming drunk lovely!!

oops u sound so lovely and chilled..

lg/red sorry to hear that your ds are causing mayhem and grief [hugs]..

thankfully my two are being nice today.. have to say that the house is much calmer with no dh tho the girlies are missing him heaps.. got to get me my thinking cap on

No1, come back, we miss you[selfish emoticon]

Longway - the photos you posted on your blog are wonderful, what a wee dote she is with her handsome big brother you always come across very reassuring and calm in your posts I feel

cyteen - I took 27 lessons to pass with an eccentric ex traffic-cop instructor - I kept lying and telling him I'd submitted my test application when I hadn't!! I hated my lessons but loved driving and the freedom it provided as we lived in the backside of nowhere when I was growing up. I had a motorway lesson with lunatic my instructor which was very useful, would you consider that? I admit though that the first time I drove with dgodson in the car I went at 30miles an hour because he was such a precious wee thing and my dfriend was [get fecking on with it emoticon] take your time to get to know your car, I have to with every new one I drive - my dFIL asks me frequently if I can drive a car as big as our mummy bus - its only a frigging renault scenic ffs but he has a point. I learnt in a diesel peugoet that you had to shove your foot down to get it to go and then stepped into my mum's XR3i sports job and nearly shot us to the moon!!! you wouldn't expect to know how to use every new thing without instruction/experience to remember that when you step into the car

house completely fecking trashed by friend's dds - they are sodding wild and this is why I never have them round and I think my friend is wonderful too we were supposed to be going to the park but the rain came on which knackered that - I would be horrified if mine behaved like that in someone's house

Packing to leave and surrespticiously catching up

dizz Ashley Jensen is just THE most fab actress ever. In Ugly Betty as the stylist and Extras with Ricky G. Poor you and the house. Have a sit down and stiffrestorative drink

miamla of course you can be Audrey & glad you have a lovely time

Hi No1 . No idea on Famke either

Right, i suspect this is it for me until Sun eve with my winning swimming/Eurovision combo weekend.

Have fab weekends ladies

Love you lots

I had the dr this morning so will give you a quick update and then stop bleating on about all of this

she was very lovely as usual and said my colour was much better & I appear stronger both in terms of how I looked and sounded thank goodness. I did have D with me though so was pretty preoccupied with her emptying my (already empty) purse all over her office.

Blood levels back to normal so seeing as I'm now just down to staining when I wipe (sorry if TMI) I can stop taking the iron tablets and spatone - thank feck. The results from hosp were inconclusive thought . the placenta showed some thicking of the blood vessels (she used a medical term that I have forgotten ) however this could have been due to the miscarriage and not the pregnancy itself - had it been a MMC resolved by D&C they may have had a better idea of what happened but as they had to use placental tissue it wasn't accurate. She says there is no reason we can't try again however there is nothing we can do to try to lesson the chances of it happening again - she was stating that I would be monitored from early on however I pointed out that as I had MC twice at 15wks early scanning wouldn't really reassure me - iyswim?

if we are going to try again her advice would be to wait at least a couple of cycles to allow everything to return to 'normal' including hormones and mental and physical health, I'm signed off my work for another two weeks and allowed to start doing light excercise, as long as I don't go mad. We discussed my hip as well and I've been referred to orthopedics rather than an MRI so I've asked her to refer me privately to speed it up - my health insurance will cover the ortho consult but not the MRI so will pop back into the NHS system after my consult - still drops one of the 9-10wk waiting lists though

right off to make tea for 3 hungry horaces, oven working again thank goodness as I was a tad lost without it

i think that kind of sounded positive dizz tho that they didn't find a true cause..

hopefully you can get yourself back on track and maybe let nature takes its course? well done again on how brave you have been [hugs]..

have an amazing time crispy!!!!

Dizzy, goodness, quite a trip to the doctors. It must be so hard, knowing that you can try again, but with so much worry as well. I hope that things gradually get clearer for you.

DS has been asleep for over two and a half hours now. I almost always wake him up, but not today! not sure whether this bodes well for the rest of the day and evening, but well, he's been poorly, full of cough and snot, and sleeping badly at night so I'm just letting him catch up.

Dizzy that all sounds good but rather standard protocol. I believe miscarriages are still a huge mystery to the medical industry. Trust yourself and your body and do what you feel is best. (((hug)))

Lucky would you like Katherine Heigl to play you?

Miamla I laughed about your screen door story. Honestly I've done it before which DH gladly shared with all BUT that time I did it on my own, not helped in to it like this time.

Sad though about your discomfort Miamla. I spent three days couch bound with Reese. I've never hurt so bad. Get thee to a chiropractor fast. My doc said to rest and take tylenol. This "helped" but it never really went away. During the final month walking was HORRIBLE and folks discarded my complaints completely. It was insulting to go to the hospital and have them tell me to go walk the hallways to help labor along. WTF! I can't walk!!!!! My sympathies.

Katherine Heigl

oh miamla you have my sincerest sympathies, I know its not the same but when I'm having a particularly bad episode with my hip it is so debilitating and painful its awful but I have to keep going because of the kids like you and T. Yay for DH staying at home to help and sorry your time away was cut short

Longway, hope the sleep helped the wee pudding and he's feeling a bit better

TS enjoy your last day

Sazz have a fab time on your course and 'see' you when you get back

girls fed, smallest two bathed, smallest asleep and eldest two eating supper - I am considering some wine this evening after my day I think I deserve it

oh and cyteen - your wee man is such a dude love him!

dizzy PLEASE don't feel you have to 'stop bleating on about it'. We are your friends and we love you, never feel like there won't be a listening ear for you here. FGS woman, you give so much to everyone else - look at what you are doing in the post above your doctors one - giving me sage and sensible advice about my stupid cocking driving nerves, admiring longway's lovely children. You give and give to everyone else, sometimes you have to let people give back to you.

Not really sure how to mix a pf stare and a hug, so I'll just go for the hug right now

I can't imagine what it's like to be in yours and DH's position. Only time will tell where your feelings take you, but at least you'll be doing it together - you obviously have such a strong bond.

And now I feel bad for x-posting so inappropriately

ah bless him he puts up with me and my outrageous temper tantrum because he didn't phone to find out how I got on at the Dr

oh and ROFL about inappropriate posting - I am the queen of that!! remember your rescue remedy when you're going in the car, takes the edge off the nerves oh and that post made me sound like I have a new car every other week (to match my shoes!!) however I have been driving for 17yrs now [eek][ancient emoticon] so have driven a fair few types of cars in that time - and excuse my spelling of peugeot