3 weeks, 3 days!

HI Everyone

Well we have been very busy, not with anything special but with 4 kids how can you not be!!!

It is Thomas' Birthday on Saturday! I can't believe that my little man will be THREE!!!!!! I have been talking to him about it allot so that he understands that after being to so many parties this year it is finally his turn!!!!! I know he is going to have an absolute ball! I am making him a train cake so will be trying to get that done tomorrow so I don't have to worry about it Saturday morning.

We had an awful day on Monday...Started out good with us excited about having an ultrasound. Jamie was off sick and decided that he would come, which was great cause he normally misses out on that sort of stuff. We get in the car to head over to drop off the babies to dad's and the car started playing up a bit, I thought it was just the way he was driving it hehe. Anyway we get to the ultrasound place which is only 5 mins from Dad's and hand her the slip to be told sorry we can't accept that as it is a Barwon Health slip and has only been signed by a registrar so Medicare will reject it!!!! OMG I felt like crying! She said that I could just get my GP to co sign it and they would be able to see me at 2pm that afternoon. So off i go to my local clinic and she tells me oh no we can;t alter it without you waiting for an appt!!! Christ I only wanted him to sign it, not make any changes, more like they would get no money out of it if I didn't have an appt!!!!! So I cracked it! There was no way I was waiting for 1.5hrs just for a signature!!!! Decided that it would be quicker to go into town to the Ante Natal clinic at the hospital and get the Ob to sign it!

That is when the real crap stuff started! We went and got the babies and dropped Jamie off at home, driving up the highway the car got worse and worse and worse, to where it was trying to bunny hop at 60km in 4th gear! I drove straight to the closest mechanic, who happened to be a friend and to cut a long story short, it needs a new Air Flow Meter which cost $700 for the part alone!!!!! The mechanic has borrowed on for a few days for us to drive around and make sure all the problems disappear and then we will have to buy our own!!!

All I can say is thank god that against every ones advice I brought a Warranty when I brought the car as it has saved us allot of money already (more that the warranty cost that is for sure). And I think that when we upgrade we will take his advice and buy a Torago! We have only had it 2 years and have had two MAJOR problems with it. I know buying second hand cars there is a risk of that anyway but every mechanic we speak to tells us off for buying a Carnival!

So we finally have our ultrasound and triple checked that it was a boy YAY! Amy was with us and she loved it, which was good. I went for the 34 weeks check up the next morning and they did find that he has a slight renal dilation in both kidneys. In 95% of cases it corrects itself by the time that they are born, he will have to have an ultrasound to make sure. Nikiesha had a problem with her kidneys inuetro too and I am sure it was the same thing. I am not stressing about it, I will deal with it if and when I have too.

I was also put back on insulin :(, a bit disappointed but I know that I have done everything that I can to stay off it, the only other thing I could do would be eliminate carbs all together and wouldn't be good for either of us! At the min it is only the night time slow release one, but I think that I will be on the day time on next week anyway. Apparently the Geelong Hospital still uses the National guidelines for your readings but last year there were new studies done and they are .3 lower than that guidelines, and if you go by them I am over most of the time!

Well I better go I think I have rambled enough LOL! And it is time for baths so I can put all these rug rats to be and have some piece and quiet!!!

Take Care All!