On this my second day with two two and a half year olds, who are not only cousins, but only a week apart, scares me a little. They will play happily for a while then all of a sudden melt down!!! One wants what the other has, even when they are the exact same toy, and vice versa. I am getting a glimpse, but only just a glimpse of what life would be like with twins, not so bad at times, head splitting at other moments. I love them both though so it’s all good 🙂
My sister had to be rushed back to the hospital yesterday when within 45 minutes her contractions were coming at 3min apart. Thankfully, I am a skilled driver, who did not have to speed (too much) and am creative at parking quickly (handicapped) and at speaking loudly down the halls without yelling (“woman in labour, clear the way) while pushing a wheelchair loaded with sister and paraphenalia. Her hubby arrived a few minutes after us and I left. Phew! Unfortunatley her labour stopped a few hours later and they are currently assessing what to do with her (i.e. send her home agian or induce).
Add to that that I am cooking a roast for my Sister and her Husband at 11am, so I am drooling over a roast and it won’t be ready for hours, ack!
J2 (nephew) just wacked J in the head with a butterfly net. Why oh why? All for a guitar. And this is only Tuesday 🙂
My Sis was allowed to come home last night. But, only after they were able to set up homecare to come to the house every day to check on her. She will still be on strict bedrest. We have all been recruited. Mom and I will trade shifts next week making sure she does not get out of bed and watching “J2”. He doctor will induce her a week from Wednesday if she hasn’t gone into full labour. So that will make it two and a half weeks she will have had to wait. Baby Neice is weighing in at almost 6lbs and according to the u/s looks happy and healthy.
We are well into our fertility experiment. This will be our only shot at this experiment as Hubby’s work apparently cancelled coverage for fertility drugs without telling anyone!! So, like our ivf, this will be our only kick in the can. $1000 for drugs for an experiment just cannot be justified in our budget. We only went into this one as we thought we were still covered. So far so good, I have not had any side effects of the drugs and will go for a first round of tests on Sunday to see how they are working (which better be perfect considering the cost 😉 ).
My younger sister went into preterm labour yesterday!! She is at 35 weeks and her water started “leaking” with mild contractions. They took all day to get her an ultrasound to check out the little bean, so she was confined to bed all day. Then, after the ultrasound decided that she needed to stay at the hospital on bedrest for at least a week to try and keep the baby in for another week. Oh the tears!!!! And I completely understand, it was her first night away from her little guy “J2”, who is two and a half. I was able to go in and see her yesterday and “J” and “J2” got to have a playdate at Grandma’s house. Which meant I also got to catch up on all my work 🙂
Unfortunately the hospital is not yet set up with WiFi, so I couldn’t even give her a computer to play with. Apparently they are working on it, just haven’t quite got there yet, “should be in for your next baby” they said. So poor thing will be hanging out, in bed, all day long. I would be bawling too, but I did remind her to catch up on sleep and reading while she doesn’t have to run after a toddler and a new born. Let Grandma run 😉 (I did offer too, but Grandma has a visitor who used to be a Nanny so she has back up).
So for now, we will wait for our little niece, hoping that she will wait another week to show up, just long enough so she doesn’t have to be in Nicu and can come home to Mom and Dad and her Big Brother.
Hang tight almost Valentine.
