Watch this

I am loving the BBC sitcom called Blessed. It's about a thirty-something couple in London with two children (you can see why I love it). If you have children and you haven't seen it you are missing out. Some of the dialogue is a bit heavy but it makes me cry with laughter at least once every week. It's on Fridays on BBC1.

You can read about it and watch a couple of video clips here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/b/blessed_999051007.shtml

I love the clip about the Family Desk Diary. We have a calendar in the kitchen where everything is supposed to be written down. Their conversation reminds me of one that J and I had when he suggested we go more technological, get me a Palm Pilot or something and 'sync' our diaries rather than just write them down in the kitchen. You can imagine my response.

Quick update

As you can imagine, it's been chaos here. At the moment we're all sick AGAIN and suffering with colds. Here are a few pics taken in the last couple of weeks. Unfortunately, a few pics is about all I have the energy for at the moment.

The pics include one of my whole little family, a few of the kiddos and one of Tobes and Rosie when they both fell asleep at the same time last week. I didn't know what to do with myself!

You can see that Rosie Rae is still a very solemn child. She even scowls in her sleep but I did get my first full-on, looking me straight in the eyes smile yesterday. It was fleeting and hasn't been repeated but it was absolutely heart stopping. Still makes me weepy just thinking about it. Last night J got all teary watching Phoebe's wedding on Friends and thinking about perhaps walking Rosie down the aisle one day. Christ, we're soppy old sods.

Some pics

Here's Tobes with his Papa and Nana and a pic in his new coat, hat and gloves. I posted the bathtub pic in the baby blog but had to post it hear too. It's just so cute!

God help us

Tobes is still ill. I'm taking him back to the doctor's tomorrow. Counting the trips to the emergency room this will be our sixth visit to the doctor in two weeks. Rosie is on antibiotics, J had conjunctivitis and I am losing my mind.

If we didn't have Toby's illness to deal with I think things would be fine. Rosie has fallen into a 3-4 hour routine so I could get some reasonable sleep. The problem is still Toby waking up and being up for hours every night. We now think he might have the flu as he keeps complaigning about his neck and legs hurting as well as having a sore throat and being very congested. I hope they can diagnose something. Just giving it a name will be a relief. Right now it feels like we're never going to be well.

What a week

Rosie and I came home on Friday. On Saturday Toby wasn't feeling well. On Sunday night Tobes started vomiting and J eventually had to take him to the emergency room. At one point they suspected meningitis and he was fitted for an IV. He was sent home three hours later and we were told that he just had a very bad virus. On Monday night J took Tobes back to the emergency room with a scary high fever that we couldn't get down. They prescribed antibiotics. On Monday Tobes was much better. On Tuesday night Tobes started itching and came up in a rash and we discovered that he's allergic to penicillin. On Wednesday I took Tobes to the doctor (even though I'm not supposed to be driving. J had to go to work so there weren't many options.) They said Tobes had a virus, made a note about his penicillin allergy and sent us home with no more antibiotics much to my frustration. Wednesday night Tobes was up all night with fever which jumped to 102 degrees this morning. Today I took him back to the doctor's and I was in an even worse mood than yesterday. They prescribed a different antibiotic. Poor little thing is exhausted. Hopefully this medicine will be the answer.

Of course, while all of this has been going on we've been adjusting to life with Rosie and I've been trying to recover from surgery. J has picked up Toby's bug and been trying to do some work this week. Thank God Mom and Dad have been here. They've been doing a lot of Rosie's care and feeding (not sure the child will recognise me after they leave), keeping the house tidy, doing tons of laundry and making sure we all eat. I really can't imagine the state we'd be in without them.

Some pics

Here's Tobes in his roles as Buzz Lightyear and proud big brother. More baby pics in the Baby Blog.

And then there were four

Rosamund Rae arrived at 3.14pm on Tuesday 1November, which everyone who reads this blog is probably very much aware of already.

You may not know that we're all home now. I'm still walking hunched over with boobs like missiles, Rosie has slept all day, Toby's head seems to be spinning and J is shell-shocked. Luckily Mom and Dad are here to witness the chaos and make sure we all eat.

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