Not of the 'cute little characters you suspend above a baby crib' variety but of the 'moving around' variety.
Our car up and died on saturday, it was sat outside from saturday to yesterday evening taunting me and the kids who had to walk everywhere and beg lifts from people and such like. Me and my so wobbly hips and pelvis bones that sometimes the pain in them when i move can smart a little!! The midwife told me that the baby is lying is a slightly odd 'question mark' type shape with its legs out stretched….i said 'ooh, is that quite unusual?' Her very swift reply was 'Not when you have had four babies!'
I was incredibly grateful to my wonderful friend who bravely drove their brand new 7 seater to swimming lessons yesterday just so that she could take our kids as well as her own. It was the first time that Poppy has been included in swimming lessons. She has been waiting a long time and i haven't seen her so excited for a while. She made me laugh out loud when she walked back into the changing room after her lessons and looked at me and said..'See, I told you I can swim!'
The car was fixed yesterday evening by an auto-electrician who amazingly diagnosed the problem and charged us less than £70.00 to fix it. PHEW! I drove the kids to school today with my AA card on the dash though, just in case…