Updates?

So it's been a few weeks since we've had some current updates around here. Anyone? Bueller? I'm curious to know how the pregnancies are progressing, and how the sit-down/4-way meeting went for Erika (I always think of a mob boss saying "we gotta have a sit-down" when I think of that term - hee hee!) Was it successful? Did the ex prevail in some horrible way??

As for me, we're much the same. Swimming lessons have started again, but this time for both kids. It's Lauren's first EVER instructor-lead anything. She's sort of going through a "ignoring, no listening phase" (jeez - I just LOVE 3 yr olds for that stuff!) so I was curious to see how she'd do with a teacher. And thankfully, she's doing fantastically. Lauren has never had any fear of the water (or respect, either) and will happily put her face/whole body under the water, blow bubbles, kick, you name it. When her lesson is over she's whines about wanting to go back in the pool for more. Nicholas's lesson immediately follows Laurens - same teacher and everything - and he's making big progress as well. He can now sit-dive into the pool, come up and swim to the halfway point then flip over and kick on his back to the other side of the pool. Pretty cool. I'm passionate about my kids being water-safe. Especially since my parents bought a lake cabin. And, in most of my scary dreams involving the kids, water/drowning is usually involved. So, there you go.

What else? Oh yeah, I'm finally caving and going to see - in person - my dr. regarding the 3.5 mos. of continual (NON-STOP!) bleeding/spotting I've been experiencing ever since the m/c. It's too much. The silly nurses over the phone will only tell me that I should continue with Ibuprofin every 4-6 hrs to slow the bleeding. which doesn't seem to make a difference with me anyway. But I have no symptoms of anything worse - no fever, pain, or even cramps. Just endless spotting. For months. Without end. I'm sick of it. I'm even willing to go back on the pill - temporarily - if it will give me an ever-loving break. I'm about ready to see my uterus fall out at this point. So of course my mind starts to go to unsavory places where things are much, much worse in my "lady parts" than I want to believe. We're now almost 2 months past DH's vasectomy, so we've been having to "step it up" in terms of frequency so he can eliminate any and all live swimmers "below the cut", which totally and completely sucks when you're perpetually bleeding. I hate having sex on the rag (sorry if I'm being graphic), but we've HAD to. Every.time. Bah!! So that's what's happening with me. Oh yeah, I also learned how to knit and have started my first knitting project: a hat for Nicholas. Too much fun! (oh my, I am the worlds biggest 30+ yr old granny!)

So what's going on with YOU?