New train set bits

When Ben and I were in Manchester, Ben was obsessing about "barriers up, barriers down". Everything that could be a barrier, was a barrier. Whether it looked remotely like one or not. When he plays his drums he puts things down either side of his music area which act as barriers. They have to open and close like gates whenever he comes and goes. Barriers up, barriers down.

So dad said he might have seen a train set section that has barriers and animals..... and he'd bring it with him when they came to stay :)

They got it out when we left on Tuesday morning, and Ben LOVED it. I don't have a picture of the barriers for today but I did get Ben holding up his new signposts!

Morning sickness kicked in today. I'm so grateful that it held off until after the conference (back blipped here and here) but meh I'd actually forgotten how rubbish you feel. I think I collapsed from exhaustion in front of the sofa and only vaguely remember mum and dad saying they were taking Ben out to the park to give me a break. After being sick and feeling better I even managed a bath but the nausea stayed all day. I'm only 6 weeks, from my dates I'm reckoning end of November for baby.

Mum and dad stayed all afternoon too, mum looked after Ben (watching Wall-E for perhaps the 5th time in three days) while dad took me to the hospital for my insulin transfer session. That's it, officially back on insulin for the duration. The tablets are just about ok for normal day-to-day-ness but they're just not keeping my sugars under tight enough control for pregnancy.

We did have a fright this morning. Ben wanted to watch Kodo (the drumming dvd we have) so after breakfast mum and dad tried to get the dvd to work. Somehow it automatically selected the wrong dvd player which we've not set up, and so mum was turning the volume up and up and up wondering why they couldn't get any sound. I didn't realise this. I came in when dad complained that he didn't like our technology, discovered they were using the wrong program, found the main dvd player, and frightened the life out of Ben when the Kodo drummers started playing at full blast through our surround sound system. Dad leapt up and turned the amp off. By the time he'd figured out where the volume control dial was we'd had two more full-power blasts of Kodo and Ben was not very happy any more. No watch Kodo. Ben watch Wall-E?


So Ben watched Wall-E. Again.