September 04, 2008

especially for jo

seems i have a bit of a belly

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At 25 weeks and 1 day Guido is going well. S/he's moving around a fair bit. I read yesterday that around now you can start playing with the baby - like trying to tickle it through your skin, and rolling from side to side on your back to see how it reacts. I have started poking him/her - sometimes in response to them poking me, and sometimes coz I want them to wake up. sure won't be doing that when they have popped out and are sleeping.

jo, this should be the third or fourth different pic you've now seen... hoorah!

Category: bubba
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September 03, 2008

fully sucks

i'm so sad fully stoked is closing down!

Category: Mawwwww...
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September 02, 2008

nesting

apparently a lot of mums-to-be go through a nesting phase - a time where they prepare their nursery, gathering the various bits and pieces that will be needed for the baby and generally cleaning up and organising things.

i haven't really been able to allow myself to do that because of our living situation, although we have bought the car seat and stroller (hoorah for sales!!).

anyway, today was the first official opportunity for nesting i reckon. a lovely couple from our church have given us a secondhand cot - which they brought over today and put together. and it's a beauty! it makes me excited to gather the rest of the bits and pieces we will need. thankfully a number of different people are offering us different pieces of furniture, which takes the pressure of a bit. and thankfully we aren't really into themes for the nursery - so are quite happy to bring Guido into a higgildy piggildy world of blues, reds, whites, turtles, poohs, and whatever else crops up.

I'm hopeful that this nesting instinct that i'm meant to feel won't amount to the following:

"Nesting brings about some unique and seemingly irrational behaviors in pregnant women and all of them experience it differently. Women have reported throwing away perfectly good sheets and towels because they felt the strong need to have "brand new, clean" sheets and towels in their home. They have also reported doing things like taking apart the knobs on kitchen cupboards, just so they could disinfect the screws attached to the knobs. Women have discussed taking on cleaning their entire house, armed with a toothbrush. There seems to be no end to the lengths a nesting mother will go to prepare for her upcoming arrival.

This unusual burst of energy is responsible for women ironing anything in the house that couldn't out run them. Being preoccupied with ant killing, squishing them one at a time for weeks on end. Packing and unpacking the labor bag 50 times. Cleaning the kitchen cupboards and organizing everything by size to the point that you make sure the silverware patterns match when it's stacked in the cutlery drawer. Sorting the baby's clothes over and over again is a favorite theme. Taking them out of the drawers and re-folding them, putting them away and doing it over and over again."

i don't think i'll quite get to that. well, i hope not!

Category: bubba
Posted by jenny at 07:40 PM | Comments (2)

August 31, 2008

tired

i haven't been sleeping very solidly for a while now. because of growing belly. so i'm finding a nap is a more and more wonderful thing.

after lunch today, where we met the rest of the noobs, both howie and i were super tired. so we got home and went to sleep, which meant we missed church. whoopsidoodle.

Category: Whateverness
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August 30, 2008

fridge

we bought a fridge today. our first fridge after being married for almost two years.

we hope we got a good deal. it was $500 off, and my grandpa has generously paid for it. so that in itself is a good deal.

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it's being delivered on monday. but we probably won't switch it on til we move in.

next and last objective is a new washing machine. that's a bit more tricky.

Category: setting up house
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August 29, 2008

brook

this morning we had an ob appointment. the time we waited was at least three times as long as the time we were in there. all is good. next appointment includes the test for gestational diabetes.

howie was then going to catch the train to hazelbrook to finish off some TEAR videos. somehow he convinced me that i should go with him. and somehow i agreed and decided i would drive him. i think mostly because it's an hour car trip or a three hour train trip if the connections are no good. so here we are in hazelbrook, working from someone else's home.

Category: Whateverness
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