Holidays, work and BABY NEWS!

2011 here we are! Even though we are halfway through the first month already (gasp!)....

Back at work again (sigh) and things are slowly returning to normal.... My 2 weeks off were awesome, and totally not long enough, but will make do with that for now. Christmas day was spent at my parents and we ate far too much. I totally surprised my mum with how much I ate!! She didn't think I would make it through the huge plateful of roast turkey, potatoes, kumara, pumpkin and beans that I did. But it was soooo goooooood!! And I surprised myself with being able to eat it all and not getting that horrible "oh I just ate too much" feeling. By the time it was dinnertime, everyone else was still full and I was hungry again hehe. So mum had some yummy christmas ham which I had two nice big ham steaks from that I fried up. nom nom nom.  Saw my grandparents too which was nice as they aren't doing so well, old age and all that..

The rest of the holiday was spent going to the beach (oh the swimming was lovely), going to Auckland shopping and mini-putting with my cousins, and just general relaxing and getting a bit of stuff done around the house.

Had my 20 week scan on the 29th, and bubs was very cooperative - its a GIRL!!!



My lil girl at the 20 week scan :) Isn't she cute?!

I am so excited :) We have thought of a possible name now too, but will go in with a couple and decide on the actual day. Everything is looking awesome so far, fluid levels around her are great, she's pretty much the right size for her date and her brain and heart are looking super. At my previous midwife visit she asked me if I had felt any movement and all I could say was I'm not sure, possibly. Well about 2 days after that (at 19 weeks) I got booted. and every single day since then she has been kicking and rolling around. It is the weirdest (but nicest) feeling! She has been lying transverse with her head on my left side, but as of yesterday she actually turned around and I think she is now with her head on my right as I am getting kicks on my left side now. So possible gymnast or highland dancer in the making perhaps? The midwife at my last appointment on tuesday was very pleased to hear I had been getting such awesome movements, especially seeing as I have a front (anterior) placenta! Must say it's pretty reassuring for me to have her kicking me all the time too. If I haven't felt her all day she will usually give me a couple of strong kicks that night just as I have gotten into bed and relaxing for the night. Although yesterday she had a VERY active day, and was moving around quite uncomfortably the whole time I was cooking and eating dinner. So she's certainly getting her groove on in there! 

My latest bump pictures - 20, 21 and 22 weeks!


So now that we know that she's a girl I haven't been able to resist some of the great sales in the baby shops lately, even though I have heaps of clothes coming from my sister in law, I just wanted to buy her some cute things myself. So now we have a little range of clothes for her, all different sizes - some newborn right up until 1 year. and we got some pretty damn good bargains on some of them too! So now I just have to get them all clean and then hang them up, or else find some drawers to put them in.

Baby room is a shambles at the moment, I've been sorting through my bookshelf and putting up all my children's books that I had packed away, and removing some of the other ones I had. Of course this is a work in progress as I started but ran out of steam. So there are books scattered all over the floor. Our bedroom is somewhat resembling a bomb site too as I have been going through my wardrobe and finding out what still fits me (this list is shrinking by the day...including a new pair of pants this morning that fit me ok last week!) and things that I no longer want that I will donate. This is a work in progress also. The spare room has had a tornado through it too as it contains all the things that used to be in the baby's room but haven't been or aren't going to be taken downstairs but have yet to find a new home....among lots of blankets and pillows etc that were on our spare bed....this is hopefully soon to be my sewing room as well as being the guest bedroom. Just got to ressurect hubby's old computer desk and see if it is suitable.

Right, well I think that's enough waffle from me for now... catch you later.