Oops

Well I'm a dope. I accidently told Anne (Graham's dad's girlfriend) that it's a girl. She's not going to tell his dad though, so hopefully I don't slip up again! To be fair, I had been up really early and was feeling really groggy so I wasn't paying attention to keeping it a secret. Oh well... she'd have found out in 2 months anyway.

I couldn't resist buying the cutest little denim overall skirt that I saw at Debenhams a few weeks ago. I was going to wait until she was born just to make sure it's definitely a girl but I couldn't help myself today! It was staring at me and there was no one around to stop me from buying it.

So cute :) I can't wait to dress her up and take her places. I'm so glad she's going to be a summer baby.

Since I haven't done this in a few weeks, here's a picture of how big I am today:

29 weeks & 5 days

Hiccups

I am seriously getting bigger by the day! I woke up on Saturday and must have been twice as big as I was when I went to bed. Even today I bumped into someone who last saw me only 3 or 4 days ago and he said I was definitely bigger than when we last met.

I now have less than 11 weeks to go until my due date... scarey thought! I still cannot believe how quickly this all has been going by.

A friend of mine had her baby about 10 days ago and as soon as I saw him I was so jealous and couldn't wait to meet my little one. At that moment 12 weeks seemed like ages to wait. Now however, it suddenly seems like it's not enough time to get everything sorted out and prepare myself for life with kid!

Anyway... she's been hiccupping a lot lately which is really cute. I can feel this little rythmic twitch for about 5 or 10 minutes once or twice a day and I know it's her hiccupping. I kind of feel bad for the poor thing because she has no way of knowing how to stop it if it's bothering her :(

Graham and I went to Ikea on Friday and picked up the changing table and wardrobe for the baby's room. I'm going to order the crib from Mothercare next month I think. Baby's room is slowly coming together!

Aside from baby news, Graham's older sister Laura and her boyfriend Robin got engaged last weekend! :) We're all very excited for them and can't wait for the wedding already!

Gift Registry

I've had a few people asking what they can get for us for the baby, and since so many people live in Canada it can get pretty expensive when it comes to mailing gifts, I decided to create a small gift registry with Mothercare (a UK company.)

Anyone interested in having a look can click either the link on the right side of this page titled Mothercare Gift List or they can click here. All you have to do is enter either my name (first and last) or Graham's name where it says Find a friends gift list... and our list should appear.

I feel a bit strange making this list, but since people have asked I figured it might be a good idea, and it'll also help prevent receiving duplicates. No one has to get us anything, this is only if you'd like to :)

Third Trimester!

Well I've made it to my third trimester! Only 12 weeks left to go. I'm getting really excited now and I'm sure that means that this trimester will feel like it's moving very slowly. The first two went by so fast I can hardly believe it but something tells me that this one is going to feel much longer.

Anyway, I finished the second coat of paint in the baby's room and this is what it currently looks like in day light:


So far that's the only piece of furniture that we have in the room, but it's part of a set that we're getting from Ikea. We're going to get the Leksvik Changing Table and Leksvik 2 Door Wardrobe to go with it.

Hopefully we'll get that stuff in the next week or two. It depends on how busy Graham is with work though. I don't want to bother him too much while he's getting used to the new plane and busier schedule.

I'd like to find some colourful canvas pictures for the wall but I can't seem to find anything online or in person. I might have to just take some pictures myself and have them done up. Hopefully it won't come to that, I think it'll probably be expensive.

Anna and Emma came to visit yesterday and took me baby shopping. They bought us a Tommee Tippee Nappy Wrapper, a Growbag for the baby to sleep in, and some cute little Winnie the Pooh body suits. Thanks to Anna and soon to be Aunt Emma :)

M-ARTY

Graham flew his new plane for the first time yesterday and I was able to get some pictures of it when they landed at Fairoaks last night.

It looks really nice and I love the registration. Because it's registered through the Isle of Man, it has to start with an M, rather than the usual G for Great Britain. They wanted to do something fun and his bosses wife came up with M-ARTY. His boss now tells people that it's a Back to the Future reference and that the plane is his time machine (because it saves him so much time.)

Graham (R) and his instructor Damien (L)

M-ARTY at Fairoaks

I think it looks really good and it's very spacious inside. It even has a toilet! The plane is owned by Graham's boss, and his wife and two daughters were at the airport waiting for them to arrive as well.

The youngest daughter decided that she was going to christen the toilet while it was parked and being put away for the night. It was pretty funny, especially because she did it with the door wide open and there were about 10 men standing right outside. She's only 5 years old so you had to forgive her. At least Graham didn't have to clean out the pot lol.

27 weeks & 3 days

Here's what I look like these days:


I feel like I look bigger in person than I do in pictures. When I walk past a mirror I swear I see double the size of what I see in this picture. Maybe that's why people keep saying I'm so small for 6 months? I was worrying about it so I asked the midwife on Friday and she said I'm the right size and that everyone is different :)

I finally got to hear the baby's heart beat this past week! It was really exciting, unfortunately Graham wasn't there though. Maybe he'll be able to hear it at the next appointment if he can go. The midwife was surprised that I hadn't heard it yet because I should have around week 15. I told her that when I went in for my appointment and asked if we would get to hear it, the doctor said 'Oh we don't do that. It worries the mum's if they can't find the heart beat.' My midwife was confused and said that was a little bit mean.

Anyway I'm just happy that I finally got to hear it. It really does sound like a tiny little horse galloping around! And the baby kept kicking at the wand like she didn't want it there :) Apparently she also had the hiccups but I couldn't really tell. Her heart rate was around 140-160. It would get faster every time she moved or kicked.

My next appointment is my 31 week check up in May which my mom will be here for so maybe she'll get to come with me :)

Diabetes Testing and Baby Room Painting

This morning I had to go to the hospital for my gestational diabetes test so I wasn't allowed to eat for at least 10 hours before and I had to drink this awful lemon flavoured sugar mix 2 hours before having my blood taken. The lemon drink was horrible! I knew it was going to be bad, but I honestly didn't expect it to be as disgusting as it was. Even pinching my nose didn't help block the taste. The lemon flavour was dimmed slightlywhen I pinched my nose, but it still had a really strong sweet/sour taste. That wasn't even the worst part though - the after taste was awful! It was like someone had squirted handsoap into my mouth. I had to drink it within 5 minutes as well (I think they make you do that because they know if you don't have a time limit, you'll never finish it.) And I had to drink it in the car because I had to go with Graham to the airport so he could go to work and I could still have the car for my appointment 2 hours later.

Anyway, the appointment itself was easy enough. The lady who took my blood was very pleasant and it didn't really hurt. I waited around for an hour for the test results to come back and thankfully everything was normal so I don't have to worry about diabetes :)

Graham and I started painting the baby's room the other day. Unfortunately because we did it at night we missed a few spots (when I say we, I mean Graham) and didn't have any paint left so we had to go back and get another bucket. We'll have way too much now so I think I'll use the rest to paint the boring downstairs bathroom. It's so blah and cold looking as it is right now.

We chose a sunny yellow which hopefully won't be too bright for the baby. I think they like bright colours though so maybe she'll like it. I'm going to use white fabric as the accent colour, around the windows for example. Maybe get some nice lace curtains and white bedding for the crib. I'm not sure what to put on the walls though... I kind of like the idea of putting up her name in script in white wood. I've seen that in a few pictures of nurseries that I've looked at online. I'll have to wait to do that after she's born though, in case she is actually a he, and we might change our minds about the name once she (or he) arrives.

Anyway here are a few pictures of the room in progress. The pictures kind of make the colour look like cheese whiz but it doesn't actually look like that in real life.

Hopefully it will look nice when we're all finished. I'm getting eager to set it all up now but we haven't even bought the furniture yet. I need to get rid of that awful lamp shade on the ceiling too. It's brown and looks disgusting with the yellow. It kind of makes me worry that the wood choice won't be right... Guess we'll have to see!