only 2 weeks to go...

HI

Well I am now jobless, and finding myself with loads of time on my hands but very little enthusiasm to do much really. Spend a bit of time each day in the baby's room and cleaning parts of the house but really just feel like i am waiting.....

Greg and i hope to have the room finished soon, there are still curtains to be made and a bassinet to be stripped, sanded or painted... and a huge list of things that I have been putting off doing that we need to get done. The usual things like tidy the linen cupboard and clean out the guttering... i won't be cleaning the guttering but can't ignore the linen cupboard anymore... never mind. At least i am not going to be one of those mothers with a place for everything- comes with living in constant state of renovation i think.

Will hopefully send some photos of the finished baby's room soon and there is a high likelihood that, that could coincide with photos of the new baby.

Mum is coming with me to the mid wife appointment tomorrow so she'll get to meet Steph (the mid wife) and hear the baby's heart beat etc.

Anyway, just a brief update!

love

Sarah

Only 3 weeks to Go!

Hi

thought i would brave the blog and put up some of Greg's pictures... hope you're not too shocked... if you are don't look!

5 1/2 Weeks to go... Baby Shower Photos

Our sincerest thanks to those who came to the baby shower... and literally showered our baby in presents!

We had such a great time matching names and their meanings, writing rather funny stories about the labour and delivery of this unknown baby, testing our nursery rhyme skills and of course eating. Aunty Nine knows every nursery rhyme and Jenny C manage to "guess my circumference" to the exact millimetre. Bethany W managed not to say the word "baby" and with the most pegs won a prize. Here are some pictures of the day including a very cool sign that sums up the question on everyones lips. Huge thanks to Mum and Cris for their cooking, organising, cleaning and sign making, and to Jude for her savouries.



me and mum


the great grandmothers to be (on my side)


Cris and Naomi


Kem, Cindi and Suz


Susanna


The great aunts to be


Abi, Gay and Karissa


Kathryn and Me in our last Fishy lips photo before she goes off adventuring


Kirstin, Laura and Liv


Lynely and the Grandmother to be ;o)


Lys and Bethany the peg winner!


is it a boy or is it a girl?

Work Baby Shower

The lovely ladies at work threw a baby shower for me today and it was sooo awesome!

here are some pics...


the whole crew


the small business girls


the two organisers Lynn and Sydney

The 30 week Bump (we're at 31weeks and 2 days now!)

HI

as promised the updated super belly photos are here!

hope you don't laugh. i'm a fraction bigger today than in the photos but you get the idea... not the most flattering i know!

Week 31... only 9 to go!!!!!!

Hi everyone, soorry we have been majorly slack in blogging. Off to ante natal classes tonight so this is just a quick post to say watch this space and i'll put some more bump photos up tomorrow. I have been downloading them tonight so they are on thier way! yay!!!

Thanks to those people who care heaps and have phoned or emailed to hassle me for my slack blogging though ;o)

Greg is at home preparing a roast and has been plastering and sanding in the master bedroom so everything is coming along nicely for the arrival of the bump.

So watch this space!

love to you all

Sarah

Queen's Birthday Weekend

Seemed to be able to cram huge amounts of socialising into one weekend... and still haven't really recovered ;o) On Thursday night Andy stayed with us on his way up north and he and Greg loaded up dad's trailer with the room load of broken up gib, ceiling and wallpaper and took it off to the tip first thing Friday morning. They also went out and bought all the veges for our new garden using a voucher that Grandma had given us... so yay free veges all winter!

A local cat has been delighted by our new garden much to Greg's dismay... so after a wee bit of consultation Greg bought some chicken wire to cover the garden rather than an electric fence...gun... or gin trap... all of which i was pretty adamant could not be used in Auckland ;o) Hilarious!

Dan and Susanna were keen to help us out in the weekend but with people staying and the weather fairly drizzly there wasn't much we could do so we enjoyed dinner with them on Monday night instead.

Maree came down Sunday afternoon and spoke at Manurewa Bible Chapel about her upcoming adventures in Africa. She left on Monday to Fly via Thailand and South Africa to her new nursing post where she hopes to be for up to 9 months. I was a nice family time on Monday morning as we said goodbye to her...and Janet beat me in yet another scrabble game... sadly she almost doubled her points against me this time... i think she's taking advantage of me in my abnormal state...te he just kidding!

The news on the baby is great. We had a scan at 24 weeks as part of the SCOPE study Greg and I have been participating and i don't show any signs of developing preeclampsia which is great. They measure the heart beat of the baby and record it as a wave form... then measure the length of the wave form and from that draw all sorts of conclusions. So that was our last scan i think until the baby is born and we only had the scan because of the study... but it was nice to see the baby again. It was covering both it's eyes in "hide and go seek" style and scratched it's head... so maybe it's going to be a thinker ;o). Feeling loads more kicks and can occasionally see the baby kick from the outside...so weird! Having trouble moving into spaces that are normally no problem... like between the back door and the wash tub in the laundry... and sleeping is getting more and more interesting as my dreams become louder and more warped! ANYWAY....

We've worked out that we have about 8 weeks to get the master bedroom ready to be carpetted so everything is all go for us at the moment.

Thanks for tuning in... will post photos next time ;o)