Howdy Speck!
At risk of seeming to go on endlessly about it, I am expanding at a rapid rate again. Something definitely popped over the last week and my belly is getting bigger and bigger. Even loose clothes are barely fitting now.
I hope you are enjoying the space. I am going to look like a balloon. Any day now I just might float away (except for the whole weight thing).
love you.
mum
Good morning Speck!
I am sitting on the back deck in Brisbane and there are no human sounds around. Just the stripey marsh frogs going crazy in the pond/bathtub trying to get laid! It rained last night so they are pretty happy.
Happy Australia day! What that means to you is that its exactly 5 months ’till you’re due! Time flies when you’re getting big and pregnant, and having fun. Went out with some friends for dinner last night and I was asked if I’m excited about being a mum, which I’ve been asked lots before, but it just felt different for some reason (maybe hormones?). Anyway, the answer us most definitely ‘yes’, but also mostly that what I’m excited about is being a mum while your dad is being a dad, so just both having that experience and having a child together. Cause while your dad is often a numpty and grumpy and a total pain in the ass (more so the last two when he has been gap-filling walls in the heat and painting), he is also fun and I think he’ll be a great dad… (yep, the hormones must definitely be kicking in).
Other good news is that I most definitely felt you moving around down there last night in bed, you were squiming and had moved around to the left side when normally you feel like you’re on the right.
Let’s see if I can find a frog to take a photo of…. It’s wet down in the garden..
… No frogs, whilst they are loud they are still hiding.. But lots of eggs – which I got a photo of!
Love you
Mum
Good morning speck!
I’m lying in bed, strange as it feels to me, in our kitchen in Brisbane. The other rooms all have painting stuff all through them, so we slept in the kitchen last night. I don’t know why, but it felt very strange. And I’m awake early – it’s very light in here as the sun comes right in the window and doors to the back deck in the morning.
Exciting (or maybe not) news for you is that your room is nearly all painted! A few touch-ups and floor cleaning today but then it’s all done!
I’ve taken a few photos. Your dad picked out the colours – he’s surprisingly good at colours, so he’s in charge of the whole house. Your room is just like ours – a slight green cream with a green trim, but ours has an olive feature wall, wheras yours doesn’t. I think it looks good. And all good for you to draw all over when you get bigger – all kids do that at some stage don’t they??
Hope you like it, tough if you don’t! By the way this painting thing has been a family affair – your dad, both your grandads, Ros, your big weiner uncle, me (yes, and despite your maternal grandmother’s worrying the fumes aren’t that bad), and maybe a few more friends during the week. Which is good ’cause it’s hard work painting VJ walls -your dad has to fill all the cracks, wash and lightly sand before painting…
Anyway, I’m off to paint.
Love you!
Mum
Ps did you see your great- aunt has apparently sent you your first shipment of specially-made-for-you baby stuff??? Cool, lucky for you!
Hiya Speck!
Hope you’re ok down there. Pretty sure you had a bit of a wriggle around last night. But the layer of fat between my hands and you makes it hard to tell exactly (its getting bigger with the lack of exercise due to ankle)… Ah well.
Its very hot today. I trust you’re laying low and keeping cool. I am drinking as much water as I can but the consequence is even more frequent peeing. Think yo-yo between the computer (work) and the bathroom (loo). I usually try to cut out water a bit before bed time but its just too hot for that too. I have thus been up and down all night too, which makes me a bit more grumpy during the day than normal, and quite a bit more tired. I had plans for dinner and a movie last night but just had to lie down after another VERY busy day at the office. So I cancelled and lay down. I think you appreciated it, as that is when I think you were having a wiggle.
Mm… It says its 31 degrees on my weather checker, but I suspect if I had a thermometer in the house here it would be more like 36. And for once, in Sydney, its pretty damn humid. I am off to Brisbane tonight to help your dad paint (I’m sure I can get some painting done, but really looking forward to a weekend), and I expect its only going to get worse up there. Rain is predicted for all three days but still around 30 degrees, so stinking hot and humid. Lovely. I guess I need to get accustomed to it again, so jumping into the fire is one way to do it. I have read that apparently its normal for me to feel hotter than normal because of you. I may have increased blood flow to my skin, but I think mainly my metabolic rate is higher so I get hotter. And of course I’m bigger. So it feels a lot hotter to me than everyone else.
Have thus been working from home today wearing a pair of knickers and a bra-top. Which was fine until I was on a conference call and a delivery person came to the door. Was too hot and bothered to think of anything better to say, so I just told the whole call (thankfully only two other people whom I’ve worked with at another company for quite a while now) that I just needed to be excused as I was in my knickers and there was someone at the door, and I needed to put the phone down to put on a gown. Mmmn…. I got told, rightly so, that I had given too much information. Oh well, these things happen. Blame: squarely on you for two reasons. Firstly ’cause I’m flustered and hot because of you; and secondly just general baby brain.
Love you. Drink lots of amniotic fluid and avoid your own wee where possible. Your lanugo might help to keep you cool?? (its week 18 and apparently you’re covered in it now)…
love mum
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