not much to report on this end, which is good in a way 🙂
Jasper is such a character – dancing more, ‘talking’ more, just generally being an adorable toddler – with bouts of teething (we think he’s getting about 6 at once at the moment) and clingyness. he’s understanding more and more each day, LOVES to talk on the phone but we have no idea what he’s saying. he’s a pro at climbing up onto the couch and using it as a trampoline, which gives me a heart attack.
Regan’s fantastic too – working hard and really stepping up with Jasper lately because i’m turning into a sloth day by day. he’s hoping to take a month off work when baby girl arrives, so it will be great to have him around the house more 🙂 it’s going to be such a great time in both of our lives!!!
me, i’m getting there – still loving being pregnant but finding it hard to do things because of the general aches of morphing into ‘all belly’ again. work is tough, i’m fighting pregnancy brain though! weekends have been full of baking and resting which is nice. i’m definately getting into a nesting stage.
i mentioned it before, but i’m working hard to get all my blogs and shopping directory up to stratch so that i can not worry about redesigning them for at least 6 months. my sister and i still have plans to set up an online store – but i’ve had no time to ring the ATO about my ABN (which has expired without me knowing!).
i keep forgetting to post about this weird pregnancy thing i have. i had it with Jasper and now i have it again – i get the ‘scaredy cats’! my MIL bought me dexter season 1 and 2 on dvd for xmas, and i cannot bring myself to watch it yet LOL i *love* dexter and did watch most of season 1 already, but that was before getting pregnant. the other day i tried to psyche myself up to watch it, but chickened out – and later that night i had the most freakiest nightmares ever! so i’m sticking to my sitcoms a little while longer 😛
hooray! 26 weeks 🙂
26 being my favourite number, i’m very happy to arrive at this milestone in the pregnancy. each week is a sign of relief really – not because i want it over (LOL) but because it means 1 more step to a healthy bouncing baby in my arms in may 🙂
i’m very tired this week, so i’m back on iron & vitamin c tablets, aswell as eating more greens and red meat (which i have a hankering for anyway). belly is growing and stretching, so my back is trying to accommodate. i get alot of braxton hicks, which is fine because i know it means we’re practising and the baby is getting alot of blood and oxygen at the same time.
i had my glucose tolerance test at the midwives clinic last week – all is great 😀 they found me a gluten free version of glucaid, which was GREAT at first and then got nasty! with Jasper they didn’t have the gluten free version so i just did an overnight fast and blood test.
baby girl and i were checked and we’re doing great too – fundal height was spot on. heartbeating away. she kicks and turns like crazy all the time, but i don’t mind – Regan will administer payback (wrestlemania) once she’s out 😛
we’re thinking of moving Jasper into a toddler bed soon so that baby girl can have the cot. i don’t know how it’ll go though! i don’t want to rush JJ if he’s not ready – we can hear him knocking about in his cot after we put him to bed. he’s such an active sleeper. i’m toying with the idea of getting a hammock and having her sleep in our room for a bit …
i will cut down to 4 days a week of work in about april, and then aim to take leave from mid-may. i’ll only probably take 12 weeks off max (which is about the same as i took with JJ), so i’m going to try and work right up until my due date, if not 39 weeks. it’s a really tough thing to swallow, short maternity leave, but it’s for the financial good of our family and i know my children are in great care with their grandparents. still sucks/hurts though.
i’m a broken record when i say i’m so lucky and so grateful. but the events of the past few days down in victoria, really make me appreciate my good health, my great life and the people in it. hug your partner, hug your mum and dad, hug your brothers and sisters, hug your babies. we’re not promised tomorrow, so live today.
waking up to hear the news, well i’m just glad i get to wake up and hear the news. to experience it, to lose your life’s belongings, to lose your life – i can’t being to imagine.
108 people confirmed dead, more than 750 homes lost – but expect those numbers to rise.
and i agree, if someone has deliberately lit these fires, they deserve the title of being a ‘murderer’. shameless.
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