Sunshine

28 Weeks - but who's counting?

Today is daylight savings for NZ (thank goodness!!! I'm really not a fan of the Palmerston North winters....at all!) The gov't decieded that NZ need 4 extra weeks of summer sunlight, so this year they have started daylight savings 2 weeks ahead of schedule. It makes it so much nicer to wake up to a warm, sunny house and before we know it the evening BBQ season will be upon us - yay!

Nothing too eventful has happened this week except that I got a stomach bug and was in bed for 2 days unable to eat anything. That was pretty miserable. Of course I read up everything in our baby books to make sure it wasn't someother baby complication thing, but after visiting our Dr, I was reassured that with time it would go away. The thing about being sick with a baby is that you are afraid to take any over the counter meds...so you basically have to wait it out. When I regained my health, James and I went down to Welly to visit Karyln, Moi (it was his B-day) and baby Jaycob - who looked about the same size as last week, but seemed to be doing better :-).

We also bought our next big ticket item....a cot (crib) for the baby. It's perfect, exactly the kind we were looking for. I had been searching the internet for weeks to find a used one at a good price, and lo and behold we found one. Not only is it in great condition, but it was also very inexpensive - a little victory for us. More money to spend now on the mattress, change table/drawers, bouncer, rocking chair.....

Our Boy's First Friend

On Thursday, I went down to Wellington to visit my friend Karlyn and her newborn, Jaycob. Karyln and her husband are good friends of ours, but we haven't seen as much of them lately as they have been down at the antenatal intensive care unit over the past month. Jaycob was born VERY premature. He's gorgeous, but T-I-N-Y and obviously needs lots of special care until he can go home. Jaycob was only a few weeks ahead of our boy, so looking at him was like peeking at what's inside my stomach. It was quite odd, b/c as soon as Karyln showed me Jaycob, our boy started kicking....REALLY hard. (I usually don't feel him moving around much during the day when I'm up and about - but all the time in the evening and morning). It was almost as like our boy knew we were visiting the premie babies, or perhaps he knew we were visiting his future friend. Maybe he was jealous and wanted to be on the outside world too! ha...he better stay inside me!

Speaking of which.....we've just come to the realization that we have about 10 weeks left....then he 'could' be born! That doesn't seem like long....where has the time gone??? 10 weeks doesn't seem like much time to finish the house stuff, get the babies room in order, have a baby shower, etc!
This is a very silly picture of James. Today City Council opened up a section of a walkway along the riverway which is part of a nationwide walking trail. There were speeches, lots of walking, and then afternoon 'tea' (muffins/cookies/tea/coffee/juice) for the public. It was a gorgeous day to get out and about and this is a picture of James looking like a Tucan Bird....no, really, his hands were already full with muffins and coffee - so he was bringing me my juice his mouth...still it does look pretty funny. Ha! Maybe we should post this on his election website....ha ha.

House and belly progress

Hi Everyone - 26 weeks and still feeling good! I've had to box up some of my pants that wouldn't fit anymore -but I'm enjoying a few of the comfy but styly maternity clothes that I bought when I was home. Baby is still kicking - especially early in the morning and at night when I'm in bed. I'm beginning to wonder if this is his way of telling us he'll be waking up early and going to bed late - I hope not! Oh, well...better get used to it now. The baby also mysterysiouly kicks whenever the 'c' word is mentioned. Circumsiscion (spell?) Had a discussion about it with some work friends, and sure enough as if he was listening he started kicking REALLY hard. Poor little guy...

We're still busy with campaign stuff (James has another meet the canidates speech this week) and also with house stuff. Kitchen is slowly coming along. There's a pic of me in the kitchen -we still need to tile the backsplash, put in toekicks, put in more lighting, paint, and get the window treatments up - but it's getting there. Look at the dishwasher! A first for James and I. James thought he wouldn't be a fan, but has now joined the 'dark side' to liking convienance appliances with me. He says it's nice being able to hide away the dirty dishes - and now wouldn't ever look back.

Also a pic of dining room - we repainted, wallpapered the lowered bit and put in new curtains (THANKS MOM!) All we need is a nice light above the table. Once the election is over we'll have more time to devote to finishing up the house.

25 Weeks - and getting bigger!

We are now officially at 25 weeks, and it has just dawned on me that in about 2 more weeks we'll offically be into the THIRD trimester - yikes! It alls gets really close then...the third trimester is supposivly the one where I get really big, and things become a bit more difficult.

This weekend I started going back to my BodyPump class at the gym - it feels so good to work out. I don't mind my tummy getting big - but I don't want everything else to get tooo big either! I finally feel that I'm at the stage where I look pregnant - not just like I ate too much fast food when I was home in the States - ha ha!

Last weekend (yes, I was bad and forgot to post) James celebrated his first Father's Day (it's a different date than back in the States). Yes, that's right...the baby made me go buy something for him. He even told me to put it on my credit card - geeze this baby is so cunning, isn't he? New Daddy loved his shirt from our boy! He even wore it to his first meet the candidate speeches - which, by the way....he did really well at. Campaign is going well....but lots of work still ahead as its early days.