24th March 09

Another week and again not much to report. Bean is very active it seems judging by the feelings I get in my stomach every day, he/she seems most active in the early evening, normally just after dinner and again at bedtime. A week today is my 16 week appointment with the midwife so hopefully all will be well.



In a different topic, our new house is well under construction and the area is amazing. We went down there last week to take some pics and video so I will leave you with those for now.

1. Our house so far:

2. The cycle/foot path that runs around the village outskirts, right alongside our house. We've just come around the corner (so our house is behind and to the right from this perspective) and we're looking more towards the centre of the village where the green, pond are play area are.

3. The village green with kids play area. The buildings at the left are the hairdressers/salon and what should soon be a corner shop. Directly ahead, behind the van, is the primary school. The van is on the road where the buses to Lincoln run. The buildings on the right may be coming down soon to make way for the small supermarket, pub and community/sports centre that should all be coming at some point in the future.

Obsessed much?

As the light at the end of the tunnel grows brighter and there finally appears to be movement on our house sale, I can once again return to and focus my attention on my fixation with potential baby names. However, as Sophie is no doubt descreetly thinking to herself, this is a complete and utter waste of my time as no matter how many lists of baby names I read through the plain and simple fact is that there are very few names I like or want to use.

Most names we both like are already taken by other friends or relatives, or remind us of people from our past (or moronic media-greedy celebrities) who have tainted the name in some way in our minds.

So right now, there are only 2 boys names and 2 girls names which I would seriously consider monikering our future child with. And no, I wont tell you what they are! Thankfully, Sophie also likes them and is happy to consider them for our little bundle of currently-jiving-like-he/she-is-auditioning-for-Strictly-Come-Dancing joy.


Right, so will I be logical and stop fixating on potential baby names and scouring name lists? Probably not. There may be a doosey of a name out there we haven’t thought of or considered yet and I want to make sure I haven’t missed a good one.

After all, I found *name censored* the other week and we love it. I just hope most of you think it is on the right side of pretentious if we actually use it! *tease*

18th March 2009

Just a quick update this week as there's not a huge amount going on with the Bean. Here's a side view of the bump, must be said that it's pretty darned impressive for 14 weeks!!!

3rd March 2009

Well, as you can probably see from the above, today was our 12 week scan. The pictures don't show the whole story but you might just be able to make out a body, head, 2 arms and 2 legs. During the scan we also got to see a tiny little heart beating away furiously, so everything our little Bean needs to survive.

Bean decided to go in the most awkward position possible during the scan so the sonographer had to attempt to move him/her by getting me to move onto my side and using the hand held stick thing to poke him/her. It must have worked as she got all the necessary measurements. The wee one is 6cm long, 12 weeks old and dancing about like a trooper. The due date was confirmed for Sept 13th.

All the appointments with the sonographer and midwife were done within an hour so we were very pleased. I've had yet more blood stolen, sorry, taken. Scott says I can't call it stealing as I allowed them to do it, albeit unwillingly, however I still subscribe to mum's theory that medical staff are actually masquerading vampires! We've also been quizzed about lots of things and given what appears to be a small library of magazines, pamphlets and leaflets to read, including our first Bounty pack. Inside was a nice little temperature gauge for the nursery, first of the freebies.

Just breathing a huge sigh of relief that all is well, now to go and book another appointment for 16 weeks. Onwards and upwards (or outwards in the case of my tummy) as they say!