p.s. thirty-one weeks

baby clothes and stuff

So...I've gotten into a bit of trouble for not posting with the same level of commitment as my darling wife, and as a result have to talk about a multitude of different things within the one post. Please bear with me...

Pictured above is the beautiful pram blanket that Nonna crocheted. Ally and I chose the colours [I'm sure it's been spoken of before] and we both think it's turned out quite nicely. Simple, neutral-ish colours. I'm happy for a little boy to have a bit of pink around. Doesn't do them any harm...

This, on the other hand, is Ally's actual proper current pride and joy. As road-tested with a toddler before, our Valco Snap 4 complete with light grey "Foot Muff" [yes, that's actually what it's called] is our easy-folding, smooth-moving piece of kit. I don't quite love it as much as our car, but it's running a close second.

Then came the washing...

And more washing...

 And more washing...

And more washing still...

A friend of mine who saw a picture of this commented about how many "blue-heavy" items of clothing we have.

I beg to differ.

I'd argue that we have a minute number of "garish pink/baby pink/barbie pink/hot pink/salmon/peach/candy-floss pink/daddy-i'm-a-girl-so-all-I-want-to-wear-is-pink pink" clothes. It's not because we don't like pink clothes. It's just that the range is so sick-inducing that it burns the back of my throat to even consider walking down the "pink aisle", let alone purchasing any.

I've also been told to include that I'm extremely lucky that I have a wife that likes blue.

Best be off. Ally is fitting with happiness over the small-ness of cot sheets. This is my life...

That's all for now.

With love, as always,

Luke xx

nesting

We knew that these school holidays would be the only decent amount of time before the baby is born to get the endless piles of baby-related items into some kind of order. Because we are living with Nonna we have limited space and the baby will be in our room for at least the first 6-9 months.

Babies seem to come with a lot of... stuff. So much that it necessitated Luke and I sitting down and writing up a list of all the storage space we had (random drawers and areas across several different rooms) and the stuff that we had to find a place for and then did a funky tetris thing to make it all work.

One thing I consider a blessing and a curse is the fact that we now have plenty of wardrobe space available since I can no longer fit into most of my clothes, so I packed them all up last week.

(Ignore the fact that most of these items are blue or green. We can't seem to help buying things in our favourite colours...)

In between all of the boring sorting and folding and storing, we have also been looking at how to decorate the little baby space in our room to make it look less... old. So far we've found quite a few things to frame and once we know the gender we will be buying some other bits and pieces to make it work.

Just for a brief baby update it is now about 30 weeks old, measures 40ish cm and weighs just over 1kg. It kicks like crazy all. the. time. Especially when we are about to watch a movie or lie down to sleep. But the midwife says baby is perfectly on track.

And antenatal classes begin in two weeks and we were warned that the birthing video is played during the first class, so I will be sure to stock up on water bottles, vomit bags and a soft mat to lie on when Luke faints.

I hope everyone is well. Will be updating with more photos soon. Much love xx

happy holidays

After what felt like the longest and most frustrating 11-week school term, we finally hit the summer holidays. For me, school holidays always fly past which for once is a good thing because it means that I go from being 27 weeks to 32 weeks pregnant in a blink of an eye.

So far these holidays we have had some lovely family dinners, given and received presents, gone to the beach, Luke and Dad went on a boys roadtrip through the NSW countryside and coast and we've managed all of it with what now feels like the biggest belly in human history.

These were a few gifts for me and baby. Can you tell which one was Luke's purchase?

In other news Luke has stolen my body pillow. This is how I find him most mornings.

This is Luke reading to the bump. We discovered a few weeks ago that Luke's voice makes the baby get really active, so he has since started reading to it at nighttime.

Hope everyone has had a lovely Christmas and New Year! We love and miss you all!

Ally xx