It's beginning to look a bit like Christmas

Christmas tree went up tonight. Although its still 5 sleeps till Robs birthday new rules this year allowed for the tree to go up before the 7th of December. More to do with the fact that we have 20+ friends coming for breakfast on Saturday morning and I wanted a little bit of Christmas to show, whilst also celebrating Robs last birthday before becoming a Dad!

The tree was a freebie from a lady at work who was cleaning out her garage. I have been slowly buying decorations each fortnight so was really happy with the finished product!

Photos of the tree as follows:

Rob gets to put the star on top . .. since he did a lot of the work putting decorations on and mantling the tree while I sat and tied string onto the decorations


Rob subsequently had to slide the tree across the room into position above the stairs (only one scratch on the floor and it was rather entertaining watching Rob 'swim' like a frog!)
Tree in position with lights on. The photo didn't come out too well, but it looks pretty.

And of course the obligatory photo of the bump . . . 35 weeks tomorrow . . . 5 weeks to go. All is going really well. I'm still catching the bus to work (most days) and have 1.5 weeks full time and an extra week part time to go. Then it's early retirement.

19 week scan pictures

Wow two blogs in 1 week, how crazy is that!! Thought I would put photos up of Tahi so all could see what he/she may look like.

Robs first thought when he saw it was "Oh no, I think it looks like me!". I had to reassure him by letting him know that 'Honey, that's a good thing!"

These pictures were taken in miod-October, at the 19 week check up. All is growing well.

These are its feet
This is the head and arm reaching up to the face. Umbilical cord is that funny swirly line next to the arm. If you look closely you can see the osephegus and its big muscles
Here it is snuggling up to by uterus (I guess!)
And here it is giving us the thumbs up that all is OK!

Can't wait to meet the little thing!

Liz and I painted

So as part of having a baby that nobody (expect our sonographer) knows the sex of . . . we have been given lots of white singlets and body suits of various sizes! Very handy but difficult to tell each one apart. So Liz came over and we spent the night painting.

Below are the finished products! Its tempting to make a career out of it.

While I'm at it I better post photos of the bump for those of you who know we are pregnant. For those of you who don't, Rob and I are 6 1/2 months pregnant. Due 7th January 2009, gender unknown and is affectionately being called 'Tahi' (being Maori for one) until the time comes as we can confidently choose a gender specific name.

All is going well. I'm healthy, have lots of energy and eating plenty. Apparently I look like my Mum in this photo to!

This was me at 6 months. Still quite small but it reckon its because of my tight abs (he he he). It also means that I'm more comfortable.

I have a new job

So back in the day (ie last week) when Rob and I would leave for work at the same time this is how we would get to the bus stop - at which point Rob would drop me off and carry on the next 500m to his work:


Things have changed slightly though in that I left Big Bridge and am now working at Carthills. I am a receptionist but they are going to put me through my Financial Planning degree . . . very exciting (any potential guinea pigs out there?)

The house has been gutted

So apparently its about time I blogged. I think it has been 4.5 months since I was here. Oopsy . . . I wonder if anyone will remember that this site even exists!!

Well the last you heard was that the house was bought and we were moving in. We did that, have had a great time here. We have however been saving our pennies really quite hard and this is what our pennies have bought us!

As you can see we have a very attractive 1" thick layer of concrete under the tiles in the bathroom (any suggestions on how to get rid of it?)
All the nails and carpet tracks have been removed from the lovely pre-polished floor boards and so now (as I type) Rob is upstairs removing some of the tiles left on the kitchen floor. This week will be electrics and plumbing so that all going to plan we can start putting the walls back up this Easter weekend.

The kitchen arrives next week so that will be a major milestone.
Keep watching this space for more frequent updates!