Latest Bump - 4 weeks to go!!

mother love

Last weekend my mum came over from Holland to see me and bump for the last time before meeting him or her soon after its born. It was so nice spending time together getting excited about the baby. My mum was not impressed by the dumping ground the baby room had become and we subsequently spend 2 days shopping and sorting out all the things we had been given into some welcoming order! Anyway its now starting to look like a proper baby room and I am getting more into the nesting stage now as they call it, thanks to my mum's inspiring ideas and presence! We had a bbq in our new garden on sunday where ma met some of our lovely friends. We had a bit of a giggle at ma's english language as she translated it from dutch. Some classics to remember; the back of the house mum called the 'backside' (I had to correct her eventually) and while chris was spilling some food on his top she told him he needed a 'slap'! Slap means a bib in dutch so you can imagine what our friends might have thought about Chris' mother-in law who wants to slap him! Don't think my mum minded us laughing at her as she was joining in too!

our pram!

Thought we'd show you our pram as we are very excited about it. Never thought it would need that much research deciding on a pram but these days there is so much choice and babies can seriously travel in style now. We loved the top of the range pram as you can imagine but could not justify the cost however much we love baby blake to be well travelled. Anyway I headed for ebay and am since quite addicted!! The result is a second hand pram in very good conditioning for a good price so we're very chuffed with that.

garden

we have been very excited about the progress in our garden. As the pictures show it is half done. The grass is being laid this week where you can now see soil and then we need to plant some plants to finish it off! I wish I had my mum or sister Andrea here who know so much about plants. Lets hope we get some good advice at the garden centre. Anyway, as long as there's some nice green plants and flowers in pots I'm happy. Its a huge improvement to what it looked like before. We'll soon be hosting a garden bbq party to show it off!

Baby room

Well, the family in Holland will be pleased that work has begun in the baby room! In Holland the baby room receives lots of attention and is all finished in good time. On our last visit we were asked so often if the baby room was done that on our return we thought we better get started! We have painted it a lovely soft green colour, unfortunately difficult to tell from the picture. We bought the changing table that you can just see but the room is now already packed with toys, chairs, clothes etc that we've been so kindly given. I can't believe how much stuff you can have for a small baby! Chris is having lots of fun trying the things that make sounds and we have already tested one of the swinging chairs out on 6 month old elizabeth who fell asleep within minutes so we'll keep that one!

More holidays....

Yes, my excuse for not blogging sooner as I intended to do is that we had another holiday to go on to! This time a week on the greek island of cephalonia. We has a lovely time just enjoying sun, sea, reading, good food and being together (last time before being 2+1!) Poor Chris loves his usually much needed hols but then returns to work finding 100 emails to get through. So much for a break! On the other hand I can't complain as this is my last full time week at work. The next four weeks I am only working a part time taking holidays etc before officially finishing the end of June. Yippie!!