Another Year Over.
It's been a quiet but good year overall and 2011 promises to be even better. I've gotten a great new job, fallen preggers, got some awesome new curtains in the front room (which are keeping the house nice and cool in this summer heat BTW), got a pet possum in the backyard, and been shown how lucky I am to have so many amazing and beautiful people in my life. Next year I'll have a little son or daughter, get to catch up with some special friends in Tassie and maybe, just maybe, I'll be able to fit in enough school to finish my degree. We'll have to see.
So it's about 32 degrees outside & they've forecast 34 for tomorrow. We've gone through a lot of ice blocks over the last couple of days!
Our dishwasher packed it in this week so we bought a cool new Bosch one & it got delivered yesterday. It has a cutlery tray in the top. I love it!
I think my morning sickness is over too, I get twinges of nausea from time to time but as long as I eat regularly I'm fine. I'm starting to get a little bit of energy back too yay! Just hanging out for a big belly.. I know I might take that back in a few months but at the moment I can't wait to show a bit more.
Moda got eaten alive by mozzies the night before last poor thing, they've come up into massive hives; I've never seen anything like it. I think he must be allergic - it looks like an allergic reaction to me. We went to a little asian grocer yesterday & got a tiny pot of dragon & tiger balm which seems to be helping a bit. He's struggling to get any sleep though.
We'll dose up on the "Rid" tonight before we head out to the music factory's BBQ. Can't wait!

Happy New Year all!

PS don't forget to slip slop slap!

Midwife
We had our 1st midwife appointment yesterday - she came to the house & gave me a showbag full of nappies and rash creams and fun things like that. She was lovely :) and she brought a little machine that allowed Moda & I to listen to the baby's heartbeat for the first time! Cool. It was like a little helicopter blade. We haven't yet done the test drive to the hospital to find out how long it takes to get there. Depending of the time of day, I think it's usually about 15 mins so that's not too bad.

I think my morning sickness is officially over at week 14! YAY! I haven't been sick in over a week, so hopefully that's it. Now I need to start exercising again so I'm not a fat lump of playdough for the labour. I think I'll need to be fairly fit to make it as smooth as possible. And apparently you have a much quicker recovery afterwards.

Moda just finished building his beautiful letterbox and is now going to start work on a possum box. We have one living in our garage roller door and I think we give the poor little thing concussion every time we open the door! He took a photo of it on his phone. Very cute, poor little guy.

All day sickness..
Have had morning sickness a lot this week. In fact, I was pretty unwell until about 5:00 this afternoon. But I've since had a lovely dinner of steak with mustard & a roast potato & am now feeling much, much better. I honestly thought I'd finish my first trimester & the nausea would be over but no such luck. Hopefully it won't last too much longer.
The little girl has a vet's appointment tomorrow. I can't believe she's 7 and a 1/2 (see pic). After that I'll be going to see the new Harry Potter movie with my sisters & my mum. I'm really looking forward to it! Moda will be doing a beer tour with some friends so I'll bet he's looking forward to that too!

Hormonal..?
Feeling a bit sorry for myself lately - still tired a lot of the time, was so sick on the weekend (I'm starting to think maybe it's stress that makes me sick because I was sick after karate, sick after the exam and really sick after the scan). It's not too bad the next day if I can get my bum out of bed at 2am and eat something, but who wants to leave a warm comfy bed in the middle of the night & fool around in the kitchen in the dark? It's Moda's birthday. I bought him a cool internet toy after a friend at work got one & raved about it. Ever heard of a Chumby? I think he's having fun setting it up. We'll head to dinner tonight for a nice quiet one with a few friends. I want to spend as much quality time with him as I can before our new little person comes, because as wonderful as that's going to be, it's never really going to be just "us two" again.

Hooked on a feeling.

Had the 12 week scan today & our little baby is lovely. It sucked its thumb a few times and jiggled around in there like the Ally McBeal baby. At one point it looked like it had the hiccups.

I must say I am relieved. Until today I wasn't really sure that there'd actually be a little person in there. For all I knew, I've just had gastro for the last 2 months.

So it all seems a bit more real now. I did notice that when they prodded it, the baby moved around much more so I hope they didn't make it too uncomfortable. Poor little blighter! It did look pretty squashed in there. What a spin out.