Hi everyone!
A quick update during the working hours (or the hours I'm expected to work)! First of all: thank you, Yoze, for the b-day book!! I've never heard of it before which means I didn't own it so a very good choice!! Unfortunately I haven't found the time to read it so no opinion yet! But I'll let you know asap...
I'm now 24 weeks and 4 days pregnant (it's really starting to show now! A few weeks ago I could still qualify as 'gained some weight, eh?' but now it's impossible to deny :) I had a check-up about two weeks ago and everything was fine. The baby was 23,3 centimeters which was average (which is good 'cause I don't want some hugely large baby... it still has to come out one way or the other ;) the doctor could see if it'll be a boy/girl but frankly I don't have a clue how they see it... Luckily we don't want to know anyway! Everything was okay, the doctor had a good look at the details (the heart, brain, skull, stomac, ten toes, ten fingers, eyes, ears, legs, straight feet, etc...) but the moment when we could clearly see the face was truly fantastic... you realise there's really a little person growing inside you, the baby looked so human! Before you can only see the shape of what it's going to become but now it has its definite shape... Slightly unnerving though when it finally sinks in that it's really a baby you're going to have. (If that makes sense??) It's also becoming more noticably active each day: I can now clearly feel every kick it hands out (whether it's with feet or hands :) and so does Jurgen! (He didn't quite believed me when I told him that it kicks sometimes that hard it hurts a bit until he got a few kicks himself!!)
Now I have to wait until the end of May before I can go back and believe me, that's unbelievably looong!! And the check-ups with my regular house-doctor just aren't that special: draw some blood, weighing, urine sample and feeling if the uterus is where it should be... and that's that. Bit lousy when you get to see your child one month later ;)
Anyway we're fully busy with searching for suitable boys/girls names, thinking about birth cards, putting a gift-list together (I had no idea you need that much stuff for babies....) We already have quite a few things stocked up in the baby's room but I find it too early to put them together (like the bed etc...) because it'll only mean more stuff to collect dust until it's July.
Babynames and suggestions are always welcome! Just names that aren't too long (Jurgen already has a long last name) Btw, Yoze, I didn't exactly take on his last name... it depends on whether you prefer to use your name or his. For every official form you still have to use your own name so lots of women keep their own. The only thing that marks the difference is that they now put 'Mrs' in front of it instead of 'Miss'. And that's about it :) But you may choose if you like ;)
I ordered 'Snowcake' (Amazon) last week so I can finally see it. It's supposed to be out here since March 14th but I haven't noticed anything so I ordered. Now I can catch up a bit.... *feels ashamed to admit it* I still have to see 'Perfume' for the first time and it's almost out on dvd. Yep, definitely been slouching a bit in the AR-mania-departement. Even the HP (read:Snape)-departement has been bad for worse. Last week I pre-ordered Deathly Hallows... Yes, only last week ;) Sadly enough I won't be going to a midnight release party this year: the bookshop that used to organise these events has closed :( (Well, I couldn't exactly use my Slythering scarf in July anyways...) Still, it's going to be the last one... and makes me feel excited (finally we'll know what will happen to Harry Snape!) but also sad cause I'm afraid it won't end the way I want it to. Does anyone feel the same??
Well, that's all for now, I'll try to behave and update regularly...
Ciao,
Sarah
xxxxx
P.S.: Btw, what do you think about the title 'deathly hallows'??
