I have been given a rare few hours to myself this morning. Chris said I was looking really tired, and I was feeling really tired. So he has taken Alesia off to church and left me to "rest" at home. Instead of resting I have started this blog, but I guess doing it on my laptop while sitting on the bed is sort of relaxing.
We have only six and a half weeks to go until the next baby is due. I have finished Alesia's room. She now has a bed base for her mattress and blockout curtains on the windows (despite these she is still waking just before 6am). I have washed all her old baby clothes and have them ready in drawers for the new baby. It was fun to rediscover many of the cute things that Alesia wore when she was a baby.
I have been feeling fine, but after going for a long walk last night am feeling achy today, so must have walked too far or too fast or up one too many hills or something. We are catching the train into the city this afternoon, so I will just plod along behind Alesia and Chris.
I am receiving lots of comments about how big my tummy is, which is not always the nicest thing to hear after I have taken ages to decide what to wear in the morning so I feel reasonable about my appearance. Dr Booker says that it is a normal size, and clearly we will have a healthy sized baby. Still, I feel lik e a whale most of the time. I asked Dr Booker if he could tell when checking me out last week if the baby was going to be big or not and he said he couldn't, but that 8 out of 10 second babies are bigger than first babies. Alesia was just over 4kg...
Alesia likes to give my tummy hugs and talk to the baby. None of us are certain on what names we want, so we will probably decide just before or after the birth. Alesia's last suggestion - Beach Baby. She said this while digging in the sand last weekend at Jervis Bay. We spent Labour Day weekend down there and basically went from beach to beach over the three days. We were with Chris' aunt, Sallymae. Chris and Sallymae braved the water a few times, but Alesia and I spent all our time on the sand making castles or walking to find shells. I have posted a few pictures.
I have started thinking about how everything will change again when the baby arrives. At the moment we have a nice routine between work and home, with Alesia in care three days a week. We are all sleeping all night and Alesia is good at occupying herself with her toys. She is also really independent and starting to dress herself (always in pink) and usually wants to feed herself. I am trying to remember what it was like having a little baby, but my memories are a little foggy. I know that it was all encompasing though, and I know that living in PNG at the time made things easier with Naomi to do all the washing and cleaning in the house.
I went back to PNG a month ago, so I have been thinking about our time there and what I miss and what I don't. I definitely do not miss the noisy neighbours (drinking all night). I miss the close friendships we had there, where we all had to get along becasue there was only a small group of us. In contrast Sydney is huge and much harder to form friendships as everyone already has their family routine and social circle worked out. In a way we are much more isolated coming back to Australia than we were in PNG. Anyway, before I get all melancholy I will figure out how to post pictures onto this thing and write more on another day when I have more interesting things to say!
