reading to the bump

On the weekly update that I received from Babycentre yesterday it said that the baby can hear everything that is being said now ;o)

It also suggested reading the same book to the bump every day and to continue reading the same one after littlun has been born to see if she responds ;o)

So I had a looksie last night at the four Little Miss Books that James bought me a few years ago, and I saw that  one of them was Little Miss Stubborn (I cant think why he would have bought that for me ;o)).

So I read Little Miss Stubborn to her ;o)

It reminds me of when Brother #2 and my Sister were little and I was reading Mr Chatterbox to them and my Brother thought I was making it up when I said that he talked all day and all night ;o).

I am letting getting James to chose a book that he can read to her too ;o)

Christmas chocolates and £2 off

The other day I got a club update from Hotel Chocolat, in there was a £2 off voucher to use towards one of their special selections...

...so I used it towards my Christmas Box ;o)

thick hair

I went to the hairdressers yesterday to have my roots coloured in...

...I was sitting by their pc and saw that my details were on the screen.  Luckily they hadnt written anything horrible about me such as "she should try brushing her hair sometimes" ;o)

While my hairdresser was cutting my hair afterwards she told me that my hair had gotten thicker and that it was one of the pregnancy side effects.

Now my hair is normally thick so it makes me wonder if it is now more like a broom ;o)

stubborn like Mum

Yesterday we went for our 20 week scan...

We go to the hospital well early on account of James thinking that our appointment was 15 minutes earlier.

Anyhow our appointment time came and went and we were still sitting in the waiting area, finally we were still sitting and waiting 15 minutes past our time and we were the last people sitting there and I went to the receptionist to ask (if we had been forgotten about) and she said that there were three sonographers working that day and the person in front of us had a naughty baby.

We eventually got called in and I laid on the couch and she started to run her probe over my tummy and we could see the baby (interestingly enough she had left the screen on above where I was lying - the last time they had it turned off until they detected the heartbeat).  LOL the baby was covering the eyes with the hands playing peek a boo ;o)

Then the sonographer started doing all of her checks and then asked if we wanted to know what we are having?  We both said "oh yes please" and she said that it looks like a girl (as there are no dangly bits) ;o)  Yay were having a girl - James did say that he was hoping for a monkey (perhaps he will get his wish next time ;o)).

She managed to do all of the checks apart from the ones on the heart, so after lots of prodding I was eventually told to have a walk and a jump around for 20 minutes to see if we could get her to move a bit.

So we went for a walk around the hospital with me doing a few jumps (just for good measure) and went back to the ultrasound waiting room, we get called back in and she still hasnt moved (she is definitely stubborn like me ;o)).

On our way home we popped into Tesco to get some bits for our lunch and I bought our very first pink outfit ;o)

giving in to the elevator

Walking up the stairs at work has gradually been getting harder and harder (with me having to take rest stops)...

...well this morning I decided to just give in and use the elevator ;o)

so that is my daily exercise over & done with now...

did I feel something

According to babycentre I should start feeling littlun move...

I think that I can feel something but wonder if it is all in my imagination?

In Starbucks today we saw a sign for a new Summer frappuccino a banoffee creme...

...when it came to getting a second drink (our first drink was a hot one each) James decided he wanted to try the new one, so I got us a tall one to share.  When I looked at the receipt (while waiting for my drink to be made) I saw that I was billed for a caramel creme frappuccino and a banana.

I was eagerly watching the barista who was making the drinks to see how they were going to make the banoffee creme...

...wouldnt you know it I was watching the wrong blooming person because before I could say "blimey o'reilly" I was asked if we wanted whipped cream on the frappuccino, so I asked James (as it was going to be his drink) and he said no.

The drink itself was nice and I could even detect gobules of banana ;o)

While we were sitting in Starbucks there were a couple sitting at a table next to us, I could see that they were looking through travel brochures and James said to me (after glancing over at them) I think they are going somewhere in France as it says on the front cover on one of the brochures "al a carte" ;o)

a fan of my own

The recent nice weather has left me getting hot at work...

...we have a pedalstall fan that we had on and osculating, the only problem was that my colleagues in the middle of the office were getting cold!

So I have my very own desk fan and now everyone is happy(ish).