Sunday, May 8
trends
Well, it's a worrying trend when we haven't even had the baby yet, and already my update schedule has been shot to pieces. Just continuing the bad, I couldn't even select a photo for the new header from something I took last month, because I've discovered I didn't shoot a single image in April. Unbelievable. So we're harking back to Doubtful Sound, from the 31st of March, which admittedly was well worth a review in any case. But man, we've felt busy.
It's funny, because it hasn't been the “sorry you missed us, we were just in Prague you see” kind of busy we've grown accustomed to. Rather, it was the “man it is complicated to have nearly all the carpet in a house replaced while you're living in it” kind of busy, and the exciting “I'd better iron this shirt tonight 'cause 5:45am is quite early enough to get up without adding that” kind of busy.
Which, really, suggests you should just stop reading now, not just because I sound so pathetic, but worse, because I sound like I'm trying to sound pathetic. Which is pathetic, really.
But we're well. Baby growing well, according to scan at 19 weeks 5 days on Friday... uncooperative, like the father, but growing well. (The baby wouldn't roll over onto it's back for the ultrasonographer.) But we now know it's definitely a boy... or a girl... And I have even felt it kicking, just once, a couple of weeks ago. That's quite early, apparently, for a first pregnancy. I'm a junkie already, though haven't yet been able to feel it again. Bronwyn continues to be well too. She started teaching again last week, back at High School. A bit of a challenge, right now. I think they are lucky to have her.
And I'm managing the commute. I've read The Da Vinci Code and even an entire book on the traps of Real Estate (...agents, mostly). Once I even watched a 42-minute episode of Star Trek on my laptop with earbuds during the 50 minute train journey down, watching another episode on the return journey. Geek paradise. I quite frequently catch a lift with my brother too, and as long as we avoid peak hour traffic, that saves about an hour of my day.
Meanwhile, with half the pregnancy gone, we're trying to look beyond the birth and actually take some time to thinking about the parenting-a-neonate process. It's a minefield of ideas out there...
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I am wrong. I took one single photo last month—of the Wellington waterfront. It's even in one of the (few) blog entries that got written in April...
Posted by duncan at 10:52am on Monday 9 May 2005Been checking your website for updates about the baby every day. They are definately a bit sparse. Have you thought of putting an ultrasound on the web for us? God bless,
Mike :)
Hey,
Sorry about the sparsity. Yeah, it's been a bit thin.
I really would like to put an ultrasound up on here for you... We have a video tape of it. The problem is, you see, we don't own a video player. And even if we did, we don't own a TV to connect it to. So it's a bit useless, really. Now if they'd been able to record it to DVD... (My kingdom for the future.)
So we are working on it. But frankly, I wouldn't hold your breath, because this is more leaning-on-a-council-shovel working on it, than high-powered-captain-of-industry working on it, if you know what I mean. : )
Posted by duncan at 9:57pm on Tuesday 10 May 2005Duncan: Do you have access to a digital video camera that you can copy a bit of the video up to, then do a screen cap of a frame and post that.....
Russell
Posted by Russell at 12:02pm on Wednesday 11 May 2005Hi Duncan
Great news about the expected addition to the family! I do hope for Bronwyn's sake that the little tacka is more her size than yours, at least at birth.
James and I are still here in London where they are prediciting a hot summer!! We hope to have 6 months of continuous summer as we plan to head back to Adelaide in October where we have recently bought a new house, yes over the internet!!!
Hope you are both well and sorry for the lack of communication!
Take care
Nicole Mcloughlin
Hey Nicole!
Glad you dropped by... you're one of the first work-type people in the UK who knows, having read these entries! I still haven't got around to sending out that old bulk email thing... : )
Good move on the two summers. We, meanwhile, managed two winters. Ha.
-db
Hi, I am finding it very strange that my husband (Mike Chernishov) now reads the blog a lot more than I do - and possibly stranger yet that he doesn't often tell me what he's read. Considering whether or not to have internet at home at the mo. - I suppose that is unthinkable to you Duncan!
Posted by stephanie (bronwyn's sister) at 6:22pm on Tuesday 17 May 2005
