39 weeks into the rematch

Time is ticking on and we thought that we’d better take another photo of the rematch with the lounge door before it’s too late. Here’s Jo at 39 weeks and feeling pretty large.

All through the pregnancy Jo’s been determined that Eilidh shouldn’t suffer and, as a result, has continued to do as many things as she can with her such as swimming, Tumble Tots, soft play areas (although admittedly latterly this has required presence of Daddy too!), getting pushed off of the gym ball in the garden, play in the park…and so on. However, this last week Jo has finally had to admit that her body is telling her to slow down a bit and is taking it a bit easier (this conveniently fits in with the Leicestershire school summer holidays and so activities such as swimming and Tumble Tots are also having a summer break).

Baking, ice-cream and bubbles

Eilidh’s not been too well this weekend and we had to cancel on joining the family for Charis’ dedication, but we still made the best of it with three of Eilidh’s favourite things.
We baked sesame seed cookies together and had fun doing lots of “mix it, mix it”:

Verb followed by “it” has become a favourite this weekend, ie- “Daddy read it”, “Mummy draw it”, “Eilidh do it”, etc. “Brush it!” caused a fair amount of lip-biting since it is pronounced perfectly as “Bull-sh*t!” (the plural of “horse” (or “horsh” in Eilish) causes similar difficulties).
We opted for travelling to somewhere closer to home to support Jo’s pipe band in the Corby Highland Gathering and Eilidh had lots of fun listening to the music, dancing, clapping and pointing out people’s hats. One amusing sight that you’d probably rarely see anywhere other than Corby was a toddler with a cigarette being chased by his mother through a field. Eilidh has shown little interest in food and has had difficulties keeping any of it down, but ice-cream is a great healer:

A great way to end the weekend is a nice bath with a comedy hairstyle and lots of bubbles. Eilidh is now quite proficient in the art of bubble-blowing- it requires the following steps: “Eilidh hold it”, “Eilidh dip it” and “Eilidh blow it”:

37.5 weeks

It’s great to get past the 37 week mark and know that the birth will no longer be classed as premature. The following picture was taken on Saturday (4th July) when Jo was approx 37.5 weeks. She’ll be 38 weeks tomorrow and really should get that hospital bag packed! At least we’ve now washed all the newborn sleepsuits and vests and the size 1 nappies…babyII no longer needs to be naked for the first few days!!

Music

Eilidh loves music. She loves dancing to it, singing, playing along to it, in fact any aspect of it makes her really happy. Some nights she’ll be lying in her cot singing ‘Old MacDonald had a Farm’ for about 20 minutes before falling asleep – it’s hilariously cute to listen to and goes something like “Ee-ay-ee-ay-oh, duck, Ee-ay-ee-ay-oh, pig, Ee-ay-ee-ay-oh…” and so on. Occasionally an animal sound will also go in between the Ee-ay-ee-ay-oh’s. She’ll also have a dance to almost any style of music. At the moment she particularly likes Ring a Ring o’ Roses and teaches her toys how to do the dance. After singing it once we’re usually made to sing it another 4 or 5 times before changing to the Hokey Cokey for one verse and then back to Ring a Ring o’ Roses! Recently she’s also been joining in with the singing, usually with the first and last words of each line.

Since Eilidh’s been very young she’s really liked shakers and anything that makes a sound when shaken. This can be in accompaniment to any music playing or just to make a noise. She also loves playing with her tambourines. Recently she’s discovered Mummy’s penny whistle and will play it simply to make a noise or to ‘play along’ with the Red Hot Chilli Pipers DVD. Here’s a photo of her in action:

36 weeks

Here’s a photo of Jo versus the lounge door at 36 weeks into the rematch (not a lot of change since the last photo at 33 weeks):


By the looks of things, she’s not as big as she was at roughly the same stage into her pregnancy with Eilidh (original match).

Dirty, wet socks!

Poor Eilidh turned up to nursery today without any shoes on. She still wanted to play outside with her friends so she came home with very dirty and wet socks. Fortunately there was a change of socks in her bag so she didn’t have to suffer for the rest of the day. We wouldn’t like to blame the lack of shoes on any individual but, just so people know, Mummy and Daddy do one nursery run each; Mummy picks Eilidh up at the end of the day!!

20 Months old already

Eilidh is 20 months old today and we feel really bad that we’ve not posted anything about her for a couple of months, especially given how much she’s done. In that time, she had Grandma and Grandpa visit for Easter:



She’s had a visit from Grandma, Grandad, Uncky Rhys, Auntie Cam, cousin Charis, Tito Toby and Tita Wiggly all at the same time…


… and she’s had a lovely holiday with all of them in Center Parcs, Whinfell Forest. Here’s a nice picture of her and Charis with their Grandma and Grandad:


We’ve also had abnormally awesome weather in Market Harborough and she’s had great fun in the garden. We had a lovely capoeira barbecue. Here’s Eilidh playing capoeira with Andy before the crowds arrived:


And posing in Reema’s sunglasses:


Last weekend was quiet with just the three of us playing in the garden, so we broke out Eilidh’s new bargain paddling pool (<£3!) and had great fun with that. Here's Eilidh dancing with Daddy in it:

33 weeks … eeek!

The time is flying by so quickly. Jo is keeping well but beginning to flag a bit in the evenings. She was also a bit slow in cycling home after swimming last weekend but we’re not sure if this was due to the pregnancy or the puncture we discovered later! Here’s how the rematch against the lounge door is going:

30 weeks gone in the rematch

Jo will be 30 weeks pregnant tomorrow. Here is a picture of how she’s faring against the lounge door:

For those of you who want to make an easy comparison against the last match, here’s where to find it.

Approaching 27 weeks

Uh oh- Jo continues to grow, even though there are 3 more months of growing to go. She is feeling a lot more kicking, too.
Glyn might also start feeling some kicking if he keeps up with the bad poetry…