Kicks

Evangeline kicked me yesterday morning. It was very exciting. Then, more exciting, she kicked Auggie's hand last night. Only very lightly but we both felt it!! I think it was the coolest part of the pregnancy so far!!!

Rude?

So, today, three people told me that I am "looking big for 16 weeks" and that it must be a big baby. Do they not realise that they just called a pregnant lady fat?? Bad form!!

Eva's Room, Maternity Clothes etc.

Here is the room that will be Evangeline's room. As noted below, this will need some toning down . . .

So, I went and spent my gift card on a pretty skirt and some tops. But my wardrobe was still looking a bit limited. So, I was telling a new friend of mine about this and she offered to lend me ALL of her maternity stuff!! Eleanor you are a life saver. Suddenly I have clothes for all occasions. Eleanor has three lovely kiddies so has had plenty of time to collect maternity wear! Yay for good friends.

Mummy spoke to Auntie Jill today who apparently also wants us to have a 3D Ultrasound thingy. Apparently I am being outvoted. I have told Mummy that I could probably be bought so I'm waiting for offers!!

I have been reading other ladies' posts about their baby bedding. I have to confess that I don't think I am going to do bedding. I think that nice white crib sheets and a white blanket will be enough. Maybe I'm just cheap??? Probably . . .

But we do have to make sure we have everything in white. We have to tone down the walls. When we moved into this house there was one nice big bedroom already painted in two shades of pink. Since we know 100% that we are having a girlie, it seems a shame to paint over the professional job with our attempts which are, quite frankly, likely to be total rubbish. So, we have decided to leave the very bright pink even though its not our first choice and just tone it down with a lot of white. So, I feel like I'm not nesting properly because I'm not looking at fabric. I hope Eva will forgive me!

We have decided on a chair from Ikea that we really like - it is white of course. I don't like rockers so I am going with a regular chair. We have some ideas on the crib too - again this will be white. I think we will have to register for it since we entirely blew our budget on travel items :-)

We are going to have to give in and buy one of the body pillows tomorrow. I can't stop sleeping on my back and since I don't really want to cut off Evangeline's blood supply, I will have to give in. Hopefully I can get one on sale or something!

I got an exciting surprise in the post today. I need to write a thank-you letter to Judy for the lovely and thoughtful gift!

Debbie has asked to see the pushchair - well here it is . . sort of. Ours has four wheels rather than three but otherwise it is the same!!



I also want to give a shout out to the wonderful store that was able to get this pushchair for us. It is discontinued and lots of other shops could not take an American card buy Daisy Chains in Bradford were great!! They have a cute store:
http://www.daisychainsuk.com/index.php

Charlie Girl Cat

Charlie Girl has figured out there is something up with Mummy. She follows me everywhere and waits outside our room every morning until she sees me. What a sweet kitty.

Above is our car seat. It arrived at Daddy's office today. Eva is excited about it.

15 Week Appointment

Today we heard Eva's heartbeat. This was especially exciting for Auggie as he has not been able to attend most of our appointments. Her stats? H/R 160 and very strong! She had a bit of a wiggle while we were listening which was fun!

Good news - the pushchair and the car seat are winging their way to Daddy's office! Yay! Auggie says she will be the best strolled baby in the USA - I agree.

Closet

Today I cleaned and rearranged my closet. This sounds pretty dull right? Well, it was - and it was pretty sad. I have decided the best way to make my life easier in the morning is to sort out the clothes I can wear from the clothes that Evangeline has determined are too small. Naturally the latter enormously out number the former. ARGH. She's worth it of course but it was still sad to push all of my favourites to the back of the closet. Overall I think this is a good thing though since it mean the closet got a well earned proper cleanup.

On a positive note, we THINK we have ordered our pushchair. I have placed the order with a small shop in northern England and hope that they will have it in stock. The one we want is discontinued and to make things harder, most of the stores that stock it don't seem to take American credit cards. What a pain!!! Fingers crossed that the little shop in Bradford will have it.

As you can see, we have taken a three year hiatus from posting on the blog. We're starting again with posts to keep everyone updated on Eva's progress and our progress with getting ready for her arrival.

Some more pictures from our beautiful wedding.

Mummy and Janey before the wedding.

Pip Cardnell sang "The Lord's my Shepherd"

Our Wedding Ceremony Part II

Cake Cutting Part 1 -- at the church

Our Wedding Ceremony, May 13, 2006

Mrs. Campbell with two of her brothers, Robert Cardnell and Pip Cardnell




Maid of Honour Laura Morrison, Mr. and Mrs. Campbell, Best Man Chris Hammon

Outside the Church

Jane's beautiful flowers, made by Frank Ramos and Shannon Ramos