The nursery furniture arrived today...the nice men even took all the boxes upstairs for me :)...Something fun for Peter to do over the next couple of evenings...I may even supervise...well at least make the coffee :) Fortunately the chest of drawers is already assembled so it'll just be a matter of the cot and arranging it in the room...Now I can start thinking about washing baby clothes and sheets...
I thought it was about time to post another bump picture...
Bump at 18 days to go
Mr Greedy
...I think I got the titles the right way round...
I went for another scan today as the midwife was having problems palpating on Monday...she was a bit worried that there might not be enough amniotic fluid -although Junior could just have been being difficult and lying on top of it all...so a scan was in order...Everything was ok so we can all relax again! No picture this time though :(
It seems to have come around quite quickly after all...Today was my last day of work for the year - it sounds a bit odd, altough I'll have a different sort of work to keep me occupied over the next six months!
As I had anticipated it was no less busy than any other work day in the last few weeks...
Tomorrow I will start my loafing and pottering whilst I wait for the impending arrival of Junior...I might even contemplate names!
With all the mappy photo type things which Jon has blogged recently I thought that this was worth a mention! Google Earth is a really cool tool! I found my house 
and work 
on the aerial photos...You can even add layers to it so you can see where the roads are in colour with names and everything...and then you can make a printable map which is ss good as a road atlas ..although the only downside is that the Motorway junctions aren't labelled...but I guess you can't have everything... You can add your own places so that you can always find the aerial photo of your house (or other places which may be of interest) and do local searches for things like pizza places which are then marked on the aerial map!
Download it and have a play!
This morning I had a Lemonheads song stuck in my head ("Into your arms")....and when I plugged my iPod into the speakers and set it off on shuffle...what was the first song it played? "into your arms" by the Lemonheads!!! How freaky is that? Have I developed a psychic ability to communicate with my iPod...?
It may sound harsh, me being pregnant and all, but I have been relegated to sleeping in the nursery now that it has been painted. This has really come about because I have found it increasingly difficult to get out of our bed (partly bump and partly hip) so a mattress with loads of pillows it has been for a couple of weeks now! It also means that Peter doesn't stop me gettng back to sleep with his snoring as I'm now waking several times in the night...It also means that Peter doesn't need to worry about tripping over me in the middle of the night or in the morning when he gets up and he doesn't get distressed when I groan in pain! (There's nothing worse than someone in pain and nothing you can do about it!)
Anyway, this is what I found when I went to bed last night...Kiska (the bear)had made it all cosy for me...:)
No picture yet..but my brother's wife gave birth to a little girl on the 6th August. Her name is Lucy Amanda. That would make number 4 for them, and number 8 grand-child for my mum!
I love my iPod, but I don't think I'd go this far...iPod My Baby...well...for starters until my brain recovers, I might get a bit confused and wonder why 'nice' tunes aren't coming out...
I'll blame Katie for this...I have also become addicted to Soduko in a desperate bid to keep my brain from turning completely to mush! Today I found this website Web Sudoku - Billions of Free Sudoku Puzzles to Play Online...which means that I don't have to wait for a stock of puzzles from my mother-in-law (who has until now been saving them from the paper for me). One of the good things about this site is that it actually tells you how long it took you to solve the puzzle...and another one is that it highlights where you have made a mistake - very useful for me as I have a habit of trashing the paper ones in a matter of minutes!
