Ultrasound scans of 19 week pregnancies don't become any less amazing with familiarity. I may have been there, done that hundreds of times, but seeing that little heart beating away on the monitor and the tiny fingers waving is one of those emotional, deeply moving moments that stay with you for always.
This one's a girl, which left me touched with some disappointment that hasn't quite passed yet.
Such a relief to know she's fit and well, and developing on all systems go. 18.4wk head circumference and 20.2 wk thigh length. Tall then, like Flo and her Mum!
Hurrah!

This week, Connie is still just marginally ahead of Minnie. We have either Grace or Faith as a middle name. Prudence has been and gone I think, which is a shame cos it's still my favourite. Muriel's on the list, and Dot.
Does the last one sound a bit corny?

Biscuit and S arrived here safely at four after a two or three hour wander round the University where he is due to satrt in October.
That's a weird one. In my experience (both personally, and seeing others) relationships never survive when one partner goes away to Uni and the other either doesn't or goes somewhere else. A recent example is Kink and matt - he's at Eastbourne now, and a whole new world has opened up for him just as it did for me all those years ago.
Methinks Bicuit has done some work persuading S to take up the offer from Southampton because it's where she wants to go in a years time, and of course because we live her and she can visit more often. If and when they spilt up in six months time things could get disapppointing and awkward.
I do pray it doesn't turn out that way, but I am preparing myself.

We had to spend nearly all day in the house today because the weather has turned all crappy again. Ali won both Monopoly and her first ever game of Scrabble!
She is such a brilliant wordsmith. Reads her Bible several times a week and is half way through Alice in Wonderland, which is a particularly difficult text that I know many adults have trouble with. I read the Hobbit when I was ten, but I think she'll beat me to that.
We had a mad blitz on the house this mornign and cleared out three bin bags of stuffed toys and other paraphernalia. This puts the "Give Away a Thing a Day" Lenten commitment back on track and I look forward to delivering the bags on Friday. Big dusting session too, our first attempts to improve the state of the house since Trx was diagnosed with asthma in the hospital on Monday afternoon.
All the other kids are very healthy,a nd we have put that in part down to constant exposure to a fair degree of dust and the odd bout of getting dity and cold.
So many people these days live in such sterile environments (hence, they become sterile people? Discuss…) that its little wonder children develop little or no immunity to common conditions and cases of asthma are higher than they've ever been.
But these things can develop in pregnancy, especially cumulative pregnancies, and the last thing we want is for it to be passed onto baby.
I expect she's a sleep now - I do wish occasionally that she would come and tell me!