twinkle twinkle my little star!

'we're getting married!'

....bumping into a little boy the baby bird loves dearly in the haberdashery....

hi bye ovengloves

every moment is lovely really

I was sorting through some photos on my camera that I hadn't put on the computer yet and although they're not great photography, I love these pictures of my little baby bird...
On christmas morning cuddling her christmas stocking which is really soft and snuggly while sitting at her little table


New year's day walk..she was very sleepy and fell asleep moments later on my shoulders. It really hurt my neck walking along like that..


She found a punnet of blueberries in the kitchen and took them off by herself, settled down on the cat scratching post and contentedly munched her way through a suprising number of them!


being a fairy


about to go out on a very frosty day. She looked beautiful and cuddly but wouldn't stay still long enough for me to get the picture of her I wanted

And stickers, her most favourite thing. Every morning she puts five or six in her hair and sometimes some on her face before we go out..

the phantom willy

What an amusing experience. Our scan appointment was sent to us in a letter saying our time was 8.15am. With it was a covering letter saying that as the department didn't open until 9 we had to go in via a side door - I wasn't sure if that meant we were supposed to do our own scan or what but it seemed a bit disorganised to say the least! Anyway after getting lost in the hospital grounds trying to park the car(!) we found our way in and then had to wait half an hour before the department opened for our scan. Is the NHS really SO disorganised?? When we went in there was a lovely midife who was training to be a sonographer doing our scan - she was not at all bothered by the fact we were being cared for independently and even congratulated us on our decision. She was slow (still learning) but sweet and showed us every part of the new raven chick as it came up on her screen...so amazing to see a picture of something that has gone through me and through another human - we could see the seperate chambers of the chick's heart. If you read it in a book and hadn't seen it you'd think it was sci-fi I'm sure. She showed us what she thought was a testicle and then tried to get all her measurements to conclude the scan once she had seen everything was fine and well...unfortunately the chick was wriggling around so much she couldn't get the last two measurements so we had to go for a walk around the hospital to try to get the baby to turn around into a better position. On our return we were seen by the senior sonographer who was annoyed we were not 'conventional' and had no hospital notes, and didn't like the fact that we were basing our due date on my knowledge of my body rather than a dating scan(!) but after a bit of sweet-talking him he came round to us and actually ended up being very kind to us and giving us two little scan pictures of the raven chick.....who he was quite sure is a girl!!!!!!!!! As he is senior and the midwife was training we are inclined to go with his diagnosis of gender and just have a back-up boy's name just in case. But what a rollercoaster ride - during our walk we were discussing how it might be to have a girl and a boy only to find out we should have been thinking about two girls! Obviously it doesn't matter at all who we have - they are healthy and have all the right organs in the right places and are a little on the large side (like the baby bird was) so all is well. But I was amused by it all....

the first jump....it's so much harder than I realised!

magic moments

So there's a lot to post about but now is not the moment. Instead I am just going to post these pictures my husband took on his phone (hence the dubious quality) which all make me laugh...the first one was at about 6am this morning when the baby bird found the new clothes I got her yesterday and decided to wear them all at once (2 t-shirt dresses and the cool stripy trousers) - along with the oven mitts and a too-small-bib put on backwards so you only see the bits over her arms. She stayed like this all morning.

Then we decided to take the christmas tree down and the baby bird wanted to sample the biscuits we had hung there - fortunately they weren't stale or soggy..

and as the decorations came off the tree they went on her - I guess she has been in a real dressing-up mood all day


Then we had a real bonding moment hiding together in the lego box...for a little longer than was comfortable but it was very very sweet!