Weeble Garage

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On Sunday, November 6, under the guise of putting the good karma back into Cara and Tyler’s house after a break-in, we headed over to C and T’s for an afternoon of card-playing - both euchre and that silly game the guys like to play, Magic the Gathering.

In addition to our lovely hosts, also present were: Petra, (my friend and co-worker who had flown in from Toronto for the weekend) her adorable daughter, Kendra, Eddie and Manon, Mike and Angela and Shawn.

Round about 5:30pm people started to take their leave and shortly after Cara received a phone call from a friend asking for emergency fill-in babysitting. We left shortly and returned to find our house in darkness and the door unlocked…eek!

I reached into the hall and flipped on a light at which point hordes of people jumped out of various rooms yelling, “surprise!”.

In addition to the people we had just left, there was another large group of friends and family waiting to celebrate a surprise baby shower (perpetrated by my mum, Cara and Kim) with us.

It was a fantastic evening surrounded by warm, wonderful and generous family and friends. The food was awesome - Richard did one of his yummy smoked turkeys and Cara made a whole host of sinfully delicious desserts.

We even had a baby-themed pubquiz written and hosted by my mum and Kim. The prego lady’s team won…how fitting! Oh and there were even prizes, picked out by Cara - Toblerone and a mini bottle of ice cider!

Thank you all for such a special evening!

Wow, look at all the pressies!

Balloons!

Jabba the Hutt Me!

Food!

Richard carving the smoked turkey

Kendra liked the balloons!

Ellen, Shawn, Tyler, Eddie, Mike, Paul, Other Jen, Manon

Eddie, Mary, Mike, Angela, Other Ellen, Shawn, Other Jen, Paul, Kerry, John

Kendra, Petra, Angela, Ellen, Shawn

Stephan, Kim, Dad, Cara, Tyler

Aftermath

Kendra inspects Mark’s carseat assembly technique

Mark test-drives the Snugli

Yeah, seriously.

Yesterday I hit the big 35/35. That is 35 weeks with 35 days left to go. This is what I look like. I can’t wait to be able to tie my own shoes again.

35 weeks

I didn’t do these right from the beginning, but here’s what was happening between week 26 and week 30. At week 30 it was time to cover up.

26 weeks, 4 days

28 weeks, 3 days

30 weeks, 0 days

On September 13 at 28 weeks and 5 days I had a 3D ultrasound. It was amazing to get a much more realistic peek at the Weeble.

We also learned that the Weeble is slightly obsessed with his hands and feet.

Despite not having any actual baby furniture yet, we’ve still been trying to make the “nursery” look like a baby’s room. Luckily when we had the house painted two years ago we chose the right colour for the room so now we just need to add accents. The chest, that we acquired from Jen’s mum and I stripped and re-finished, has pride of place and will be the changing table.

As we don’t have a crib yet, Jen has decided to leave the mattress in there and turn it into a baby clothes shrine, covering it with all the cute purchases we have made. And the obligatory cuddly toys of course.

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