Week Twenty Six: Sunday July 6, 2008

Ash here. I am writing the entry this week so Kel gets off my back about not having written anything. Apparently if I don't write something the baby will feel neglected in five years time when it learns to read.

I spent most of the week at the Gold Coast attending a conference. It gave me a chance to catch up with a mate I went to uni with. It was good timing as Brad & Min only just had a baby themselves on June 28. Lauren Grace was 4 weeks premature and weighed a massive 2.46kg. Here they are:

The labour started on Min's last day of work. It could only have been a girl as her waters broke at half-time of Friday Night Football. Being premature meant they missed the 2nd half of their pregnancy class and Min also missed out on her baby shower which was scheduled for the next day. To make matters even worse they missed out on the $800 increase to the baby bonus, but they are just happy that little Lauren is so healthy.

Lauren is already feeling a little self conscious about her size so I left her with this brochure of a personal trainer so she can bulk up:

Started work on getting the baby's room ready today. Although the room doesn't look very different as it just involved cleaning out our closets so we could move our furniture to the spare room. Yesterday we bought two drawers and a bookcase for the baby's room so we have all the furniture we need and my folks are coming over next weekend to help with the painting.

Went to the Eels game today, my nephew Dylan (who learnt to crawl this week) came along for his 2nd game but we lost so it isn't worth talking about.

As I am in charge of choosing the girls name, here is my top 5 so far:

1. Sheila

2. Buffy

3. Dolly

4. Bjork

5. Celibacy


Kel has been well this week, although I have noticed a slight increase on the crabiness meter. I will go now, I am sure this will be the last time Kel asks me to write an entry on the blog.