Week Thirty One: Sunday 10th August 2008

This week has been another busy one, with plenty on to keep us out of trouble. On Tuesday night we had our second parenting class, of which the hot topics were; non-medicated pain relief, bottle vs breastfeeding and a tour of the delivery suite. The tour really brought things home – just trying to imagine Ash and I in one of those rooms, delivering our baby felt so surreal, and it’s really not that far away! (I wonder if we can order the Ponting suite?) We were also subjected to a couple of videos about breastfeeding – is it wrong that I was almost as squeamish as Ash??

We celebrated two important birthdays for in August – my beautiful girlfriend Judy was first, with the two of us celebrating with good friend Sue on Thursday night. We enjoyed a delicious Lebanese meal and then started preparing photographs for our auditions for Australia’s Next Top Model – girls, you will be happy to see I couldn’t bring myself to upload the scary ones!

Then Ash’s brother Tim chose to gamble with his happiness by having us over for a BBQ to watch the Eels game on Sunday afternoon (luckily the gamble paid off and the Eels won!) I seized another opportunity to cuddle the increasingly gorgeous, Dylan who has learnt a number of new tricks, including mastering his crawling skills. Here’s a photo of the brothers in their matching Eels jumpers, and Dylan being, well gorgeous with his Mum….

Finally Ash and I also completed the City to Surf on Sunday - walking of course! 14kms later we were quite exhausted (and wet as the heaven opened before we could make our way home). However it was a great day out, and I look forward to the day I can tell Elwood he/she completed their first City to Surf at 31 weeks!

Ash continues to work on Project Girl’s Name, and to provide him with some much needed inspiration, the authors of a new book Bad Baby Names, searched a century of US census reports to find the worst of the worst. Below is their list of top 10 bad baby names:

1: Dracula Taylor
2: Young Boozer
3: Jump Jump
4: United States
5: Lotta Bacon
6: Nice Veal
7: Nail Rambo
8: Fat Meat Fields
9: Jelly Bean Cook
10: Ashley John (he he, I’m so funny!)

Mmmm, I think these are actually an improvement from the last list Ash provided.
Best be off, I’m a bit of an Olympics addict, and there is loads on the telly to watch tonight… Go Aussies!