Snuggle Puppy

Paloma has a book all about Snuggle Puppy. Evidently, she likes it very much (and has memorised most of the words). 

Thanks, Paige, for the ukelele!

a visit from Grandma and Grandpa

Mum and Dad came to visit a couple of weeks ago, on their way home from celebrating Mum's (big) birthday in France. It was great to see them for a few days! 

We didn't do much while they were here, except drink lots of tea and take Semilla to play in the river. 

Sometimes drinking tea involves reading books. 

Sometimes drinking tea involves picnics on the floor, with a naughty dog. 

Semilla loves the river. 

She never gets tired of the ol' stick-in-the-river game
(even though we do). 

Exploring with Grandma. 

Jim and Claire came to visit as well. We went to the Rio Grande Nature Center (leaving Semilla behind) and looked for ducks and turtles. Unfortunately, the turtles were all on vacation and we didn't get to see them (this time).

"I see one! I see a duck!"

Thanks for the visit! We hope to see you again soon.....

the egg is getting ready to hatch...

We have three weeks left until our due date, and things are getting big.

Enjoying the spring sunshine!

It's approaching the time that we can start to compare BITO with the expiration date on Paloma's milk.

"Mama, why are you taking photos of my milk?"

Everyone is well. We're getting excited and taking bets on whether the baby will be a boy or a girl. Paloma says it will be a boy because then we will have two girls (Mama and Paloma) and two boys (Papa and BITO).

What do you think?

flippin' heck!

Crikey, that's getting to be a big belly! We only have a month or two to go, and it's really starting to show...

Look familiar? 

The good news is that BITO has flipped and is no longer breech. I felt a big tumble in my belly yesterday and it was confirmed by our wonderful midwife this morning. BITO is now head-down and ready to go.

Hooray!