Hi everyone,

Grub... hope it's not too much longer for you.

Trishy - hope you can catch up with your friend and get the bassinet basket bit fixed.

AFM: Got insurance finally sorted (huge relief)... have an ultrasound today...hopefully bub will co-operate and they can tell me whether it is a girl or not. I put in a special request not to see the same guy as last time... so I'm hoping whoever does it today will be a bit more sure about the gender. I was lucky the midwife clinic gave me a referral for another scan as they understood how important it is to me to know about the gender but it only says it's to check growth (as otherwise it's not covered by medicare) so I hope they will check out the gender for me. It was a 3 week wait to get in. So it's now been 10 weeks since my last ultrasound and I have just under 10 weeks to go till bub is due so probably a good time to have it as it breaks up that long period between the 20 week scan and the due date.

I have been slack with a few more distant friends and finally got around to ringing one on the weekend and when I told her about all the damage caused by my last tenant and all the work I had to do I said "It would have been bad enough but with the pregnancy it just killed my back doing all the painting and regrouting the tiles and stuff" and she said "Oh you're pregnant? How far along?" I felt so bad as I hadn't realised it had been that long since we had spoken. I said "Oh... I haven't I told you... I'm 6 and a half months". What a shocker am I!

The renovations to my daughter's new bedroom are coming along slowly. My parents are back up again (arrived yesterday and going home tomorrow I think). Dad and I are currently working on the new built in robe and painting the ceiling. So I better get back to it.

Lori
DD - 14
Bub due 28th Aug... is it a girl too?