Week 36... only 4 to go and we will be parents. Very exciting but also very scary. As my belly gets bigger (see pictures below) and the baby gear starts piling up the reality is sinking in. I just can't imagine being someone's mum...!
Last weekend we went to Wellington where Mum, Jo and Debs had organised a baby shower for me. Luis managed to escape- fishing with Dad, I spent the afternoon catching up with a lot of people I hadn't seen for a long time. But it was all good- they kept their promises and there were no silly games (I just not a silly game kind of person!), just a couple of paper and pen "activities".... like guess the nursery rhyme which I did spectacularly badly in- I guess I'm going to have to brush up on my nursery rhymes! And there was lots of food and lots and lots of great pressies (for non-kiwis that's "gifts"). I even got a breast pump. Very scary.

This last week I have been battling a head cold, not fun on top of pregnancy aches and pains, and certainly not good for thesis writing. I haven't got much done at all this week, except apply for a suspension of enrolment. I know I won't get it all finished in the next few weeks and don't need the stress of worrying about it so am going to suspend my enrolment and pick it up later in the year once we have (hopefully) settled into some sort of routine with baby. In the meantime I am plodding on, doing what I can when I can. The good news is that I have done most of the hard work already, just one chapter to finish, introduction and conclusion then the rewrite... I mean editing and tidying!!!

Luis is feeling the pressure at the moment with end-of-semester assignments due and exams starting in just over a week. He has already finished lectures... this semester seems to have flown by. However his study time is a bit distracted lately by baby preparations and rugby (end of super 12... all blacks selection... NZ maoris... the Lions tour... I thought I married a latin American soccer man but he's turned into a kiwi rugby head!).