It is just 8 weeks (or less!) to go until our little lad joins us in the world, and I'm feeling quite stressed about it. I am working pretty hard at the moment and am concerned about how life will change once he joins us. I know from experience that life does change significantly, and that it can be quite challenging at times. I am hoping (oh please Lord!) that somehow we will have learnt a bit from the last 3 years of parenting which might help us out a bit, but I do know that he is going to be an entirely different child to Grace and we also have to look after her well at the same time.

Grace and I were throwing a balloon to each other, when she says, "Dance! Dance! Dance!" until we all start dancing. The three of us dance a bit until Grace suddenly says, "Stop. Okay, that's enough of that. Throw balloon." She toddles off, fetches the balloon, we throw it a few times, then, "Stop! That's enough of that." And so the cycle goes.

There is no doubt that Grace knows her swimming lesson exercises well. In the bath she takes Tracy (one of her dolls), hold her legs out straight and kicks away with them, then Tracy does a "chooka train" along the edge of the bath, stops and does a "bouncy bouncy on the wall, bouncy bouncy till we fall" goes onto her back, turns back onto her tummy and grabs the side. Wash, rinse, repeat.

No, not really coming….not right now at least…..but there is that feeling in the air, like the change of seasons or the smell of a thunderstorm. I've been building cupboards, Donne has been tidying, we bought Grace a new car seat today (a booster, which she is very chuffed with), and we bought our first set of nappies. The baby is coming. Just 8 weeks now (officially), but I'm working on 6 for a small margin of safety.

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I told Grace that we were going to go and see Keren and she was super excited. I missed the first few seconds when she said, "I'm so excited to see Keren!" which was then followed by the "Keren! Keren!" dance.

Grace was using the toilet and called me when she was done. After we were done wiping she says to me, "Sorry for the stinky poo dad." Apology accepted my angel.

I’m guessing that they spoke about Women’s Day at school yesterday, because today Grace was running around shouting, “Happy Women’s Day! Happy Women’s Day!”

The bump!

Some time outside in the sun this morning

Having some slide fun

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Grace has picked up a new habit at swimming. Once she is done, she whips off her swimming costume pants walks to the pool and squeezes the water out of them. Once her top is off, then it gets a squeeze too. And this week she is still enjoying her swimming partner.

Grace has picked up a new habit at swimming. Once she is done, she whips off her swimming costume pants walks to the pool and squeezes the water out of them. Once her top is off, then it gets a squeeze too. She is also still enjoying her swimming partner.

I was sitting at my desk talking to a colleague on the phone and I see something outside drifting past my window. Looks like a balloon, but I didn't see Donné and Grace outside and it was a bit windy to play with balloons outside. Hmmm, a rather longish balloon with a particular pointy bit on the end. That's when I had to stop the conversation due to my laughter and explain to my colleague that a condom balloon had just floated past my door. Not too sure where it came from, but definitely unexpected. A minute or two later there was more laughter as it popped and sent a cat flying in fear.