(Week 24) Her first holiday

First off, here is a picture update of the bump, this picture doesn’t really show quite how big the bump has got, but here it is anyway:

Lara saw her doctor this week, for a general check up of all things ‘Little Lara’ related, and her doctor couldn’t believe how big she was. Not because the baby is big, but just that the bump was so big compared to the size of Lara. The doctor also said that all Lara’s levels etc were normal and that everything was average and boring – which is good!

Little Lara also got her first pair of shoes, bought for her by our friend Becca, who is ridiculously excited about us having a baby, and that it is a girl, she says she is going to go shoe crazy, so Little Lara should be fine on the shoe front. They shoes are so cute, as you will see from the picture below – Little Lara is spoilt already!

We will be taking Little Lara on her first holiday this week, we are going camping down in the New Forest with our friends Tom and Becca (crazy shoe lady Becca). I cannot wait, as this will be my first break from work since I started my job, and will probably be our last time away before the baby is born. We’re only going away for the weekend, but I’m sure that will be long enough, I can’t imagine sleeping in a tent on a  blow up bed with a big bump will be that comfortable for Lara, but we shall see.

A quick update on the kicking, she is really going for it now – Lara feels her kicking or moving about most of the time now, and little Lara has even decided she wants to kick for Daddy now, at last. It is just an incredible feeling, and if it wasn’t frowned upon, I would recommend you all find the closest pregnant lady and feel her bump and wait for the kick – it’s just amazing.

We both cannot wait to meet our little girl now, we already feel like we know her, and we haven’t even met her yet. I try to talk and sing to her as much as I can, so that she’ll get used to my voice and can recognise me from when she is born. Lara even had a dream about her this week, and she said that she was absolutely beautiful – well obviously she is, have you seen her Dad?!