The 20 week (gender) Scan

Last week was my 20 week scan.
We've known since the test turned pink that we wanted to find out the gender, but most importantly we were nervous about his or her health.
As I had a molar pregnancy last summer and I had hypertension when I was pregnant with Oscar, we were going to be a bit more nervous than normal.
I knew baby was okay to an extent because I've been feeling a lot of movements and even sometimes a good old kick.
It turns out we needn't have worried at all. I'm measuring to my original dates, which is nearly a week bigger than my due date, and all insides are normal. There was one kidney that had a bit too much fluid in it but sonographer lady wasn't worried but I have to have another scan in July just to make sure.

She couldn't get a good look at the spine so I had to jump around for a couple minutes, which only just about worked! And then she gave us the news we'd been waiting for...boy or girl? Phoebe or Phoebo?

I'd been dying for a girl, hubby and son were wanting a boy. Either way, we're all happy that the baby is a healthy little boy :)

I keep getting asked if I'm disappointed because Its my last baby and I wanted a girl.
I hate the word disappointed. It reminds me of when you're a kid and your patents aren't mad at you, they're "disappointed" so you feel 10 times worse.
I'm a little sad that I'll never get to do the girl things but I won't love him any less just because he has a wiener.

We did have baby names sorted but hubs has decided he no longer likes the boy name and now we can't agree on anything!
Queue weeks of arguing!

The baby name fiasco

Since finding out we're having a boy, the one question we're getting is "have you thought of any names yet?."

Well, we did have a name sorted for a boy or a girl, but hubs started changing his mind about the boys name, which turned out to be the only name we could agree on!
Had little one been a girl we would have called her Luna.
So we've been looking at all the names we could find that both of us would like but hubs liked names like Dante, Damien and Adrian. I don't want a demon child name and everyone I think of Adrian I think Mole! But I'm quite the hippy when it comes to names, I like Bodhi, Sawyer and pretty much every celeb baby name ever!

We actually only agreed on naming Oscar when I was about 34 weeks, we couldn't agree on a name so we just randomly picked out a decent enough name out of a baby book! The name suits him now but it wasn't really a name I loved.

I know we still have a while before baby is here but I really want to love the name we pick this time rather than making do!

19 Weeks

well, 18+6 ;)

Easter Break

Since about mid December we've been without Andy's car. The gearbox went out the window and it's taken us/the nice garage man MONTHS to find one that will fit into our car AND be in our budget.

We're getting it back today! WAHOO.

I can go back to blagging lifts and taking Oscar out to places further than the City Centre. And with the sunshine slowly but surely popping it's head out, it has come at the best time. Beach here we come!

So far all we're doing is mooching around, getting our crafty stuff out to play with and going for walks.

Though I did have to put up with a magician at a kids party and Gangnam Style was on repeat for about 20 minutes.