Preparation for your arrival 💕

Dear Baby Boy,

Although I'm already writing you a very detailed diary of all the things we're getting up to while waiting for you to join us, I still wanted to add an entry in my blog with a bit of photographic evidence.

These are the weird and wonderful events of our lives at this moment of time, a period of bittersweet anticipation of expecting our first healthy baby during a worldwide lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Our lives are thankfully much more on the sweet side and we hope you are enjoying these days with us too, bouncing about in my amniotic fluid!

So much love and cuddles,

Your Mama, Daddy, and furry sister Dorka 💕❤️🐾🐾

In our tiny but very precious garden, we've planted 3 fruit trees, plum, apple and pear, of which the apple as you can see is magnicently showing off its first blossoms!
We've got a herb garden and a blueberry bush, as well as a veggie planter with courgettes, carrots, radishes and lettuce waiting to make their appearance.

By the time you're born we might even be able to admire the sunflowers and other little flowers also enjoying the spring sunshine outside.

We've also spent many hours with you in my tummy exploring the surrounding forests, enjoying the fresh air and birdsong and hugging trees (instead of family for now) that would be me! Your Daddy and Dorka leave these kinds of weird things to me!

After several years of dust collecting the guitar has made an appearance in our home again. I've been practicing some songs for you, like Woodstock by Matthew Southern Comfort, I'm Yours by Jason Mraz and my next one to tackle is Somewhere over the rainbow, Eva Cassidy's version, which is proving to be a bit of a challenging one. I'm doing more procrastinating than strumming when it comes to that one! 

I usually start my mornings with a bit of quiet prayer or journalling, sending out love to all the beautiful family and friends we can't see and share cuddles with at the moment.

With going out for meals out of the question at this moment in time, we have made lots of healthy homemade meals with the things available in the shops, in this way discovering how delicious baked beans pizzas are!

There's been the other fun jobs of figuring out how the bottle steriliser works, sorting baby clothes (with Dorka as my main helper), putting together prams and playpens, (your Daddy's main area of expertise, I just tried to keep out of the way!) And then there was swaddling teddy bears and practicing drawing paw patrol characters, thanks to your cousin Danien's birthday, and getting your nursery ready, with lots of love and enthusiasm.

After all this was accomplished...

...this is all we had energy for :D

We love you so much and can't wait to meet you. I hope one day you'll enjoy this little snapshot of our earliest days together. With all or love, your nutty family 💕