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We did a couple of more paintings last weekend and I’ve picked up yet more canvas. Two for five bucks is a pretty good deal, but you never are quite sure what kind of canvas it’s going to be and I don’t know how we’re going to haul the lot home either.

April's

Patrick's

I don’t think this bug is a praying mantis, but it looks like one.

I am not entirely positive what it is, but it keeps hanging around our doorway.

Sometimes it completely freaks me out when it turns its head and looks at me dead on waving its antennae.

We’ve been all work work work. Patrick’s just finished his last day with his class. Off they go to make their way in the working world of animation in New Zealand or wherever. We’re enjoying a three day weekend for ANZAC day, which stands for Australia New Zealand Army Corps – pretty much like Remembrance Day for Canadians.

I’ve been doing body tracings of the children and they’ve had a go at them with the paints. I come home covered in green or blue or whatever. I had a glob on my glasses for a few days before Patrick noticed and picked it off. It had to be a few days because of the colour. We’re thinking about putting them up on the ceilings at work.

I think we’ve just hashed out a new date for our wedding. It’ll happen sometime in June, between the tenth and twentieth I suppose. We want to have it at Queen Elizabeth Gardens since that’s where we had our first kiss. J

The Japanese restaurants here are different because I haven’t found a single one that offers sunomono on their menu. I’ve been missing sunomono which is a vinegar bean/rice vermicelli with cucumber, lemon and maybe shrimp or prawn (ebi) and I haven’t seen anything like it here at all. I have however, found most of these ingredients at the supermarkets, so I made an attempt at it. Patrick said the texture was similar . . .

DAH DAH DAH DAAAAAAAAAAAH!

Surprise!

We’re expecting… and due mid September. This means we concieved sometime around about the time Patrick proposed. Talk aboutcher love child eh?
Check out our super cute bun in the oven:

SKULL BABY!

If you still don’t get it, here’s some clarification:

This is me and my bad haircut. I went in and asked for a bob. I have to take my glasses off during haircuts, and I couldn’t see a damned thing. When she was finished I looked like I had some eighties rocker mullet do all poofed out to Sunday. I had to walk home because Patrick had the car and was just sitting down to a cup of TEA. She wanted to give me some fringe saying it would suit me. It only took about twenty minutes, and she did a good job, but it’s not what I wanted. I have to let it grow a bit before I go with my original bob plan.

We fought about names at first, and have since then dropped the subject. We didn’t find out the sex because we didn’t ask until after we’d put the equipment away for the second time. I have a low lying placenta so we will be going in for a second ultrasound scan at thirty weeks (in a couple of months). In the meantime, the midwife hasn’t had all that much to offer on the subject and has postponed this weekends appointment. If this wasn’t my third child, I’d be getting myself a real doctor.

The lime painting is one of my cravings. I've hankered for Marmite, and now I'm drinking three litres of homogenized milk every couple of days. I'm taking my monster sized horse pill of a multivitamin every day, and the midwife said I should take it every couple of days because my bloodwork says I'm "too healthy" whatever the heck that means!Apparently Marmite is brain food - stimulating brain neuron growth . . . I've gone off it now - same with the limes. I've had my first taste of fejoa. I don't know how to spell it, but it's not much bigger than a kiwi fruit and there's less of it to eat. feh joe ah *shrug* it's alright.

My boys have a new baby sister! She was born April 20th and was seven pounds eleven ounces! She’s super cute – taking after her big brother Adrian! YAY! IT’S A GIRL!!!!

Ta, much love,
April

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