Sunday bunny - a young Honey Bunny

I'm feeling paranoid about taking the camera out of my hospital bag now, as I don't want to forget it or the memory card when we go in. With baby now a week overdue, we will be needing it soon.

There are some impressive excavations in the backyard, however I won't be photographing them. Andrew has reached down the hole with a garden stake, and it is now nearly 2 metres long, and wide enough to turn around in. It is angled downwards, so the design aim seems to be an extension of bunny living quarters, rather than escape.

Anyway, this is Sunday bunny, and without further ado, here is a picture of Honey Bunny from her youth.


Posts will almost certainly become more irregular from here on in, at least for a while.

ouch

One of the fun aspects of being pregnant is interpreting the movements of my baby. This is a highly subjective process that is easily worked to my advantage. If the baby moves while I'm eating chocolate, obviously baby enjoys chocolate and would like some more. (Of course if I'm honest, most of the time I have no idea what the movements really mean - other than knowing that baby wants to move his/her limbs.)

A night or two ago, I work up at 4.30am absolutely ravenous. This isn't that unusual, and normally I get up and eat a banana or a couple of dried biscuits and go back to sleep. Except this time I decided that I really couldn't be bothered getting up and tried to just go back to sleep. At this baby moved, and it wasn't just the usual gentle kicking - it really hurt! So I took the hint, got up, and ate something and baby settled right back down again.

I hope this isn't a sign of things to come...

boy, girl, or just one that's healthy?

Since going public with our news I've had a few conversations that go along these lines...

Do you want a boy or a girl?
We'll take whoever we're given.
Yes, so long as it's healthy...
We'll take whoever we're given.

It's one of those things that people just say, usually without thinking through the implications of what they're saying. We'd like to have a healthy baby, and I can think of a few potential pros and cons of having a boy or a girl, but in the end the baby we have will be the baby that God intends us to have. Our job will be to accept, love and raise whoever God gives us as best we can.

Thankfully God doesn't expect us to justify our space on the planet by being healthy. He loves us just because He loves us. We're all valuable because we're made by Him, and for those of us who are Christians, we know how much He loves us because He sent Christ to save us. (Some good passages to follow up are Gen 9:5-6, Deut 7:7-8, 1 Cor 1:26–31, 1 John 4:9-10.)

pregnant penguin

It's good to be back, and I'm back with some news. As the heading suggests, I am expecting a baby. The official due date is Dec 31. I'm hoping that baby doesn't arrive on Christmas or New Year's - it would be hard to share one's birthday with another major celebration - but I know that s/he will arrive at the time s/he deems best.

Now that the second trimester of pregnancy has begun, I'm feeling much better and able to get on with the task of blogging. It's great to have the news public, as it means that I can now blog about being pregnant, which is going to be a fairly big part of life in the next six months or so.

That said, I intend not to blog all the time about pregnancy, and will keep myself limited to a small number of baby-related posts per week. I'll also be including weekly reflections on the book of Hebrews, which I'm studying in depth this semester, as well as the usual random assortment of blog topics that many of you will be used to by now.