november...

i didn't write a lot at all during november.

mum and dad were here a fair bit. mum's dad, my granddad, was unwell and going downhill. not at break-neck speed however not slowly either. which was a relief.

he died on november 16.

this is my granddad....

yes, my granddad looks like colonel sanders...

he played up to it too! he was a school teacher and students would call him the 'colonel' 

and he would wear black-rimmed glasses and a white dinner coat. he loved it!!

it was a relief really. we were praying he wouldn't suffer, and he didn't.

i really do not like the time in between a person dying and the funeral. time for the family involved stands still, yet life still goes on. it sucks.

so november wasn't too great.

the agent and i went to the awards night for the real estate company he works for.

us at dinner...

the agent won 'sales person of the year' which is based on how much commission the sales person makes per quarter.

he was the 'winner' out of all the sales people who work for the company!! that's my hubby!! he's been in the top 2% of century21 real estate agents. top 2% in the world that is. 

i'm just a wee bit proud of him!!!

we had a great night. mum and dad looked after bubble and bug for us. hoping next year they'll look after all 3 kidlets so that the agent and i can stay in the city and party on with everyone! this years awards was held at the hilton in the city, and everyone went down to the marble bar to keep on partying. it'd be nice to do that next year, as we are getting to know a lot of people from the other offices which is great!!

i'm now 35 weeks pregnant with lbm3. my pelvis is a lot better. physio is helping me. really hoping the pain goes away after i give birth like it did after my first 2 pregnancies. not long to go now! i've gained 8kgs. not sure whether to be happy about that or worried. books say by now i should have gained 10-15kg. i wasn't over weight before falling pregnant. 

my doctor sent us for an extra ultrasound a month ago. she measured my tummy and said "you're small. go have a scan and make sure baby is growing ok." 

so we did.....we were 32 weeks 5 days when we had the scan. baby was measuring 34 weeks. 

yikes!!!!

the ultrasound technician (who did all my scans with bubble and bug) said lbm3 will probably be about the same size as bug was at birth - 3.49kg and 51.5cm long. hope lbm3 doesn't get any bigger!!!!

so not long to go now. both bubble and bug were 11 days early based on the due date my obstetrician gave me. so anywhere from 3-5 weeks to go.

i've realised that as much as i love being pregnant, i am looking forward to starting to the next chapter. i know what happens next, and i'm sorta sick of waiting for it to happen! i'm not scared of labour or birth. i simply cannot wait to meet the little person!! and i think the agent and i have finally agreed on a full boys name! i still have 2 girl names i really like, just not sure how the agent feels about them....but we are hoping it's a boy. actually no. we're hoping it's a baby and that it's healthy and has all the right bits in the right places and all it's bits are working - eyes, ears, mouth, nose, fingers toes, lungs everything. i don't mind if it's a boy or a girl.

so long as it's not 'food' which is what bubble decided was in my tummy a few weeks ago. she looked at me and simply said 'mummy, i think it's food.' yeah no baby....mumma hasn't eaten that much!!!