Park, Park, Park & Park

With Bells due in just a few weeks now, I'm getting in some last minute social outings. Wednesday night I joined some friends at Wembley Stadium for the England vs USA soccer match. I sang the National Anthem surrounded by Brits, and watched the US lose 2-0. C enjoyed the TV version and tried to spot me in the crowd. He was slightly conflicted as to which flag to wave though. Off to Vienna this weekend to see Uncle Nate.

As you can see, Bells is getting bigger by the day- 106 centimeters around the belly button now. Due date is still the 22nd of June, but second borns usually come early, right? Here she is three weeks before C arrived. On a separate note, it appears that C may be of the sinister bent : left-handed. That's the consensus now, but we'll see what happens in the next few years. He would be in the minority- only 10% of the population are left handed.

We think C has conquered the potty. Of course, we'll still have some accidents, but we've got the concept mastered. And done before the second one shows up. I spent the morning painting the baby's room. We decided on a shade of yellow- just in case it isn't the expected girl .

Bells has been going through a bit of Braxton-Hicks contractions over the last few days. So much so that she thought she was going to deliver in the back of black cab on Thursday evening. So she's been texting our doula and reassuringly posting on Mumsnet . The odds are that THIS ONE won't act like C and be two weeks late .

C has learned to use the word NO extensively now. He'll use it in response to most questions, and even to the opposite of the original question. Today, he's been a bit of a handful, although we're not sure if it's just asserting independence or residual frustration from the chicken pox. Or maybe he's just tired of hanging out with Mum and Dad all the time on these boring trips to the country.

We wandered out of London this morning and found ourselves in Hampshire- Selborne specifically. And we toured the Gilbert White House/Museum and grounds. C is now getting over the Pox.

C is now fully covered with what looks like The Plague. And then a layer of calamine lotion on top of the chicken pox. And is about as agreeable to the whole situation as he looks in this picture. The upside is that this malady covers up the scabs and bruises on his face he developed falling off a jungle gym last week.