Merry Christmas

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For I can do everything with the help of Christ who gives me the strength I need. Phil 4:13

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Possibly the last post for the year

It is with a heavy heart that I have to let you all know that SnowPatrol died on Monday 17 December 2007. The little sausage was just not strong enough to cope without its parents, and they were not interested in him. In all fairness, I was told that they would attack the baby if there was something wrong with it, and there was definitely something not right with him. The poor little chap had very little co-ords and couldn’t eat very well by himself. I was very upset to find him lying in the bottom of the cage, even though every time I looked into the cage I was expecting him to be dead. So, I have buried him, and the even sadder news is the same parents rejected the other baby Cyan as well. However Cyan is a lot stronger and seems to have it’s wits about it, and can eat very well on its own. Cyan is becoming tamer by the day, and loves to get out the cage for a good fly around the house. I also let it bath yesterday as it had managed to get baby porridge all over it’s body and it had a ball, although once drenched it was no longer interested in the water. Unfortunately I don’t have a picture of Cyan here at the moment, but I will be sure to take some and then post them as well. My friend Sandy, will be looking after Cyan for the week that we will be away over Christmas, and has promised that she would let him out for a fly once a day. I just hope that the time spent far away from psycho parents will help ween it so that every time it is out the cage it doesn’t try going back to them. I was heart broken last night when it few to the other cage where the parents are and they looked at it like it was a bug or something, and it was crying to get to them. So I’m hoping the week away will help with the separation problem.

Today also marks the 34th week of my pregnancy, which means around 6 weeks to go, and believe me, I am hoping that they go quickly and yet slowly all at the same time. I am looking forward to snuggling the precious little baby inside me, but at the same time, dreading not having it with me every second of the day, even when it kicks me in the ribs and makes me want to cry out from the pain. It is a very active child already, and my tummy does some very interesting things these days, and you have to wonder what people think when my tummy is squirming all over, and I am “oblivious” to it. It is fun to watch though. Some days I wish I had one of those X-ray screens like they have in the cartoons, so I could see what the child is doing, because some of the things that I feel would take a complete contortionist to achieve, although I’d imagine Cygnet is quite the contortionist at the moment, being all curled up inside the womb.
Well, tomorrow is my last day at the office for this year, and then it is off to East London for a week for Christmas. It is going to be a long drive and hopefully not too uncomfortable. We’re having supper with my folks this evening to celebrate Christmas, since we won’t be here, so I’m hoping it will be fun. Then when we get back, I will have to fetch my car from the mechanic. Turns out the brakes were completely finished, metal on metal! And no one had any stock of the replacement disks, so I have left the car with him so that he can fix it while we are away. It will be nice to have new brakes again though. I was just very upset that in the 95000 odd kilometres that I have driven the car the brakes and disks have been a problem 3 times already. Not very good mileage out of them. Lets hope the new ones that he put on last longer.
Well that is me… I will keep notes of interesting things to post and let you have the updates when we get back.

Have a blessed Christmas and I hope the Spirit of God fills every moment of it.

SnowPatrol... An update

My poor little SnowPatrol.

It emerged from the box, all ready to take on the world, and ended up almost being scalped by it's parents.

I had to resort to emergency cage swaps, and now it's in a hamster cage which I borrowed from my follow pregnant fairy Sandy.  And thank goodness she is an angel because she is baby sitting SnowPatrol today, as I was worried that it wouldn't eat and that it would be terribly traumatised from being separated from family so soon, which was a silly assumption, considering the abuse the poor baby endured.  I seriously need to consider getting Paul to make the avery that he has said he would, I just need to say the word.  maybe in the bigger space there would be less baby pecking.

 

I have also added a link to Sandy's Ramblings, where you can get to "know" the pregnant fairy friend Sandy through her "Rambling Journal" (that is quoted from her site :o) ).

 

I'll keep you posted on the SnowPatrol sage.

7 weeks and counting...

Well, it's another month closer to the birth of our baby, and our scan today was fun.  Dr says that the baby is in a good position and doesn't expect it to turn again, as the head is already facing downward, getting ready for the final descent.  He is happy that the placenta is still in a good position as well, and that we are on track to a healthy delivery.

 

Measurements were a little scary.  We were told at antenatal classes that normally the baby's crown is the same shape etc as the fathers head, which made me nervous already, as Paul doesn't have the smallest head.  So when Dr measured the head, it was about 2 weeks ahead of size (YIKES!).  The rest of the body is well in line with "average" measurements, but about 4-5 days ahead of "average".  Baby now weighs around 2.2kg.  I have to wonder what I am feeding the child... as I am not eating outrageously.

 

It's scary to think that soon I will be able to hold the little sausage, and there is NO turning back!  Yay!

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For I can do everything with the help of Christ who gives me the strength I need. Phil 4:13

If you're having trouble thinking out the box, then you're probably in the wrong box.

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http://kim-happy-day.blogspot.com/

Snow Patrol

OK, so you are probably wondering why the strange heading...  well, it's the name that has stuck for the older of Mr and Mr's Blue's babies.

 

Snow Patrol has been becoming more and more adventurous and has begun sticking most of it's body out the nest box, trying to reach the food.  This morning was quite funny to watch as well, as the parents are obviously trying to get it to "take the leap' as it were, and enticing it by eating and not feeding it.  However, the other baby is still being looked after.  I have heard flapping in the box, which, I'd imagine would be Snow Patrol getting ready for that huge 10cm jump from the hole in the box to the bottom of the cage.  I giggle when I think about it.  But, the babies are both gorgeous.  They look so soft and cuddly.  I just have to think of a name for the younger of the two, but I am sure that something will come up, when it too starts the journey to the other side of the box wall.  I must admit that it is more adventurous than it's older sibling.  I have seen it sticking it's head out the box a few times already to see what the world outside looks like.  Imagine them when I put the cage outside for the first time when they are both out the box!  And the first time they get a shower, when I put the garden sprinkler on the cages.  The adult birds go nuts when I do that.  They love the water and try get as wet as possible.  It's fun to watch.

 

Christmas seems to have suddenly arrived.  It has been a few months away and now it's imminent.  That is a scary thought.  It's almost as imminent as the arrival of a Cygnet into the world.  can you believe that on Thursday there are 7 weeks left till the "official, calculated" due date.  I'm getting excited again as we go for the next scan on Wednesday.  We get to find out how big the baby is getting and how much it weighs, and I'm going to ask how long it is.  It's getting exciting now.  I think that I am feeling a bit better about the whole birth thing, or I'm living in denial, but I'm feeling optimistic about the "event" and I'm so looking forward to meeting this little sausage whom I have loved since the day I knew it was there!