we are not posting any pictures because none of them are good enough for princess Tara!
We have lots of them - but most seem to have certain problems - neck size, hair, eyes shut, bad light, bad mood, bad day, bad cameraman!
Will try and suprise her one day - probably whilst still in bed - to get the picture you all seem to crave!
stephen
Saturday, June 24, 2006
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Tara's Bibirthday
So, Tara is now in her mid-twenties, or so she tells me! We had friends over and I cooked "a meal fit for the queen!"
There has been a TV program on the BBC recently called "the great british menu" where all the best chefs in the country compete for the right to cook the queen's 80th birthday diner. The winning menu and its recipes were all on the website - so we dined on smoked salmon, seabass and oxtail, roast venison and egg custard tart. Well received by all! Other aspiring chefs can check out www.bbc.co.uk/food for recipes and ideas.
Tara's "bump" is now becoming more pronounced and she tells me regularly now that she can fell the baby moving around - though no visible evidence yet!
I'm going on a course in Oxford for school next week. We run the IB diploma for our Y12 and Y13 students and I have to go to learn how to teach physics properly! I have a feeling that more time may be spent investigating all the nice pubs and learning how to punt whilst drinking Pimms than will be spent in the classroom!!!
Stephen
There has been a TV program on the BBC recently called "the great british menu" where all the best chefs in the country compete for the right to cook the queen's 80th birthday diner. The winning menu and its recipes were all on the website - so we dined on smoked salmon, seabass and oxtail, roast venison and egg custard tart. Well received by all! Other aspiring chefs can check out www.bbc.co.uk/food for recipes and ideas.
Tara's "bump" is now becoming more pronounced and she tells me regularly now that she can fell the baby moving around - though no visible evidence yet!
I'm going on a course in Oxford for school next week. We run the IB diploma for our Y12 and Y13 students and I have to go to learn how to teach physics properly! I have a feeling that more time may be spent investigating all the nice pubs and learning how to punt whilst drinking Pimms than will be spent in the classroom!!!
Stephen
Friday, June 09, 2006
Baby heart beats
I think I felt the baby move a few days ago! I was lying quietly on the sofa when there was a strange sort of fluttery feeling in my stomach... It was really cool and I have been trying very hard in vain ever since to feel it again!
Today I went to the midwife for a check up. She had me lie on a bed and felt my tummy. My uterus is now up near my belly button (5 weeks ago it was down by my pubic bone and now it is about 20 cm up from there!) and she put a little microphone with jelly on it onto it. The baby's heart beat was strong and we found it immediately but then it got active and started jumping around. The microphone picked up all the kicks which was cool and the placenta or cord muffled the heartbeat a few times. I rang Stephen as soon as I got out and he was really excited too.
Today I went to the midwife for a check up. She had me lie on a bed and felt my tummy. My uterus is now up near my belly button (5 weeks ago it was down by my pubic bone and now it is about 20 cm up from there!) and she put a little microphone with jelly on it onto it. The baby's heart beat was strong and we found it immediately but then it got active and started jumping around. The microphone picked up all the kicks which was cool and the placenta or cord muffled the heartbeat a few times. I rang Stephen as soon as I got out and he was really excited too.
Sunday, June 04, 2006
Back to school
Tomorrow we are back to school after our week off. We have had a nice, relaxing week getting a few things done around our new house and buying some maternity clothes in order to accomodate my growing belly. I'm a bit silly because I keep getting Stephen to take pictures of my belly and then deleting them when I think I look fat! I am no longer fitting into the majority of my clothes, but my bump isn't so big though yet that people automatically think that I am pregnant when they see me.
Thursday, June 01, 2006
Tara sets the record straight
We have finally gotten our acts together and took a picture of the scan we had three weeks ago (almost 4 now!). So here is a picture of our little baby. 
It has grown a lot in the last few weeks though - about 4 cm and so will look much different now to what it looks like in the photo. For those of you who aren't versed in looking at scans, the head is to the left, the hands are sticking up in the air covering its chin and the legs stick out to the left at the end of the body.
It has grown a lot in the last few weeks though - about 4 cm and so will look much different now to what it looks like in the photo. For those of you who aren't versed in looking at scans, the head is to the left, the hands are sticking up in the air covering its chin and the legs stick out to the left at the end of the body.
Halft Term Break
So, us lazy teachers have another week off! We've successfully used the first half of it to do lots of shopping (yawn), look at baby clothes and bedroom furniture (more yawns) and visit IKEA to get angry - a question to the masses: Does everyone get angry at IKEA or is it just me? Is it only in england that the stores are packed with stupid people that park their trolleys in the middle of isles, walk really slowly, and bring hords of screaming infants???
Ok, deep breath, rant over (during the holiday it's difficult to find students to yell at to release tension, without creating a stir in the street!!!).
Our shopping this week to date:
1. A cat tree - we must own two of the most pampered cats in the world. Look at these two softies!
2. Sacks full of maternity clothes - why do the prices increase exponentially when the words "baby" or "maternity" appear on the label?
3. IKEA furniture - another successful evening spent swearing at allen keys and the discussing the evils of flat packs!
I plan to spend the rest of the week in intensive preparation for the world cup (for the strange people who don't follow the beautiful game (women and canadians o:) this strarts on June 9th) by increasing the amount of sports I watch each day. As the French Open is on at the moment there are a wealth of opportunities to implement my plan - Tara doesn't seem to be that impressed with my idea - but I'm confidant that I can school her in wonderful world of sports.
Ok, time to go. I'm sure that someone will be playing somebody in some sport somewhere on the telly and I don't want to miss it!
Stephen
Ok, deep breath, rant over (during the holiday it's difficult to find students to yell at to release tension, without creating a stir in the street!!!).
Our shopping this week to date:
1. A cat tree - we must own two of the most pampered cats in the world. Look at these two softies!
2. Sacks full of maternity clothes - why do the prices increase exponentially when the words "baby" or "maternity" appear on the label?
3. IKEA furniture - another successful evening spent swearing at allen keys and the discussing the evils of flat packs!
I plan to spend the rest of the week in intensive preparation for the world cup (for the strange people who don't follow the beautiful game (women and canadians o:) this strarts on June 9th) by increasing the amount of sports I watch each day. As the French Open is on at the moment there are a wealth of opportunities to implement my plan - Tara doesn't seem to be that impressed with my idea - but I'm confidant that I can school her in wonderful world of sports.
Ok, time to go. I'm sure that someone will be playing somebody in some sport somewhere on the telly and I don't want to miss it!
Stephen
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