Updating :-)

So here we are, this is the reason for my lack of posts lately! I've been completely terrified and in denial since having early bleeding and - despite my misgivings about scanning - I can finally relax now, knowing there really is a little person dancing in there. I can't believe how lucky we are, it almost seems like asking for too much as I have two gorgeous children already, and I feel that I need to do some work on my anxiety as I'm sure it can't be good for me or this teeny one.

I can't believe the quality of this scan picture though! We could see little fingers and everything. Incredible.

I've also been getting more deeply involved in my doula training, which I'm absolutely loving, and I'm hoping to set up some antenatal sessions soon. I've been doing a bit of work around Birth Art, which is fascinating and good fun too - and I'm co-facilitating a workshop at Quest, which is very scary and exciting!! I feel very privileged to be becoming more involved in this wonderful world of magic and motherhood.

Alongside this, we've had a lot of house-related stress. Despite being assured that our house would sell immediately, we haven't had much interest at all. This has now turned out to be a good thing, since we had our hearts set on a house which was about 30 mins away and after many sleepless nights I've finally realised - and convinced Phil - that this is just too far. We'd spend half of our lives in the car and that's not what we want to move to the country for! So we're waiting for someone to love our house, and for a perfect place to come up in a closer village. I don't mind, our house is lovely and I'd happily have this baby here too, but it's just a little stressful having it hanging over us (and having to tidy up for viewings, lol!) so just a bit of a clue about the future might be nice.

Finn has learned masses of new words lately and his sentences are hilarious. He drops his h's so runs behind me yelling 'mummy, 'urry up!' and when he gets stuck he just freezes and shouts 'elp!'. He's ever so funny at the moment and we're all delighted by him. Chloe seems to be living at the gym at the moment but we're making progress with communication and I seem to be being slightly more in tune with her, which can only be a good thing. She's becoming more interested in arty things and also LOVES riding, which is really lovely to see.

So that's me for now! I'm missing time for crafting and need to get Phil to take Finn out on a saturday soon so I can make a little sleeping bag for his birthday baby doll. There are millions of other things on my list but that's the most fun! Fingers crossed it happens before his birthday, unlike those Christmas trousers, which are still pinned together and have yet to be sewn...