Bump Evolution!

Our baby is growing and should have now reached the 2 kg mark! On the outside it looks like this:

From Bump

My knitting has progressed from no skills to fancy things like i-cord and 3 dimensional leaves. Here are the knitted part of the babys wardrobe, I know still a lot to do!

From Bump

Scan today

So we have seen baby Drews (code name for the time being) face, spine and thigh this morning on the ultrasound scan. She is lying head down, face down, spine on my left side. This is all correct and good. Her weight is 1456 g which is slightly above average but within the normal range. She did not want her picture taken and kept turning away, so we have none to show this time.
Next appointment is 30th of September. Watch this space :)

Spain in August is very hot....

But we did have a nice cooling swim everyday and ate lots of fish some of which has been photograped even :)


Interesting is the spanish classification of coffees, more types that in Italy I think:


There photos featuring human faces are also there:

New things at home and belly progress

We got our new bookshelf! and finally all my books are out of the cellar :)



And then we hung some family photos and it looks very -very nice



Today my iPhone says the baby is 32 cm and 771.1 g, so its growing fast!
here is what you can see from outside:
18th of July:



Yesterday (31st July)



and here is what we already have for the baby:
http://s165.photobucket.com/albums/u77/mashuha/baby%20things/

Birthday

Had a very nice birthday, thanks to many phone calls and sms and cards :) Got even a call from US from my godfather :)
In the evening we went to a nice restaurant on the lake, called Chez Fritz. The view was amazing and different from the usual because of a huge pine tree, which makes the atmosphere a bit more southern and holiday-like:

I ate monkfish and was wondering again how to get it so soft - when I tried cooking it, it turned out like a rubber.
Mark looked like he belonged in that restaurant :) He coordinated with furniture, tree and the lake

I was very happy to sit in the breeze after a hot and busy day in the office:

At home I found more flowers (mum, red are from you!) :


And here is a piece of birthday cake I brought to work, recipe will follow on my food blog:

A drive to Heidiland

Half an hour from our village there is a region of Heidiland, called so after a famous book about a little girl in the Alps, which then became TV series.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi
It is a picture-perfect Switzerland! The lake (Wallensee) is dark aquamarine with white sailing boats, surrounded by high mountains, tidy pastures and lovely wooden houses.



And of course we took our new car for a photoshoot and drive :)

Our may holiday in Bandol

We spend last week in hot, sunny and very summery Bandol in South of France.
Our accommodation was half a house with a giant garden and a swimming pool.
A gate to the house from the street:

First level of the garden had a bbq and was our outdoor dining room:

Second level had a swimming pool and an abundance of mulberries falling from a tree straight into your mouth!

A medieval village of Castelet was our only day trip, as it was too hot for travelling on most days:



Not far away from where we stayed in Bandol, there was a little shingle beach, where Jacques Cousteau invented SCUBA diving! So we have been busy exploring the sea ourselves:


All in all one of our best holidays in years! :)