The children are thrilled with the presence of L, their big sister, and consequently ignored my existence all yesterday morning. Not a big problem as far as I’m concerned 😉 It’s great that they adore us so much, and lovely that she reciprocates 🙂
By lunchtime though I was trying to wrangle them into getting organised for our hospital appt, part of the reason L was here this week was because of my 20 week scan, and the kids were wanting to come along too. The local hospital has a policy where you can take in one adult and any accompanying children, so Tim had volunteered to stay home so that L could be the adult. Appt was at 2.15 and for once we were there with minutes to spare. Dunno why we rush tbh, never get seen anywhere near appt time!
The kids had taken books on my advice, which amused them for a little while, then Small took to crawling under the chairs. Sigh. I think we were eventually called in 20 minutes late, but the afternoon improved from there. Our first encounter was with someone training to be a sonographer – she said she was going to start the scan and do some measurements before someone else came in to finish up. She spent about 20 minutes exploring and we saw everything, right down to toe and finger bones, it was incredible. The children were amazed and it was such a good idea to take them 🙂
Then we waited for a while and then a second sonographer came in. She was even more thorough and went through quite literally from top to bottom. We saw brain, four chambers of heart, kidneys, stomach, bladder, before she focussed on bones. Both legs down to the feet and toes, could only see one arm as the other was curled up to one side, but fingers. Got a full shot of the face at one point and Small amused her by saying it was cute – not a standard response it would seem. She was also really good with him, explaining what various bits of anatomy are and what they are for. And then she got to the important bit, checking what we are having. (Important given that she’d already said everything looked absolutely fine and normal 🙂 ) She had another cose look, and then said looks like a little girl.
Small was not impressed. He is desperate for a brother as he already has sisters. I think he’s got some idea that a baby is going to be an instant playmate for him, and despite the fact he plays with Big constantly, he doesn’t want another girl, he wants a boy. So he wasn’t happy. The sonographer tried to tell him that meant he was extra special as the only boy, but I don’t think it took. Nice try though.
Then we waited for the paperwork to be filled out (actually I waddled rapidly to the loo, bliss!) and I gave Small a cuddle. I think he’ll come round (he doesn’t have a lot of choice!) but this was why I wanted to find out now, so that he has time to get used to the idea. A baby is going to be a big enough shock without the disappointment at that stage of it not being what he wanted.
And then we came home.
Kids were full of the scan to tell Tim, then they started making things out of paper. They spend a lot of time doing that sort of thing. L and I slipped away to a pharmacy to get her some Happinose – she’s arrived with a stinking cold and keeping her up late chatting hasn’t really helped. So of course Tim cooked really lovely food for us and we watched Running On Empty
and sat up way too late again.
Means our planned swimming trip this morning has been put off while L has a lie in, but as I found the whole box of DVDs last night, the kids have been consoled with Fantastic Four – Rise Of The Silver Surfer
. I’m waiting, less than patiently, for a call back from the swimming teacher I’ve been trying to track down all week (at least today they took my number, but as she was supposed to call me back just after 11, I’m not sure they did anything with it!) and this afternoon we’ll try for a camping shop trip.
Tomorrow we’re going to Kentwell 🙂
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