The Bucket List - Midterm review

You'll remember back in September I wrote a bucket list of things I wanted to do with E before this baby arrived.

Well, time is flying away quickly so I thought it was time to go back to my list and see how I was getting on.

Initial results seem promising...

Rinse our Sea Life annual pass while I can still walk and before it expires shortly after baby arrives.

I haven't done this and I really must because I know E will love it. Must. Go. Soon.
Go on a Train Journey

First real train ride was actually the tube, but she loved it, even if she did fall over a lot!
Go to Winter Wonderland this Christmas.

We went. She slept through it. It really wasn't all I had hoped it would be. Everything was expensive. Trip to Hamleys was better.
Get a new battery for my camera remote and ensure that we get a lush photo of the two of us.
Sign up for some Tumble Tots sessions.

This wasn't possible. Our local group has closed down and other groups run on days I can't do or are too far away! Maybe when I'm on maternity leave while the baby sleeps...
Join the Library

Done. We've been a few times. And had to buy a replacement book but we've found some new firm favourites! Buy face paints and go mad.
Go puddle splashing (must buy myself new wellies for this!)
Have a proper PJ/duvet day - no boys allowed.
Bake together.

Christmas cake. Tick!Master the scooter.

Something to do this weekend I think.Go to the beach. Preferably Southwold.
Build a snowman (snow pending)
Get out and enjoy as much outside time as the weather and my hips allow.

Absolutely doing this! Hips are starting to get sore but they wont stop me yet.

I don't think we're doing too badly. 14 weeks to go! 

The Bucket List

So last weekend in the euphoric state of enjoying pregnancy, a fellow blogger promptly kicked me and reminded me that my days of having one child were numbered. I got a smidge emotional about it. It wont be me and her anymore, our double act. It'll be me, her and someone else. Someone equally as amazing, I have absolutely no doubt, but our double act becomes a trio in less than 22 weeks time and things will never be the same again.

This sudden pang of guilt, sadness, loss, I'm not sure what, was firmly cemented on Wednesday when I met my consultant. After quite a difficult appointment talking at length about E's birth and the ins and outs, he picked up the phone and booked my caesarian. So, at 17+4 weeks, I found out my unborn child's date of birth. Exciting, hugely exciting, but that means that there are only 22 weekends left and, as I've just kissed her goodnight for today, 21 Fridays - mummy days - left. Oh my word. I genuinely never thought I could feel this teary about it.

So, it's time to start a bucket list of all the stuff I want to do with her in that time. Just me and her.

This is how it looks so far:

• Rinse our Sea Life annual pass while I can still walk and before it expires shortly after baby arrives.
• Go on a Train Journey
• Go to Winter Wonderland this Christmas.
• Get a new battery for my camera remote and ensure that we get a lush photo of the two of us.
• Sign up for some Tumble Tots sessions.
• Join the Library
• Buy face paints and go mad.
• Go puddle splashing (must buy myself new wellies for this!)
• Have a proper PJ/duvet day - no boys allowed.
• Bake together.
• Master the scooter.
• Go to the beach. Preferably Southwold.
• Build a snowman (snow pending)
• Get out and enjoy as much outside time as the weather and my hips allow.

But that's as far as I've got so far. This list will grow.

Anyway, to kick start the bucket list we went and signed up at the library today and brought home nine books to enjoy. The highlight of the trip for E was taking as many books out of their boxes as possible and piling them on the floor, before "rearranging" the older children's books on a nearby shelf. She also was somewhat flummoxed by the reflective panels on the outside of the building, and enjoyed racing her reflection on the way home.

So we're both fully fledged members and E has her first stamp in her BookStart passport. She's enjoyed some of her new reads this afternoon, and I've loved discovering new stories with her.

21 Fridays. We've got a lot of fun to have.