Really, I shouldn’t have mentioned about playing music to Klumpen. Marek insisted that she would benefit a lot more if she listens to her father singing so he starts to sing to her religiously twice a day. Early morning and night he dives under the doona blanket and sings shamelessly to my precious (poor) little baby. The same song. The ONLY Norwegian children song that he knows and it goes like this:
Mikkel Rev, satt og skrev (Michael the Fox, sat and wrote)
på ei lita tavle (on a little blackboard)
Tavla sprakk (the blackboard cracked) - there’s a lot of sound effect on the word “sprakk”
Mikkel skvatt (Michael dashed) - more sound effect on “skvatt”
oppi pappas flosshatt (up on daddy’s tall hat)
Sharon and Warren are in Sydney this week, yippee! They went to Tetsuya for dinner and left me drooling all night with the stories of how good the food is. Warren almost even weeped and we’re talking Warren here. That’s it, first thing we’ll do when Klumpen is out is to go there and I’ll go mad on the raw food and cheese!
FACT: Freya spent most of her time putting on more fat (see what she has to say about this 16 years from now…) and muscle. According to one pregnancy expert, this week in the uterus the bub is showing signs of sensitivity, awareness and intelligence. So if me put a little calculator in there Klumpen could probably estimate the Gross National Product of Botswana. It can detect light even through its still-closed eyelids, smell (sadly for her the only thing on offer is the amniotic fluid, which smells like a swamp), as well as hear, and possibly play the slide guitar. Klumpen will recognise other voices from now on: friends, daddy singing (oh NO…) and Zoe barking. She’s now 23 cm and 820 gr.
How mommy’s life is changing:
- Mommy should get lots and LOTS of rest and exercise (mommy doesn’t like this exercise bit).
- Mommy should should stop wearing heels - tick!
- Mommy should not do any climbing or hurling about - tick!
- Centre of gravity has changed and tummy needs to be protected.
- Mommy will be steadily gaining weight (aargghhhhhh!)
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