Miss Kolka

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Its pretty clear - I do. 
My special one made a homemade advent calendar - one gift for each day in december before christmas=
A reason to get up every morning and look forward to the day!
How incredibly lucky I am (oh and they are for me AND the baby of course :))

 

So not much left to buy now..

We got this pretty bed from my dad and Lise - merci

and these were babylicious' first present from Peter's very good friends Sara and Rasmus when they came to Paris in October :

The hand was necessary to see how tiny they are (ok.. and I have some water in my fingers probably)

Who says tiny hands, says tiny feet:

Looking up do you can see clearly the nose with the two holes, big cheeks and a half-open mouth. Its probably singing, happy to be in its mum's belly! Well, it's already decided that it gets its father's good character then. Brilliant 

We had our third and final compulsory scanning yesterday. At 32 weeks of pregnancy. This time we did it at the hospital where I will give birth which I have to say is much better equipped than the place we use to go to before. The Midwife that performed the scanning was lovely and really took the time to explain, in details what we were seeing. So we saw a healthy baby, weighting over 2 kilos moving around and even had a glimps at its face with its round cheeks and cute little nose (Well, not so little in fact so it might have inherited its mummy's nose after all!haha). As soon as Pan scans them in I'll publish some pictures here and here

It was mostly a positive visit - and it is just amazing to be able to see babylicious like that. However, the midwife also had to check the length of my cervix to see if all was remaining closed and safe. The Cervix has shortened since last time apparently (it was only 21 mm this time - down from 43 mm) which indicates that if Im not careful, I might go into labour a bit earlier than expected. But Since Dr. Cohen doesn't seem too worried and didnt prescribe any more bedrest than Im having now I think I should just take it easy and be happy that we have made it this far. Keep optimising (is that a word?) and the positive thinking. Not run around and apparently now Im also banned from cooking- after cleaning, washing up and shopping (that is from Pan and not by doctor's advice). 5 more weeks and the bun in the oven is ready so we will just have to be patient a little bit longer ("just a little bit longer"...missing those songs from Dirty Dancing).

Tiny little hickup, when looking over the file we got from the hospital yesterday, Pan noticed that a category had been filled out that should not have been.

Name: Courageux
bladibla but also
Sex: .

And there it was. Although we had been clear with the midwife that we did NOT want to know the sex and she told us to look away while she scanned in between the baby's legs (and I really really wanted to peek) I think she might have forgetten it when she wrote the chart.  A little letter - that in other circumstances would be so harmless and innocent, a letter that would not mean anything anywhere else - but a letter that stood there just behind "Sex:". I really hope it was just a mistake. Or that this letter means something completely different - in hospital terms this letter must mean " the parents do not want to know". It has to be. Or maybe not. And then, it means that we know the sex of the baby. But since we cannot know for sure, you'll have to wait until the birth to find out :)

*update* Pan is insisting the letter has nothing to do with the baby. Only time will tell...

Nobody blogs anymore. With Facebook, Myspace or all these site commonly and rightly referred to as "MYFACE" by my friend Finna there is much less interest in blogs in general. Its a shame. These Community websites reduce communication to witty one-liners or "poking" or other weird actions to all your "friends" (sometimes people you've only met once) but they dont have the depth of the blog. Of course you have political blogs such as the Huffington post and all these blogs connected to the online papers but still its not the same. Take my friend Douglas for example. The perfect blogger. Has interesting ideas and always something to say - well if he limits his blogs for the France 24 website Im sure he does alot of self-censorship - not saying all he means since its all "on the record". With a more personal blog he could let loose his thoughts and feelings, although he would always have to be a little bit careful, because even personal blogs can get you into trouble when you become a public person.

I often wonder how far to go in my entries. What to say and what to leave out... just because you never know who is reading what you write. Im not paranoid though. I know my boss at work for example would have very limited interest in my stories...as have many of my friends actually. Was at one point wondering if I should put a link on my Facebook page so all of my 316 "really really close friends" could come and have a look at it... but when you think about it - Why would you want people you dont know that well to know what you are thinking? That would be like putting a "status" (another magical facebook tool) saying " Miss or mister is depressed and does not want to get out of bed". Wouldn't that be weird? You only share when all is good, at least on the surface, so all of this is actually fake. And still I spend my days looking at pictures of old aquintances or collegues, their friends and families and imagining that their life is picture perfect. And they look like they are. Well, like mine actually - at least virtually!

But I would not want people to stop blogging all together- it is through all these random blogs that I see on mbl.is (the ultimate icelandic newssource) that I have gotten a feeling of the overall feeling of discontent and anger in the icelandic society. And when you are far away its often the only way of feeling connected. Blogs on the French newspaper Liberation have also been put higher and higher in the news hiarchy. And they often illustrate the right picture of the story. Blogs are the new eyes of the soul. I just wish more people I care about would blog so I could know more about what they are thinking.

P.s Please let me know if you have a blog so I can add it to my links... I just updated them, half of them were not active anymore and had not been for a while.

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