12 weeks

We've been looking forward to this week for a while. Being the end of the 1st trimester we needed to go and have the 1st big scan and a few tests. Even though Lisa had a quick 'date setting' scan after about 8 weeks, this one gave us something to look at that started to resemble something familiar - an alien!

Actually, the scan was pretty amazing...with junior smith jumping around and, we like to think, waving (admittedly the jumping around coincided with Lisa coffing....). It was a great 1st introduction for us and thankfully everything went according to plan and the doctor found no major issues. However, the Doctor did give us an updated due date....moving from the 21st August to the 17th August.

You may be wondering how Lisa is feeling and whether she is sick/tired/grumpy (or all of these). Well fortunately for me (Simon) I haven't had to deal with any sick yet but lots of tired (email me for the 'unofficial version' Lisa's reading this :-)

Having said this, Lisa has been feeling a bit sick on and off but seems to think that this has improved over the last week. She has however placed a paper bag in her handbag in readiness for a morning on the bus when spewing gets the better of her.

That's it for now.

The Recipe

For anyone that hasn't heard the gory details about what is really cooking, we (Lisa and Simon) found out shortly before Christmas that Lisa is 'up the duff' - what a great Christmas present!! At the time Lisa was just 5 weeks pregnant and it is only recently that we have reached the end of the 1st trimester.....so this is our way of sharing the news with all of our friends and family across the world.

Over the next 6 months we'll share with you (probably very infrequently!) any news and updates and pictures - it seems like a great idea now, but we'll probably be cursing that we thought of it in a few weeks when we've got so many other things to sort out.

So the next posting will be the details of the 1st scan and the 1st picture of little baby Smith.

Now to the recipe - all to be revealed when the cooking is done! (maybe)