Currently deciding whether the weather will hold up enough
for me to go for my weekly Monday morning swim. Either way aren’t we grateful
for the nightly downpours! It’s been three long scorching months with very
sporadic five minute drizzles.
This week we are really going full swing with ‘BABY INCOMING’
preparations. Here are some items that remain on our to-do list:
Humblet’s real name
The kind elderly folk are concerned I am naming my daughter
Humblet for real. Keep calm and wait for the name post.
But yes, I think it’s about time to settle on her name. We
settled on her English name quickly enough, but her Chinese name is a little
bit tricky. Chinese is a difficult language irrespective of my ethnicity. We
want to make sure we’re naming her meaningfully because her name will after all
be a legacy we leave behind for her.
Bath time necessities
As you know, we’ve been flooded with second-hand goodies
from so many wonderful parents. Her drawers and our under bed storage is bursting
with clothing. Her nursery has two rockers, two music mobiles and a hardy
natural wood cot. Additionally, there’s a mass of baby carriers, towels, pamper
and milk powder samples.
So much so we were complacent and thought we surely had EVERYTHING
a newborn would need. How wrong we were. Thankfully, there’s the checklist for
blur new parents. It brought us to the realization we have nothing ready for
her bath.
Off we go this week, grateful it’s also the June Sale season
overlapping with the biggest Baby Fair of the year. Bath towels, wet wipes,
gentle baby-friendly shampoo soap, powder etc. Here we go!
SPACE
With another human joining the home, we are going to need
more space. Albeit a tiny human for starters.
This week will also involve clearing our own stuff. Clothes
that no longer fit, home decorations that we will never put up, most breakables
so long, farewell!
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Looks like a busy week ahead! Not forgetting we’re also
going to be setting up my home office station when the furniture arrives. Wow.
Will be putting up Baby Bumps next Monday and who knows that
may very well be the LAST edition of Baby Bumps!
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