Time Flies; Liza gets her word; Coming up?

 Who would have thought? Today is the 8^th month of this year and I can only tell you that this year has passed at an incredible pace. I can not believe that just the other day we were still visiting in SA or that we celebrated Liza’s B-day. Well, tonight is a typical windy night in Wellington night. Liza is sitting on the couch watching friends. It is still surreal to think that she is carrying a little baby in that tummy of hers. Who would have thought that I would be a dad in March 2008? It took me by a huge surprise the morning we found out that she was pregnant. I am so happy and I can not wait for our little baby to be here.  The next big thing to happen is Ed and Landi will finally be here in a week’s time. They will be landing on the night of the 20^th. Hopefully the Wellington weather will be kind to them and will allow them to land without any adrenalin pumping landing. We will be picking them up from the airport and we will bring them to our place. Louis will help us with the luggage as we will need two cars to carry it all. Louis parents have joined us in Wellington for the next two weeks. They have spent two weeks north of Auckland and have fallen in love with our new found country. Hopefully they won’t take too long to get their business in order in SA to make the move to NZ. I see the crime picking up in SA and I worry everyday that my family is in danger.  Anyway, let me not focus on the negative to night. Every week I will include Liza’s pregnancy update. I have tried to keep in touch on everything by reading everything I possibly can to help out. I want to sound knowledgeable you know?  

Liza’s pregnancy update: 

‘Die week het letterlik verby gevlieg. As jy daaraan dink is ‘n kwart van my swangerskap reeds verby. En elke dag raak ons net meer en meer opgewonde. Oor drie weekies het ons weer ‘n scan. Ons kan nie meer wag nie. Met die scan kyk hulle wat die kans is vir down sindroom. John is reeds besig om alles op te lees daaroor wat hy in die hande kan kry.

My liggaam: Die week het dit weer sleg gegaan met die slaapery. Ek word meer as een maal in die aand wakker met lae rugpyn wat net nie wil wyk nie. Soos my pa se, dit is seker omdat ek nou elke dag iemand binne in my rondabba. Naar is beter. Party dae is daar nog erg dae, maar meestal van die tyd is dit nie so erg nie. Ek sukkel net vreeslik om vrugte te eet. Die tekstuur daarvan maak my naar. My vel het ook die week erg uitgeslaan. Ek lyk soos ‘n tiener dogter… Ek lag maar daaroor. Aan die een kant laat dit my nogal ekstra jonk voel. Die energie vlakke is ook stadig maar seker om bietjie te styg. Oor die algemeen voel ek goed. 

Baba: Die afgelope week het baba sommer baie gegroei, en is nou tussen 3cm en 4cm lank. Ons is nou amper oor die ergste ontwikkelingstydperk. Daarmee bedoel ek dat die organe ontwikkel is, alles moet nou net mooi groei. Die longe, hartjie, senuweestelsel en brein is nou alles in die regte plekke, en begin reeds nou funksioneer. Vingers en tone is nie meer geweb nie, en lyk nou normaal.  Ons is lief vir julle almal. Pas julle mooi op!!!! 

Kia Ora vanuit New Zealand 

Annelize en Baba’ 

Ok, so what is coming up? Well as I said earlier. Ed and Landi are landing soon. We will make them rest for at least a week. THEN… We will be off to Hamilton to go and watch the annual New Zealand WRC rally. I cannot wait. We will take heaps of pictures and will compile some clips. Watch this space. We will also spend some time on the ski slopes.  

Until the next update.

Pebs