Hero Hubs made our un-anniversary anniversary celebration a really lovely one, friends! Were you waiting with baited breath to hear? Fibber. Can you believe this was more than three years ago? Fibber.
Our celebration was a moment of lovely surprises. I love surprises. We started by enjoying the warm and sunny late afternoon at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town… munching some lekker hors d’ouerves with the Bear in tow. We moseyed {I looked it up — that’s how you spell it!} over to the lovely apartment of a friend of a friend where we spent the night — views of Table Mountain and stunning Cape Town in every direction, right there at the waterfront — it was gorgeous.
Our friends were so lovely and welcomed us with drinks (of course there was no alcohol — were you concerned? Fibber!) and carried our bags up for us. We fed the Bear and tucked him in, and with our wonderful friends/babysitters holding down the fort went out to dinner at an amazing restaurant on the Waterfront called Den Anker. With a uniquely Belgian-flare, we celebrated three scrumiddlyumptious years with a few of our favourite things: steak, a cold beer (for HH), ice cream (for HH) and Belgian chocolate mousse (for me – and most females). And then we floated home on a cloud.
This morning we enjoyed breakfast on the balcony watching Cape Town stretch her arms and legs and get out of bed. I saw the early yawns when I {neeeeeded} some bran flakes before 7:00. And we strolled our way back to the Waterfront to grab a latte for the road. Sigh…back to emails and phone calls. Itineraries and schedules. And laundry. 🙂 That mini-holiday made us realise how much we need a real one. (When my Mom arrives in August, holiday will too!)
However, we did make one special stop on the way home: we had our first ultrasound! It was amazing. We were in the US for the first part of my last pregnancy, and then travelled back to the UK after the point at which they do ultrasounds unless there are concerns, so we’d never properly had that warm-fuzzy ultrasound experience before.
Except for a trip to the emergency room at about ten weeks which turned out to be acute gastritis and we couldn’t properly see anything — the Bear was a peanut with a (still awe-inspiring) choo-choo train heartbeat so it doesn’t count. That was kind of a weird emergency situation, but everything was fine. A post for another day.
This little one was waving and wiggling, tiny arms and legs all a-flutter, heart beating fastfastfast…it was just so special. I tried to discreetly wipe away the occasional tear. And for reasons too difficult to explain unless you REALLY want me to take the time to do so, I just cannot post an ultrasound picture of this special little life here. Sorry. You’re gonna have to wait for the pictures on the outside!
Last thought on this post that seems to have been all over the place… 23 Months and Counting :: Life is Short is a post by yours truly, featured at Pure Life today. I hope you’ll take a moment to mosey on over and enjoy it. Will you come back and let me know what you think? Or even that you’re mad at me for not sharing ultrasound pics?
K, thanks. Love you, too. And I’m not a fibber! 😉
xCC
(and the little one eating my lunch)
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Just have to say that I really enjoyed your blog on purelife! I’ve also never met the couple whose little boy passed away… but have been praying for them daily since the accident happened and followed his progress on the FB page – what a heart wrenching experience and I too was challenged to not let my busyness get in the way but to take time out and give my little one (21 months) a hug, smile and ‘love you’ more often! 🙂
Intrigued as to why you’re not so keen to share the scan photos? You’ll most likely have many more scans in SA – they do them with every visit here (which is highly inefficient in a country where 80% of the health care resources are serving about 20% of the population) – but that’s a different discussion all together 🙂
Enjoy all the special moments of pregnancy.
N
PS: I had to look up the word ‘fibber’ 🙂
Hi Nicola! Glad you enjoyed the post at Pure Life. I will share more about the ultrasound thoughts later — in the meantime, I think we are going to opt out of these ridiculous numbers of scans here in SA – they are not necessary! There is actually scientific concern that ultrasounds aren’t as harmless as we’ve assumed…it just seems like way too much for no good reason and we’ll be having a chat about that at the 13 week one. We had zero scans with Asher! (Besides the aforementioned emergency check to see that everything was okay one.)
I thought fibber was universal English — sorry, I feel silly now! 🙂
xCC
I agree with you regarding the ultrasounds… we actually opted out of a gynae monitored pregnancy and rather went with a midwife! Much less stressful experience (if that makes any sense).
haha re “fibber”… awesome to learn new words! Plus English not my first language so you might be right 🙂
N
Too sweet that hero hubby is! So glad to hear about the ultrasound……take care and keep us updated! Can’t wait to see belly pics. Xoxoxo to the bear!
Love, E
I will keep you posted, E! I need to send you pics of the new place we’re moving into because you will know exactly where it is! 🙂 ttys xC
I’m intrigued to hear the backstory behind the lack of ultrasound pics too. You’ll have to share it by the end of the pregnancy anyway, right? Might as well start drafting. 🙂
Just like this little life inside me…the ultrasound post is on the way! No fibs here. 🙂
Hey lady! Congrats on the baby… I didn’t know 🙂 That’s so exciting! Hope the cape is treating you well- sounds like you are having a blast! Hope to see you again soon! Enjoyed meeting you 🙂
Thanks Charissa! I am behind on replying to comments and don’t know if you’ll see this, but it was great meeting you, too! I am hoping to hear you’re heading back in the Cape direction sooner rather than later! xoxoCC
Heyyyy, I think I recognize that photo! Was I the photographer? What a fun day! Loveya!Meanit!
You were the photographer, dear friend! I need to go back into the post and give you the cred! Loveyameanit!