gin to smooth out and he'll start to look more like a newborn. His senses are becoming more sophisticated, too. At 26 weeks, fetal brain scans show response to touch. If you shine a light on your belly, your baby will turn his head, which means his optic nerve is working. Is it just me or do you ever get overwhelmed by the internet? I didn't put up a blog for 24 weeks because I needed a break. Last week I was so stressed, anxious and overwhelmed by basically everything that I gave myself permission to have a week off facebook (I still checked my personal inbox, but ignored all status updates and other notifactions) and the internet. And it really DID help me. I had gotten myself into such a state that just having a few days of not reading about what is on everyone else's mind allowed me time to calm down all the things that have slowly been building at the back of my mind! As each week passes the reality of how big this all is hits me a little harder and I don't know what it was about last week but I was really knocked about! I'm feeling better now.
So here is whats going on this week...
The baby shower has a theme. Cupcakes, bunnies and tea - or bunnies on a picnic. It's all finally starting to come together in my mind, all that is left is to get the ideas from my mind to our living area and we'll be set. The invites are currently being put together by a dear friend of mine who has been so proactive about the baby shower and has really inspired me to get off my tush and start actually planning it. Ri actually drew a picture of a bunny drinking tea with cupcakes to put on the front, so I am loving the invitations. Bubs (a.k.a. 'Pooky') is getting more active with every day that passes and seems to insist that all new trick must be demonstrated to me (and Ri if he is paying attention) repeatedly between the hours of 11pm-1am. She'll usually wake up and give me a good booting as I'm waking up as if to 
say 'oi, get out of bed, I'm bored and/or hungry!' She doesn't seem to like loud noises as she will always stop her kicking if there is a loud persistent sound (I imagine her in there with her hands over her little ears). She loves it (or hates it, depending on what you think kicking means!) when I have my hand (or Ri has his hand) on my belly, she'll usually boot where she can feel the extra pressure. It's been good as it means she will quite predictably boot Ri everyday! Which he loves. I am feeling pretty big today! There has not been a huge change in my belly size of the last fortnight, but for some reasons I feel bigger and smaller depending on the time of day, or from day to day. My belly button has been gradually departing. It's currenting a half innie half outie, which just looks weird. Ri finds it amusing.
She is so spoilt already! My mum has bought her a set of Dr Seuss books (my personal favourite growing up!) Which included a book called Wacky Wednesday. Now I don't know if you have
heard of Wacky Wednesday, but it's a Dr Seuss book where you have to identify a certain amount of 'Wacky' things happening in the pictures of each page. Well on one page, between me, Ri, mum and my brother we could only find 8/9 Wacky things. So I gave the book to my dad and within 5 seconds he identified the last Wacky thing on the page (and he left my place thinking I was a bit of an idiot for missing it, I think!) Medically I'm doing well. I'm kept very busy my medical appointments and physio and pre-natal classes. We have our second prenatal class on the weekend, the topic is "baby's here, now what...?" I'll let you know how it goes.
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