Week 21 - UK

Neil and I were kissing and had forgotten about Mary Ann until she made a little sound and we looked down at her. There she was smiling the biggest smile ever and giggling. As she wanted to say: I love to see my mum and dad in love.
She now eats a lot more. I feel she is eating all her waken moments now.
She is crankier now but well again now. It is like she more often tells us when she is not pleased. At least the cold is gone.

We had a great Friday evening at the parish community centre where we dined with round ten other families. We were all very kind and welcoming towards us. I hope it could be a new monthly thing for us to do as a family. Mary Ann was complaining a lot though. Normally she just sleeps all the time. But I felt she had problems to rest there so I took her out to a calmer room.

Saturday we again dined with some local people at this special event in an assembly hall where also a blues band came. It was the same situation with Mary Ann what she could settle down. So we took her out side the door next to the toilets. We had our own little party at these tables as people we didn’t know came to sit with us. So that was a great decision to sit there instead.

I think she will get problem with her second toe. It is like it curves down. That will give her a problem if she dreams of longer nails at some point.
The Health Visitor was here again. She is still pleased with Mary Ann. She weighted Mary Ann to 3750 g and measured her at 57 cm. She made different exercises with Mary Ann which went well. She told us that Mary Ann’s restlessness might be because she now understands there is a whole world around her. She wants to investigate that but gets tired in process. Being so exited around all the new things and in the same time too tired makes her uneasy. So we do as we normally do: takes her out of the noisiest room and go for a little walk.

Now I’m convinced: Mary Ann is the most beautiful baby at least of all 40 babies we met at an arrangement for mums/dads and the babies at the library. A friend of mine said that Mary Ann was distinct beautiful. I thought that was odd she could see anything of the kind in our very little baby who still was lying in an incubator with all the tubes on. But now I believe her! Mary Ann is the most beautiful of them all. Who said something about love is making blind?

The priest was here Thursday as Mary Ann got into her 22nd week. We discussed the forthcoming Christening. I was pleased to learn that we (I) could choose a hymn myself. He was also kind enough to try finding hymns which are also known in English as we did at our wedding. At that time I found three hymns which I found both the Danish and English text for so it could be song in both at the same time. That sounded splendid. I hope to get the same success again.

Special things this week:
090308 Mary Ann lifted up her head a bit so I could lift her from her bed.
100308 Mary Ann lifted up her head by her own will.

Video: MAC lifting her head