D and I surprised G with a bike for his birthday, which he's been wanting for a while! D is excited too because it means he gets to go on bike rides with his dad.
Buying the bike when 8 months pregnant was an experience. On Monday we went to buy it, and it came in a box and needed some assembling doing (front wheel, pedals, handlebars etc). The guy at the shop loaded it into my car for me as I couldn't lift it. When we got back I realised I couldn't get it out of the car either but fortunately one of my neighbours was on hand to put it into the garage for me. We cunningly disguised it behind some other boxes.
Yesterday I got fretful that it was a bit crappy to say 'Happy Birthday G, your present is in a box in the corner of the garage'... but I obviously couldn't move the thing and didn't fancy building it myself (as it would fall apart very quickly!) so when I was getting D off the bus I asked a couple of the dads if either of them could help me out. Thankfully one of them was happy to, so he came over in the afternoon and built it for us! What a star! He carried it upstairs and we hid it in the spare room with a ribbon on until this morning when D & I wheeled it into G to surprise him.
As the bike was under construction yesterday, my helpful neighbours kid was playing with D and then another kid from the street showed up so the 3 of them went inside to play XBox. When my helpful bike builder had to go and do a few errands before his wife came home his son wanted to stay so I said he could... and the other kid stayed too, along with his babysitter (who is a young girl with absolutely nothing to say and extracting conversation from her was like pulling teeth). The kids got a bit lary and trashed the house so I suggested they go outside. Outside turned into a wrestling match too so I decided they ought to learn to play cricket - a nice gentlemanly relaxing game. Or not. The game involved alot of me running after the ball which at this point in my pregnancy was I'm sure a very funny sight, and the kids rugby tackling each other whenever anyone tried to get a run.
Consequently I was absolutely utterly & exhausted by the end of the day!
G has gone into work this morning but will be home this afternoon to spend his birthday with us. I also have another birthday surprise for him but that's coming tomorrow. I need to clean up the house but cannot face it - wondering if I can stick 2 weeks of it until the Molly Maid comes or if I will have to cave in before that. My nesting instinct is here again and I'm freaking out about the state of the basement. Have told G he must clean it this weekend!
Bump news - my bump seems oddly smaller. I guess the baby has shifted position slightly or something. Slept well again last night too except for lower back pain.
Posted by katie at June 23, 2004 10:28 AM