BigBlessings: Pregnancy - The second trimester Part II

The second trimester was an absolute roller coaster. I felt more energetic again and was ready to take on anything and everything. Since we now had passed the feared first 3 months, we started to become more relaxed and started planning and reading up on everything one needs, the so called "must have's", in order to be ready for your arrival soon. Here you can refer to my previous blog to save you some time. Must have's for newborns and things you do not need 4 things you do not need.

One thing was for sure, although our apartment/ flat did have 2 bedrooms, we had started using the second room for storage as we bought more and more things. You will still learn this later on in life, your dad struggles to let go of things and collects goodies and rather keeps all for that “in case situation” where one might need the item again. {{hehe}} To cut a long story short, we decided to sell our place and buy a house…..so that dad could have a garage to store more… Everyone whom we told our plans to sell and buy, thought we had gone crazy. Who sells a flat, buys a house and moves all while already pregnant? Of course WE, as with most things and life, DO what we want and just make work! :)

We started searching the market for houses and very quickly realized that we wanted to move to Pinehurst. This is a much sought after security estate that is manned 24 hours and with the high and ever rising stats on crime around us, thought this would be perfect. It offered space, a garden and security that we were looking for. So very quickly our flat went into the market, and you might not believe it, but also got sold within the same month. The buyer was from Namibia and was looking for a place to buy for his son. The son had come to Cape Town to study. The condition for the sale as set by the buyer, was that we had to move out within 5 days as he wanted to see to his son settling into his new home before returning back to Namibia!!!! {{Yip, here at week 12 all these exciting things were happening and we could not believe our blessings}}

Our household packed into the garage

Our new place and ALL those boxes

Speed packing is no joke I tell you, but we did it all. We took some boxes(most likely half our flats contents) to your Oma Nellie’s house and found a good temporary storage place for the rest since we would only be able to move into our place at the end of April. For the next 3 months, we lived with Oma Nellie. We settled into the new environment quickly and were extremely grateful for the help and place to stay. That being said there’s just no place like home, and as you will also learn one day {{and probably point out to me too --> I just hope not too soon}}, once one reaches a certain age, you need your own space and privacy and so we were super excited when the time finally came around to move into our own house. At pregnancy week 26 (6.5 months pregnant) the exciting day had finally arrived and we moved into our new home. We took 2 weeks leave to sort everything out, unpack and settle in.

Our Toffee Baby

But hang on, there was another big and very exciting thing that happened in the second trimester, in week 20 (month 5) to be exact. I felt you bump the surface for the first time with my hand and half an hour later, when your dad was holding my tummy, you moved again thrice, just to show him, yes Dad, this is me you are feeling!! In week 22 (5 ½ months), we found a little puppy for our family. Your dad had been dreaming of adding a furry fella to the family for a very long time and with a house and garden, this could now become a reality. We named him Toffee because of his unique and beautiful brown coat and he was planned to join us just after we moved in.

The rest of the time was just unpacking of boxes, washing all clothes, and getting our place to look like something we could be proud to bring you home to. xxx