Busy weekend

We had a busy weekend with our first pregnancy class on Saturday morning followed by dinner with Tim and Chels and James and Aly (and Maddie and Andrew) and lunch at Mitch and Sally's new house and finishing with Church on last night. We were exhausted afterwards!

The Early pregnancy class was informative and helpful. It was good to find out about how the whole hospital thing works etc. I'm sure most first parents go into it having no clue like us. Even though James and Aly had Maddie and Andrew there, from our experience of visiting afterwards, you don't know about all the stuff that goes on beforehand.

We are going to visit Dr Smith, the obstetrician again this week and will get to see more of what the baby looks like. At 7 weeks the only recognisable parts were a flickering heartbeat (which we were thrilled and relieved to see) and a little bump thing we were assured was an arm. Given the baby was only 1.37 cm long, it is a bit hard to expect anything too defined. Apparently the baby will be about the size of a matchbox this time and have recognisable little arms and legs and head etc.

On a different note, I lead at church on Sunday night. I'm always a bit nervous when doing that, but the congregation responded well and seemed to get a lot out of it so I was very encouraged. I might be imagining it, but it seems after Joseph from Uganda visited us and lead Ugandan style, the congregation as a whole has been a bit more willing to be involved in the service. Maybe his words about how we get excited at a sporting event, but don't get excited at church have stirred us up a bit. We also sang my song, I Thank the Lord, and people seemed to like it which was encouraging to me personally.

Anyway, that's enough for now, I'll write something again after the visit to the Doctor on Thursday.