James Titcumb

Hell yeah! My sister gave birth to a beautiful new baby girl, Amelie, this morning (alas, I lack in detail at the moment as all I was given was this picture and a name…), which makes me an Uncle twice now. Isn’t she just beautiful!

Hannah has this to look forward to in just a few months time…

Personally, I can’t wait!

As Jasper points out, the new Ikea in Southampton is a bit of an eyesore. Hannah and I went down to Mothercare on Sunday to buy a car travel seat for the baby, and saw the big blue monster that will be Ikea in Spring 2009.

The rather annoying thing is that it will be quite useful to get baby furniture, so despite being a big blue blob on Southampton’s horizon, it will actually be useful…

And in other news, I’m definately turning into a father… I have a Mothercare Mothercard now.

Hannah and I got a little excited last night and gave each other an early Yuletide gift.

This is what I got, and technically it’s not for me, it’s for the baby, but it’s an awesome little baby-gro.

It really hits home that in a little over 3 months, I’m gonna be a daddy.. and I just don’t feel prepared yet… but then I’m not sure what I have to do to feel prepared either.

Maybe kitting out the nursery and getting more baby things in the house will help a bit, so we’ll just have to wait for Christmas to see what Santa brings us this year.

For those of you who follow me on Twitter, you will have noticed that last night we were putting together a “baby hammock”. And here it is - our very own Amby Nature’s Nest.

Basically, it’s a hammock for babies, and we decided to get one (with the help of Mum & Dad of course!) for our little one-on-the-way.

Despite the instructions being written in badly translated Chinese or Japanese or something, we managed to put it together alright. Just gotta tighten a bolt on top, and it’s done.

As you can see, Hannah’s been eating way too many pies, greedy girl. Well no not really, it’s just the fact she’s now 23 weeks and 3 days pregnant today. Tummy is coming along well, baby is healthy as far as we know, and she’s stealing all the duvet… and my pillows! Well, not really, I gave her my pillow ‘cuz I’m just that awesome.

In fact, in 4 days, the baby becomes what doctors call “viable” meaning that if for some unexpected reason, she gives birth really early, then the baby is likely to survive.

Still, that’s a worst case scenario, and of course we hope everything goes to plan and as “normal” so to speak.