Oliver and Emily Jozwiak: Halloween catchup and 20 week scan

Sorry it's been a while - we had some issues getting our photos from the camera on to the computer. Anyway, all sorted now!!

Halloween this year was great fun. Oliver dressed up as a firefighter - not too keen on the hat though!! He helped Daddy carve some really cool Sesame Street pumpkins which were greatly admired by the trick or treaters. Daddy even took Oliver out to a few houses and he came back with a huge stash of treats. Oliver doesn't know how to say "trick or treat" yet so Daddy got to say it and look silly on his behalf :)

On Halloween morning I ran in a 5K race with some friends of mine - the first race I've done in ages and probably the last for a while. I did pretty well but the bump is only getting bigger..... Speaking of which, we had our 20 week scan yesterday which went really well. Everything is looking great and baby was nice and wiggly! We didn't find out if it's a boy or a girl - we want to have the same amazing surprise we did when Oliver arrived so I'm afraid it's team yellow for us and keeping everyone else in suspense!! The baby's size looks right for the dates given at the last scan so our due date has stayed at 24th March.

So, what else?? Well, we have been having some amazing warm, sunny weather over the past week or so to make up for the early snowfall. We've even been able to go out without jackets on which is fantastic! Yesterday Oliver and I played outside in the afternoon and he had a great time kicking the ball around and drawing pictures on the driveway. He even found his first caterpillar - I saw him pulling at something in his hand and he was stretching the poor little thing!! Luckily it survived and then Oliver was scared of it!!

Last week we had a play date here with 10 kids!! It was absolute crazy chaos but so much fun. I think all the kids had a great time and no toy was left in the toy boxes :)

I have now put together Oliver's big boy bed and he has some really cool bedding with cars and trucks on it. He's not sleeping in it yet but it's in his room so he has chance to get used to it being there before we take the plunge and move the cot to the baby's room (we have to decorate the other room yet anyway). So far he seems to like it but at nap time and bedtime he still goes straight to the cot. That's OK - at least we get some sleep then!!

The countdown is on to our trip to the UK. We are trying to get organised with present buying and we have a full agenda when we are over there. I'm sad we can't see everyone but we'll do the best we can.