The scan was great. We turned up 25 minutes early for our appointment, we were both excited and had been looking forward to the scan for quite some time, and fortunately we were seen straight away. The midwife was really nice, she took plenty time showing us all the important development factors explaining it to us as she progressed. After confirming all was as expected she asked the question we had been waiting for…Do you want to know the sex? Yes, yes please was our response in tandem. Within seconds …

E=mc²
You might remember this from your old high school math class.
It was Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity.
Despite Einstein’s well known brilliance, what amazes me even more was he was also a busy dad of 3 kids.
Einstein was known for challenging the status quo, and I think if he was alive today he would tell us busy dads who continue to waste time on long boring workouts that leave us even more exhausted to smarten up and fly right!

Einstein doing his interval training

So let’s do the math…
A typical workout may look …

How excited am I? We’ve started to put up the Christmas decorations, we’re taking Alfie to see Father Christmas on Saturday and to top it all off it’s the 20 week scan tomorrow.
Putting the Christmas decorations up seems to come around really quickly. It doesn’t seem like a year since we were getting all the boxes out, re-arranging the furniture and dressing the tree – but it was. Where does the time go? In all honesty this year has been somewhat eventful and I think that always seems to make …

It’s coming up to the 18 week point now and I felt the baby kick – or at least there was some movement that I could feel. I placed my hand on the lower stomach of my wife and my timing was perfect. It was a lovely feeling. I felt like I had connected with my child and that they were wiggling to say hello.
Our little boy, Alfie, is keeping us busy this week. He seems to have masses and masses of energy. In all fairness though I suppose that …

A few days in Blackpool have been just what the doctor ordered. Spending some quality time with the family has been really nice. We took Alfie with the intention that the illuminations would capture his imagination but taking him to the Blackpool tower proved to be the real highlight. The lights didn’t fill him with excitement. In fact he looked around for about 10 minutes and then promptly assumed the sleeping position in his pushchair.
We thought the Tower may be of some interest to him but we were certainly surprised …