The bowl of Life and 20 weeks!

I am in silly season today. Barfing up like a drunk, nauseous waves are starting and soon I will be polaxed for the rest of the day... but I am happy as we are off to the UK in a few days and I get to see my Ma again...plus on fluffy days Selfridges, Tate Modern and some more culture.

At last we are at 20 weeks and for twins ths is well over half way with only 18 more weeks to go.

Now, we have been keeping their sexes a secret but I can reveal that one is...a banana! According to Babycentre.com and What to Expect.. I have a large banana gestating, others reckon it is a mango. It is twins, could be one of each, I am happy as long as they are edible.

Why fruit? Maybe most (sickness free) women can carry out their weekly shop and size themselves up in the grocery section, have a feel, weigh it in their palms....eat it. They get some idea of what is growing and have a nicer customer experience in store.

I just find it really fluffy and would rather have a ruler to look at or x-ray specs sold free with each book.

I also went food shopping (for the second time in months!!) and ended up buying all the fruits I have been missing out on week by week. Here they all are lined up, how cute. Some were out of season so I had to get a kiwi to stand in for the plum, a fake fig, and Safeway had no prunes so I thought a date is much the same. The book compares one week to a chicken breast. That is not possible for me right now or hygenic. Luckily Babycentre offered a lemon instead. Phew, much more HG friendly.

(I will try to get this larger - it is a large file...blogger novice!)

I better hope that HG ends at 24 weeks as junior(s) outgrows fruit and is lovingly compared to a 2 pound chuck roast. I have no idea what a chuck roast is but it sounds disgusting, like minced beef (2 pounds in weight shown!).

Anyway, I also arranged them into a bowl for composition, I ate the date (10 weeks) and trod on olive (9 weeks) so cannot include them in this shot. But here it is (top of page)...the bowl of life, My fruit trimester.

I am definatley getting better, I could not of done this just 2 weeks ago. What an achievement, I deserve a medal (irony IRONY!)

(The sketching is crap, I was in a hurry - usually much better!)

Yiipeeeee

Zofran has changed my life! thank you little pill I love you!

We went back to Banff again this weekend. I have been on Z for a few days and hoped that I was going to be fluffy very soon!

I was! We went to an ace veggie restaurant in Ba

nff called Nourish. They make really wholesome, home co

oked grub. I was not hungry but said that I would share Bugs meal. He ordered edamame to start and a veggie quinoa/ lasanga thingy for his main.

I ate one edamame...hmmm yum, and another and another and actually I think I ate them all. then I ordered another portion MAMMA! YUM!!! I also had a little taste of his main dish AND then i nicked half his pudding heheh.

Bug had been out to Marble Canyon in the Kootenay NP earlier in the week as part of his Geology conference. He said it was stunning and wanted to show me the place too. He reckoned that it was even more amazing than Johnston Canyon. I had to see this place!

The image at the top is the plunge hole at marble Canyon with the on above being the crevasse (I can't work out how to portrait this image argh!). The river is probably an exposed cave system because it is so deep and narrow.

It has been snowing and it is ccccold so this was the plunge hole when we were there. Fancy a dip?

There are lots of trails from Marble Canyon that look like ideal running trails. I used to trail run when I was younger and meant to start again here in Canada but got bursitus...pregnant etc. We took an easy walk of 6k to paint pots and back...

hmm dont go there in the snow as there is nothing to see! I look so excited no! We did see cougar tracks in the snow tho. I was carrying a mighty stick to beat it with if it tried to eat me. Reckon I scared him off.

We had to head back to banff to pick up my engagement ring (!!!!) So exciting! We made it back just on time and ran into the shop. I had to try it on again as they had resized it for me. The two shop ladies were very refined women, one even had leather trousers and a matching corset on with furry bits (yikes!). It was hideous but it looked expensive. The reason I mentioned that was because the mighty stick I had carrying to beat off cougars was tree burn. Kootenay had an almighty forest fire 5 years ago and the entire area is regenerating...I had picked up an old burnt charcol stick and my hands were jet black.

Bug noticed and shrieked at my hands, then they women noticed and had some kind of deep internal reaction, I ran off to wash my hands several times...until the water ran clear and then tried it on. :-)