Well, here is a new photo which we received yesterday.
IT'S OUR BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AURELIE IS PREGNANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes it's true!! We in fact found out about 3 weeks ago by accident when Aurelie had a medical examination for her work permit - that was quite a surprise I can tell you! We had a scan that day, and saw our baby.
We wanted to wait a little while before telling everyone though, until we had another scan...so there you are! She is in fact 11 weeks 5 days pregnant, meaning she's due on the 16th January (all very precise, no?)
We are starting to see her belly just a little bit now - apparently the baby is about 65mm from head to bum. We've already thought of names - for a girl we like 'Libelulle' which means 'dragonfly' in French! We're not sure we'll actually be allowed to call her that though. For a boy we aren't really sure yet...any ideas? Aurelie likes 'Jeremy', but I'm not so sure. We also like 'Yoshi', but we'd never give our child the stigma of being named after a computer game dinosaur (we're a bit weird, I know).
So this is pretty big news for us obviously. At the moment, we've decided to stay here in Malaysia and give it a go. As you can imagine, these decisions aren't easy, and they are not taken lightly. But we've been doing a lot to make a life here (even if it's only really temporary) and we don't want to just give up. Plus things wouldn't necessarily be so simple going back to France...
...additionally, I had a job interview at a school here, and they've offered me a job! Looks like I'll be starting as soon as next week. It's very interesting to me, as it's a small school, and they are different to other schools in that they take a very holistic approach to education, working on 'mulitple intelligences' and developing children in more ways than solely increasing knowledge. It's full-time, but I won't be teaching all the time, I'll also be working on curriculum development and other similar areas.
Aurelie doesn't wish to just abondon her position either - it's a great opportunity for her, although she'll be taking a bit of time off soon! Her employer has been very understanding about everything, which is wonderful for us, of course. The pregnancy also explains Aurélie's adversion to the food here! Right now, we eat mostly western style food (we bought a little oven so we can make roast chicken) although I eat fried rice or tandoori chicken pretty often (cheap and delicious).
So, well, we just have to see how things go in the next couple of months...perhaps the heat will end up being too much for Au in her grossesse. But the medical services here are excellent, so there's no problem there - in fact we live opposite the hospital we go to! The baby can also have two passports! Perhaps even a third, Malaysian one?
Well, there you go...visits to see big bellied Aurelie soon or screaming baby in the new year will be most welcome!
Yay.... what a lovely picture.
Congratulations to you both again....
ps - Elizabeth loves Yoshi!! She plays the DS sometimes and she calls him glubby, she adores him so Yoshi would be called Glubby!!!
Posted by: Em Tapscott | July 02, 2009 at 05:15 PM
message from mum too! lovely picture, congrats to you both. Take care love to you both.xxxx I like Yoshi for a name too, but I like the girl's name too so it will have to be a girl. xx
Posted by: mum | July 02, 2009 at 10:13 PM
Congratulations:)
Posted by: Asia No.1 | July 02, 2009 at 11:26 PM
I'm very happy for you both. Aurelie will be a wonderful mama.
Posted by: Kati Strong | July 10, 2009 at 06:17 AM