2 months to go...nearing the final countdown!

The final countdown is approaching. Yikes! After all these months I have to actually figure out how to GET HER OUT quite shortly. My ideas of pregnancy yoga have been squashed due to expense, but so far I have managed my goal of riding my bike as long into the pregnancy as possible. Yesterday I even overtook some people, just feeling massively overweight as opposed to massively overweight, unfit and pregnant (it was a good day!).

I can't wait to meet her (when she's big and healthy enough, no immediate rush Mayhem!) and get back to a bit of this:

COFFEE! (Well, more than one half shot per day, and back to my double espresso's,
which have made me nauseous since before I even realised I was preggo)

 And a bit of this, too (hopefully!):

Riding singlespeeds really fast in Rotovegas, wearing a silly helmet and glowing due to excess coffee consumption. Ah yes, I do have goals and aspirations for the national series etc as well for 2012/2013 season, but we'll see how we go. Not one to avoid a challenge—especially one as substantial as parenting/working/studying and training (plus playing house etc etc)

And maybe, eventually, a bit more of this!

Holding the leaders jersey for much of the Ingkerreke MTB Enduro, shortly before Mayhem existed in any form, was definitely a racing highlight for me. Love the pain! Apparently your pain tolerance explodes post popping a baby out your hoo-ha. Fingers crossed for post baby invincibility on the bike!

I have been following the 2011/2012 National Series All Mountain whatever with a bit of sadness. I gained a lot of skill and momentum on the bike in 2010/2011 and was hoping for a cracker of a year but it wasn't to be.

As it goes, I am living life vicariously through Brisbane U19 junior, the young Ben Forbes. I tell him to go ride his bike and he does it. Aido takes him on long MTB rides, and it's paying off with an exceptional 3rd in the National Series All-Mountain-Thingo-Mt Buller XCO yesterday, against youngsters who have raced world cups and world champs. Yes, I was very impressed!

Anyway, it's been a crazy few days, which were preceeded by really being bored and needing work (when it rains, it pours, as they say). Have established a position as a casual student paramedic with the state ambulance service, also working at Epic still, antenatal classes and have even been to a cloth nappy workshop.

Instead of shiny new bike things, I will now present you with a picture of my newest bling:

The cloth nappy stash. I was curious about cloth when I we first got pregnant, but saw myself mainly using all-in-ones and all-in-two's (cloth nappies that look like disposables, snap on and chuck them in the wash). Then I realised that even though they are extremely cute, it's a very expensive way to do things, and so after a Nest Nappies workshop, we would be much better off financially and for simplicity, with the old school flats, prefolds and fitteds*. So we got a few cute covers, and all you see above is most of the nappies that will do for Mayhem's first year, and then with a few bigger covers and extra bits will do the whole way. Wow!

So cute, and one even has teeny-tiny bikes on it! Win!

Interesting times are ahead, that's for sure. Lets hope she doesn't take more than two months to get here!