Hello Fred, Well your mum and I are already beginning to feel your presence. You are wriggling around like a good’un at this moment in time, and you seem to be making your opinion felt on several points. 1. You like my funny voices when I read the Lord of the Rings to you. 2. You are developing your mothers taste in music, just without the corporate American rock she likes. 3. You like dolphins. You swam with a dolphin and a manatee when we were in the US, and you seemed to like most, but most of all you like Space. Which is very cool. Recently I’ve begun to think what life will be like for you learning from us. Nic and I are not your typical parents. Your mum will most likely teach you engine gubbins, what molecules make up farts and will help you explore the world in many different ways. Me, I hope to teach you that your imagination is the most powerful instrument you have, that it’s ok to be who you are, and to explore your own boundaries. I am also going to do my level best in building up your confidence, to support you in any choices you make as you grow and to keep on supporting you as you grow, develop. And it’s ok to make mistakes, which for me is the hardest lesson to learn. No matter what, we, your mum and I will always love you. I really am wondering what you will be like; apart from the pooing machine you will be when you first arrive with us. You’ll be pleased to know that we’ve started lessons on how to be parents (cos we will need all the help we can get), and that all those years staring at ladies boobs has paid off as I knew breast feeding positions better than your mum. However, she has the boobs and is a very quick learner. At the moment our lives seem to be making choices on nappies, on whether we have a changing table and the minefield of car seats. So we’re sorry if some of these choices do not work out, but as you’re not here yet, you don’t get a lot of say in all of this. So ultimately, you stay in there, grow, move, poke your mum in interestingly surprising ways and wiggle around when I’m talking to you, and we’ll see you in a few months. Half way there!!