Just been down the pub for an end-of-week drink with my work colleagues and my boss. Was exceptionally hard not to blurt out about Lucie, especially when one of my colleagues was saying that by December Lu and I could have saved at least five grand towards a house. I was trying to say "other expensive things might come along before then", he thought I was talking about unexpected bills and just said that now we were settled and Christmas was out of the way things would be easier for us.

I just wanted to say "but Lucie is pregnant and if all goes to plan I will be a father by September and I need a bigger car and we need clothes and baby stuff like a pram and a car seat as well as a cot and all the other things that you need for babies I'm sure that all of that will get in the way of buying a house which we would love to do but we also want our own kids and I can't wait to be a dad oh my god are you happy for us we're going to be a family!!!!!!"

But I held myself back :-p

In the now obligatory Pip update, Lucie is over 7 weeks pregnant... it feels like it's going so slowly at the moment.

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Now about half an inch / 1.25 centimetres long, the size of a grape, the embryo has distinct, slightly webbed fingers and toes. It's a jumping bean, moving in fits and starts. The liver is churning out large amounts of red blood cells until the bone marrow forms and takes over this role.

The eighth week marks the beginning of a very busy developmental stage. Between now and 20 weeks, your baby will be growing rapidly, and body parts that formed in the first few weeks of life (such as the heart and brain) will become more specialised and complicated. Right now, the teeth and palate are forming, while the ears continue to develop. The fetus' skin is paper thin, and veins are clearly visible.

You're in the throes of the first trimester, when many women complain of common pregnancy aches and pains. Keeping food down may be next to impossible, thanks to morning sickness, caused in part by the pregnancy hormones in your body. You may also need to urinate a lot more often than usual -- your growing uterus is pressing on your bladder, and hormones are affecting the balance of fluid in your body. All will diminish as your pregnancy continues.