Every single Sunday for 33 weeks (from weeks 5-38 of our pregnancy) we played 'the Guessing Game', a yes/no question game to find out what size Stewie was each week. This started over breakfast in Dubai and became a great activity to do whilst travelling around Sri Lanka (a good distraction from the nausea), the Maldives and Thailand, and continued as a dinner amusement over the following weeks at home. 

The game was made particularly interesting (challenging/ridiculous?) by using 4 sources which more often than not would have a different answer, all of questionable reliability. Charlotte was the task master and Adam was the guesser - and a very good one at that - he guessed every single one apart from perhaps 3 (which were probably down to Charlotte not knowing enough to answer his clue questions properly). 

Whilst Stewie was predominantly compared to a variety of fruit of vegetables, there was one wildcard app which would suggest things as incredulous as an eyelash, a handspan, "your face". Adam's questions ranged from 'is it from the natural world?' (which always caused confusion on Charlotte's part), 'is it a fruit or vegetable?', 'does it originate from Asia?', 'is it grown in the UK?', 'does it grow on a tree or a bush?', 'does it have seeds?', 'do you harvest it more than once a year?', 'can you eat it raw?', 'can you buy it dried?'. Er, let me google that...

The result is that we learned a lot about global fruit and vegetables, and each week Stewie would have a wonderful new name (usually chosen based on what we found most amusing). You may notice that the naming was a bit inconsistent until week 20 when the name Stewie made its debut - and how he got that name is an entirely separate story...

Week 5 - Pippin the Apple Pip

Week 6 - Sean the Baked Bean aka Lenny the Lentil

Week 7 - Gulliver the Grape (also eyelash week)

Week 8 - Iris of an Eye

Week 9 - Olive the Olive (also a thumbprint apparently - but whose thumb?)

Week 10 - Kumquat 

Week 11 - Fig

Week 12 - Plum

Week 13 - Pea Pod

Week 14 - Cinnamon Stick

Week 15 - Apple (also palm of hand week - but again, whose hand?)

Week 16 - Avocado

Week 17 - Pomegranate

Week 18 - Croissant

Week 19 - Beef tomato

Week 20 - Stewie Banana

Week 21 - Stewie Carrot (this was also the 'hand span' week)

Week 22 - Stewie Papaya

Week 23 - Stewie Squash 

Week 24 - Stewie Ear of Corn

Week 25 - Stewie Swede ('your head' week)

Week 26 - Stewie Red Cabbage - a firm favourite 

Week 27 - Stewie Big Leek

Week 28 - Stewie Pineapple 

Week 29 - Stewie Butternut

Week 30 - Stewie Good Sized Cabbage - the overall winner

Week 31 - Stewie Flatbread 

Week 32 - Stewie Kale Leaf

Week 33 - Stewie Pineapple (the only week when all 4 sources had chosen the same thing)

Week 34 - Stewie Rucksack (but what rucksack?!) or Stewie Cantaloupe if feeling more realistic

Week 35 - Stewie Honeydew

Week 36 - Stewie Romaine Lettuce, or as Adam put it Stewie Romanus Letus Maximus Rex

Week 37 - Stewie Swiss Chard 

Week 38 - Stewie Watermelon