We're Back!!!!

Today, little Hayley Emma is 1 month old. So i guess that means i'd better get this blog back in order and updated. :-)

It's been a hectic 4 weeks since that special day on 7th November. The sleepless nights, the sterilising of everything in case Hayley gets a germ, the poo, the vomit and of course, the little smiles (i'm sure she's smiling - it can't just be wind).

The busiest part of the day would have to be bath/dinner/bed time. by the time David gets home at 5pm, we start to get dinner ready to eat, then in goes the first mouthful and up pipes Hayley. then we have a Hayley bath, finish dinner, Hayley to bed, Kirrily to shower, me to shower, Kirrily bed. Where do those hours go.

Kirrily has also been spoilt rotten by most people as Hayley gets a pressie, and so to does Kirrily. the lucky little girl. And Trish (from swimming) cooked us several meals to get us through the first few days/week which was FANTASTIC!!!

So here are some photo's. Enjoy.

This last photo is of our Obstetrician - James Orford proudly showing off his latest edition to his extended family. At first i was a little hesitant about having a male Dr after our last obstetrician was a lady and fantastic, but James was even better than our last which i didn't think was possible.

We've also put up our christmas tree and Kirrily loves it. "What a lovely Crimas Tree mummy" she keeps saying and sits down and watches her new decoration that Aunty Megan bought. She's not that much of an angle that just sits there, she's tried to wack it with her soccer ball, moves the decorations and lights but most of the time she sits down and watches. We haven't put up our lights outside yet as it's either storming or raining or boiling hot or just no time but we'll get there this weekend hopefully. Kirrily will love the moving reindeers this year.

Well that's me done, i'd better get back to reality but promise more blogs before christmas.

Signing off for a little while

Well i've run out of energy to keep my blog updated lately. Plus, i'm struggling to reach the keyboard as my arms just don't want to stretch that far anymore. :-)

Since my last post, i've been doing basically nothing. I"m confined to the house as i can't even get in the car, let alone lift Kirrily in and out of her new booster seat and the steering wheel is rubbing my belly so i've been out of action for over 3 wks now. Kirrily is bored to bits as we used to go out every day but it's not long now before that changes.

We had another Dr's appt yesterday. I had my camera charged, the mobile too and the bags packed just in case the Dr changed his mind and wanted us booked in for this Friday, but no.

So all in all, i'm a little bored & sore but thought i'd post some photo's of kirrily before i sign off.

Kirrily helping build the TV Unit.
She did actually hammer in some parts to the unit and loved using the screw drivers. Nobody showed her how, she just seemed to know. And she takes after me. Notice the tongue out in most photo's. I used to do that too.





Daddy's birthday and Nan's Birthday
We went to Tides at Bulcock Beach for a combined birthday lunch (used to be Alfie's restaurant). She wore her new shirt and her party skirt (if you look closely dorothy the dinosaur is on the front) and clips too. She loves being dressed up.



Maisy Watering Can
What more could she need - Maisy, her favourite cartoon and a watering can, her favourite gardening tool. Combined into 1 fantastic gift from Nan and Pop.
p.s it didn't bounce too well off the stones as it's tin.


That's it from me, us and B2. We'll have plenty of new blogging material in mid November i'm sure.

No More Strawberry's!!!!

Forgot to add - THE STRAWBERRY SEASON IS OVER.

Oh no!!!!!! The farms have packed up their "pick your own" signs, poisoned off the last few remaining crops (don't ask me, i would have eaten every one of them given the chance) and are turning the plants back to the ground for next year.

That's it until June 2009.

Oh well, back to the mangoes then.

Are we there yet?

Well it's only 3 weeks and 3 days (yes i am counting) til the big day. The days are dragging on and on as i'm feeling rather fat, frumpy and front heavy. My feet are sore, my back is worse and sleeping is an option rather than a necessity lately. (i guess i won't get much more sleep when B2 arrives anyway).

Kirrily is also a bit bored hanging around the house as i can't drive much either. The steering wheel is rubbing against my belly so it's not comfortable at all to get around. She's gone from going everywhere to stuck in the house going nowhere. No wonder she is trying to escape out the back door and run through the back yard any chance she can. She always waits til i'm 'Occupied' before she escapes and i can't really just dash off and get her.

We had another Dr's appointment last week and the baby has turned around. It doesn't make much difference apparently for the operation but at least the baby is doing what baby's should be doing in there. Turning, kicking and squirming. Only now it's kicking me up in the ribs and it's not very comfy.

Enough of that.

Today we had a visit from James and Susan. James is 1 month younger than Kirrily and he is Kirrily's swimming buddy. Susan is (you probably can guess) James' mum. She said she would pop buy each week to see that we are going OK and take kirrily to the swings to get her out of my hair for even 15mins which is lovely. James is having the "terrible 2's" and doesn't like having me talking to his mum or kirrily so smacks kirrily in the head and today through sand in her eyes. We quickly got him to stop it and used our knowledge from our books and they ended up hugging each other to say sorry and played with our hose in the backyard for a hour.

Kirrily also had her first BOY KISS!!!! James said "bye" to kirrily and then turned around (i was waiting for him to smack her again), and gave her a huge kiss and cuddle. Kirrily looked at him rather disgusted and said "don't James" then wiped her mouth. She'll learn one day.

So that's about it. here are a handful of photo's . Yeah there are millions more that i haven't even downloaded yet as i'm a bit too tired.

We had a visit Bryan, Vaughan & Zoe, Anne & Howard too. Howards camera is brilliant but i've only managed to download these few from them at the moment. If your wondering, kirrily is playing 'aeroplanes'.

Kirrily was lucky enough to get some presents. One of those was some ice-block makers which went into the freezer that afternoon and gobbled up the next day. Kirrily couldn't quite grasp the concept of eating the ice-block but she did enjoy using the straw to suck up the melted goodies.

Pop Swimming

During the 2nd term of swimming i got the dreaded cold. I quickly rang dad and asked if he would like to do the lesson for me. Since then, he has done all the classes and had one happy little girl tagging along with him.

I think dad was unsure about taking Kirrily in the pool at first as one of the other children's grandma's took them in the pool and all she did was cry, scream and want to get out, but not my little monkey. She can't stop smiling for the whole lesson.

She walks to the pool from the car yelling "Pop swimming, Splash Nan".

With only a few lessons to go, i thought i'd take some photo's. Well that sounds easier than it actually is. They have a no photo policy just in case your a pedophile, a ferral that takes photo's for no good reason or today i got told, some bizaare custody battle that the parent doesn't want anyone taking photo's of her child as you could be taking photo's for the other parent? What is the world coming too. So 1 A4 page of questions and signatures later, i took some photo's. (note the lack of other children in the photo's. if i was to have them in the photo, i would have needed further permission and more paperwork).

She's come along way since the very first lesson where she was determined to run off and never get in the pool.

The do a circuit in the pool. Running along a mat, 'spider wall' which helps them to do hand over hand along the wall to safety if they need, watering the dolls hair with the watering can which will help them put water on their hair (which we are still working on) and swimming through a hoop under the water. I'm not going to break the news to her that lessons are almost done for this term. but i guess we are pretty lucky with beaches and ocean pools up here that it won't be long before we can get back in there.

Busy few weeks!!!

So far late August and September are turning out to be a quite busy. We've had many Novocastrians make the journey up to Qld.

'Grandma and Grandad' went on a bus trip to Cairns from Newcastle, which stopped at the Ginger Factory on the way through the Sunshine Coast. That gave us 2 1/2 hrs for Kirrily to show everyone around. This is Kirrily's favourite spots to visit. What more could a little girl want - The Ginger Man and The Ginger Train, all packed into one place (and then there's the coffee shop across the road which i like to visit to so it's not all kiddie stuff). We had some yummy lunch then Kirrily went on a ride on the train with Grandad. She came home proudly telling David how she had been on the train with 'dad-dad'.

Aunty Megan has also made her way North to warmer weather and stayed for 4 days. All Kirrily wanted to do with Megan was "Megan - Swings". She said this for weeks leading up to the big day. And to say she was excited when somebody else was on the swings with her other than me was an understatement. We parked on the Mooloolaba Spit and headed back to Mooloolaba, via the bush walkway near the beach. There are millions of bush turkeys wandering through this bit of walkway and this definately slows the walking down when EVERY turkey has to be pointed out.

THE SWINGS AT MOOLOOLABA BEACH

And then there's - THE STRAWBERRY FARM!!!!!!

My brain was beyond thinking where to go on Sunday, the last day of winter. With temps in the high 20's (got to love Qld), David headed up the M1 towards Noosa, stopping at the Eumundi Strawberry Farm, "Strawberry Lane". For $12/kg, it's $2 more than most farms around but when the man at the desk says "have a feed while your down there" to a pregnant lady, a massive strawberry lover and a 2 year old who's favourite food is strawberry's, they weren't going to make much money out of us. I picked a strawberry double the size of the palm of my hand for kirrily to eat first. Silly me thought this would keep her busy for a while but she chomped into them very fast and who wouldn't when they are warm off the plant, red through like red paint and sweeter than sugar. David said he probably ate more than 1kg, me pretty close and Kirrily only a tiny bit behind. If your every visiting the Sunshine Coast during June-November, you have to visit this farm. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

if you look carefully, kirrily has both hands filled with berry's. She insisted on having both hands filled so she didn't waste time in gobbling all she could.

Needless to say, we didn't need or want much lunch.

Week 28

28 weeks already. Boy isn't time going slowly. i think somebody slows the clock down when your pregnant. Off to the Obstetrician on Monday for a check up in Nambour. It seems the world revolves around Nambour. They have the best farmers markets there and all the good Dr's are there too. even the hospital is there.

anyway, we've been laying low for a while. I've had the cold that has been "going around" apparently. Not so nice when you can't take much for it. At least Kirrily was there to keep me amused.



Vegemite!!!! / The hose - again



This is Kirrily's new 'big room'. She is now sleeping in the big bed and loving it. She asks to sleep there at night but at the moment we are still putting her in the cot just so she gets used to the bed, gradually. I built this bookshelf for her new room and she loves looking at her toys and books in there. Wow!!! was her response. maybe next week she might be in the big room for good. She just looks so tiny in the big bed. She doesn't get out at all which is good, she just sits waiting patiently for me to come in and get her after her day time sleep.

No more news to report, hopefuly next week will be more exciting. :-)