Monday, November 15, 2010

...oregano...


...the oregano in our garden has gone crazy... so radical pruning today but couldn't bear to just throw it all on the compost heap.... so this was a mildly fragant table centrepiece today... maybe tomorrow I'll hang some to dry...

Sunday, November 14, 2010

...games...





...Friday night tradition from my childhood (and second childhood when I went back to live with mum and dad aged 23 to have my first baby)... GAMES!... and another great tradition from childhood - if you finish all your dinner - you get pudding! Ice-cream this Friday night on a hot and muggy high 20 degree sticky Melbourne evening...

...bacon and egg pie...



...bit of a recurring lunch / dinner / snack at our place at the moment... yum! With lettuce from our garden... hopefully soon have cherry tomatoes from garden too...

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

...wardrobe wednesday...

my baby!!!

...can't really play the game properly this week as haven't really gotten dressed... but last night we had to try out made in NZ wrap hand-me-down from my beautiful sister...really needed get dinner going and missy was not happy to be put down...luckily she LOVED the wrap... and yes look at her - not even a week old and holding her head up, being nosy and learning to cook sausages and mash...

...for other styley mummas, try here (where it started?), here, here or here...

Monday, November 8, 2010

...lil sister...

 



Proud parents and little girl - 2830gm (6 pound 4)




...she's here!!!... finally....breaking my waters didn't work (1.30pm) ... so had to have synto drip (2.30pm) ... which made contractions happen, but then my cervix didn't wanna play the game... got given IV Pethidine (?10pm) (which SO had not planned on - but then again didn't plan on getting induced either)... anyway - THAT worked - dilated from 4 to 10cm in just over an hour... pushed for all of 5 mins.. and DADA (11.30pm) ... no doozy baby thank goodness... no fainting dad... no stitches... skin to skin straight away, latched on within minutes... home aged 12 hours... pretty happy with ourselves really... and to think I was so scared of induction...


...first morning light... ever...


 ...big brother snuggles...

...he was so excited to meet her... but now (day 6) he's jealous of all the attention and snuggles she gets... particularly from dad... "Do you love her more than me?"... but as dad is going back to work today hopeful a more "normal" routine will help... he's still a brilliant, helpful, good, kind, loving boy - making his own breakfast/ lunch, getting stuff packed and unpacked for school, fetching mum drinks/ nappies/ wraps/ kisses on demand... all the effort this year getting him more and more independant is paying off...


...our lil girl...

... sleeping well, has sorted day from night already (hope it sticks)... feeding well... excess milk in the freezer already...regained her birth weight by day 5... dark navy eyes and light hair - very, very different from her brother... and very fair considering her heritage (half Tongan - with a bit of German thrown in a couple generations back, quarter Samoan/ quarter Scots/English)... we're very interested to see what colour her eyes turn out to be...

...and isn't that shawl gorgeous!?!... nanny knitted it... should show you the remaints of her brother's one that he loved to pieces... literally...

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

...wardrobe wednesday...

Singlet - bub2be (Kmart for breastfeeding)
Wrap/tie Cardy - present from friend
Dress - me from Spotlight pre-shirred fabric
Shoes - Kmart $5 ballet flats
Belly - 41 weeks...

...this is what I wore to see the midwives and obstetrician this morning.... got sent home to get my bags...and we're being induced at 1pm...bye, bye belly...