Thank heaven for little girls

They are just so darn adorable to photograph. Really happy with my first photo session with Ava, she was the perfect model - she didn't even complain when I strung her up in some tulle all for the sake of art!! Just posting some of my shots.

So, it was our Friday catch up with the girls. Was great to see everyone, but I really wish we could sometimes do it on Thursdays cos Sambo misses out on seeing all the kids. Ali is doing really well, a few feeding problems with Ava, but she seems quite relaxed so hopefully it will all sort itself out soon for her. Max slept pretty well this morning, but not much this arvo. Unfortunately when he was ready to go to sleep, was when we had to pick Sambo up from day care, so he missed out there the poor kid. He's so different to Sam as a baby - Sam would have slept no matter what I did with him, but Max is a much lighter sleeper. Thank god he's good at night though!!

Nat and Gen came over for dinner - Nat made us pizzas which were fan-bloody-tastic! She also made some little cake thingys that Sambo and I have to ice tomorrow. I also have to make a tutu for Molly's birthday party on Sunday. Will have to get onto that tomorrow night.

Just a quick one tonight, it's late as I've spent the last few hours editing these photos of Ava. There are so many, but I won't post them all here - just a few of my favourites!!

Just a quick one

Didn't do too much today - Sambo was up at some ungodly hour this morning, so he slept in till 9am. He watched a bit of tv, had breakkie, and then we started getting ready to go to the supermarket. Amazing how it takes us a good hour to even look like getting close to being able to leave the house! We did a spot of grocery shopping (see, check me - all confident now I've done it a few times on my own!!). The boys were awesome - Sambo was well behaved, he listened to me, didn't nag....it was a wonderful experience! He got a treat because he was so well behaved - some little sharks and a milkshake and a wiggles magazine! I made sure that I let him know how proud of him I was that he was so well behaved. I thanked him....and he said "You're Welcome"...I love it when he says that, it's so adorable!

Esther popped over and dropped off Harper for a while so those 2 kept each other busy. Max didn't sleep all afternoon again bar about 20mins....starting to get a little sick of it to be honest cos around the time when I want to be getting dinner ready is when he's getting tired and cranky. Ah well, it's all temporary I guess.

Sambo wanted to take some photos of me today...and I was so proud - he did really well (ok I may have had to help with this one!) I've posted one of the two of us...I really like it!

Ok, I need to go make a card for Ali, we are heading out to see her and the gorgeous Ava tomorrow so I should have some more newborn shots tomorrow!!

Not sure why my photos all look pixelated on here, but I can assure you that they don't look like that in real life!

Sleep Child Sleep.

Or apparently not. Max has had bugger all sleep today which isn't altogether unusual, but what was unusual was that he wasn't happy with it. Pretty cranky in fact. I persevered with his lunch time catnap to get him back to sleep....I tried for an hour, to no avail. He was asleep by 7pm tonight, so hopefully he gets a BIG sleep in tonight. Hopefully he won't be cranky tomorrow too!

Sam was great today, we played with the diggers, read some books, did some colouring, and sang some songs! Usual 2 year old stuff!

Nat and Gen popped over tonight with a b'day cake for me (my third!!), and a voucher for jeans west for $50 - -I have been bitching and moaning about needing a new pair of jeans....and wanting to be skinny enough for a new pair of jeans. So that will help me out heaps! Can't wait to lose the rest of my baby weight!

Well, I'm knackered. Off for a shower, then to watch my tv shows - all the good ones are on tonight - House and Medium. Might have to tape Medium though cos I reckon I'll fall asleep.

I used my tripod today and took this photo of Max and I. Isn't he just the cutest! I am absolutely whole heartedly in love with that boy! Well, actually I'm absolutely, whole heartedly in love with both my boys!

Happy Birthday to Me!!

What a lovely day I've had. Can I tell you how blessed I am?

I got a new lense for my camera a few weeks ago, and that was to be my present from Meggie and Clydey...but my darling husband surprised me this morning with a new tripod for my camera as well! I normally guess what Clydey is getting me for b'days and presents (it irritates the shit out him, he has no idea how I can guess every time) but this time I so wasn't expecting anything. He's such a sweetie. As I said, I'm blessed.

So, we dropped Sambo off to day care, then I got to hit Spotlight for half an hour (did you know you get 10% off on your birthday....me neither!!). Then home for a little while to pack up a picnic, then we met Sam's day care mum at the park, where we stayed and Ali and the other kids went home. A lovely picnic in the park with my boys, and Esther, Harper and Amos. The kids had a ball! Home for Sam to have a sleep (and Max to have a cat nap!!).

Tori and Ben came over tonight to do Shay's and my hair. We cooked tacos for dinner, cos it's my b'day and I got to choose!! Tori and Ben are so sweet...Sambo loved playing with them. He didn't want to go to bed, so was up a little later than usual - might mean a great big sleep in tomorrow!! As a b'day present, they didn't charge me for my hair cut - how nice is that? Timely too, cos I really couldn't afford the cut anyways! You heard me, I'm blessed.

As I was putting Sambo to bed tonight, I said to him "thanks for a lovely day, Sambo, I have had a wonderful birthday", and the little monkey goes "You're welcome, Mummy". He is just the sweetest kid in the world, I swear. Can I say it again? Yep, I'm blessed.

As a side note, I have forgotten to mention about Sam's little imaginary friend, Harper. We have little Harper (the imaginary one), and Big Harper (the real one). Little Harper helps him mow the lawn and do the whipper snippering. Little Harper was in the shower with us last night and I had to find a towel for her. Little Harper had to be picked up and put into bed beside him. Nobody ever tells you what hard work it can be for the Mummy of a son with an imaginary friend! I love it though, I love he has an imagination. I love that he sings and dances and loves to wear nail polish. I love that he can name any type of machinery and god help you if you mistakenly call a digger a mini loader!!

Ahhhhh...I love my life.

As promised, a photo of each of my boys, one of Harper, and a scrapbooking page I did while Sambo slept.

Nuft

Bit of a nothing day today....I didn't even bother getting Sam out of his pj's! I did manage to change his nappy though ;) I also whipped up a scrapbooking page - Max slept for 2 hours this morning (for a change!), and ABC kids entertained Sam (bad mummy, bad mummy) so I scraplifted one of Clair's pages (see link - she does some amazing stuff). Not entirely happy with my title, but I love the rest of the page. I actually used my sewing machine for the first time too - it was my xmas present from Clydey and I only managed to set it up last week. I think he thinks I was a little ungrateful...but I wasn't at all....just busy with a newborn and a toddler! The journalling reads "As in plural - KIDS!! Well, I did have 4 days after this photo was taken. The thought terrified me but as usual the reality of "kids" wasn't anywhere near as bad as I imagined!"

Have to make a card for Ali and one for Brenda too for their new babies. Might start on that tonight.

I really need to put some photos of the boys on here too. I have so darn many. If I take some nice ones tomorrow (we are going to the park for a picnic for my b'day) I will post them on here.

Well, that's about it. As I said, we did nuft today!!

Forgot to mention

That I got Max weighed yesterday - at exactly 10 weeks and 4 days which is when I first got Sam weighed. Sam weighed in at 7040g - and Max at 6930g so not much difference at all!

Whoops.

Already missed a day. Guess it won't be my last, huh?

So, Happy 3rd Birthday to Connor for yesterday. Hope you have fun today at Lavender Trout...wish we could be there to celebrate with you - it sucks living on the other side of the world to family (well, most of the time it sucks ;) )

I took Sambo to his swimming lesson yesterday. It went ok - he's still so under confident in the water. He won't put his head under the water and freaks out at certain things. To be honest, this is probably a good thing as it means I won't have to worry about him ever jumping into the water when no one is there. He does really well though and I really enjoyed doing it. Clydey usually does, but with him having had his mole cut out, we figured I had better bare my 10 week post partum body...sorry world!!

Then we headed over to Esther's to catch up with Phil and Finn. She is doing really well which is good to see. Finn is just adorable. I then took some photos of Amos - I plan on getting a few of them printed out and put in a frame as their present. I got some really good ones which I'm pleased about - can't wait to take some of Ava too! I'll show off a few of the better ones of Amos here. With the ones with the black background, I've done some editing and made the black, well, blacker!! It looks better, but I can't be arsed uploading it!!

Today has been a bit of a nothing day - just did some editing of the photos of Amos, then cleaned the house and we did a spot of grocery shopping. Sambo is still sleeping. We have Nat and Gen and possibly Kaz coming over for dinner tonight - Clydey is cooking this spectacular rump roast thingy (recipe courtesy of Ali). Can't wait.

Ok, pretty boring post. I know Nat and Cas are having trouble posting comments on here - if anyone else is able to - please do so I know it's not something I've done in my settings!