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Photo a Day 3rd January 2009.

32 weeks today.

Celebrated with yet another trip to the baby shop for yet more stuff. Think I'm done now.

I've packed up my lights and backdrops, so back to the bare basics again for a little while... until I can be bothered to unpack it all again. Seeing as the Christmas stuff is still not all packed up it may be a while. The boys are going great in one room. The baby room is almost complete. She has a name now. Finally. Besides a load or two more washing, I think we are pretty much ready. Just as well as I'm STILL getting the false labour pains. I woke up in pain the other night and had to have a shower at 2am to stop them, or at least slow them down. And have I mentioned that she's breech? Just like Ethan was. Hopefully she will turn soon. My platelets are also low which could be a problem if she doesn't turn over as we'd go elective C/S (we looked into it all when Ethan was breech) but hopefully she'll turn. There's still time. But I passed my diabetes test (not sure how with Christmas and all!)

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Photo a Day #2. Childcare day. He just LOVES his carer and the small group of kids he sees each week. How come I can get everyone elses kids to give me beautiful natural smiles... but my own... ?

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Happy new year! I'm having a baby next month :) How nice to be able to say that now hehee.

So, it's January, and that means it's Photo A Day time again. I love looking back at the pics from last Jan, so here we are to give it our best shot again. First up, the boys room. They are now in the same room and so far so good. A couple of piccies of their room (but I ended up not including any pics from the other end, so might add those later after I've resized. If I don't get these up now, they won't get up and then the whole photo a day thing will fall apart if I stuff up the first day! So... Here we go: 1st January 2009 in our house.

We are nearly done. Just have to hang some pictures, and their artwork canvases, and change the chest of draws over to a white one after a trip to Ikea. Oh and change the blind to curtains, so they can open them themselves.

Pickles and Icecream anyone?

Disclaimer: Totally out of focus. Taken by a giggling 7 year old who was just too excited to get his hands on that icecream, while I was also being tackled from the side by an over anxious and slightly hyper 3yo, with bowl and spoon at the ready who also just wanted to get his hands on that icecream. Funny... no one wanted the pickles?

28weeks 5days

Mylanta - Myfriend

Say no more.

I didn't get as much done over the weekend as I wanted to. Got two coats of basecoat onto the boys doors, but no actual paint as yet. And have not even touched the spare room ones. Liam's wardrobe has the shelf/rail in it now, but Ethan's doesn't. Wrong size wood or something, has bought the (D?)H some more time. Will get around to adding pics.

Picked up their sheets and bedding this week, so we are getting there. They'll be in there soon and then we can start bub's room. Also picked up my sewing machine yesterday too.... now that will be a funny experience. My mum is a professional dressmaker, so I've never had a need to learn to sew, and well, mum teaching me always ends up a bad idea LOL So I'm going it alone! (Well to start with)

Had some more acupuncture yesterday. Feeling a lot better today. Was feeling VERY SORE the last week. Also been having a bit of fake labour. Bit early for that little one!! What is it with my uterus? Grrrrr. Does it have a built in ejector seat or something?

School chrissy concert tonight, and we really should be getting ready for school right now. Only jumped on to check the emails and bank balances. Hoping the rain holds off for tonight.

Wardrobe doors!

Here we go with before and after piccies:
(You can tell I'm a portrait photographer, I don't have a wide angle lens. 28mm is as wide as I have, so I can't get much in the pic despite their rooms actually being quite big.

Before: Liam's room. His wardrobe is a bit smaller because the heater return vent is taking some of his wardrobe space (that bit of wall on the right, but the vent actually comes out the other side of the wall, in our family room). So for the past 4.5 years his wardrobe has looked like this. A coat rack he was given for his 2nd birthday holds his coats and dressing gown, hats etc, then the two tubs hold shoes in one, and bags in the other (how many backpacks does a kid need?) Most of his clothes were stored in a chest of draws on the other side of the room. But he had just turned 2 when we moved in here, so all his little tiny size 1 clothes fitted easily into the chest of draws. Moving on now to size 6 clothes, and I can't get anywhere near all of his clothes into the draws. So a lot of his stuff is now stored out in the family room in an Ikea unit with baskets for draws.

And stage 1 of after shots: WE HAVE DOORS!

I didn't want mirrored doors (obvious cleaning issues there), or laminate doors because I want to be able to paint them if/when I change the colour of the walls, but everyone seems to think I had two heads when I said I didn't want either of those LOL. And because the doors are higher than usual (I think they are 8ft or maybe 9ft or something), we couldn't get regular hollow fill doors, so we ended up with wooden ones, which I'll paint, and because of the size of them they had to go within frames so they wouldn't buckle or bend. We like very basic decorating with little decoration etc, so wanted really simple, clean lined plain doors. But the silver looks OK I think. Door handles etc throughout the house are silver (or brushed chrome).

Despite the fact that we have a spare room, the boys want to share, so Liam's room being the biggest will become their room, and the baby will go into Ethan's room. I'll share more piccies of the rooms as they develop :)

And Ethan's room before:

Bit of timber in there waiting to be made into parcel shelves, and the chest of draws Nat lent me while I was pregnant with Ethan LOL. All of Ethan's clothes are in those draws. There used to be a toy box to the left of the draws but it was deep and he kept tipping it over trying to get to the toys, so it got replaced with a few underbed baskets 'for the time being' (we have lots of those 'for the time being' things around here LOL) And the little shelves on the other side hold books, and a basket of shoes.

And After: With the doors on this one looks a lot wider. Liam lost about 1ft of his wardrobe with the heater vent, so the other two (spare room too, but didn't take a pic in there) are about 1ft wider. Good thing I suppose, if it's going to be a girls room LOL.

On a side note, what do you think of that light blue paint. It matches the cot bedding and rocking chair which also has pink, green and yellow in it, and I still ADORE that fabric, so I'm planning on keeping the wall blue and just adding a bit more pink. It's not too boyish is it? I'll post more piccies as this room develops too.

So my jobs for today: Pull the doors off (well Brett's job) and then I'll paint them, between editing Niamh's photos, while Teeds and Brett build the shelving inside! WHOOOOOOOOOOOT and then I can dig out/buy more coat hangers and hang clothes up!! So expect more photos.

And I realise this is absolutly boring to anyone else except me... and possibly Kathie LOL. But geez it's darn exciting for me.

It's a crazy time of year hey. Everyone is busy. We still need to put up the Christmas tree, but it's in the roof, so that is a Brett-job to get it down... you know, any other year I'd do it, but this year. Well I'm not even sure I'd fit through the man hole door thingy at the moment.

Some recent piccies (squze the watermarking ect, being lazy and just pulled proof files I had on hand):
Tahlia...



Paige and Hunter exploring...





Archie...





Tristan...


Braedyn...


Matilda...



Nattie (my buddie! Did some corporate pics for them)

Taylah...

Ashlyn and mummy...


Fraser and mummy...

Liam's had school swimming this week. Then there's the christmas concert next week, the parent helpers morning tea I'm supposed to be at, the doc appts, the midwife appts, the accupuncture appts, the pilates classes, the photo shoots, the family commitments, the work comming and going, constant editing, gallery uploading, orders comming in, orders going out. I've had to start using my diary the 'proper way'. Usually I just list the things I need to do that day. Now I have to list it under the time slots and fill in how long it will take etc so I can see where I have gaps I can get things done.

Last Saturday night we went to my brothers house and walked into Frankston to the tree lighting festival. It's not a big walk at all, but I was a little worried about how I'd go. I'd been having huge braxton hicks, that take my breath away and actually make me stop what I'm doing. I'd had them quite a bit on Saturday, and by Saturday night they were really constant. I was getting about 1 minute between them, but was pretty sure they were just braxton hicks, nothing more. But later that night they started to go into my back and were starting to get painful. Thankfully after lying down for a while they just went back to painless ones, and after a while slowed down in frequency and intensity. But it made us both realise that I have to slow down. Working up to 50hrs a week, plus running around after the kids and trying to get to all the places/do all the things others want me to do/go is too much. So I've tried to pace myself a bit more this week. Christmas is just comming up so quick and there is still so much work to get through to get photos out by then. But I'm doing my very, very best.

Tomorrow morning our wardrobe doors are comming! Exciting!! I took some before pics this morning as I thought I'd forget or not have time tomorrow morning. Mum's comming over to house sit for me though while they get done as I have to do school/childcare drop off, midwife appt and photo delivery. And then should hopefully be able to squeeze in about 2.5hrs work before leaving again to do the school runs. Oh how nice it would be to be able to morph myself into two people LOL. Everyone is the same at this time of year though. It's a busy time. We are no different. Everyone does the best they can.

So plodding away, Finn's pics are next (and almost done),

then Niamh,

then Patrick,

then Sienna, Will and Matise

then Lachlan, Bethany and Sophie

then Olivia

then Cooper.

We made it through :)

Week 26 had a big shaddow over it in my mind. Week 26 with Ethan was the week my pelvis separated. The week the cartlidge at my pubic bone snapped away from the bone... obviously leaving me in *a lot* of pain for the rest of my pregnancy. So it would be fair to say I'd been worried about getting this far. To add to it I had a beach shoot booked for this week, which was booked before I even knew I was pregnant. Walking on the beach is REALLY bad for my pelvis and to get to the beach I use for photos it's quite a hike up the beach - as some of you would know LOL.

But yay... we made it to 27 weeks and all is good (well as good as I can hope for anyway LOL). Now having accupuncture every 2 weeks, and still doing pilates every week. This week I need to get my diabetes test done too, and have a checkup with the doc, before a check up with the midwife.

Work is crazy busy, but getting near the end. I do remember saying something about limiting sessions to one a week. Well yeah right... I've been doing 4 or 5 a week. Crazy. But it's slowing down now, and I'm really looking forward to Christmas and getting the boys and baby's rooms orgainsed. I got quotes done to have the wardrobes done. OMGosh you just can not possibly understand how awsome it is to have wardrobes after living in a (not finished) house with no wardrobes for almost FIVE FREAKING YEARS. One of those jobs we'll get done one day. One of those jobs that something else always seemed more important than. But now, with another bub on the way I decided enough is enough and I want them done. Very exciting. I'll post piccies soon of before's and afters. And the rooms as they get re-decorated.

And it's nearly time to put the christmas tree up and decorate the house. Ohh it's so fun. Now I just have to go finish off these photos so I can get on with the decorating stuff :)

Oh and did you know if you click on the numbers on that little baby ticker that they change. Tells you how many weeks preg, how many days left etc etc. Well 91 days left! OMG!!

Help!

So many names I *like*, but I just keep thinking there's still one out there that I'll just *love*. The one we'll know is THE one. There's a boy name on there too.... just in case (and cos we already had that one sorted before the scan).

I need to make a start on her scrapbook! But unfortunatly, that's in line behind a whole lotta other stuff at the moment.

Liam's party went well. They all had a ball which is all that really matters. I'll post some piccies soon.

The bug got me :(

I suppose when you're looking after two sick kiddo's you're going to get it. What felt like hayfever starting turned into either a pretty full on cold, or the flu. Hopefully I'm over the worst of it now though and it's only going to get better from here. I've been saying that for the past two days LOL. I woke the other night at 2am, unable to breath and feeling like those panick attacks were comming back. I have so much on my plate work wise, and even when I'm asleep I'm dreaming about the things I have to get done (or having nightmares that they didn't get done). The only way to get them off my mind is to get them done. So when I woke at 2am I tossed and turned for a while, before getting up and editing some pics, loading online galleries, and organising print orders. At 4am I crashed back into bed, and at 7am, well... I didn't want to get up. But it was nice knowing I could tick off some boxes. I just have to stay focused and get the work done.

Liam's birthday party is on this weekend, so we are busy, busy preparing for that. Hopefully it will be a great day and the kids will all have a ball. Not much more you can ask for than that.

Today I had my first acupuncture! Geez it was weird. Brett knew I wouldn't go if he left it up to me, so he booked the appointment, picked me up, drove me there, sat with me while they did it and drove me home LOL. It wasn't bad at all. I didn't feel any of the needles go in, and only a second or two of discomfort on two of them as they tweaked them into the right spot. The other two I never felt at all. I only know one was in my toe because he told me, and the other in my wrist because I could see it. Once they were all in, they turned out the lights, and left me to relax with some soft music alone, and Brett took Ethan out for a walk down the street. Ethan was very worried about leaving me. He kept telling me "but you'll cry". Poor little darling was so worried about me, seeing those needles in me. At least I was able to reasure him that it was all ok, it didn't hurt and it was special medicine to make my tummy better. Sweet little darling he is. Straight afterwards I didn't feel much different (I had it for my pelvis issues), but when I got home, I sat in a chair and crossed my legs and then I looked down and thought OMG I haven't been able to cross my legs for a month! LOL There's definatly a lot more mobility, and no where near the pain... infact I really haven't had any pelvic pain at all since. Weird, amazing experience, but one I'll be doing again for sure. Very much worth it.

OK, was going to say I'm off for an early night, but it's already 10.40, so it's not really going to be that early.

can I just have a couple more hours

in each day? Like... oh, 24 extra? I have 60hrs of work to get through this week.

Yes 60. At least.

I have orders and paperwork everywhere. Some going, some comming, some still being designed.

And that's up until Friday, when it all starts again.

And I have no childcare.

And I'm supposed to be at a school excursion with Liam on Wednesday.

And Ethan's had a fever from Saturday mid day through till this morning. Generally around 40.4 - 40.8.

And so he hasn't slept all weekend.

And neither have I.

He has a virus.

Liam's home sick too.

He has conjuncivitis.

He's going back to school tomorrow.

I have to go to school during the day to put the drops in his eyes still.

I have a 7th birthday party to plan, for SUNDAY.

That's less than 6 days away!

I still have not done the grocery shopping that should have been done last Thursday.

I have SIX loads of clean washing folded in my family room, waiting to be put away.

Did I mention I'm getting sick?

Are you surprised?

I'm feeling just a little overwhelmed.

Just trying to keep on treading water. Christmas will be here soon and then I can rest... for a few weeks. And then I'll be bussier than I've ever been in my life.

But my tax is done! I can tick that one off the list!

I am blessed I can work from home (even though it's a heck of a lot more hours than most people realise).

That I've NEVER been short of work from the day I left my last job.

That I've found a job that I love, that works for me, for our family and for our financial needs.

I love that I don't have to call in sick, make up time, feel guilty about letting down a boss, or leave my kids when they are sick (ok I do make up the time, just at 2am nowdays).

I'm incredibly blessed to have access to medical help and medications when they are sick.

I'm so thankful that I can make them feel so much better, but snuggling with them and reading a story (even if the washing doesn't get put away).

We have clean clothes to wear each day (even if they never made it into draws).

That I've been a mumma for almost SEVEN years! (SEVEN? How did that happen?) And every single day of the past seven years there's been a moment that I've laughed, smiled to myself, giggled or had my heart warmed, just with the thought of my beautiful boys).

I'm thankful I got such a placid, tolerant, caring and forgiving boy to be my first born, to learn how to be a mumma to, who unfortunatly I'm sure I make far too many mistakes with... but he's always forgiving and puts up with me :)

I'm blessed with friends and family to fill our house with in 6 days, to celebrate that beautiful little boy and all that he means to us, and all that he has bought into our home for the past 7 years (not including the dirt!)

We have food in the pantry (not much, but some) and money in the bank. We have shops nearby to buy more fresh nutritious food to fill our bellies.

I might be getting sick, but it will pass. I've been very blessed with my health.

We have all that we NEED and so much more.

Except maybe sleep. Could do with some more sleep. With that I'm off to bed. I can't see straight to edit any more pics tonight anyway. And my girl needs me to sleep so she can grow.

S'pose I should update.

All is going well, just REALLY busy, and totally exhausted by night time (blog time), and keep putting it off for 'another day'.

So, whats been happening. Well three weeks ago I owned four pink coffee mugs, and for work purposes a pink backdrop, tub and blanket..... now I own a lot more pink stuff. A lot of our friends have finished/finishing having their last bubs so we've been handed so many boxes of pink things. I've been slowley sorting through them all. I've done a big clean out of boys clothes, but still kept a box of my absolute faves - just in case ;)

She's growing well (spot on with measurments), kicking lots (just copped a big one right then!) Brett and Liam have felt them, but Ethan hasn't really yet. The boys love my belly and constantly come up and stroke it and ask questions or tell me things about our baby. It's all very sweet. Ethan's finally getting it that the baby is in my BELLY not my boobs. LOL He's so, so cute, and it's just beautiful to see him experience this. Especially when I think he came very close to never getting that oportunity (after the last two miscarriages I swore I was done and not going through that again... but time heals, and all those cute bubba's comming in to have their photos taken didn't hurt either).

Work is very busy, which is good, but getting hard too. I intended to only do one shoot a week up until Christmas, but I find myself doing three. I have a problem saying no I think LOL. My pelvis is starting to play up, and has been since 19 weeks. I'm doing all the things I'm supposed to do to just try and keep it together and keep the bone/cartlidge from actually breaking again. Hopefully I can just get through until Christmas.

Liam lost another tooth. HIS right hand side bottom (next one out from the centre two - should find out the correct name for them one day.

Brett took the boys away camping last weekend. It was a bit of a spur of the moment trip, and I had work on, so I stayed home and they had a boys weekend away. They had a ball. Came home so filthy I made them have a bath before they could touch/do/look at anything LOL But that's the fun of camping hey. They went over just past Venus Bay, where we went at New Year. Saturday's weather was just beautiful which was great for them, being right on the beach.

Had to catch ups with photographer friends in the past two weeks. One down here in Mornington, and the other in Eltham. This is Kylie's sweet little princess Murphy. She was a whole lot easier to chase than my boys. One of whom ended up in a lake! The other of whom thankfully pulled him out! LOL It was quite funny really. The lake was covered with green vegetation over the surface and Ethan was running through the grass and it just looked like more grass so he just kept on running....

Glad I bought him some spare clothes!


What else.... a belly pic? I have one here somewhere. Let me find one.
Making lunch. What else does a preggie gal think about :) Well hey - I think about food non stop, pregnant or not. (for those who haven't seen me for a while - I grew my hair. Stupid move. It sucks and I need it cut off again)

The lunch. I was craving ham... so had to toast it to make it safe. Yummo with a bit of cheese and some grape tomatoes (best tomatoes ever).

Probably more I inteded to record, but too tired to think straight now and need bed.

Marni, your gallery will be up tomorrow.

Girls night in scrapping night this Saturday!

from the mouthes of babes

[firstly, thanks for all your congrats and well wishes for our little one!]

We were invited to an Oxfam fundraising event on Friday night, a Hypnotism show. Brett (being the shy person he is - NOT) went up on stage and was hypnotised. FUNNY. OMG I don't think I have laughed so much for quite a while. Anyway, as I also had sessions on Saturday the boys had a sleep over at Brett's parents. Sally bought Hannah over for a play with the boys, and Liam came out with the funniest quote that I just have to record.

Liam and Ethan were sitting on the mat playing with a game. Hannah was jumping onto Ethan's back, pulling him and cuddling him etc. He kept telling her not to, and then Liam pipes up with (in a very tolerent but informative tone):

"Get used to it Ethan, cos we're getting a GIRL and she's not just going to be there for an hour, she's going to be there FOREVER!"

bwahahahahahahaaaaa!

So you want to know?

Are you sure you want to know?





Sure?





OK, well I'm going to tell, so if you don't want to know, look away!





Someone told me if you have two same sex children, you have a 75% chance of the third being the same sex.




Once, many years ago, before kids, someone did that ring thing on me. You know, you do it over the wrist and it tells you what you WILL have. It came up with 6 boys and I made them stop. This is baby number 7 for us.





I was as SICK as SICK can be with the boys. I threw up every day until 36 weeks with Liam, and until 22 weeks with Ethan. I've only been sick a few times with this bub.





I had a boys name in mind, but couldn't think of a girls name.





My 'feeling' was boy #3... but I'm usually always wrong with these things.





So, I really had no clue.




But (have I stretched this out long enough yet?)




It's





a







(look away if you don't want to know!)














GIRL!


I'm not sure I know what to do with girls though, and I definatly need lessons in pink. (I don't like pink, but I'm sure it will grow on me).

Hello again little one :)

So you're the one bouncing around inside like the next olympic gymnist and causing me all this heartburn. Lucky you're cute! Look at that little face. Awwww. Lots of kicking and movement going on during the scan. In this pic you're rubbing your eyes. You jumped about so much we almost didn't get to find out whether you're a boy or a girl... but eventually we did ;)




Want to know? What do you think?

ALSO: I'm having a crop night on Saturday October 25th for 'Girls Night In'. The more the merrier, let me know if you're free that night and can make it.

just for a bit of colour

I was at my mums a few days ago and she asked me for some updated photos to put on the wall in the playroom there. I had to tell her that I don't think I've even taken a photo of my own kids in about 3mths! HOW BAD IS THAT! And I'm going scrapping this weekend, so somehow I'm going to have to dig up some photos (or scrap some client pics LOL). So, I have no personal photos to add - although Liam did take a 16 week belly shot of me a while ago. So I thought I'd scan a few of the layouts I've done since I last uploaded any layouts - am I slack or what! No pics or layouts, what a boring blog. Anyway, moving on. Here's a few recent (hahhaaaaaa! NOT!) layouts :)

I had a bubba checkup again yesterday. All's good although the HB was a bit tricky to find. I was pretty sure all was ok, as I'm getting lots of movement (love that!!), but everytime my midwife tried to find the heartbeat all she kept comming up with was my heartbeat. She kept looking at me saying "don't worry, it will be here", then fiddling around for a bit longer, then "really, don't worry, it will be here somewhere" LOL Eventually we got it :) They thought my racing heart stuff could be associated with low iron levels, but they're good. So it's a just put up with it kind of thing. Hopefully it goes soon. Appart from that I feel good. No pelvis probs yet, and Sally, my pilates instructer is one mean woman! In a nice way of course. But geez I'm going to have muscles on my muscles by the time she's finished with me!!

It's beginning to look like a baby is comming to our house. The basinette and cot have both arrived back (well new cot cos I gave my old one away - but I never really did like it ;) ) Boys are super excited. Can't decide whether they want a baby brother or sister. One day it's a sister, the next it's a brother. Seriously, even if it is a girl, she's not going to be a girly girl, with two older brothers to copy :)

Well we're walking to school (looks like rain but hopefully it holds off) so must get going :)

14-15 weeks

* Gosh that virus was a shocker that triggered off a few other issues. Spent 3 days with my heart racing. Resting heart rate was between 116-120 most of the time. Didn't sleep for about 5 nights. Apparently it's hormone related. I tell you what... give me back the all day vomiting! Anyway, seems to have settled down now and will hopefully stay that way.

* As a result of being so sick I've fallen a bit behind with work, but I am getting there. Thanks for being so patient. Last week I had 7 spots left before Christmas, I now have 3... and enquiries from 6 others so far. I'd love to take on more, but I am just not going to risk this little bub by doing too much.

* Went to Pilates again.

* The road opened up down the bottom of our street, so now we can walk to school (and doesn't my butt know about that! Why did we decided to build on TOP of a hill?) The walk to school is beautiful though. We go down the street, into a valley, along the creek which is full of ducks, over the bridge and up the other hill. Thank goodness Ethan has a handle on his bike for pushing up the hill again.

* Ethan's enrollment for kinder. He would have LOVED to have stayed and played. Sorry buddy, we couldn't today :(

* Swimming lessons for both boys. Both doing GREAT. Ethan's even doing 5 kicks with his face in the water! That's HUGE for him, who up until a month or so ago screamed his head off if you washed his hair. He just adores his teacher Jody, and the other kids in his class. Really looks forward to it each week. Liam's doing great. He's in the big pool, doing great. Always loves swimming.

* Today we discovered a new park! Ethan had a ball. We're going back with Liam soon

* Letter land parade at school tomorrow for Liam. He's going as Red Robot, as I think majority of the kids in his class are. (all boys class, so no female characters in his room)

* Off to Frankston tonight to take some night photos with MPCC. Should be fun. Better go rug up and get ready.

13 - 14weeks

* Came down with a shocker of a virus - chest/cough thing

* Little bit of morning sickness - still nothing like with the boys and bought on more by the virus I think.

* Pilates

* Ethan swimming

* Play at the new park with swimming friends

* Amanda and Trinity popped in for a cuppa

* Shopped for new bathers

* Picked up referal

* Booked next scan

* Baked banana bread - yummy!

* Received 2nd round offer for kinder for Ethan. Yay, we thought he'd missed out by 3 places :(

* Skipped music as I felt too sick and didn't want to pass on my virus to anyone else.

* Photographed Alexandra - gorgeous cutie.

* Celebrated dad's (Pa's) birthday

Babies, babies, babies

* Photographed Hunter and his new baby sister Katie - how cute is she!

* Had my 12 weeks scan. All good :)

* Pilates - attempting to keep my pelvis together this pregnancy

* Photographed Narelle's baby girl Matise (photos to come)

* Doc appt - all good

* Music with Ethan

* Booked in at hospital

* Shopped for maternity clothes - huge, obviously preggie belly now :)

* Cleaned out my wardrobe and packed up all my jeans until next year

* Shopped for birthday presents

* Reading at school

* Big Russ' birthday bash

* Photographed 10mth twins and 3yo cutie boy (all very yummy... pics to come still)

* Photographed baby Angus - another very yummy one.

* Birthday party for my nephew Will, and also caught up with my brother and sister to exchange their birthday pressies (my sister is the day before Will's birthday)

* Hoping to slow down a bit this next week!