Weekend

This weekend I'm grateful for the friends I have made in the year and a half we have been here. The way they have embraced us and helped us to find a place in this beautiful city we now call home. This year I hope to widen that group further especially now I am getting back to normal (not pregnant) as well as cement the friendships I have.

As for Sunday. Baby breath do I need to say more.

Double up

Well I took my positive pic yesterday but time got away from me and I didn't get round to posting it.

So yesterday's pic is because I made it to the gym and really enjoyed having the time to myself.

As for today. Got to love pink headbands on Miss Boo. Finally she has enough hair to do something with and likes to put things in it. (edited 70s look with Camera+)

Recovered

This evening I have been going through the recovered images (93000) from my old computer trying to find any pictures from the first day of Froglets life.... And although I still have a long way to go but my positive pic is...

Tuesday

My happy pic may not look like much to anyone but is the result of some serious sorting of monkeys lego. Sorted by colour and piece shape. We are over half way through.

Today we were sick

Today was a yucky day. Sick in bed but at least it's only a 24hr thing for me as He-man had it on Saturday and on Sunday he was fine. Monkey however might be a bit worse with a temperature. Fingers crossed tomorrow we are better.

Today's positive pic (oh I like how that sounds...positive pic) is of froglet. Today he did his first real laugh. Not a chuckle a real laugh, at his daddy no less. Made me feel a 100 times better instantly. (taken with camera+ an awesome app designed by my friend L's amazing hubby)

See you tomorrow.

My positive year.

Life with three children is a little busy to say the least.

I have recently been inspired by a lady who spent a year taking daily polaroid pictures of things that made her happy. The project was called grateful365. She found that by focusing on the things which made her happy in her life on a daily basis she became a happier and more positive person. I have been thinking that this just might be a help for me too. While taking meds for PND works to some extent I need to feel a little more in control of my happiness. So I am going to attempt a similar project with my cell phone. Taking a picture with my phone and posting it to my blog a daily basis. My positive year starts now!

So picture number 1 is of the sidewalk art I walked passed which made me smile.

Im in Love!!!!

The new man in my life is now almost 5 and half weeks old and perfect in every way!


Meet Froglet!

11 days old.

check out the eyes.. now I know most kids have blue eyes to start but mine don't seem to.... will they stay or change to brown???

I don't have many photos from his birth as we lost most of the photos from his first two weeks when my hard drive got damaged and I lost photos that hadn't been backed up (My usual backup failed, without me knowing!). I have a few from my mum and some that I had uploaded to Facebook but thats it. We are still hoping we can resurrect them...

We have been spending the last 5 weeks getting to know Froglet and enjoying being able to spend some time together as a family without me feeling horrid all the time. I will never again take for granted the ability to run up and down the stairs without pain!
This christmas was our first on our own (no parents or anything). Although I love having big family christmas's it was nice to be able to just do things at our own pace especially after the last year.

Kids waiting for breakfast!

The kids in their Christmas Outfits, Thanks to Mum!

Our first Christmas dinner on our own.

This is by far my favourite thing about Christmas Dinner.... Trifle, again the first time I've made one. Yummy!

While He-Man was off work for the holidays we were able to hang out at home and go on a few adventures with the kids. We had a trip to Werribee Open range Zoo.

Sister love!

New Lego for Monkey

Bike for me!!!

Playing with the music maker at Werribee.

The challenges of multiple kids!

On Safari

My little drummers

And we went on a trip down the coast to Frankston to the Sand Sculpture Exhibition and The Enchanted Maze Garden.

The sand sculptures were amazing.. They are simply sand that has been compressed and carved. At the end of the exhibition they are bulldozed down.

The Enchanted garden was also wonderful. We could have spent the whole day there and cant wait to go back.

One of the amazing mazes

The fairy garden!

The world is returning to normal this week with He-Man going back to work and I am loving the simple routine and repetitiveness of it all. It is giving me time to reflect on all that I am grateful for in my life.