Christmas Day ...

 Our little Santa baby

 Daddy lit up the front of our house this year, apparently next year will be bigger and better though!

 Cheers to an intimate christmas lunch

A beautiful two and a half

A few more Christmas ones ...

 Uncle Miles came round for breakfast on Christmas morning with lots of presents! 

Harry was very lucky and got this cool work bench. He loves his power tools ... just like his Godfather!

And Holly was very excited with the barbie doll he bought her - spoilt rotton!

Happy New Year ... it's summer time!



A big Happy New Year to all our friends and family.  We hope 2012 brings you all the fun and happiness you deserve.  So this is where we are up to at ourfamilyfreeman ....
Its definitely summer time here, today we hit 40 degrees and we are absolutely loving Uncle Tim right now for working his butt off before Christmas to install our airconditioning system!
Mama  came out of hospital on Christmas eve and we had a nice quite Christmas this year.  Mama is recovering well and walking around nice and straight (as opposed to bent over - you will all notice a BIG improvement!)  The operation was pretty successful, we are 12 days in and its slowly getting better.  A few days after we got home, we put an SOS call out to Nanny, who then flew down 3 days later to help us.  Grandma has been amazing helping us out and so has Nanny and our good friend  Jeanette who looked after all 3 kids last week!
Holly has been going stir crazy after being cooped up in side for a week with a raging fever. She is now down in Rye hanging out with the Staffords having an absolute ball. 
Nanny goes home on Thursday and we will slowly start to return to normal.  I still have another 2 weeks of no lifting anything heavier than 2kgs and no sitting for longer than 5 mins.
2012 is going to be an AWESOME year in this house!!!



 We broke out the slip and slide this week.  I forgot how much fun those things were!



Some iPhone Christmas snaps

 I still haven't had a chance to clear my camera, but here are some photos from Xmas day.  It was a different Christmas.  Uncle Miles came around for breakfast, then the 5 of us had a lovely lunch together and then Andrew took Holly and Harry to Tim and Uyens for the big Christmas lunch while I stayed home and Grandma came and stayed with Luce and I for dinner.  There are a few more chrissy pix to come soon from the real camera!

 This year "Pa Santa" turned into the Aussie Santa! 

 Christmas morning, before the santa sacks were attacked!!

 Me and my beautiful boy, this little ball of gorgeousness is just too cute for words at the moment. He has just discovered his lengthy vocabulary and is coming out with the funniest things ... i am laughing every hour at the moment!  a few Harry funnies

"Mummy, don't ever ever do that again!"

"Harry doesn't remember ... oh yes Harry remembers!"

"Let Harry think about it ..... ummmmmm NO!"

Last night when he lost the plot over a lolly pop he found ... "Daddy said Harry not have lolly pop, but Harry does WANT lolly pop!

He is the funniest little boy, and has me laughing so much that I'm thankful for all the pelvic floor exercises I'm doing!!

 Uncle Tims new pool on Christmas day!

Piper and Indie

Around the house

 Lulu 5 weeks old

 snuggles in bed

 This poor little girl has been so sick.  She wasn't feeling so well on Christmas day and then for the whole next week she spent her days in bed or on the couch.  She was so sick with fevers and vomiting all she wanted to do was sleep.  Luckily I think she has just come out of it and feeling a lot better.

Baby Lucy - 5 weeks old

Hollys last day of 4 year old Kinder

 The week before christmas was Hollys last day of kinder. She has had such a great year at Flamingo Kindergarten and if she had her way would stay there forever! 

 Holly with Sam - one of the teachers, and Sienna, one of her Kinder besties

The teachers gave the kids photo puzzles of themselves, Holly and Sienna were pretty excited that they were in the photos together!

A quick update ....

It has been very quiet here at ourfamilyfreeman. After a whole pregnancy of pain and bed rest, I made the call to fix the problem. On Wednesday I was admitted to Cabrini hospital and a very nervous Mama underwent a microdicectomy. John McMahon the surgeon removed a big chunk of disk from my spine -L5, S1. I am still in hospital and recovering well. Andrew - aka superdaddy- is home with Lucy and Holly and Harry are hanging out with Grandma and the Staffords. Andrew will have them all back under one roof tonight and I will be home tomorrow morning. Fingers crossed that this relieves some if my pain! I have a 4 week recovery of no sitting and no lifting - including Lucy! Luckily superdaddy has 4 weeks off work.
2012 is going to be a great year!!!!!

Lucy at 4 weeks

 Lucy is 4 weeks old this week! How time flies. She is just beautiful and fitting in perfectly. there are still lots of arguments over who gets to hold her - the novelty is definitely not wearing off! She is such an easy baby, she barely cries and feeds like clockwork every 4 hours.  We love you Luce xx

 Sunbaking outside last week while Holly and Harry played on the slip and slide

 How lucky Lucy is to have such a doting big sister.

Harry 2 and a half

Bring on Summer!!!

 We had a couple of hot days last week, so I finally decided to break out the slip and slide!  This was one of my favourite things to do as a kid ... and judging from the fun Holly and Harry had, I think it might now be one of theirs too!

Putting up the Xmas tree ... on the 1st of Dec!

 We put up the christmas tree a couple of weeks ago. Both the kids took turns putting the star on top!

On top of this Daddy has also gone a bit crazy with the lights and has decorated the front of the house! We have lots of twinkle lights, Merry Christmas signs, and even a big inflatable santa!

Our neighbours won this year, but Daddy swears that it will be twice as bright next year!

Merry Christmas!

 This is the first year that we have had a Santa photo where no one is afraid of Santa! It is also the first year the kids have sat on his la. For the past 4 years Santa has hidden behind the chair while the kids sat on the chair, and popped his head out that the last minute for the photo!
Harry's was insistent that he wore his Roar outfit (as he likes to call it!) and wouldn't take no for an answer, I kind of like it though, because this is an absolute snapshot of him at this age - always in costume!

Santa also had a sense of humour this year and asked if he could use  Lucy in his sleeping baby pose!!! Very cute!