Happy Birthday Mama!

An early birthday celebration before Mama flies to the big apple for a girls week away!!

9 months old!

Our darling Lulu hit 9 months old yesterday. It's incredible how much can happen in a month! Luce is confidently sitting alone, both on the floor and in the bath. She is up on all 4's and rocking her way to the land of mobility! She is so close. She can take a few crawls backwards - she is under strict instruction NOT to crawl while I am away!!! She can move at lightening speed in her walker and easily maneuver it to where she wants to go.
Holly still loves to hold her and Harry whispers sweet nothing's at her when no one is watching.
She can clap now and on cue and is mighty proud if herself when she does it! She can wave and is saying Dada ( but not always on cue). She most defiantly knows who is who and if we say "where is holly" she will look at her and grin her big beautiful smile.
We love you Lucy you are a sweet little princess. Xx

Glow in the dark bath!

Inspired by Aunty Pol, we dropped into the $2 shop on the way home from school yesterday and stocked up on glow sticks by the dozen ... The out come: A 6pm rave in the bath!!! A huge hit with Holly and Harry!

Early morning walk

We miss you Dadda!!!

All three!

Go for gold!

Lulu

Holly's artwork

Holly collected these shells at Queenscliff a couple of weeks ago. The other day she painted them all, arranged them on a canvas and glued them all down- then asked me to write queenscliff at the bottom! It looks great and is now hanging in the kitchen - where any masterpiece should hang!

Loving bath time!

Harry's brain freeze prevention!

Out for dinner and Harry thought this was the best way to eat ice cream.

Sound asleep

After a late night with friends over for dinner, these two snuggled up together in our bed and fell asleep like this!

Around the house

Out of the mouths of babes

We were driving yesterday and Harry came out with something that sounded quite impressive for his age. I said to him "Harry how did you know that?"
What he came out with next made me laugh; "because I'm very clever" then he paused and added "actually because I'm very smart! I'm the incredible book eating boy - I ate 150,000 books, that's why I'm so smart!"
I had a good laugh to myself, he often often comes out with complex sentences and words. I love that he referenced one of his favourite books- it was way too cute!

Lucy sitting

Lucy is sitting now by herself, and getting much better by the day

Lucy: definitely Daddy's girl!

Can you see the uncanny family resemblance?
It's funny, I thought that photo was Andrew and Liz, but found out a few days later from Gabe it is actually Katie and Liz! It's funny because We have said for a while now that Lulu looks more like Katie's baby than mine! Andrew and Katie look a lot alike I think, so I guess it makes sense that she looks a lot like Katie.

More from Queenscliff

Queenscliff for the weekend

Rollarama!

 Today Holly and I met a bunch of Holly's school friends at the Caribbean Rollarama!  

After choosing the right sized skates (Holly was disappointed that they were not pink!) and the laces were finally laced, we all braved the first lap, it was tedious and the word slow is an understatement!  I was starting to think that this would be the longest hour and a half of my life!

But after 2 or 3 laps ... my gosh, they were off! No help needed, off on their own, still slow, but alone and not even holding on to the wall! 

I was so proud of the girls, they did a great job and picked it up so quickly!

We might just all have little future rollerskating champions on our hands!!!

 Holly and Tenisha

 So brave! Out in the middle all alone!

8 months old!

Lucy Lu was 8 Months old on Sunday.

She is such a little doll and SO interactive with us now.

She has started giving me random kisses.

She rolls all around the house, if I put her down, you almost need to send a search party to look for her 2 minutes later!

She is finally loving her food and will prefer food a lot of the time to a bottle.

Her favourite at the moment is puree sweet potato mixed with my bolognese sauce!

She is just about sitting by herself, she will sit for a while but eventually (gracefully) falls to one side.

She is trying her very hardest to get up on to all fours in the crawling position - she hasn't actually done it yet, but its oh so close!

She just adores attention from Holly and Harry.

She will purposely try and get Holly's attention if she is not looking at her.

She is very aware if I leave the room or someone else is holding her, and not always too keen on my leaving.

She still sleeps well - as long as she is well, poor little baby girl has had croup again, plus a mild chest infection and a runny nose.

She has 2 teeth at the bottom. The first appeared right on 7 months and the next 2 weeks later.

She still has at least 2 sleeps a day.

She is just beautiful and gorgeous and I could kiss her all day long (if only there were more hours in the day!)

xx