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The Art of trying to crawl

2008-04-20T12:33:00.004+10:00

Bear with me here.

This is a post about how Jack is almost crawling. The next time I'll do that "proud-braggy-mummy" thing is when Jack's sqatting on a potty and I'll declare he is almost toilet-trained, but anyway, here he is ...

ATTEMPT 1

Here we go ... Almost got it ...

Nearly there ... This is too much like hard work!

ATTEMPT 2

Good start ... Legs a bit stuck ...

Down ... And not recovering.

Not quite mastered, but how cute am I??

I'm a dick

2008-04-16T08:54:00.002+10:00

I just re-read that drivel of a description for this blog that I posted yesterday.

If you have been here prior to today you will have read it, did you stop yourself from vomiting?

It read like a blurb from The Days of Our Lives. Like footprints in the sand, the tide washes away ... these are the days of our lives - blergh!

Not sure if the current one is much better, but it'll do for now. My husband is beautiful and my children are amazing :-p

Big kids and I are waiting for Captain Jack to wake from his slumber so we can go to the park and have a picnic today. I've had 2 whole days at home and I need out!!!!

Photo's from today

2008-04-15T13:09:00.003+10:00

Hannah P, Isabel, Noah, Jack and Hannah M

Jack, who is all of a sudden only interested in Noah's trucks! He loves the wheels.

Jack is now 9 1/2 months old and still not crawling - and I don't mind! With Hannah I was so wanting her to "do stuff", but by the third I guess you know what "doing stuff" brings!

He is my gorgeous, angel from above and I love this little man to pieces. Oh, and he smells good - his neck, his breath, his feet!!! He is just so soft and scrummy.

"Stuff" he can do: clap hands, wave good-bye, kisses (big, open-mouthed, wet, sloppy kisses - the BEST kind!) and say mumma, dadda, bubba and nanna.

I can't say no!

2008-04-15T10:25:00.002+10:00

Well, it seems as though this is the place to drop off your children!

Sunday we had Hannah's friend, Bella. Yesterday and today we have Hannah's friend, Isabel.

And I just took a phonecall from another of the mum's of Hannah's friends ... another little girl named Hannah and she is getting dropped off at lunch-time for an hour or so.

The up-side is that my Hannah is able to be with her friends, the down-side is the mess, the noise (that high-ptched 6yo female screaming and giggling) and the fact that Noah is ostracised as being too - well, male!

He is not into Barbie, My Little Pony or playing "unicorns". And doesn't take well to the fact that the only role for him within their games is to be the "bad man", the "scary man", basically the one they all run away from!!

Jonathon will be home for lunch and I phoned him and told him to bring me chocolate, with hazelnuts. That should make everything okay.

My daughter, the cat ...

2008-04-15T09:28:00.002+10:00

I could end up insane ...

2008-04-14T10:57:00.001+10:00

By the end of these 2 weeks, being the school holidays!

Last week I had romantic notions of taking the kids, the bikes, the baby and the pram for a walk along the bike track, only stopping to watch the ducks, smell the flowers and just generally baske in the beauty and wonder that are my children ... BAH!

So far this morning, Hannah and Noah have had 3 screaming matches at each other over whose feet were touching whose under the table at breakfast, who really owns that broken shell picked up at the beach oh, about 4 months ago!, and who was sitting next to Jack first ... speaking of Jack - he has sneezed rice cereal everywhere, gagged on his toast scaring the bejaysus out of me and thought it would be hilarious to throw himself backwards when I was putting his socks on, promptly hurting his head and screaming!

We now have a friend of Hannah's over for a "play date" and thankfully she is sugar on a stick! Such a sweet little thing and is keeping H and N from tearing each other apart!

We will do the bike track, have a picnic, walk along the beach and get more than 1 broken shell! and I will enjoy this 2 weeks with my children .... I WILL!

I'm Baaaack!

2008-02-03T16:23:00.003+11:00

Wow! I had almost forgotten about this blog. Sooooo much has happened since my last post!

Jack is now 7 months old and sitting up by himself. Rolling about occasionally, but still fairly stationary. No teeth as yet, but I'm thankful for that as I am still breastfeeding, and oh so proud of myself, I must say! Only got to 6 weeks with Hannah and 4 months with Noah, so to still be going strong at 7 months and no reason to stop any time soon, I'm very happy.

Hannah is in Year One and Noah started Kindergarten!!! We had so many people tell us to hold him back, all people who hardly "know" him, of course! The people who really mattered, Pre-School teacher/Kindy teacher/daycare mum/health nurse etc, all assured us he was ready.

He is loving it and wanted to go on the School Bus on the very first day! Mummy is not ready for that, yet ...

His teacher's name is Mrs. Stroud and is lovely. A real "kindy" teacher, you know, big cheesy grin, high-pitched voice and so full of enthusiasm I feel she is going to BURST! And so dang happy all the time! She's lovely ...

Hannah's teacher is Mrs. Lott and thankfully she is lovely too! :) Just not so smiley and cutesy, a bit more "weathered" !

New Uniforms:

Jack Thomas Murray is here!

2007-07-21T19:34:00.002+10:00

On the 29 June 2007 at 2.26pm we welcomed Jack Thomas (we ditched the Cooper and went with Thomas!) Murray into our family!
He weighed 3465g, was 52cm long and had a head circumference of 36cm...and he is beautiful!

I am so, so in love with my precious baby boy and Hannah and Noah adore their little brother.

He is now 3 weeks old and we are slowly trying to establish some kind of routine, but it's early days and we are all adjusting slowly! Here's a photo:

Pregnancy Journey in pictures

2007-06-10T22:16:00.001+10:00

37 weeks pregnant

34 weeks pregnant

32 weeks pregnant

31 weeks pregnant

29 weeks pregnant

24 weeks pregnant

16 weeks pregnant

39 weeks today!

2007-06-10T21:41:00.001+10:00

I am 39 weeks pregnant today...can't believe we have nearly reached the end of this pregnancy journey and will very soon meet this precious little person who has been growing and developing inside me and is already so much a part of our family!

Hannah and Noah are getting very excited and are constantly hugging my tummy...Noah likes to call me "big belly"! And Hannah keeps telling me what she is going to do to help out - she is going to be absolutely wonderful!

Needless to say, Hannah is wanting a sister and Noah is wanting a brother!!! But I am sure that once Hannah meets her new little sibling she will be smitten...I hope!

Jonathon has been a part of the Bega Valley Rally all day and has had a great day. As tomorrow is a Public Holiday we are all looking forward to a family day and are thinking about taking the kids to see "Shrek 3" at the movies.

The kids and I went to lunch at mum and dads and then had a relaxing afternoon...Hannah has a cough and says her throat is sore - hope she is not coming down with a cold!

It has been very cold here over the last couple of days - we did have some sunshine today, though, which was very nice!

Am wondering constantly who this baby will look like - Hannah or Noah, Jonathon or I...maybe a little bit of all of us! Still very active in there despite the limited amount of room. I have a little wriggler in there!

Little Jack - mummy cannot wait to meet you, precious boy...continue to grow strong and enjoy your last week/days...you have some people out here that can't wait to hold you and love you...

Love Mummy

Today we went bush!!!

2007-04-09T22:56:00.000+10:00

31 weeks pregnant

Today we had a "family day" and Jonathon decided we should pack up some lunch and go driving through the bush...well, we all had a ball!

We took his work ute and did some 4 wheel driving until we came to the most beautiful creek where we decided to stretch our legs and have lunch.

We saw 2 large goanna's - Hannah and Noah thought they were great! We kept our distance though...their claws looked incredibly sharp and fierce...and apparently they are FAST when they want to be.

We then continued on to some cascades which were beautiful. The hike down to the water was fun, the trek back up was not so much fun! Especially for this 30 week pregnant woman!

We saw plenty of horses on farms (much to Hannah's absolute delight) and Noah was such a trooper. He took a fall on some rocks, took skin off his elbow, but didn't miss a beat - we have one tough little cookie!

Unfortunately we forgot the camera, so no piccies - bugger! Next time....

I have my 30 week doctors appointment tomorrow...can't wait to see "Jack" again...Jonathon is coming to meet this new doctor. I think he is wonderful, hope Jonathon likes him!

Hannah, Noah and Jack???

2007-04-07T15:55:00.000+10:00

29 weeks pregnant

Hannah - Born 8 October 2001 - Our gorgeous, cheeky, funny, independent little girl who all of a sudden had become a "big school kid"...

Hannah started Kindergarten this year at our local Catholic School and she is loving it - thank goodness!!!

Noah - Born 7 March 2003 - Our adorable, mischevious, soft, but strong little boy who loves his "mama"!!!

Noah is at Pre-School this year without Hannah and after an initial adjustment period is now making friends and starting to enjoy himself - thanks goodness!!!

And we are expecting a baby boy in June...the 17th...we have already chosed his name -

Jack Cooper Murray

I am 30 weeks pregnant today!

Easter is Good!

2007-04-07T15:42:00.001+10:00

We LOVE Easter in this house!!! The lot of us are chocoholics...dark, light, white chocolate - it all tastes sooooo good.

Hannah and Noah are enjoying the continual stream of family members popping over bearing their chocolate goodies...rabbits, eggs, ducks etc. And tomorrow - well! We are having an Easter egg hunt...even I am excited and I'll be hiding them!!! LOL

We DO understand the true meaning of Easter and yesterday we all enjoyed our Good Friday fish lunch at mum and dads, but boy do we love those easter choccies!