I can't say no!

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 ...

I could end up insane ...

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!

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!

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

37 weeks pregnant

34 weeks pregnant

32 weeks pregnant

31 weeks pregnant

29 weeks pregnant

24 weeks pregnant

16 weeks pregnant

39 weeks today!

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