A quick photoless update.

Hello!!! Well, we moved into the shed about 5 weeks ago now and, although it is an absolute mess with boxes and lots of work still to be done, we do love it! I know 5 weeks is plenty of time to unpack boxes, but we were given a wall and have decided to use it inside, so until that goes up I can't unpack into the furniture around it.  We have been showering down the road at a relatives place the last few weeks as we had no hot water, but that's all sorted now, which makes life easier.  Although, this week the toilet broke and I much prefered having a toilet and no shower, instead of the other way around.   

On the pregnancy front, I'm now 26 weeks and starting to panic about how quickly this pregnancy is going.  We're going to have a baby in no time! Had a checkup at the hospital this week and all is going well so far. The pregnancy insomnia has definitely set in as it is 4 in the morning at the moment and I'm wide awake. 

Our little lady is as cute as ever and I've been lucky enough to get some snuggles in bed since we moved into the shed, as she gets quite cold in the night.  She's never been a cuddly girl so I'm loving this at the moment and I think daddy is too! 

Well, we are actually having a sleep over at daddy's parents place tonight as daddy had a gig in town and I went to watch, so I'm not on my own computer and this one seems to be a bit faulty (randomnly jumps lines and keys don't work), so I'm off.  When we have our internet set up, I will put new photos of the shouse up. 

What we've been up to!

Wowee, it's been a long time.  I think my last post was the announcement of my pregnancy and I'm now 20 weeks along.  I'm having a scan on Tuesday and it's the one where I find out the sex.  I cannot wait to know!!! My head is forever saying 'oooh, maybe it's another girl, or maybe it's a boy, or maybe it's a girl, or maybe it's boy' and I can't wait to put this circular thought pattern to rest with an answer.

Onto other news..........
Even though we didn't plan on it taking anywhere near this long to move into the shed, I'm glad we have taken the time to do things properly, because the inside looks so much more like a house than I ever thought was possible.  I would really love to be able to share this in photo format, but I can't get my memory card reader to work at the moment and so the photos are unavailable. I can tell you that it has walls, actually, painted walls, lights, ceiling fans, power points, a kitchen sink, a working toilet and other less interesting, but highly important things.  We will be putting the last coat of sealant stuff on the floor tomorrow and then we will start moving in.  Yipee!!!!!! Even I can't fathom how excited I am about this.  We have been living with Daddy's parents for 4 months now, and although they are lovely, I can't wait to get into my own space and I'm sure they can't wait to have their own space back to themselves.

With walls, but no paint and a big mess of stuff inside. 

Ok, now for some little girl news.  Oh how she's grown.  She has so many words now I can't even count them on 2 hands anymore.  She has gotten incredibly good at 'telling' me things and 'asking' me for things.  I'm amazed that we can actually communicate and understand each other successfully about 90% of the time now.  She copies everything I do and wants to 'help' with everything.  She loves closing doors, drawers and anything else that is closable.  She 'dances' which involves lots of arm waving, bopping and spinning.  She kisses, cuddles, pats and tickles.

Collecting things (sand, sticks and leaves)  from under daddy's old cubby house. 

Listening to Steve Wonder

Making a birthday card for my friend.

Joining in on family yoga time. 

At the moment she is staying with my parents for 4 days in a town 2 hours away from me.  I took her yesterday and spent the night and left her this afternoon.  It was one of the hardest things I've ever done and I cried for a fairly decent portion of the drive home.  I felt sick to my stomach worrying about her, as she's spent the last week sick and has struggled to be anywhere other than right by mummy or daddy's side.  However, my mum really wanted to have her and because they live a few hours drive away, they don't get to see her as often as they would like and asked if she could come and stay for a few days.  I'll be at work during the day and am going to go out to the shed and decorate her bedroom walls with the new decals I bought her today in the afternoons after work.  Although daddy will miss her just as much as me, I think he is looking forward to being able to work on the shed without his little helper for a week.  

I don't think I can wait any longer!!!

Something is happening here and it's very exciting and I don't think I can wait any longer to post about it.  I'll give you a hint: I need a new name for my blog because the 'three' part won't be true for much longer!!!


Did you guess?

That's right, I'm pregnant!!!

I'm so excited to meet my new baby, although I'm glad I have Milly to keep me distracted this time, so maybe it won't seem like it is taking forever.

I'm too overwhelmed to write much more at the moment.  Right now I only seem to be able to think about it and not actually write about it.

More favourites

My little miss is going to be one next week and I thought I needed to do an update post to share her latest 'favourites' with you.

1. Walking with things over her head. She puts towels, my clothes, blankie and anything else she can find and completely covers her head with it and takes off.  Needless to say there have been a few bumps.

Her uncle picked her up mid-walk for a photo.

2. Throwing things over her shoulders.  She sits in front of a pile of toys and throws each item one by one ever her shoulder and then is amazed that they are all behind her when she turns around.

3. She still LOVES her books.  Her favourite at the moment is 'Diary of a Wombat', by Jackie French. She turns the pages and points to all the wombats on each page.

4. Swimming!!! This girl is turning into a real water baby and now kicks and paddles her arms in a crazy sort of fashion when she is in the water.  Good thing we have our very own creek and swimming hole on our property.

Swimming in our creek

5. Sharing her food with anyone who will take it.

I'm going to add in things she has learnt or is learning too, just for my records as this seems to be the easiest way to record it until I unpack her baby book.

1. She now knows where to find other peoples mouth, nose, ears and bellybutton and she can point to her own 'boobies' (thank you daddy for teaching her that one!) I think she is starting to say 'there' when she points to them too, but I could be wrong.

2. She says 'ta' when she wants something or wants to give someone something.

'Ta' (Gimme that camera mummy!)

3. She has been walking for 3 weeks now.

4. I think she is trying to say 'car' and 'dog' (which she is a bit scared of for now).

She is such a beautiful little girl and I still can't believe I am going back to work full time and leaving her all day with daddy. I don't want to miss anything, but I also want to Daddy to get to do what I have done for the past year (and I am our best chance at earning a regular income up here!).

Sorry about the sideways photos, but I can't figure out how to rotate them right now and I don't have time to do it all over again.

Gosh, it's been awhile! Unfortunately I have lost my USB cable for the camera so I don't have updated photos to show you, but I do have a few exciting things to tell you.

Firstly, I have shown you a few photos of our 'creek' on here.  Well, it turns that the bit I thought (and was very happy with) was the creek was, infact, a small gully leading into the creek.  We actually have a proper  creek through our property with a fairly decent swimming hole.  Today, after we had done lots of hammering and sweating and measuring, Little Miss was getting a bit whiney so we took her for a swim.  She took a bit to get used to the temperature of the water, which was a bit colder than your average swimming pool, but absolutely loved it and I can see us spending a lot of time there in the future.

Secondly, there has been quite a bit of shed progress.  My dad came out and sealed the concrete floors when we were lucky enough to have a few rain free days.  We have finished putting the fibro up for the walls.  The pump is now working, but we still need to do a bit of work on the plumbing.

Thirdly, I got a phone call today and I have a permanent job!!! I'm really overwhelmed by this at the moment, because it means handing my 'mummy reigns' over to daddy for awhile.  I'm so worried about what I'll miss and how much time she will spend away from me, but I just keep telling myself that it is such a great opportunity for Daddy and for her.  I'm getting upset thinking about it right now, so I'll leave it there for now until I've had some more time to process it.  I start next week.  Eeeeeeeekkkkkkkkkk!!!!

That's about it for now.  Thanks for reading and have a splendiferous day!

P.S. I feel a bit weird posting about my happy little life and my meaningless troubles when there is so much devastation happening in Brisbane (where I lived until 4 weeks ago).  I get choked up watching the news and keeping up to date with facebook.  I think about my friends that were affected, even if only a little bit and how I wish I was there, because our house wasn't anywhere near the flood affected areas and we could have offered accommodation and food to people we know.  I really hope everyone that I know that was affected is doing ok and being looked after.  

Street sign update

A few days ago I posted about the rut I seem to be stuck in and I had a few projects to get me out of it.  I'm  pleased to report that as soon as I finished that post I took Little Miss for a walk and then Daddy came home and we went for a swim.  It seems the post worked! At least temporarily anyway.


I also got working on my street sign project that you can read about here. I now have a photo so I can stop trying to describe what it is I'm trying to do with our street number, because I was doing a terrible job of that!

This one is my pretend mother -in-law's.  I didn't look at it closely before I started cutting circles for my own and I have cut out way too many, but I'm sure I can use them all somehow.  Our number is 4 digits so I need to come up with 2 other patterns.  I'm thinking stripes for one and am hoping for suggestions for the other one.  Please?

It is difficult to photograph reflective vinyl in a dark room!

My pretend MIL is holidaying in New Zealand at the moment, so I am waiting for her to come back before I actually start sticking anything.  She is a clever lady and more often than not has a much smarter way of doing things than I do. I love to learn from watching her do anything.  Especially sewing! (I'm good at getting of topic aren't I?)


I should have more to show you in a week or so.  I haven't made it to Spotlight yet, so there has been no progress on the bunting.  I do, however, have a location and a guest list for Little Miss's 1st birthday party and I will get invitations today hopefully.

Random happenings

Well, since my last post I have thought of a few things I want to post about, but didn't get around to it, so I'll put them together here.

Firstly, I wanted to write about the amazing christmas presents we got (even though that was over a week ago).  Everyone was so thoughtful and we got so many useful things for our new house, including rugs for the floor, outdoor lights, farmers hats, a gift voucher for the good guys (how fun) and lots of other things.  BUT, there was one gift that really stood out for me and infact I burst into tears when I got it.  Daddy's sister put a lot of thought and effort into her presents this year and went with handmade presents.  She put effects on some photos with photo shop and printed them on canvas for various people.  Ours was 2 prints about 30cm square each and have a some kind of effect to make them look like they were painted.  One is of the house we just moved out of in Brisbane and the other is of the Shed house.  Now I know the house in Brisbane was just a rental, but we loved the house and it is the house that was Little Miss's home for her first year of life.  (I'm choking up as I write this, what a sook! Although, I'm also listening to Rootless Tree by Damien Rice so that's not helping my emotional state).  Anyway, I loved the present so much and I am so grateful that Little Miss has such a great, thoughtful Aunty to grow up with.   (one of two, incase my sister is reading this!)

Left: Brisbane house Right: Shed house

The present Little Miss got from her Aunty was just as amazing and thoughtful and I can't wait to get into our shed and paint the walls so I can hang these lovely prints up.  So much for not giving her name away! Oh well, I had to show you, they look so good.

Terrible photo, but each print has something on it that starts with that letter: Apple, Meerkat, Elephant, Lion, Iguana and Antelope

I have a few other things to post about, but I think I'll do them separately.