Merry Christmas from me and my little family! 2013 has been the bestest year for us with the arrival of Nixon, another little chubba to enjoy on Christmas day! Thanks for hanging in there with me, reading along as I bumbled {and complained} my way …
Hell yes I’m jumping on the Christmas Bark bandwagon – this stuff tastes SO good, is so easy, cheap and looks fab. If you can’t bake to save your life or simply don’t want to turn the oven on in these scorching temperatures {are we …
Louie, our big Shi-Tzu, noticed we had a baby a few months ago and seems to have taken on the role of Baby’s Guard Dog without much hesitation. Dash is a bit of a ‘special’ dog and likes to take his time with things. He has refused to acknowledge Nixon until today, when I happened to notice that he was on guard duty instead of Lou.
I can’t believe I happened to snap these shots. If you’re not a dog person, you’re probably horrified and grossed out right now, perhaps getting all judgy about how I let my dogs lick my baby ……. whatev.
For those of you whose dogs are part of their family, doesn’t this little scene just melt your heart? Nix was giggling away, loving that Dash was close enough to pull hair….finally!
Oh this just made me cry. It’s short and it’s probably oh so familiar to you stay at home Mum’s and Dads out there. I watched that beautiful video as I was deciding between writing a Things I’m Loving post {full of beautiful pics and …
I have been channelling my domestic goddess even more than normal lately and, I have been S E W I N G. I know, it IS a big deal. Prior to recent adventures in Spotlight I had not sewed since Home Economics in Form 2. Think how along that must have been for it to have been called Form Two!
Luckily my Mum had not upgraded her sewing machine since then so I remembered how to use it fairly quickly – sewing machine is just about as old as me and pretty much brand new! I think she got over her domestic goddess phase pretty quickly lol. I have since made bandanna bibs, an advent calendar {which I will show you as soon as I learn what applique means and fix the numbers on} and this – behold my beauteous Christmas bunting!
I’m pretty sure this is the peak of my ability here, I mean those flags have a backing, I sewed them, inside-outed them, PUT BIAS BINDING ON THEM {thank you Jesus and YouTube}, I sewed loops on the end of the bias binding………oh, and top stitching……phew.
Yes, I am quite proud of my first length of Christmas Bunting. Mum said she wanted to buy some for the house up north and I said “whoa there, I have fabric in my stash of one-project-so-far-leftovers, let me make you some bunting!”. And so I did.
The end.
Ah well, I guess you can see my advent calendar sans advent numbers, I will finish this next week!
I miss wearing dresses. I really do. I have quite easily slipped back into my old wardrobe and quickly figured out what translates into breastfeeding-friendly attire. But, you can’t really hike up a dress and feed bubba whilst standing in line {for an hour!} for …
Yesterday was seriously one of the most boring days of my life, no joke. E is away with Mum and Dave is in Hong Kong so Nix and I are at home cruising. Which is actually quite nice, the boring part is how I chose …
Oh my sweet little doll-baby.
How are you five months old you little maniac? You truly are quite hilarious, your mad giggles stop us all mid-task and make our hearts sing, your little mouth smiles so big at everyone, your fat ol’ legs are just getting stronger by the second and I can’t keep pace with your need for food QUICKLY at mealtimes. What a treat you are.
The last 10 days have seen you perfect the rolling-over manoeuvre, you are laid down for no more than 10 seconds then over you go; quite content for a wee bit, then your rage sets in – you are so angry that you can’t crawl yet, so angry that you rolled on top of your toy, so angry that you can’t eat the iPad. Life’s tough when you’re a baby.
Daddy is in Japan this week and Hong Kong next week and you love having him FaceTime you, I’m sure you miss him just as much as Louie, who spends his days laying by the front door waiting for him to come home. When Lou isn’t being so melodramatic he is guarding you. Whenever you are on the floor or in your bouncinette, there’s Louie! You’re his baby and I guess he loves you just as much as we do.
Solids are progressing swimmingly, I fancy that you’ll be a lot like your big brother and just love food. So far I have made all of your food and will continue until you are no longer Master of the Puree. You also like to eat your left foot and this keeps you amused for quite some time. You are the biggest nosey-parker I have ever known, all the time watching, looking around for who said what, who dropped that and what on earth is Nana doing rummaging in the cupboard and why isn’t she looking at you?
Life with you is just the bees knees Nixie xx {except when you spit up ALL of the milk in the pool at swimming lessons, I could do without that and so could the other parents I imagine mmmkay?}
I’m SO excited to share this with you! You know when you get a gift for someone and you just know without a doubt that it’s going to be their most favourite gift ever? That’s how I feel about this sword I ordered for Ethan. …
