Goodbye Rabbi

Well,Rabbi went missing a couple of weeks ago.Poor Jasper,as that really was his best companion,and it was something he had had since gran Linley gave it to him as a newborn.He is handling it well,just sometimes asks where rabbi is.

Well,ANOTHER rainy day in perth...makes it hard to get out for walks.We are still waiting for labour to start!.I am booked in to be induced this saturday(2nd August)So,we are very excited that we will definately be meeting our son on the weekend.Hooray!!
July has been the longest month of my life!.

Still no baby!!But I had fun dressing up...

Tonight i got mummy to hand me down my 'butterfly wings',fairy crown,pink fairy skirt and pink handbag,and i put it all on and was very happy.Mummy says i am a real girly-girl!.

I love bathtime...

I had the bath all to myself tonight.I had fun washing my baby doll,while mummy washed me...I carefully washed behind babys ears and babys toes.
Speaking of babys,my baby brother is due today but he is not here yet...
maybe he will come tommorow.

Our mates Jack + Logan came to play today!

what have we been up to?...

Davie has our car at the mo so,we have been abit housebound but it has actually been quite nice.The kids have been busy pulling out their paints and crayons etc(all christmas gifts from family)and playing outside and getting mucky in the sand...inbetween the showers of rain.

The kids are loving having their daddy home more now as we wait for baby to arrive.Today jasper really enjoyed baking gingerbread men with his dad,he loves baking anyway but,having daddy to help was very nice for him.Ruby too is turning into a real daddys girl.Yesterday,we went up to Rockingham beach and jasper and ruby liked climbing the big tree in the playground there,ok..with help from dad.

No signs of labour yet.

Waiting,waiting....

A quiet time as we await the birth of our youngest child.The children have been keeping themselves occupied...Jasper is very into building with blocks and anything else he can get his hands on,he builds houses and roads and citys and today it was sandcastles!.Ruby meanwhile is very into imaginative role-play,copying mummy mostly and also having conversations between her dollys and teddies.Today i found her in her bed surrounded by all her soft toys,so cute.She has also turned into abit of a nark lately,quite handy actually when we want to know what jasper's upto(usually destroying something somewhere),we just send ruby off to find him and report back..heeheehee.

We drove out to Guildford today in the swan valley,a much older part of perth with lots of old buildings and cottages,very pretty,close to the city too.Our reason for the trip was to pick up the newborn carseat that we are hiring.The woman who hires out the carseats had two small children so,ofcourse my kids ran inside and wanted to stay all day!Jasper liked playing with the boy as like jas,this boy wore superman on his shirt!.
On our way home we stopped at Burswood park on the swan river,to let the kids stretch their legs.It was a perfect day for our children as every few minutes a helicopter would land and take off near us,also we saw speed boats,planes and trains(on our way home)AND they got to feed the swans,play in the playground and have icecream!(Yes,icecream,in the middle of winter!).Not bad.

Hospital vist and picnic in fremantle

Went to fremantle yesterday after our hospital vist in Subiaco.We had a picnic at the esplanade and the kids had a play in the lovely playground there.Beautiful winters day too.
Hospital vist went well,am booked in now and we had a scan of baby,which was amazing seeing him like that at full-term,dave said that billy was scowling.The good news is that billy is no longer transverse and is now in the head down-get-me-outta-here-position.
gosh,exciting.

Countdown...

Well,with only two-and-a-half weeks untill baby arrives(criky,that snuck up on us abit?)we really thought we better get bubs room organised.Team doylie got BUSY!and really quite creative...we found abit of neglected white paint in the garage,mixed some food-colouring into it and the result was a lovely aqua(?)shade.We then let jas and roo go nuts and with a tiny bit of help from dad,they each painted a section.

YES,we could have just gone to Bunnings(hardware)and purchased a test-pot of paint,but what fun would THAT be!?

We are really quite pleased with the babys room,it is cheap n'cheerful,not at all boring and it's a nice place to be.

Now,BRING ON BABY!

The baby's room is all ready...

BIRTHDAY WISHES

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR GERRY..BIG BRO...UNCLE,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!

SENDING LOTS OF LOVE AND BEST WISHES YOUR WAY GERARD,ON YOUR 37TH...ENJOY THE ALLBLACKS VS SPRINGBOKS MATCH IN CHILLY WELLINGTON TONIGHT!

"Not so magical storytime"...

Jasper got very creative this morning with stuff from the pantry,he was very absorbed in it and told me he was building a house,cool.
I took them up to the local library today,thinking the kids might enjoy storytime...What a disaster!.We were late.My two were the only kids who were up pretty much 2-minutes after sitting down,my two were the only ones making noise,pulling pamplets off the table(and recieving stony-faced looks from the librarian),and my two were not at all interested in storytime.(to be fair,they had not been before!).I took them into the kids section and OFCOURSE jasper does a big poo in his pants!,and after pulling him(yelling and rebelling)and his sister through the library i discover the toilet door locked!Grrrrr...finally,after cleaning him up we made it back just in time for craft time after storytime(the only pleasant five-minutes.)Then,as we leave Jasper has a huge tanty!,just to top off an already awful vist to the library.
I'm far too pregnant and fed-up for that nonsense!.Next time I'll put a dvd in and let the little bugger run wild!,while I go and sleep.

More baby clothes for William...thanks Aunty Rose!...oh,and a couple more photos of our beautiful children.

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