The Day After

Some photos of our wonderful Christmas Day. It was incredibly relaxing with no fuss but lots of fun and plenty of time to play with new toys and jump on the new trampoline. Even Aunty Pete gave it a go!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas and Best Wishes for A Wonderful 2008

Love The Aldred Family

Pop Goes The Wiggles

Well the title says it all...we had so much fun! It was a bit overwhelming to start with. The girls just didn't know where to look - the stage or the big screens. We had perfect seats, just 4 rows back and Archie loved the lights and music. The Wiggles are such amazing performers..they have a great sense of humour. I hope they come back again next year...we will definitely go again.

What We Love at this Time of Year.....

Christmas Crafting.....

Christmas Carols with Good Friends.....

Christmas Concerts where we forget what we are doing and get stage struck!.....

And Chubby Cheeks....

A Conversation with a 3 year old About Dinner...

Goes like this...
"What's for dinner Mum?"
" We are having hamburgers. Is that okay?"
"Mmm delicious. Do I get a special drink and a special toy as well? Will it come in a box?"

Can you tell what we ate while we were away?


And some sewing..A gorgeous little softie for our special friend who was christened on the weekend. We named the softie Archie the Cosmonaut. Thankfully he doesn't look anything like the real thing!!

We've all Been on a Summer Holiday.....

Archie our happy boy....

Annabel & Georgia - the girls in holiday mode in their Maccas sunnies

No posting from us for a while. We have had two weeks holiday to Coffs Harbour and Yamba, with a visit to the rellies in between. The girls had a great time. Lazy days spent at the beach, brunch at the cafe and plenty of resting and reading books for Mum and Dad. Can't say that there was much chance to catch up on sleep on my behalf but M managed to sneek the odd 2 second catnap while I wasn't looking.

It was also Michael's 40th Birthday. He wanted to sneak out of town for it, in a hope that the day would just slide by. But the kids and I made sure he celebrated in style.....chocolate cupcakes, lollies and party hats! We also had a nice birthday dinner with family on our way home and organised him a fantastic soccer cake. (photos of this still to come, once Aunty Jen get organised)

Spring in Canberra = Floriade

There is nothing like the opportunity to snort (this is what the girls call sniff) the flowers. The photos speak for themselves...the girls had a great afternoon with the highlight being the animal petting ring. Once they were over their fear of the woolly sheep we struggled to get them out!

Dancing Fairies

I thought I would share a blog that I read regularly, especially when I am having a bad day. I take my hat off to them. What an amazing family. Could you imagine trying to get out of the house?
http://wilkinsonquints.blogspot.com

And I just thought I would share some photos of our Dancing Fairies. Aunty Jen excelled herself and made the girls a beautiful fairy outfit for their birthday which must be worn for dancing. Thanks Aunty Jen.

And a posting on the blog wouldn't be complete without a photo of Archie brother (as the girls now call him)

Update on Archie

Thought I had better post some more recent pics of our new man. He is growing so fast. We have had some sleep issues this week but for the last two nights we seem to have things a bit more under control (touch wood) and I can only contribute it to this CD - Sounds for Silence. It is working wonders. He is now self settling after most feeds and we are no longer having a 3 hour witching period. Lets hope it keeps up

http://www.soundsforsilence.com.au/

Happy 3rd Birthday Georgia & Annabel

Who can believe that our little girls are 3!!

The last 3 years have gone so fast and you have both enriched our lives so much. We couldn't imagine life without you - your cheeky smiles, laughter and all the funny times you have together as sisters and best friends.

Happy Birthday beautiful girls xoxo

From this....

To This....

And to celebrate..not one but two cakes. The Fairy Princess cakes made by our beautiful friend Alecia and Dorothy the Dinosaur decorated by Aunty Petey (we think Petey has found a new calling in life - forget HRM, its onto bigger and better things - chief cake decorator!)

Archie Michael Aldred

Well he is now 3 weeks old. I thought I had better add some photos. These photos were take by a friend who is just establishing her own photography business - nice aren't they?? I hope she doesn't mind me posting her website.

http://www.trueimageportraits.com.au/

Anyway a little bit more about our new man

Date of Birth: 17th August 2007

Time: 12.48pm

Weight 3620g

We have nickmamed him piglet. All he does is eat and the eating is paying off with a huge weight gain of 300g in 12 days!

A Big Fatty

This one is for the english family to show you just how big my belly has grown. I think I have put on about 8kg in the last 5 weeks. Eeekkk......

People keep telling me that my bump is not that big and its not compared to when I was carrying the girls but I am starting to feel like I need a crane to move me around!

34 weeks

38 weeks and 2 days (who is counting?)