omg there's a baby in there!

oh the hilarity! My blog is so quiet and boooooooring at the moment I thought I would post a bunch of belly pics to make it look like I am not a crap blogger LOL.

Alrighty... (hope you don't mind see me in my undies...think you'll be seeing a little more than just that soon iykwim... )

14wksish:


18wksish:


27wksish:


31wksish:


And Jet's belly cos he wanted to get in on it too

The Game...

I have seen this on a few blogs now and thought it looked like fun, so here is mine!

(I nabbed it from Kris, tiKKi and Lis ;) )




1. April Rain (B&W), 2. Satay Combination, 3. Warrnambool, 4. chocolate browns, 5. Ben Gillies, 6. Coke..., 7. Halls Gap, 8. Chocolate Bar, 9. 2008 International Women's Day (March 8)-11, 10. For my boys..., 11. Liberated Women, 12. April


Here are the rules if you want to play too:

a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd's mosaic maker).
The Questions:
1. What is your first name? (april)
2. What is your favorite food? (satay)
3. What high school did you go to?
(warrnambool college...nothing came up for that though so I just did warrnambool)
4. What is your favorite color? (brown)
5. Who is your celebrity crush? (ben gillies)
6. Favorite drink? (coke)
7. Dream vacation?
(halls gap, I hate travelling, so its somewhere close to home LOL)
8. Favorite dessert? (chocolate)
9. What you want to be when you grow up? (a woman)
10. What do you love most in life? (my boys)
11. One Word to describe you. (liberated)
12. Your flickr name (~april~)

Harri's hat!

A little while ago, you may recall, LOL, I made Harri a cute as stretchy beanie and have been patiently waiting for her Mama to post a pic so I could nab it....

And she has! Isn't Harri beautiful!!

More pics of FO's in use :)

I nabbed these from Harriet's Mama's EC blog a few days ago but haven't gotten around to blogging them yet...until now :)

So here is Ms Harriet modelling her dress, hat AND legwarmies all at once!

Finished objects in use, yay!

(Yeah I am so not creative with titles at 7:56am when I have had next to zero sleep for oh....however far along this pregnancy is...)

Harriet's Mama was kind enough to let me nick the photos she posted on her EC blog of Harri modelling the legwarmies I made for her, so I am sticking them on here too :)
I think the fun of making something for someone doubles, triples....skyrockets maybe? when you know that you have made something useful and that they like, and photos are even better, LOL.

So here they are! And the original post where the photos came from is here.

Photos of Finished Objects!

So if you are Harriet's Mama and don't want to spoil the surprise, don't look!!!

Over the last few weeks I have been knitting away madly to make a few things for Ms Harriet (unfortunately I dropped a stitch on the very rainbow thingy and couldn't save it...had to frog it and start it again...well, I will start it again when I stop being shitty at it!).

Harriet and her parents are doing Elimination Communication (and the related blog is a fascinating read!!), so I tried to make things that are EC friendly. Here are the finished objects.... there will be at least one more (the rainbow thingy), but have a bit of yarn left over from these things and keep contemplating what I could use it for LOL.

(btw I am linking these to my Ravelry projects so you can find the patterns from there if you are interested...if you aren't on Ravelry, well then, maybe you should be LOL)

Firstly some very cute Legwarmies. The pattern is made for 3mths - 2 years so I tried to make them a wee bit smaller so that they would fit Harri better now. Not the most colourful wool, but being Cleckheaton Cocoon it is very soft, and the colour can go with anything I reckon :)



Next up is a Sleepsack. Kind of a deceiving name because it is open at both ends, so more like a sleeptube! (Notice I manage to snap the pic only seconds before Indy stood on it, cheeky cheeky!) Ultra soft and warm, the ribbing is Paton's Jet, which is a blend of wool and alpaca and the body is The Knittery's Posmerino, a blend of merino and possum fur!



This next project was a little bit scary for me, LOL. It has *gasp* side seams! I have never done side seams before, but can now say I nailed and am no longer afraid! (Though I think I may have made the seam too thick on the inside iykwim) This is Blossom, a dress made in The Knittery's Merino and Cashmere, the colourway is called Bloody Mary.
I am going to take the ribbon off though, I don't like it, its shitty ribbon... I didn't realise it was shit until yesterday when I took it off the reel thingy to sew it on :( I think I will crochet a tie instead.



I have a fair bit of the Merino/Cashmere leftover from Blossom so yesterday I whipped up this hat, from a Cleckheaton Crochet book I bought a couple of weeks ago, pattern not in Ravelry sorry... A Lace hat it's supposed to be the 3mths size, but I think I made it a wee bit big...good thing babies grow and not shrink!!!



So I am sort of working on Rainbow thingy, LOL, and with still a fair bit of the merino/cashmere left I am thinking of what else I can make with it... and starting to think about making stuff for #3. Or maybe Indy... Or maybe Jet... Or maybe all 3 LOL.

More photos :)

More teasing here, hehehe.

Have finished 2.5 things for Ms Harriet now (the .5 is seaming that I am avoiding because its scary LOL) and cast on another yesterday...while contemplating another teehee.

So without much more blabbering, photos!



The first photo is an update of the ball of 'rainbow' wool that I posted the other day. And second photo is some very rainbow wool that I picked up the other day :)

Because I am a teaser and teasing is fun

(and it makes me look like I am actually blogging when I'm not really writing about anything interesting, LOL)

another sneaky peek....




This is about to become something else for Ms Harriet. The colours kinda suck in that photo, LOL, but it is supposed to be sort of rainbow coloured, not bright (because it is merino wool and possum fur) but still rainbow-ish...I just suck at taking photos of yarn, hehe. Will try to get a better one when the work is in progress ;)

And for fellow Ravelers (is that the right way to say that??) if you look in my projects you will find what it is ;)

A sneaky peek and more artwork.

There's nothing more fun than teasing people who know they are receiving something with little sneaky peeks at what they are getting.

So these 2 knitted 'somethings' are for Harriet...I wonder what they are???





And what's a mummy blog without lots of bragging. Some more pics by Jet done this afternoon.
Lots of shapes!

Recommended Reading ;)

I may not have been blogging much myself lately but there are 2 blogs in particular that I have been enjoying following and for anyone who happens to be looking for something crunchy, inspiring, and just really interesting, as well as really getting you thinking, I highly recommend Harriet's Mama's 2 blogs :)

First there is
The Musings of Harriet's Mama
The Life & Mind of a Lotus-Water-Freebirthin', Co-Sleeping, Non-Vaccinating, Baby Wearing, Cloth Nappy Using, Elimination Communicating, Lactivist, Feminist, Mum of One.

And her second blog, serving as a sort of diary for her family's journey with Elimination Communication (you might not want to read it while eating though, I learnt that from experience, LOL).

See A Cue? Catch A Poo!
This is where I keep track of our elimination communication (EC) journey. EC is the practice of learning and watching for a baby's elimination cues and catching her poo and wee rather than leaving her to soil herself. It's about strengthening communication between baby and parents and keeping baby in touch with her instincts

My little artist :)

The blog is being a little neglected right now...sorry bout that...oops!

Thought I would make it look a little interesting by sharing some pics I took this morning of Jet's artwork. I have been a slack mummy when it comes to rescuing a keeping his artwork before he and Indy decide that ripping paper is fun, oops! So when I saw this mornings pictures, I jumped on them!

Here we have an E and an F


a Z and a 4


Lots of I's an A and I think an L


And my favourite, a person!



And here is a pic of the fingerless gloves I made for a fellow Woolaholic for the I Love Lace swap, I hope she likes them!!


I have also been busy knitting a few baby items, not for my bub, but for Harriet...I can't show pics of them yet cos I want them to be a surprise for her mumma ;)


Not much else is new around here...still battling the nausea, gah, I can't believe it... 23wks+(ish, LOL) and still feeling awful. No vibes to what the gender is yet, though I have been told by a few people that they think I am having a boy. Is that because I have 2 already??? I'd say they have a 50/50 chance of being right, hahaha.
Maybe there's one of each in there...

Jet's 3rd Birthday!

Yep, that's right, my biggest little man is 3! It was Jet's 3rd birthday on Thursday and I am still recovering, LOL. Seriously though was a little tough for me emotionally being the anniversary of a trauma and all, being pregnant and actually allowing myself to feel it makes me kind of mourn the birth that I could have had, and I think reinforces the decision I have made to have a homebirth this time and not just go for the caesarean again like I did with Indy, something I don't think I should have done. Oh well...homebirth, homebirth after a caesarean, its still just a birth!

Jet got a dollhouse and a sandpit and is totally loving them both. Sand is being spread around the backyard as I type.....

Here are a few snaps to reminisce, and one from the day itself....

At birth

First birthday

Second birthday

Night before his birthday

Enjoying cake!

remember me?

Yes I am STILL battling the dreaded morning sickness...its getting a bit ridiculous at 17wks!! Hopefully it eases off soon because it is so so so SO tiring! (Not to mention bloody annoying!)

So I just wanted to post to say I am still around! Still here!
Have been a little busy of late working on a new little project and I hope you will all come and check it out....

Hathor Birth Haven

Hope you are all well, and hopefully I'll be back blogging, knitting and crocheting as much as I would like to be really soon :)

Pay It Forward!

From the ever inspiring Keely's blog -

Pay It Forward-

The first three people to comment on this post will receive a gift from me, sometime within the next 365 days. Who knows when it will turn up, or what it will be, but rest assured, it will arrive. All you have to do is promise to make the same declaration on your blog, and send out gifts to three of your lovely readers.
Easy peasy :)

Assorted goodies

First up...

Mel passed this award onto me :)




And tagged me for another meme....

You need your iPod - in saying that i dont have one but we have stacks of songs on our computer so i just did it from here. It's a list of questions that you answer with the title of a random song. So i just listed all the songs in media player then hit shuffle & here are the questions with the song title answers....

1. What would describe your personality? Franco Un-American - NoFX
2. What do you like in a guy/girl? Baby, I love your way - Peter Frampton
3. How do you feel, today? I don’t want to miss a thing - Aerosmith (damn straight, I got a faint positive on a pregnancy test a couple of hours ago)
4. What's your life's purpose? Buy me a pony - Spiderbait (uh huh)
5. What is your motto? By Starlight - The Smashing Pumpkins
6. What do your friends think of you? Anatomically Correct - Custard (hahaha, yes Mel...true??)
7. What do you think of your parents? You Learn - Alanis Morissette
8. What do you think about very often? In the air tonight - Phil Collins
9. What do you think of your best friend? Let’s get rocked - Def Leppard
10. What do you think of the person you like? She’s got a way - Billy Joel (hmm...)
11. What is your life story? I feel possessed - Crowded House (ROFL, yeah that's true!!)
12. What do you want to be when you grow up? Learn to hate - silverchair (hmm...)
13. What do you think when you see the person you like? Coming home - The Mavis’s
14. What do your parents think of you? Will you still love me tomorrow - The Shirelles (yes...I could see that...)
15. What will be played at your funeral? Anything goes - Guns n’ Roses
16.What is your hobby/interest? Action - Def Leppard (are you kidding me?? Why don't I have any songs about knitting? LOL)
17. What is your biggest secret? Uptight (Everything’s Alright) - Stevie Wonder
18. What do you think of your friends? Everything is good for you - Crowded House
19. What should you post this as? Girl - John Lennon

Will do the passing on stuff later...(maybe...if I remember)

Isn't that just typical.....

Jamie lost his phone a few months ago and has been harping about it ever since...saying that he needs a new phone...blah blah blah

I kept saying the phone would turn up, etc, but I finally gave in, a last week we splurged and got a new phone each as our Christmas presents.

So this morning I went looking for some handspun that my MIL had given me (I am planning to make it into something for her for Christmas) and on the shelf in the wardrobe where the handspun was, is a bag full of cotton that I bought from Spotlight back in October because it was reduced to 50c.
I moved the bag trying to find the last ball of handspun, and the bag went 'clunk'....I've never heard cotton 'clunk' before, so I investigated....and there at the bottom of the bag, was Jamie's long lost phone.


Typical.


(and to think we had been blaming Jet for losing it, LOL, though buggered if I know how it got in there....)

Pooh Bear...literally....

So you think your day really can't get much worse...

You been woken up by a crying toddler, walk to his room and open the door to be met by the love scent of POOP. Think hmm, that's weird (he's normally a mid-morning to early afternoon pooper) and on closer inspection you find that there is poo up said toddler's back, on his shirt, singlet, shorts and doona. Great. Not the start to the day I had in mind.
After putting him in the shower I go back to inspect bedding to make sure that the poo was only on doona as first thought. Yep. It appears the rest of the bed escaped poop.

Finally toddler is clean, and has calmed down.
We go off to find almost toddler has gotten into the pantry and is now crawling around with a AAA battery in his mouth. Nice.

Fast forward to the afternoon.... Almost toddler is sleeping, so I am dragged by toddler off to bedroom to read books on his bed. I am ordered to lie down on the pillow (I won't argue! I'm buggered!) So I am lying there, reading and thinking....I can smell poo....I look around...I can't see any. I lie there for awhile longer, maybe I am imagining it? Nope. The smell is still there.

I look around grab random toys.... Elephant, clear. Zebra, clear. Other zebra, clear. Giraffe, clear. Pooh Bear, POO!!! Gross, gross, gross! Pooh Bear has poo on his ears and quite appropriately, his butt (LOL).

And on closer inspection, the bed has suspicious marks on it...hmm.....and ewwww, I was lying on it!!!

Must be a Jet thing....

The First Letter of Your Name Meme

I was tagged by Mel aka Mel in a Nutshell with this "The First Letter of Your Name"...I made her tag me, LOL, it looked like fun!

Rules: Just use the first letter of your name to answer the questions. They have to be real answers though, nothing made up and you can't use your own name as an answer.

If you didn't realise already, my name is April (and yes I was born in April thanks, now you don't have to ask...), so stuff has to start with A

1.Famous Singer: Avril Lavigne (blergh)
2.Four Letter Word: Arse (LOL, that was Jamie's suggestion)
3.Street: Ardlie Street....(its in Warrnambool...go look at Google Maps if you don't believe me)
4.Color: aubergine
5.Gifts/Presents: Anklet
6.Vehicles: Audi
7.Things In A Souvenir Shop: Ashtray
8.Boy Name: Augustus
9.Girl Name: Audrey
10.Movie Title: Awake
11.Drink: Apple juice
12.Occupation: Architect
13.Celebrity: Amy Winehouse
14.Magazine: Acoustic Guitar
15.U.S. City: Austin
16.Pro Sports: AFL
17.Fruit: Apricot
18.Something You Throw Away: Ashes? Is that too close to Astray? How about....Acrylic Yarn then LOL!!!
19.Something You Shout: Arrrrrrrrrrrrgh!!
20.Reason for being late for work: Accident

Let's just say....Google is my friend!!!

Will tag people later when my brain recovers :)


Have tagged Rebecca so far....

My latest haul :)

Mel has passed 2 more awards onto me, so here they are:

This one I am passing onto Rebecca of CravE :)



I will come back later and think of people to pass them on to :)

Thanks Mel :D

An afternoon at the playground :)

Have been feeling a bit guilty of late about the little time that the boys get to spend outside and active... We don't really have much of a backyard, and the side that is easily fenced and accessible to them is all concrete so is not exactly ideal. And the other thing that doesn't help is the weather!! On most, if not all, of Jamie's days off the weather has been awful, so not exactly going out weather. Not to mention how difficult I find taking them out on my own...one not walking and the other prone to doing runners/tantrums/dropping to the ground in not very good places!!
I haven't yet mastered getting Indy into the Ergo on my back yet on my own...but yesterday I gave it a bash and after about 1/2hr or more, a sore back and a stuffed wrist (not to mention an unimpressed Indy) I managed to get him in there (and swore never again).
So off Jet, Indy and I went, to a little playground a 5 min (well...15+min with a toddler iykwim) walk away from our house... I was quite disappointed.
The playground was full of climbing things, big slides etc, not really appropriate for a 2yr old. There was one slide that Jet could manage to get to own his own but the drop at the end was so big his feet didn't reach meaning that he would fly off the end and THUD onto the ground... He got the hang of grabbing onto the side to stop himself, but then decided to go down with his drink bottle in one hand...and flew off the end...and whacked his head on the slide, OW!!!

So I don't think we will go back there again...

Today turned out some beautiful weather! I went off to Spinners and Weavers this morning, as I do every second Tuesday, only to find out that there was no meeting today...and there won't be anymore for the rest of the year, DOH! They were spring cleaning ready for the Christmas party on Saturday so I decided to come home instead and seize the opportunity to spend some time in the great outdoors with my boys :) (Not incredibly impressed at not being told that there was no Spinners though...wasted time, petrol, money etc, not to mention that I could have slept in a bit longer LOL!!)
So this afternoon we packed some drinks, a few nibbles, some knitting (well duh!) and the picnic blanket and off to the playground we went. This time to one down near the beach, a bit more suited to Jet. And I even remembered the camera!! Yay.
Jet had lots of fun going down the slide, as did Jamie, LOL. And Indy even went down a few times with Jamie, when he wasn't crawling after seagulls, LOL!!

Here's some pics from our lovely afternoon out :) (If you click them you can see a bigger pic)


Jet and Jamie going down the slide.

Jet sliding, such a crack up!

Racing off for another turn!

Poke! Very hard to get a pic of Indy without him trying to poke the lens.

Indy sliding with Jamie.

And our friends...Indy was chasing them and sharing his food with them, LOL.

Hoping to do it all again tomorrow!!