Lots Of News....And All Good!!!

Hi everybody hope you are all well. We are all good, a bit cool here though, summer has left Melbourne I think.


Ok where do I start..........



Samantha had visit to the dietitian on Friday, all went well there, she said that what we are feeding her is great, we just need to up her intake of bread, pasta, rice and potato and a little more milk each day should get her weight up. Blood tests came up all good, she is just going to be skinny like her dad. Would you believe the dietitian said we may actually be giving her to many veggies!!!! A toddler her age only needs two tablespoons a day for all the nutrients they need and Sam gets about 3 or 4 times that!!! It was good news all around though.






Staying with Samantha, she got her first pair of real boots the other day...

She loves them!!! First thing she does every morning after I get her dressed is put her boots on. I wanted to get her real boots last year but her feet were to small then so all she got was Ugg boots, so you can imagine my joy when boot season came round this year and I found some that fitted her!!!! Of course then the hunt for black tights started! What a mission that was! About 30 shops (I kid you not!) later I finally found black tights that would fit her. Then of course I found more nicer boots and had to get them as well....

I love these boots they are just gorgeous! The little black pants that look like jeans are a fav of mine as well.





David has finally picked a best man for the wedding. He had to choose between his brothers Andrew and Danny or his best mate Harry. He didn't want to upset anyone by not choosing them so rather than upset the brother by choosing one over the other he has chosen Harry. Danny and Andrew will be groomsmen along with Spencer.



I finally found a flower girl dress for David's daughter Celeste. What a mission that has been! I though finding a pink dress in a size 12 would be easy.....HUH was I wrong!!! They all seem to be cream or white! David's sister-in-law Kim and I went to one of the big shopping centre's the other day and we finally found one I liked after looking all day....

The lace at the bottom of the dress is just gorgeous the photo does not do it justice!

Well I had better go it is 2.41pm and I haven't had lunch and I'm starving!! Talk to you all soon.

Samantha

Yesterday was a big day for Samantha, we had to take her to see a pediatrition because of her weight. Being a prem baby, 10 weeks early, she is always going to be small, but Dr's are concerned with how small she is the moment, she is 9kg and 22 months old. If she gets sick she has nothing to fall back on so we are going to see if we can get her weight up. We now have to take her to a dietiton who will probably recommend a high calorie diet for her and as she had blood tests taken yesterday they are going to see if her thyroid is working ok and if it is a geneitc thing. She did really well with them taking blood we thought she would scream the place down as she was tired and hungry, but she didn't even cry! She just gave the ladies evil looks, but then who can blame her. Our big (but small) brave girl! David and I think its is just how she is, she takes after her dad, David eats and eats and is still skinny (yes I know we all want to swear and call him names don't we), she's lucky not to have her mother's build!! I just need to look at food and I gain weight!!!!
Buying clothes for her is not easy as size 0 and 1 are to big around the waist but anything smaller is to short for her, so I do a lot of taking in with her pants and skirts! A few stitches here and there and things stop falling down!

Sam just afer her birth.....

Sam now....

I will keep you up to date with how things go.

New Bathroom...Well Kind Of

As promised I have pics of the new bathroom for you all. First the old bathroom.....

As you can see it was a mess!!! It has taken some hard work from both David and I but here is the end result.....

We still need to replace a couple of wall tiles and get new handles for the cupboards but you can see what we're aiming for in the over all look. I love the wall colour. The candle sconces have been sitting in my wardrobe since mid last year, a mother's day gift from my kids, I wanted the perfect place to put them and I think they look perfect in here! I used to hate walking into this room, but now I love it!!! Well worth the hard work we put into it.



In other news, Samantha slept in her big girl bed for the first time on Sunday night!...............

She did really well the first night stayed in the bed, the second night she got out about 3 times to knock on the door but finnally went to sleep. Then last nigh she got out about 15 times to look out the window and play but then it got dark so she stayed in the bed, but I was woken up at 12.38am by her sceaming, then heard a thud! She had woken up and tried to get out of bed and fell on the floor. So I put her back into her cot for the rest of the night. She looks so cute in the bed but I don't know if she is really ready to be in it yet, she has always been a fidgeter in the cot, never stays where you put, through the night she travels all the way around the cot! We will see how we go in the bed tonight and decide from there.

I have also finally found my wedding shoes!!! Yes I know I still have 8months to go but what can I say I like to be organised!................

You can't see clearly in the phot but the butterflies have little diamantes all over them.

I saw them and knew they were perfect, as I am a butterfly fanatic! I have a butterfly tattoo on my left shoulder blade, Samantha's room has butterfly's everywhere and i have a lot of butterfly jewellery. These sandles will be comfy yet glamerous at the same time. I'm not really a heeled shoe kind of girl and as we are having a garden wedding heels would just sink into the lawn anyway so I think these are perfect. I have every thing I need for the wedding now just have to get Celeste a dress (who knew finding a girls size 12 pink dress would be so hard!), shoes for her and Samantha and shirts and pants for the guys.