14 Weeks!

Ok, well we cheated a little and took the picture today which is 13wks and 6 days, but we're almost at 14wks, I think you'll forgive me. I had a laugh at the Dear Lizzy blog the other day when her husband hijacked it and posted for her and asked why people always say "WE are pregnant", he said he wouldn't walk up to a group of people and say "WE'VE been chewing on our toe nails" LOL! Good point! But Will did want to show his solidarity with me by doing his best "pregnant" pose. I think he might still actually beat me! Hehehe. Today my tummy has been really sore after I did some box moving and stuck-box-pulling-out-from-under-the-bed this morning, I didn't realise my tummy muscles were so weak now! It's crazy! We are gathering, purging, packing and moving over to Hotel d'Lam next weekend. Yes, C-Day is almost upon us (that's the day I officially become Chinese, by moving into the Lam family home) {sigh}. We're packing up at Brownville (farewell Mr Puffy. He's actually been laughing us to sleep at night lately) and moving over to Multicultural Town (where I will experience what it feels like to actually be a minority!) It is, at the same time, sad, kinda happy, welcoming, awkward, negotiating, overwhelming, sacrificing and saving. We'll see which one win's the biggest emotion award {double sigh}.
On a happier note, Mum and Dad are coming to stay on Tuesday, I hope they are not as claustrophobic with boxes around as I was yesterday! Phew that we got some moved over to Hotel d'Lam today!
:) C

Holiday Scrapping!

OOhh, it's so gloomy and rainy here today. What happened to "Summer's on it's way!" I think it got lost!
It is a good day, however, for sitting at my desk and doing some scrapping! I haven't been overly creative lately, it seems I sit at my desk and just watch TV from there, rather than actually doing anything creative! {sigh}. I didn't think I'd be this tired so early in my pregnancy, I thought it came later when you were big and heavy! Not sure if its worse cos I work nights.... anywho, enough whinging! I did manage to do this page of Will and I enjoying our virgin Pina Colada's in Hawaii! I thought, seeing as I couldn't have alcohol in my drink I was going to enjoy it out of a pineapple instead! I loved it!! It was so much fun to grasp that giant fruit with 2 hands and take a sip! I did joke that I ate so much pineapple on our holiday that Peabody was going to never want to eat pineapple ever again! {giggles} Either that or it's all Peabody will want to eat! I bought this pineapple paper on our honeymoon, specifically with Hawaiian pages in mind! Isn't it so cute :)
And cos I haven't posted in a while, here is another page (bonus!) that I did of our Applebees meal on our Honeymoon. Yes, all I seem to do is scrapbook pages about food! I can't help it, I love taking pics of my meals when I'm overseas! Especially in America, cos their food is so massive and delicious! Check out all the food you get on your plate for $20! Bargain {wink}. I did take a bunch of food pics in Hawaii too, so I'm sure you'll be seeing more food pages!
Hope you're having a good monday! I'm off to (hopefully, if the TV doesn't distract me too much) do some more scrappin!
:) C

Baby Clothes Galore!

Well here it is: The pic of all the Baby Clothes I got in Hawaii!

I think the Carter's stuff is my fave over all- like the "sleepers" all in ones on the bottom right with their big owl, deer, squirrel and Lamb (for our Little Lam- LOL) and the Turkey Bib. Ok we don't celebrate Thanksgiving, but who doesn't need a Turkey bib. Not our baby! In the boy stuff on the left, my fave outfits are the onesie that says "This is How I Roll" cos Will and I say that to each other a lot! And the Beaver one that says "Busy being Cute". I'm sorry, I don't view Kangaroos and Koalas which as much fondness as I do Beavers and Squirrels. Don't you always want what you don't have? Kangaroos were a dime a dozen where I grew up so maybe they've lost their luster for me! And I always thought only Japanese tourists bought clothes with Koala's on them. I bet if Carters did a Koala line I'd love it though. Hmmm... maybe it's not the animal, it's just they need to draw it in a really cute way. Cos those Polar Bears are so darn cute! Alicia thinks the Polar Bear dad on the onesies looks like Will! LOL! I had to get 2 pieces in that collection cos it was just SO CUTE!
As you can see I also got a million pairs of tiny shoes. So my shoe love has spilled over into baby shoe love (I'd already bought some tiny shoes the last time I was in Hawaii so I don't think you can blame Peabody for this love!) But they were just so cheap! The dinosaur slippers for a newborn were only $5. CHEAP! And those little Grandpa plaid slip ons were $7.50. BARGAIN!
Talk about bargains- see that Pink Panda print at the bottom of this pic? It's a onesie and it cost me $1. Yep! And believe it or not, it wasn't the cheapest baby item we got! Alicia got a chambray denim shirt for Xander for 88c! YEP! I had to go back and get one cos that was ridiculous! I did buy almost every item of baby clothing with an Owl on it. LOL! At least I haven't stopped loving owls :) I love all the woodland animals, so cute! I love the Rabbit talking to the bird on the onesie in this pic. CUTE! And of course when I saw the Cupcake bib I had to have that one too! {heart} Aren't the little purple Baby Gap ballet's the cutests! They were only like $7. I just couldn't help myself! And there are more of those Old Navy slippers- this time rabbit ones for a little girl. I also got Owl ones and Polar Bear ones. Our little one will never be without shoes!
And if Peabody turns out to be a girl I've got some really cute Size 2 Metallic Gladiators for her to wear at Darlington Park next year! Now that's planning ahead! LOL!
:) C

BIG news....

Hello y'all!
Its Saturday and I'm up early (what the?), I'm blaming the fact that at 8:30am it was already stinkin' hot. I don't have a thermometer so you'll have to believe me. Apparently "stinkin" is the level of hotness reached before I'm able to stay asleep. I've quantitatively researched it. Believe me.
So.... some BIG news in our house. Currently residing inside me, somewhere inside my pelvis is this little one:Hehe, that's right- Will and I are having a baby :) {patting tummy lightly} Can you believe it? Yes, it was a bit of a shock for us too {hands slap either side of cheeks}! LOL! I had been told we would probably need some assistance having a baby cos I have PCOS, so we thought we'd start preparing cos you need to be trying for 12 months in order to do IVF. Well.... surprise! It turns out we didn't need any assistance at all and it all happened in the first month! WHOA! I had a pain in my side on and off for about 3 weeks and thought one of my cysts had burst, eventually I went to the Dr cos the pain was intense- turns out it wasn't a cyst, but a baby inside! Talk about surprised!
We had our 12 week scan last monday and everything is looking well, Peabody even waved at us {giggles}. Baby is called Peabody cos the first time we saw it on ultrasound at almost 6 weeks, it was just a little flashing pea!
So that's our big news!
Stay tuned for the other photo of my Hawaii booty- it's all the baby clothes I bought! Hehe, I may have gotten a little excited and bought a lot. I mean A LOT! I can't help it- it's so cheap in America!
:) C

Some Hawaii Booty!

Hi Y'all!
I thought you might be interested in a quick post showing my shopping Booty from Hawaii!! I have to post twice cos there are 2 categories of shopping, but here is the first pic. He he, there's a lot of stuff! I filled up my suitcase and the extra bag Will had taken with him (I gave my extra bag to Mum to pack in to! We came well prepared with extra bags- we've been to the US before and know how much shopping we like to do!)
What can you see in the pic? The Pumpkin Pecan waffle mix from Williams-Sonoma? Yes, you can get that back into the country! Just remember to declare everything and let customs decide. We didn't lose anything, not even the wooden pineapple shaped bowl! Can you see the taco? It's a zip purse. LOL!! Hillarious! I bought the Bare Minerals makeup kit at Sephora for $63, the exact same kit at Myer is $180. Can you believe it???? The pink folder at the front is a recipe folder for sweet recipes like cakes, biscuits etc. It has plastic sleeves that hold the small recipe cards and I bought some extra Christmas themed recipe cards so I could easily identify my Christmas bakes in the folder! Cool idea hey! I got plenty of sprinkles for cupcakes in different themes (Christmas, Autumn Leaves, pearls etc), I got lots of clothes, though there was all winter items in the shops so it was hard to get excited when we are coming into summer! And I did get a little bit of scrapbooking/stamping stuff, though the store was not that great- it was a lot like an old scrapbooking store in Australia. {sigh} but I still managed to spend $100. LOL!
Well, we had a great time! Wish we could go back now!
:) C

ALOOOOOOHHHHHAAAAA!

Aloha {said as I hula across the room}!
We're back from Hawaii! We had a super awesome time, it was fun to be away with (some of) my immediate family-sorry to Yvette and Felicity who couldn't come :(. Just looking through the pics and it seems all we did was swim, shop, eat... repeat. LOL! It was great :) And it was good also cos Will and I had only been there 2.5yrs ago, so it was like we'd never left! For Mum and Dad though, it had been over 20 years!! Quite a bit had changed in their eyes. Dad said it seemed a lot busier now and I said maybe it really wasn't it's just that when we had visited 20 years ago they had a family of 3 teenage girls and one primary school age girl at home and life itself was probably really busy, it wasn't that Hawaii was less busy! But now they are retired and it's just Mum and Dad at home Hawaii does seem a lot busier! Logical? LOL!
We stayed at Waikiki, swam at Waikiki Beach, shopped at the beautiful Ala Moana Centre for hours at a time, snorkled amongst schools of fish at Hanauma Bay, enjoyed the show at the Paradise Cove Luau, searched for a bargain at the Waikele Factory outlets, experienced the excitement of Waikiki at night through the International Marketplace, floated and danced the night away on the Ali'i Kai Dinner Buffet Cruise boat, squeezed ourselves on to the Waikiki Trolley, caught a couple of waves on an Outrigger Canoe, drank drinks out of pineapples, got some culture at the Iolani Palace and ate a whole bunch of awesome American and Hawaiian Foods! YAY! Once again, lucky I wasn't born in America or I'd be a fatty fatty fat fat! Ohhh, ribs! And fries come with everything! And portion size, Oh my! I also got to indulge in my favourite treat- Cinnabon. YUM! I did lots and lots of shopping too, whoever said you don't go to Hawaii to go shopping? Of course you do! America is so cheap, especially with our fabulous exchange rate at the moment too! We needed the extra bag we'd packed (hooray for Hawaiian Airlines- 2 bags of 32kg each person! YAY!) to bring all our purchases back. Hehehe!
Bummer though, it's back to work today {sigh} and Will got called in tonight so we must be busy. At least that means time will go fast! I hope I don't fall asleep at my desk though!!
:) C
P.S. Enjoy some more pics of our trip!