He's Here!!

Welcome Flinders (Flynn) Lok Ping Lam!!

Our special little guy was born Tuesday 22/10/13 at 8:26pm. He weighed a hefty 4.455kg/ 9lb 13oz {whoa!} & was 52.5cm long.

I ended up having a water birth, which was unexpected! But I was in the bath (an awesome pain reliever for contractions!) and labour advanced a bit quicker than expected, so the midwives decided to leave me there rather than try to move me between contractions. So even though he was quite a massive baby, I managed to push him out with only gas as a pain reliever, and I didn't need any stitches or anything after either. Woo Hoo {high five!} I thank the bath for that!

It was a quick labour too, I was induced with prostin at 2:30pm, my water broke at 6pm & he was born at 8:26pm! Quite quick!

Here is Jaimeson meeting his little brother for the first time!

 

So in love already! Like honestly, Jaimeson gives Flynn about 4000 kisses a day! Flynn is going to have to get used to a bit of rough love!

Daddy is a bit smitten too!

 So we're settling into life as a family of 4, having a few breastfeeding issues with Flynn, but hopefully it's just a phase that we'll be able to work through. It's a bit stressful at the moment though!
But I have to say, I have adjusted to mummyhood a lot easier this time, than with Jaimeson. It took me a whole 9 days before I cried this time, and with Jaimeson I had cried so much before we even left hospital! LOL!
So now I've got heaps of pics to use for Project Life! LOL! How to choose???!!
:) C

Project Life, Week 20... a very special week!

Hi y'all!

Here is week 20 of my Project Life, and it was Jaimeson's birthday week! The WRMK page protector with the 2 big pockets was a great choice, cos it meant I could do a nice little collage of pics from Jai's Under The Sea Birthday Party! I can't believe my little man is 2!! What a fun party it was too :)

This week was my booking appointment at Auburn Hospital for Lentil! How exciting {smiles}. And also Jaimeson's first attempt at sitting on the potty, and it was productive!! He showed us what he could do that first day, then not again for ages afterwards! LOL! {giggles} It's funny having that all documented in my album. But hey, that's what Project Life is all about!!
This right hand side also has my weekly pregnancy tummy shot, more party pics and Jaimeson opening up his birthday presents (I'm not so concerned about having them all in absolute choronological order across the spread from left to right, as long as the pics from the right week are in the right spread and however they fit best, it's right for me!)

This week also has an insert page (this pocket page protector is by Bazzill) to show lots of pics from our outing to Train Works at Thirlmere to ride a Steam Train for Jaimeson's birthday. He loved it so much! And of course, I wanted to include heaps of pics of the day, so I decided to do a whole insert just for that one day. That's what inserts are for right? Yep! This is the front of the insert....

And this is the back of the insert...... Also, cos I plan on having 2 albums for each year, one Jan-June and one July-Dec, I have plenty of room to include extra pages here and there when need be. What a fun day we had at Thirlmere, and great that I could include so many pics in my PL album, cos I haven't gotten around to doing a full 12x12 of this outing yet (and who knows if I ever will, with Lentil less than 8 weeks away! Whoa! {hand brushing sweat off forehead!})

I hope you're enjoying my PL pages!
:) C

More little boy Jaimeson!

 Hi y'all!

Just going back through my last-year's scrapped pages and thinking how small Jaimeson looks! Isn't he a little fella?!

This first page is from my nephew Xander's Farmyard Birthday Party last year. We dusted off our flannalette shirts and went all cowboy for the day! The perfect excuse to use up some old Cowboy paper I've had since my trip to the USA in 2006 to scrap the pics too! (Have I ever mentioned I'm a hoarder {tongue in cheek!}) Look at my sweet little cowboy!

 This second page was just an excuse to use some cute pics of my little guy, in one of my fave shirts of his from last winter! These 2 boys really do bless my life, I {heart} them! Check out the little bird on the bunting flags along the top, see how he has a speech bubble coming from him with a heart in it? Yep, that's how I feel!  {hearts rising from head!}

And this last page is all about how Jaimeson is such a happy boy, that he's even happy when I go off to work! I thought he might cry and be upset when I started back to work after maternity leave, but it was like nothing phased him. What a good boy! It helps that Will is at home with him til the early afternoon too, then he has my MIL looking after him. I'm so happy he's an easy-going kid!

Have you been scrapping much lately? The cool weather makes me happy to be able to hide away at my desk while Jaimeson naps! I especially love it when it's raining outside & I'm nice and comfy at my desk!
:) C

Jaimeson's Under The Sea 2nd Birthday Party!!

Hi y'all!
Sorry, its been forever since I posted on my blog! I mentally post on here lots, it's just it doesn't physically come to fruition! Please excuse my slackness!!

To make up for it, here is a whole bunch of pics from Jaimeson's "Under The Sea" 2nd Birthday Party from last weekend! Can you believe my baby is 2???? No, me neither! He's a true little man now!

The Lam Fam.

So we had lots of Under The Sea Decor, like a string of "balloon bubbles", the Bunting I made in Under The Sea prints, and Felicity made paper jellyfish and plastic plate fish! How cool are they? Plus we had spotty table cloths, clam plates and blue and green cups/serviettes/cutlery.

We also had plenty of Under The Sea Type foods....

Like Shark Fruit Salad.

Deep Sea Treasure (trail mix, made with fish shaped biscuits, pretzels, "pearls" which were yoghurt covered sultanas, mini Chips Ahoy biscuits, nutri grain and a few chocolate coins thrown in there too!)

Clams (Whoopie Pies!)

Seashells (Cream horns & mini cream clams made by Mum!)

Crocodile Bread with Seaweed Dip (Spinach & Bacon dip) & Felicity made Sea Urchins (chocolate spiders) but I didn't get a pic of them :(

We played Under The Sea games, like popping the balloon "bubbles" with a dart and each balloon had a prize inside! Here is Papa teaching Jaimeson!
We also had plastic fishing-rod fishing, duck scoop, Mum made a "buried treasure" hunt in a tub filled with sand & bean bag toss. I think the kids had a great time!

Then it was Cake Time! I made Jaimeson a Fishy cake, using a round tin and a loaf pan cut to make a tail and 2 fins! Then I scaled the fish with M&Ms! It looked awesome! {chest puffing out with pride!}

And it looked so sweet with just 2 candles on it!

Jaimeson loved it! Though he ate all the M&Ms & icing off it and gave me back the cake bit! LOL!

So we had an awesome party! Thank you everyone for making his 2nd birthday so special!

:) C

The Royal Easter Show!

Hi y'all!
I realised it's the last day of the Easter Show, and I haven't even posted our show pics yet!! So here is our day at the Sydney Royal Easter Show, in pictures :)

 Everyone so happy to be at the show. Jaimeson was happy cos we just caught a train to get there, and Will was happy cos he got a free newspaper as soon as we walked in. My boys are easy to please!

First stop: the animals! Baby Chicks were a winner.

Especially cos you could hold a basket full of them!

Pigs also got a Highly Commended from Jaimeson.Those little pigglets look so delicious! {giggles!}

I'll take this farmer and his piggies home, thanks!

But the winner for the day for Jaimeson was definitely the Baby Crocodile. We went back twice so he could pat him more! He loved him! If you ask him what he saw at the show Jai always immediately says "Nap Nap!" and claps his hands together in the "Snap Snap" motion!

Least favourite animal was definitely the goats in the Farmyard Nursery.

Yep, that's pure, downright, unashamed, unhappiness at the proximity of that goat!

We did make up for his unhappiness with a bit of passport stamp collecting. And my big boy was just big enough to carry over his passport and hand it up to be stamped all on his own. What a cutie!

My fave is always the Woodchop. I love Woodchop!

And then, soon after, the little trooper was asleep!
What a big day it was at the show! But we had an awesome time! Next year we might even go on some rides! LOL!
:) C

Jaimeson's Baptism

 Hi y'all!
Last Sunday we had Jaimeson's Baptism! Yep, it's taken us a little while to get around to it, seeing as he is nearly 2! But we finally organised a date for the Baptism and a BBQ lunch at home afterwards, and it was last Sunday. And we all had lots of fun!

Here is our little man, all dressed up in his finest Hawaiian shirt (which I even ironed for him {gasp!} Mum, you didn't even notice!), navy stripe linen pants and his cute little navy Boat shoes. With crisp white socks, of course {heart melting}

So first, a dunking. It was a fair bowl-full of water over the head by our new minister Fergus, but Jai didn't mind. He loves swimming after all. LOL! Jai did look up at us as if to say "Is this ok?" and Will and i must have been smiling sufficiently for him to think it was nothing to worry about!

Then a Blessing. Jaimeson is looking at the bowl as if to say "hmmm...will you and I be meeting again?" {giggles}

And he is now officially a member of St Dunstan's Anglican Church at Denistone East. Round of applause please! {clapping heard in the background}

Then it was back to our place for a BBQ lunch.

And cake.

Which was delicious. Yep!

I always think Jaimeson is quite a big boy, until I see him playing with his cousins and second cousins, and I realise he still is a little fella!

It was so nice to spend some time with my family too, especially my sisters, though it was a busy day and I could have done with a few more free minutes for a chat!

Here are all my siblings and all the grandchildren together with Granny and Papa for the first time since Venice was born. How exciting!

And here is Jaimeson's Godfather Ric, and his sister. So proud!
We had a fabulous day, thank you family for all coming along to support us and Jaimeson! We love you all!
:) C

Every day pages.

Hi y'all!
Still posting pages I finished last year, and it's already March! I say it all the time but... time is flying!! {Hands of the clock whizzing around}.

Here are some everyday pages of us hanging around.
I took this pic through the window at Mum and Dad's, cos Jaimeson was going OFF! Just laughing and having the best time up on Willy's shoulders!
Fun stuff: the chipboard arrow is pretty cool & I put a bit of patterned paper in the circle bit and stamped on it, call me genious (or not!); aren't the little boat stickers cute! They're from our local Korean shop.

And this second page is our weekly grocery shop. I'm so happy to have "ordinary" events in Jaimeson's album, as well as big events. And that's one reason why I am loving Project Lift too, cos it's all about every day events!
Fun stuff: the old Children's encyclopedia book paper on the top left, and i stamped around "grapes" cos they were in our trolley!; I also included a snippet of our shopping list, which will be fun to look back on, and wonder what we ate!; I've also been wanting to use that fruit & veg BG paper for ages, no more perfect theme than using it for a page on grocery shopping!
Hope you've got some fun plans for the weekend! We're going into the city tomorrow for Yum Cha for a friend's birthday, should be fun!
:) C

More Jaimeson pages :)

Hi y'all!
Are you enjoying your weekend so far? Jai and I escaped the constant driving rain by spending a few hours at Merrylands Stockland Shopping Centre! For some reason I feel way more at home in those little Shopping Centres than at big ones like Parramatta! And it's new too, so it's a nice centre to just wander around (though Alicia tells me she's seen Police everytime she's been there, and once they were even arresting someone! Just the local riff-raff!) Anyways... we had an awesome morning, shopping up a storm! I bought clothes for Jaimeson and myself at BigW, Jewellery at Lovisa, Birthday Presents at Typo, Summer PJ's at Sussan, Lego Duplo at Target....and it was ALL on sale! Woot woot {hooters going off in the background}! The perfect time to go shopping! Plus I got some cool Japanese Food Picks and lunch stuff at Daiso, that place is seriously cool!
So here are some more scrap pages I did last year.

This was just the sweetest little story! We were sitting in the Backyard when Jaimeson brought me my first ever gift- a leaf. He insisted I have it! So I kept it and I did a Layout about it, cos I'm that kind of Mum. {giggles!} I stuck it on the layout with a good covering of wide clear packing tape, so hopefully it will slow it's degredation process so it lasts a few years in the album!
Fun stuff: the leaf! I HAD to include it {smiles}; the speech bubble with a heart in it, which is a Stampin Up stamp; the shaped BG paper I've had for YEARS so I'm happy to have used it and not be hoarding it any longer (you know I have a serious problem).
And the second layout is my fave pic from Jai's first birthday party. What a big chubby happy face he has! We had a Circus Theme Party and it was wonderful!! So much fun to decorate and bake for! We love themed parties in our family!
Fun stuff: I glittered some old faded thickers with red glitter, and I love how they turned out! I bought the tickets on etsy, stamped them, and we used them as tokens to redeem for prizes at the party. I had some leftover so they'll be fun to scrap with, for a while yet (I have quite a few left over!)
Hope you've had time to be crafty this weekend so far!
I've gotta do some hard core baking tomorrow, cos I"m on morning tea at playgroup on Tuesday, and I'm having Alicia and Felicity, and their girls, over for lunch and tea on Monday! Wish you could come too Yvette! I'm so looking forward to getting to dust off lots of my Op Shop crockery finds! Deciding what to use will be the hardest part!
:) C