More Snuggles

Yes Mummy is a sucker for cuddles! I was holding Jai off for another 15 mins before his feed & then he went to sleep on me! Oh so cute :) I love my cuddles with my gorgeous boy!
:) C



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Some cards..

Hi Y'all!
Well Jaimeson and I survived our big day out in the city yesterday, it was lots of fun! I fed him 3 times while we were out, which was a big achievement and had to change his nappy in the pram twice which was a challenge! We had a great day though, I got lots of cool stuff at the show and Dad's 40yr Service Medal Ceremony was very good! Everyone said how well behaved Jaimeson was, which was excellent! Good work Jai!
So I've been making cards lately, hooray! I like making them cos they are little individual projects that I can complete in short bursts in the limited time I have at my desk! I have been trying to step out of my comfort zone too and use some different papers to my normal style! And these papers have been in my stash for a little while too, I hope you still think they turned out good! I have brushed off some stamp sets I haven't used in a bit too and I've had lots of fun! I used Stampin Up's Aviary and Awash with Flowers stamps for the main images and the sentiments are from Thoughts and Prayers, Good Friend and Rivetting. Plus I rolled out some cool die-cut Nestability shapes (what the birdhouses are stamped on) on my Cuttlebug which I haven't done in ages too! Yay! {high five!} I wish I could spend even more time at my desk making cards, or bring my desk up to our warm bedroom instead of in the cold cold garage, cos I have been very inspired lately but it just gets too cold at my desk by the afternoon. Bummer! So you know how I love to make 2 cards at the same time, cos if you've got the stuff out and you're making one, you may as well make 2! Especially if you already have someone you're going to send the first one too, then you have another one ready in your box for the next person! So anyway, here they are...
So what are you doing this weekend? Last weekend we hired a movie (The Fighter) and I fell asleep after about 1/2 hr! Plus Jaimeson was a bit unsettled through it so I wasn't concentrating anyway. I didn't bother going to Civic Video to hire another one this week! Especially after our busy day in the city yesterday and cos Will did OT at work until 2am this morning cos one guy called in sick. Will is such a trooper, but no doubt he'll be asleep on the lounge by 9pm too!
:) C

Cuddles!

Hello friends :)
I'm on the lounge having cuddles with a certain little man who was not happy that we got home from our walk and he wasn't being jostled about in the pram anymore! Yes it's Willy. Hahaha {guffawing} nah it's my little Jai. I love cuddles with him, especially while he's still small {sigh} he's growing so fast!! Its the last week he'll be in 0000 clothes for sure.
I wonder if I'll have to sit here for the whole hour until his next feed?! And there's nothing on tv! Hooray for TiVo!
So here he is today.... Pulling some funny faces!
Tomorrow we're off to the city to the Quilt Show with Mum, Dad & AJ then Dad is getting a medal from the Premiers office for 40yrs service with the government! So we're going to that Ceremony too! Hope Jai has a good day out in the city & I can find good places to feed/change him! At least I'll have helpers if I need them!
:) C



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More Jaimeson Pages :)

Hello!
Look at me go! I've done 5 pages of Jaimeson now, I'm so proud {patting self on back!} I'll just post one today and save the other for another day so that I can spread them out, just in case the wheels fall off and I do nothing and have nothing to post about for a while. LOL! {giggles} I suppose I can always blog a super cute pic of Jaimeson and that will make up for everything right? Yep, I thought so!
Here we are, on our way home from hospital. Can you believe they discharged us when Jaimeson was only 1.5 days old? I was sooo not ready to go home yet! When I was born & going home from hospital, Mum and Dad took a pic of our family outside the Grafton Base Hospital sign so I wanted to take a pic of us outside the Auburn Hospital sign as a tribute! Pity it has an ugly "No Smoking" sign above it!
I love those October Afternoon house, tree and cloud rub-ons and have been saving them for a "special" page. No more special page than one of Jaimeson! I had fun creating the little neighbourhood "Scene" of rub-ons cos they all came individually on the sheet. The house is so cute, reminds me of a dollshouse! Look how incredible tiny Jaimeson is in his car seat... oh so precious!
:) C
Here's your pic! Jaimeson "playing" with Tom and Tess, the two pirate softies I made for him! He's so chilled out!

Tiny Parts!

Oh how I love Jaimeson's tiny hands and feet! Well, tiny compared to mine, cos I think he actually does have pretty big broad hands for a newborn! It is sooo cute to see him stretch out his toes, its usually when I'm changing his nappy and he has a good old stretch. You know- the kind of stretch where they put both their tiny arms above their head, stretch out the legs straight and make a "uuuuurrrrrgggghhhh" sound while screwing up their face? Well, Jai does at least! It's sooo cute {hearts floating above head} He stretches his hands out while he feeds too, too cute! My cousins gave us a voucher for the hands and feet sculptures which we are booked in for next tuesday. I'm really looking forward to it! Being able to keep a cast of his little hands and feet will be soooo good, plus I can compare it to the ones of Jai's cousins and second cousins which will be fun!
I have been getting a bit more sleep lately, which has been awesome! It means I can do more things during the day :) Though I need to have a day sleep when Will is on night shift, otherwise I'm super tired around 10:30pm when Jai has been unsettled lately and needs patting and hushing. I'll fall asleep while hushing otherwise!
:) C
Photo time!

A "Real" Family

Hello!
Look! I belted out another Jaimeson scrap page! Hooray {cheer squad dancing in the background}. And in fact I have another one finished that I haven't photographed yet, and one half done sitting on my desk! Yay! He is such a cutie, it's impossible to want to do pages of him! Lol. Its just that it takes me a bit longer cos I have to do it in between feeding/bathing/sleeping/walking/cooking/eating/feeding/feeding/feeding etc. I guess you could call it "The Hours Between"... oh wait, I do call it that. {smirk}
I love this picture of my little family! Thanks to Felicity for taking it for us. Pity I'm in my pyjamas... again! {sigh!} Never mind. At least I will look back at the photos and presume I was relaxed and lounging around {chuckle}.
I love how kiddy and fun this page is, it makes me smile to look at it. Now that we have Jaimeson it feels like we are a "real" little family. So sweet!
Hope you've got some good things planned for the weekend!
:) C
Oh, and do you have time for a pic? I do...
"SMILES FOR MUMMY!!"

Jaimeson Thank You's!

Hi Y'all!
I am soooo impressed with myself (if I might say so myself {patting own back}) cos I've made my Thank You cards for Jaimeson! Hooray!! I was hoping to get the made and sent out ASAP and I was lucky enough to grab a couple of half hour sessions at my desk last week which enabled me to throw together these sweet little cards :) I had formulated the idea in my head again, before I got the chance to get to my desk so it made me heaps more efficient than if I had have just sat at the desk and then thought "hmmm..... how to make my thank you's!" I am pretty proud of them actually! I punched the birds out of scraps of boy-ish papers from my scrap stash, the leaves from green scraps, stamped the Kraft card with my Stampin Up Woodgrain background stamp in Chocolate Chip ink, punched the scallop circle from Baja Breeze card, stamped the Thank You (co-incidently the same font as our wedding font and the font on the announcement- I must really love that font! Yes I do.) in Chocolate chip, stuck it all together and stapled some beautiful ribbon I got in Melbourne on the top, banged on a jewel and voila! I love them! {clapping hands!} And it feels so good to have them written on and posted too.
Another thing I really wanted to send out with the Thank You cards was a birth announcement with a pic of Jaimeson on it. I love to trawl etsy and have seen many beautiful announcements, the difficulty was finding one that beat all the others! I chose this one by Ink Obsessions and I really love it! You buy the digital file, email your pic and info and she emails you back the file as a jpeg which you can get printed at any photo place! It was super quick too, she emailed me back overnight after I had sent my pic and info to her in the afternoon! {high five!} I am sooooooooooooooooo happy with them! They are so professional and would look awesome on anyone's refrigerator door {wink!} Its a great idea for birthday invites too. I had to choose a pic of Jaimeson doing a little smile too, he's so sweet!
:) C

Quickie

I should be sleeping. No I ReALLY should be sleeping, if last night is anything to go by. You know, those aweful, truly horrible, nightmarish times when your baby just doesn't stop crying for 2 hours and its for no reason at all and then your iphone crashes and has to be reset to factory settings so you lose everything? Including pics you haven't downloaded yet of your gorgeous little boy {sob}. Luckily I'm a sucker for family and social networking so I was able to get some back that I had emailed around (thank you Yvette!) or posted to FB. It was a heart breaking moment, knowing what gorgeous pics I had on my phone that are now gone {frowny}. But at least Jaimeson is still small and making plenty of photo-worthy moments. I am so happy not to have lost this one of Jai at 5 days old..... Don't believe the books that tell you babies don't smile until 6 weeks. Jai has been smiling randomly from birth and reacting to us and smiling at us from 2 weeks old! Such a precious little fellow {heart melting!}
:) C

My first Jaimeson Scrap Page!

Hi Y'all!
You may be able to tell that I am finding it a bit tricky to sit down at the computer and do a blog post! Lack of good sleep = not too motivated {yawn!} However, I am getting some good sleep lately as Jaimeson has been going 4hrs between feeds overnight which has been awesome! So here I am! And.... pleased to announce I managed to sit down at my desk and do a scrap page of our little man too, HOORAY {party poppers going off in background!}
I had been formulating it in my mind for a few days so when I finally had the chance to sit down and make it, all I had to do was go through my stash and choose some papers and embellishments that fit the vision in my mind! Success! I love this pic of Will, his Dad (Benny) and Jaimeson. Will was so proud to show off Jai to his Dad and Benny kept laughing at him saying "Good boy, good boy!" And apparently the size of Jaimeson's ears and forehead mean good luck. Lol.
Last weekend we spent at Mum and Dad's in Wollongong and the whole family came to say hello to Jaimeson! Yvette and her family came up from Canberra for their cuddles and Alicia and Felicity brought their children down for the day as a surprise. This meant Mum and Dad had all 4 daughters and all 5 Grandchildren together, which was very special for them! It may have been just slightly overwhelming for me with so many people, as we were having feeding issues with little Jai and I was a bit upset! Thankfully our feeding situation has exponentially improved and we're all good now. High five Jaimeson! {Slap!}
I have a whole file on my computer of examples of gorgeous "staged" baby pics I wanted to take of Jai, but cos it's sooooo cold here at Hotel d'Lam (my MIL doesn't believe in heating... no joke, we live in an igloo. Except we've snuck an oil heater into our room with Jaimeson as our excuse!) I haven't dared try to take naked pics of Jai cos he'd be pulling "My bits are freezing Mum!" faces the whole time! But while I was at Mum and Dad's Yvette helped me stage some sweet pics in one of Mum's ginormous basket collection and a gorgeous Pomegranate wooden box. I just LOVE them! Mum brought the box up to me last week so I'm hoping to get the chance to take a few more :)
I hope you're having a good Long Weekend! I'm up for some relaxing today :) Hope I can get down to my desk sometime today too!
:) C

Chillin in The Gong

Hello y'all!
Will, Jaimeson & I are soaking up some wonderful parental attentions here in Wollongong! Jaimeson has been much more settled with feeding since we've been down here so I'm hoping we've turned a rather difficult corner and are on the up and up with Breastfeeding! Hooray!! It's been a bit of a battle this week {sob} but we're doing much better now. Who would have thought it would be so hard!
Here's a pic to whet your baby pic appetite. Isn't our boy a cutie!
:)C



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Success!

Hello!
Just a quick post to say hey... "Hey!"Today has been a fairly successful day already, in that I have achieved the following things:
1. Breakfast (awesome, have been missing this sometimes)
2. Put load of washing on (hung out by Willy, but I can count putting it on as an achievement surely!)
3. Shower and wash hair
4. Shave legs (OMG!! I was an amazon woman. Not to mention it had been hard to shave them with a big 39week tummy so it had been almost 2 weeks since i shaved them. Ew!)
5. Send 3 emails.
6. Do mini blog post.
Time for a nap now? No... the little man will be due in 15 mins or so, so no nap just yet. He slept, fed and settled well last night which meant that we could get some good long sleep periods in. Wow, how it makes a difference! I feel like I can actually get things done today! We'll be keeping on praying for good nights like last night from now on too!
:)C

He's Here!! Say hi to our Little Lam!

Will and I proudly announce the birth of our baby boy

Jaimeson Jun Hao Lam.So sweet! He was born on Thursday night, weighing 3.56kg, after only the one dose of prostin gel and a 7 hour labour! So much for it taking 24hrs and a second dose of gel and then a drip induction too! It was much speedier than we had anticipated and we were home already on Saturday afternoon (which was a bit scary!)Our first night at home went really really well, and our second night was terrible! I was so emotional and cried a lot {sob!} He wouldn't settle well and I think I got about 4hrs sleep, including 1.5hrs once the sun had come up again. I wasn't prepared for such a terrible night! Last night was much better again, we got into a feeding, burping and sleeping rhythm that seemed to work really well. I'm still not sure what to do though, at 3am when Jai has been fed and burped and his eyes are wide open? It's like... now what?I'm not sure how often I am going to get to blog either! I don't seem to have that much free time right now (as I'm sure all you women with children well know!!)So, hope you have enjoyed these few pics of our sweet little man! We are just soooo in love with him and can't wait for you to meet him in person!
:) C

Rolled Fabric Roses

Hi y'all!
So, Yvette, here are the Rolled Fabric Rose brooches/headband roses I made on Sunday! Pretty cool hey?! I googled instructions (after trawling around etsy for a while and almost buying a pattern on there I realised I should just google and someone would have posted one for free. And I was right!) I used the Tattered Roses Tutorial from Everyday Chaos. It was super fun to sit down with lots of my fabrics and the hot glue gun and get to work! I made some tiny roses to make an interchangeable headband for Peabody if it's a girl (they are the 7 tiny ones at top left of this pic), and then I made a whole bunch of larger roses for brooches. Then Sunday night I sat and watched TV and cut out leaves from felt and stitched on leaf veins. Tuesday I bought brooch backs and assembled them and voila! Another Maternity Leave project finished! I should really have "holidayed at home" more often, whenever I had a specific project in mind actually, cos I have found these last 2.5 weeks at home very productive!
I have to thank Mum for teaching me to be crafty, cos without craftiness I would have been very bored these last 2 weeks! As it is, I have had an absolute ball! And hope that I can still squeeze in some craftiness between Peabody's feeds and sleeps too!
:) C