We have been enjoying settling into autumn and winter in the Hills.
The new house is much warmer than the old one and we have been making use of the real fire that we have in the lounge.
I have been using my slow cooker a lot and making lovely stews and soups - so easy with a slow cooker!
Work has been very busy - particularly for me as the company I work for is merging with another organisation a similar one but much bigger based in Melbourne. I have been part of the team putting the merger together since January and it's an immensely complex process and a lot of hard work. I've learnt a lot though.
And of course through this I have been pregnant so tiredness has featured a fair bit in my life!!
Iain has as usual been super and so supportive. I am 30 weeks pregnant now, and starting to get into aches and pains territory so am trying to take it easier.
Amelia is delightful. Her sentence structure is amazing, how it's coming on every day. She has had a few firsts recently. She went to the theatre with childcare to see a kids play based on a book called the Terrible Plop. They went on a minibus - Iain went too and was responsible for looking after Amelia's little friend Jarrad (see pic on bus below). Amelia had such a good time she still talks about it.
She has been a mischievous one at childcare recently. Her and Jarrad snuck into the bathroom, plugged up the sinks and turned on the taps and flooded the floor of the Bilby Room. Iain wondered if her and Jarrad had plotted this the day before as she insisted on wearing her welly boots to childcare that day. hhhmmm
We had a little party for Iain's birthday in May. We had a lunch here for a few friends. Zoe made Iain the most magnificent cake. Her cakes never fail to amaze us!!
I am finishing work on July 31 which is still a little while away. Iain and I are sharing the maternity/paternity leave, 3 months each. My mum is planning to be here in August which will be lovely.
We are enjoying a long weekend this weekend for the Queen's birthday public holiday. We're not doing much. Catching up on some things around the house and some rest!
We've given Amelia a new bedroom complete with red and pink furniture and accessories so the room she has been in since we moved here will now become the baby room as it has all the baby furniture in it. We got Amelia a new bed so Iain now has to return the bed that she was using to become the cot again.
We have sorted out all the baby clothes and starting buying essentials for the new one. There's not much to get at all which is good. Hopefully we'll be sorted out so that when I go on maternity leave there's nothing to do except put my feet up and wait :-)
Hope all is well with you all.
Love to hear your news
Lots of love
Caroline, Iain and Amelia xxxx
James and Amelia enjoying some quiet book reading time on Iain's birthday
While everyone else was lifting a glass of wine to Iain, I was lifting the cordial!!
The birthday boy blowing out his birthday candles with a little help from a little helper
Amelia and Jarrad on the way to see the "Terrible Plop"
Getting bigger....
Amelia, swiped her dad's undies off the clothes horse and put them on
We went to a chilcare outing in town a few Saturdays ago, one of the parks in the parklands and had a great time watching Amelia run around with her friends. Here's some of them.
Her dolls are going everywhere with her these days
Singing in the rain.
Tiger Amelia - they had been doing facepainting at childcare that dayVideo of Iain and Amelia on Iain's birthday below - click on the little arrow
The rest of the photos are on our day out in the Hills on the Queen's birthday public holiday Monday (8 June) to a little railway set on a farm .
