Every Crazy Little Thing You Do!

So it's no real secret that having a baby early in marriage or early in a relationship can put a "spanner in the works" so to speak. Trying to have a relationship and get to know each other as husband and wife with a screaming baby in between is incredibly hard!

One thing that someone said to me recently is that a good marriage takes work no matter how long you have been married. This gave me a lot more faith about our marriage and how we are both feeling. We have an excellent relationship- don't get me wrong- We love each other more than I could have ever imagined loving someone. 

Anyways I found a website today that has inspired me! It's called www.thedatingdivas.com
There are hundreds of fantastic date ideas for couples and also for families! And it really shows that ALL relationships need work and that "Dating" is so important. So I sent a text to DH and asked if we could have a regular date night. Monday or Tuesday nights are our best bet purely because DH always has to work day shifts on those two days. But there will be some "dates" we will need to do on the weekends. For example the garage sale date, like a scavenger hunt for garage sale items. We love thrift stores and garage sales so it's perfect for us!

Also! On the "love" stuff... Our anniversary is coming up *eee* It's still a few months away but I have now realised how incredibly organised I need to be with a super unpredictable human being on my hip! Noah keeps me on my toes for the majority of the day so what normally took a few hours to organise can take up to a week! Especially if I want to get some much needed sleep!

I have a few ideas up my sleeve for our anniversary

One of which is a framed print of our vows **see below**

Anyways Noah has now been in bed for 2 1/2 hours so I better join him in the land of the nod!

Hope everyone is well xx 

Week 3 Photo Dump

WEEK THREE 

25th December 2011- 

31st December 2011

Week 2 Photo Dump

WEEK TWO 

18th December 2011- 

24th December 2011

Week 1 Photo Dump

I have decided to do a "photo a day" blog post but have 19 weeks to catch up on !! So will do a few posts for each week :) 

WEEK ONE
11th December 2011-
17th December 2011

11/12/2011

12/12/2011

13/12/2011

14/12/2011

15/12/2011

16/12/2011

17/12/2011

Easter Photo Dump!

Early morning trip to Sarina Beach

Fascinated by the plastic links 

Noah loves playing in the mirror!

and his shiny turtle

Cheeky boy :) 

Ipop and Noah :)

Cutie pie

Mumma and Noah

Yeeeeee 

HAPPY EASTER!!

When you hold me, I can see this is exactly where I want to be...

I have found that there are some songs that can totally melt me. 

Have a listen to this song.... 

Sally Seltmann- "Harmony to my heartbeat"  

This morning Noah and I woke up at our usual time of 5am, Noah was super happy. Smiling, giggling
and cooing. As I listened to this song I started to cry realising how truly blessed we are to be the parents of such a wonderful baby boy.

This week was an incredibly sad time for some of our friends. One of my beautiful friends babies grew his wings far too early at 29 weeks gestation. It breaks my heart and now one should ever have to experience that!

There is a story that I found a little while ago and it is so beautiful so I thought I would share. 

What Makes A Mother-

I thought of you and closed my eyes and prayed to God today.

I asked, ’What makes a Mother?’ and I know I heard Him say,

A mother has a baby, this we know is true,

But God, can you be a mother when your baby’s not with you?

Yes you can, He replied, with confidence in His voice

I give many women babies, when they leave is not their choice.

Some I send for a lifetime, others for a day

And some I send to feel your womb, but there’s no need to stay.

I just dont understand this Lord, I want my baby here!

He took a breath and cleared His throat and then I saw a tear,

I wish that I could show you what your child is doing today,

If you could see your child smile with the other children and say.

’We go to earth to learn our lessons of love and life and fear,

My mummy loved me oh so much I got to come straight here.

I feel so lucky to have a mum who had so much love for me,

I learned my lessons very quickly, my mummy set me free.

I miss my mummy oh so much, but I visit her each day.

When she goes to sleep, on her pillow’s where I lay,

I stroke her hair and kiss her cheek and whisper in her ear,

Mummy don’t be sad today, I’m your baby and I’m here’.

So you see, my dear sweet one, your children are ok,

Your babies are here in my home, and this is where they’ll stay.

They’ll wait for you with me, until your lesson’s through,

And on the day I call you home they’ll be at the gates for you.

So now you know what makes a mother.

It’s the feeling in your heart,

Its the love you had so much of, right from the very start.

Though some on earth may not realise until their time is done,

Remember all the love you have,

And you ARE a special mum!

It is definitely an eye opener when tragedy hits so close to home, makes you hold your family a whole lot tighter and realise how truly blessed we all are. 

Noah and I decided to pop down to Brisbane for Easter as Andrew is working the weekend. The flight was harder than the previous flights i've done with Noah purely because he slept the whole drive to the airport but he still did great and the air hostesses were wonderful. Kept coming and talking to him and cooing :) I love this age! Strangers love that they can make him smile so they all try. When he smiles everyone gets excited. 
I am very grateful that he is good on planes and just travelling in general. It's great to be able to pop down to Brisbane for the weekend. We hadn't told Emmily that we were coming to visit so when we arrived at Mums they told her to unpack the car :D SURPRISE :D It was so good to surprise her! We had been skyping every day while she is on holidays, it was so hard to keep the secret!

I love my family- extended family and all- so much! My cousin Tilly has her 21st Birthday today *woohoo* celebrating with an Alice in wonderland themed party tonight. And my Aunty Coralie is travelling to Vanuatu with her daughter (my cousin) Annie on a mission trip for 9 weeks! I hope they have safe travels and enjoy their time over there!

Hmm I can't think of any other news?! 

We are still not into our new house but hopefully soon!!!! The realestate said on Tuesday 2-3 weeks and when we drove past yesterday it was being painted and airconditioners are in. Not long to go now!

I will do a photo dump on another post :D
Happy Easter Everyone!

Rain rain go away!

So much rain here lately! It is definitely feeling like a wet season now!
Honestly, I was wondering what everyone was whinging about when they said
that the wet season was awful! But Hello! The second last week of the "wet season"
and here it is! We have buckets under different parts of our house where the roof is leaking!
Andrew had to climb on the roof to check out what was going on! But the real adventure
was trying to figure out how to get back down!! Ahh So much fun!

This week has been pretty uneventful- Just packing, cleaning and more packing! We headed to Mackay yesterday to pick up some toys for Noah. We got a second hand jitter buggy (toy car) but he is way too small for it and also got a second hand Lamaze tummy time mat! He loves it! His cousin Evie has a similar one and he loved it when we visited so decided to get one!

Totally another day!----- I don't get much time to write on this blog but I find it really good to get out what i'm feeling and to reflect on how far we have come.

I had a bit of a mummy stress this week over Noahs development. He is perfect socially, in fact he is the most social baby I have ever met! He smiles and coos and talks to everyone and everything. But he just lays there- Unless he's feeling particularly  gassy he will just lay there and coo. Funny how two short weeks ago I was so frustrated and upset with how sad he was and now i'm upset about how happy he is about not doing anything! But in comparison to babies around his age he wasn't very "mobile" He hated toys. Every toy I showed him he would cry at, he would even freak out and bury his face into my chest if I put him in front of a mirror. So this week was definitely "Operation Play Time". I pulled out every toy we had in the house and figured out what he did and didn't like. Noah LOVES faces, he loves singing (especially the animal sounds song!), He liked looking at lights, he loves the breeze and fresh air and the sound of rain.

So with this- I tried to find toys Noah liked. He hated the vibrating bird, he hated the crinkly elephant, he hated the bright colour frog. BUT I finally found something he liked- Those plastic links. I went out and bought more and clipped them everywhere. He grabs them, sings to them, puts them in his mouth. I never thought encouraging your child to play would be so difficult. Most people (everyone I have talked to) has told me to chill out, enjoy him but I was at a complete loss at to why Noah just hated toys. At the moment I believe that the toys are just over stimulating and a bit much especially after a day of music and walking.
I plan on spending a bit more "quiet" time encouraging playing and hopefully *fingers crossed* he starts loving toys!

Noah is getting so much better at sitting up! He has his bumbo but we also spend time without it and seeing how long he can sit up on his own for. :D He is still very chatty! And just so incredibly amazing. I cannot begin to explain to the love I have for him- A love that only a mother could ever understand.

There is this quote, "Making the decision to have a child in momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body."

This is so true. And I will never be the same- Andrew and I will never be the same. I never thought 12 short months ago that Andrew and I would be sitting here having an disagreement over Boys Brigade Vs Soccer! Or Private vs public schooling, or when is the right time to start swimming lessons. Twelve short months ago it was all about "us" and Now it is all about Noah! And it feels AMAZING!

ANYWAYS- Enough bragging about my little man!

We are all packed ready for our move tomorrow! The removalist picks up our things at lunch tomorrow and then we are here for two days (It was partially furnished so we will still have beds etc) while we clean and then staying in Sarina with other managers while we wait for our house to be finished. We were given the 25th of March for a move in date but unfortunately it looks like it will be delayed due to the heavy rainfall we had in the last few days.

But we CANNOT wait to move into our new place!! In the past week we've had "fun" at Laguna- Lots of flooding, The roof at our front door has decided to leak and start cracking!, the power went out quite a few times and the gas ran out *fun!* I kept saying to Andrew it was like very expensive camping! But honestly I will really miss this house. It is such an experience and you really have to live here to realise how magical it is :)

OHHHHHH!! Cannot forget to add! Andrew and I switched off the lights to hop into bed And Stood in AWE of fireflies! Yes real life fireflies! They were covering our windows with their beautiful lights :) We have been here for 6 months and that is the first time we have seen them :)

Anyways what alot of rambling :)

Thanks for reading
xx