Roly Polys

So Dott has been moving a fair bit today. It is so lovely. I had forgotten how wonderful this feeling was. It is like a flutter that I know will eventually change to be a massive boot in the ribs.  But for now her teeny tiny roly polys are wonderful. They reassure me that everything is OK and they remind me exactly the reason I was put on this earth for - to create new life.

We got to see our little friend baby Sophie (9 weeks old) on Wednesday and she reminded me how tiny they can be, and Charlie then made sure I remembered that a big boofa baby is still just as gorgeous by doing cute face as he threw balls from the ballpit all around the lounge room.

So am I looking forward to the new-baby-smell? YES, yes I am. Hoorah!

I love life right about now :)

xoxo

Count Your Blessings

So I complain a bit about morning sickness. And by a bit I actually mean HEAPS. Most of the time it is justified because I really do feel like utter crap... but something hit me last night which I think will stop me whinging quite so loudly.

A close friends current health status made me realise that although I wake up and want to throw my guts up every morning, I am actually a healthy individual.  Me complaining about a bit of queasiness is really just a bit ridiculous.

I should be more grateful that I can still get about and continue on with my day.

And for anyone else who loves to whinge in general - you should take this little note on board too, no matter how awful your day may seem, somebody else is doing it tougher than you, so stop complaining and get on with it!

xoxo

The Woman - She does tend to rabbit on.

Yeah, I do.  I love to talk - about babies, about getting married and just in general. Sometimes my talking turns into ranting but I think we can just blame the hormones for that.

I get so worked up watching the news, reading things in the newspaper or online and even on Facebook, sometimes I wonder if it would be worth it just not looking at any of it. Simon will tell you I'm not a very good movie person (as I'll refuse to watch anything that is scary, like, at all) so when it's real life news it makes it ten times worse. And then I end up crying because I feel helpless.

I know we all feel like that sometimes but when you're pregnant, the tears come flooding at many things you wouldn't even expect to make you cry - like seeing an old person eating lunch by themselves in a cafe (yeah that one got me the other day).

Hmm, what is is going on besides the roller coaster in my head?

Oh, so last night I tried to sleep without my body pillow - big mistake. At about 4.30am this morning (when our cat went a little bit feral and woke us up) I realised that I was in absolute agony. So back up it came and 'bugger-off-simon' tada! I was able to sleep soundly again. Thank goodness.

If there was ONE thing I would recommend to have during pregnancy it would be a body pillow. You can get them from The Mart or Big W and they aren't too expensive - and if you're other half is sick of you throwing all your weight on them whilst you sleep they will love your body pillow too.

Hmm, that's all for today.

xoxo

Attack of the Preggy Hormones

So as you can see, my hormones have gone a bit whack and I have taken over the wedding blog with a pregnancy blog. Please believe me when I say this is temporary. I just don't see much point me NOT talking about getting married because I'm too busy trying to remember why I put the milk in the pantry.

Dott and the Whale, why this I hear you ask?

Well, if you are familiar with this classic 1987 children's movie, you will be aware that Dot saves a whale, hence the movie title.  Since my sister and I loved this movie to death, it was natural that when I announced we were calling this baby Dott (Whilst it floats about in my belly), that she decided it would only be appropriate to refer to myself as the 'Whale'. Hence Dott and the Whale. Yeah, really makes me feel good about myself that one!


So if you weren't 'in the know' the following are the facts about Dott:

- Dott is a girl (60% accurate and she may grow a willy)

- Dott is due on Christmas Day

- Dott makes me feel sick almost ALL THE TIME.

- Dott flitters about now

- Dott sucks her thumb

For a little person about 15 weeks old I think that is quite an impressive resume, don't you?

Over the next two weeks I will be updating our Bridal Party page with amusing stories about each of the people who we have asked to help us out with our big day.  So keep an eye on this - Also I'm still arguing with the photos from the Engagement party, it is an argument I am losing so please don't lose hope, you will get to see your wonderful smiling faces soon!

AAAAND, one of my Bridesmaids Hannah, has herself gotten engaged - this is awesome. I like having lots of engaged friends because we can all talk WEDDINGS all the time.  To top this exciting news off she has also asked me to be her Maid of Honour. I am very excited by this and look forward to having a ball of a time helping her arrange her big day.

xoxo

The Event of the Year!

Well I'm finally getting off my rear end to blog about the Engagement Party. Oh-my-effing-goodness. I don't think it could've gone any better if we tried.

We would like to thank each and every one of you that came, sent your well wishes or even just thought about us on Friday. 

Toledo was a swish little establishment, set up for all our Engagement Party needs, a big thanks goes out to the mums and nans who helped with all the party food. You did a truly magnificent job!

The cake - My Auntie Gaye completely outdid herself with this one. It looked absolutely marvelous and we are very grateful that she took all that time out of her own busy days to make such a creation for us.

You have showered us with many gifts, goodness me I was weepy when we were reading through the cards the following morning. Thank-you cards will be shipped out to you all soon - This weekend has a whole lot of not much on so I believe that is what we shall be doing during the day.

Now our little surprise at our speeches... how did you like that? Some of you had already started to work it all out (due to my lack of consumption of alcohol) but the reaction from the crowd was still brilliant - We are having baby number two... How exciting.

Once again, thank you from Simon, Myself and Charlie - we really do know that we are very-much-so loved.

Photos are going up on the gallery page at the moment, it may take me a little while because I'm still gathering photos from different people from the night. I'll probably update some photos on this post at some point also, to make it look cooler!

Love love

xoxo

Nearly time to Pardy

People, in less than 4 hours we will be partying it up! Please be excited by this. I am!  Also please check back here tomorrow evening... I will have many wonderful photos of you all dancing and being merry up in the photo albums page.

Also a quick note, I have organised a meeting with who I hope will be my marriage celebrant. This excites me ten-fold (which today equates to a very large amount).

So yes, meeting up with Gail Eaton-Briggs next Wednesday and hopefully she will help us organise the rest of the whole shebang!

Hmm, that's it... just a quick update today. Woo!

xoxo

Oh-so-musically-inclined

So I feel I have managed to conquer the playlist for tomorrow night. The ladies may like it more than the guys... just drink a few more beers and pretend you like it if you don't OK?

It has made me realise how very difficult it is actually going to be when we get married to pick a song to get married too.  I mean I already know what our first dance will be.... but the ceremony bit? Bit scary.

Also chatting to Cara at work today (after she let me borrow her wedding DVD) I have realised so far I have been a bit lazy with my organising thus far. I seem to be in a "I'll bother with all of this next year" kind of mode but really wont be able to do that because most of the good stuff will be taken by then.

This list begins with a Marriage Celebrant. Which I have promised myself I will call tomorrow on my lunch break and make an appointment to meet her over coffee.

Anyways back to the day at hand, also today I have been an amazing Domestic Goddess and cleaned most of the house, cooked up one-hell-of-a Red Thai Chicken Curry, and managed to remove excess hair from my arms and legs so I feel as smooth as a baby's bottom. Simon doesn't know how freaking lucky he is sometimes.

 

I bet you do though,

xoxo.

E-Day. It looms.

So we are fast approaching the big Engagement Party date. I sure hope you've steam-ironed your party dresses and asked mum to remove that strange stain on your slacks that you're sure was sauce from a midnight-food-run last time you hit Hobart, because everything is in full swing.

Balloons - Organised.
Food - Organised.
Playlist - Getting there (and taking requests, if you want to hear a song - that wont make our ears bleed - please let me know and I'll consider putting it on our list!)
Bride and Groom to be - Still arguing over what we are going to wear.

So yes. If you are heading along (which we sure hope you are) we'll be doing our speeches and cutting the cake around 8.30pm (because the DJ will start at 9pm) so as long as you have your beautiful selves there before hand we wont disown you all.

Get ready to get drunk, get dancey and get all around happy-happy this Friday night (there will be NO Rebecca Black even because we party on the same nights she does).

Love love

xoxo

Engagements Galore

So this past weekend Simon and I were lucky enough to be invited to our good friends Simmone and Alex's engagement party.

Well, what a swell time we had. Drinking, Dancing and snacking away on nibbles. It's just how I imagine my own party to be... except maybe with less of Simmone and Alex's family there and more of mine and Simon's.

So congratulations Simmone and Alex. Your speeches were great, your cake was great, and Charlie really liked the left over balloons you let us take home for him!

The other big event of the weekend was Charlie's First birthday party. Wowee what a lucky little man we have. He is seriously one of the most loved people I know. People came from far and near to help us celebrate and I am very grateful to each and every one of you.

Still working the finer things out for next weekend. I hope you're all as excited as I am!

xoxo

Under the weather

Well yes it has been a few weeks since my last post - but really I do have 2 years worth of blogging to waste your time with and ultimately there have been a few nasty things happening at our house which has kind of preoccupied my time.

The first is Gastro. Don't get it. It is the shits. Literally. And when Bugg goes down, then Simon goes down and finally I go down, it leaves us with a very unhappy household.

I ask you, whoever invented the Gastro bug was a right old bastard. It is awful.

By a box of Hydralite icy-poles and a few recovery days later and we all seem to be back on our feet. Thank goodness.

Speaking of being back on our feet I haven't officially informed the world that Charlie can walk! On his own! This is way cool but he always seems to sit down right as I get the camera out. So currently there is no YouTube proof of this frequent occurrence.

The second is the fact that we have a new family member. I've mentioned it on Facebook but I'm certain I haven't put it on here. He is named Rusty and he's is pretty cool so far as cats go.

I'm certain he and Charlie and going to be best friends and get up to alot of mischief when I'm not looking.

Thirdly, I have been preparing for Bugg's birthday - it is on Thursday (No, I cannot believe he has been around for a year either) and on Saturday we are having our family party. 

These are the invites I have made for the occasion. I could be all coy and pretend they are no good so you can give me compliments but the truth is I'm really proud of them so I wont do that.

And the last thing that has been filling my left over grey matter, is the final preparations for this Engagement Party. It really isn't that far away (and so if you haven't already formally RSVP'd to me, please do so ASAP, I'm starting to tear my hair out panicking that I wont have enough food for you all.)

So the things I have left to organise - balloons, food, and yes that is about it.

Pretty happy with the effort so far.  I enjoy being busy.

Wow, I can seriously crap on eh?

I shall leave you with the picture I promised of Charlie in his Christening Gown. He truly is my bald little angel. Gawd I love him (as do his various admirers.)

xoxo