Sunday, August 29

Mesmorised by the TV...


I Like TV


Like Daddy, like daughter... Catherine looks so cute here... and that hair... no sign of it falling out... and it just seems to get longer and crazier every day.

Here's a conversation Elizabeth had with me earlier in the week:

Elizabeth - Mum... look!
Me - Yes?
Elizabeth - Catherine is turning into a boy!
Me - Huh? What do you mean she's turning into a boy?
Elizabeth - Her hair is growing and she looks like a boy...

LOL... I have to admit, if she wasn't dressed in pink she does sometimes look a bit boyish with that unruly hair...

Friday, August 27

New Party Trick


New Party Trick


Well, it seems the wonder week (or in our case wonder fortnight) is over now... We have a much happier, smiley baby now who is sleeping better and has learnt some new things... one of which is this lizard tongue poking out face... Cracks me up... cracks her up too... :)

Tuesday, August 24

The Whole Kit and Kaboodle...


The Whole Kit & Kaboodle...


Following on from my previous post... here is the entire outfit I found Elizabeth wearing... All clothes and accessories hand-picked by the 3.5 year old... Oh what a fashion statement...

She's Quirky... She's Crazy...


My quirky, crazy child...


And I love her! She really makes me laugh with her antics sometimes... I was settling Catherine for one of her naps and when I came out Elizabeth was dressed in this hat, the black fluffy boa and the sparkly necklaces... what you can't see in this photo is that she is also wearing her twirly red pettiskirt over the top of her tracky pants... it was one ecletic look... I'll post a photo of the full outfit later... :) This pose is what she calls the "clown face"... I have no idea why it's called that!

Sunday, August 15

My Beautiful Daughters


My Beautiful Daughters

I just *love* this photo of my two girls because they are both looking at the camera! I've discovered if there's anything harder than photographing one child... it's photographing two children at the same time... Trying to get both to cooperate is challenging... Especially when one can't take direction and the other one wants to pull funny poses! I'm sure I'll be getting a lot more practise in the future...

Saturday, August 14

All Dressed Up... Need Somewhere To Go...


All Dressed Up, Need Somewhere To Go...


This gorgeous little winter dress arrived in the post today from our friends the Mitchells... I've just been dying to take a photo of Catherine in it since we got it... so today after her 1.5 hour morning nap (yep, I was just blogging yesterday how Catherine's a catnapper and today she's gone and proved me wrong... LOL) she was in a good mood, so I dressed her up in it... it's just sooo, sooo adorable... Thank you so much... Auntie Chi you have great taste in clothes... :)

Friday, August 13

It feels like I've blinked...


12 weeks today...


Suddenly Catherine is 12 weeks old today! I went and took her to get weighed today and she's now a lovely healthy 5.31kg... Put on almost 1kg since her 6 week checkup and is still cruising at about the 50th percentile on the charts. She's so funny, because as I was taking her clothes off to get her weighed she was all smiley and happy... I think she thought she was going to have a bath (and she really looooves her baths!)

Other updates...

- Sleeping at night, on the whole is improving... She's in the cot now and she generally does a long-ish stretch at the beginning of the night from 7pm-12/1am and needs a quick resettle at about 11pm. Feeds at 12/1am and then sleeps 'til about 4am/5am when it's another feed. And then it's hit or miss whether there's another couple of hours sleep after that feed or a 40 minute sleep. That's the general pattern... although she has been known to wake again 1-2 hours after the midnight feed, which makes for a crappy night for me... (like last night... also compounded by Phan snoring and Elizabeth waking me to look for a toy she'd lost in her bed just as I was falling asleep after resettling Catherine... which meant I pretty much had no sleep after 4:30am this morning... *yawn*).

- Sleeping during the day however, is another story... We have a serial catnapper here... she sleeps in 30-40 minute bursts... occasionally I can resettle her, but if she's not settled after 10-15 minutes, I get her up to play for another 15-20 minutes. It means I have to organise my day to cram as much as I can in while she naps (my shower, getting Elizabeth dressed for the day, hanging out laundry, playing with Elizabeth, cooking dinner, squeezing in my own nap)... It takes a bit of planning! At least she's sleeping in the cot now... but these short naps are hard work! Just persevering for the meantime... because really, there's not a lot else I can do...

- Catherine likes company... she's actually heaps better than Elizabeth, in that she will actually happily lie on her playmat or sit in her bouncer for 15-20 minutes at a time... (I was lucky to get 5 mins out of Elizabeth)... but I noticed today she wasn't quite as happy to do that and I think it was because Elizabeth was at kindy and she didn't have anyone to watch... It's actually quite cute because if Catherine starts making agitated noises while she's on the playmat, Elizabeth will come and sit/lie right next to her and hold her hand or talk to her and then Catherine will stop...

- Every night before bed, Elizabeth has been asking if she can say goodnight to Catherine, so we quietly tiptoe into her room and Elizabeth peers into the cot and whispers "Goodnight Catherine." and then we tiptoe out again... it's so sweet that she wants to say goodnight to her baby sister.

Okay... well, now I'm off to have an early night to try and compensate for last night... nightie night!

Sunday, August 8

Contemplating...


{contemplating}


Haven't had much opportunity to take any decent photos of my big girl, but the chance arose yesterday afternoon when we were just about to hop into bed and have a nap and I caught Elizabeth gazing out the window where the light was just beautiful...

Tuesday, August 3

Dancing @ Tiddlywinks

Tiddlywinks is a little dance/play cafe that we frequent every now and then ... We have Bao and Ty visiting us, so instead of going to Playtime today, I thought we'd do something different and go to Tiddlywinks instead... Vicky and her girls met up with us there too... Just a snippet of video footage of our little dancers in action...