Looming Mania

So I've discovered looming... it's like knitting, but easier and faster... which is great, because I'm terrible at knitting (I can never get the tension right)... It's rapidly becoming a bit of an addiction! In 3 days, I've made 6 beanies... the above photo are 4 of the newborn - 6 month sized beanies I've made... (I've been trying to figure out the best size and wool to use, so this is all experimental)... It's about now that Im starting to wish I'd found out the gender of this baby so I can make gender specific coloured beanies... but no biggie... For now, I'm sticking with neutral colours and if it's a girl I plan on sewing on some pretty wool flower to make them more girly.... and I might just have to make a couple of blue and pink ones and give away the ones I don't need to other people... a newborn beanie only takes me about 1 - 1 1/2 hours to make whilst I'm watching TV.... I have plans on making a baby cocoon (which is basically like a really long beanie) for the baby to keep him/her snug since this baby will be a winter baby...

And I also made these 2 beanies for my girl...

The pink one (she insisted I take the photo with her drinking the boost juice... which when you think about it is rather oxymoronic... icy cold drink whilst wearing beanie)





And a blue fuzzy flat top beanie... Beth's not fond of this one at all... I had to really convince her to wear it... I think she'd like it more if it was a girly colour!

The Awesome Green Glasses

These awesome glasses were a creation courtesy of playgroup today... she adores them to and keeps asking to wear them...

Sorry I've been a bit quiet on the blog front... I'm battling a cold at the moment which I'm hoping to shake by the time we head home to Adelaide next week... pregnancy + cold is not a lot of fun... not only that, but it is insanely hot and himd here too, which is just making the whole thing a bit less tolerable! The humidity was like 93% here this afternoon... CRAZY!

And just one other photo I wanted to share... this afternoon Beth discovered the joys of the game "Plock" (a facebook game) and has said the following to me -
(1) "This is a fun game, Mum!"
(2) "I'm really good at this game!"
(3) "Look, I got a caterpillar!" (you get different animal/people picture rating depending on how high your score is... her highest score so far is 25000, which scored her a pteradactyl, which she called a "parrot")
(4) "Mum, can you take a photo of me? Take a photo of me playing Plock!"

So how could I refuse that request... She's come a far way from the toddler that hated having her photo taken... so I snapped this photo of her playing her new favourite game -

More Than Halfway

I decided to have some creative time this afternoon while Beth was at kindy and take another belly shot... I've ummed and ahhed about posting this and have just decided to take the plunge... I love this photo, but you know, I'm not in the habit posting bare belly photos of myself... And whilst I think I don't have any huge hangups about my figure (other than my huge butt.. :p)... it still takes some courage to post this photo...

And just a bit of background on how I took this photo... It's taken on timer and taken in our rather small bathroom because the lighting is just gorgeous in the afternoon... but due to the way the bathroom is setup, I'm actually standing in the bath with the window backlighting me... it worked out well, but it took a fair bit of fiddling to set this up.

She Loves Kindy Preschool!

Today when I came to pick up Beth from kindy preschool, she was playing outside in the sandpit... When she saw me I got a big smile and bright happy "Hello!"... and then she kept on playing in the sand with one of her friends!!! No hug or kiss for me!!! She was content to stay out there in the sandpit while I went inside and collected her bits and pieces and then when I came out and asked her if it was okay to go home she said "Ok... and we come back again tomorrow!"... LOL... yes... she loves it that much! She also had a little wee accident today... I'm guessing she was enjoying herself so much, she forgot to go to the toilet! I'm starting to feel a little obsolete here... but at the same time I am so glad that she enjoys her time away from me at kindy preschool... :)

And here's what she made today at kindy preschool... a Valentine's Day card...

Enjoying my day off...

This morning I dropped Beth off at kindy preschool again for the 2nd time ever... and just like last Friday... she was happy to go, and fine to be left there by herself... I also fared much better and was no where near as mopey as I was last week and have enjoyed having some "me time" today... :)

I filled out some boring FTB forms out this morning, and then I went and got a haircut ... then came home had some lunch and have pottered around and done some things and enjoyed a little nap too... :)

I'm looking forward to picking Beth up in an hour and hearing about how her day was...

And I just thought I'd share a couple macro outtakes from January too...

My Facebook Has Been Hacked

Just letting those of my blog readers who are also my Facebook friends, that my Facebook account was hacked this morning and someone was impersonating me and trying to get people to send money to them. The scam is known as the 419 London scam and has been around since 2008... Check out this link if you want to know more -
http://www.businessinsider.com/2009/1/nigerian-scammers-still-roosting-on-facebook

Basically, the beginning of the chat transcript in that link is the exact conversation that 2 of my friends experienced with "me" this morning! Now might be a timely moment to remind everyone to change their passwords and make it something strong (make it at least 8 characters, make it contain at least one caps letter and one number)... had a strong password on mine and I still got hacked... so this is going to be a lesson for me to change my password frequently!

So my FB account has been suspended and I'm awaiting the Facebook team to reinstate the account for me.

Even Crocodiles Need Sunscreen

Elizabeth is going through a funny role playing/imaginative games phase at the moment... she often pretends to be different animals (in this photo, taken on Saturday, that's her being a crocodile... and yes, that's sunscreen you see smeared all over her face... she applied that herself... good job huh?)... but the last couple of days she keeps saying "Mum, I'm a mermaid..." followed by "Hi Mum" and then if I reply with "Hi Elizabeth", she keeps on repeating "Mum, I'm a mermaid... Hi Mum!"... until I say "Hi Ariel" (from The Little Mermaid)... Then she's started designating roles for me to play... the most popular thing she likes me to be is a turtle... "Mum... you're a turtle... Hi Turtle!"... LMAO... It got a little ridiculous tonight when she said to me "Turtle, I want to get out of the bath."... "Turtle, I need to go to the toilet"... What the? I like being "Mum", not "Turtle"!

Another funny thing she said to me .... I was heating her dinner up the other night she goes to me "Mum... What's up?"... like it was normal conversation... (I had no idea what to say to her when she said that!)... She's said heaps of other hilarious things lately, but I can't remember them... I'll have to start jotting them down, because some of them have me in hysterics!