No picture for this post, the flash went off as I dumped the camera on the bathroom bench…to pluck Meg from the bath! Meg is two months old on the 8th, can you believe it! My tiny newborn is growing so fast. Anyway, we were doing the “three kids making a train” photo shoot in the bath and darling Jack was holding Meg for the photo, but he let her go and she did actually float for a second! Lily proudly announces “Meg floats”, yes darling she does. “Shall we call her Float, that can be her name” says that big sister, how about Floaty? So Floaty it is!
October 18, 2009
Our first photo as a family of five is a little fuzzy because it was taken on the timer. Super cute. Meg really enjoys faces and talking to us so what better place to be than at the table with us all. The kids thought it was great.
Co-Sleeping Kidlets!
And one of our Meg
Hope you are all having a great weekend!
October 1, 2009
My two wee girls, doesn’t Lily look so grown up! She is so super helpful and LOVES to babysit Meg for any random reason, such as me needing to go to the loo! I usually come back to find Meg amongst ponies and barbies but she doesn’t complain. Late this afternoon I took all three for a walk, the two little guys in the buggy and Lil on her running bike. I knew Tim was close to leaving work so he could do the rescue mission on his way home when he would come across us. Sure enough not too far from home Lily was sick of her bike and wanted to hitch a ride on the front of the buggy. It wasn’t too far after that that we found the Dad and he came and rescued Jack away, so the boys went home for some Man Time and us girls carried on our merry way….the two little girls fell asleep!
Did you spot those beady wee eyes! It was so lovely to get out for a walk, we really need some much better weather. We have had to resort to bringing the waterplay table inside!
September 26, 2009
Better late than never, our third wee poppet decided to arrive in her own time on the 8th September 2009. Meg Janina Biesiek was born at home on a lovely sunny morning after keeping everyone guessing and waiting an entire 40wks and 11days! Weighing in at a delightful 8pd 9oz or 3880gm she was lightest of the three of them. Just 15gms lighter than her big sis and a whole lot lighter than her loving big brother. She is just perfect and has slotted right in to make us a very happy but somewhat busy family of five.
Tim had two weeks off work which was fantastic. He kept the big kids entertained while Meg and I learnt the “Womanly Art of Breastfeeding” all over again after a 20 week break since Jack had left the nest. He was back at work on Tuesday just been and the week went really well much to my suprise and delight. Meg had a great first week and gained a whopping 380gm which was 10% of her birth weight. Ironic for the child of a neonatal nurse really. She hasn’t been weighed again but my midwife is coming on Tuesday so that should be interesting to see her growth in the last two weeks.
Instead of lots of writing I think I will pop up lots of photos of the last 2.5weeks so you can see our little muskateers in action. I am starting to get my knitting mojo back so need to go and embrace that! I have only knitted once or twice since Meg arrived although I did manage to do some knitting in early labour and then couldn’t remember where I was up to with my cable so had to get that sorted by my lovely friend! Enjoy the photos and I promise to update slightly more often so you can all see our Meggie Mouse grow!!!
Better run! More updates soon ;o)
July 19, 2009
Similar to Lily’s rainbow dress pattern is this little number called a “Milo” designed by the same fabulous knitter known as Tikki who you can find here http://tikkifabricaddict.blogspot.com/. One very clever lady. So it is a quick knit when doing the 3mth size. I am now doing a 3 year size for my wee man and it is taking a few extra days but I want to finish it by this weekend so he can show it off when we are away!
SO no, we don’t what flavour ours in-utero child is, this is for a friends new baby. The gorgeous wee Lauren Elizabeth. Congrats guys!!!
And these are feet of my own little monkey
Lily also has a pair and I have one, need to get on to that! They are awesome and churn through the wool, which is sad but you know what that means…I neeeeeed to buy more!!!!
Not much else happening here. Yuk weather which induces loads of indoor play. We are heading to the big KK this weekend and the kids are staying with Grandma and Grandpa while we go to Tauranga for a wedding. Apparently we are also taking the dog. Because two children and a stomach aren’t enough of a mission for 5-6hrs in the car. Cheers for that in-laws. ;0)
Must run.
June 26, 2009
My Darling wee lad. He is so cute and lovely. And incredibly helpful in his own wee way. The current joke here is asking Jack to shut the door to the hallway and adding “gently” to the request. Ofcourse the muscle man shuts it with a slam that shakes the entire house and thinks it is the funniest thing. I decided that I really needed to focus on gentle before the current youngest child becomes a big brother. We started with the door and it really didn’t work. So we moved on to the cat and that is currently a work in progress! Lets hope the word “gentle” enters his vocabulary in the next 9 weeks!
The poor guy has had such a bad cough that it has been making him spewk! I tucked him up in our bed this morning and let him rest, it lasted all of maybe 10mins but did produce this rather cute photo
I indulge my hippie side in a subscription to an American magazine…check out the air miles on the postage of this (whoops) called Mothering and it is just devine. It contains some really interesting articles on many of my fav subjects…attachement, breastfeeding, birthing (the gentle homebirthing kind) and ofcourse parenting. An article in the current issue was about creating calm and peace for your children and teaching them to relax (yeah, with my “gentle” child). It contained gorgeous photos of children soaking their wee piggies in a foot spa. I knew instantly my munchkins would be up for that and it has been a massive hit. I tried it out with Jack while Lily was at preschool and he loved it.
I want to do it with Lily too. She has a love for Lavender and often sneaks it in and puts it under her pillow to help her sleep so I am sure her eyes will light up if I give her some scissors and get her go and cut some for her foot spa. Might have to put that on the list for the weekend. She was incredibly impressed with me recently when I created this wee beauty for her:
It is known as a Rainbow Lily Dress and I found it on www.ravelry.com. If I was really cool I would link directly to the site and all that cool stuff but I am not! It is so cute. The pattern only goes to size 2 and the wool was hand dyed specifically for this pattern. I increased the cast on to fit a size 3, which has made it shorter than it should be. It is now actually a rainbow lily top but we love it all the same. I also contacted the clever woman who dyed the wool and asked her to dye some to make a size 3/4 and I think she might do it in similar colours to www.thewoolcompany.co.nz “Orchard” which is now a discontinued colour that I love! My knitting career started too late for it unfortunately. So will wait in anticipation for that! I also have finished a wee pair of merino possum longies for bubs and have done another as well but only if it is born with one leg. Must finish that pair, because I am sure we saw two legs on the scan. Really need to run and rest, ready for my last shift at work in the morning. I am so looking forward to finishing. I am a bit over it to be honest. I just want to hang and nest with my little guys!
June 21, 2009
Lots of news to tell but let me start with some photos since I have been organised enough to ensure the camera has a full battery to start with and have managed to take the camera with us, download the photos onto the computer and then upload them on to here! Film cameras sound easy!
We have had such a great time discovering a new beach that is about a 10min drive from us. The best thing about this beach is that you can take your dog there in the winter and let it off the lead to play with all the other dogs! The kids think it is great and Pippa has a fab time digging with Lily. She digs like a mad thing and can reach water in about 10 seconds. This beach also has loads of sunshine in the late afternoon in the middle of winter. So much so that the Lily thought she might swim!! She is really wanting to find a ”crittering dolphin” not that I have any idea what is so special about a crittering dolphin but obviously she has seen or heard something.
I keep procrastinating and thinking I must update the blog and let you all know what we are up to. The garden is looking pretty bare, although my capsicums that I grew from seed are still producing and we have had some pretty nasty frosts. I planted some brasicas a bit late, so will have to some how be all prepared to spring into action in the spring, between newborn baby feeds and toddler activities. The 10 week count down is on now. Our wee family member is due to make an apprearance somewhere close to spring just like Uncle Gregs calves. I have started filling the freezer and today made the baby’s birth cake. It smelt delicious while it was cooking. It is a chocolate fruit cake from Nigella Lawson’s Feast. The kids are very excited and love to blow raspberries on my tummy. A few nights ago Lily snuck into our bed and the baby was kicking up a storm, so lucky big sister got to bond with her new sibling and enjoyed some special time feeling him/her kick. The poor child was known as “The Third Child” for a long time but the other day we decided (Lily) that we would call it “sparkle”, which I think suits its personality. It is incredibly active which is a bit of joke as I have had very laid back children so far. My little man is now awake so must run, but have a few knitting projects to post about so will get back in the next day or so.
April 10, 2009
Ok, so started a big long story of the last 6 weeks or so but figured I would just do this:
20. Tim had a great time in Rarotonga, while gone the dog killed two of the chickens and I broke the lawn mower.
19. We all went to the Katikati wedding and had a blast.
18. Camping – was awesome. Kids were great, exccept for the early starts in freezing temps, but it soon warmed up and we had beautiful weather during the day.
17. We then went back to KK after piking a day or two early from the cold nights in the tent and the Mum and Dad had the most devine Thai meal in Tauranga while leaving the little guys with their grandparents who managed to feed them dinner, bath them and put them to bed. I guess they have done it three times before!
16. In KK we went to a bird garden and discovered that Mummy and Jack don’t like doves landing on them. Lily however loves and it and went on to cause a dove mosh pit when she scattered her bird food everywhere and then “encouraged” them to “stop fighting” while trying to kick the birds (her mother shakes her head and blames her father!).
15. Oh the cake for KK won rave reviews! and looked gorgeous.
14. We have a niece! Kendall Jane was born on the 12th March 09, the same day as Uncle Jonty’s wedding in Raro! She is exceptionally cute and Jack and Lily are very excited to have a new cousin.
13. kids travelled well while away, I lost my stomach a few times, especially after the Karangahake Gorge.
12. We went on a real life train from Waihi to Waikino which the kids just loved especially our resident Thomas fan Jack!
11. Home again…we all got colds!
10. The baby chicks and their mums went back to the lady who gave us the fertilised eggs. We googled “how to sex a chicken” and poor Tim went out there to sort out the roosters from the hens There was only about one useful website link the rest was……I will let you try it! It was really funny watching Tim and Lil try to sort them. We have kept three babies. I told Tim if they are all hens I will take him out for dinner, and so far we havn’t heard any crowing.
9. Pippa got another chicken. We managed to save it tho! There names are Sunshine, Blackie-whitey and Burley all named by the one and only Lily.
8. Lily tells every one that she is four and that she will be five at her next birthday. This all comes from been able to go down the slide by herself at the pool.
7. The wool company has released new varigated colours! This excites me no end! And very boy colours too. Have a look www.thewoolcompany.co.nz.
6. I finished Jack’s longies in Gems that I started last August and they fit perfectly and wear amazingly well. Wool pants are cool!!!
5. I am 20 weeks pregnant – where did that time go!!! Scan today. We asked them to scan over the genital area but not to tell us what they could see, just to let us sumise for ourselves. Lets just say we aren’t sonographers and couldn’t tell what was there and what wasn’t so we have no idea!
4. Speaking of no idea…i can’t believe how different this pregnancy is from the other two. I understand that been a boy and girl their pregnancies would be slightly different and they were but this one is just different again. I guess really it is a whole new person joining our family which is just so exciting. It is a very health conscious baby this one. I am in love with stir fries and herbal/fruit teas! And the more spice the better!
3. The Dad has to go to Auckland for work in a couple of weeks and is staying at the Langham which is exceptionally nice. He was flying back on my birthday…which made my Mummy brain tick! I begged my Mum (not that hard to do) and she is going to have the kids while I fly up to Jafa land on the Thursday night and stay till Tim comes home on the Saturday! YAY!! So great. We are going to go to a great Thai restaurant that Cristina and Jonty know of and a Te Pen Yaki bar. Will be fantastic. Check out the Langham www.Thelangham.co.nz
2. Oh another thing…..Jack starts preschool after easter! Just 3 hours on a Monday morning and Friday morning. Lily will be there along with Maddie and Charlotte and Samuel who he knows. We have been dropping Lil off for the last year and he cries because he wants to stay too. They normally have a minimum of six hour sessions which is why I hadn’t enrolled him and was waiting till he turned three but I spoke to the owner who is really lovely and she said YES!!! He has changed such a lot in this past week because….drum rolll……………………….
1. He has weaned!!! I never would have believed it was ever possible. But the boobie monster has left the building. He now says “boobie -baby” ” Boobie-baby”. He is just growing up and communicating heaps more in his own little way. He is just so independent, he feeds the cats and empties the cutlery from the dishwasher. I really don’t know what happened to my gorgeous wee baby (thank god there is one on the inside!).
February 20, 2009
The third child is exceptionally cute at just 12wks and 5days old. Tim hasn’t scanned the photos yet so will have to hassle him to do it over the weekend. Was very exciting and made it all seem so real. Lil was impressed but a bit worried about the goop on my tummy. The baby waved at us and did the boobie sign which could indicate a boy that loves the boobies just like his brother or not. It was rather chilled and laying back against one wall of the uterus with its wee feet up the other wall laxing out. My placenta is posterior this time which is different from the other two. They were both anterior placentas and both babies had times been posterior before birth. Lily turned but I am sure Jack was posterior going into labour and turned during his birth. Apparently with a posterior placenta you have a better chance at lining baby up in a good anterior position so fingers crossed. We are planning a home birth for this dot all going to plan. And ofcourse a pool. Just magic – can’t wait, am getting excited. I am reading a book called childbirth without violence by Fredrick Leboyer. Will let you know what I think. Bubs was bang on for dates so isn’t suffering at all with his/her Mama’s spewkyness. Must run, at work and bubs to feed.
February 18, 2009
We are seeing our little baby today!!! Sneaky little 12 week scan which in my “active birth come what may” mind is not really the done thing buuuuuuuuttttttttttttttt I have been pretty sick this pregnancy and vomiting most days so it will be nice to see our squiggly little baby growing happily, fingers crossed. And Lily is coming with us to see “Little Lily” and her bones. We won’t be finding out (I don’t think – a tad tempted but havn’t known with the last two). They give you a figure of abnormality but not going to ask – they can tell the midwife who will tell me if I need to be concerned I guess? Wish us luck and hopefully I will be able to post the first photo later today!!
