What Rose thinks of the new baby

In many ways, Rose has no idea about the big event that is going to change her life forever. Lots of people have told me to start preparing her for the new baby’s arrival by explaining it. Good luck! Since she doesn’t really understand why she needs to wear a hat when it’s cold outside, [...]

Where’s Rose?

It’s been another of those busy weeks without much to account for it. Rose has been super cute this week. At the moment she loves putting her hands in front of her face. We then make a big play of “Where’s Rose? She was here a minute ago!” and then looking under chairs and so [...]

Granny Anne is awesome!

Rose’s Granny Anne has been visiting us for the last few days and it’s been absolutely fantastic. Chris and I took advantage of the free babysitting and went out to dinner last night by ourselves. It was so fantastic being able to walk down the road holding hands, and have a sustained conversation over dinner, [...]

Rose, the book

I recently found out about this company called Blurb who can turn photos and text into printed books. One of their specialities is turning blogs into books, and I had the idea to create a book of Rose’s first year of life, with photos to go along side the text from the blog. I downloaded [...]

Look who’s coming to dinner?

We’re slowly learning new ways to cope with the new independent personality that moved in just after Rose learned to walk. We’ve discovered that the more you let Rose do herself, the happier she is. For example, she’s recently learned to eat a banana and pear herself (although you have to hang around on “stand [...]

The 19 week scan, and the week in review

We had the big 19-week scan this week and it was really exciting getting to see that baby again, and looking more baby-ish, too! Everything went really well, although Chris and I agreed that we wouldn’t be taking Rose to any more scans. She got bored sitting in the dark room and wanted to run [...]

Coldest day of the year

Okay, so the coldest Sydney gets is 14oC (53oF), which it hit today. It’s not bad at all, but it’s cold enough to send Sydneysiders out with their gloves and hats. Here’s a picture of Rose all rugged up:

Interesting games

One of the most interesting games to play when you’re a parent is “What will our baby be when she grows up?” The current speculation in our household is that Rose is going to become a basketball player. Why? Well, first of all there’s her height. Her tallness is commonly observed by both strangers and [...]

First independent eye witness verification

We just got back from a lovely walk this afternoon. On the way back to the car Rose started crying (a bit overtired, we think). A dog walker passed us and said, “Don’t cry baby – your mummy and daddy love you!” Then he saw me and said, “And your mum’s got another one on [...]

The pregnancy

So a lot of people want to know how the pregnancy is going and I’m aware I haven’t really talked about it too much in the blog.
Part of the reason for that is that there are lots of times I forget I’m pregnant. The nausea and tiredness is (mostly) over, and I’m definitely showing, but [...]