7 Months

My baby girl Imogen Joy we have reached the 7 mth mark already it makes me sad to think that we are over half way to your birthday. I know it is always said that it goes to fast and they grow up to quick but I just don't know were the time has gone. It feels like only yesterday that I was hoping and praying that you would get out of me as I was over the pain of being pregnant and wanted you to be here.

In these past 7 mths you have learnt so much and you have learnt it all to quick for your mumma. I was hoping you would stay little for a bit longer but you have had other ideas. You have learnt how to crawl, stand and walk around the furniture. You enjoy follow your big sister down the hallway to play in her room. Matilda calls "baby sister come on in my room to play" and you race down the hall after her.

Your favourite thing at the moment is to blow raspberries at everyone or to see how loudly you can squeal, mumma is expecting your next thing will be talking. You have two bottom teeth and you are eating some solids but mainly just fruit as you are not a fan of veggies at this stage. You constantly try to steal your sisters food when she is in reach and usually you are quick enough to get it.

We have been doing some self settling with you and it is amazing how quickly you have picked it up and are putting yourself to sleep most of the time. Which is great for mumma and daddy as you have gone back to sleeping all night again.

So to my beautiful Imogen Joy take your time you don't  need to learn everything at once and you don't need to catch up with your sister. Mumma is so happy to have you as my baby.

Cheeky Thing crawling down the Hallway.

Standing up and walking with her pram and baby.

Immy decided she was going swimming like the big kids.



Mmm yum leaves and a bit of dirt lucky your so cute.



Qld Flood Appeal Auction

These last couple of weeks here in Qld have been devasting for a lot of people. We have been very lucky that no one in our family has been injured or lost there homes.

After seeing the photos of the flood here in Qld I thought I need to do something to help but what. My husband has put his hand up to go down as a volunteer with work so he can lend a hand.

Me on the other hand cant go with two small children so I saw the post by Toni at Make it Perfect about a flood appeal auction and  I thought that I can do. So I am going to auction of some items from my facebook store here on my blog starting on friday.

So spread the word and head over to Make it Perfect and grab a button for your site and show your support. Lets see how much we can raise for the Flood Appeal. If you have a blog or facebook business I hope you are able to join in and auction something off as every little bit helps.

My thoughts go out for those in the affected areas and hope that those in Brisbane today stay safe as the water keeps rising. We are so grateful for the fact that our family anf friends are okay so far.

January Cleaning Month

I thought I would join Clean Mama in her challenge for january - cleaning month. So I am a week behind so am going to catch up and start the year with a deep cleaned house(which it is badly in need of).

Pop over and check out Becky from Clean Mama she has heaps of great organisation ideas from around the home. As well as great recipes and cleaning tips made her 30min pizza the other night it was great and so quick.

So we shall see how I go cant wait to get started.(the one time I get excited about cleaning)

New Year - New Resolutions

So I was thinking the other day that I don't normally have resolutions and the past years that I have I don't think I have kept them so this year will hopefully be a first.

It shall be a year full of many firsts so I thought I should make some resolutions and stick to them. I figured if I wrote them down then I will have to stick to them right well lets see how I go.

1. Teach my baby girl to self settle as mumma cant keep rocking her to sleep in her arms.
2. Start a blog
3. Expand my little business to an online store like etsy or made it.

There are probably other things I would like to do like lose that baby weight and keep the house a bit tidier, do more craft with Matilda. But I thought I would start with a few things and try to keep to them.

So these are my resolutions and here is to a New Year and lots of firsts.

Christmas 2010

Here is a recap of our xmas we had it here at our place with most of the family coming to stay over the weekend. But it turned out to be a very wet xmas with family coming when they could make it and some not being able to get here. On the bright side we had xmas morning twice which Matilda loved and had a lovely xmas dinner on boxing day with Mum, David and Shannon. So it was a wet but wonderful 1st xmas for Imogen.

The girls xmas morning.

Immy opening pressies.

Was going to add a few more pics but blogger wont let me. Turns out we had a great xmas one to remember for years.

First Blog

I have been reading blogs for a long time now so thought that one of my new years resolutions for 2011 would be to start a blog so here goes. It will be a mix of my crafty things and just life in general with two kids so here is a pic of my little family and welcome to My Life as a Crafty Mumma.