baby book

we have been so lucky... when mum and dad decided to go to samoa to serve a mission teaching at church college we were so worried about who would live in their house, of course we wanted to make sure their home and their things were safe... but time started to creep up on us and still we had no idea who there could possibly be that wanted to live in a house in clackline! 

but god works in mysterious ways and one day i received an email from a friend - who knew i had attended northam branch when i was younger - asking if i might know of anywhere near there for rent, as people from his home branch in new zealand were moving over for work... boom. obviously it still all depended on whether or not the people were happy with the house and wanted to live there but it was a start.

greg and his wife chris turned up to have a look, they got along with my parents like a house on fire and a few weeks later they moved in - and are taking fabulous care of the place.

much like my mother, chris is into all kinds of art and crafts - and a few weeks ago gave me this beautiful book she had made, as a gift for baby joseph. i ummed and ahhed for some time about what to do with it and then had an amazing idea... when i was pregnant with madeline and in her first year and a bit of life i wrote in a journal for her to have, with all her milestones and the likes, but it always struck me as a little boring. it was all writing and no pictures - and although beautiful was not something she would probably want to share with anyone, as it was very personal, being full of her mothers thoughts and feelings.

so i decided to make the book full of the photos i had taken and to handwrite his milestones into the book alongside them. here is the beginning! our first look at our little boy - at my half way ultrasound...

photos of my growing bump as time went on throughout my pregnancy...

then his birth announcement and little bits and pieces, like a small paragraph about jourdin our student midwife who helped throughout my appointments etc...

and then... each month i'll add josephs month shot on his chair (see here for the ones i took of maddie) and write a little something about what's going on. i am so super excited about it and can't wait to keep adding to it. thank you so much chris, you're the best!!!

bump shot... 20 weeks

we posted this picture on facebook this week, of madeline with a picture of her baby sibling with the caption, "she wanted a dog - we hope she's not too disappointed when this arrives in february next year." i am sure she won't be too traumatised by it considering how much she loves other peoples babies and always wants to cuddle them, hopefully this will remain so - and she won't be too jealous when her mummy has to cuddle one all the time, for hours on end. fingers crossed...

here's me today - 20weeks+2days along - just past halfway. i wonder how big i'll get this time...? hopefully i'll be as comfortable as i was with madeline (ie. not big at all haha)

19week+2days and clearly impressed to have my photo taken... :)

i have to report just how lucky i have been this time around - i was soo sick with madeline, from about 8 weeks til pretty much half way through my pregnancy. i didn't want to eat anything at all - and although i did not crave anything (much to my poor husbands disappointment - i swear he was looking forward to being sent to nando's for something late at night) there were days when turkish bread and hot chips were the only food options that didn't make me want to straight out gag. i jokingly said more than once that i wouldn't be surprised if maddie was born a potato. sidenote... she loves both of them now - thanks mama...

this time - not sick at all. there have been a very few days along the way when i have felt slightly off - but nothing like maddie... i kept waiting for the wave of disgustingly, nauseating sickness to hit and hit hard, but it seems to have been missed, and am i ever thankful. memories always strike me of driving a work car down west coast hwy following a funeral arrangement and having to pull into a turning lane so i could vomit my little pregnant heart out in the median strip. i am 100% pure class, there is no arguing that. it keeps being suggested that perhaps this means baby k2 is a boy... i would suggest if you want to know, you better keep reading. x