sick

Elliot has been sick. There is a great service in Brisbane that you can get a Dr to come to your house after house thats free - just flashing your medicare card. such reassurance. I took him back to the Dr the next day as he was still sounding raspy and it cost $60! so the moral of the story - to get the dr to come after hours - no messing around getting in and out of the car, no cost, no waiting in sick waiting rooms, and you can stay in your jammies!
Elliot is asleep here on my chest, and yes I am knitting.

its not cold enough

Mum we live in brisbane its too hot for this. But a bit cute

crawling

elliot is crawling and eating whatever he likes- today it happened to be chair legs

girly heart flutters

we went to the playschool concert last week, Angela came out on stage first - and there was a slight exhale as people were disappointed it wasnt Justine or Leah, but then la la la la la la la la la la la la la la ... la la its ALEX.... there was an audible gasp as 100, 30 something mummies all remembered frank from home and away. hee hee - good concert!
( it was however a petri dish of germs and we all got colds after it)

New dress

made a new dress for a wedding, from my japanese craft book, with mums help and another trip to spotlight. the strips on the bottom werent in the original plan. but I made it too short and really wanted it to be a dress not a top. It turned out great after a lot of tweaking.

quince paste

mmmm quince paste - love it, made it in the slow cooker best ever. will do that one again, more cheese to be eaten!

new house

so this is where the possum now lives. in the cupboard in the shed. next to the ant rid and WD40

so this was the make up prize

for a crappy rollercoaster ride

the samford show

a few weeks ago we went to the regional show the one before the Ekka. It was fun we saw some wood choppers, ate lots of popcorn, Derek took his life into his own hands and had a dagwood dog and Sebastian and Lachlan chose this ride to go on. Note the bouncy slide in the background - which I tried to convince them would be more fun but oh no they wanted to go on the "super jet" rollercoaster. Ok we said, and off they went. Unfortunately you cant see the look of sheer terror on their faces nor hear the crying that ensued. the lady stopped the ride after two goes around, they got off bawling their eyes out. "Mummy that was not fun!" I was laughing too hard to be much help in consolation!

opps stuck in the washing

a photo shoot

we took a really cute photo of seb at same age in same clothes - thought we'd try the same

in daddys shirts

all looking very cute before going to a wedding in "daddy's shirts" that my mum made, with monogrammed pockets.

pic 1 Elliot with his most common face - that is grinding his top and bottom teeth together - drives me nuts! Its worse than nails down the chalkboard

pic 2 Sebastian being bill the puppy dog for the photo. This alter ego comes to visit occasionally and its a breath of fresh air as Bill doesnt talk or ask questions - he just hangs his tongue out and pants, its a moment of quiet! we like bill coming to visit

pic 3 the real dog asleep in the background

a quick 6!

how quickly 6 months flies in the life of a baby! Elliot is now sitting by himself, crawling, pulling himself up on things, has 4 teeth, and a funny little personality and a new bath to bathe in.