Cheers to the Freakin' Weekend.

This dress has been very good to me over the years. It is my cheapest dresses that have pulled through with the goods during pregnancy, I guess because of the Lycra so liberally used in them. 

This frock is from Target and is quite flattering on the ol' belly if I do say so myself.  

I am loving this app to put labels on photos. I spent a good chunk of time doing a week by week summary with labels and then accidentally deleted the folder so that was silly of me. 

Will from work was very sweet and bought these Converse All Stars for The Baby.
People are so generous when you have a baby, gifts galore!

So cute! I got the same ones in white for baby Orlando. 

The Husband often receives weird and creepy photos like this through out the day. My skin looks nice and clear in this photo actually.

Pregnancy has treated my skin very nicely, I am just hoping that my pimples don't return - if they do, I will have to be permanently pregnant. 

I think that The Husband would be quite happy with this, he wants a bazillion kidlets. 

I want three, but lets see how we go with the first one, okay?

This is the meringue on our recent work cake, but whilst it looks amazing don't let that deceive you.

It was completely raw and inedible. Runny egg whites anyone?

How satisfying is filling in a new diary? I love it. 

There is something about a diary/planner that makes me feel warm and fuzzy. 

Yes, you see correctly - last day of work. Hurrah! 

I've just noticed that my birthday isn't in the diary. Would it be weird to put it in? I may forget otherwise. 

My birthday is a total non event in my brain this year, I keep forgetting it is approaching because we have far more exciting things approaching, and I am getting old I guess. 24 I tell you.

Remember how I wanted to get this Leander Cradle? I still think it is beautiful but you cant use a movement sensor underneath the mattress, and it takes up a lot of floor space. It's also not as mobile as I originally thought and as The Husband travels for work sometimes two nights a week, we thought that The Baby and I might go with him every now and then and instead of her sleeping in her pram we can take the Seed Organic Pod with us... 

So this is what I have gotten. 

Yesterday was a ridiculous 40 degree day. 

When will the rains come?

The Husband has been a complete darling and has been driving me to work and picking me up pretty much every day the past few weeks now that I am getting more uncomfortable.

He picked me up last night and we headed to the Target Big Baby Sale and put a few items on lay buy. 

There was not too much that I wanted but it was good to get some more basics like swaddles, sheet sets, singlets and blankets for a bargain. 

I try and buy the essential items in neutral colours so if we have a boy one day, I won't be rushing out to buy stuff and they can just use some stuff that we already have. I'm all for 'hand me downs' but I don't think I ever had a hand me down from any of my siblings now that I think about it. 

They had a 'no deposit' lay buy system set up which is pretty nifty as all this baby stuff definitely adds up but I thought I better at least put something on it. I'll pick it up when we move so that we don't have one more box of stuff to cart around.

After Target, I couldn't walk for long so we ducked into a little Thai restaurant on Little Bourke Street and had some much needed respite from the heat. 

I like these bottles. I don't like sparkling water though, but The Husband thrives on it.  

I don't know what came over me, perhaps I was delirious from the heat but I ordered a raspberry lemonade which is pretty unheard of.  Let me tell you, it went down a treat. 

Chicken Pad Thai. Pretty delicious actually. 

The Husband ordered this salad and has deemed it "the spiciest thing he has ever eaten" - I knew it was spicy when he bent over, got my bottle of Pump water out of his bag, handed it to me so I wouldn't go thirsty and downed the dregs of my red lemonade. 

He is usually great with chili so I am going to say that this was damn hot. 

I also ordered these cutlery items from Peters of Kensington.  We currently have such random stuff in our cutlery drawer such as a few pieces of lovely cutlery that my MIL must have put in the drawers when The Husband first moved in and then everything else is non matching and a complete mish mash.

I even bought some from Daiso not long ago which is rusting quite nicely now, ha. 

We got a beautiful cutlery set for our wedding, which I think from the top of my head might be Royal Doulton or one of those similar brands (our gifts are all in storage so it's been a while...) which we will use as 'the good stuff' and the above will be the daily set. 

Does anyone else have 'the good stuff' and actually use it? I am determined. I am hoping to make a Sunday Roast every week (I know, wish me luck please) so would like to use 'the good stuff' every Sunday. 

I want to make traditions for our family, just little ones like a Sunday Roast every week, Fish & Chips on a Friday - that sort of thing.

What traditions did your family do when you grew up that stuck with you?