Tuesday

I took this snap on Saturday at Leahs baby shower.
Nelly was dead set annoyed to be taken out of her car seat and I captured her best Grumpy Cat impersonation perfectly.

I had complete Baby Brain when buying this card as I forgot to grab the envelope, but at least I remembered to write in it! 

After the baby shower I headed home to bake a cake as we were having a few friends around for drinks, but once I got home I realised that I was lacking the energy to even measure out ingredients so I called it quits. 

It was nice to sit outside as during Summer we would walk out there and be eaten alive by mosquitoes but they appear to have headed north for the Winter.

Our outdoor setting is a cheapie from Masters but I love it! 

 

As you can see, there were not any home cooked treats to be dished up to our guests, purely easy to serve stuff. You better believe that there were also party pies and sausage rolls to be consumed. 

Nelly was really unsettled so I spent half the night trying to feed her, clean her, rock her to sleep and then having to pick her up again as she screamed the house down. 

The possum family came to visit whilst we were outside, walking past casually and checking us out.

Those things have no fear.

Speaking of no fear, this is Caesar my mums new cat. 

She got him from the pound and her reasoning behind choosing him was that he was the meanest cat in there and hissed at her when she got close. I guess somebody has to love the under cat.

Caesar is apparently the new rodent and snake expert on the farm. 

We have finally gotten around to putting globes in our lamps, which are coming in handy now thanks to the possum chewing through our wiring.

I was sitting on the couch at 2am feeding Nelly when I heard thumping directly above my head and within minutes the lights were flickering and then went out.  I then heard the possum gallivant away.

I am having de ja vu. Have I already told you this story?

Nelly loves me even with my frizzy hair, dark circles and pimples returning. Love is blind my dear.

The days are all muddled up in my head so hopefully today is actually Tuesday.

Showerin' the Babe.

Saturday was the day for all things beautiful.

Saturday was my baby shower and it was beyond awesome.

My sister Cat had the hard task of organizing the shower and juggling it with moving half way across the globe, from Ireland to Perth, at the same time. She is a gem I tell you.

The Husband, Mum, Cat & Joseph really pulled through to make sure that we had our house presentable for the 30 odd women who came to celebrate with us.
Joseph may be a dirty, rough removalist but he is damn well effective, practically free and made sure that we had our nursery furniture, fridge, dining table and mattress in time and Mum and Cat worked to the bone to get things clean and organized for me, forcing me to sit around with my swollen feet up - family are everything.

It's amazing how everyone pulls together and really helps out, lots of my friends baked things for the shower and came early to help out. I love them all I tell ya.

Thanks to Cotton Socks for taking the majority of these photos for me!

Cat contacted the etsy seller behind Pretty Little Papers who I purchased my invite from and had her custom make labels and signage to match which turned out beautifully.

It was freaking hot in Melbourne though. About 35 which felt like 45 if you ask me. 

Our little home has two air cons in the living area and we intended for the party to be an inside/outside shindig but believe me, every man and his dog wanted to be inside near the air con so we ended up being inside majority of the time.  

Nobody was going to go home hungry, believe me.  

We are still eating the food now and it still tastes just as good.

Everyone was so incredibly generous with presents, I was shocked and overwhelmed. 

I will have to take photos of some of the items to show you but will save that for another blog post.

I just cannot believe that people baked, helped set up/clean up and bought the baby presents - people are amazing.  

These were made by Blithely Unawares rather talented better half - trust me, they tasted as good as they looked.

I wonder if she took her board home. I cant see it so am guessing she did. 

Okay people, see Laura (on the very right) - she lives in Sydney and flew down to surprise me!! She had obviously RSVP'd a No as she lives in Syd and will be coming down in a months time to meet the baby, so I just had no idea that she would be here. 

I was standing in the kitchen when she tapped me on the back and said "Hi Mez!" I said hi and gave her a kiss, and then my slow and overheated brain started to kick in and it dawned on me that she was not meant to be here, but here she is standing in front of me.

I think I was in shock for a good 20 minutes and just kept saying "What are you doing here?!?!". 

Law also follows the What to Expect when You are Expecting app on her phone and messages me as soon as the fruit changes size (now a watermelon, thank you very much) and is going to be an amazing aunty. 

Thanks so much Law, you are such a good friend. 

I went to school with Sara, Sam and Laura and as we get older you start to really see who stays in your life as time goes by and I am grateful for the friends that have stayed!

So much goodness, not enough stomach space. 

These are Kiflice, which are a Serbian pastry and my mother in law fills them with nutella when she is making them for my family and I as we go crazy for them whereas The Husband prefers the jam filling but perhaps we were deprived of nutella as children and that is why we love it so much. 

I need to learn how to make these bad boys. 

I am happy to eat nutella with a spoon though if push comes to shove.

Raina is working the camera like nobodies business. 

Ashleigh-Rose is just growing up too quickly for my liking.

What baby shower is a baby shower without some games? 

As you can probably tell, we played the peg game where you started with 4 pegs and whenever you heard someone say Baby you got to take a peg. I lost pretty quickly, but not as quick as the two grandmas haha.

Who doesn't love some baby food smeared in a nappy? Mmm delicious.

Dying over these bathers that Cat got from Penneys before she left, I wish we had one here!  

Don't mind Cotton Socks demonstrating what my baby will look like. 

I hope she isn't this big though, that could be painful but it would guarantee an entry into the Guinness Book of Records and I just don't see myself getting in there any other way.

Mum slaved away in the kitchen all day and was quick to strip off as soon as the majority of the guests left and I was not far behind her, believe me. 

I am hoping my bra was not on show all day but if it was I hope people enjoyed the free show. 

I am sure you have all noticed the amazing flowers that completed the entire look. We had them scattered all through out the house and out doors. 

I had them done by fellow blogger Soph who really outdid herself - if you are in need of flowers in Melbourne you should definitely email her at jemappellesophia@gmail.com  if you know what is good for you.

I do love pom poms and I have decided that they should stay in our garden for good. Well, at least until it rains anyway. 

Leah and I try not to match but in our delicate conditions of pregnancy we cannot help ourselves.   

Mum tried to talk me out of wearing black but I answered that it was 'slimming' to which she just kind of laughed at me. Thanks a lot Caro. 

Casey is due with her third baby boy on February 23 and I am due on March 11 - in real life we don't look that different if you ask me but this photo definitely shows that her little man is engaged and ready. 

You can believe that she was here with her hospital paperwork on the ready in case he decided to make an appearance but we got her out of the house, baby still in her belly. 

Iced water, punch and champagne were the refreshments of choice.

Bathroom selfie. 

You can breathe a sigh of relief, we have a full length mirror in the living room now which will definitely become my new selfie mirror we just need to attempt to mount it now.

This is the ASOS Grecian maternity dress that you have seen in a prior post a few weeks back, but it is still going strong and serving its purpose.

The necklace is from Lovisa, I have gone a little necklace crazy lately as I am wearing the same dresses day in day out and need to attempt to mix it up a tad and I think I am achieving this. 

I popped down to Miss Fox in the morning to get a pre-birthing wax, (which was terrifying as it has been too long but Brooke was a star and calmed my nerves and squashed my humiliation pretty quickly but still...) and to have Luna work her magic on my face and hair and bring me back to life.

She asked what I wanted and all I could tell her was "please make me look skinnier" which was met by a side eye but a bit of bounce and some lovely make up definitely helped, I felt more human that I had felt in weeks.

I wont lie to you though, I had sweated all the make up off my top lip before the guests even arrived as I was sweating like a dog.

Celeste and Vanessa had to get in to position to make sure the camera had their good sides but those days are over for me. I only have one side, wide. 

Who doesn't love pop corn?!

More beautiful flowers.

We are going to visit my nanna (mums mum) at the cemetery tomorrow and take her some flowers so that she has a piece of the baby shower.

36 weeks and 4 days pregnant. 

I finally bought the stuff to start packing my hospital bag after my mum gasped in horror that I don't have it packed already. I still need a baby bath though. 

All in good time.

You better believe it's a girl.

All in all, I freaking loved my baby shower. 

I got overwhelmed trying to talk to everyone (and not sweat in their presence of course) but appreciated everyone coming beyond words. This baby is so loved already!

I can only blog when The Husband brings his work laptop home as we have not had the internet connected yet (but you better believe that Foxtel is already installed) so don't worry if I vanish for a little bit - I still regularly update my Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages if you need more random dribbling in your life. 

Raining Babies.

My sister Cat is throwing me a Baby Shower in a month. I'm damn excited.

The coolest part about the above sentence? The fact that Cat will be back in Australia to show it, because her and Mike are moving back from Ireland, to Perth specifically!! Cat will also be in the birthing room with The Husband and I, I'm not sure if that is more for my benefit or his. 

Despite the fact that she is throwing it, I have some rather large control issues and organized my own invites and tried to control more aspects before she shooed me away.

Sorry about my awesome Paint art. 

 Honor, instead of honour. That's etsy for you. Eh. 

I got these invites (originally Bridal Shower invites) from this seller on etsy for a cool $15. 

I have since been told that Cat has also contacted the seller and is having some more custom things made in the same theme, hurrah. 

I know this is probably well documented, but I really despise the texture of paper straws but because they look so cute I could not resist them, only finding out after ordering them that Cat had already got some. 

I also got these pink bow cupcake toppers for their cute factor. 

Cannot go wrong I tell you. 

I don't know what decorations she will be doing but I know that we will have a lot of fresh flowers and plenty of food.  I guess I cant control everything. 

I'm looking forward to seeing everyone and there better be a chocolate pooey nappy game... or else. 

I am slightly worried that I wont be able to fit everyone into our new house, and that it wont be ready in time as the shower is only a few weeks after we move in.  We may be eating on the floor people, or at the local park.  

In more important stressful news - I have nothing to wear to my baby shower. 

I need to schlep it to the shops and try on every single dress out there. I definitely want a maxi and a v neck one I think as they are more flattering at the moment but don't want to wear black. 

These are the real issues my friends. 

Just add a bow.

Just add a bow.

This is my mantra.

A bow will make everything better, not to mention cuter.

The Husband still doesn't understand why I like to wrap a ribbon under my bust, he doesn't know what it feels like to mourn the loss of a waist, ha. 

Apparently people are concerned for my diet because I post lots of photos of cake, dumplings and me eating out not to mention my well documented hatred for salads.

Don’t worry though, I eat at least 5 fruits per day and disguise vegetables in my meals. I just didn't think people want to see photos of fruit and veggies – cake is much cuter. 

This is what a standard 2:30 snack looks like for me. 

This is not a standard snack.

We ate these on Melbourne Cup Day and whilst The Husband calls them Cocktail Frankfurts, I call them Little Boys.  I think my mum does too.

The Husband thinks this is weird, and wrong. 

We also ate dip.

I tried to fancy up our living room picnic by putting them in Royal Doulton serving bowls as opposed to eating them out of the package but got lazy when it came to the crackers.

At least I tried. 

Stopped at the flower stall on Swanston Street on Monday and picked up some Peonies and Tulips (both $20 a bunch) to brighten up the apartment.

The Peonies exploded and are in full bloom but the tulips are going great guns and have not even started to droop yet.

I have them in individual bud vases (and coke bottles) in about 5cm of water and put a pin prick about 3cm from the top of stem.  This seems to have worked well so far for me. 

I love recycling glass drink bottles to be used for bud vases, but The Husband hates it. He often sees me slyly slip a glass bottle in to my handbag after he has finished drinking from it. 

Isn't our ironing board cover ugly? It is an improvement from the floral one he had when I first met him at least.  I have found some very cute chevron ones on etsy which will be purchased and put to use in our new home.

I hoard everything for the new home.  Cannot wait to leave all our furniture behind and start fresh. 

I also want to try this out by our outside dining area. 

I’ve been trying to find cute baby shower invites, but don’t want anything too baby-ish and am going for a floral feel so have been looking at PDF Bridal Shower ones instead so they can be changed.

The bottom left is my favourite so far.  

I am going for a pretty casual affair but lots of flowers for decor. 

We are going to have it at the new house so it may be a bit of a squish to fit everyone inside if it is raining but time will tell.

I could not resist these socks, booties and bibs that are on sale at Oz Sale at the moment.

I only have one pair of booties so far so these were needed.

Not like the 29 onesies I seem to have accumulated for 3-9 month old. I know, weird huh.

BUT half are from America and they are huge, basically the same size as my 12 month+ stuff. 

Raina has these Mary Jane socks and I just adore them!

Also could not resist the dog socks.

The Husband chose to ignore me when I showed them to him, but if he wont let me get a puppy then puppy socks are the next best thing, surely?! 

Thanks to those that have used my OzSale invite link (found here) in the past fortnight as I had a few vouchers so got this so order ridiculously cheap it was practically free. 

I have been looking for this Kookai dress for over a month now, and this Kookai cardigan went missing over 6 months back.

Do you think I could find either of them anywhere? No.

Of course, today I am grabbing a dress from my “worn once but still clean pile” and taa daa there they both were.

I think that The Husband has been harbouring them.

I hardly look pregnant in this front on photo. See, black is slimming.

I've paired the all black ensemble with a necklace from G.E.D for a pop of brightness and to take away attention from my under eye bags from the 3 hours sleep I get these days - preparing me for my future I suppose.

It’s nearly the weekend.

I’ll drink to that. Well, perhaps I wont. Water and apple juice it is.