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?

Kikki.K, iBaby, Dougnuts, Mad Mex.

Look, I cannot remember when this photo was taken but it must have been a while back because:-

a) I am not the size of a whale

b) My rings still fit

c) My jacket still fits

d) My nails are painted

None of this has happened for awhile now.  That stain on the bust part of the dress is still there though, don't you worry.

Zara Jacket

Target Maternity Dress

Kailis Pearl chain & Von Treskow Chime Charm

Louis Vuitton Speedy

Have you ever wondered what happens if you don't check your mail box for over a month? Wonder no more my pretties, wonder no more.

You get a lot of bills, reminder letters and overdue penalties. 

I need to confiscate the letter box key from The Husband.

I took it upon myself to take charge of the bills as he seems to lose them a lot, and went to Kikki K and picked up this bad boy because I like cute folders and they make mundane jobs like bill paying more fun. 

My Bills Organiser $39.95

I also got this adorable baby book as at the moment I just write things in my 2012 diary but when I turf that I do not want to lose the dates of the scans, first kicks etc. 

Baby Book - Bebis $49.95

I was served by lovely blog reader, Kate, and I couldn't help but think 'why doesn't anybody ever recognise me when I look nice!?' I swear I was practically sweating and my hair was a frizzy mess. 

These macarons are from The Cupcake Family in QV and were damn fine. 

Two for me, two for mum and two for Grant who we were visiting in hospital that day.

I headed to the park on Sunday armed with my new John Grisham book which was bound to be just like every single other book of his about law that he ever wrote to leave me in anticipation of what would happen next.

I swear, they are all so repetitive but I cannot get enough of them. 

When you walk past Mad Mex every day, it is sometimes hard to avoid temptation.

All it takes is for me to tell The Husband that our daughter feels like Mexican and we are in that door, sucker.

I order the two soft tacos but usually take them home with me to eat in my personal privacy, away from judging eyes as I make such a mess but yesterday we ate them in store and what a laugh that was.

I feel like the staff over fill them to the extent that they do purely so that they can laugh at me trying to fit it in my mouth.

Would you look at that, a lime!  

The aftermath. Not as pretty as the before shot that is for starters. What a mess.

Soon you will no longer see the third part of our marriage in my photos as The Husband is going to make the switch to the iPhone purely so that we can use the iBaby monitor and he can log in and say HI to the baby when he is at work or on work trips. 

Maybe sometimes I will bring the monitor out into the living area, make sure that the camera is not facing our chaos which is bound to be there, and let him watch us play haha. 

The poor little tacker will have the normal monitor and this one trained on her, like a performing monkey. 

At this stage it looks as if The Husband may have to go overseas for a brief work trip not long after the baby pops out, and I am invited but I think it will be far too difficult to go so will just stay home and have my mum stay over, but it really sucks! 

How good are hot jam doughnuts. 

If you do not like hot jam doughnuts, please leave a comment stating this and your reason as I am yet to meet someone who does not like them.

Sweet Gifts & Stupid Dresses

Recently I sent Reezy from peanut butter & honey my photo booth props which were never used as they arrived after the wedding, for her sister to use at her upcoming wedding. 

Imagine my surprise when I got a parcel in the mail today from Reezy with these gorgeous Thank You presents!! Totally unexpected and unnecessary but so very appreciated!

Look, they match my diary! 

Thanks so much Reezy xx

Today I dragged out my Wheels & Dollbaby dress which I have only worn once before (oh look, here is a blog post I did on it when I first wore it) and forget all about the issue of the buttons popping open on the bust. Well, when there are no safety pins to be had, one has to improvise. 

Enter the Stapler. 

This is such a weird outfit, sometimes I think I get dressed in the dark when I wake up a little and look down at my terrible outfit.

Seem the stapler works a charm. This dress is going in my "I'm never wearing this again" drawer.

Blagh.

I've started doing kick boxing twice a week. It is hard. I used to think the gym classes at the gym like Pump & Attack were hard, no, they are definitely not. 

They are like a walk in a very, very pleasant park compared to this. 

Happy Valentines Day!!

Kikki K Khaos

I should not be let loose in Kikki K. I Kannot be trusted. Especially when on a shopping ban, ahem.

I usually use a white leather Kikki K diary but am a tad over it, it has given me 2-3 good years though and still looks nice but the time had come.

All that they had in stock was an olive green and christmas red and I didn't want either of them so ended up getting this gorgeous fabric covered diary, which I am sure will not stay clean as long as the leather one did, but who can resist hot air balloons and ice cream? Not me!

It is also bigger than my usual one, but this can also be overlooked due to cuteness.

I also had to get these cute little cards so I could write random love letters to The Husband, and the pens to go along with it but I did not test them and they are just like normal pens, but I can only write (by choice) with fine liner style ink so will go back today and swap them.

This was a 'Happy Sunday' treat for el husbo.

Whilst walking down a laneway in Melbourne (in between Lonsdale and Little Burke) I saw this sign on a doorway and could not stop laughing.

I think they really want people to stop peeing on the door!