I haven’t blogged about Penny’s first 4 weeks as promised yet. I have been a tad busy :-P. But Penelope is currently sound asleep after a full on day yesterday. So here is a quick update!
Penny was so little she could easily fit in her Opa’s hands
We celebrated her birth with traditional dutch crackers
Her [...]
My belly has expanded quite a bit since the last photo update!
Last time I updated the belly pics I looked like this:
At 30 weeks 5 days:
2 weeks later at 32 weeks and 5 days:
As I am sure you all noticed:
Ta-da! We moved the fish tank!
That was a few hours before we bought some some [...]
We recently celebrated Jacob’s 21st. The theme of the party was “Holland won the world cup”. Holland didn’t win the world cup, but we didn’t let that hold us back. Jacob decorated the party room with orange streamers, flags, hats, blow up crowns and a couple of Dutch flags.
Everyone got dressed up in a [...]
Just over a month ago Lindsay and I went away to the Blue Mountains.
It was freezing, but the sky was so clear and blue.
We went on the scenic railway, something I have never done before. FYI if you go on the scenic railway, make sure you wedge your knees into the padded bar, [...]
Today I am 25 weeks and 4 days and my belly has become somewhat larger!
While cooking at our new gas stove I often feel a warm sensation at the front of my belly and look down to see me sticking the baby in the fire…oops!
I say new gas stove by the way, because [...]
Last weekend was my Mum’s 50th birthday.
It was a wild party.
Here is the story.
My Mum knew that something was planned but had no idea what was going to happen. My aunt Jude arrived from NZ a few days in advance. On the day of Mum’s birthday Jude took mum to a day spa. We [...]
My mum turned 50 last weekend. We held a surprise party for her which went brilliantly, I will blog about the party as soon as I find the USB SD card reader so I can get the photos off the camera.
As a surprise I spent weeks going through my parent’s old photo albums [...]
It is official, and in case you have been living in a cave of some sort, Lindsay and I are expecting a baby. Baby Holmwood, affectionally known (this week) as Mango is due on or around the 19th of October.
At 11 weeks there wasn’t much to see
At 17 weeks I looked like this:
Just 2 [...]
Its been a long time since I blogged. I finished up the backpacking and being-back-home stories and just lost the desire to write. Writers block! And its not like we were not doing heaps of fun and exciting things!
A month after arriving back home in Australia, Lindsay and I flew to New Zealand for [...]
Are we all still pretending its Christmas time? Oh good, so this post about Christmas won’t be strange then.
Christmas Eve was spent at Lindsay’s cousin Anna’s beautiful house with the Holmwoods.
It was a lovely and relaxed evening with lots of nice conversation and yummy food.
The next day was Christmas day, this was to be [...]
