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Introducing Luka Jack Gerring

Ok, so he's not pink (sorry Nicole), but a very cute little blue one!  Luka Jack Gerring arrived into the world on Friday 17th December, weighing 6.96lbs/3.16kgs.  He looks just like I did when I was born (see the black & white piccy).  This is our first day home after 5 days in hospital, and so far so good.  Apart from very sore nipples (oh the joys of motherhood!!) both mum and bub very happy and content.

 

1 More Sleep!!

So, it's official!  Tomorrow is C-Day, the day when I check into the maternity hospital for a cesarean for baby #2.  I feel 'pink' but let's just see what Santa brings!

This is the last shot of my bump (it's the best I could do with the timer on my camera) and tomorrow it will no longer be a bump, but a cute tiddly small person (hopefully pink).

I will, of course, be posting photos of the new sprog onto the site as soon as I am home (around the 22nd December).  My folks arrive from the UK on 28th December, which will be fab, and we are holding off on our 'official' Christmas day so that we can all celebrate together.

Wish me luck!

Pneumonia!

Woke up this morning to a sick boy (again)!  He had re-developed a cough, had a high temp, vomitting etc!  Took him to the doctors who has prescribed strong anti-biotics to try to well and truly knock it on the head, and already the little tike is bouncing around (see photo evidence below!).

We have to see the doctor every day for the rest of the week to keep an eye on the ailment, so hopefully he will be fighting fit next week, coz not sure what I will do with a planned cesarean on Friday 17th and a sick child!  NIGHTMARE!

 

Christmas Web Cams!

What a lovely, festive idea this is...just had to share it with you all!!

A REAL TREE!!

For the first time in 5 years, I have myself a REAL Christmas tree!  It's 7 foot tall, and picked fresh (with the help of Nicole).  We went to the tree-growers-place, armed with a small saw and trolley, wandered around in amongst the trees and spider webs (I freaked when I walked into a web by accident...Aussie spiders can be lethal-ish and remember I'm a wet Pom!) and chose a corker of a tree!

With Nicole gripping one end of the saw, and me the other, we squatted on the floor (very un-ladylike even for the two of us) and did a back-forth thing, then shouted 'timmmmbberrrr' and the 7 footer collapsed onto our trolley!

Then came the obvious (nay, predictable) dilemma of 'how the bloody hell are we going to fit this thing into a Honda Prelude, along with driver and heavily preggers bird'.  Never underestimate the determination of two chicks and a tree.........

Then we drove for about 15-20 mins (not the best driving experience of my life) and adorned the tree with merryment!

Joseph was delighted (and still takes a sharp intake of breath every morning when he wakes to find the tree still there) and we now have constant Christmas music blaring on the CD player, coz I'm a bit sad like that!

IV's Christmas Gathering

I am being cheeky/lazy, by pinching photos from Miss Nicole's Blog.

Saturday was a very relaxing meeting of knitting girlies!  They had been secretly (although I had suspected they were up to something) knitting bears/bunnies for my new sprog (which have been bagged by my 2 1/2 year old, who fell in love with all of them).  It was a fab surprise, bless 'em, as they all have busy old lives!!

We met at 'Leaf' a tea bar in Cottesloe, and chilled out completely! 

We also exchanged our knit along Chrissie Dec's, and I got the white fluffy ball that Robynne created and it looks just fine and dandy on my tree (i'll come to that later).

   

Christmas Decoration

Moving onto Knitting!  The IV's had our Christmas Meetup, whereby we do NO KNITTIN WHATSOEVER, and just drink lovely teas (it was a tea shop after all!), eat lunch, cake and oooohhh, more tea!!

We had all been previously tasked with knitting a surprise Christmas decoration, which would then be wrapped, tucked into a bag, and then dished out to one lucky recipient!

Mine was a silver star, embellished with Red Drop Beads and Red Seed Beads!  It ended up looking more like a dodgy star fish, but the thought was there, eh!!

Drama

Not posted for a lonnnnnnnnggggg time, due to a couple of personal drama's.  Won't go into huge detail, but Drama #1 Joe was admitted to hospital overnight with Pneumonia.  Poor little bugger was on a drip in his foot, and not very well at all.  Drama #2 (which was probably brought on as a result of me being exhausted from looking after said poorly-sick-boy) I was taken to hospital in ambulance, complete with oxygen mask, due to having a few breathing difficulties.

Miss Nicole and her man Chris (who Joe adores), stepped into to rescue us when I was in hospital, and they managed to calm down the small man, feed him, bath him, put his nappy on back to front (and then turn it the right way round), and read him stories....life savers (thank you guys).  Here's Joe in the bath smiling for the camera (I think it was the first time he had smiled since I left).

All very scary, but both small person and mum-to-be are hunky dory now, and waiting for the imminent arrival (17th Decemeber to be precise) of smaller person #2!