Henry's Half Birthday Milestone

Six months old yesterday... here's some pics of Henry doing one of the things he does best; eating! He's in his brand new whiz bang high chair.

At this stage Henry has enjoyed eating rice cereal, peach, banana, broccoli, corn, zucchini, pumpkin, carrot, blueberry, chicken, risoni,  vegemite on toast and yoghurt!

He loves feeding himself with a spoon too :-)

Garden Finally Getting There

Not a blue tongue in sight

Dale and I have done a lot in the garden in the last couple of weeks. Two trailer loads of rubbish gone, we probably still have at least one more to go, but things are finally starting to get back to normal. We bought a hedge trimmer and finally used it over the weekend... It's a transformation in progress.

Henry in Dale's hat during "smoko"

The sage I got at Hall Markets ages ago, going gang busters!

Looking Tidy

Hailstorm

This was a few days ago now, but check out the pictures of the hail that we had... both cars were out of the garage, so as we heard the crashes on our house's tin roof we stood there wondering if our cars were insured for hail damage. In fact Dale was thinking that his car becoming a write off would be even easier than trying to sell it! In the end though, there was not a mark, just an impressive scene as everything looked like it had been covered in snow.

Delicious!

Just had to post a picture of what I made for dinner last night, because it looked so good on the platter! Mum and Dad gave me the book "Delicious - More Please" for Christmas and it is out of there. Highly recommend the Greek Lamb Meatball Salad!

Happy Henry

If you had told me 2 or 3 months ago what a smiley happy baby Henry would become, I don't know if I would have believed you! These days he almost smiles on command. His laughter is just a bit infectious and he can laugh at the simplest things. Today it was my jolting him on my knees and saying a-tishoo after he had had a big sneeze. This got huge laughs from him at least 20 times! Thanks to Mum to taking these pics during our skype session :-)

Henry's Arrival

Well I had a sneaking suspicion that bubby would be a week or so early and he was. Due on August 5th, Henry decided to make his arrival on the earlier date of July 29th. I actually went into labour on the morning of the 28th, waking up realising that something felt a bit different. I got up at 6am and went to sit by myself in the lounge room, with my laptop, googling phrases such as "what is early labour like?" After a couple of hours, I felt pretty certain that I was in early labour so I rang my midwife and then Mum to warn her that she may be making a Sydney to Canberra trip that day. Finally by about 4.30pm, the time between contractions seemed to be getting closer to 4 minutes so we left for the birthing centre. The thing was, that by about 10pm that had spread back out to about 10 minutes and I was advised to go home overnight as I was only 3cm dilated. After a good 16 hours! I went home with painkillers but was up by 2am again, working through contractions that lasted over 2 minutes. They still hadn't started getting closer together. As it became obvious throughout the day that things weren't progressing, I had both an epidural and eventually the decision to have a caesarian was made, mainly due to Henry's heart rate dropping each time I had a contraction. We were both exhausted and even though I had wanted a natural birth, it felt like a relief to know that soon it would be over and I would have my baby in my arms. A couple of hours later, he was. Safe and healthy, Dale and I adored him the minute we laid eyes on him.

4 Weeks Left?

I've been busy... making another human being that is... I think that's a good excuse to be slack on the blog front so I am sticking to it.

In about 4 weeks (roughly) I understand that life is about to be turned upside down and that I will have no sleep and all sorts of other things that well meaning people have shared with me :P I am sure that they are right, but it is really to hard to actually comprehend what things will be like so as is my style, I will just take things as they come and adjust.

Here's a pic of our baby at 26 weeks (known as Hammie) and we both think he is pretty handsome! Dale thinks he takes after him and other people have told me that they can see a likeness!

I find myself wondering if he will look like his pictures... or maybe he will have changed a lot in the 12 weeks between photos and his real world debut? Here's another picture at the 12 week ultrasound, way back in January:

Oh, the name has to be a surprise, but as long as we don't change our minds, his name will have the initials HAM, hence the nick name Hammie...