2 Month old little Lily

A quick update, mostly to record Lily's two month details. My life is upside down, my husband decided to leave us and is moving out, I'm barely coping with the pain, I never knew anything could hurt this badly. I'm ultra busy trying to cope with looking after the two girls by myself and battling very much to adjust to my new life, so if you pray, please pray for us as we need them desperately!!! I'm trying my best to be strong and put on a mask in front of Katie, but the pain seems to be slowly taking over my whole body. I was reading her a book tonight and in the middle just couldn't keep it in and just burst in tears. Poor Katie wanted to know why the book was so sad, poor monkey.

Leon took off his wedding ring and I swear somebody could just as well have ripped out my heart and ripped it into billions of pieces when I saw that. It hurt so incredibly much and I'm finding it a bit hard to understand, we have been married for almost 7 years and been together for 9, and he has his ring off a few weeks after he decides to leave us :(

ANYWAYS, this post is meant to be for Lily who turned 2 months on the 26th, she is turning into a little chubby babba.
A share from a fancy pants layout that I did ages and ages ago before my whole world collapsed.

and one of the few sunshines I have left in my life, this gorgeous little girl, who is just the most friendly smiley bubba ever, she is soooooo cute!!

So here are my records:

- Lily-belle smiling from about 4 weeks old

- Laughing from about 6 weeks old (so ultra cute!!!)

- Your tongue is still forever poking out, even when you smile hehe

- You are totally 'baby' now, and no more newborn, you have little rolls on your adorable little legs and arms, such a sweet chubby babba

- Your hair is falling out :( I find them all over on your bedding and little hats.

- Your eyes are still the most gorgeous grey colour

- You are slowly becoming more and more curious of the world around you

- You have been battling with more eye infections and also with a bad cough and blocked nose, poor girl. So I have the vaporiser on for you during the night which helps you.

- You are still feeding every 2 hours during the day, but it is all worthwhile when I get either a 6 hour block of sleep with one feed during the night, or even a sleep through from when I put you down around 9 till 6 in the morning, such a good girl!!

- You are still sleeping in a cot next to my bed.

- You have met your Oupa and Ouma from South Africa who have just fallen head over heels in love with you.

- You have been to your first wedding - Rudi and Candice, been to your first Wildlife Sanctuary outing - Currumbin Wildlife sanctuary.

- Katie is still in love with you and while she is a bit tooo rough and way tooo loud and in your face she loves you too bits and you love watching her too.

- And while your family is going through a seperation I promise to smother you in love and make sure you have the happiest life I can give you. My sweet baby!!!

Till later everyone!! Have a good weekend!

A bit of both of my scrapping worlds hehe

I have been MIA this week! We have had a little field mouse in the house, and we didn't want to kill it, but OMG it is way tooo hard to catch a mouse and after about 4 days of watching the mouse scurrying around and listening to it playing under the bed when I'm trying to sleep, I had HAD ENOUGH! and moved out with the girls to my parents house so that hubby could sort out the mouse. Mouse problem has been fixed = happy Jolene and I'm back in my own house today.

Before I left I had this layout finished up and ready to share. A recent photo of Katie-Lee and some of the latest goodies from Fancy Pants!! What a fun layout to do, using a bit of a different colour combo!

And this one was recently published in Scrapbook Creations. Loving the bold bright happy colours from the Paper Trunk range called Jellybean! This layout came together super quickly!
Katie just started doing this squint and I couldn't figure out why she doing it. Later I realised that she was doing it when she was purposely being a naughty bunny haha, so it has GUILT written ALL over it!

And thanks to Tatum for a tag!

Q1. What are 8 things you look forward to:

1. Getting some scrapping done over the weekend
2. Having hubby home for 3 days in a row
3. Having a nice peaceful house without a mouse playing around when it is sleep time
4. Seeing another smile from little Lily-belle
5. My brothers housewarming BBQ on Monday (if all goes well with the move this weekend)
6. Getting back into the gym after my doctor gives the all clear (my 6 week recovery time is up on sunday woohooo )
7. Having something sweet and naughty tonight, not sure what yet but YUMM!
8. Meeting up with friends again.

Q2. What were 8 things you did yesterday:

1. Went for a wall with Lily, Katie-Lee, my Mommy and their dog
2. Lily gave me a sleep from 9 till 9 with only ONE wake up at 3!!
3. Took some photos of Lily
4. Got my NEW car serviced
5. Got some awesome one on one time with Katie-Lee while Mum looked after Lily, we just played and played for ages :)
6. Read through some recipe books to get some new ideas for meals - I'm sick of current meals haha
7. Climbed into my Mum's Milo tin, eating it dry yumm yumm!
8. Went to bed at 10 which was soooooo noice!!

Q3. What are the 8 things you wish you could do:

1. Travel overseas and explore Europe or Japan
2. Travel overseas to South Africa to catch up with family and friends
3. Soak in a bath tub with no interruptions
4. Go and catch a movie at the cinemas with hubby
5. Have a sleep with no interuptions hehe
6. Have someone come and clean my house from top to toe
7. Start loosing the pregnancy weight!
8. Find a dress to wear to my brothers wedding which is in about 2 weeks time.

Q4. Name 8 things or shows you've watched lately:

1. I watched the movie "Marley and Me" - Was okay but I thought it would be more of a comedy.
2. Ummm have watched way too many Dora shows hehe
3. Watched little Lily sleep away on my lap.
4. Watched Katie making a mess on her face with icecream hehe
5. Watched some cooking shows
6. Watched more kids shows ugh!
7. And even more kids shows - double ugh!


And I'll leave the tag open for anyone who wants to have a go ;)

I better go and get this house vacuumed and pop off to the shops, the afternoon is very quickly disapearing!!

Have a gorgeous weekend and an awesome long weekend if you are as lucky as we are here in QLD ;)

Quick Shares

Super quick shares today cause Lily is giving both of her parents a headache today haha. We have our hands full today that is for sure.

We had a beautiful weekend though, spent some time at the beach yesterday, the wind was a bit chilly but it felt so mega quick to get out! This is my last week of recovery before my 6 week recovery period is up, it will be good to hit the gym again! I have missed my exersize, I'm not an exersize person, but I love the feeling a good exersize session does to my mind and soul. My gym has a good kinder section for the kids and it only costs me $1 an hour per child for the child minding, so had can I resist that haha.

A layout share for Fancy Pants using their YUMMMOOOO Kraft Kuts lines!! I just love love them! This was one our last family photo before our little bundle of joy arrived, so an extra special photo too!!


And one of my new favourite photos of gorgeous miss Katie. She had a sleepover at Grandparents house last night which she always enjoys!!


I'm off to feed this little starving monkey hehe.
Have a good week!!

Lily Anabella one month old already!!

How did that happen?? I just blinked and Lily is already one month old. While this tiny stage is so tiring and testing, I want her to stay tiny just for a wee bit longer :(

So here is some photos of Lily at one month old :)

Some quick facts to record:

Weight: 4.7kg (1.3kg heavier than birth weight)
Length: 50cm (which is the same as birth)
Illnesses so far: Eye infection and Thrush
Feeding in the day: approximately every two hours
Feeding and sleeping at night: last feed somewhere around 10-11, wakeup somewhere around 3-4am and then again around 7-8am.
Eyes: Still a dark pretty grey colour.
Developments: Can lift up head 45deg angle and keep it there for a good few minutes. can easily turn head from side to side. She actually rolled over last night by kicking her feet against me - I was amazed!!
She has a good grasping reflex, and keeps on grabbing onto my hair ouch!
A few little bubba sounds starting to form
And if you are lucky you might get the most gorgeous smile, although we are only getting one maybe two a day.
Personality: She is sooo different to her sister Katie. She seems to have a very content soft little natured personality. She mostly only raises her voice if I'm too slow to catch on that she is starving, but she usually just gives little cues, so she really just doesn't cry alot at all. She loves and adores to be cuddled and loved and loves staring intently into our eyes. Problem with that is that she needs to sleep close to us in the day, so either in our arms, on our chest, or close by in her bouncer so that she can hear us going about our day.
Her family: I think she has had me twisted around her finger since she starting wiggling in my tummy, I just love this little bundle of joy so much, I hate to pass her onto other people as I just want to hold and cuddle and smell her up, she is such a joy!!
Katie is totally in love with her, so much so that she is such a hand full, and more than often wake Lily up as she just NEEDS to kiss or hug or hold her. She is incredibly helpful and will fetch things for Lily and she always comes along for the nappy changes and bathing sessions. She gets VERY worried when Lily cries and always tries to soothe her as best she can - by rocking her bassinett or patting her head telling her 'it is okay Lily'. When Lily sneezes Katie says 'Bless you Sweetheart'. I think these two are going to be the bestest of friends!!
Lily's Daddy: I think that his daughter has stolen his heart already. When he gets home he always offers to take her and put her to sleep on his chest while he watches movies on his computer. He evens says 'no' to dinner when he has you and waits till you have a feed before he eats.
Names: I seem to be calling Lily names such as Sweetheart, Lily-belle. Katie loves calling her Sweetheart or Lily Anabella and her Daddy calls her Pikinini
Things we love: My favourite things about you is the way you love to tighten your body and stretch each limb one by one when you wake up. I just adore those big bright eyes and your adorable skinny long fingers and feet!
Lily's Daddy seems to love the colour of her eyes, her big bright eyes and the way she does a 'matrix move' by tightening her body and crossing her legs when she has had a good fill of feed and we pick her up for a burp.







Hope the next months don't pass as quickly as this one did!!

It is almost weekend woohoooooo!!

Another Layout wooohoooo ! :)

Well I'm so proud of myself, if I can keep up the scrapping then maybe I can possibly keep up with Lily's photos hehe.

My challenge is scrapping those very first gory yucky photos and the operating theatre ones, not too sure how to tackle those doh! But I do so want to record those moments too for Lily!

Little Lily has an eye infection so I have to pop drops in her eyes and oh my gosh it is unbelievably tricky to do!! My Mum thinks she has thrush too, so i'm thinking another trip to the doctors is in order for her.

She is refusing to accept a dummy, she thinks it is the most horrible thing and scrunches up her face in disgust and pushes it out for her tong. Katie was SO BIG on her dummies so this is a different twist for us, she also doesn't suck a finger, so when she is over tired, she decides she is starving and of course using Mummy's breast as a 'dummy' to fall asleep on argh!

But she is sleeping well at night none the less, so I really can't complain :)

Hope you all have a good week!!

A Katie day today :)

I have been sharing so many photos of Lily, so thought that a day for Katie photos is only fair :) She ADORES her sister, but not suprisingly she isn't always coping to well when she wants attention and Lily is just refusing to sleep, so we are getting our fair share of pity parties for herself and some 'fake' crying. But MOSTLY she is just being an adoring helping older sister who loves to cuddle and kiss her little 'so cute' baby sister, so I have tonnes to be thankful for!!

Speaking of thankful, I LOVE weekends!! I just had a mega long warm bath, reading my book while soaking away while hubby put Lily to sleep, I feel so much more like a 'normal' human being after that haha.

I also wanted to say thanks to everyone who loves me such mega sweet and precious comments, I do LOVE reading them all, I'm sorry I'm not getting around to popping around to say hello to everyone who takes the time to comment, but just wanted to say that I appreciate and love reading every single one of them!!! THANKS!!

A quick layout with a photo from our valentines self-shoot earlier this year. I'm pretty pregnant here but Katie is hiding my bulging tummy away hehe.


And some photos of Katie!! I have the ultimate weapon in order to get Katie to pose for photos. As soon as I set Lily up for photos and start snapping away, Katie runs in front of the camera and says 'AND ME!??' How can I resist honestly :) SOOOOO much easier working on the jealousy angle than it is trying to bribe her to stand still and then actually smile as well haha.




It is raining here again today! So we are stuck indoors. Hope you all have a bootiful weekend!!!

At last - A layout share :)

I'm very lucky that I get to fiddle with scrapbook layouts over weekends when hubby helps out with Lily and me and Katie can scrap together :) So I have finished a layout using some yummy K & Co goodies :)


And some more photos that I took today of Lily at 3.5 weeks. Can't believe she will be 1 month old in 5 days, how the heck did that happen??








I am soooooooo tired tonight, had such a hard emotional day today. Leon arrived home an hour early and OMG I just about cried from relief as I passed Lily on to him. She hasn't been too bad, she just isn't sleeping except if it is in my arms and I just can't sit still and do nothing for that long, but each time I pop her down she opens her eyes and moans grrrrrr. Silly bubba.

I think I need CHOCOLATE and COFFEE :) that might help.

Sorry I'm sweet and short again today, I know all the mums out there will understand ;)

Weekend is almost here - HOOORAY!!