checking my list, ticking it twice....

Oh my, the look on miss Tully's face this morning when I told her I was really one of Santa's elves and was very busy making toys for little boys and girls! Priceless really. I think she actually believed me. Well how could she not with the many piles of softies in progress around the house.



Seriously, my house has little piles of softies, santa sacks and brooches in various stages of completion everywhere! Everywhere that is that little Miss Sage my wonderful little helper can't reach them.



With only a couple of weeks until the jelly bean market and then another 6 weeks until chrissy, my plate is feeling rather full. Add on house hunting, inspections by prospective buyers, tandem feeding and the general shenanigans of school and kindy, well my plate is pretty much overflowing. Bahhh, well it's all good really, cause I enjoy it in a weird sort of frazzled kinda way. It's not really that bad, cause I can see the light and am very much looking forward to it. I had such fun at the last market and am very much looking forward to the next one on November 27, Warrnambool show grounds if you're local.



So for now its all systems go...interspersed with some crazy dancing to the latest soundtrack in the house, Justine Clarke, and lots and lots of time snuggling on the couch feeding my sweet little Sage and Otis. Who as it happens, will be 4 weeks old on the weekend! 4 weeks! wow!



I know, he's beautiful! yep I made him. Pretty pleased about that

Hanging with my gnomies

Title shamelessly pinched from here. Gnomes,just about ready for the jelly bean markets next month. And the little fella, well he's my latest creation. He's pretty awesome!

Otis Alec

For the past week I have been breathing in the sweetest smell in the world, the head of my newborn baby. I've been so caught up in the loving that I forgot to tell you guys about him! Shame on me.

Well little Otis Alec arrived last Saturday evening after a very quick and *hip hip hooray* totally natural, no medical intervention in the slightest, birth. After 3 days of prelabour I was very very pleased he decided the time was right, particularly as MIL had only arrived in town a few hours earlier to look after the cherubs.

He's my heaviest bubba at 3.92 kg and very suprisingly has a head of black hair. Lach and I are both fair and our other kids are strawberry blonde, red and snowy, so a little black head certainly came as a suprise. He is absolutely wonderful and thriving and doing lots of fantastic things, like only waking once in the night for a feed, and then having a whole heap of cluster feeds through the day. His big bro and sisters are totally smitten with him and Sage even shares her much loved breastfeeds with him. Tandem feeding is certainly full on and I admit I feel a bit like a milking machine, but they love it and I think it's all a bit special really.




So there you go, sorry for not letting you know sooner. Now to attempt some sewing....yeah right as if that's gonna happen. Maybe I'll just try and stuff a softie first.