Flexible!

I thought this was so funny. I was moisturizing Laela after her bath and I turned away for a moment to get her nappy and turned back around and found her chomping on her foot. It looked hilarious! I can't get over how flexible babies are!

This photo is when she realised I was laughing and taking photos of her. She is looking at me as if to say "What is all the fuss about!?"

Autumn Photos

I am a HUGE fan of the season Autumn. I absolutley love love LOVE all the different colours - the oranges, reds, yellows, the leaves that fall from the trees, the crisp fresh air, the idea of being able to buy some warmer clothes and pull out your old ones. Autumn for me is exciting!

I have always wanted to take some really nice family photos amoungst the beauty of Autumn, so Laela and I set out to find some nice spots. We ended up exploring our local beach / park and I think we found a nice little spot where these photos can be taken.

Here we are - all set to take photos of the 'potential' family photo spot! Mummy has got the camera and Laela has got her dummy!

Along the way we found some birds! I was a bit slow with the camera so only got a picture of 2 different types of birds. Laela loved it! She kept reaching out towards the birds as if she wanted to touch them. I am sure if she was walking she would want to chase after them and possibly throw things at them. ha ha

So I think below are the spots where we could take our family photos.... What do you think?

Laela and I were quite proud of our little outting and what we found! It was a fun Mummy and daughter adventure!

Oooo Laela is so cute!!

The Higgins Family blog lives!

My blog has been 'dead' for a few months and was lacking some coolness! So I thought I would give my blog a bit of a make over to get me excited and motivated to actual blog what our little family is up too! AND I am happy to say I AM BACK!

Our first Vegie Garden!

One thing I have been looking forward to do ever since I had Laela was to plant a vegie garden. The house we now live had the garden bed boxes already in place so all it needed was some serious weeding and then it would be ready to plant some vegies.

Now they were the before shots... here are the after...

We planted lettuce, beans. basil, capsicum and some tomatos!

And there is a picture of Laela who watched (slept) through the whole thing :)

Our baby girl arrived!

What a day / night / morning!! I never knew you could feel so many emotions in the space of 19 hours! Yes, that is right... 19 hour labour! Although it didn't really feel THAT long and I am sure women go into labour much longer than that! Nothing can really prepare you for childbirth. You can have all these expectations of what it will be like and then you just realise you have no idea! I didn't care how they got her out I just didn't want a C-Section! And they didn't need to give me one... phew!

Laela was born @ 9:12am on Friday, 18th September 2009 weighing 8.8 pound and 53cm long.

My Room

daddys first hold

Our fabulous midwife (Sharon Down) holding Laela


Mummy's hold after a nice shower

Her first car ride in her carseat

Being a Mum is the best thing! Very rewarding! There are some days that are harder than others but all in all it is pretty darn cool! x

Last Days of being pregnant

The time was getting closer to my due date and Jeremy and I still hadn't taken 'nice' pregnant photos of my belly... although by the time we took these photos I was about to pop and I was getting all chubby looking! I must say my bump did look a tad ridiculous!

Photo taken at the Hamilton Gardens

Photo taken at Long Bay, North Shore with sister Elise (Laela's Aunty!)

Finally! An update!!

Well.... a lot has happened since our 1 year anniversary.... I got pregnant! ha ha

I am due on 9th September '09 and we are both super excited! I was quite sick for the first 2 1/2 months but the worst is over!! I don't know how woman handle being sick the whole 9 months... I just wanted to die!! And that was only after 2 and a bit months of being sick! ha!

So now that I have started to feel a bit better we have started shopping for baby stuff! The other day we bought a cot.... we got it off good old trademe... it was a gift from my mumma and dad so we have been lucky...

Also, I was looking on good old trade me again and found ourselves a really good quality pram with a bassinet... so we bought that today for a super good price so I am 1 happy girl!

Isn't it so preeetty! ha! Now, all we need to know is if it is a boy or girl so we can start buying some seriously cute baby clothes!! :)