The one that got away...

This is one of the toss up photos of Will from yesterday's review. It lost the race for the 27th of July to the photo with Will in the mirror. This one is better I think but being a 2x2 inch square didn't do it justice. It's very pensive, sweet and contemplative... Will can quite often be seen 'thinking about stuff' as he looks out the window into the middle distance so it's a very Will photo. But my favourite part is the little rose bud lips... all soft, pink and damp. He is cute on a platter this wee babe of mine... even now 20 minutes after being put down for a sleep... squeaking away in his bed.

Four Hundred and Ninety Two

• That's how many months Aneil is today!

Why did we not have a big 40 party last year... or did I just miss it??

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Eight

8 Months, Would ya believe it?

Guesting in this months review; Will's Ultrasonographer, Scott... who is a WAY Cool guy! And a few Members from Room 20 where you may not recognise Will as he is photographed as his Ninja alter-ego. No Kieran photo this month... who's been a slack busy mother then eh??

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Foward Motion, of a sort

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We call it the 'flop and push'....



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It's funny because it's true...

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How it looks on paper

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A couple of weekends ago was the Cyber Crop Challenge on the Internet group I am on. So I actually churned out some paper pages... this first one is not so hot but the other three are ok!

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On Solid Ground?

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... well sort of. Will isn't particularly enamoured with 'runny' stuff. In fact he downright refuses to eat it. So all that he is doing at the moment is sucking apple through mesh... sounds fun eh?? It's called a Munchkin and at $11 it is my best baby buy this time around.

He also enjoys the odd spot of banana.

Sometimes he even gets the spots of banana in his mouth!

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Hello Mojo? Come in it's me, Gypsy.

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First things first my mum, Sylvia, is driving around in this....


She won it here! It was Silver Fern/Tactix player Julie Seymour's car till lunch time today. How seriously, kick arse cool is that????

Now on to the business... I have been scrapbooking.

I felt a bit like the client for this album was nervous (Hi C!) so I thought planning it digitally, whilst a little time consuming, was a good option. It will be made in paper- unless the client decides they like the digital version a lot. And so the colours, papers and embellishments will be different... but the LO's will be the same basic pattern... the best thing is that the photos can be printed just the right size! Once it gets the seal of approval that I am on the right track then I can go shop for it and it should all come together nicely! Think of these pages as first drafts, ok.

I won't be blogging again till the digital part of this album is all done and I will keep adding the pages in to this post so if you wanna see the completed plan then check back)....

So with no further ado here 'tis.... (you can click on them for more detail if you want)

Title page

Yay! This part of it is as complete as it gets for now... onto stage 2!
And expect a decent post from me soon!
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Cranky, snotty, tired and sad

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And that is just me- you should see Will he's the one with the cold!!!

Ok, I'm in shock I just started to download photos from the DSLR so I have something for this post... I had to make a new folder... I name them by date... it's the 8th of the 8th 2008 .... my baby is nearly 8 months old that'll be a whole 2/3's!!!! Where did it go????

So the week that was....

Friday... don't remember much about Friday... I think maybe there was some shopping involved and probably Starbucks.

Saturday... I did Merenia's 8 weekly full room clean... scary stuff worthy of an email on it's own... but man it looks good now! I had a Nana Nap and fell asleep in the pre-match stuff for the Rugby... yeah good one Gypsy!

Sunday... Les took Jake and Kieran to the Mastercard All Blacks Roadshow....

They brought back Buck!

Whilst back at home Will vomited a full tummy of breastmilk, baby rice and banana down my front and that kind of set the tone for the day.


Monday... a quiet one at home post vomit... Merenia went to school with a hacking cough... I guess between the 'Easy off Bam' and the stirred up mould in her room her asthma cough is back! Yay! Not. And it also appears that Will has taken up smoking as he's also hacking away like an old man.

Tuesday... I went on a mission to do a trade-me pick-up and as I don't usually hangout in South Auckland I took advantage by going to the Scholastic shop in East Tamaki and a scrapbook shop in Papakura it was a huge day... Will was less than unimpressed with all the car time.

Wednesday... as an apology to Will we stayed at home... the cough has now progressed to an eyes watering and bugging out almost choking... body racking shocker. Day spent scanning photos for the client album. Discovered Will likes carrot.



Thursday... was a repeat of Wednesday... except that Will laid on the guilt because I told him to go back to sleep in the dark of 10:30pm the previous night when unbeknownst to me he had reproduced his carrot all over his PJ's and bedding... great magic trick Will! We did pay a short visit to Dr Farmer... who gave the standard response... I like my Dr because he always says... it's viral, drugs won't work... come back and complain in *****insert time period here***** if it hasn't gone away. So I asked him when I should come back and complain if Will was still coughing and he said a month... at which point it was my eyes that were bugging out... Dr F said... "oh that's right never joke with a sleep deprived mother of a baby". Yeah funny guy!!! 'Cept he really was serious!!!

Which brings me to today... I made dinner last night at around 11pm and then turned it on this morning before we went to school- kewl. Sorted the production photos for Cher by the time the bell went and took 'Mr Cranky' home along with the maths books. The books are now marked and I'm blogging... which just goes to show that I may have been organised but I haven't made a list for today... so I am going to wander aimlessly through the day and make some of the standard sleep deprived errors that mark my days recently... I am growing increasingly frustrated at my inability to get anything done (yes I know Kathryn!!). I want that lady from TV (The Big Stuff) to come in and get it all sorted so that I just have to maintain it... I still haven't actually finished the spare room from way back when Will went from bassinet to cot... and what really gets me is that the scrapbooking table always gets used as the dumping ground... so even if I want to take time out and play.... aaarrrggghhhhh

So I can see August being a slow blogging month.... such is life I guess.

It's all good in the end though, isn't it!