The week of the 4th August

Its been another busy couple of weeks, I didn't get to do a recap last week so this is effectively for two weeks. Between gymbaroo, swimming, mothers group, and trying to catch up with friends, the weeks have just flown by, and the weekends come as a well needed refuge.

We finally signed a contract to have our bathroom and laundry renovated. It starts next week so I'm excited but also nervous about having to work around not having a bathroom with a young baby for three weeks.

I started making lactation cookies again to see if they would help (I blogged about my issues with breastfeeding here if you want to read about it), so have been snacking on heaps of those as well as this yummy five:am yoghurt.

 I also finished my box of chia squeezes, so I decided to make my own and they turned out great! I actually think I like them better than the Mamma Chia ones, which is good because its also cheaper to make my own. I got these reusable pouches from Pouched.

 In major fashion news, I got my Jimmy Choos signed by the man himself! Jimmy Choo was making an appearance at Claremont Quarter for a shoe exhibition they have set up in his honour. I was lucky enough that my mum works for the centre and got to meet him! So lucky ;)

In other fashion news, I bought my first pair of pants in about 5 years. I have refused to wear pants for such a long time as I didn't think they suited my body shape, but I found these at target and really liked the look o them. My mum thought they looked like pajamas, but I don't think so. What do you think about this style of pant? I ended up getting the blue ones, but thinking about getting the black/white as well.

Also fell in love with this skirt from Seed. I haven't bought anything for myself from there before, only baby clothes. 

New shoes! I really wanted a pair of bright pink shoes and these fit the bill perfectly. This was also a nice bonus from work!

Finally got a new one of my favourite candle: Aquiesse Boardwalk. I haven't even had to burn it yet, the smell of the candle alone fills up the room.

Another big thing that's happened is I've officially cancelled my gym membership. I was finding it so hard to go now that I've got a newborn, because I'm already out of the house two nights a week for pilates, and the rest of the week I really wanted to be home with the husband and baby for quality family time. I am now on the Turbo Fire bandwagon, and having done it for about a week so far I can say I'm enjoying it. Its much more practical for me as I can fit in a workout at home when S is asleep rather than having to wait for P to get home to look after her. 

We went to the Perth Baby Expo on Saturday, and made out like bandits with samples. Will probably give quite a few away to my mother friends as I really don't need most of them.

Lastly, on Sunday we went on a huge (1.5 hour) walk down by South Perth. The weather was amazing and it felt great just to get out with the family and enjoy a walk.

 S also turned 4 months on Sunday, so we wanted to get some proper photos of us. We ended up with some great shots, here's my favourite:

Riette

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The Week of the 21st July

What a busy week we've had! S started both swimming lessons and Gymbaroo this week, plus we had mothers group on Wednesday and our last mum & bubs yoga class on Thursday. I'm looking forward to the weekend so we can just relax and hang around the home.

Sienna loved both Gymbaroo and Swimming, just as we thought. She thrives in group situations and just smiled all the way through her classes. Although I generally don't like water/swimming, I didn't mind getting in the pool with her because it was nice and heated.

This week has been quite hard on me as I'm not getting much sleep due to S going through combined growth spurt and sleep regression. Our nights normally go like this: Go to bed at 7pm, dream feed at 10pm, wakeup at 1.30am, 4am, 6.30am, 8-8.30am. I can't wait for this stage to pass so I can get 5 hours straight sleep again! As hard as it is, seeing her smile back at me in the morning makes it all worth it.

In between all of S's activities, I had to fit in time to have people over to quote up our bathroom/laundry for renovations, 2 reformer classes, and bake for both mothers group and yoga.

Phew!

S was sick over last weekend, so we had lots of snuggles on the couch near the heater to keep warm in the miserable weather.

I made these awesome chocolate chip cookies for mothers group. Tastes just like the Subway ones I swear.

We received our new bed last week, so needed to get new bed linen. I love this doona cover by Leona Edmiston. 

S and I had matching bathers (swim nappy for her, board shorts for me)

Finished reading this book, it was alright for a Stephen King book. I plan to do a review on this soon.

As it was our last yoga class this week, we arranged to have a morning tea afterwards. I made these strawberry cupcakes which were delicious. I used this recipe but made a strawberry buttercream instead of the whipped cream topping. The buttercream was made with all natural colours as well!

The weather has been pretty miserable this week, and really random. Poor Jessie hasn't been able to have too many walks because of the rain.

We went to check out the show room of one of the bathroom renovators to select tiles. As we won't be in this house long term, we're not too worried about making it our dream bathroom, so just going to go with something neutral, most likely grey and white.

Thinking about this:

Or this:

Next week is going to be just as busy with gymbaroo, swimming, and 2 mothers groups, but at least its keeping S entertained.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Riette
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The week of the 14th of July

In between the weird patches of rain, we had some beautiful weather:

So we were able to enjoy some walks to the park. We got to try out the rain cover for the pram, not sure how S felt about it by the look on her face:

 

Enjoyed having some roses in the house for once:

Jessie loved these homemade peanut butter and bacon treats (I blogged about these on Tuesday):

We had another couple over for a lovely dinner. We've been doing this instead of going out for dinner as its easier with S and also cheaper. Its been good to use some of our neglected wedding gifts again (water jug anyone...).

We haven't been having much salad in the cold weather, so these chicken wraps were well received.

And I'm currently obsessed with this apple, blueberry and acai berry Nudie juice. I haven't had Nudie juices in years, but decided to try some again as they were on at Woolies.

I listed a whole bunch of things on ebay this week with the auctions finishing tomorrow I'm excited for those to finish and see how much I make...so I can then spend it again on more stuff probably.

Tomorrow (Sunday) I am looking forward to relaxing and not having to do anything! Its been a really busy week, and next week is going to be even busier with S starting Gymbaroo and swimming!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend...

Riette

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