Crawling Girl!

At 8 months, 1 week and 3 days, Emma crawled.
She wanted.....the baby wipe.

8 month old photo shoot

How do you make a little girl happy? Give her something pink... and dress her in brand name clothing - my hair dresser gave Emma a Guess top...I don't even own any Guess! Go figure.

Teeth and play time

So Emma is almost 8 months old and we love her more every day (I'm sure I've said that a few times on this blog!!)

It is SO beautiful so watch the way God designed the development of a human. Watching Emma discover hands, feet, learn to kiss (very sloppily! haha), roll, crawl backwards (not forwards yet!) is such a joy.

Mostly I am amazed by her comprehension. She knows who's special in her life, our daily routines have taught her to expect to see daddy or mummy in our bedroom first thing in the morning - if one of us isn't there she'll look towards the en suite and wait! It's very sweet. I'm amazed at how she raises her hands up to me to be picked up - no one taught her that she just does it. it's so cool.

Here are some teeth - it was really funny trying to get this photo!

I wish this were her clapping, but she's just laughing, she does have the coordination for it though! Just another step in growing up!

getting on her knees!

my gorgeous smiley girl!

I LOVE it when she looks at her hands

Her hair is getting super long, it gets in her eyes now!

play time!

It's so fun watching her learn!!! I love being a mum.

Sydney holiday part 2

Here we have Emma on her first plane flight! We have a little bit to learn about sleeping arrangements for Emma Grace before our holiday to SA in December...sigh

Bronwyn, Alex, Alannah, me, Emma all waiting for the train to the city.


Emma, Alannah and Alex after our big day at Taronga zoo, it was so much fun to have these two older girls with us to enjoy the animals!

Annabelle entertaining Emma - she was not short of attention it was lovely!

Playing with Annabelle and Alannah

(who has chocolate on her face, gotta love 3 year olds!!)

Sydney holiday part 1

We were so privileged to have a little holiday recently to Sydney. We stayed with my roommate from college, Bronwyn and her family. With their four children Emma was thoroughly entertained at every point - it was great!!

and here we are.... Sydney Harbour Bridge!

A lesser known view of the city as we left on the ferry towards manly

Ta-da! I must pause here to say a massive THANK YOU to Bronnie for babysitting Emma while we saw The Mikado here, it was brilliant fun!

a view from the ferry - the architecture of this place really is amazing

The bridge and the opera house

Emma's first time at the beach!!

I'm sure she's thinking "what's the fuss about?" we expected some reaction from her feet touching the sand but got nothing!

Taronga Zoo! the seal show - she's waving at us

the shows they do are so fun, he said that we must be careful around our marine life or they'll die and then she flopped onto her back, so cute.
An excellent jump I must say!

Gorillas!!! the babies were so cute, it was a good time of year to go as there were lots of new born animals around

Kong...thought he was so special he just sat with his back to everyone!

The Wetherston's at the zoo :D

This is an amazing view for a zoo hey?

This girl is a wedge-tailed eagle, they're massive!

I'm sure the keeper wouldn't like her photo, but this gives a little perspective of the size of these amazing birds! Their wing size gets up to 2.3 metres!

my favourite pic of the day - the baby gorillas were really very cute!

7 Months

Emma is 7 months old and we cannot believe how fast our year is going by!

She's already helping mummy with the laundry

It's actually been heating up here quite significantly. Sunday afternoon we spent time at mum and dads and we figured we'd try to help Emma cool off by sucking on ice :)


mmm yum

"hey, I can do this myself!" but then her fingers got too cold so she dropped it and let Lyle hold it for her again!

I was amazed that when we put these on her she didn't even touch them, what an awesome baby!

'Head shots' needed in a models world right?

Singing

Drop the jaw to hit the high note

Sad

Happy

(I kid you not, this photo was taken moments after the previous one...

models are so moody!)

Happy Father's Day!

In Australia Father's Day is the first Sunday in September. It's kind of nice in that it gives us a break between mother's and father's day. Emma bought Lyle a Springbok supporter jersey! woo hoo. He was pretty happy about that. We also had my parents, grandma and brother's family over for a BBQ. My nephew Finn is getting so big and is so cute, so I can't resist posting photos to brag about him!

The three dad's of the day!

Mum with (my fat) Emma Grace


Finn having a big tickle from dad!

Finn also helped uncle Lyle do some gardening

And of course, as every 2 year old must do - learn to show off his muscles!!

(see? told you he was cute!!!!)