Tomorrow Joshua is 12 weeks old. Omi took this photo on the afternoon of his Christening after all the guests had gone and things were much quieter.

A lovely photo of Joshua

Christening Cake

Some more lovely photos of our beautiful boy’s Christening day.

Today we had our beautiful boy Christened at St Bede’s Semaphore, the Clark family church.

The Service

Joshua and Mummy

Joshy cried the whole time! (lol) clearly he didn’t like the lace on the dress, or wearing a dress!! The dress Joshua wore was my Christening dress and was worn by Taylor and Daniel too as well as some of my cousins. It was very special for me to see him wearing it too.

Omi and Opi with Joshua

I will let the photos attached speak for themselves.

Rev Ali Wurm with us

Before Joshua was born, John and I went to have a photo shoot done to celebrate the soon to be birth of our son. Here are two of the wonderful photos we had taken. There are a couple more that we are keeping private for ourselves but these two are really nice. The one of John kissing my tummy is my favourite.

Apple pie

We have been having a few bake offs since the week or so before Joshua was born. I made an Apple Pie for the first time in my life.

John made a Banana Cake that was sensational. Here are the pics!

The Baker!

Look at this photo of Daniel……no words need describe what I thought when he did this!!

errr...excellent Daniel

On his playmat

Joshua was 9 weeks old this week. He is growing well and is a very happy baby. On the odd occasion he has a grizzly day but most of the time he eats, sleeps, plays and is starting to smile a lot.

At Joshy’s 8 weeks check up he weighed 4.5kgs. He has grown another 1.5 centimeters in length and his head circumference has increased by 1cm.

Joshua follows us around the room with his eyes now and is lifting his head more and more when on his tummy. He likes looking over our shoulders when we cradle him up there.

He plays on his play mat very happily and enjoys the caterpillar toy Taylor gave him.

On Wednesday he had his first round of immunizations. He didn’t cry very much and while a bit unsettled for the afternoon after having it, still slept well and seems not to fazed by it now.

A beautiful smile

Baby Power

Last week Omi and Opi were over and we took Joshua to the football for his first game. Fortunately Port won! Joshy must be a good luck charm.

Well derr! I wrote this post and didn’t publish it 2 weeks ago when I should have!!

Joshua was 7 weeks old this week. Wow has time flown by since he was born. We can not believe it has been almost 2 months since his birth.

He is starting to smile now and turns his head when we speak with him. He has a very strong neck and lifts his head up off the ground when on his tummy, as well as throwing himself around when he’s in your arms. We have to hang on to him!!

He weighs over 4kgs now and is a healthy eater.

We had our first trip away with him, when we flew to Canberra for a Blackburn Bootcamp and he was very well behaved on the plane and didn’t cry at all during take off or landing.

He is only waking up once a night and has slept through a few nights as well (which was very nice!!).

Unfortunately he also got his first cold in the past 2 weeks. All of my “boys” have been sick, with John even spending 3 days home form work. Taylor and Daniel have been home off and on as well but they all seem on the mend now. Lucky for me I have not had anything but a sniffly nose, so fingers crossed. I am taking lots of vitamins!

I have attached a few more photos, he’s is such a beautiful boy..I’m not too biased, everyone keeps telling me!

First time sitting in pram

6 weeks old

Our darling boy is one month old. We have forgotten what life was like before we had him. We are busier but busier with him and not busier with things that do not matter.

Joshua has grown a lot and changed in this moth since his birth. He has put on lots of weight. At his last weigh at the Child Health Centre he had put on 340gms in a week (since the previous weigh) and had grown 4cms in length since he was born.

A 21st Birthday Photo!!!

He is smiling sometimes now and earlier in the week, rolled from his tummy onto his back. Daniel and I thought it was fluke so we put him back onto his tummy and he did it again. So I guess that means he knows how to do it. Next challenge is rolling from back to tummy! lol

Joshy is sleeping well and is very settled and happy. He is only waking up once (sometimes twice) a night, but generally the one wake up around 3ish, means he settles right back and then doesn’t wake until 6-6.30am.

John went to Port Macquarie for 2 nights for work, so it was my first stint of doing the mother/baby/kids thing on my own. It wasn’t too bad. Tuesday night Joshy was a bit unsettled but John’s mum Bev was here so we took it in turns to look after him, but he still settled well in the evening anyway so we aren’t sure what was wrong.

We are off to Canberra next week for a workshop so it will be interesting to see how he goes but there are lots of people there who are wanting to see him because the last time we saw them I was almost 8 months pregnant with Joshy.

Till next week……

One Month Old

Show and tell at Daniel's School

On Monday Joshua was 3 weeks old. He has been giving us lots of joy and just having him around makes us all very happy.

It has been very cold here in Melbourne and so the early mornings are no joy when he wakes up and this has made him a bit unsettled, but compared to some newborn babies, we are still very lucky, because he is pretty good.

We had friends from Adelaide visit and stay with us this week. Julia and Ian (Daniel’s God Parents) came with their 3 beautiful little girls. The last time the girls saw Joshua he was “inside my tummy” and they were very happy to meet him in person. It was great having them to stay.

Mummy sleeps like this too

Ailie and Joshy

At the same time Anne and Felice and their 3 girls were in Melbourne for school holidays so on Tuesday night we had 14 people for dinner which was such fun! 9 kids (including Joshua).

Maidlin with Joshua

Wednesday – Friday saw us take Joshy into the City for our Not Just Papers Shop for Mary Kay Seminar. We had lots of people visit and Joshua charmed them all.

Several of my Mary Kay friends from Adelaide and New Zealand came to see him, so it was great to catch up with them and show him off.

Joshua'a God Mother Aunty Julia

Thursday Night we went to Stalactites Greek Restaurant in town with Anne and Felice. Great food, but noisy and Joshua was beside himself by the time we got home….:(…it took us over an hour to settle him.

Friday night was our nephew Jordan’s birthday so we went to John’s sister’s house for cake and coffee after Seminar. All the Chiminello’s were very happy to meet him and once again showered us with lovely presents.

After a busy week, we had a very quiet weekend. I didn’t go out at all and kept Joshy at home to resettle him again and for me to rest. I was very tired after all the Seminar shop activities.

With Daniel in big bath for the first time