Eleanor's Baptism

On Sunday the 29th of December we were able to present Eleanor for baptism. Following are some of the photo's. You will have to excused the hot and bothered look. It was hot (for us in Launceston) and humid. Eleanor was in and out of her dress on numerous occasions as it was far to hot to leave her in it all day (besides one can not fit small baby and all that dress into the capsule and safely buckle her in)!

We celebrated the day with a coffee morning at Church and then had (extended) family at Mum and Dad's after Church.

We then had a few family photo's late in the day (waiting for the weather to cool off). Kids and photo's at a park with a fun play ground in sight was rather a challenge, but they managed pretty well!

Crashed on the couch after Church!

Boring mum, get the camera out of my face!

This is what we got when we asked the boys to smile!

They kept picking grass and it was hard work getting 

Sebastian to keep his fingers out of his mouth! 

Our munchkins!

Opa and Oma 

(Dad held Eleanor in Church)

We do not sleep our baby upside down, I'm just not sure how to rotate the photo!

This is how one sleeps in the bassinet (under a lounge room window)

when it's hot (usually she's swaddled)!

So ends the photo's! There are more, but I don't want to bore you with all the dodgy ones!

Til next time................

Little Miss E, 4 weeks already!

Little miss has made it to 4 weeks already! Boy how time flies when your busy with three little ones!

Wednesday was our 4 week check with the clinic sister and Eleanor passed with flying colours! Some stats:
Weight - 3700g
Length - 50cm

In 9 days she's managed to gain 900g and grow 2 cm! She's now smiling at us, not that often, and is still a pretty content baby!

So, without further ado, some recent photo's (starting with the most recent)........

4 weeks old!

 Milk drunk!

Pretty in pink (thanks Kaitlyn)!

Testing out the ergo (a few weeks ago)! 

We used it properly yesterday with much success (E went off to sleep in it)

So til next time...........LBQSE

A afternoon at the park!

One Saturday afternoon (the week we took Eleanor home from hospital) we decided to venture to a park with all 3 kids! Following are a few pics from our little outing!

Larry multitasking!

 

We took along a couple of soccer balls as both the boys love to play soccer!

Quinlan in action! 

 Sebastian watching the 'game'!

 Eleanor sleeping peacefully (such a good little girl)!

Another lots of photo's to follow soon (baby needs to be fed)!

More photo's of our precious little miss!

Now that we are home again, it's much easier to post a few of the promised photo's!

Ever the proud and besotted big brother!

So very relaxed and loving the bath!

Helping with the bath!

Keeping and eye on bath proceedings!

Wasn't me Daddy!

 

Ready to go home!

Daddy's been shopping!

 

 

The delicious celebration platter (including bubbly) supplied by the hospital! 

It included all those yummy things you can't eat when pregnant (and a bottle of bubbly)!

Mmmmm.........smoked salmon and brie!

 

 

The boys are happy mum and Eleanor are home!

So til next time.........

Eleanor Renee

Bj and I would like to announce the arrival of Eleanor Renee!

With thanks to God, she arrived yesterday morning as

the tiniest, prettiest little thing of the lot!

Vitalstatistix: 828 6,5 2810 46 (hrs, lbs oz, g, cm)

She sleeps, looks cute, likes to drink and generally steals the show.

The boys love her; Q says her name very well: El A Naw

She kept me (L) up a little last night (this a.m.) and I had to sit watching music videos or something in the tea-room drinking coffee. Suuuuch a drain...

But Bj fared little better with apparently 1-2 hrs of 'solid' sleep last night. Still betta than nothing I suppose. Here's to watching this little girl grow up along side two big doting brothers!

Visitors!

Over the last week (well 6 days) we've had visitors to entertain! Well, for the most they entertained themselves! Bruce, Sarah, Kiera and Evan have come (and gone) for a short, but fun filled visit. The kids had a blast playing together (for the most), and we got to spend 2 days at Mt Field enjoying snow, sun, fog, plants, wildlife, good company and good food.

Really, it was over too quickly, but BSKE, thanks for coming and sharing some good times with us!

Now for a few photo's! All the photo's off both Sarah's camera and ours have gone into one folder on our computer, so I will attempt to only share our photo's (and not pinch Sarah's photos).

First stop at Mt Field - lunch in the sun and a play in the playground before a walk to Russell Falls!

Just had to add in this one of Evan, looking most unimpressed with his lunch!

Sebastian and his cup of tea, on the run!

Good friends! They had a blast together!

Russell Falls at it's best! Lost of snow and rain meant lots of water and noise!
Sebastian kept saying 'Water......wow!'

After our walk, it was decided we should visit Lake Dobson before checking into out accommodation! The travel up was interesting and quite slippery (for those not ensconced in a 4 wheel drive). A stop proved to be a bad idea, probably the worst place to stop as far as snow and ice went. So after much cafuffle (and holding up traffic), the chains were finally fitted to the 2 wheel drive and off we went for a play in the snow!

Some snow banks were higher than the door-meets-window of the 4 wheel drive!

Just a spectacular part of God's creation!
How can one doubt the story of creation when you see beauty such as this!



A wombat decided to run across the road on the way back down from Lake Dobson!

The boys had decided they would have a go at skiing on Saturday morning! So, before we set off on Friday, they went off and were fitted out with ski's and poles and all things necessary (including the chains we needed for our car). An early start up to Lake Dobson saw them leave about 7.45 am, wind up extremely frustrated with they way things were being run, but have a great time (and not break anything). Getting to the ski fields means a trek up either a steep gravel road (covered in very icy snow) or a cross country ski along a few different tracks. The tows are all privately run (and poorly done so if you care to sit through the whole story from the guys)!! But......they had fun and Larry has decided he wants to go again sometime this winter!

Following are a few of the photos they took while up on the top of Mt Field!

Larry 'snow ploughing' (looks more like a case of nerves)!


Bruce contemplating his navel!

Spectacular view across the valley (note the fog)!
They could see Mt Wellington's snow capped peak in the distance!

That's all I have to share today! I'm sure Sarah will update their blog with even more photo's in the near future! I might find some of the photo's they took on Mt Wellington on Monday (someone forgot their camera) and add some of those to the blog in the next few days! Sebastian enjoyed the snow more on Monday than he did on Friday (hence the reason there are no photo's of bubba in the snow)!

Til next time..........