Waiting for Lily

Lilies in our garden... so beautiful!


33 weeks:




35 weeks:






Whew. It makes me tired just looking at the pictures!

RoundUp

Its been awfully busy here lately- sorry for the lack of new pictures for those of you who still look!
Since I last posted, Christmas and New Years have both happened, we are now half way into January and sweet Lily is due in a mere 4 weeks! John has been out of school on their summer holidays, it starts again January 31 and we can't wait- he talks about it daily and can't wait to bring his baby sister there to show her off (one of his classmates did that last term).
Without further delay, here are a few pictures from the last few weeks.

Christmas morning/day...










While Jeff and John hiked all the way up here:


I stayed home and did this:

Oh my gosh, we are surrounded by pink!!

Me and my little boy...




Christmas happens again: Presents arrive from the USA! Thank you everyone!!!





A grumpy pirate, but a happy and very silly boy...

Comparison...

Well, Lily is growing- there is no doubt about that! Photos just a few short weeks apart!

These two I took yesterday, December 13...





And this one was taken on November 22...

Surf and Turf

Over the weekend our landlord's son was in town with some mates fishing. The last time they were in we ended up with a few fillet's of fresh fish. It was pretty windy over the weekend and they ended up diving instead of rolling around on the boat getting sick, so there were no fillets waiting for us this time. However, they did end up grabbing loads of scallops! For those of you who don't know, scallops are one of my absolute favorite foods! We had already planned on having steak for dinner so we had surf and turf with the freshest scallops you can imagine, and local to boot! YUM. Even John ate one and said "mmm, these are nice"... I sauteed them in butter and then added a splash of savignon blanc to make a little sauce- amazing.


This is what scallops look like, you get rid of the orange bit before you cook them. Scallops for sale in the grocery store are often times not really scallops, they're hole punched sting ray, shark etc. Sneaky, huh?

Just me

And My Dad...



John has really had a hard time with Jeff starting work. For the last 3 years we've had a pretty cushy life, John had both parents with him all the time. It took us a week or so to figure out what was the cause of so much separation anxiety, but this seems to be the key. We've started having special Daddy/John time when the 2 of them go to the park, putter in the garage or simply watch something together on TV. It seems to have helped. Yesterday at the library John wanted to get this book, as a special present for Dad... Just melted my heard to hear Jeff read it to John while John cuddled right up next to him. My boys, they're two peas in a pod.

Twinkle Twinkle

John sang this last night to his sister- it was the cutest thing. Sadly, to recreate it today I had to bribe him with a chocolate chip cookie fresh from the oven... oh well, its still cute!

Belly

WOW, these did not turn out very good! John had his little fingers all over the lens today- can you tell? Anyways, here are the latest pics! I'm currently 27 weeks and ALL belly.





Jeff says I hardly look pregnant from the back, what do you think? I'll try to get some better pics next time :)