And its a..............

BOY!!!!

Yes I am very pleased to announce that our beautiful little son has arrived - 3 weeks early.

Born on the 25th November at 11.37am

Flynn Robert, weighing 6lb and 48cm long.

Here is a picture for you.


We are totally in love and looking forward to a house full of fun and laughter with two little boys running around.

I will post about the birth later, but just wanted to share our very special news before I fall into bed.

To Oliver

To my amazing little boy, before your life changes like never before, I your mummy, just wanted to tell you that the last 2.5 years have been the most special years of my life.

Watching you grow and learn, loving you more and more every day, enjoying your hugs, your thoughts and helping to shape you into the little boy that you are today has been the joy of your daddy's and my life.

We love you so very much, more than anything in the world, and we can't wait to share this new chapter of our lives together with you.

We know that you are going to make the most amazing big brother, that you will teach your new little brother or sister, how to laugh, how to cry and Im sure how to get up to mischief and we know that you will love this person with every inch of your being, because thats the little boy that you are.

You are the most amazing person. I love you Ollie. xxx

Lots of love and cuddles,

Mummy.

Obsessed much?

Like most little boy's it is all about Trains, Trucks and Car's in this house, we play with them all day every day and point to them as we drive around town, in fact we even take a pile of trains and car's to bed each night and occasionally I have to give them all a kiss good night.

I guess it really was inevitable. Ollies Grandfather is train mad - they have a wholesale business importing model railway, cars etc and also a retail hobby shop which sports one of the best model railway displays I have ever seen so he has been around trains since he was born.

But truly, I didn't expect the love to go this far:

Seven things you might not know about me.

The wonderful Working mum on the verge was kind enough to pass this award onto me, Working mum is one of the most entertaining bloggers I know - so you should definitely pop over for a read and to say hello.

Now then apparently the deal is that I have to tell you seven things about myself, so here goes:

1. As a child I had aspirations to be a professional ballet dancer, then as I got older I changed my mind to being a dance teacher, then I decided Id be a farmer AND a dance teacher, and Ive ended up being none of the above.

2. My favourite colour is pink, although my family went a little pink crazy for a while there and gave me everything pink so I'm now a little "pinked" out, but Its still my favourite colour regardless.

3. I love nothing more than a good cheese platter for dinner, throw in some pate and tasty dips and I am a very happy woman. Totally unhealthy but total bliss with a really great sauvignon blanc!

4. When I was young I wanted to have 9 boys and a girl....um no thanks!

5. My current dream car (subject to change) is a Porche Cayenne Turbo

6. I am not a morning person, in fact I am a grouch in the mornings - Ive improved now that I have a child, but really its better to stay out of my way.

7. I cannot start the day without coffee, cannot, it just increases the grouchiness factor.

I have a lawnmower in my bed....

Well not quite but it's next to my bed. Our momentous occasion for today was to spend silly amounts of money on a lawn mower. (I say silly because although its needed, thats a whole lot of shoes, clothes or other fun gadgets I could have spent $$ on)

Silly amounts of money why....once apon a time my DD used to spend money on a whole lot of cheap crap, I told him time and time again, he was better off spending the money on quality items the first time so that they last, rather than buying the cheapo versions and then getting frustrated when they break. Seems my lectures may have sunk in. Seems DD is so excited about his new "quality" lawnmower that he wants to sleep with it tonight. Seems he is having issues with putting it in the garden shed.

So now to see him put that quality peice of machinery to use, we had to sack our poor lawn mower man - that was the compromise, so DD better get firmly attached to our grass and his new toy!

Ill let him have his little love fest for tonight, but tomorrow its out to the shed with the rest of the boy toy's for that little motor.

The day has come

I am on Maternity leave at last. I forgot how strange it feels to walk out the door of work and realise that you really won't be back for quite some time. My day ended with a big inaugural meeting that I have been working on for months and months. I have put so much time and energy into this thing that it really was a high note to leave on - to see the committee finally come to fruition - without the thousand actions that came out of it!!

But boy, I walked in the house and felt like I had been hit by a bus. I guess I have been in superdrive for so long, particularly where work is concerned that now that I finally have permission to switch off, Ive not only switched off but I think the power has been cut as well.

Oh well - change of life, here I come.

"Mao's Last Dancer" By Li Cunxin

I loved this book, I loved it so much, I was sad when it was finished. This was one of those books that I devoured, have I mentioned I loved this book?

Its always a wonderful and contented feeling to close a book and think wow that was really fantastic, it doesn't happen often enough but for me it is one of the most satisfying feelings that I can experience. When the story is true it makes it even all the more worthwhile.

This is a story about a man with complete determination, commitment and courage. Dedication to his craft and to making his life better, I don't think there is anything this man could not do, if he put his mind to it, the world needs more Li Cunxin's.

Its a little known fact (alright I lie) a well known fact that I am slightly obsessed with dance, as a little girl I yearned to be a dancer - bad feet and boarding school helped put an ending to that though!! Perhaps one of the reasons why I enjoyed this book is for my love of dance and understanding of the commitment it takes to be a professional dancer - maybe not though.

In any case I think that anyone who read this book would be able to take something wonderful from it, so its a definite 5 out 5 for me.