Twenty Weeks

Hello sweet baby :) We're looking forward so much to meeting you.

Lucky Kid!

Last Sunday I noticed a large envelope on the kitchen counter addressed to my inlaws. Striking strange I thought so I asked Mr E if they'd mistakenly left it here.  Turns out the contents were meant for our Kookaburra and what could it be? And whom may they be from?  Well an school friend of Mr E's parents is an author.  A published Australian author who also writes short stories and novels for children and screen plays for various well known Aussie television shows - how wonderful is that! The package contained a  second draft of an unpublished manuscript for our Kookaburra to read and 'see what he thinks'. 

Tonight Mr E and Kookaburra were engrossed by the tale.  A bit of laughing and approval from them both means that they should finish it off pretty quick so Kookaburra can reply to the gracious lady with his thoughts.  Hopefully he'll remember to say a wonderful thankyou for such a privileged opportunity :).

A little pregnancy note before I go.  It really was the loveliest thing to sign in to my blog and find your beautiful responses to our happy news.  I truly love and treasure each of them. Thank you :). And I'll try to be good and post about it.  I'm not a journal keeper, although I've definitely tried, so it would be nice to have a little diary recording this wonderful time for me (oh, I think I meant us!).

We're still pinching ourselves but....

I guess when the first test comes back Positive

and then we try another

and another, with all the same lovely double pink lines, we can start to finally get ridiculously excited and look forward to meeting our sweet, new baby in early October.

Eleven

Jumping into bed with Daddy. 'Wake up Dad, it's my birthday!'

I know I should wait till the end of the day but I'm just too excited :).  Our eldest is turning Eleven today!

Dad picked out the birthday presents this year and judging by the looks on Kookaburra's face he was definitely right on the money.  I love knowing our boys so well!  We are so freaking Lucky!

He's been alternately looking forward to his birthday and also wanting to stay little but it seems this morning with his new stereo system turned up, bopping and singing along and getting into his new air-fix with his wonderful array of tools, he seems to have gotten over it ;).

CD player turned up, singing along and building.  Yep, he's a happy kid!

We'll be off shortly, down to play Zone 3 - think paint ball but with laser guns, mega fun minus the pain - maybe a game of tenpin and fish and chips for lunch.  Tonight Kookaburra has requested a Chocolate sponge cake with strawberry mousse filling, homemade pizza's and his grandparents to celebrate.

Happy Eleventh birthday Buddy.  We love you so much and are so excited to share this special day with you.