5 Months Old

Every month on the twelfth, I take photos of Elliott lying beside his Sophie (his friend toy). At first I took them every week but as I got busier and the weeks started to fly by I reverted to once a month. Now it's amazing to see how much Elliott has grown. As my lovely sister pointed out to me, Sophie looks like a different (much bigger!) toy in the first photos.

Amazing things Elliott has done this month:
Started sleeping for 12 hours at night.
Laughing out load on his own with his friends toys.
Pulling his legs up to his chest and looking at his feet.
Staring at his hands and playing with them.

This is definitely my favourite age so far. Elliott's little personality is really starting to show and being a mommy starting to feel a bit more natural. I have to concentrate less on his routine because I know it well and so I'm getting more done when Elliott is down for a nap.

Yesterday I went for a run, my only real exercise in five months. FIVE MONTHS! I almost died and didn't even run for the whole thing but it felt great to be doing something. I'm already looking forward to getting rid of my last bit of baby weight and fitting into the rest of my clothes. Today I was talking to my amazing best friend about how we both look back at ourselves in certain photos and think, "Wow, I looked great!" but how at the time we didn't appreciate it at all. I'm sure one day when I'm old, grey, fatter, saggy and...old, I'll look back on photos of myself now and think that I looked great. I don't want to spend my whole life unsatisfied with the way I look. Girls thinking they look terrible gets boring and old after a while. Read this yesterday, "...we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do". That word 'workmanship' can be interchanged with the phrase 'work of art'. I am God's work of art. So as well as working on how I look on I'm going to work on how I feel because feeling like a work of art sounds pretty freaking great!

Here are photos from Elliott's five month photo shoot.

And Then, There were Three...

Wow, two post in two months! I'm on a roll. A friend of mine has just started a blog and given me the inspiration to do a post on my amazing son.

Elliott James was born at 00:31 on the 12th of January 2011. He came in his own time and has been doing things his own way ever since. I will write his birth story in another post, but for now I thought I'd write about how life is living with Elliott and put up some photos of our baby boy. Elliott is the sweetest baby boy I have ever met. He loves chewing EVERYTHING he can shove in his mouth. He talks and laughs at his toys and has just discovered his hands this week. He is amazing.

The last two days spent with Elliott have been two of my favourite so far. There have been plenty of days that were hard and frustrating and followed by long, cranky chats with friends. But I want to stop and appreciate how simply nice these couple of days were. Elliott has been sleeping til 8am ish every morning and every morning I've been greeted with a great, big smile. The sort of smile that is utterly contagious and wakes your sleepy self up gently. Nothing amazing happened in these two days, no major milestones were reached. Instead of spectacular I got simple. Simple days filled with lovely, happy moments with my sweet son.

Here's a couple of pretty simple, happy photos. Enjoy!

Our now ginormous five month old...flying

Elliott as a teeney tiny baby

Finally...Our Wedding

Eeek so I had a bit of a false start with this blog. Like any new journal I've ever started writing, the pressure of what to write on the blank first page was too much for me! Better late than never I suppose...

We got married on the 25th of July 2009. We were both just out of college and getting married on a crazy tight budget. It was a beautiful, sunny day when we exchanged vows outside, under a big tree, surrounded by family and friends. Afterwards we went to the art gallery where I was working at the time for photos of just the two of us. This quiet and intimate time was our favourite part of the day. Just a little bit of time to take a deep breath and let the thought settle. We are married. Our photographer Tamryn Kerswell was amazing and I couldn't sing her praises enough.

For the reception we rented out the hall connected to the church gardens we had our ceremony in. We decorated it and our friends helped serve up a delicious  bbq and buffet. It was simple but bursting with love. Every detail of the day was helped by people who loved us and were willing to help us have the best and lovliest days of my life. Here are a few photos