This weekend went waaay too quickly! It was a quiet weekend. Shannon went out both Friday and Saturday night hunting. He didnt get much, which he was not happy about. But he got over it pretty quickly. Austin and i spent the weekend at home trying to organise next week. My sister and nephew and neice-in-law are coming to stay with me next week. We are planning on going to the zoo, the old gaol and out to my dads farm. All i keep thinking is OMG i am going to be spending the whole week driving!! She is only here for 4 days LOL

Yesterday we had our carpet in the loungeroom cleaned for free. The company was trying to sell a vaccum cleaner. I ws very impressed, and very embarrassed. I couldnt believe how much this vaccum sucked up! She went thru all the la-dee-da's about the machine, showing how it did this and how it did that. Then she got to the price... $3,800 !!!!!!!!! OMG i nearly fell over!!! I would love to own a vaccum that good. But i can think of soooo many other things i could spend that money on at the moment!

The past 2 nights, but especially last night, Austin has been really unsettled. We went from sleeping all the way thru the night on thursday and friday (yes i was jumping up and down!!) to last night waking every hour or 2. He would settle and fall asleep in my arms, but as soon as i would put him in his cot he would scream the house down. I tried everything, panadol, changing bum, bottle.. Nothing would work. this went on til about 3.30am, and i got the jack of it and ended up sleeping with him. I havent figured out if he is getting more teeth or if he has had a reaction to the food i gave him or if it is just a temper thing. LOL The past 2 nights i gave him tuna mornay for dinner, and he has never had a problem with Tuna before, but this was a different brand. So tonight he will be getting home cooked stuff and hopefully he will be ok again. Fingers crossed.

This thuesday, i took Austin to a new playgroup. I had stopped going to the other one coz the people were a bit strange. Anyway, we went to this new one and it was great. The Mums were awesome. Very nice people. The kids were great too! There are only 3 boys there thou, and about 10 girls LOL. One little boy is 6 days older that Austin and it was very sweet watching them play together - sort of. They more like sat next to each other and played. They took the toys off each other constantly, but it didnt seem to bother them. It was very cute.

Austin ate about a ton of sand. I swear when i changed his nappy later on that afternoon there was sand in there too! hahaha

On Wednesday i took him to a music group. It is held at the church and it was quite fun. They gave him a music bag when he came in. It had sticks, bells, castanets (sp) and moraccos (sp again) He didnt really care too much for anything other than the sticks, but he did have loads of fun eating them hahahaha and banging them together every now and then too. While the ladies were singing he was dancing along and squeeling a bit LOL. We had a great time.

He is letting go so much now. He even stood up on his own at the music group! OMG i was shocked. He is so clever!!! He is also crawling properly now. Most of the time. I think he realised it is too cold to be commando crawling along the tiles.

Thats all the news i have for now. Hope everyone is enjoying their weeks so far!!

Cass and clever boy Austin xoxoxox

Well, i guess it wont be long til Austin is walking now. My clever little man stood up on his own on the weekend. It was so cute. He let go probably only for about 3 seconds and when he realised he wasnt hanging on to anything, or anyone hanging on to him, he freaked out! It was very funny!

Hope everyone has a great week!

I went and visited a friend of mine today who has a little 16 month old girl. She is adorable. Very affectionate... This is what i caught on camera...

My baby's first kiss...

He went for another one and she turned away...

When she wanted one, he pushed her away...

Typical boy/girl relationship...

I sort of feel like life is passing me by at the moment. I dont really know what i have been doing for the past few weeks, i have really done nothing. Sit at home, play with Austin, take him for a walk. Visit a friend some days. I just feel like i am accomplishing nothing at all. Is this a normal feeling to have??? I feel like i am missing something here. I love being a mummy, but is that all i am meant to be? Mother, wife, cleaner (haha) ?? What do i do when i am bored? Who the hell am i now? I  have this insane urge to spend money at the moment. Something that i have never really had before. I have always been so anti-shopping. I guess this is my time passer now. Unfortunately i dont have any money to spend hahaha. I need a hobby, but i really dont like crafty stuff.. I dont know, i need something, i just dont know what is missing in my life right now.

Sorry this is a sort of ramble, i just need to get it out of my head.

since i last blogged. I dont really have all that much to say thou...

Austin has had a pretty clumsy day so far today. He was leaning on his walker earlier this morning, when it moved, he fell forward and hit his head on the corner of it. It is really really red. It sort of looks like he will have a black eye. God i hope not! Poor little bubba.

He started doing this funny spider monkey crawling thing over the weekend. He is up on his hands like a normal crawl but he stretches his legs out straight, i think he is practicing standing up, but it looks sooo funny.

I just spent 4 days with Shannon, which was great! We didnt do much, just hung at home for most of the weekend. We went out for lunch on Monday, there wasnt much open, but it was nice to get out. The on Tuesday we had his sister over for a bbq. So all in all a really quiet weekend.

Well, i did say i didnt have much to say, and that is about it.

Hope everyone is having a great week

Cass xoxox

I just received a text telling me that a lady i know from Sydney, last night took her own life.

She leaves behind a son who is probably close to 8 now (i cant remember exactly)

May she find peace on the other side.

Rest in peace Caroline xoxox

Hi everyone. I was hoping i could get some feed back.

I want to do my own birthday invitations for Austins first birthday. I have been fiddling with these 2 tonight.

Which one do you prefer?

Obviously the play button wont be there when i print them out, so please ignore that.

Please tell me i am not the only one:

whose baby STILL doesnt sleep thru the night...
whose baby spends half of his/her time whinging at you because he/she is over tired, and yet wont go for a sleep!
whose baby likes to get 2 teeth at a time, you know, coz getting 1 at a time would be too easy
whose baby thinks that is it funny when you break down and cry
whose baby wont eat what you have given them but loves to spit it in your face

Please, oh please...

Tell me im not the only one!!!

Today has been so difficult for me!!! All of the above mentioned have happened and i just dont know what i am going to do if he doesnt settle soon. I still dont know why he is whinging. Teeth? Frustration from not being able to walk yet? I dont know, but oh god i hope it ends soon!!

Well thats my whinge for the day. I think i deserve 1 after all the sooking he has done today!