Well actually I should probably make that we had a great sunday! Saturday was crazy hot here in Brisbane and it turns out the fantastic 6 foot fences that I love about this house also help stop any slight breeze coming into my house, gosh it was boiling. We went grocery shopping in the afternoon just to get out of the house before we melted.

Sunday was fun! We went down to visit some friends and meet their newborn son Baxter. Absolutely adorable! Oh, and a sleeper, oh that is my dream, he slept basically the whole time I was there! But dont worry, I still got my cuddle time in! Ciatlin was funny with him, she utterly ignored him for ages and then when Daniel picked him up she came over for a sticky beak and ended up gently patting him. It was funny to watch her pat him, seriously the way she pats the cat, but much more gentle!

It was great to see them, they have adapted to parenthood so well it was fantastic to see them as a beautiful little family!

On the way home we stopped off to see my brother as I realised I havent seen my nephew since our honeymoon which was in October! Crazy! He is so cute! AS different to caitlin as night and day, she is plump and dark hair and eyes and he is quite thin with blond hair and beautiful blue eyes. We also borrowed their bassinette, it is a fantastic cane one and is quite large! So that is one less thing to think about too.

I had a ball there, the kids are partners in crime so they cruised around her house together, I got to chat with Catherine about their upcoming wedding, which is in August! Woo HOO! She showed me the bridesmaids dress, a beautiful chocolate brown strapless number, so upset I had to say no, but its just to close to my due date. It is so relaxing becuase although they are so near the gold coast they are still in the hills with all the bush and it is lovely!

Anyways, we had a ball, got home late and Caitlin stayed awake the whole time in the car! I was so surprised, but she was covered in sand so I didnt really want her to go to sleep as she had to have a shower!

A great time was had by all!

Ok, well it has been awhile since my last blog (confession? Oh dear, i have been watching way to much TV!) But we are having internet problems blah blah blah.

Well alot has been happening in the life of Nikki. First thing is that my bestest favourite friend lost a baby. She went for a dating scan and was told that she had had a miscarrage. Alot of sadness and grief. She had a blood test which must have shown elevated hormone levels so she was booked into another scan a week later. She had given up hope, but I was so absolutely convinced that everything will be ok, that I started to convince her, she went back to taking the vitamins, only to find out later that it was all over and had to have it removed at the hospital the next day. Obviously being pregnant myself, a good friend and a mother myself I grieved with her. I feel so awful for getting her hopes up, but I was so very sure it would turn out to be just like it was with me. My scan was out by about 2 weeks to the date the doctor estimated and everything turned out fine for me, the embryo just took ages to implant itself or something. I got her hopes up, and another friend at mothers group who she told had a similar thing with her baby. I feel so guilty, I dont know what I was thinking, I didnt want her to give up hope, but really, a doctor does have the medical qualifications to back them up. So it was a long and difficult 2 weeks for her and her family. She is actually doing very well now though. Taking solice in her beautiful son and they are planning to try again at the end of the year.

Back to me, I had a random growth cut of my back which turned out to be rather bad. Malignant cancer. It actually started out as a sweat glad, how gross is that! When I was pregnant with Caitlin I had a pimple looking thing which grew and grew and was removed after I had her and turned out to be cancerous, but not bad. So when this random lump thing I have had on the back of my neck started to multiply I showed the doc who had never seen anything like it, luckily she removed it becuase of the last one so there is nothing to worry about now, jsut have to keep my eye on the scar to ensure that nothing grows out of it basically. Has anyone heard of that before? Pregnancy causing cancerous things to grow so quickly?

Caitlin is doing great. She is getting to be such a big girl, teething again the poor darling, she is such a bad teether, she is in so much pain and it is so hard to watch, and put up with her! Honestly, she is a little terror sometimes! But so beautiful she usually gets away with it! Cheeky pants she is too, she doesnt have many words but boy does she understand alot! Not that she does what she is told most of the time mind you, but she understands none-the-less!

Guppy is growing pretty quickly too! I am definately pregnant now, I hardly showed till about 6 months with Caitlin so it is scary being that big already, hopefully I dont have a 10 tonne tessa! I am going for my 20 week scan at the start of March, cant wait, fingers crossed we find out what it is!  I will post some pics of Caitlin and my growing belly when I can be bothered to wait 600 years for them to upload.

Anyways, this is a massively long blog for me. So it should tide you over for a little while! LOL! I cant wait till we sort out the computer and I am back on track with Minti, I am missing even more than I usually miss! LOL!

 Hi guys! Just a quicky to say that yes we are still alive! the move went fantastically, I am so in love with our new house! We are basically unpacked, whats not is hiding in the garage with the door closed so I can consider myself fully unpacked!

We are having some trouble with the computer at the moment, we had to switch to wireless broadband and we cant seem to find a good spot for it and we are running on slower than dial up and I dont have the patience to deal with it so I am just not computing much at the moment!

So things are good, I got the random growth cut off my back and it doesnt look to be cancerous so thats good, baby is going well, will have 20 week ultrasound soon, so excited! Caitlin loves it here and is currently outside patting my cat who is desperately trying to find a place to hide! Ah bliss!

Will catch up with you all later!