Congrats and *hugs* for my little sister Hayley (well, 24, not that little), and her newborn baby boy Caden Nicholas Chapman, born by c-s yesterday evening. Weighed in at 10 pounds 1 oz, just a couple of ounces heavier than Alannah when she was born. Still, the biggest born yet of the grandchildren, he'll probably give Ash a run for his money for toughness! LOL. Will be visiting Adelaide over the weekend, so will have photos to post next week. In the meantime I edited a photo of Hayley pregnant, which mum took.
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went to Ruby's to see The Audreys last night, which was just fantastic. The support act, Liam Gerner, was - bizarrely - from Mt Barker, my hometown (and where my folks and Hayley live). So I bought his EP, and he is quite good actually, both singing and songwriting. Trippy though, the coincidence of it.
The Audreys themselves were so cool, all groovy folky, full of character. I am way tired, though, as Sienna had a bad dream or something and was in our bed for the entire 6 hours that I attempted to sleep. Then she woke up with a raging temperature, all miserable and clingy. So I am a bit out of it today. Enjoy the pics :)
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eading off to Adelaide on Friday night - well, partway to Reedy Creek and then on to the Adelaide Hills on Saturday. My sister is hopefully having her baby, a little boy Caden Nicholas, today or tomorrow. It will be nice to catch up with everyone, give mum and dad their anniversary gift from us all, and photograph my new nephew :)
I did another Bam Pop page, this time for SAM's Elsie Challenges, you can see it here.
Took a few shots of the kids today, not many, here are the faves. Am having a 'bleh' kind of day. Did so much cleaning on Sunday and Monday, but the house looks messy as always. What is that quote about cleaning while kids are growing up being basically pointless? And I hate cleaning in the first place.
It is also too hot for us to go outside, though I wouldn't mind working more on the garden. Except my ant bites on my right ankle from Sunday morning are all inflamed and irritated. The other ankle, which I twisted on Saturday morning in the garden, seems to be improving. The right knee is still black and purple from the fall, though.
I'm going to play some more with paint and stuff, see if that motivates me. If not, I can always fold washing :P
This morning there was a dragonfly on the bathroom mat. The cats must have brought it inside, and so we thought it was dead. When I went to pick it up, it turned out it was alive still. I placed it on the window latch and took a few photos as it regained it's strength. It was really interesting to watch it vibrating it's wings gradually faster and faster until finally it shot off into the sky.
I did this layout at Friday night's scrap 'n' chat with my new BAM POP papers and die cuts. It was really cute and fun! I have loads more new papers to play with, but unfortunately have run out of clean canvases. I might print off some photos and do scrapbooking instead.
We are safe home from our interstate travels, and even still sane after the 10 hour drive home. No, it doesn't actually take 10 hours to get to Adelaide, it takes 8. But with a 3 year old on board only 2 hours of breaks for food and play is doing quite well actually. Seriously, the kids were actually really good on the drive. I think they're getting used to it ;)
