I won’t lie, I’m incredibly ecstatic to hear/see my friend’s babies reach their milestones – see them play, watch them feed themselves and have the adorable conversations with them about everything a 2 year old loves. But when I’m alone and it’s quiet, I dream about what it be like if Jovie was doing all those things too.
If we flash back to December 2008, when my sister had come with me to my 18 week scan at the hospital. Finding out that I was expecting a girl was without a doubt one of the most memorable moments of my life. Just as we had left the sonographer’s room and made our way down the hall, I stopped my sister and jumped and giggled with so much excitement – I was going to have a girl!! Don’t get me wrong, finding out we were expecting a boy when I was pregnant with Jasper was also an amazing time, but knowing that it’s my last pregnancy – a baby girl (and a pigeon pair of kids) was a beautiful gift to be given.
I was jumping up and down for all the pretend tea parties, jumping up and down for the arguments about cell phones & boys, jumping up and down for her wedding day & babies & living all her dreams.
Today, dreams are much simpler and honest. Just some first words would be awesome. A ‘mumma’ or a ‘yes’. A ‘hello’ or ‘happy’.
I’m thankful that Jovie’s eyes tell me more and more lately, but I’m fighting for those first words and won’t give up.
What do you dream about?
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I’m giving the sh1ft photographics projects site more attention lately – and for November 2011 we’re playing 26 Things again 🙂
There’s a twist this month – instead of a full list of 26 Things to find & photograph, there’s 13 items that you need to photograph twice. You can either photograph the same thing twice but differently, or completely different things altogether.
Check out the full list here
I had such a great week with my family – so much was going on
Monday – Halloween
Tuesday – My mum’s 60th birthday
Wednesday – Jasper’s 4th birthday & a sea creature show at his school
Thursday – Playgroup with Jovie
Friday – Another Playgroup with Jovie
Saturday – Meet up with friends and we tried to make the Santa parade but missed it by 30 mins..
Sunday – Mum & Jasper’s joint birthday lunch
Not to mention the cake baking I did this week… Total failure on Thursday night (the ones I mention in my blog post below…) and then I made a Nutella Mousse Tart and another batch of cupcakes/cake for Jasper on Saturday night/Sunday morning.
Jasper had said he wanted a train cake for MONTHS but then decided I was going to make him a Solar System cake. YEP. How did I do?
Thank goodness for no allergies this time around! I had alot of fun icing the mini cakes and cupcakes – can you spot the Sun, Earth, Moon, Mars, Jupiter amongst the other random designs? The big blue one is Rigel, how many of you know what that is?? I still don’t.
It’s Monday morning again and I’m exhausted. Jasper’s cough has teamed up with a runny nose, and have made it’s way over to me now so I’m trying to relax a bit before it gets any worse.. Jovie has been randomly SCREAMING and crying these past few days which is really hard to cope with but we always find a way. Most times if I just put her in her pram (so she’s strapped in somewhere), sit with her and be calm, pull funny faces and sing silly songs she calms down too.. There’s nothing I wouldn’t do… but I know as she gets older and bigger, it will get more violent unless we can teach her to communicate more clearly.
So it’s time to get a wriggle on and get this week started.. make sure you check out Dani’s Boob Job blog post, read about what Kelle loves right now and celebrate Kate’s daughter’s 1st birthday.
