My Newest Favourite Thing!

I found these dolls online. They are called Language Littles, bilingual dolls, and they come in a range of languages: Spanish, French, Mandarin, Japanese, German, Russian, Greek and Hebrew! They are of course expensive as everything seems to be, but I love them. They do greetings, numbers, colours, days of the week etc They also have dolls in both genders so you can get one to correspond with your child's gender.

My favourite brands thus far

I love My Vintage Baby, Kate Mack (for bathers and coats), Catimini, Baby Lulu, Baby Nay, Bebe, Biscotti, Zeze & Ashley and Austin. I have found some pretty good bargains through ebay, but I have to stop buying things because we don't know what gender our baby will be and it is hard to find anything that is outstanding style-wise and unisex!

If Only I Was Rich...

I thought while I was going through favourite things I would add the ones I don't have. These are the things I would buy for pure indulgence or if I had oodles of money :)

1. Strawberry Shortcake Dress by Biscotti. These dresses are ridiculously expensive considering how quickly they grow out of them, but I love it. If we have a girl I don't think I will be able to help dressing her all girly. Then she will no doubt grow into a tomboy as a rebellion.

2. Short sleeve romper. I can't remember who makes this, but ifwe have a boy, its something I think I would dress him in. I get a bit disappointed with the lack of interesting boys clothing I see, but if we have a boy I will just have to work harder to find clothes that have style!

3. Old World Roses Bubble Romper by My VIntage Baby. I LOVE THIS!! It is way too expensive, but it is exactly what I would dress my baby in if she were a girl. I love bubble rompers in general and hope I see this on sale one day.

4. Mozart Magic Cube. I know you don't need heaps of toys with a baby, but the ones I do have I would like to be educational or interesting. This cube has different instruments on each side of the cube and depending on the combination that is pressed, it plays an orchestra like piece using the instruments selected...in Mozart of course, for optimal brain development and relaxation.

5. Grobag. I love the one with polka dots and if it weren't for the ridiculous price I would run out and get one right now. Grobag also make a thermometer that changes colour which is also cool, but completely unessesary (we will probably use a thermometer from Bunnings).

Raindrops on Roses...

I thought I would put up a few pictures of some of my favourite baby things that I have bought (yes we are preparing early/gradually).

1. The first is a blanket from IKEA. I it is amazingly rare to find bright colours in gender neutral colours!

2. A baby romper I had imported from the USA. I love the idea of our baby dressed as Dr Seuss and we got a basket of stuff that also had a blanket, 2 other short sleeved rompers, a bib and an ABC book.

3. Our attempt at environmentally friendly baby raising! We have decided to try to use cloth nappies so we have a whole heap of Bum Genius nappies and we will be using them as soon as we get home from the hospital.

4. Kanga from Winnie the Pooh. I am not a baby animal type of person, but I have an exception and that is classic pooh. I have a baby mobile and also got Kanga because we want to try to give our baby at least a good percentage of toys that are Australian in nature. We are also looking to avoid toys that have a strong American accent in them..we are not American.

5. Mini cargo pants. I thought they were great. I made sure that the fabric was soft so it wouldn't be uncomfortable and they will look great with a white or black singlet! The only problem is no snaps, but for going out they are cool.

I have reassessed by shopping for baby clothes thinking: I now feel the fabric FROM THE INSIDE to make sure the baby will like the feel, then make sure it is reasonably practical to get on and off, then make sure that the baby will have style and not look like all the other babies out there. I am constantly on the lookout for interesting clothing.

19 Weeks

I forgot to do 18 weeks, but not too much happened except that on ANZAC day I felt our baby move for the first time. We were watching Australia the movie and at the climax when the music got very moving, I felt two little movements like someone was saluting...very patriotic baby!

Still having some muscle pain in my lower back particularly now that I am back at Uni sitting still for hours on end. I had the urge to lie down in the lecture theatre the other day and put my legs up on the seats :) I am OK, but when I stay in the same position, I start to get restless and then when I try to move I look like an old man getting going. I totter around then work my way back to normal..off I go. Current weight: 54.3kg.