Mia went to Tesselarrs Tulip Festival with her friends Cooper and Chelsea. They had a great time tip-toing through the tulips and playing in the fairy garden. Mia thinks she saw a fairy in a flower!

Theo just loves his baths. He has two teeth and is crawling all over the place. Today he tipped out Molly's water onto the kitchen floor, and also worked out how to get the lid off his talc and puffed it in his face!

Look at Theo, proud as punch to be sitting up playing with his toys! He loves this little telephone, and the spinning tops too!

Mia is desparate for the weather to get warm so she can wear some of the lovely summer clothes she got for her birthday! In the interim, leggings and long tops to be worn underneath!

ALREADY THREE!

Can you believe our little girl is THREE tomorrow! And doesn't she look beautiful. She is growing up so fast and I don't know where the years have gone.

Heart Check

Once again, Mia has passed her heart check with flying colours! Her cardiologist said her ultrasound pictures looked great. Still looking at 4 or 4.5 for the next op, the limiting factor being we need to beef her up.
Other than that, the terrible twos have appeared just before the third birthday and have come with avengence! Interesting time in our house right now.
Theo is georgous, developing beautifully. Never stops babbling, mum-mum dad-dad and nan-nan. Squeels with laughter when his sister giggles with him.

Does Dorothy like Sweet Potato?

This is Mia, or is it Dorothy the Dinosaur? Who could tell. We had great fun at the Wiggles concert last week and it has given Mia a new love of the fab four, recently forgotten and replaced by Hi5 (much to my distress). Mia also loves ballerinas, dancing, dressing up as a fairy (or is it a ballerina?) and going to music and movement classes. She is very cute.

Theo has discovered the joys of smearing himself with food, which ENSURES a bath at the end of the meal, which he loves. Here, sweet potato and pumpkin, strategically aimed at the mouth (but not always successfully!!)

Mia and Theo have a great time toghether playing on the floor now! Theo is rolling all over the place and gets annoyed if Mia is in his way!

Madam, next to the piano. I have bought a pre-reader piano lesson book which is really as much to teach me HOW to teach her to play, as it is to teach her to play!!!! (did that make sense?) We had our first music class yesterday and she loved it.

Easter

A wonderful easter holiday at Lake Eildon. Both Mia and Theo had a ball. Mia shown above, was well serviced by the Easter Bunny. Theo, not so well taken care of in the way of chocolate, excelled in his bottle taking and is now having 4 bottles and 3 breast feeds a day. We are very relieved that he has moved on from his pathetic effort of 30mls per bottle, once a day.

Although we didn't get out on the water, Mia made sure she was prepared, and did lots of playing in the boat on dry land. Maybee next trip we will get to take her out.

Hope everyone had a really great easter!

New Bike Helmet

Mia has a new bike helmet, the other one has gone missing. She picked a Dora one and is very proud. She has spent the morning zooming around the deck on her trike with Dora on her head. She weighs 10kg!!!!!!!!! Although Theo, at 6.2kg is catching up fast. We are taking bets as to at what age he will overtake her.


Theo is beautiful.... doing better sleeping overnight and accepting his bottle more too, although we are still only giving him one a day. Sometimes he has 20ml, others 80-100ml. He is SO allert, smiling, giggling, wanting to see and be a part of whatever is going on.

Will try to do better with blogging...

Christmas over for another year

Christmas is over for another year and we are all exhausted! Please excuse the S..... quality of the nativity scene! Mia is an angel, Theo baby Jesus in the bassinette and you may recognise a few other faces is the crowded stable that night! Mary, not a family member, was quite obviously bored by the whole thing! Childrens service at Holy Trinity, Kew, Christmas Eve.

Mum, stop dressing me up like a doll! First Christmas suit proudly sponsered by Aunty Meaghan..... surprise surprise... but doesn't he look cute, even if he doesn't appreciate it!

Happy new year to everyone. Will try to keep going with the updates when I remember to take photos or if something exciting happens!
Cheers

My Little Brother Theo

Sorry it has taken so long to update. However with Lyndall in hospital i have not been able to work with the technology. However, here goes.

Theo Charles Napier Cowley (Teddy Chucky Nip Cowley) was born at 2.08pm on Monday the 3rd of December. He was a healthy 8 pounds and 2 ounces. Lyndall and him are both doing well and apparently all things that need to be working are. Mia has been extremely loving and caring towards her little brother but we will see what happens tomorrow when we actually take him home with us. Below are a few pictures.

Mummy's Ouch

Hi All, quick update on Bub,
Everything going very well with the baby, growing exceptionally well (I thought that was a nice was of saying I am huge!) and is obviously going to be some sort of athlete. Unfortunately I have not been so well, in hospital over the weekend with a broken rib from sneezing! Not usually neccessary of course, but because I cant take the usual suspects of analgesia, I had to have some harder stuff. Still sore and sorry, but coping with the pain and discomfort. We were on the maternity ward which gave us a chance to show Mia the little babies and for her to see what life may be like with Mum in hospital very soon. Staying at Mums for some help while Rich working in Perth this week.
NEW LOOK BLOG...... will it be pink or will it change to blue? Not long to go now.......

Daddy's Birthday Cake

Today I cooked a yummy Chocolate Cake for Daddy's Birthday. I really like licking the bowl. Dad is getting really old. Mum sayes her baby kicks her non-stop and she is ready for it to come out now. I don't want the baby to have my cot. Or my bedroom. I get a bit grumpy when we have to talk about 'when the baby comes'!! I am more exited about this Santa guy that is going to bring me presents soon.

Birthday Girl

Such a beautiful birthday girl, I'm sure you will all agree. We had a really busy weekend and are all exhausted! Mia had a ball, loved opening her presents. Gave us an indication of what is to come this Christmas, now she has a bit more of an idea of how things work and what they mean! She thinks all presents she sees are for hew now, but all perfectly normal i'm sure. She alternates each day between saying her new baby is a brother or sister, but the name is constant, Meow. Hmmmmmmm.

Mum's Baby

This is the baby in Mummy's tummy. It is 19 weeks old now, half way there! (pretty much, anyway). The doctor who looked at the pictures was really happy that everything looked really good, aspecially the heart, so Mummy and Daddy are REALLY happy that things are going well.

BIG BED

Mia has moved into her new bed, a big bed! She is good going to sleep mostly, but we are having a few problems since she was sick the other week adn became partial to Mum and Dad's bed again! She hasn't quite worked out how to stay down the business end of the bed, but was quite cute the morning I found her asleep, but nearly off the end!! She loves lying in bed reading books before sleep time.

Fashion Queen

Can you tell Mia dressed herself? And very proud shi is too. She didn't stay like that for long mind you, I didn't cope very well. Mia is lovely at the moment.... talking non-stop, playing with puzzles, money box. Unfortunately not sleeping well at night again, the never ending cycle. She plays with her 'baby' doll and lloks after her most of the time. I have to explain however, that you don't carry babies by only one of their hands. She will get it eventually and we are expecting her to be a very helpfull big sister!

Cardiology went really well last week, they were happy with her heart and general condition. Don't need to go back for another 6 months!

Cheers

Mia has some news!

Hi All,

Mia is looking so happy because she has some exciting news! She is very proud to announce that she is going to be a big sister in December. So far all is going well and she loves patting Mummy's tummy and kissing it too.

She has a cardiology visit on Friday and we will let you know how that goes.

Cheers,

Mum and Dad to be....

21 TODAY!!!

Hello All, can you believe that our little angel is 21 months old today!!! My apologies for not having blogged for a while, things have been really crazy around here. As you can see, Mia is just adorable, if I do say so myself. She spends a lot of time drawing and explaining her pictures to us. More often than not, the moon. Lucky she tells us. She has also taken to drawing on the walls and anything else she can get her pencil or crayon onto. Hew speach is delightfull, naming the wiggles, talking about the mmon and the sun, only a few sentences as yet, but a manificent array of words and names for friends and family.
Sleeping is currently a nightmare, but we are working on that. Amazing what a few late nights of birthdays and other celebrations can do to a good sleep routine. Better go.... things ar awfully quiet out there! Will try to blog more regularly to let you all know how Mia is doing.
Cheers!

Easter Hats

Mia and Austin made easter hats and don't they look great! Mia is also very proud of her Dorothy the Dinasaur skirt. On Palm Sunday she went to church with Grandma and Guppy and waved Palm branches around the donkey. She had a great time. She is a real little miss. Not eating much and asserting herself to the fullest!

Health wise, she is doing really well. Not putting on any weight, but she has had a nasty tummy bug for over a week. She is happy for most of the time, especially if she is getting her own way!

THE ZOO

Hi All,

Mia has had her first trip to the Melbourne Zoo. She had such a lot of fun, she was really interested in all the animals. Mind you, the most excited response came from her when she noticed Dorothy the Dinosaur on some Kids backpack!! She only lasted a few hours and was pooped.

As you can see, she is doing really well. Walking all over the place, getting steadier every day. At 19 months she still hasn't managed to reach the 8kg mark (who would have thought, looking at her parents?!?!) but doesn't llok too different from her friends.

Will try to update more regularly than I have been!

Cheers