My baby is going to be one of the most photographed baby’s that I know of.  I already have nearly 200 so far.  And I finally got my Backdrop set up.  Now I am looking at getting some studio lighting stuff (small time stuff) to enhance my practice.  I am going to get a little sheepskin rug as well for the portrait photo’s.

And then in a couple of months time,  I will try and get some personal tutoring.  I definitely want to go down the route of portrait photography for a small business of my own.  It’s something I enjoy very much and will bring smiles to others for years to come,  everytime they look at the pictures (as I get now with mine).  I have come across other peoples blog’s on wordpress,  who do their own portrait photography and they leave me green with envy.  I don’t want Summer to grow up just yet,  but at the same time I cannot wait until she is sitting up and smilling properly and noticing everything so I can take some gorgeous shots of her.

Today we bought a printer for photo’s only.  In the end it will only cost us $100 as we get $100 cashback on it.  And we can get the inks and photo paper online at cheap prices!  I am not going to do all of my printing on it,  but every now and then I will,  as it’s going to be hard to just pop to a shopping centre to sit for hours on their printer thingy’s to crop and edit all the pic’s instore,   when you have a little one in tow. I love looking at my photo’s and so it’s worth it to me to do it at home sometimes.

Here’s one of the latest of Summer….recognise the outfit Dee?

Wow.  What a day!

It began with getting up really really tired from all the night/early morning feeds and getting Summer and I ready for our appointment at 10:30am at the hospital.  To sitting there for 2 HOURS,  only to spend a measly 6 minutes or so with the Gyno!  I can tell you this much,  I am NOT in a hurry to ever take my fat ass back there!  It wasn’t fair on Summer to have to be there for that long,  let alone me.  Then we finally got home at about 1pm and I gave Summer another small feed and then tried to have some food for the first time since yesterday and for both of us to have a bit of a nap.  Well she got a teeny weeny nap,  I got nil.  Then Rick came home.

Then we had to pack the nappy bag and Summer back into the car for our visit to the GP for all 3 of us.  Rick had an earache,  I needed a script and Summer had her 2 month vaccinations done.  And,  well….anyone who has children know that babys and needles do not make for happy campers.  Then we popped round to the MIL’s as they lived just up the road from the doctors we were at and Summer had a feed there.  Then we had to pop round to the supermarket to pick up some chicken for dinner.  So all in all it has been a MASSIVE day for her and I.  And since coming home,  she has been very very fussy.

All I can say is,  who can blame her??  She’s hardly had any decent sleep and her feeding hasn’t been so smooth either.  So now it is just after 9:30pm and I have finally just got her down to sleep,  after much crying and sooking and feeding attempts and hugs and playtime etc.  I think she was overtired.  So I am not in any hurry to put her through a day like that again!  Poor little chickaloo.

Our little cutie pie baby Summer turned 2 months old last night!

Wow time is flying by at the blink of an eye and it’s scary.  Summer is smiling more and more each day and is getting very vocal.  I love being with her even more,  because with her smiles and giggles she is communicating with us and it’s so fun and exciting!  Tomorrow afternoon we take her in to get her 2 month vaccinations.  I am not looking forward to it,  but it’s got to be done.

She is our cutie patootie

and for nothing. Sigh…as any mother with a baby will know, it’s hard to take your baby out anywhere and expect it to go smoothly. Well I took Summer today to my appointment at the hospital and she was FANTASTIC! BUT……..we went all that way and through all that effort for nothing. I get there and was told that the doctor was out on call and I could wait if I wanted to, but it may take a couple of hours or more. Or I could book another appointment. So I opted for another appointment. But I’m thinking on my way home ‘couldn’t they have flippin’ well called me to tell me that first?!’ before I trawled my baby all the way there?! Arghhhh! So now I have to faff on doing it all over again next Friday. And those of you who know me and my experience at that place, know that I would rather hand over my legs than to have to keep going back to that nightmare.

Who in their right mind would wait around that long with a baby anyway?? Where lots of sick people are?? idiot heads.

Well Summer isn’t even 2 months old yet and already she has more clothes than I do!! (yeah I know, hard to believe eh?) Most have been bought for her by other family members or friends. I have bought some, but not as many as I would have liked too. But I guess I have the rest of her life to do so Here is a peek into her wardrobe….

If that wasn’t enough, last night I received 2 more lots of clothes presents for her, from MIL and a friend…..

Even tho it can be annoying, I have to admit, I love it when Summer falls asleep in my arms or nuzzled in my neck/shoulder during a feed. The only reason it can be annoying is because it’s feed time and she should be eating not falling asleep. But she is so gorgeous when she is sleeping. If I could spare my arm, I would let her sleep in it all the time. But of course I can’t spare an arm so I have to put her to bed. She is starting to get to that point where, when she is crying, just me picking her up and holding her calms her right down. She was doing that last night whilst I was trying to cook the dinner.

I love her I love her I love her and I want to eat her all up!!

Oh and I took her for her appointment today at the Hospital and all is well Yay! *I knew it was tho*

Yes that is me to a T right now.
As it is for all mums with newborns.
My little Ted is spending a lot more time awake nowadays and she is quite alert. She would sleep most times in my arms if I could afford to spare them, but of course there is always so much to ‘be done’. Right now she is in my right arm whilst I type with my left.

Finding somewhere dark around here for her to sleep at is really hard, as we don’t really have anyplace that has curtains to make the room dark enough. But I am getting by. I took her to do the weekly shop today and she was a little gem and slept through most of it and didn’t cry or fuss. I have to try n get some photo’s in of her this week, but I have heaps to do and 2 appointments at the Hospital (sigh) this week. And I should prob get myself off to a doctor to collect that pill

I don’t have much else to report on….Summer is growing well and doing well and making more and more little cooing noises everyday. I love her to little bits n pieces. And want to squish her all day…but alas I am soo tired…

I have decided that one thing I want to most definitely pursue this year is photography. Mainly Portraiture to begin with. I may one day still do something in the psychology field. But for now I am going to pursue something a little bit more fun. I have the perfect subject for much practice (Baby Summer) and I get a lot of joy out of a good picture, especially if it’s one I have taken myself.

I am going to go to some professional courses in natural lighting portraiture photography first and then maybe some studio lighting etc. And I might pop in a couple of one on one tutoring also. Just to define my knowledge/skills. Until then I will just continue how I am.

Tomorrow morning we will have some visitors popping around to meet our baby Summer. I am looking forward to that. I enjoy showing her off as I am so proud of her and that she is all mine (oh and a little bit of Rick’s too hee hee). But…..the house…..oh the house!! Well it’s not disgusting. But it’s certainly not clean enough to eat your dinner off the floor.

I have cleaned the kitchen and done all the dishes, will have more to do after dinner of course, but the floors….!!!! Oh they’re bad!! I just have no energy right now to pick up a damned backpack vacuum cleaner and spend 40 mins vacuuming and then to have to pick up a mop and spend another 20-30 mopping up, only to have my floors look like they were never cleaned anyway.

Don’t get me wrong. Since I have brought bugaboo home, they have been done. But not nearly as much as they were before I gave birth. I hate having a messy home. But in the morning I will assign Rick to do some chores and then I will do what I can. It has to be done. I am just not in a routine yet and establishing one (with not enough sleep) is too hard right now. Maybe sometime in the near future I will have one set??….

We finally got our Gerber Baby bottles today!! And they are exactly like the Avent ones too!
Except they are BPA free of course. And the cap bits that the teats go into are coloured. We have blue, green and purple. And yes, if I could have had all purple I would have. But I can’t They unfortunately are not as easy to measure for either, as the mls are in big gaps (i.e - 150 then something like 170 to 200 with no lines in between for accurate measurements), so it will make it quite hard when we go to 185mls. But we will get by. They all round are better bottles than the ones we had prior. Tho I would have had any given that they were BPA free!

I would like to eat now…but bubby is being fickle and doesn’t know if she wants to sleep or play or what???