Baby Woollam at 29 Weeks

Just a short little update ... we went for our 29 week scan this morning and our little Baby Woollam is doing sooooo great!  

It's not a very clear photo, but unfortunately the bigger they get, the less space there is and its more difficult to get a picture.  This is just our little babas face. 

Baby Woollam is weighing in at 1.6kgs and Dr. Graves said s/he is going to be a BIG baby.  Little Woollam will arrive on the 4th of September at about lunch time and we're sooo excited!  I'm already booked into the hospital and John and I are starting our anti-natal classes on the 6th of July.  

Have a GREAT week and we'll update again when we get back from Mauritius!

xxx

Weird, exciting and disappointment ...

Where do I start, we have had the coolest, weirdest and most exhausting few weeks EVER!

Firstly the weather has changed a LOT, it rains about 5 days a week and when I say rain ... I actually mean storm!  It's absolutely fantastic, John and I love this kind of weather, it just means lots of tea, our beautiful little fireplace, snuggling with our mittens and a nice blanky!  Nothing better!  

My little winter-boy!

It was also my dad's birthday on the 11th, so Baie geluk met Pa se verjaarsdag!  We unfortunately couldn't spend the day with my dad, but we went through to Hermanus the weekend after to wish him and to just have a bit of family-time, which was really nice.    

Just before going through to Hermanus, we went for breakfast with Garth, Bianca, Martin, Kelly and little Luca at Olympia in Kalk Bay.

The coolest little Luca at breakfast!

I haven't updated our blog in ages, due to me going back to work for 2 weeks.  I was complaining to Fran at my birthday, saying I'm so bored at home and would love to do something before the baby comes, so she phoned me the very next week and asked me to come help them in their offices at the Ambassador Hotel.  It was such a nice experience, I had the most BEAUTIFUL drive to work every morning, all the way past Hout Bay, through Camps Bay and Cliffton till I got to Bantry Bay.  With the beautiful 12 Apostles mountain on my right and the bluest ocean on my left.  You're just guaranteed to have a good day with a drive like that.  Then, to top it all off, my husband bought me the hottest wheels EVER.  I would like to introduce you guys to the newest addition to our family ... my super sexy black Jeep Cherokee Ltd!  

So last Saturday, the British and Irish Lions played the Springboks and we decided to have a Big Boerie Braai at our house with some friends.  It was such a nice day and we had some good fun!  Some photos to tell the tale ...

The crew singing the National Anthem before the game started

Even the smallest enjoying a piece of biltong ... little Luca

Lauren and Candy with me and my ever-growing-bump!

Candz, Rowan (after his big trip through Africa) and Lauren

My Big Boerie Braaier, Neil and I

We did have a sunny day, but it still gets really chilly at night ... Kels and her beautiful little Luca.

Everyone dishing up some Boerie Rolls!

Mattie & Candz watching the crazy peeps on the Guitar Hero

Marc & Lauren playing Guitar Hero

Rykie & Jacques (who first thought he was going to hate Sing Star and then proceeded to beat his wife at it) singing a duet!

Ohhh sooo much LLLove between Marc and Lauren

Rykie (22 weeks preggies) and I (28 weeks preggies), friends since the age of 6 and now we're preggers together!  Absolutely fantastic!

Mattie & Marc

John & Jacques

On Sunday, Marc, Lauren, John and I decided to park our car in Muizenberg and walk to Kalk Bay for breakfast.  It was such a nice walk along the water, we went to a little farmers organic market, we shopped in all the little Kalk Bay-like shops, had breakfast at Habaneros and ended our morning with a delicious ice cream while walking back to our car.  Its such a beautiful walk ... you gotta do it!

Lauren, Marc & John on the way to Kalk Bay

The train we wanted to take back, but decided not to.

Tussen treine, tussen stasies ... le daar basies ....

We put money on the train track and waited for the train to come by and crush it

The train ....

Marc holding our 50c and 5c crushed by the train

Our day today ended on a really scary and disappointing note.   John went to go watch the surfing competition at Kalk Bay and while he was getting into his car, a refuse truck came flying past and took his front door off the car.  Apart from a gash out of his leather boots, and his car being soooo damaged, he is fine, which is all that counts at the end of the day.  The refuse truck actually drove off and didn't stop, luckily John flagged down a police van and I started phoning around to find out who the truck belongs to.  The truck driver arrived at the police station and John got his case number.  So luckily it will be sorted out, but this is what John's car looks like.  He could've lost a leg!

Note how the door is being held up by tie-downs!

That's it from the Woollams ... till ... probably tomorrow!

XXX

Welcome to this beautiful world Jemima!

Yesterday morning at 10h30 Gary and Stacey Keizan became mommy and daddy to the most beautiful little Jemima Annabelle Keizan!

John and I would like to wish you guys the happiest life together filled with sooooo many wonderful memories and love!

We can't wait to meet her!

Only 83 days left to vote

Just a little reminder to vote on our Baby Woollam Poll, you only have 83 days left to vote and we absolutely LOVE seeing what our friends and family think.

So look on the right hand side of the blog and vote!

The joys and excitement of waiting to find out the sex!

A birthday, an exhibition and a GREAT weekend away

What an amazing week and to top it all off ... my birthday week!

The week started on high with seeing our precious little Baby Woollam again.  And ended with a hot shower after a beautifully cold weekend.

It was my 29th birthday on Thursday and I would just like to say thanks to all my amazing friends who called, mailed and sms'ed me the bestest wishes!  You guys absolutely rock my world!  I spent the day with Kelly, shopping and sipping hot chocolate at Vida!  And ended my day with my photography exhibition.  We were only 6 students and had our little exhibition on Thursday night to end off our course, unfortunately I left before everyone else and couldn't take my photos with me, but as soon as I collect them, I will post them.  My husband said that my photo was the best one there ... he might have been a little bias, but I still love him!  What an amazing course and for anyone who wants to know a little more about their cameras and have some really fun practical lessons, visit:  http://www.fforward.co.za/Fast_Forward/Welcome.html  and to top it all off, the photo of the door and the broken window ... IS MINE!!!!  

Friday night we went for a little birthday dinner with a few of our amazing friends.  We went to Bihari in Fish Hoek, the most amazing little Indian Restaurant with the most amazing curry!  Fish Hoek is a dry town, so no alcohol gets sold, but we took some wine, beer and champagne along to celebrate.   

Matt & Kirsty

Frannie & Candz

Matt (Candz husband) & Paul (Fran's fiance)

Bianca and Garth

Martin & Kelly

The craziness of deliciously hot curry!

Candz, Frannie & I

The group!

What an amazing evening!  Thank you so much for dinner and joining me on my birthday guys!  Love you always!

Saturday John and I got invited to a weekend away in Hawston.  A good friend Mike has a private nature reserve in Hawston, which is about 5 km's outside Hermanus.  The whole farm is totally "green" running on solar power, wind power and water supplied by the rain.  The guard dogs are good old faithful or should I say feared Ostriches.  All in all, the most beautiful place!  Totally peaceful and amazing to enjoy it with good and new friends.

Due to it being winter time, the solar power was obviously a little limited, the wind was so strong that the gas flame for the hot water kept on blowing out, so no hot water for the weekend.  The rain water has to last the whole year, which leads to only flushing the toilets once or twice a day.  They have a very clever plan on reusing all the water used, by standing in a bucket in the shower, to catch all the dirty water you wash off yourself, and then using that to flush the toilets with.  A few people jumped into the icy cold showers one of the mornings, but I opted to stay save and not tempt early labour with 0'degree water washing over my little bump. Not the norm for us city slickers, but it was so refreshing to see how much better we could be to our mother earth.  John and I are now totally aware of how we waste water, electricity and take the MANY luxuries we have grown up with and became dependent on for granted!

Saturday night we watched our South African Bulls totally eat the Chief for breakfast after their Super 14 win of 61-17  at a little pub in Onrus.  Afterwards we went back to the Italian Villa in the middle of the beautiful nature reserve to make homemade pizzas.  I'm not going to say much about the pizza, except ... what's homemade pizza without a flour fight?  Pictures tell all ...

Starting off calm with Candz chopping ingredients and the boys chatting ....

When it all went pear-shaped ... flour fight!

Candz & Mike (our amazing host)

Candz in ALL her glory!

The gang:  Mike, Candz, George, Sally, Darren & John

(please note ... no hot water for showering!!!)

Our fantastic pizza braai'er Mattie

The bestest dough roller and in good old Johnny fashion, loaded his pizza with soooo many toppings, that it was too heavy for the base and broke in the oven ... :(

Mike & Sally

John making a fire to heat the house

After dinner silliness with our own Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Mattie

Mike

The night took an interesting turn when John took a photo of me in action, but captured a weird shining light in the picture.  We were totally confused, but Candice quickly set us straight by explaining that it was the way angels gets captured in photos.  I've never seen anything like it and I'm sure there's a scientific explanation for it, but I was told that it's a angel looking over me and the baby ... now how can you not want to think something so beautiful.  I would love to believe that my guardian angel (who I've believed to have been there most of my life) is looking over me and my unborn baba!  The photo below:

The next morning I slept in while John, Candz and Matt had a private yoga session with George.  I woke up just in time to capture them finishing off.  What a way to start the morning!

We had our tea and decided to go for a walk in the nature reserve, which stretches for 5 km's next to the beach and all the way up into the Hermanus mountains.  Some photos of the beautiful setting:

John

The group!

After the walk, John and I took a drive to Hermanus to go visit my dad ... thinking that I was going to have a nice hot shower at my dad's, he told me that the Hermanus area's electricity has been off the entire day and night and I was out of luck of any hot water.  Not even a kettle to boil some.  So off John and I went to the petrol station to buy some take away coffee, we had a good afternoon just chilling with my pops!

 

And last but not least, the trusty guard dogs!

George, John and the Volstruis!

Thank you Mike, what an unforgettable weekend, with so much beauty.  

With all our love ....

The Woollams!