Our photo shoot!!!

As a pressie from Rykie & Jacques for our baby shower, we received a voucher to go for a big belly photo shoot.

What an amazing experience and an amazing record of this wonderful time in our lives!

Our photos were taken by Estie Thirion and I would highly recommend her, she's absolutely AMAZING. She made us feel so comfortable and we absolutely LOVE the photos.

I will update the blog with photos as soon as I receive them from her, but for now, you can go view our wall of fame on her blog on the following link:

http://estiethirionphotography.blogspot.com/2009/08/first-comes-love-then-comes-marrage.html

Thank you so much Rykie and Jacques, what a wonderful gift!

1 Week to go!!!

We only have 1 week to go, so put in those votes!!! Do you think this little Woollam will be a little princess or prince?

We're soooo excited ... feels like Christmas in September!!!!

Rykie's Baby Shower at Kirstenbosch

I had the pleasure to organise one of my best friends baby showers this weekend. Rykie and I have been friends since the age of 6 and about 23 years ago, our parents had a really hard time getting us to do anything but play with our dollies ... now 23 years later, here we are again, both happily married and VERY pregnant about to play with our "dollies" again!

The baby shower was a picnic at Kirstenbosch Gardens, which was the perfect setting on the most amazing day ever! With rainy weather all week last week, our nerves were shattered and with constant forecast checking and a whole lot of praying, we got the most amazing day!

The day started with setting up and then relaxing, eating a healthy apple!

Rykie & I

I had a few things planned. Firstly, everyone had to come either dressed in Pink ... if you thought it was a girl, or Blue ... if you leaning towards boy! Check out all the men in Blue!!! :) The second thing: Everyone had to put a baby photo of themselves on the gifts so Rykie & Jacques could guess who the gift was from.

Then Thirdly ... I printed 11 baby related questions, which Rykie & Jacques had to answer, the one with the least amount of correct answers got the punishment ... which was ...

Eating and drinking out of the potty!

Trying to figure out the answers to the questions. They both ended up with 2.5 correct answers, which meant ... they shared the punishment! I have that on video, but couldn't load it ... was just to big!

Rykie & Jacques opening their pressies, guessing the baby photies!

Jacques in hysterics laughing at someone's baby photo.

The beautiful setting with delicious picnic baskets and a lot of people very excited to meet the little Jonck baby!

Marili, Rykie & I, all 3 of us friends since baby days.

A little closer!

The happy parents ... only a few more weeks to go!

Guys, we're so excited for you and we're so blessed to be going through the exact same process with you guys ... we can't wait to meet your little baba and have a beautiful little friend for our baby Woollam.

Love you guys, and Rykie ... happy birthday for today my special friend!

All our love ...

The Woollams

xXx

Counting down ... 10 days to go!!!

So we went for our last anti-natal visit today before the BIG day!

Baby Woollam was playing along and we got a few pretty pictures of the cutest face this mommy and daddy has EVER seen! With only 10 days to go, as you can probably imagine, there is not a lot of space to grow or move around, so in the last week, our little baba has picked up a whopping 100g, which is much less than the 500g in previous weeks. So at the moment, I'm carrying a 3.8kg baby and can most definately feel that it's getting bigger and more snug by the day!

Look at the bottom right hand corner and see the cutest little chubby cheek baby EVER!

Another photo of the little face bottom right hand corner ... with a little hand below!

Is it possible to love someone this much without ever meeting them?

Baby Woollam Update with 17 days to go!

So had our now, weekly check-up this morning and had some really surprising news ... Baby Woollam is going to be a HUGE baby. My doctors words exactly: You're creating a monster! After my last check-up 2 weeks ago, this little baba has picked up a whopping 1kg!!!! This little baba is now weighing in at 3.7kgs and we still have 2 weeks to go! I've also been advised by the doctor that going the c-section way is most definitely the better option, 'cause the little body is already at Full Term! Definitely some good Woollam-Vogt mixed genes in there!

I've had a few people asking me for photos of our little Nursery, so here goes:

The feeding chair with a beautiful white furry throw that John bought me!

Our little baba's crib that will be moved to our bedroom for the first few weeks.

The cot with mozzie net.

Inside the cozy little cot, with all Baba Woollam's first fluffy toys!

The baba bath, nappy bag and little hooded towel.

Changing top of the compactum with the beautiful pictures Katinka painted for our precious little Woollam.

Full view of the compactum.

The back of the door with all pics of mommy and daddy as babas, from the baby shower.

Mommy's hospital bag on the right and Baba's bag on the left. My very super stylish couture nappy bag that John bought me for our 2nd Anniversary in New York. Such a fancy baba!

Other than that our baby is doing fantastically, hiccuping almost every single day and moving constantly, making mommy totally aware that he/she is still in there and loving us! We're soooo excited and can't wait to meet this little puppet and introduce him/her to our beautiful family and friends!

Heff turned 30 this last weekend ...

It has taken me a few days to actually come back to reality, go through the pictures and appreciate what an awesome party we had this last Saturday. Although John and I are completely mentally and emotionally drained, we will remember the Playboy Party FOREVER! What fun!

The party was once again held at the Stonehurst Mountain Estate, which we started decorating early the morning already. Some of the people joined us for the rugby at Stonehurst, another ass kicking from the Springboks. Go Bokke! The party officially started at 19:00 for 19:30 and what a wonderful pleasure when we saw every single person made SUCH an effort with dressing up to the theme! What a fantastic theme! Look at how breathtaking our friends and family looked ....

Candz, Kirsty, myself and Sally the blow-up!

Ken, Debbie, Paul and Rose (John's family)

Rykie & Jacques, Rykie also won the best dressed girl. A real nurse in a real nurses outfit, tailored for a preggie belly!

Grant and the Birthday Boy. Those pants did not stay on for very long!!!

Our beautiful friends and neighbours, Martin & Kels

John's mom, Rose and Paul ... what a hot redhead!!!

Penny & Malcolm (Marc Levi's folks)

Paul (ina) and Fran ... yip, that beautiful blonde on the left is really a ... MAN ... who also won best dress guy for the evening!

Sam & Kendra .... nope, it's Dean!

Neil & Shannon, who never took her jacket off and then all of a sudden surprised us all with the most amazing bunny outfit!!!

Kirsty, Mike & Candz. Such an original outfit, he had "bunny chow" painted on his chest with all those carrots ... STUNNING!

Jacques introducing himself to Silly Sally!

There were 4 pregnant ladies, but the 3 of us are all 2 weeks apart ... wonder which one is popping first ... yip, it's me, then Erica on the left and then Rykie!

Matt, our chippendale Hef & Kirst!

Lllllauren & I

Marc loving Paul (ina)'s boob!

My sister- and mom-in-law hugging me and our little Baba Woollam (who also LOVED his/her daddies party!)

The birthday Boy and his brother-in-law, Ken. Check out that PIMP cup!!!

With my dad!

The promo Bentley for the new energy drink Pussy (can you believe it???) that just came out in SA, our models ... Grant & his fiance Kelly.

The birthday boy with his girlfriend for the night!

The 2 preggie friends ... Rykie & I

Ken & Debbie, John's sister

Big Rob, John and Saucy Sally

Just some of the platters of yummy food

The blonde bombshell Bianca and I

Erica & I with our two little babas in between

My dad and my husband!

Stupid Sally seems to make it into every single photo ... Garth, Martin and I!

Paul (ina) who mentioned to me that night that "girls are so lucky, 'cause they can lick their own boobs"! WHAT???? :)

Franny, the beautiful bride-to-be in January and I.

John ... still with his Sally!

Just another photie of the girls ... Debs, Franny, Paul (ina) and I :)

Kirsty hugging our little Woollam

Not too long ago, we were 8 years old playing Barbies and here we're are standing with a very proud grandpa-to-be. Friends forever!

That boob has been in everyone's mouth!!!!

Mommy-to-be LOVING life!

Daddy-to-be PIMPING it up big time!

Happy birthday my love, I'm so glad you had such a wonderful birthday with such amazing friends and family! We missed all the family that couldn't make it, you guys were all sorely missed!

With our folks, John, Paul, Rose (John's mom), Anton (my dad) and I!

We had such a great party that would not have been possible without such amazing friends, John and I realise every single day how blessed we are to have such a wonderful group of friends and such a supportive family. We love each and every single one of you so much and we can't wait to go through this wonderful life with so many memories and memories-to-come with you all!

Here's the next 30!

Lots of love ...

The Woollams!