Day to Day ... this and that!

I didn't take many photos this week, but an eventful weekend non the less.  

Our funny weather has left us with a few cold nights, so John and I decided to make a trip to Tokai Forest to pick up some pine-corns to start our little fireplace with.  What a waste of time ... we ended up walking around for 2 hours and picked up maybe 10 really bad looking pine-corns on the way. 

 John in Tokai Forest

We met up with Vince and Chloe for breakfast at Olympia on Saturday, was absolutely great to see them and as always had a fantastic meal at one of our favorite restaurants.

Then Saturday afternoon we went to a braai at Phil and Debs house in Noordhoek, also found out they're having a baby ... "Congratulations guys, you're in for such an amazing ride and you will soon realise that you could never even have thought of loving anything as much in your life!"

Yesterday we had a super relaxing day, with a bit of DIY (we painted our doors and door frames) and watched some TV, sitting with a cup of tea at our fireplace.

My little Tiger Boy already protecting his little brother/sister,  sitting with his paws on my tummy!

Talking about the little Baby Woollam, we had another visit to our doctor this afternoon, unfortunately we don't get any more photos to take home with us, due to the little baba getting to big to photograph, but it was still so great to see the little heartbeat and see how beautifully big s/he has gotten.  At an estimated weight of +/- 780g, almost 200g bigger than our last scan 2 weeks ago.  We couldn't get a full size, 'cause our little munchkin decided to curl his/her little legs and totally bend it's little neck, which made it totally impossible for Dr Graves to do a proper measurement.  My tummy is getting bigger and bigger by the day and we can now even see the little kicks, bumps and punches by just watching the bump.  Such an active little baba!

This Thursday I've got my photography course exhibition, which I'm really excited about.  It will be my first time showing photos and I'll be sure to post copies of my photos on my next post.

We're about 5 students who will all show their work, so should be pretty awesome.

With a big week and lots of photos coming up, I'm sure my next post will be much more interesting ... until then ...  lots of love ... The Woollams!

Seems like summer is back ...

OK, so summer is either back, or it's the calm before the storm, but we're having the most beautiful weather EVER here in Cape Town!  

Another good weekend all round, with a surprise visit from John's mom and Paul to a planned visit by Marc and Lauren.

Friday night we met up with Marc, Lauren .... Levi .... yip, Ben and a few other friends, at Kalk Bay's Brass Bell, a pretty disappointing meal all round, but still fun to see old friends!  We went for a little nightcap down at Cape to Cuba and off home to meet Rose & Paul who only arrived from Jo'burg at 11:30pm Friday night.  

Saturday morning I went for my photography practical and met up with John and the folks at Olympia for some freshly baked breakie.  Had a little afternoon snooze and met up with the gang at Deeno's Restaurant in Newlands before the rugby.  The Stormers beat the Western Force by 1 point, but we had the "best seats in the house" ... hey Ben!  

Lauren, Marc, Warrick, Romy and my Tuck!

Mattie & a little hungry Candz

The K brothers sneaking a sip in the stands

The Woollams at Newlands!

And last but not least, the Stormers girls right in front of us ... best seats in the house?

Sunday morning ... Mothers Day ... or as I prefer to call it ... Mothers-to-be Day!  It was the most beautiful day, so John, myself, Lauren and Marc, decided to go to Llandudno for a  little beach day.  What fun, we packed a HUGE picnic basket, with ingredients for Marc to make "The Best Rolls EVER" for lunch, the boys had a little swim, we played beach tennis, John surfed the biggest waves I've seen at Llandudno and I tanned my baby bump a bit!

"Lauren, you have to send me some of the pics, 'cause I don't have any!"

We didn't get to see that much of Rose and Paul, due to it being Paul's dad, Bernard's 99th birthday!!!  

Happy Birthday Bernard, we hope you had such a special day with your family down in Cape Town!  

But we had our Mothers Day dinner for John and his mom last night.  It was the first year John has spent Mothers Day with his mom in almost 10 years!  So a very special evening.

The table set outside, thanks to our gorgeous weather!

John and his mom cheers on Mothers Day!

So to end this great weekend, I would like to wish all the Mothers, Mothers-to-be and Grannies, a very happy Mothers Day!

Baby Woollam at 22 weeks

After not being able to sleep due to utter excitement of seeing our little baba again, we had our scan at 09:00 this morning.  

Baby Woollam is growing so well and developing like a little trooper!  S/he is completely on schedule ... if not a little ahead ... and we already know this little bundle is most definitely the best thing that has EVER happened to us.

Weighing in at +/- 600g and 29.5 cm in length, it was so fantastic to see that everything is going great.  10 little fingers, 10 little toes, beautiful heart and a great blood flow.  We saw his/her eyes and lids, we saw the heart with all the rooms and valves.  We saw the kidneys, stomach and a healthy spine.  The doctor checked every joint, muscle, bone and organ and everything was PERFECT!

A few photos, sorry for the quality, but I didn't have a scanner, so I took photos of the photos.

The little baba

The beautiful little legs

Out little baba was crossing it's legs and in this photo you can see the 2 little feet with 5 little perfect toes!

The most beautiful little face!

My tummy is growing bigger every single day and I've realised that I have a pretty active little one inside there, so I get kicked and I can feel every little turn ... so precious! 

With all our love ... The Woollam Mommy and Daddy :)

Another LONG weekend in the past!

The 3rd long weekend in a row ... but we're not complaining.  Time to relax and be John and Toni before we're the party of 3!

Saturday night we went for dinner to Katinka's house to say our goodbyes to my brother before leaving for Witbank again.  We had a fantastic braai with as John calls it, real Boere food ... the most divine oven baked bread, a veggie dish to die for (definitely going to take that recipe for myself) and little baked potatoes and lamb chops!  Wow, getting all hungry again!

Katinka & her Mom preparing the deeelish food!

The 3 chefs, Rudi, Katinka and her mom

The 3 boys in my life

My dad and my brother

Baby update ... John felt our little baba for the first time on Sunday!!!!  How exciting!  It's all so real for him now, we play music to little Baby Woollam every night and chat to the bump as if it can already chat back.

The pregnancy is going really well, I'm in a stage, according to some family, called "Nesting":

Around the fifth month of pregnancy, the "nesting" instinct can set in. This is an uncontrollable urge to clean one's house brought on by a desire to prepare a nest for the new baby, to tie up loose ends of old projects and to organize your world. 

So at least I'm all pro-active and cleaning like a buzy bee!

With all our love ...

A weekend of celebrations

What a fantastic weekend!  A nice loooong weekend, with lots of friends and celebrations.  

Saturday we went to Stellenbosch for the day, Frannie had her birthday party at the Dornier Wine Estate at a fantastic restaurant called Bodega.  We had such a brilliant meal in the most beautiful setting!  

But before lunch we popped round to Kyburg to say hello to the Ruests and say our goodbyes to Debbie, Ken and the Kids.  Kyburg is the Ruests Wine Estate in Stellenbosch, it's a beautiful wine farm with an awesome wineland backdrop.  Check out the website:  www.kyburgwine.com

The Ruests Home

Yesterday we met up with Howie and ... wait for it .... his fiance Melissa!!!!!  Yip, they came to Cape Town for the weekend and Michael Howard popped the question!!!  Congratulations guys!!!  So yesterday we went out for a double celebration, their engagement and it was also Melissa's birthday!  When John told me they were staying at the Mount Nelson, I knew they were getting engaged, you only pull that card once ... as Matt would say!

So we went to Wakami in Mouille Point for cocktails, well Virgin for me, before taking them to our all time favorite, Chef Pons!  

Howie & Melissa just before sunset at Wakami

Melissa, John and Howie as the sun was going down at Wakami

The happy couple at Chef Pons

Baby Woollam Update

No photos this time, you will all have to wait for the 7th of May when we go for our 22 week scan!

I was getting really excited this morning, just after breakfast I was sitting on the couch and I actually felt my baby!  It was so clear, I thought I felt something before, but this was clear as anything!  I felt the little active baba moving around in my tummy!  I also had my 20 week scan today, which was really exciting, as the last time was more than a month ago.  

Baby Woollam is growing so well and making his/her mommy's tummy grow bigger and bigger by the day!  Dr Graves could hardly measure the little bugger 'cause s/he was moving ALL the time ... so his/her daddy's child!  S/He weighs +/- 385g at the moment and the little heart is beating sooooo well!  

John and I got our first baby toy this week, on Wednesday we bought the coolest stroller EVER!  The Peg Perego, such a super pram.  It's light, small enough to actually fit into the car and can detach to just a frame for the first few months while we still use the car seat.  

Just the car seat

Full pram with leg warmer attachment

So the next baby Woollam update will only be on the 7th of May, but keep clicking for more Woollam News!

Wishing all South Africans WONDERFUL long weekend's' ... :)

The Ruests visit Nr. 8 Riverside Close

We had another fun-filled weekend with lots of family and some friends.  John's sister Debbie, her husband Ken and the 2 kids, Nicholas & Karina came to visit us for the first time at our new house.  They arrived on Friday afternoon and our Cape Town weather played along till after they left! :)  

On Saturday we decided to have some family and friends over for a braai and in good old John & Toni tradition, there is no such thing as a small braai, so we invited all the Cape Town family and a few friends.  We had to take our dining room table outside to have seating for the 14 adults and decided to put blankets on the grass for the 4 children.  All in all we were 19 people including little baby Anna who slept most of the time.  It was absolutely fantastic to have everyone visit us. 

We started the day with a belated Easter egg hunt.  John and I got 63 eggs and it was hidden all over our garden.

 Nicholas, Thomas (at the back), Daniel and Karina during the hunt.

The 3 boys, Thomas, Nicholas and Daniel

Very busy hunting!

Candz with her amazing HUGE salads

Debs, Nicholas & Karina

John's Aunt Anne with Ken's niece Anna

Karina Beana playing on my piano

John's aunt Anne, cousin Hayley and her son Daniel

Franny & Candz

Karina playing sing star

Karina & Thomas singing some good old ABBA

Candz & I

With winter around the corner and elections on Wednesday it is going to be a cold and exciting week seeing who's going to rule our country for the next few years.  

So to all the South Africans out there reading my blog ... get your asses in gear and go to your closest voting station! X

Lots of love to everyone!