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Does anyone else feel like the weeks are just flying by at the moment? I feel like I just posted 39/52 and here we are again..

Henry: It rained every day last week and our living room looked like a chinese laundry for the entire week. Henry thought it was the best thing ever.. the clothes rack became a cubby-house and the kids spent hours hanging out under the laundry.

Sophie: Every single day I get told "Your daughter looks so much like you".. I don't see it at all.

Playing along with Jodi's 52 project.

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Henry: Exploring as usual. His little finger ready to point at the next thing that captures his eye.
Sophie: Cuddles with Granny. Is there anything better?

Playing along with Jodi's '52 project'

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Okay so I had planned to join in with Jodi's 52 project every week this year but, well, life got in the way.. So here is my second set of photos. Hopefully I'll be able to join in a bit more regularly from now on.

Sophie: Playing with her cousin Ella who is a few months younger than her.. these two are going to have so much fun growing up together!

Henry: Such a little cutie.. growing up so fast!

Life lately

Such a lovely few weeks.. Henry is finally starting to sleep a bit better at night, we had a lovely party for his first birthday last weekend and the days are getting warmer and longer..

Photos are all via Instagram. You can follow me @grow_cook_sew

x

One!

Henry turned one on Sunday. ONE! I think I can say without a doubt that was the fastest year of my life. I feel like it was just born yesterday and here we are celebrating 365 days of Henry being here in the world!

Although the year has flown, it feels like a lifetime ago that I was lying in bed praying (as much as an atheist can pray) that this little boy would be born safely. Most people can't believe that I spent most of the pregnancy lying flat on my back in bed but I think we would do it again in a heartbeat..
It was a small sacrifice to get a beautiful, healthy baby boy in the end and I try to remind myself every day how lucky we are to have him here.

Happy birthday cheeky monkey. You are one awesome little man and we love you so!

Sydney

We recently went on a holiday* to Sydney and Hobart. We spent a week in each city visiting my folks (My Dad is in Sydney and my Mum recently moved to Hobart).

It's a strange feeling going back to Sydney.

I spent 28 years of my life living in Sydney but have spent the last 2 years living in Perth.
I love Perth, I'm so glad we moved here, it's definitely my home now and I have never had the slightest sense of regret about leaving Sydney until, of course, I went back.

Sydney is such an amazing city. I would be lying if I said that I didnt get stabbing pains in my heart thinking about how much I miss living there. (Okay, well maybe it was not quite that dramatic but you know what I mean!)

I didn't actually get much time to visit any of my old favourite places as my dad is very ill and I spent most of my time visiting him (He had not seen Sophie for almost two years and had not met Henry yet so it was lovely for them to see their Opa) but I really hope to go back to Sydney soon and spend hours wondering around my old haunts.

*I'm not really sure that you can call it a holiday when 48 hours before you are due to fly out your husband calls from work and says "I now have to go to Hong Kong for 3 weeks INSTEAD".. I don't think flying around Australia with two kids on your own counts as a holiday does it?!  No, probably not.

11 months

Henry is 11 months old today! How time flies! Here are a few photos from the last few weeks.
(I'm hoping to be back here a little more often now that life is slowly resembling some kind of normal.)

Lost in a pile of laundry

This photo was taken on Sophie's first day of school way back in February and it's a good indication of how things are in my life that I'm only just posting it now.. In July!

I have so much to tell you all that I don't even know where to start! Henry is 10 months old now. I have no idea how that happened so quickly! Life is good but very busy. Days are spend just barely keeping on top of the cooking, cleaning and laundry that I'm left wondering how on earth anyone with kids manages to do anything else. Even after the kids are in bed I do the dishes, fold the washing, tidy up a bit and collapse into bed with my 'to-do' list growing ever longer by the day.

Henry is doing so well. He is such a happy, sweet boy. My only complaint is that (just like Sophie) he is a terrible sleeper. At 10 months old he is still waking up 4-5 times a night! I can count on one hand the number of times I have slept through the night in the last year.. To say I'm exhausted is an understatement!

I promise I'll post some photos soon x