Weekend trip to Oupi and Oumi (My Dad and Stepmother)

Posted on 05/07/2010 by Momma Jo

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We don’t often go down to visit my parents, esp since Noo has cricket practice on a Saturday during school terms. With the Soccer World Cup taking place here in South Africa, the schools are in an extended holiday till the 13th so we took advantage of not having cricket and went down to visit my dad and step mother. We left home on Saturday morning and came home after lunch on Sunday, it was a short but lovely visit.

Here are a few photos of our visit

On Saturday night we had a braai (bbq), this is my hubby and my dad (on his haunches)

My wonderful hubby ♥

My dad

My step mother

The children up early on Sunday morning, watching cartoons, LOL (note my boys both wearing their birthday PJ’s from Oupi and Oumi) ♥

My hubby and Dad washing the breakfast dishes, I had to get a photo for the record books *giggle*

Fifi playing with my step bothers dog Wolfie. He is obsessed with balls, that tennis ball is so full of gob, its disgusting, LOL

Playing peek-a-boo with daddy

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Arts and Crafts day

Posted on 19/06/2009 by Momma Jo

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Today we took a break from “traditional” learning and spent our designated school time doing arts and crafts for fathers day.

Noo coloured this picture in for me, isn’t he just the most caring and adorable child

The boys each made a puppet for their fathers. They had tons of fun and made a glorious mess with the glitter. Fun was had by all.

I helped Koko by putting the craft glue on the paper bags, sticking the googly eyes and his name down in foam letters. The works in progress:

Pregnancy Update

Posted on 10/01/2009 by Momma Jo

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I started having contractions on Thursday night and MAN were they sore and by the time we got to the hospital they were 8 minutes apart (we live 23km from the hospital where Fifi will be born and where Noo had his surgeries). They stopped the contractions by Friday morning. I had to go onto a ventolin (sp?) drip and got a pethidine and atterax shot (which burns like acid) to help me sleep. Needless to say, I didn’t sleep well at all, I had a woman in labour next to me and I swear she was screaming through every contraction (she was still in labour when I left at 11 on Friday morning).

Anywho. This morning I went to see my gynae at his rooms for a scan and Madam is doing very well, so well in fact that she is weighing in at 2.69kgs and is measuring in at 37.4weeks (I was 34 weeks at that appointment). Koko weighed 2.63kgs at birth (36 weeks). The doc said she is going to be one big baba, by the time my EDD arrives. I tried to push for a VBAC, but he said he wasn’t going to risk it with a possible 3.9kg baby. So we set the c-sec date for 4 Feb. He said that most of the pain I experienced yesterday was Fifi trying to move and stretch and that I’m in for an extremely uncomfortable ride the next 3 weeks. I’m now on weekly appointments, so I’ll update here more regularly.