More of what we have been up to

We went to Aunty Elissa's babyshower

My sister-in-law is due to have a baby in the next few weeks, and we went to her baby shower the other weekend. As much as it was fun playing the games and eating delicious (and I mean really delicious) food, what I really loved was being able to catch up with some of my relatives that I hadn't seen in a while, especially my Aunties Kaye and Gill, neither of whom had gotten to meet John Geoffrey yet. It was also funny to me to notice the definite "Fittonisms" that I share with those Aunts as the shower progressed - especially our certain "brand" of Fitton humor. I love that our family is getting bigger and as it does I just feel so connected to the women around me, my mums, my sisters, my aunts, my sister-in-laws, my nieces - I just love my family.

John Geoffrey seemed to enjoy the shower as well - he certainly got plenty of attention. There were quite a few babies there, and not that I am biased or anything, but John was the cutest one there :) He eventually fell asleep towards the end, and here is a photo of him with my niece, Sarah and two of the other younger girls that were there - they were hovering around him mezmorised by his cuteness (who can blame them really)"

One of the games we played at the shower was one where baby photo's of ALL the attendees went around and we had to guess who they were. This was the photo I submitted of me, and I decided to post it here as well, as it really does remind me a bit of John Geoffrey. It might just be because mum had me in a blue suit (she said she was anti-pink when I was born).

The other funny thing that happened at the baby shower was that I managed to spray milk all over my clothes towards the beginning of the day. John wanted a feed, but decided to pull off before I could get myself properly settled. So I went the rest of the day with a huge milk stain on the front of my top. Lucky I was with a bunch of mum's, no-one even blinked an eye.

We went to the Hairdressers to get Mum's Hair Chopped

I have pretty much always had short hair. I like it, and it's much easier for me to do. But when I got engaged to John I decided that I wanted to grow out my hair so that I could have one of those really cool up-do's for the wedding. We have now been married for over a year and I've kept the long hair - mainly because people have told me I shouldn't cut it, or make drastic changes when I was pregnant (as I might regret it) but more importantly because I was too lazy to do anything about it.

Since John Geoffrey was born, my hair has been perpetually up. If it's down John Geoffrey always manages to get his hands on it and hair pulling is not my most favourite thing. I've spent next to no time looking after it, styling it or doing anything with it. Eventually my head started getting sore from having my hair up all the time, and my hair was so knotty. On the days I decided I would try to do something with it, I would spend 10-15 minutes just brushing knots out and by that time I was over it and too sick of my hair to bother styling it. So, it had to come off.

Here is the new hair. Still a bit longer than I would normally have it, but short enough that John can't get his hands on it when we're feeding. I really like it. I like that it takes less time to wash it in the shower, that it takes 10-15 seconds to brush the knots out and 10 minutes max to blow dry and style it. I can't begin to tell you how much better it makes me feel knowing that my hair is easy to fix each day - maybe I won't look so grotty all the time now!

John Geoffrey came with me to the hairdressers and enjoyed himself. Once again he was a hit with the ladies. I was happy that he was so well behaved.

The only problem with the day was that it was raining on and off. I had planned on walking to the hairdressers (as we are so close) but when it came time to go it was pouring - so I had to put the pram and baby in the car (in the rain) and drive up to the hairdressers. By the time we got there it had stopped, so we managed to get into the hairdressers without getting any more wet. But, of course, when it was time to leave it was pouring again. I went to the supermarket in hopes that it might ease up, but to no avail. With my freshly cut and styled hair I then had to stand in the rain to get John Geoffrey into his car seat and pack up the pram. By the time I got into the car I looked like a drowned rat. I have to admit it put me in a pretty bad mood - especially because it stopped raining while I was driving home. One of the perks of going to the hairdresser is that you are supposed to look good when you come out - the rain saw to it that I wouldn't get to enjoy that perk. To add to my mood John Geoffrey decided to cry, and then pooped through his clothes as I was carrying him inside. Daddy took care of John while I went and fixed my hair (which didn't take long) and then I was ready to be in a happy mood again :)

We had Sarah and Jaiden come over

John's cousins, Sarah and Jaiden came over to visit during the week, as Aunty Carla had to go to mutual for a mother's appreciation activity. They brought tim-tams (yum) and High School Musical to watch. Actually I asked them to bring HSM as Addy (John's niece) had posted a song list for this movie on instagram, and ever since I had had a burning desire to watch it again. Ridiculous I know, but I love musicals and I love cheesy family movies. I think my husband wanted to gouge his eyes out the whole time we were watching it. Let's just say, he didn't stay in the room long and when we decided to get pizza for dinner he offered to walk up and get it, and dismissed my idea to ring up first to pre-order.

Anyway, John's cousins are totally in love with him, Jaiden is especially smitten and just wanted to hold and play with him the whole time he was here. It was so cute.

Jaiden also decided that he really liked my feet seat and was playing with it all night long. He worked out in made a pretty good hat. I think it made him look like a mushroom.

Aunty Carla also brought over some things for John Geoffrey, as she had been cleaning out and found some books, toys and clothes that Jaiden wasn't using anymore. I was most excited about this puzzle she gave to us:

The reason I was excited about it was because I actually remember playing with it as a child. This was a puzzle that my mum bought for Carla when she was a baby and of course myself and all my brothers and sisters have played with it as children. Mum kept it, and when Carla had her first baby, she passed it on. And now it's coming to me. I know it's really sentimental, but I'm excited to have it and that John Geoffrey will get to play with it to. I'm surprised it has lasted so long and is in such a good condition. I guess it really is true, they really don't make them like they used to.

We continued to be cute

John is just the most handsome baby ever (in my opinion). He gets cuter every day. When my mum came over for a visit this week, I decided to get her help to go through all the clothes we had been given. Because John was just a little bub when he was born, a lot of the clothes we had been given were too big and so I had put them away to use later. It was great to go through them again and get them into size order and find a few new outfits that he was big enough to now fit into. We have so many clothes for him, I don't think we will have to buy much more for him until he is at least one:

Oh my gosh. He is too cute!!!!!!