Dunstan's World

Beatutiful Boy!

2008-03-19T16:17:00.002+10:00

Well he finally arrived! Caleb James Dunstan was born at about 5.30am Monday 18th February 2008. I was meant to be induced at 4pm on Sunday but went into labour on my own at midday Sunday. After a 17 hour labour (4 hours of which a had a wonderful epidural) Caleb arrived with the aid of forceps (he decided to come out a bit wonky). He weighed 9lb 1oz (4.14kg) and was very long. He spent a bit of time with daddy having cuddles before he came to me.

He is now 4 weeks old and is doing really well. At night he usually has a feed at about 9pm and wakes for another feed between 3-5am (he is an angel). He is smiling at us all the time now and is able to hold his head up by himself. I can't believe
how quickly he is growing!

Well i have to go and feed him now so I will leave you with some pictures of him. Hope you enjoy!

We are finished

2007-12-11T08:49:00.000+10:00

Well Nick and I have finished teaching for the year. We have awards night tonight, parent interviews tomorrow and staff breaky Thursday morning and that is it. I can't wait. Sleeping has started to become a bit difficult so I am looking forward to getting up later. We will be heading down to Sydney in just over a week so probably won't get on the net again after Thursday for a few weeks to update (only to check stuff).

Well here is a few photos taken over the last few weeks. Belly pic is about 2 weeks old.

3 weeks to go

2007-11-13T12:36:00.000+10:00

Only 31/2 weeks to go until i finish school. I love teaching year 7 but I am looking forward to having a holiday and visiting friends and family in Sydney. Not much is happening around here. I do get the day off tomorrow to have blood tests and a physio appointment at the hospital but that is about as exciting as it gets. Here is a new belly pic we took on Sunday. I have some bare belly ones but if you want to see them you will have to email me and let me know (I don't want bare belly pics of me on the net).

It's a Boy!

2007-11-06T13:06:00.000+10:00

I am now almost 26 weeks pregnant with our little boy. He is really active and I definately think he will be a soccer player. I am feeling good but must admit that my back has been pretty sore so I have an appointment with the hospital physio soon and probably will have to get a belly belt thing (attractive). Nick is in the process of having his wisdom teeth emerge and therefore is a bit pained and tired. I told him that at least he will be able to identify with the baby when he gets his teeth.

Not a great deal has been going on with us. We have been doing stuff around the house and the garden on the weekends. House is looking good. If i had Nick's computer I would post some pics of it but I don't, so sorry! I will include a couple of photos which have our house in the background. Thought you may want to see my belly. These were taken about 3 weeks ago so they are a bit old (I have gotten a lot bigger since then).

Will try and take more photos this week and provided the net is working post them on Thursday. Bye, Bye!

Sorry!

2007-09-06T13:13:00.000+10:00

Sorry it has been so long since i posted. We have moved into our house and no longer have the internet and school has been so busy that i havn't had time. No photos today but i will try to post some in the near future.

The house is great have got fences, lawn, most of the blinds and we are spending every spare moment doing stuff around the house even though it dosen't feel like we are getting anywhere. My baby bump has had a growth spurt of late and i officially don't fit any of my normal clothes anymore. Im 17 weeks tomorrow and had a Dr's check up on Tuesday and got to hear bubba's heartbeat for the first time (very exciting). Nick is coming with me on Monday for my next one and hopefully he can hear it too. Hope to get my ultrasound on Wednesday week which i can't wait for.

Well we only have 8 days left of school for the term and then it is camp (yeah!. I honestly think that the Term 3 holidays are the ones that you need the most despite not actually getting a real holiday (at least it's a holiday from the kids).

Gotta go cos my computing lesson is about to end and I have to go and teach.
Bye

Surprise!

2007-08-06T21:32:00.000+10:00

Well Nick and I have some news. We are expecting a little addition to our family in 6 months. I am 12 and 1/2 weeks pregnant and am due on the 15th August. It came as a surprise to us both but we are very excited about being a Mummy and Daddy. Had another doctors appointment today and was hoping to hear the heartbeat but unfortunatly couldn't find it. I did get to hear the sound of the 'placenta rush' (blood rushing throught the placenta) which was exciting and reasuring as it means that everything is going ok. She said in a few more weeks we should be able to find the heart rate. My blood pressure was a little on the high side so I have to go back on Monday to check that it has come back down (nothing to worry about though). Here is a photo of my belly at 12 weeks and Nick's baby buy.

In other exciting news Nick and I are picking up the keys for our new house on Wednesday. The house has gone up really quickly (picked land end of Jan and started building in April finished 4 months later). Will post some pics when we get in and have our stuff moved in. Carpet isn't going in till next Thursday but we will survive for a week without it.

Well it is past my bed time (didn't get home till 7.30) so I am off to sleep now.
Will try and post again soon.

Canberra

2007-07-28T07:45:00.000+10:00

Canberra trip. Thank goodness i'm home, lot of sick people including me.

Camping at Hastings Pt

2007-06-29T19:05:00.002+10:00

Nick writing for first time. We decided to head down south of the border. Found ourselves at Hastings Point, btw Kinsciffe & Pottsville. Thought we'd go for couple nights but only ended going one night. (Miranda got a bit cold). Anyways was great to get away from everything & spend some quality time. Pleased to get some sunrise & sunset snaps. We saw about 4 whales migrating north and several dolphin pods.

2007-06-25T16:16:00.000+10:00

Scotty & Celeste's wedding. Very beautiful. (for Lee n Liz, here are some shots with his new lens...)

Bathrooms

2007-06-25T15:55:00.000+10:00

This is our dirty, but beautiful new bathroom & ensuite. Ofcourse it does look better in real life.

1 week to go

2007-06-17T19:47:00.000+10:00

This week was so busy with both Nick and I moving classrooms. I finished setting up my room today so I feel a little more organised. It is the last week of school for the term and I can't wait for our holiday to start. Yesterday we went down to the bay at Victoria Point and we had a nice time walking along the foreshore and talking. Here is a photo of my wonderful, handsome husband.

Well our tiler started work on our house on Thursday. We went to look at it on Friday but could not get in so we had to take photos through the window so here they are.

These are the photos of the finished bricks and they are not wet anymore so they look a bit better.

House should be getting painted in 1-2 weeks. Floor tiles should be layed 3-4 weeks. Then it is just the fixtures and then all of the checks. Will keep you up to date with any progress. Hope you all have a great week!

Bricks!

2007-06-08T19:13:00.000+10:00

Here are the photos of the bricks that didn't work before. These were taken on rainy days. They look a bit different when they are not wet.

We have a kitchen!

2007-06-08T18:20:00.000+10:00

We went and did our weekly visit to the house this arvo and to our surprise we had a kitchen and bathroom vanity. It was so exciting. I was kind of scared that the colours wouldn't work together but they lookl great. Here are some photos.

This is looking from the living room at the kitchen.

Multi purpose room into kitchen.

Pantry and laundry.

View from kitchen into living

Our lovely door handles.

It looks even better in real life. Anyway it was my last day at the primary school today so that was a bit sad. Going to be a big week next week. Any way gotta run. Hope you all have a nice long weekend.

House update!

2007-06-07T18:04:00.001+10:00

Just finished and exhausting day of school. My class is relocating to the highschool on Tuesday morning so I was packing up the classroom all day. I feel like sleeping for a week. Got to pack up my house in the next 6 weeks too.

Anyway we went to the house on Tuesday to drop off the shower heads. Despite the rain there had been a bit of progress but we couldn't get inside because it was locked. Here is where it was up to from the outside.

Well thats it. Hopefully will go out again tomorrow. I hope my kitchen is in. Hope you all have something fun planned for the long weekend.

Our House

2007-06-04T20:38:00.000+10:00

As you probably know Nick and I are building a house out at Victoria Point (still in QLD). It has been a bit stressfull at times but is very exciting. Things are hapening very quickly and we hope to be in there by mid August. Thought you might like to see some pictures.

This one is of our house from the back corner of our yard.

The front.

These are of the main bedroom.

There a bit old. Will get more photos tomorrow when we go out there to drop off our shower heads! Will try and post them tomorrow nite. Well better go and try and finish reports!

Bye, Bye!

Feeling Sick!

2007-06-03T18:52:00.000+10:00

Well i just had a week of work due to a lovely case of acute tonsillitis. I had to visit the doctor 3 times and unfortunately am on antibiotics for the next week. Nick was great, he took special care of me! Feeling much better now and back to work tomorrow. Going to be a busy couple of weeks because i have to finish my reports this week and move my classroom over to the high school next Tuesday. But lets not think about that for now.

I better go and make something for dinner.

Welcome

2007-06-03T18:34:00.000+10:00

Hi people and welcome to my blog! I have never done this before so if you have any tips please let me know. I don't know how often i will get to update it but we will soon see. Hopefully i can keep you up to date with Nicks and my life.