hooray for me!!

i've actually got some cleaning done today!! hip hip hooray!! the upstairs bathroom just needs the tub washed and the floor hoovered (aka vacuumed!!). i hoovered the stairs and the upstairs hallway, so for once there is nothing on the stairs or on the hallway floor!!! thats to make room for suitcases and camping gear so we can start our packing!! oh what fun =)

going camping...

well, we are slowly getting ourselves ready to go camping next week! i am excited to get away but a bit anxious as to camping with micah and noah! noah shouldn't be too much of a problem as he just sleeps wherever you put him down! but micah..well that is a whole other story!!
we've gone camping every summer since i was pregnant with micah. we put our tent up along side our friends' caravan! the stocks are fantastic with that and its so fun to be on holiday with other people i think!!
this year we have moved up to a 8-man tent from our 2 man tent! it has one big area with 3 smaller tents attached as little bedrooms! so andy and micah will have one and me and noah will have another! and maybe jemima will be brave and sleep in one too!!!
we will be in cornwall i think in truro(sp?) and we go to the beach called st. agnes... its where we were last summer, though we only stayed for 3 nights. we are hoping to stay monday through thursday and leave early friday, i think!! andys sister jo is flying home from romania on the friday and staying with us for the weekend!!
we will also be celebrating our 5 year anniversary while we are down there (on the 3rd)!! so hard to believe that its been 5 years already and that i have been living in england for 5 years too!!! its been so amazing and as you can see from the pictures below, we have been SO incredibly blessed!!!

weighing in

here is noah getting weighed this morning at the baby clinic!! we hadn't been for 3 weeks. then he was 10lb 5oz, now he is 11 lb 14oz!!! what a cutie!!!

another hot day in b'ham

micah has recently, well okay, like for the past 6 months or so, has NOT liked to take a bath! he just cries most of the time... and try and wash his hair! whoa, take screaming to another level! we don't know why this has started or what to do about it!
but yesterday and today we have been in our paddling pool and a public paddling pool! with no problems, micah wanted to get in and fell once, getting pretty much all the way wet, with no tears or anything!! so...tonight? we put him in the bath with minimal crying and even got his hair washed!!! pshew! what a relief!!
here are some pics from todays paddling pool in our garden!

2 in a bed

micah loves getting into noah's moses baskets. the proper one is up in our bedroom and the other is a pop up version that you can take outside. micah is still loving his wee brother and making sure he is ok!

attempting to blow up the pool!!

blowing bubbles

hot days

we are having a pretty hot summer here in england! very unusual for us!! beautiful weather, but when you don't have air conditioning in the house, its not very nice!!

gaining weight...

wow!! Noah weighed in yesterday at 10lbs 5oz age 4 weeks and 2 days!! when he was 18 days he weighed 8lbs 13oz...he's really gaining weight! and he's grown 5 cm in length (from 51cm to 55cm!!) he's so different from micah its amazing!! i had micah weighed as well since he hasn't been weighed since january. he weighs 24lbs 10oz which is up about 2lbs i think! so that was fine for him!! but i think that means that cousin luke is definitely bigger that micah!! though i think that noah will be catching up soon!! though i do hope that he slows down soon =)

here are 2 layouts that i did to send home but also for the scrapgirls july patriotic contest.. the background paper on the first one and the freedom tag were freebies from their website and on the second one i used some papers from papermaven (on scrapgirls) and a freebie brush from them too....

happy 4th!!

hope everyone had a great 4th of july!! we still celebrated even though we live in england!! i do miss the big celebrations...bbq's, watermelon seed spitting contests, the fireworks, outdoor swimming pools, volleyball and baseball games!!!! ahhh, maybe one summer we'll get over...well, i guess not with andy working in school! they go until the mid to end of july - yuck!

getting along

micah loves noah! every time noah cries micah wants to go and see if he's okay!! he calls him no-e or sometimes it sounds more like noys (rhyming with boys!!) its so cute though! he gives noah lots of kisses on the forehead and like to hold him or lay down next to him!
have noah has been good for diaper changing time! i change noah on the changing mat, then later on, micah will lay down it and want to have his diaper changed too!!! which means, no chasing him down or having to pin his kicking legs down!! its fantastic!!
i am definitely missing my mom and dad!! as of last wednesday i had to do my own cleaning, washing and everything else!! but we got on with it and for the first 2 days, micah didn't require to much attention (i.e. he played happily on his own) and noah was good too. friday was a bit of a trying day but i had 2 people pop in for a visit that was unexpected! one in the morning and one in the afternoon so that cleared up some time for me to get on with stuff while they played with micah and/or held noah!! what a blessing our friends are from church!

Boys X 2 = FUN!!!

Its been fun to go back through Micah pictures and his clothes to see how Noah fits them and the comparisons!! We have enjoyed these past 10 days with the 2 boys and Micah seems to have taken it all in stride!
Noah was weighed on Monday at 8 days of age and weighed in at 7lbs and 9oz!!! That is 6oz that he gained from birth!! What a comparison already! Micah lost 6oz in his first week of life!!! Maybe Noah is going to be like his cousin Luke!! Who knows!!

See the similarities and the differences?

This is Noah at 9 days.

Micah

This is Micah at 17 days....

Our Happy Little Family

we are having an absolutely gorgeous stretch of weather and it has so been good for us!!! with my mom now here, andy off of school for his paternity leave and a new baby in hand, we are enjoying the out of doors as much as we can!!! its great! this photo is from wednesday when noah was 3 days old! we took a similar one with micah when he was a newborn too! thats just a blanket that we had as a wedding gift! very cute!!

Born June 5, 2006 at 17:30. Noah weighed in at 7lbs 3ozs and is 20 inches long!

Welcome to Noah Craig Mullan

1 day to go...

how i am so hoping not to go into labor tonight! andy has a fever of 103...micah too has been in and out of a fever!
although in a way it would be nice to go sometime in the next 24 hours as then we still might be able to squeeze andy going up to manchester to pick up my mom!! what a crazy, crazy schedule we'll have the next few days or so! i just really really hope that this baby isn't any longer than the end of this week! i will be ever so glad to get rid of this bump, meet this beautiful baby and be able to sleep on my stomach again! and not have to pee 5 times a night!!!!
okay, so off to bed now! we'll see what the night and/or tomorrow brings!!!

2 days...

well...unfortunately, no news! i am still here and still waiting!! this is terrible! i liked it so much better when micah just came and surprised us all at 3 weeks early!!! this waiting and anticipation is dreadful!!!
my mom is going to be here in 3 days and i don't even know if there will be someone to collect her from the airport....because i might be in labour!!! its so frustrating! but alas, here we are! i even was outside yesterday playing cricket with the neighbors!! first just standing about in the field (aka. street) but then i caught a hit by andy and got him out!! too cool! then after awhile i decided that i wanted to have a go at batting! i haven't played cricket...ever, but i haven't even played softball in ages!! i thought i'd make a fool of myself, but instead i was quite impressed!! i hit all but one ball and only got out when one of the boys caught the ball!! it felt great to swing the cricket bat and wack the ball a few times!!!
BUT it didn't help to bring on contractions or anything! oh well =) gotta keep trying!!! atleast i can say that the bump has dropped down some so hopefully that is a good sign! don't worry! someone will keep you all posted!!!

4 days....

so this is from yesterday....but here i am! still waiting for this baby to arrive! i'm saying 'still' and i am not even overdue yet!! hopefully i won't go past my dates as my mom is ever so anxious to be here when the baby is and not before!!!
our friend avril has this theory about cycles...and since micah was born on the 2nd (september) this baby should be born around then too! so we'll see...maybe something will start off tomorrow! or tonight!
we had an awful night with micah last night! he went down fine but then woke at 2 and would not go back to his own bed! i was so tired as we had only gone to bed at midnight (after watching the lion the witch and the wardrobe!) and so i wasn't very patient with him! he wanted to go down stairs....so we went but i only gave him some water as he couldn't possibly be hungry! he ate loads for dinner! finally after a lot of whining he finally settled down...in OUR bed! so i didn't sleep very well as i was uncomfortalbe! but then he slept till 8 so that was almost 2 hours of sleeping in!
today is a rainy day so we are kinda stuck inside. will have to find an alternative!!!