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Thierry's first communication - my bras is very tight and my little boobies are growing...Daddy glanced over and said "You're pregnant" - don't be silly, at my age. Daddy went straight down to the supermarket and back with the test. Two lines, two lines. Tears of joy!

Next day we took two lines to the Doctors, it was Melbourne Cup Day and she was in a hurry to get to the local race meeting. We wanted to tell the world.We were given a referral to the Gyno.I felt so good, the very next day - more communication- sickness like you never would believe. Not morning sickness, it would hit real bad at 5.00pm and go on for hours.Come December I had a stay in the hospital, my first hospital visit, they put me on a drip to rehydrate me and we had our fisrt peep at Thierry, and we got a photo of the scan. His little legs were like a thrashing machine.

Once the sickness disappeared, didn't have any troubles. We decided not to have any tests as we knew all was well.How I loved that belly growing and did I glow, probably from all the fish oil capsules. Loved those boobies growing too.We found out that our gift was a boy! Now I could relate to my little man. I used to drive a lot in my job and I would sing to him and talk and I bought some special little books to read too!

I finished work the end of May and we cleaned and did lots of gardening and walked around the river and I continued to sing and read lots of stories to my beautiful boy!

Thierry was due the end of June but we were late. Come 2nd July 2004 our beautiful gift came to us right on the strike of midday - a Friday's Child. Dr Sam helped deliver Thierry after Mummy had a very active natural birth - 10 hours of pleasure (umm!)

Grandma and Poppy were at the hospital and Rhonda was there for the delivery. Daddy cut the cord.Thierry went straight onto booby and sucked for over an hour, as the midwives were very busy delivering babies.We went and bathed Thierry and I went to my room and phoned all our friends. I put him on my chest and he has slept there ever since.

Home from the hospital, we settled in to a new life for all!

Thierry has always been a nature boy - loves his walk around the river, feeding the turtles and ducks.

At 8 months of age we ventured to a Montersori group but it wasn't for us. At 11 months we found a lovely Steiner Playgroup and met a beautiful family, who at the time lived very close and we had many great visits to the local parks. So nice to meet like minded people who enjoy bringing up our children with lots of love and organic food and don't have to compare. They helped Thierry celebrate his 1st birthday along with dear friends Natalie and Paul and baby Tenzin and Ailish. Matthew from Playgroup joined us as well. I made Thierry a happy face cake, his first taste of cake - no sugar or nasties though, iced with beetroot juice and goats milk yoghurt, he was teething and not interested in cake, more interested in his flannel with chamomile tea. A lovely celebration - 2nd July 2005.

For Christmas we ventured to Brisbane, Thierry's 1st plane trip, and had a lovely time with Grandma and Poppy.

2006 we started our own Steiner Inspired Playgroup, we met at the Railway Estate Community hall on a Wednesday morning from 9.30am - 11.30am, and moved to home in Annandale in September, 2006.My aim was to meet like minded parents who have the same passion for organics etc.

Thierry celebrated his 2nd birthday,2nd July 2006, telling me he wished for a machine party, we thought very hard, thinking we would get a load of sand and get his friends to wear digging clothes and go for it! We then decided to go with the idea of inviting just his age + 1, diggging invites went our to his dear friends Grace and Cait and our neighbour Kyle, who had family commitments.

We had a beautiful day with Thierry's big sister Sarah and brother Aaron and Kylie and family arriving to help celebrate the perfect day. We decorated the tables with fresh picked flowers, ribbons and Grace, Cait and Thierry did a lovely job decorating the machine birthday cake, and spending lots of time in the new sand pit amongst the tropical bromeliad garden.

Another special Christmas 2006, we spent a few days at Jupitor's in Townsville. Thierry had his first swim and loved it! Thierry loves all the Christmas lights, we have been doing the light tour every night. We decorated our special twig Christmas tree.

Easter 2007..

We went on a very special holiday - almost 4,000 km's of car travel for Daddy driving and Mummy and Thierry sat in the back seat and read many many books and played dress-ups with hats and made caterpillars from pipe cleaners and wool and put stickers in a special book. Lot's of fun!

The highlight for Thierry was seeing big sisiter Sarah in Brisbane and the old steam train ride around Brisbane, and the long trip out to Charleville was well worth the long trip to visit Grandma and Pop and seeing the little chicken just born. We went to the Bilby talk and tour on Good Friday, and bought some beautiful Bilby books.

Grandma tried hard to give chocolate eggs, by buying a chocolate Easter bilby, beautiful Thierry was not interested. Grandma gave up and boiled some fresh eggs with brown onion with rubber bands around and eggs soaked in beetroot  juice and red cabbage (which made the most beautiful blue colour). The Easter egg hunt began on Easter Sunday, with such a beautiful yard with all Poppy's lovely vege garden, which Thierry just adored and collecting eggs was one of the real hightlights of the holiday.

For Mummy the highlight was visiting old friends, finally getting Thierry Christened. on Easter Sunday in the beautiful old church with so much family history. Beautiful Grandma Stein would be proud.

Another highlight for Mummy was the trip to Northey Street Organic Markets, we took Sarah to dinner at Mondo's Organic restaurant, and we bought big at the most beautiful shop we have ever been to - Fundies at Newmarket and had the most delicious organic lunch as well, if only we had an organic store and a market like that, Mummy would be very happy.

Back home, to some sadness, as our beautiful boxer dog, Kaiser has gone to dog heaven. We got the book 'Dog Heaven' by Cynthia Rylant to try and explain to Thierry, although at almost 3 years he insists that Kaiser "has just gone to the Dentist, and will be better and be home soon". As Daddy recently wasn't feeling well and went to the dentist and the next day was all better!

We stopped our Playgroup in March this year, but we are now thinking of restarting with an occasional play day, as had quite a bit of response. We started gymnastics at the same time, and went for the first term, not really that happy as they change the programme each week, we feel that repitition is much better for parents and children.

We had more sadness, just 5 weeks after Kaiser went to doggie heaven his beautiful boxer brother, Beau joined him. Bonnie the old 14 year old boxer who we thought would be first to leave us has had a large tumor removed so we are giving her plenty of love. We had planned a dog party for the 3rd birthday, and Thierry says that Beau and kaiser will come back.

2 July 2007 a very special day - Thierry's # 3 birthday

We had been planning our special dog day for at least 6 weeks prior - we bought some old white sheets from a thrift store and got some dog paw print stamps and made beetroot juice and stamped away, even put Bonnie's feet in the juice and got her to run over the sheets. We cut out spots from wool felt and glued over some old white nappies for table cloth covers. We got out the beeswax crayons and coloured spots over brown paper bags for the doggie bags to take home and we stamped on some calico bags. We emailed the invites to Cait and Grace and Joe and Kazia, with a request in lieu of gifts to bring a gift for a donation to the dogs and cats at the local RSPCA.

It was a Monday, and a public holiday for Townsville Show Day, just perfect for our 4 guests and the parents. We set up the party area, balloon free to help protect the turtles and dolphins as Thierry said. We used ribbons and tied lots of bows and some paw prints from the front of the house to the party area and scattered some flower petals that we picked yesterday. We spread out our beautiful creative dog print sheets with Bonnie's special touch and made up play stations - cooking area - blocks etc, dolls area - and Daddy put up the jumping castle a gift from Aaron, Kylie and Sarah from last birthday.

The four pups all arrived with lovely gifts for the animal shelter. They created some lovely take-home treats of carob balls made with lots of love and organic carob powder + dried apricots + dates +  cranberries + organic berry muesli + orange juice + pepitas + sunflower and sesame seeds + coconut and rolled in coconut / seeds. Put into the spotted brown paper bags ready to take home and enjoy.