~*Introducing Arabella Bashanti Anne Jacobs*~

I have been busy :) please forgive me!

I will do a post about my birth experience at a later date but i wanted to share some 

of the new photos of my little miracle baby girl! Isnt she so sweet!

Born June 5th at 6:05pm she is tiny and oh so precious! She is just under 7pounds and she is 19inches long! I am doing well currently recovering at home.

~**Nursery and Name Revealing**~

Well :) Here is the post you've all been waiting for!

So where to start... oh yea... what we had to work with! 

The apartment we moved into at my parents place is a nice size open room so 

even though we "thought" about putting Aj in with her big brother...

We opted to keep her in our room with us :) 

So the main wall in which us to be a garage mind you, turned into an apartment,

had a window in it and was never fully covered in and plastered.. Dad just placed dry wall in and nailed it in and painted a star and moon on that said area! He called up a mate who came and finished the wall 

which we were very grateful for..cuz if he hadnt of...we would of had to do it...and i wasnt looking forward to that part at all!

Took a couple days of drying and sanding and then it the rest was up to us! :)

So let me tell you this....paint in Australia is NOT cheap..... i almost fell over when we purchased the wall paints...we baught 2 small i think it was hlf litre paint pots, 2 paint brushes, a roller, a roll of painters tape and a tray grand total? $90 HOLLY MOLLY! :) But whatever! It looks amazing in my opinion!

It probably would have cost way more had it not been for the fact that dad had some paint we used as a "primer" worked out just fine! 

This is a pic hubby took after we were all done dressing the crib!  Look at that belly LOL lets not even talk about the boobs.. Shall we just say....ive gone up 5 cup sizes.... yep you read right...5! Goodbye C cup.. HELLO G cup..

So lets move onto the photos shall we!

So here is the wall all preped for painting as you can see its sporting a pretty star and moon and pretty blue painters tape!

Here it is all "primed" only took one coat, looked pretty good! Took a day to dry... felt like a week! Yep i found it hard to be patient threw this whole process LOL! Just ask the tape! I couldnt help myself!! Haha..

This is the pink we had colour matched to the light pink in the crib set we decided on! They did a good job huh! The girl who served us said they dont usually colour match anything material wise...which i thought sucked seeing i was so use to being able to go into Lowes and they would colour match pretty much ANYTHING! She gave it her best and well look at the next pic!

Seeing the lighter pink was a bigger area we only really had "enough" paint for one coat...but guess what? We patched over spots where it hadnt coated so well and seeing we used a light blue tinted primer it turned out really well! Here is the proud daddy to be applying the gorgeous dark pink!

SO what do we think?? :) i love how it turned out! Took me forever to figure out exactly what i wanted and to be honest i still wasnt sold on my idea when i decided LOL but i LOVE LOVE how it turned out! I decided no to the chair rail and went with a nice crisp (super light blue tinted) line! 

We got 2 coats of the darker on the bottom and it looks awesome! Took the night to dry and the next day it was time to put the crib together! I love this 4 in 1 crib and so glad that Nathan and i decided on this one together!

All put together! Here is Big Brother Loche posing for a pic very excited about lil sissy's arrival soon!

So there you have it! What do you think so far? Couldnt dress the crib  till the next day when mum and i went and picked up the mattress we had ordered! We moved the crib to where we wanted then scooted it forward and i measured and used a leveler to make sure where Aj's decal would go would be straight!

Atti was impressed! Wish i would have got a pic of when he first jumped in and he was splayed out on one of the bed rails LOL was very funny lol Atti has been given his notice as of sleepin in our room at night now :) he is allowed to visit but he goes and sleeps in with Loche at bed time.

So here we are...Here is Aj's Name!

"The name Arabella is of Latin origin and means "beautiful alter". It also means "answered prayer" in Italian."
Aj is most definitely an answered prayer in our eyes... she is our "Rainbow Baby" i first heard of this term the other night on one of my support groups for infant loss and miscarriage, they call babies that make it threw healthy after a miscarriage or still birth "Rainbow Babies" and i totally agree with this.. i said that Aj is most definitely a Rainbow after the storm that tore threw mine and my husbands hearts last year loosing our 2 Angel Babies...

Well what do we think? :)

How good did the girl do matching up the colour?!?! 

I really love how it turned out its most dfeinately girlie thats for sure! You watch she will probably grow up and hate pink! LOL

I love the crib set we went with! We almost didnt get this set as it was discontinued and we put Nathans mum on a mission to find it! And she did! 

Here i am lol... I have offically told Aj that she is has some where to sleep now and when ever she's ready come on down! LOL Nathan on the other hand has told her not a day sooner then her "due date" lol

LOOK at that BELLY! UGH lol im huge! If you were here and felt that belly ud most definitely agree with me that Aj 's got back baby! Yep thats her booty sticking out right there...LOL

Yep shes still in there ;)

Think i will make it another 3 weeks?

I reckon i wont make it 3 weeks :) almost everyone who sees me say they dont see me making it to my due date and i can honestly say i think im ok with that! :) 

~Happy Mothers Day~

Happy Mothers Day to all you wonderful women out there and to those who are soon-to-be mums!

I hope you all had a great day!

:) Saturday was my birthday! Nathan and i spent 8:40-3:30 in our last birthing class! I know doesnt sound like the best way to spend your birthday BUT i absolutely enjoyed my day! We were in a small group from the beginning and we all clicked pretty well :) Even though the other 3 couples were alot younger then us and were soon to be FIRST time parents we offered alot of insight and words of advice! This felt like a first time pregnancy for us anyway as it seems having a child here is totally different compared to the states! AND well it HAS been 8 years lol! We can now say that we feel confident, relaxed and alot calmer about the birth plan we have chosen! The information and knowledge we gained from these birthing classes has just put so many fears and concerns completely out of our minds! We feel confident in our birth plan and learned new techniques which we are hoping we will be able to use! The fact that the midwives do NOT believe in laying down or being on a bed in general to deliver your baby is just amazing! You walk in with your birth plan you hand it to the midwife and nurses and they follow it best to their ability! One of the requests we have asked is to keep Aj connected to the placenta for a few hours after birth. We have also requested full skin to skin contact between Aj myself and hubby right after birth :) Anyway enough about that for now! On to the rest of my birthday! When we finaly got home from birthing class my cousin and her husband were droppin of Loche from her sons birthday party :) after they left my brother and his fiance showed up to wish me a happy birthday and drop off a card :) was nice to see them both :) After they left hubster n son took me out to dinner :) we enjoyed gourmet pizza at a restaurant called GPK some of the best pizza i have ever had! We had baught tickets to see Thor but come time after dinner this pregnant mama couldnt barely keep her eyes open :) so we got a refund on our tickets and headed home! Came home and curled up n went to bed! I cant take long days anymore lol! My boys spoiled me with some new furr high calf ugh boots which i LOVE a new cd and a docking station for my ipod touch :) My mum and Dad got me a gorgeous bracelet! Check out the pictures below! Loche also made me for mothers day a really cute "kissy lips" ceramic fish :) its adorable! For Mothers Day i spent the day relaxing and just taking it easy! We didnt do to much which was a good thing! In the afternoon we went with my mum to go see my grand mother for mothers day while mum was visiting, hubby and i ran to the store and baught a feast of meat and salad makings for a bbq dinner! We picked up the old ducks *snicker* and headed home! Nathan cranked up the grill and i made up foil packs of potatoes onion garlic S&P and a lil seasoning salt! We had Kanga Bangas (yes kangaroo sausages!) Kangaroo burgers, Beef sausages, Steaks and Peri Peri Chicken steaks! YUMO i preped n made up a HUGE tossed salad with all sorts of goodies in it and right b4 we all sat down to dig in i threw some multi grain rolls in the oven! We had a great dinner we sat and ate and talked and finished off the meal with Apple crumble and vanilla icecream!
Most definitely a wonderful way to spend a mothers day! Did i mention my boys got me new earrings too?? :)

 

 

~My Beautiful Baby Shower~

Man you've no idea how busy we were leading up to this shower :) Loche turned 8 (i know! 8!!) on the friday b4 the shower! We allowed him to have a few mates over for cake and junk food lol he had 7 mates over they ate and played xbox and played with the 116 nerf bullets! They shot everything and anything lol... Boys will be boys! So his party started at noon and the kids were here till 4:30-5 once they had all left Nathan and i rushed around packed a bag and headed for the train station. We were headed down to Sydney for the night to stay with my best friend and her fiance as the next day i was to attend a big bridal show :) prior to that We headed to the awesome flemmington markets and picked up awesomely fresh fruit and flowers for the baby shower! Needless to say it was a very BUSY day :) i was dead tired but i pushed on! When we were done we headed back to Danielle's house and packed and i mean PACKED their lil car up with all sorts of things for the trip back up the coast...lol we all managed 2 grown men Danielle and a myself and my big ole pregger belly squished into the car and headed home! We got home unpacked the car and started working out the plan for sunday! Food set up and decorating! I am so grateful to Danielle, Alasdair and my mum. 

My colours as u can see were lime green and watermelon pink :)
The cup cakes were awesome Ally made and decorated them! He was amazing!

My mama covering over the food :)

Some of the gorgeous flowers we baught at the markets! It was amazing to find lime green flowers!

Some of the gifts :)

Greeting Aunty Jan :) 

Here is the spread of food :) We had a few different types of sandwiches that Ally made up, mum turned some of the vanilla cup cakes into butterfly cup cakes(cup tops out cut tops in hlf to form wings add jam to the middle of cup cake and a spoonful of whipped cream then wings reattached!) We had all sorts of fresh fruit (watermelon, strawberries, rock melon, red and green grapes fresh pineapple and mandarins!) My mum made a huge chocolate double layered cake with jam n cream threw the middle of it and then we had all kinds of teas and coffee!

We also had lollies :) jelly babies, and raspberries as well as eclairs!

Yep how delish do these look?!?! Made from scratch! Did i mention Ally is a chef :P  these cup cakes were AH MAY ZING! Ally is a super star!

We had lots of cup cakes...LOL 

Over the weeks mum and i had baught all kind of neat things to decorate these puppies with :) i think the lil candy penguins were one of the cutes additions!

Here is the wonderful Danielle whom made all the yummy cups of coffee for the girls :) 

Yup thats me we've already seen this pic tho ;) 

The diaper cake :) so cute!

These Lillie's were amazing..they lasted almost 3 weeks every single flower opened as well! 

All the wonderful baby stuff stored in Loches room :)

Yup LOTS of PINK!

I cant wait to get to use the bumbo seat! :) Its lilac in colour too!

So we had planned on using cloth diapers but for the time being we will be using up the heap of newborn huggies we received! We shall move onto cloth diapers when Aj gets a lil bigger :)

Aunty Danielle and Uncle Ally baught her her first pair of red tag levis 's lol this skirt is SO cute!

Here is the "Sleepy Wrap" I cant wait to try this baby out :) i have practiced putting this on a few times with a teddy bear n shown Nathan how to do it as well :)

Got one of these we will see how much it gets used though :)  its a great idea BUT i gotta remember to get it out and use it!

Here is one of my fav baby shower gifts :) when i seen it at babies r us it was one of the first things i placed on the registry! And i was so excited when i recieved it as i really didnt think anyone would want to spend that much on it :)

We received so many wonderful things Aj is pretty much set :) we got some beautiful flannel crib sheets which we hadnt even thought about purchasing and matching blankets as well :) Aj also go some very beautiful outfits as well! I didnt take photos of everything it would have taken days! LOL

Aj also got her first car! LOL :)