Ok, so I totally missed yesterday's challenge - Something Green, so I am cheating a little here.
This is a photo of the freckle (aka Felix) taken for a friend who is a MCN consultant. She's been going to a few markets, and wanted some cute pics to display of little one's wearing the nappies. I use this brand on Felix, so she asked if she could ''borrow'' him for the shoot. Of course, I happily obliged because what doting mama wouldnt want more cute shots of thier bubba?
I guess though, the other reason I posted this pic is because depite the nappy being green in colour, it is also green in nature. Using MCN means we save literally thousands of disposable nappied from being thrown into landfil, where it will sit for many, many years before it even begins to decompose - some estimates say 300 years!!! We are not the "greenest" household, but we do try. Using recycled loo paper, chemical-free laundry detergent and cleaning products, using mcn and green bags for shopping are some of the ways we try to help our planet.

From a high angle:

Another shot of the king of the house - Felix has found his feet :) He loves to suck his toes, much to the disgust of the older three children!

Wow, what a crazy couple of months. I cannot believe it's already March!
My laptop had to be repaired last month and has only just come back, so I have spent a whole month only able to access the internet from my iphone - not conductive to writing blog posts unfortunately!

Here's what's been happening in my neck'o'the woods lately :

# Riley had a party! He turned six, and we had a fabulous Superhero party at our place :)

He invited 8 boys and 6 came, and they all had a ball playing together with Ry's gifts and running around the backyard. Lucky too, as this usually-super-mega-organised mummy was exhausted after;

# welcoming this gorgeous little guy into the world!


How lucky am I? Not only to I get to experience my own three incredible boys being born, but I also have been priveledged to support not one but two other women in birthing thier babies! Katelyn is my cousin's girlfriend. She has no family or friends here, is very young, and unfortunatly my cousin is not wonderful partner/father material. However, Katelyn is very maternal and a level headed girl, and I think she will do just fine with her little boy with some support.
It was an incredible experience and I will be forever grateful to have been part of Domonic's birth.

# Felix got BIG!!



My littlest bub at birth has turned into my fasted growing boy! He's growing at a rate of knots and all the clothes I brought him for winter are fitting him well already. He'll be in size 0 in the next month or so :(
He's the sweetest thing though, and we all completely adore him! Feeding is going well, and I am sooo enjoying our time together!

I have his birth story half done, so will post that soon. In the meantime, I have developed an icky gastro bug this weekend - perfect timing as Gerard is away at a cub scouts camp with Jackson for the weekend, so I get to look after the others and be sick at the ame time!

Back soon!

I took Felix to have his photo's taken by a girl in town who is just starting out in digital photography of babies and families. She did an amazing job, and for only a small cost we get a disk of the pictures! Felix was an angel, at six days old - slept through almost the entire shoot!!
Anna hasn't finished putting our disk together yet, but here are a couple she gave me before Christmas;