1. Day091: Sad, sick bubba in a bouncer
2. Day092: Man and woman
3. Day093: My last day of Prac
4. Day094: Happy Eddy
5. Day095: Evie is finally big enough for a forward facing car seat
6. Day096: Good Friday feast
7. Day097: Sleeping beauty with bear
8. Day098: View of Goulburn from the War Memorial
9. Day099: Grandma and Evie

I have to share the story about the photo from Day 116. On Thursday, Evie and I caught up with Caitlin and her twins Edward and Poppy. We wandered down to Woolloomooloo so I could try Caitlin's new favourite lamington, we hung out in Hyde Park for a bit and then we lunched in the Westfield food court.

On our wanderings around the city I noticed that Poppy and Edward are the baby version of celebrities. People would smile and wave at them whenever we walked past. Then when we got the babies out for a little bit of run / crawl around in Hyde Park we were completely mobbed by Asian tourists. The tourists were cooing at the babies and taking lots of pictures.

It was funny at first and then it got a bit unsettling. The tourists didn't speak any English so we weren't able to communicate that the babies were uncomfortable with all the attention. Eventually the tourists moved on. It was a little bit of a taste of how it feels to be stalked by paparazzi. Not my cup of tea.

1. Day082: Hot cross buns, hot cross buns
2. Day083: Elliot
3. Day084: Hunger Games at Gold Class... woop!
4. Day085: "farm fresh" cage eggs
5. Day086: TD's yummy lamb stew for dinner
6. Day087: My poor sick bubba is not so keen on sleeping atm
7. Day088: Green in Dully
8. Day089: This week requires chips
9. Day090: Ring-a-ring-a-rosy

Evie is 11 months old.

Evie is officially crawling. It made it a little difficult to get this month's photo. I was on child wrangling duties. I'd put Evie down on the ground on one side of the living room. She'd immediately start crawling, Andrew would snap away and we kept our fingers crossed that she'd crawl across the play mat on her journey to muckle something. We did this a few times before we managed to get a photo we were happy with. Poor Evie was a little frustrated by the end of it because we kept on dragging her away from stuff that she wanted to play with.

Evie's new independence means that she is into everything! She's not interested in playing with her toys anymore but wants to explore every corner of the apartment. It goes a little bit like this: Look! A pile of shoes! Let me throw them around. Look! A rubber doorstop! I wonder what it tastes like... nom nom nom. Look! A cardboard box! Let me bang on it for a bit. It's been a very quick lesson in how to child proof a house. We follow Evie around and when we find her playing with something that she probably shouldn't play with we put it away.

For a giggle, here is one of the outtakes from this month's photo shoot.

See Evie's monthly photos (slideshow) on Flickr.

A great support network available when you have a baby is Mothers' Group. In the beginning, the only thing you have in common with the other mums is that you live in the area and have newborns. In time you bond over things such as lack of sleep and talk about the colour of your baby's poo. Eventually you even talk about things other than your beautiful babies. Mothers' group is still one of the places I turn to for advice. Although, we're all first time mums so it's bit of the blind leading the blind. At least we're supported while we stumble around in the dark.

Our babies are all born around the same time so that means that they all turn one at around the same time. At the moment we're in the middle of what Andrew and I have nicknamed "First Birthday Season". Over the past few weekends we've been to the first round of first birthday parties. We've celebrated Felix's, Euan C's and Euan S's birthdays.

Evie has a great time at the parties. She gets to crawl around and poke other babies in the face, to play with other kids' toys and most importantly parties involve caaaaake! (Evie loves cake. She has inherited her mother's sweet tooth.) I have fun too, and get to take lots of cute photos of all the kiddies.

There is one thing that Evie is not a fan of and that is the cheering that happens at the end of the singing of Happy Birthday. At both parties Evie started crying after everyone sung Happy Birthday. I was confused because I've been singing Happy Birthday to her at home in preparation for her own birthday and she has never cried. So we did a little experiement at home after the party. When Andrew and I cheered Hip Hip Hooray at home she cracked it big time. Poor bubba, I guess we won't be doing that at her birthday.



More photos from Felix's birthday (slideshow), Euan C's birthday (slideshow) and Euan S's birthday (slideshow) on Flickr.