Daylesford Part 4

We walked for hours around the Tipperary Springs and Blowhole tracks. Atti hung out on Filipp's back, blabbing along, singing songs, couting and snoozing. Our legs grew tired but our lungs were full of fresh air.

The last couple of days saw the arrival of "Ninna" and "Aliiii".

Daylesford Part 3

We walked around the lake every day, watching the ducks do their thing, Atti Yelling "duckiiiiiiieeeee" from the pram every time he saw a duck. Harry fell into the lake chasing ducks.

Daylesford Part 2

On day two we took a little road trip to Ballarat and had a lovely sushi picnic in the beautiful Botanical Gardens.

Daylesford part 1

Filipp took the last week off work and we snuck away to Daylesford for some much needed relaxation and family time. We spent our days walking around the lake, watching ducks swimming with their little ducklings and enjoying the beautiful produce Daylesford has to offer. Atticus enjoyed spending time outdoors, playing with rocks and leaves and eating moss!

In other developments, I recently did a photography workshop with the amazing Tim Coulson and am dabbling in manual photography. It's a whole new world of lenses, shutter speed, and ISOs to explore but I'm so excited to have the tools to capture our little moments in a more beautiful way.

I'll split the Daylesford adventure into a couple of posts...as there are lots of pictures to share and as usual it's difficult to chose.

weekends by the ocean

Weekends in Sorrento are the best!

36 weeks...daylesford

 we spent last weekend in beautiful Daylesford, where the air is fresh, the autumn leaves are red and gold and the local produce is soul food. the weather was icy but we rugged up and still managed to get out and about for walks around the lake and lazy breakfasts/lunches/brunches at our favourite haunts.

Atti got to pat some alpacas at the Creswick Wool Mills while we fed them. he dug his little fingers into their fur and squealed with delight!

a massive hit was the pool table at the holiday house. Atti spent hours crawling around it (supervised), watching the balls roll around and even figured out to put them into the pockets himself!

the crazy giraffe hat in the last photo was an impulse purchase at the sunday market but has been a great hit!

p.s. we were in daylesford approximately at the same time last year for our babymoon:)

27 weeks...fairhaven

last weekend we went away to fairhaven for the weekend. it was to be our first mini holiday with friends in a couple of years and a first one with Atti. i was a bit hesitant considering he started to get a bit sick on thursday but we decided that it was just a minor cold and that we would regret not going. if anything, we would just come back home considering it was only a 2 hrs drive away. 

the getaway was great: beautiful surroundings, beach, fresh air and great company. but relaxing it was not: Atti spent the whole weekend pretty much squaking like a seagull! i think a combination of him not feeling great and having to deal with new surroundings and people turned our usually chilled and placid baby into an unsettled and restless little man. 

still we found a new super cute cafe in fairhaven (where Atti sat in a high chair for the first time!!), had a beautiful walk to the lighthouse, and a scenic 3 hr drive along the great ocean road (granted that was only to make the little man sleep.) we're learning quickly that sometimes you just have to do what you need to to get some peace and quiet!