Saturday 28 July 2007

Ready to fly (UPDATED w/2mo CHECKUP)

Milly's 2 Month Checkup Result:

12.6lbs/5.7kg - 39% fatter!

&

23in/.6m - 13% taller!

(and now she's just talkin' away to the dragonflies in her bouncer)

Anyway, we souped up a pic of lil' Amelia in photoshop for her passport and visa applications...yeah, we're trying to get back to the Holy Land (for us, Sydney). Brad has had some crazy experiences as of late with Aussie's randomly showing up at his office, and has quite the story to tell about networking his way to the top of a bunch of production companies down there.



One of the series Brad's working on (Inside - Season 2) has an episode on the airshow in OshKosh, WI this past week, and NatGeo hired 3 Aussies (2 living in Italy now, and 1 in the UK) to produce and shoot it. In talking to them, Brad mentions (out of the blue) that he used to live in Wollongong (his first area on the mish), and that Kim loved it there when we visited, and the producer turns to him stunned, and says that he grew up there, and Brad and he hit it off real quick (mentioning Mt Keira, camping at Jervis Bay, surfin' Kiama, etc). After having lunch with the three, he went away with a bunch of industry contacts down in Sydney.

The best, though, was a week ago, when he felt impressed to ask a producer lady he works with (who lived in Sydney for many years) if she had any contacts, and low and behold, an executive of one of the largest production companies down there just happened to be in DC that week meeting with Discovery Channel and NatGeo, and that she'd be delighted to meet with him. This executive lady met with Brad the next day in his office, and she got him in contact with a sponsoring agency (Australia has tough immigration regulations, but can be by-passed if someone will sponsor you, which this company now has for Brad), and said pretty much if he were in the country, they'd hire him.

The most random thing happened when he mentioned that we lived in Russell Lea and asked which suburb she lives in. She said Russell Lea, and that no one knows where thats at (apparently one of the smaller suburbs), and it ends up that she lives right around the corner from our old apartment on Lyons Rd, about 5 houses away! So that created a good link.

He has had referral after referral, and it gets to the point that he's 5 referrals/recommendations down the line and he'll be on the phone at midnight (2pm in Sydney) with the managing director of some company (and its the funniest when they say things like, "oh, say hi to John for me", except Brad's never met John, or the lady who referred him, or the guy who referred him to that lady, etc!).

So, all in all, we feel really good about how things are turning out, and if it's what the Lord would have us do, then we'll definitely be there (and hope that people will save the money to come visit us this time!).

Wednesday 11 July 2007

The details

So over the weekend we decided to do a photo shoot of our lil' bug/'sweet pea'...here are a few of our favourites! (and we enabled the comments to see what you have to say...what can we say, we're proud parents!)









check out that red hair!! Wonder where she got that from?!

Sunday 8 July 2007

Amelia Jane Goes to Great Falls

Today was lucky number '7' day (7-7-07), so we figured we might get lucky and take a trip without Miss Milly Poo exploding in her nappy. It was finally time for her to get a taste for the sites around the area. Why not start off with something close, and picturesque, you know, to "wet" her appetite (ok, we didn't get very close to the water, but she sure was eying those kayakers down below) for her adventures to come - like the grandiose Great Falls, only 20 minutes away?!

What a cute family!!


"Dude, check out the view from over here!"


"No way, our view is so much better!"


"zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz"




Friday 6 July 2007

Getting bigger...but not big enough!

Kim has had this idea in her head the last few days that Amelia needs a pair of jeans. She would look through the closet over and over and over again all to find that there were STILL no jeans in there...that is...until she looked in the "3-6 month sizes." Once Kim saw these she had to pull them out and try them on...still a bit big, but that's not keeping her from wearing them. She looks like an old man in them, but what baby this size actually fits their clothes properly?

Such a big girl!!

Yes, that is the tail end of a smile caught on camera!


Amelia started smiling and cooing about a week and a half ago...and we love it!!! We just can't seem to get enough of it. And just yesterday she started squealing. It's really funny when she makes a new noise she has to stop and think about it. She gets a really serious look on her face, furrows her brows, and once she decides it's ok, she will do it again, and then stop and think about it...it's hilarious!