pregnancy/craft in the last few days

2 nights ago I got the "soap bug". I melted a simple goats milk melt and pour soap, scented it with a mmmmm niiiice fragrance oil called exotic woods and voila! I had soap!!! I have since been sitting here drooling over soaps on the net and reading all I can about cold pour/hot pour soaps, yeah, the ones where you actually "make" the soap from lye and oilds etc. Can't wait to get the $$ to buy the equipment and ingredients :D I think I am going to try both the hot and the cold pour to see which I prefer.

Re: the pregnancy, had my Dr visit yesterday, my blood pressure is low, but im otherwise healthy, bub has stopped growing 4 weeks ago :S but the heartbeat is a nice steady 130 bpm. so all good so far. I have to go back in 2 weeks to get my results for the glucose tolerance test and my anti D needle ( I have a negative blood group) If bub hasn't grown even a little bit in that time I will be booked for a scan to see what's going on.

Knitting: I knit a gorgeous little swing style vest from the milo pattern ( by Tikki) for bub, just a plain simple white one...but it's going to be way too big! So now I have cast on a smaller one the same lol.

Family Life: The kids and I all went camping last weekend, to Mt Gambier ( in South Australia) OMG we all had a wonderful time, it was beautiful! we went to the Umpherston sinkhole, and the Tantanoola cave, which as you can see my youngest didn't like too well lol, the garden cave etc. We ( my parents went caravanning with us) also took the kids to this great fully fenced big playground area ( Valley Lake Playground)...wow did they love that!!! I was so proud of all my kids, they behaved wonderfully, even the 2 year old! and walked around without complaint. I couldn't believe my little 2 yr old managed to walk down the sinkhole AND back up again ( holding Nannys hand) aaaand he still had energy left to play on the logging truck in the botanical gardens!!! ( the sinkhole is in the middle of the gardens where the logging stuff is) This is a sign posted at blue lake...he's a mad mad I tell ya!!!

And this is Blue Lake, isn't it pretty :) I was so sad the holiday was so short, we left home friday lunch and arrived back home sunday lunch. takes about 2 1/2 hours drive each way, but alas, it was only a weekend trip this time. Once bub is a bit older ( maybe Christmas time or Easter next year) we are going to go back there for longer :D