f365: Day 335

Jonathan had a marathon feed last night and poor Jenn hardly slept a wink. After sleeping in most of the morning he started stirring around 11am.

His eyes were open and he was quite alert when I took these shots. I tried to focus in on detail - the lines in his hands, his tiny fingernails etc.

Here are a selection from today.

f365: Day 334

It was a cool and wet day in Brisbane. Perfect weather to be indoors. With all the euphoria over the last few days, I hardly noticed!

Jonathan is looking more like a normal baby now and his colouring is more like a baby rather than the post birth purple/bright red hues....

Dum dum dum.....More baby shots!

The first of him all bundled up and sound asleep; the second of all of our flowers received (special thanks to Mum and Dad, the Velocity team at work and Francesca, Matt and Sasha); one of myself playing the role of proud Dad; Jon snuggling up against Jenn; and lastly one of those typical close up foot shots (had to take it!).

f365: Day 333

Day 333 of the photo blog, but just day 2 of parenthood. Jenn had a very tiring day, but is much better today. As a keen photographer, many people expected me to have probably taken about 500 shots by now.

The truth is we are both tired, elated and extremely grateful for all the kind words of support, whether it is by text, Facebook, email, phone or in person.

Expect to see many more photos of Jonathan before this project is out as I have heard they change fairly quickly in appearance after the first month or so.

Today's shots include one of the both of us, one of him having a nap, and one of him having his first bath - a very stressful event for the wee mite!

f365: Day 332

The biggest day of the year for us, in fact probably the biggest day of our lives! Also one of the longest days we've both ever experienced.

We welcomed Jonathan Christopher Green into the world today. Even though he was a week early, he took his time making his first appearance into the world.

It started at 1.30am this morning with Jenn's labour starting. We were at hospital not too much long after and after several painful hours of contractions, Jenn had an epidural. That took the pain away for most of the day. Finally at 5pm, he was on his way. 

He was born at 6.37pm tonight and weighed in at a pretty hefty 4.3 kgs, or 9.6 lbs in the old terms (and 51 cm long). Here is a photo of him (he had some initial monitoring due to fluid in his lungs but he is fine now), as well as one of him and his mum Jenn.

I am now off work for two weeks, but it promises to be very interesting.

f365: Day 331

Took a shot of our murrayn hedge today as because of the recent rains, it has come into flower. As well as being visually interesting, the smell is great too (actually it masks the doggie lawn accidents quite well!).

f365: Day 330

Another sign Xmas is fast approaching - Santa hats strewn throughout Woolies. In fact, who would have though the "product placement department" would think to link Santa hats with cleaning products?

Anyway, shot of the day one of those bizarre although topical ones...

f365: Day 329

They say that autumn has pretty colours, but the Brisbane comes alive with colour in spring. Sep/Oct sees the purple in the jacaranda trees. Now there is a lot of red around (I shot one of these plants the other day).

Here is a lunch spot I often go to next to the Brisbane River in Newstead. Some nice colours coming through!

f365: Day 328

Bruce loves the smell of yoghurt in the morning....Especially when he's been invited to lick the lid, or better still, clean up a pot that we've finished with.

It generally involves a lot of slobber and is never a clean affair. Today shots show him in action and the aftermath.

365: Day 327

It's been a very relaxing day on the home front. Have been kicking back and enjoying the cricket on TV. I also did an under exposed shot of the nursery with particular emphasis on the starry curtains Jenn has intalled.

Check out today's shot of the completed nursery.

f365: Day 326

Xmas is coming - well its presence has been advertised for awhile now, especially across the retail sector.

Had to pop into the city today at lunchtime - as well as tucking into some sushi (we have poor food options out at Bowen Hills so enjoyed the change), also took this shot of one of the many thousands of Xmas decorations. Added a cross process filter to saturate the reds and greens.

f365: Day 325

It was the first day of the Ashes today (cricket for the uninformed - when Australia play England) and the first test is here in Brisbane!

I would have loved to have been at the game, but sadly had to work...

I noticed this 'explosion' of colour next to the Breakfast Creek while out for a walk. While I am no botanist, it looked pretty impressive so it made today's shot.

Rounded off the evening with a couple of beers with an old workmate so a good day all around (with exception of not being able to be at the cricket although did I already mention that?).

f365: Day 324

Ok, starting to get organised now. My bag is (mostly) packed for the hospital. Jenn is now officially at "full term" even though she is still 2 weeks away from the 40 week mark.

Although today's photo will never win any prizes, it symbolises the closeness to the new arrival and the need to finalise all the organisation!

f365: Day 323

Jenn has made this excellent "baby mobile" which now hangs from our baby's bedroom. So whilst he is having his nappy changed, hopefully his attention is distracted with the mobile.

I should also add, Jenn is attempting to indoctrinate him with all things space related, although I could think of far worse things! :-)

f365: Day 322

Another storm passed over us late this afternoon. No matter how many you see, they all look different. The build up is always the most interesting - well defined cloud structures coupled with an angry, dark look usually mean you are minutes away from a severe rainstorm.

Today's one had some decent forked lightening thrown in - unfortunately with my Android I could not capture any strikes, but got this one just prior to the deluge.

f365: Day 321

Bruce and Jenn have had the photographic treatment yesterday, but poor Cookie has been left out. I shot a few more shots of Jenn today but also a few of Cookie.

Here are two of her - one a bit unflattering which has been partially censored (she has no shame), the other has had an HDR effect applied to it.

f365: Day 320

Something very strange happened today - it was a Saturday and we didn't make our weekly pilgrimage to Bunnings. Shock horror!

Rather we had a relaxing day at home. We did do a maternity shoot inside (the weather was not too flash for outdoor shots). The dogs were involved as well, but here are a selection from the shoot.

f365: Day 319

We are now in the storm season! The weather gods flicked the switch about a week or so ago and we're currently in the middle of the following daily pattern:

Morning: Sunny, warm
Midday: Sun, partly cloudy, hot and humid
Afternoon: Humidity increasing, cloud increasing
Evening or about the time I need to leave the office: Torrential rain, thunder
Late evening: Rain clearing

Yesterday mirrored this pattern exactly. Today I could see the clouds building up in the late afternoon which prompted this shot from our window at work. The storm never happened though and I had a clear bike ride home. So it was the storm that never was!

f365: Day 318

We've been getting into a routine lately of walking the dogs at 5.30am. Bruce scored big time a few days ago - Jenn bought him a massive bone (cue 'boner' jokes....).

It is about the size and length of a baseball bat and weighs about the same as well. He almost black eyed me on Sunday with it as dropped it on my face while I was taking some time out in the backyard (I was asleep at the time)...

I did a mini shoot of our beautiful lad Bruce enjoying his bone this morning. Check out the shots!

f365: Day 317

We have loads of baby clothes, either bought ourselves or kindly donated by others.

Even though they have not been road tested, Jenn decided to wash them all. Today's shot shows a rather heavily stacked drying rack with his clothes methodically placed.

f365: Day 316

Another nursery shot...! We picked up a second hand rocking chair for Jenn and baby to sit in during feeding time.

Jenn painted it, and refurbished the cushions. The low light and the fact I shot it with my Samsung meant the resultant image was quite grainy - this suited the black 'n white format well.

f365: Day 315

One of the perks about having a baby is all the positive feedback and comments we've had from friends, family, work mates etc.

We have been gifted enough baby clothes and other baby related presents to last him for a long time. Plus a special thanks to both sets of our parents and close relatives.

Jacquie (Jenn's sister, a.k.a. my sister-in-law) made this fantastic quilt (amongst many other things). Today's shot shows the patterns and colours of it, drapped over the cot. The toy beagle came from IKEA by the way.

Thanks very much guys!!

f365: Day 314

For about the 8th or 9th consecutive weekend, we found ourselves at Bunnings (and IKEA), buying more stuff. The baby's room is now almost completely furnished.

We found ourselves doing IKEA assembly this afternoon plus I managed to do a bit of DIY plumbing and replace the old dodgy toilet drop valve (all working ok so far, fingers crossed!).

But after months of hot dry weather, a storm passed over late afternoon. While it didn't amount to much, a decent sized rainbow formed in the east and it made the subject of today's photo. Note that no Photoshopping was done to the original shot, apart from resizing (note the contrast between the dark storm clouds and the sunshine in the mid ground).