all the photos from hospital

 right after her first feed, she latch on great right away!we have had no probs in that department, she just has to glug really fast when i let down cos i have a lt more milk than a newborn would normally get!!:)

 skin on skin

 frowning at the flash, she'll be daddies little girl if she keeps that up!:)

 warming up after her bath

 her eye lashes are so long they must tickle her cheeks!!

 fav photo so far i think

 last day in the hospital waiting to get discharged

 check out all her hair

 so tiny

 snuggled in her bassinet at home

end of iph pics now camera pics

my little cubby in the nicu

 sleeping beauty

 at home checking out daddy

 in the carseat ready to sleep the whole way home

 i dont have mum here to take photos of me with savannah, so wayne has been forced to take some of me with her

 wide awake this morning

kingston is quite pleased to have another baby sister. i took this photo cos he was sitting there saying 'im holding TWO babies!!'

Savannah Jessica 7.5lb 26th june 8:16pm

just photos

skate park!

happy fathers day!!blurry photo but daddy's smiling!!:) 

 busting moves at the skate park

 an appropriate tag for kingston

 loving his scooter

he cleaned up all the toys and lined them up behind the couch!:)

we're expecting...

a baby any day now!!!
 We are adopting!!

lillians adopted kids Jordan (12) and Karma (5), their mother is pregnant again and she asked if someone in the ripley family would take this baby. so every thing seems to have just fallen into place for us and we just cant wait to meet OUR BABY!
baby is due on the 28th but will most prob be sooner as she is already showing signs of labour getting ready
dont know if its a boy or girl, but i have the feeling its a girl but really wouldnt have the foggiest
have been getting all the stuff ready the last 2 days so am feeling so excited and everytime the phone rings i think 'maybe this is her calling to say she is in labour!!':)
i will be at the birth assuming i get there in time and all that, thats the plan to be there anyway so that will be really special and kinda crazy not being the one doing the pushing!!i will get an understanding of how mum and wayne felt like!haha and will be able to get baby to my chest and on to boob immediately hopefully all things going well

hope the next post will be introducing our third child!!

p.s. sorry there has been no paleo food post, been slightly otherwise occuped the last while!:)

 first time wearing a clip in her hair!it didnt stay in for long tho

nude ride after the bath, hes trying to be like his cousin's zeke and rubes!!

strictly paleo

i'm trying to do the paleo diet stricktly for the month of june and i thought i would document as i go for a little motivation!!wayne and i do crossfit and its the diet\lifestyle they recomend. basically means; lots of veges, some fruit(if ur not me:)), MEAT, eat good fat, no grains, minimal dairy, no rice or patatoes, and NO SUGAR!!!its really the last one i really struggle with because seriously sugar is in everything!!!i've got some nice salad dressing without sugar but my fav thing, ketchup, has sugar. i have made my own ketchup which isnt really as good but its doing the trick for now!and another life saver is u can have a bit of dark choclate, good for the heart or something isnt it!?

i'm really enjoying it so far and have made lots of delicious paleo baking(muffins, cookies, and the MOST delicious carrot cake)

so if ur interested... :)

chicken bacon spinach salad ; monday night

quiche(eggs, coconut milk, spinach, bacon, zucinni, yams, feta) and salad ; wed night

one of our regulars taco salad minus the taco part ; thurs night

almondy coconutty fish, zucinni, asparagas, yam4canadians\kumera4kiwi's ; tues night